Search Results: Journalism, Media and Current Affairs from Hall of Books

Hon. F. D. L. Astor, 1963. Paperback. Good. Quarterly paperback magazine, vol. 172 Spring 1963, in overall good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - general shelfwear and corners slightly curled. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text and period advertisements clean and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897 and 1898. 1st. Hardback. Good. First American edition three volume hardback set, Volumes I & II published 1897 and Volume III published 1898, with no jackets. In overall good-to-very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards rubbed to edges with some wear to spine heads and tails. Bindings tight and appear little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text and occasional illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not old library books.

Collins, 1959. 1st. Hardback. Good/Good. First edition hardback, 1959, with unclipped jacket. In overall good to very good condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - dj tanned to spine and edges with a couple of short closed tears and some shelfwear. Binding tight, no annotations - gift inscription to ffep; tanning to page-ends and some age-spots to prelims, text clean and clear throughout.

Phaidon, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. First edition paperback, 1989, in overall very good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - slight shelfwear. Internally very clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions;slight toning to page-ends but text and copious b&w illustrations bright and clear throughout. From a private collection, not an old library book. Photograph available.

Hamish Hamilton, 1955. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback reprint, 19819558, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket rubbed and tanned to spine and edges (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - ownership signature to front endpaper dated 1957; light toning to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

Allen Lane, 2016. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First UK edition hardback, 2016, with unclipped jacket. In overall fine, as-new condition. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears almost unopened; no annotation or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition hardback, 1982, with clipped jacket. In overall very good condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - dj a little rubbed to edges. Internally very clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. From a private collection, not an old library book. Photograph available.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2017. 1st. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition first impression hardback, 2007, with unclipped jacket. In overall fine, unread condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - small name and address label to front endpaper; text bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

Ward, Lock & Co. Limited. Hardback. Good/Good. Undated (assumed first) edition hardback in the Homely Woman series, c. 1930s), with unclipped jacket. In overall good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dj rubbed and slightly faded with a couple of small chips to edges; green cloth boards a little puckered to front board. Internally clean. Binding tight - ffep has been removed; no annotations - gift inscription to half-title page; toning and light spotting to page-ends but text and illustrated frontis bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917. 1st. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. First edition hardback, 1917, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with some minor signs of handling and storage - green cloth boards tanned to spine and rubbed to edges with a couple of light marks. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; light tanning to page-ends and feps but text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available.

Putnam, 1954. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Peter Kneebone. First edition hardback, 1954, with unclipped jacket. In overall good to very good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - dj rubbed to edges with a couple of short closed tears; blue cloth boards slightly faded to upper edges with small chip to cloth at spine head. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; light toning and one or two age-spots to page-ends and endpapers but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available.

ft.com/Pearson, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. First UK paperback edition, 2000, in overall very good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. 1st. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. First edition hardback, 1925, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with some minor signs of handling and storage - boards are generally slightly soiled and shelfworn. Internally clean. Binding tight with slight roll and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available.

Chatto & Windus, 2001. 1st. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition first printing hardback, 2001, with unclipped jacket. In overall fine condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

Macmillan, 1947. Hardback. Good. Reprint in the Macmillan's English Classics series, 1947, in overall good to very good condition with minor signs of handling and storage - russett cloth covers are rubbed to edges, back-strip slightly faded and short tear at spine head. Internally very clean. Binding tight and appears little read - ffep has been removed, no annotations or inscriptions; slight tanning to page-ends but text clear throughout. From a private collection, not an old library book.

New York: Random House, 1973. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition second printing hardback, 1973, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - white dust jacket slightly rubbed and toned to spine and edges; boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., 1999. 1st. Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good. First US edition first printing hardback, 1999, with unclipped jacket. In overall near fine used condition in a very good dj with only slight signs of age, handling and storage - dj lightly rubbed. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears almost unread; no annotations or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

Liverpool: J. Nuttall, 1805. Hardback. Very Good. Hardback edition, 1805, professionally rebound into cloth boards quarter bound in dark-brown leather with gilt titles to spine. In overall very good used condition with some minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards slightly rubbed. Binding tight and appears almost unread - the title page is missing but the contents pages are bound in as an appendix to the rear; the final six pages (of 766pp) to the end of the book have been repaired to leading edge but remain a little fragile. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - ownership signature to front endpaper; the odd spot of foxing here and there but text bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardback reprint in the Golden Treasury series, 1924, with no jacket. In overall good to very good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - light shelfwear. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions - owner's name and address very neat to ffep; light toning to prelims, text bright and clear throughout. Retains tissue-paper guard to title page. Not an old library book. Photograph available.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing hardback, 1968, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - dj slightly rubbed to edges. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; page-ends tanned and slightly spotted but text clean and clear throughout. From a private collection, not an old library book. Photograph available.