Search Results: Literature/Biography from Mad Hatter Books

London: Harrap, 1985. First UK . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Ronald Searle. Hardback: illustrated in b/w by RONALD SEARLE, dj (price unclipped), some slight discolouration, red boards with gilt spine lettering, back flyleaf lightly foxed, pages clean, vg. folio, 137pp. First published in the US in 1969.

London: Treasure Press, 1986. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Over 400 pictures - many rescued from rare magazines and obscure publications. dj very slightly worn on edges, colour pictorial brds (same as jacket), fine. folio, 176pp. Spans the years from the blood-thirsty Newgate Calendars of the 18th century to the notorious Private Eyes of the Twenties and Thirties.

London: Futura Publications, 1987. First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good. An early childhood in the North-East of England just after WW1. A paperback, lower corner lightly creased, vg.

London: John Murray, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bob Graham. Drawings throughout by BOB GRAHAM. Hardback: dj (price uncut), jacket back slightly creased, lightly foxed on reverse, pages are clean, vg. near square 4to, (230x210x20mm), 144pp. An anthology of prose and verse from authors who have looked on babies with clear eyes over the past two thousand years.

London: John Murray, 1913. Book. Good. Hardcover. Repr. A hardback: portrait of the author (aged 4), no dustjacket, book is bound in cloth which is faded and a bit discoloured, some internal and page edge foxing, else good. 8vo, 50pp. At rear is a 6 page catalogue of MURRAY'S Shilling Library..

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1963. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Gavin Nicol. dj slightly worn on edges, back lightly marked with damp stains, front flap creased, boards a bit spotted on back, else vg. 8vo, 246pp.

UK: Pearson Education (Penguin Readers), 2001. 2nd Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. Robert Geary. Penguin Readers level 4 - intermediate: 1700 words. Paperback, cover edges slightly rubbed, colour ills by ROBERT GEARY, vg. Other stories: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & The Sphinx without a secret.

London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1938. Book. Illus. by M.D. Johnston. Very Good. Hardcover. Repr. Hardback: 4 tinted plates by M.D. JOHNSTON, dj is chipped and rubbed on the edges and is a bit dusty, price clipped, book is bound in nice pictorial cloth, spine tips and corners slightly bumped, foredge and some internal foxing, else vg. 8vo, 416pp. Based on the author's childhood in Ireland..

London: John Hamilton Book. Illus. by R.B. Ogle. Very Good. Hardcover. No Date (1930s). An historical novel set in 15th century Holland. 8 colour plates by R.B.OGLE, no dj, light blue cloth decorated & lettered in black, spine tips & corners a little worn, spine is a bit discoloured, some page edge foxing, front edge of first few pages is a bit creased, else vg. 4to, 504pp..

New Zealand: The University of Otago Press (Te Whenua Series No 5), 1991. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Paperback: covers faded on edges and spine, photographs, corners slightly bumped, vg. 8vo, 181pp. Ruth Dallas (New Zealander) wrote stories for children and poetry.

Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1971. First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good. Dore. Preface by F.J. TEMPLE. Page illustrations taken from DORE'S engravings, cover water color illustration by LAWRENCE DURRELL. Soft cover: illustrated thin card covers, front edges slightly rubbed and bumped, corners slightly bumped, thin dark green flyleaves + 27 pages off-white quality paper, pages are clean, vg. 4to (240x190mm). Designed and printed by Noel Young. This copy belongs to a softcover limited edition of 800. A further 200 were hand bound and signed and numbered by the author. The text comes from the author's "Spirit of Place, Letters and Essays on Travel".

London: Macmillan, 1975. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Ex library hardback: dj is stained on the edges, spine is faded and has a library number 'whited' out, front flap creased, rear flap trimmed, black brds, covers are slightly marked, usual library markings, some foredge foxing and a few internal marks, else g. tall 8vo, 224pp. At the age of seven Winifred disappears to a wonderland of an unusual Private School. An account of middle-class home and school life during and after the first World War.

UK: Blackie (Rambles in Biography). No Date . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8 mono plates. Hardback: dj (with colour picture pasted on by H.M.Brock), slightly frayed, brown boards with the same paste-on, inscription (dated 1945) on reverse of frontispiece, some very light foxing, vg. sm 8vo, 75pp.

London: Longmans, Green (Writers and Their Works), 1960. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Ex library: originally published in lettered wraps, this copy rebound as a hardback with light blue cloth, a few library stamps from University of Auckland (including a withdrawn stamp), portrait frontispiece, vg. 8vo, 46pp.

London: John Westhouse, 1945. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardback: no dj, coarse green cloth with gilt spine lettering, 2 raised spots on the back cover, previous owner's signature on front flyleaf (Keith Sinclair 1946), endpapers lightly foxed, else vg. 8vo, 170pp. Cecorations taken from the 'Emblemata Diversorum Principum' of Typotius, 1679. 18pp introduction, 161pp of poems + a summary + index of first lines and titles.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First UK . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A European trip made by the author and his 13 year old daughter Barbara. dj (price clipped) a little rubbed and worn on top edges, light damp stain on lower back edge - also on covers, illustrated by the author, inscription on front flyleaf, some internal and foredge foxing, else vg. tall 8vo, 254pp.

UK: Sutton Publishing, 2006. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Paperback: laminated colour pictorial thion card wraps, nr FINE. small 4to, 134pp. Illustrated with historic photographs and pictures from the family album. A vivid recollection of Liverpool from the 1930s and '40s.

London: The Saturn Press, 1947. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Edward Ardizzone. 473 quotes with index. Near fine in nice (price unclipped) dj - a few very short edge tears, colour pictorial boards (as dj), 16 full page tinted lithograohs by EDWARD ARDIZZONE, a couple of small internal foxing spots, vg+. 16mo (145x110mm), unpaginated.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1982. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. Pavel Buchler. Hardback: b/w illustrations by PAVEL BUCHLER, covers are slightly rubbed, else vg. tall 8vo, 61pp. Thomas Hood was a nineteenth-century poet who revelled in puns, parodies and playing with words.

London: "News Chronicle" Publications Department Book. Very Good. Soft cover. No Date (1952). Paperback: illustrated in b/w by Modern Artists (including Edward Ardizzone, Low, Ronald Searle and Giles), card covers with a dj, jacket is dusty, lower spine is torn, wear on the corners and top of the spine, slight foredge foxing, else vg. 8vo, 145pp. Foreword + humorous excerpts from Our Mutual Friend - David Copperfield - Martin Chuzzlewit - Little Dorrit - Nicholas Nickleby, Dombey & Son - Barnaby Rudge - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist - Hard Times - The Old Curiosity Shopy - Edwin Drood - Bleak House - The Pickwick Papers - The Haunted Man..