whitfield christopher (26 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Professional Discipline and Healthcare Regulators: A Legal Handbook This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Whitfield, Christopher C (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.25.

Zustand: Very Good. 2012. Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. . . . .

Zustand: Good. 1938. First Edition. 144 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by Geoffrey Miller. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional marks and staining.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. MILLER, Geoffrey (illustrator). 1st Edition. 144pp, very-well illustrated with woodcuts by Geoffrey Miller, hardcover, bound in orange cloth, gilt lettered on spine, dust jacket unclipped and goood, book in very good condition with no markings or annotations, Country Life Limited, London, 1938. * essays on country life and living in Warwickshire with vivid descriptions of childhood, an account of sport, etc.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1938). 1938 1st edition. 8vo. (160 x 230mm). Pp144. B/w woodcuts by Geoffrey Miller. Red-brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine and in brown on upper board. Slight tanning but a very good copy without dust-wrapper. Twenty-four short stories on a variety of sporting, agricultural and rural themes. Chapters include; night sounds; deserted gardens; fields; walls and hedges; an orchard; birdsnesting; the windmill; the branch line; the great trout; fishing in the aqueduct; a christmas visit; in memory of a dog; sleeping out; an evening walk; Sunday morning ratting; the Whitsun wake; a rough shoot; the badger dig; the village dance; cub-hunting; the coursing club; the birth of a calf; the blackbird; the old poacher. .

Zustand: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (country life, great britain).

First edition, xii, 244p., folding map, orig. cloth, d.w.

Large 8vo, 16, [8]pp., one of 100 copies printed, orig. printed wrappers.

FIRST UNLIMITED EDITION 8vo. yellow clothbound hardback, gilt. t.e.g. 63pp., with b/w engraved illustrations by Dorothea Braby. Ex. Library with rubber stamps and coloured pencil marks of Garlicks Library to both front and rear endpapers and foot of first page of text. Some foxing and soiling to prelims. Soiling and some edgewear to covers with spine somewhat darkened. Overall a Good, Sound Copy. (Shelf 200) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Large 8vo softback (26cm x 20cm) in colour pictorial card wraps; 220pp, illustrated throughout in both colour and b/w. A clean copy with no previous ownership inscriptions or annotation. Very light wear to the card covers, overall VG. (Shelf 110) ISBN: 9780500971062 PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Zustand: Good. 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG/G. xii+284pp, b/w frontis, 30pp b/w plates, folding map, index, dustjacket ragged & chipped with loss along the edges but largely complete, cloth a little bumped, ownership signature, a nice copy in a tatty dustjacket. Detailed history of the charming Cotswold town of Chipping Campden. The town today noted for its fine vernacular architecture but which was a thriving centre for the wool trade in the medieval period. 575 grams.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. O'Connor, John (illustrator). Limited. Hardback, gilt title to spine, decorative cloth boards. 25.5 x 16.5cm. 109pp. With 10 illustrations by John O'Connor. No. 343 of a limited edition of only 500 copies. Binding slightly marked and worn to extremities. Small label from previous owner to front free end-paper, otherwise contents very clean.

pp. (iv) blank, 109, (i) colophon, (iv) blank. Title vignette and 9 engravings by O'Connor. White canvas-backed boards, top edge gilt, uncut, a couple of leaves carelessly opened, else a very good copy.

No binding. Zustand: Near fine. Sandford, Lettice (illustrator). Octavo size, [4] pp. Prospectus only for "Lady From Yesterday", with two wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford. ___DESCRIPTION: A single sheet folded once to four pages, announces publication "in October" at 30s. for the signed/numbered edition and 8s.6d. for the "unlimited" edition; octavo size (8.5" by 6"), [4] pp., 2000 copies printed. ___CONDITION: Near fine, clean and free of edgewear, with one horizontal crease, one small spot of foxing, and a few very shallow creases in the margins; free of markings. ___CITATION: Cock-A-Hoop no. P143; volume found in Pertelote no. 143. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every item we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Dorothea Braby (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this charming tale from Whitfield, with wood-engravings throughout. First edition. In the scarce original price-clipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with frontispiece and four full-page wood-engravings. Collated complete. A charming and passionate story following a young Mr. Chambers and his relationship with the mysterious and beautiful Persephone. Written by Christopher Whitfield, a British author. Illustrated by Dorothea Braby, a British artist known for her book illustrations. In the original yellow cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is also smart with light shelf wear and sunning to the spine and board edges. The odd small closed tear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light scattered spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Large 8vo. pp 12. Bound in quarter green leather over marbled boards, lettered gilt at the spine. The printer's own copy with designs, proofs and typescript. Privately printed for Christopher Whitfield by Ian Bain at the Laverock Press. No copies found at WorldCat (OCLC) the worldÕs largest library catalogue. Slight foxing, otherwise very good indeed.

