London ryan publishing (5 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 208 p.; 30 cm. Subjects: Keneally, Thomas Travel Ireland. National characteristics, Irish. Ireland Social life and customs 20th century. Ireland Description and travel. Ireland Social life and customs. Ireland. Northern Ireland. Genre: Travel. 1 Kg. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. The card wrapper issue of the first edition of this anthology of stories produced to promote and fund the campaign group The Friends of John McCarthy. 8vo. 206pp. Card wrappers. A single light but lengthy readership crease to the spine. A very good copy. Includes contributions by Graham Greene, Samuel Beckett, Angela Carter, Edna O'Brian, Martin Amis, Roald Dahl, William Golding, William Trevor, Jeanette Winterson, Primo Levi, Bernard MacLaverty, and Mary Beckett. All of these stories had been previously printed elsewhere before being donated free of charge to aid the release of Lebanon hostage John McCarthy. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small 4to, 46 plates from photographs by Alen MacWeeney, unpaginated text, 12 page section of Reminiscences by Frances Partridge, George Rylands, Angelica Garnett and Nigel Nicholson. A light adhesion issue on the reverse of the title page/ acknowledgements page, some light spotting to the inside of the dust wrapper but a near fine copy. Portraits of then surviving members of the Bloomsbury Group along with their children and grandchildren. Includes a Foreword by Frances Spalding. An uncommon Bloomsbury title.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: F-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG+. First Edition. F-/VG+. 8vo. original blue boards gilt (slightly rubbed, a few spots) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed, spotting on reverse); pp. [unpaginated], xii (last blank), with 47 plates. A near fine copy.

206 pp. 8vo. Zustand: Near Fine. dj. First edition, first printing. Steadman, Ralph. First edition, first printing. 206 pp. 8vo. Made as a fundraiser for the Friends of John McCarthy, this collection was published four years after journalist John McCarthy was kidnapped during the Lebanon Hostage Crisis to draw attention to the plight of hostages held in any unjustifiable imprisonment regardless of race, nationality, culture, or political belief. It includes work by Martin Amis, Mary Beckett, Angela Carter, Roald Dahl, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Graham Greene, Primo Levi, Bernard MacLaverty, Edna O'Briend, William Trevor, and Jeanette Winterson, with illustrations throughout by Ralph Steadman. Inscribed on the half title from Steadman to Rolling Stone Magazine staffer, Paul Rothkopf, April 30, 1990. Publisher's black cloth boards with silver lettering along spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed on half title by Ralph Steadman; a near fine copy. Signed.…