Resultados de búsqueda: Literature from Roz Hulse

Hunt. Herbert J,. Honore de Balzac. A biography. University of London, Athlone Press. 1957, 1st Edition. 8vo. Green Boards, gilt title to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper with price sticker of 25/- attached. PP198. Dust wrapper age toned with small chip losses to edges. Binding and all pages in tight, bright and clean order throughout.

Forester, C. S. Horatio Hornblower. An omnibus volume comprising The Commodore and Lord Hornblower. London, Michael Joseph, 1952. Ist Edition. 8vo. Blue cloth, silver titles to spine. Pp219. With price clipped dustwrapper, a little chipped at edges with some loss to top and lower spine area. Binding lightly sunned at spine edges. All pages tight bright and clean.

Forester, C. S. Hunting the Bismarck. London, Michael Joseph, 1959. 8vo. Blue cloth, white titles to spine. Pp110. With clipped dustwrapper, a little chipped at edges some loss on back. Binding and all pages tight bright and clean.

Lavrin. Janko,. An Introduction to the Russian Novel. London, Metheun, 1942, 1st Edition. 8vo. Dustwrapper. Red boards, black titles to spine.PP216. Binding and all pages in tight, bright and clean condition throughout. Dustwrapper unclipped but with wear to edges with some losses. Neat ownership mark of Russia historian Ian Grey dated 1/12/43 on front pastedown. Also included are 7 pages handwritten by Ian Grey making comment on the authors and contents referenced to the page numbers. A neat piece of additional information, useful for any reader or researcher in this field of writing.

Yen, Shih. It happened at Willow Castle. Cultural Press. The Peoples republic of China. 1951. Softcover. Small 8vo 130mm x 175mm. Pp71. Age tone to cover and page edges, otherwise clean and bright throughout. "While in billet in a village a member of the People's Liberation Army became emotionally involved with a girl. He couldn't marry her as this was against the wartime army regulations. And in principle he was not supposed to become too friendly with the daughter of an old fashioned peasant, who always kept an eye on the conduct of the average soldier. Just how he managed to get out of this dilemma is the themewhich this plain story proposes to elucidate. The author is (at present) a cultural worker in the army. This first story, based on actual expereince, has earned him the reputation as one of the best writers about army life." Scarce.

Harris, Joanne,. Holy Fools. Doubleday, London, 2004, 1st Edition, Signed by Author. 8vo. Unclipped dustwrapper in protective removable cover. Pp 273. In fine condition.

Cabell, James Branch. Jurgen. Penguin, London, 1940. Penguin 1st edition. Softcover with Dustwrapper. Pp 247, ads 8. Dustwrapper tanned to spine with very small loss. Covers clean. Pages age toned to edges, tight bright and clean throughout. A very good example of this early Penguin First Edition.

Olivier. Edith, The Love Child. The Richards Press, London. 1951. 8vo. Pp159. Blue cloth boards, silver titles to spine. Title and final leaf decorations by Rex Whistler. No dustwrapper. Spine sunned and bumped at edges. All pages and illustrations in tight and bright condition. Scarce Richards Press Edition.

Bullen, A.H., Lyrics From The Song-Books Of The Elizabethan Age. London, John C Nimmo, 1887. 8vo. Limited Large paper Edition. Number 40 of 250. Half calf over tan buckram. Gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Decorative bookplate on front pastedown. Pp200. Flyleaves show a little discolouration from contact with boards. All pages bright and clean.

Lawrence, D.H. The Man who Died. Martin Secker, London, 1931. 12mo. Brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. PP157. Binding and all pages are tight, bright and clean.

Beerbohm. Max,. More. London, Heinemann. 1922. Limited edition of 780 copies. 8vo, Cloth, paper title piece to spine. PP180. No inscriptions or marks. Binding in good order. All pages bright, clean and uncut. A very good copy unread copy.

