Resultados de búsqueda: Anthologies from Washburn Books

Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk: Ambit, 2021 Book. Near Fine. Card Covers. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contemporary arts magazine. 91pp illustrated in colour. White card covers with wrapper. Minimal shelfwear, otherwise near fine copy in near fine unclipped DJ..

London: Odhams Books Ltd, 1965 Ex-Library. Good. Maroon Cloth Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A collection of stories reprinted from Argosy Magazine, featuring a variety of authors, including Eric Linklater, W Somerset Maugham, Joan Aiken, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon and others. 242pp. Illustrated with ten pages of black and white plates. Left hinge cracked, with damage to front pastedown where front endpaper has been removed. Scrape to back endpaper, sellotape mark to half-title page. Some foxing and age-toning to page edges, otherwise good copy, no library stamps. Unclipped DJ has a small library sticker to spine and clear protective cover..

London: The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, 1984 Book. Near Fine. Illustrated Boards. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Selected extracts from some of the finest early children's books, together with some of the best colour pictures of the era, taken from copper engravings and chromo lithography. 160pp of real gems! Minimal surface scuffing to boards, otherwise near fine copy with no marks or inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has slight creasing and wear to edges, with one 1.2" closed tear, otherwise good..

Leeds: New Arcadian Press Book. Illus. by Christopher Fox, Dave Lee. Near Fine. Card Covers. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Undated volume. No. 153 of a limited edition of 300, being Nos. 33/34 of the New Arcadian Journal, a collaboration between writers and artists, together with musical notations. Originally published alongside a cassette tape (not present). Illustrated throughout in black and white. Reading creases to spine and slight bumping and marking to bottom corners, otherwise near fine copy..

Edinburgh and London: Wm Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1947 Book. Very Good. Green Cloth Boards. First Edition, 2nd Printing. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A collection of rural tales by a variety of authors. Gilt lettering to spine slightly faded. Bottom edges uncut. Previous owner's name to front endpaper, otherwise very good copy. Unclipped DJ has several small nicks and tears to edges and is a little grubby, otherwise intact..

Evergreen, 1990 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Small format magazine, "A Miscellany of This and That and Things Gone By".142 pages, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Small crease to back corner and former owner's name to title page, otherwise very good..

Pocket / Town House, 2003 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Daily thoughts reflecting the changing rhythms of the garden through the year. Unpageinated. Slight marking to edges but spine uncreased, very good copy..

Self-Published by the author, 1966 Book. Very Good. Yellow Leatherette Boards. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Anthology of favourite prose and verse chosen by Fred Gresswell, with his preface and gift inscription to endpaper. Slight marking to fore-edges, otherwise very good copy..

London: Kershaw and Son Book. Fair. Blue Cloth Boards. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Undated anthology of verse and prose on various subjects, including love, family life and the Holy Family, by Sir Walter Scott and others, many unattributed. 256pp illustrated with 2 monochrome plates. Gilt design and lettering to spine, all edges gilt, blind stamped design to boards. Some bumping and rubbing to spine and corners, light foxing to pastedowns, ffep missing, otherwise fair uninscribed copy..

London: Cassell, 1996 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Collection of anthologies, each featuring writing about places along a line on the London Underground - one each for the Piccadilly, District, Northern, Central, Circle, Metropolitan/ Hammersmith & City, Bakerloo & Jubilee lines. 32pp in each volume. (Different ISBN numbers for each). Minimal edgewear and slight marking to back of one book, otherwise near fine and unread..

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company Inc, 1941 Ex-Library. Good. Blue Cloth Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tal. Selection of verse and prose about mothers. 380pp. Gilt design and lettering to spine. Blind stamped initials to front board. Some bumping to spine and corners, top edges somewhat dust-marked, former owner's name and US Army stamp to front endpaper, pocket and lending slip to rear pastedown, otherwise good copy..

London: George Newnes Ltd Book. Good. Green Cloth Boards. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A history of literature in two volumes, illustrated with colour plates and black and white photographs. Title pages illustrated in colour. Front boards embossed. Page edges tinted red. Gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Corners, edges and spines bumped, Foxing to edges and endpapers, otherwise good copies. Heavy item, please enquire re extra shipping costs..

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939 Book. Good. Blue Cloth Boards. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book published as a tribute to the work of the Red Cross, with articles by various authors, a message from the Queen and 13 plates by William Russell Flint, Dulac, Whistler and others. 255pp. Red design and lettering to top board and spine. Bumping to spine and corners, fading to edges of boards, foxing to margins and endpapers and stamp of the King Edward VII Convalescent Home for Officers to pastdeown, else good. Unclipped DJ chipped and torn, with some marking. .

Edinburgh: W P Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell Book. Fair. Green Cloth Boards. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Undated anthology by eminent writers and teachers compiled by the Editor of the 'Treasury of English Literature'. 224pp with black and white portrait to frontis. Gilt lettering and black floral border to top board and spine. All edges gilt. Right hinge open, marking to margins and endpapers, bumping to corners and nick to fore-edge. 'Robinson Library and Free School' label to pastedown, otherwise fair/good reading copy..

London: Harper Collins, 1991 Book. Very Good. Dark Blue Cloth Boards. Signed by the Editor. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The best of the articles which appeared in The Times over the year. 278pp with index. Gilt title to spine. Signed by Philip Howard to a presentation label on the half title page. Also has a gift inscription to the verso of the front endpaper (not by the editor). Some colour seepage from the binding to the front pastedown and DJ, otherwise very good..

New York: Columbia University Press, 1999 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Selection of 56 texts from many Victorian writers, including many women and lesser known authors, and from a wide variety of written forms. Minimal creasing and shelfwear to cover and a couple of tiny turned corners, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions..

London: Pavilion Books Ltd, 1988 Book. Near Fine. Decorated Boards/Red Spine. Signed by the Editor. 4th Impression. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Anthology of Victorian writing, published to complement the success of a new scent by the Penhaligon perfumery. Beautifully produced, with some of the scent remaining. 111pp, illustrated in colour throughout. Marbled boards have light surface scuffing. Red ribbon page marker. Enclosed in a very good slipcase with some surface marking. Signed by the Editor without dedication to title page..

London & Toronto: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1928 Book. Illus. by Stephen Tennant. Good. Quarter Bound Cream Cloth. 2nd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Anthology of verse and prose edited by Pamela Adelaide Genevieve Grey, Viscountess of Fallodon, born Wyndham and formerly Pamela Tennant, Baroness Glenconner (1871-1928). Illustrated by her youngest son from her first marriage, Stephen Tennant, who was called 'the brightest of the Bright Young Things'. 249pp with index, illustrated with black and white drawings. Top edges tinted. Spare title label taped inside back cover. Copy gifted to one of the contributors, Frank R Seymour, with the inscription 'FS from Lady Grey' to the pastedown, and a further note in pencil to the endpaper (unattributed). Left hinge pulling, forward lean to spine and some marking to edges, otherwise good copy. Unclipped DJ is edgeworn with some soiling and only fair. Scarce signed copy..

London: George Newnes Ltd Book. Good. Red Cloth Boards. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. John O'London's Edition, undated. Compilation volume containing 42 classic works, by a variety of authors including Plato, Shaw, Hardy, Shakespeare, de Quincey and Keats. 893pp, with 216 black and white illustrations. Black title to front board and spine. Bumping to spine and corners, half-title creased, some marking to page edges, spine faded, some creased corners and name to endpaper, otherwise good copy. HEAVY BOOK, extra postage will be requested for 1st class/overseas shipping..