First edition, first printing. Signed limited edition. Original Sangorski and Sutcliffe binding of quarter brown morocco over yellow cloth boards, titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Illustrated with a title page vignette and 5 full page wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford. A very good copy, the binding firm with some rubbing at the tips of the slightly faded spine, the cloth boards toned at the edges and with a few small marks. The contents, with a previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper and only the occasional isolated foxing spot are otherwise clean throughout. Limited edition of 50 copies, this example numbered 31 and signed by Christopher Whitfield in blue ink to the limitation page at the rear. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

62 Seiten. Original Halbleder mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und Kopfgoldschnitt (Rücken etwas verblichen). Eins von 150 Exemplaren der Vorzugsausgabe auf "Arnold's hand made paper", vom Autor im Druckvermerk signiert. - Schönes Exemplar. Ha-B4-11 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000.

No. 40 of only 50 numbered copies, signed by the author. 6 wood engravings by Lettice Sandford. Printed in Perpetua type on Arnold's handmade paper. 8vo., original variant binding of quarter niger with beige canvas boards (the bibliography calls for quarter red morocco). A couple of small marks to the sides and spine a little faded, otherwise a very good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Braby, Dorothea (illustrator). Limited Edition. One of 150 signed copies, octavo size, 63 pp., with prospectus. Christopher Whitfield (1902-1967) was a short-story writer and essayist who "arrived in Chipping Campden in 1924 with a car, his cats and his books." (n.b., quote from the biography by his son, Paul Whitfield, "A World of My Own"). Having only dipped briefly into this story, we were charmed and wanted to keep reading; as set forth in Pertelote, "When we received the manuscript.we all felt that it was one of the most enchanting love-stories of its kind we had ever read: it had freshness, sensibility, imagination, and emotion." This GCP publication with five full-page illustrations by Dorothea Paul Braby (1909-1987), who studied art under John Farleigh and Noel Rooke, as well as in Florence and Paris. This was the first Golden Cockerel Press book for which she would provide the artwork, followed by many others, including their "Mabinogion". This copy one of the 150 signed by the author; there was also an unlimited number of trade copies, unsigned. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in quarter green morocco over yellow cloth boards, gilt lettering and the cockerel device on the shelfback, the frontispiece one of five full-page illustrations by Braby bound in throughout, title page with a cock crowing astride a book; Perpetua type on Arnold's hand-made paper, octavo size (8 5/8" by 6 3'8"), pagination: [1-4] 5-62 [1, colophon]; limited edition of 150 copies signed by the author at the colophon. Loosely laid in is the prospectus, a single sheet folded to four pages, the front being a mirror of the title page, the inside pages a specimen plate and page, usual information on the last page. ___CONDITION: Volume near fine, the morocco shelfback smooth and supple, the boards clean other than a few light, stray spots, the corners very gently bumped without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; sunning to the backstrip and the top edge, light offsetting to the pastedowns from the leather turn-ins, and light offsetting from the illustrations to the opposite pages. Prospectus also near fine, clean other than a few minute spots, free of wear or creases; light offsetting to the top edge, else fine. ___CITATION: Pertelote 125. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

tall8vo, 25cm, 110p., limited to 500 copies, this being #405, title-page vignette, with 10 wood-engravings by John O'Connor, on hand-made paper, in quarter white fine grain book linen, colour marbled design cloth boards, gilt spine title, t.e.g., a fine clean copy in good to very good shipping glassine wrapper, (ho3.1). ~ Cocalorum 165. Golden Cockerel Press, an English private press, existed from 1920 to 1961. H.E. Bates said of one of Whitfield's stories "His tale is in my view a small masterpiece. in grave and lovely phraseology". Franes Meynell commented "Toether and Alone was only one of several which were largely experimental, and introued many unusual features. It is pleasant aesthetically, but the stores do not read well, wet in this italic type" -Cockalorum.

Limited edition, no. 108 of 400 copies from a total edition of 500, 8vo, 109, (1) pp. 10 wood engravings, inscribed from the publisher Christopher Sandford on the half title, who has also signed it below the colophon. Cream quarter buckram, t.e.g., marbled cloth sides, some faint soiling otherwise a lovely copy. Cockalorum 165.