Wintle harold (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1927. No Edition Remarks. 283 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Front free endpaper cut out. Previous owner's inscriptions to front pastedown and half-title page. Stamp to rear pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.…

Zustand: Good. No edition remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth. Flatsigned by the author to title page. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing. Mild cracking to hinges, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Mild thumb-marking present. Moderate foxing to text block edges. Small droplet to upper text block edge. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing. Mild tanning to board edges. Mild crushing to spine ends.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. SIGNED. 349pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. The spine is rolled, the front hinge is going, and the text block is cracked multiple times. Edwardian fiction. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: "C. A. B. ("the typer") / from "the Author" / July, 1912.".…

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to upper board and spine. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, with bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The cloth, with some dustiness to the upper board, is faded and marked along the spine. The contents, with a small name and address in ink to the front free endpaper, lightly toning to the early and late pages and some foxing to the closed text block are otherwise clean throughout. A penniless man discovers a mysterious spring of water in his back garden. From the author of 'Spirit of the Garden', 'Long Ago Stories' and 'Until that day'. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A first edition, first impression of this fantasy novel, concerning a magic spring which causes amnesia, by the journalist Harold Wintle. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding.An intriguing fantasy novel in which a penniless man has his life changed by a magic spring in his back garden. A touch of water from this magic spring brings instant forgetfulness.Harold Wintle (1870-1941) was a British journalist and author, known also for his novels The Cleansing of the Lords and Until That Day. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with some spotting to the first and last few pages, and to the fore edge, affecting the occasional page. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A very scarce first edition science fiction novel, by Harold Wintle, following a vulnerable Britain in the Near Future'. The first edition of this very scarce work.A science fiction novel set in a dysfunctional Britain in the Near Future, following a Britain which had abolished the monarchy, and now has to deal with its reinstatement.By Harold Wintle, who also wrote 'The Cleansing of "The Lords"', 'A Mirror of Folly', 'The Waking Hour', and 'The Great Betrayal'.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with a torn 'Mudie's Select Library' yellow label to the head of the front board. Spine is a little faded. A few small marks to the boards, with a larger mark to the front board. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Torn yellow library label to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only a couple of occasional spots. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…