Hamilton., Patrick. Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse. Constable, London. 1953. 1st edition. 8vo. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. Pp356. Lacks dust wrapper Boots Library label laid on front cover, spine sunned, small tear without loss to spine top edge. Pages age toned to edges, otherwise tight, bright and clean.

Thirlmere. Rowland, Panorama. The Shakespeare Head Press, 1930. 1st Edition. 8vo. Brown cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. With dustwrapper. Pp 119. Neat gift inscription from the author to Sir Israel Gollancz dated Easter 1930. Tipped onto front pastedown is a letter from the author to Gollancz asking of his health and commenting on the enclosed book. Sir Israel Gollancz 1863-1930 a Professor of Ehglish at Kings College London and uncle to publisher Victor Gollancz. The dust wrapper has age toned to spine and edges. The binding and pages are in excellent clean and bright order. A neat book with an interesting provenance.

The Pedigree of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Printed for Private distribution 1880. Limited 1st edition. No.39 of 50 copies for America. 4to, black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Neat ex Libris book plate on front pastedown. pp20 With proof portrait frontis. Large folding genealogy map. In excellent clean and bright condition throughout. An attractive Shelley reference.

Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich. Pis'ma. so vstupitel'nymi stat'iami i primechaniiami S. M. Solov'eva .. [et al.] Leningrad, Kolos, 1925. 1st. 12mo, later hardcover red cloth, gilt title "Alexander Blok - Letters" to spine. Pp 228, 1p ads. In Cyrillic. Pages age toned. Front free end paper missing, small tear without loss on last page of publishers ads. Book plate of Ian Grey, russian historian and author on front pastedown. Scarce.

Edited By Susan Tranter. Pitch. Issue I Spring 2001. Bookcase, Carlisle. 2001. ist Edition. 8vo. Soft Cover. PP 64. A collection of Poems by 22 poems including Christopher Pilling, William Scammell and Andy Croft. Gift inscription on title page "Arnold and Sim/love from Chris and Sylvia. Therew is also a lose note reading "Arnold/ One in the Pinle [?] &/ on Pitch, which I/ thought you might like/ to see/ Chris. This book is from the library of Arnold Ratenbury who was a firned of Christopher Pilling. A scarce item with an interesting provenance.

Antonov, Sergei. Poddubki Songs. Edited by O. Gorchakov, illustrated and designed by V. Sveshnokov. Moscow Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow 1953. 12mo 110 x 160mm Softcover soviet Novelettes. PP118. With 3 illustrations within text by V. Sveshnikov. Cover a little bumped a t edges. Tight, clean and bright.

Emerson. Ralph Waldo,. Poems. George Routledge and Sons, London. 1894. 12mo. Red cloth boards, gilt titles to front and spine. Pp 319. Covers bumped at edges, wear to spine edges. Pages age toned, in tight, bright and clean condition. The Prefatory note by J E Cabot reads " his volume contains nearly all the pieces included in the POEMS and MAY-DAY of former editions. In 1876, Mr Emerson published a selection form his Poems, adding six new ones, and omitting many. Of those omitted, several are now restored, in accordance with the expressed wishes of many readers and lovers of them…."

Joyce. James. Pomes Penyeach. London, Faber and Faber 1939. 16mo, paper wrappers. Pp22. With upper dustwrapper only. Poems include Tilly, Simples, Flood, On the Beach at Fontana. Neat ownership of Arnold Rattenbury dated 2.8.39on fep. All pages bright and clean. Arnold Rattenbury (1946-2007) "was an innovative exhibition designer, a critic and an original, lyrical poet of the heroic age of British Communism".

Holmes, Oliver Wendall: The Professor at the Breakfast table, The Poet ant the Breakfast Table, The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table. George Routledge and Sons, Broadway, 1901. 3 Vols. 12mo 95mm x 135mm. Red cloth gilt titles to spine and front. Pp, 315,313,315, each having index of the pocket library at end. All bindings a little bumped and rubbed, Poet binding loose. All pages bright and clean. A good set of small books.