Search Results: the local by gorham maurice

Faber & Faber. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Faber Finds, 2015. Paperback. New. 134 pages. 8.27x5.35x0.63 inches.

London: Percival Marshall, 1949, 1st edition. Edward Ardizzone, illustrator. Red cover near fine, loose endpaper may be missing at front, hinges strong, interior clean and bright. Dust jacket is soiled with chips top and bottom of spine. VG+/G+..

Hardback. Very Good.

Percival Marshall, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1949. First Edition. 126 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.

London: Percival Marshall,, 1949. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Original red cloth with a few faded marks, spine titles slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. No jacket.

Percival Marshall. The sequel to "The Local". Black and white plates by Edward Ardizzone. A look at the pubs of London post WWII. 126 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Very good. Some sunning to the spine with a small amount of loss at the head of the spine and top edge of front panel. Binding: Hardcover. Red cloth boards with mild edge-wear.

Lonon: Percival Marshall. 1949. Fist edition, first printing. Fist edition, first printing. Original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings by Edward Ardizzone. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the near fine lightly rubbed and nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper that is a touch faded to the spine. A beautifully illustrated observation of London Pubs by the Irish journalist Maurice Gorham. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London. Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1939 1st edition.. Tall 8vo. In grey hard card covers with red lettering to spine and front. B/w illustration to front. In generally good condition. Spine slightly darkened with cm loss lower spine. Small marks to covers. Slight browning to endpapers with owners inscription. Another small initials inscription lower corner of half title page. Else a clean and tight copy. 51pp. With colour lithographs by Edward Ardizzone. This, the first of Ardizzone’s homages to the English Pub, was printed by the Curwen Press and can be seen as a companion to Eric Ravilious’s ‘High Street’. It was issued without a dust-jacket. In the successor volume, Maurice Gorham noted that the unsold copies of ‘The Local’, together with its printed sheets and plates, “went up together in the burning of Cassell’s premises in Belle Sauvage Yard”. The book has a Glossary which provides a fascinating contrast with today’s pubs. There is also a… Read More

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1939. Beautifully illustrated book of colour lithographs by Edward Ardizzone depicting the interiors of Lonon Public Houses and the people using them. First edition 1939 containing 51pages in bright clean condition just some light browning to endpapers and previous owners ink details on front endpaper, 15 full page colour illustrations, all present as listed plus very informative text. NO dustwrapper, outer illustrated boards are a little marked and worn on edges and corners, spine has become detached and lost over the years but binding is sound. Though not perfect still a pleasing example of this book with bright clean illustrations. SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Edward Ardizzone. 9 ¼ x 6¼ Inches. Hardcover.

The First UK printing published by Cassell, London in 1939. The BOOK is in Very Good ++ condition. Original two-colour printed paper boards are lightly marked. The spine is missing as invariably is the case with this title due to the restrictions on quality of war time production. The boards are however firmly attached and the book is tight. Free from inscriptions and the pages are clean. Frontispiece, title-page, xvi ~+ 51 pages, with all 14 other illustrations (including one double-page spread) in very good condition. The Ardizzone illustrations, printed at the Curwen Press in stunning chromolithography, retain their vitality. Among the named pubs illustrated are the 'Spread Eagle' in Thame, the 'Warrington' in Maida Vale, the 'Red Lion' at Barnes, the 'Goat' just off Bond Street. The text, together with the 'Glossary of Terms' commonly used in connection with the London Pubs, remain a wonderful insight and are added to by the wonderful Ardizzone lithos. A very rare title to find in any collectable… Read More

London: Cassell and Company, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. London, Cassell and Company, 1939. Octavo, xvi, 51 pages plus 15 colour lithographs (one double-page). Pictorial papered boards (printed in red and black) lightly bumped on the top edge of both covers, with the rear cover slightly marked; flyleaves offset; top edge of the text block and the top half-inch of the leading edge stained, bleeding lightly and very slightly into the margins, and really only noticeable on the leading edge, the flyleaves and the half-title; notwithstanding, a pleasing copy of a very attractive and uncommon book 'about the pubs of London'.

London: Cassel & Co LTD, 1939. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Poor. 9" by 6.5". Edward Ardizzone. The first edition of Maurice Gorham's entertaining satire on London pubs, illustrated with colour plates. The first edition of this work. Sought after but hard to find in an acceptable condition. Here in a rather better than usual condition with the flyleaves from the original dust wrapper. With the original flyleaves of the scarce dust wrapper.An entertaining work on the pubs of London, a satirical and humorous work.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, one double-paged colour plate, and thirteen colour plates.Written by Maurice Graham, an Irish journalist.Illustrated with lithographs by Edward Ardizzone.Ink inscription to the front pastedown. In the original publisher's paper covered boards, in the original flyleaves of the dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Light marks to the boards and spine. A little loss to the head of the spine. Minor bumping to the tail of the spine. Flyeaves are… Read More

Cassell & Co. Ltd. First edition in the remnants of the original glassine wrapper. First editions of this work are particularly scarce at all unsold copies were destroyed when Cassel's offices at La Belle Sauvage in London were destroyed during the Blitz in WWII. Contains 15 four colour lithographic plates by Ardizzone, including one double page. Some age-toning and mild foxing to prelims. 51 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Some light edge-wear with some foxing to top edge. Bumping to front corner.

Cassell, London., 1939. First edition. Royal octavo. 50 pages. 14 full-page colour lithographs, 1 double-page colour lithograph and cover design by Edward Ardizzone. The first 8 lithographs are tipped-in, the remainder being on cognate leaves. All the lithographs have captions in cursive script by Edward Ardizzone. Pictorial boards. Printed at the Curwen Press. According to Alderson, the unsold stock was destroyed when Cassell's premises in Belle Sauvage Yard were burnt to the ground.Head and tail of spine scuffed. Corners of covers a bit rubbed. Very good in the remains of the cellophane dustwrapper but with the printed paper flaps present. These are crinkled, as seems to be a common problem with these ''transmatic'' dustwrapper. It is sometimes stated that the book was issued without a dustwrapper, which goes to show how seldom it is present.

London: Cassell, 1939. First Edition. First UK Edition. Publisher's original paper-covered boards. Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Fifteen colour lithograph plates (of which one double-page) as called for. Foxing to the end-papers and nibbling at the head of the spine. The all-important very fragile spine of the book is PRESENT and is still ATTACHED although it is just starting to split at the base of the spine at the left hand side. A much nicer copy than normally seen which is in near fine condition with the Ardizzone illustrations in lovely, fine condition. These copies are scarce because Cassell (the publishers) were bombed in the London Blitz and unsold copies destroyed.

London: Cassell & Co, Ltd,, 1939. An exceptional copy in the scarce dust jacket First edition, sole impression. "Ardizonne's illustrations are generally concerned with contemporary life untouched by political, religious or ideological conflicts. His approach is not satiric or moralistic but autobiographical, and his drawings are representational and humourous and demonstrate his affection for people" (The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators). The book's scarcity is explained by Maurice Gorham in his Foreword to their follow-up book Back to the Local (1949): "[The Local's] career ended when unsold copies, sheets, and plates of the drawings went up together in the burning of Cassells' premises in Belle Sauvage Yard [during the Blitz]". Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine and front cover in red and black. With the original glassine dust jacket with paper flaps, as issued. With 15 four-colour lithographic plates, including one double-page by Edward Ardizzone. Some faint toning… Read More