Search Results: Literary Classics from BookLovers of Bath

Sutton, 2000. Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Very Good.. Paperback. Physically Trade Paperback (9¼” x 6”) (0.7 kg); (xxii) 298pp; Index; Preface by P. D. James; ISBN: 0750907258 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #169552|| Condition:

The Bodley Head, 1976. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good - in Good DJ. Edges of DJ somewhat ruffled, a little faded at the spine, with an overall used feel. Bruised at head, tail and lower corners. Internally bright and clean. A solid copy.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper ). Concise yet comprehensive account of the elements that gave English writing during the 30s its distinctive characteristics. 428pp. Index. Size: 8vo Demy (8½” x 5½”) ISBN: 0370103815 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #127596|| Condition:

The Folio Society. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Good - in Good DJ. DJ slightly ruffled along edges, some small closed tears, an overall faded appearance. Boards a little rubbed at extremities. Leans slightly. Top edges of text block dusty. Text bright and tight.. Alistair Grant. Hardback in dust wrapper ). Physically 8vo Medium (23 x 14cm Approx.) (0.7 kg); 303pp; Translated by Eric Sutton; Illustrated by Alistair Grant; Of Maupassant's six novels, Bel-Ami is the most characteristic; it brings us closer to the extraordinary genius, its author, than anything else he wrote, a handful of short stories apart. In Bel-Ami we have an essence, a distillation of what Paris then was, just as in Dickens we have a vanished London, and in Scott a vanished Edinburgh. || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts… Read More

Workers Education Association Bexley Branch, 1982. Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Wraps a little tired, being faded and somewhat edgeworn. Page edges spotted. A slightly dog-eared copy but text complete, clean and tight.. Paperback. Physically 11½” x 8¼” (0.6 kg); 58pp; Illustrated with black and white photographs. Stapled paper wraps containing reproduced typewritten pages. Contents: Part One — The Victorians; Part Two — Living and Working in London; Part Three — Local Victorian Buildings; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #112724|| Condition:

London & Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1910. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Poor. Heavily faded at the spine, less so to the boards which are a little soiled. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Hinges weak fore and aft. Previous owners' name to the first blank with age-toning to both blanks. The contents complete, clean and tight otherwise. . Hardback. Physically 9” x 6¾” (1.5 kg); (xviii) 457pp; No publishing date stated, estimated from references. Includes: Line drawings; Frontispiece; Top edge gilt; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #191158|| Condition:

London: Bibliophile Books, 1982. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good Dust Wrappers. Dust wrappers faded on all four volumes. Dust wrapper to volume IV more heavily so and to the margins of the panels with a mark to the upper. Previous owners' name to the first blank of each volume. . ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 4.4kg. shipping beyond the shores of my utopian country will be by ParcelForce World Wide, and starts at £15.00 Europe/£30.00 Elsewhere (less the displayed cost) for a 5-7 day service, tracked, duties unpaid. ### Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9½” x 6¼” (4.4 kg); 644/592/569/537pp; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get… Read More

London: Bickers & Son, 1884. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards. Heavily faded at the spine. Edges of the textblock lightly tanned. Text complete, clean and tight if a touch fragile now with one plate starting to loosen.. Adolf Tidemand. Hardback. Physically 7¼” x 4¾” (0.8 kg); 201pp; In the Author's Edition series; Translated by Rasmus B. Anderson; Illustrated by Adolf Tidemand; First in this edition. Illustrated with black and white plates. || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #111425|| Condition:

London: Paul Elek, 1974. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Price Clipped. Dust wrapper very slightly rubbed at the edges. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. The pages are somewhat tanned, if tight, and a little musty. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (black boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (0.9 kg); (xxii) 281pp; Index; Bibliography; Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; ISBN: 0236177184 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #179508|| Condition:

George G. Harrap & Co., 1936. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with several short tears and a little loss. Edges of the text block lightly tanned. Blanks tanned. Text complete, clean and tight otherwise. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (green boards with black titling to the spine & upper board) Physically 7½” x 5” (0.6 kg); 256pp; Index; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #174723|| Condition:

Hutchinson & Co.. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Boards a little rubbed at extremities, some marking. Endpapers heavily spotted with lighter spotting throughout the text. Top edges of text block dusty. Publishers compliment stamp to title page.. Hardback. Physically 8vo Crown (19 x 13cm Approx.) (0.4 kg); 177pp; Preface by R. J. Minney; Published around 1935. Black cloth with black on white title plates to spine and upper board. || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #146697|| Condition:

Prometey Intercom, 1991. Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Very Good. A little rubbed at the edges of the wraps. Pages slightly tanned. A nice copy.. Paperback. 75pp. Size: 8vo Large Post (8¼” x 5”) || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #135810|| Condition:

London: Lindsay Drummond, 1945. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Good — in Poor Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with a little loss at the spine ends and corners. Previous owners' name to the first blank. Pages lightly age-tanned. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (red boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (0.6 kg); 213pp; Translated by Beatrice Scott & Robert Payne; Contains: Black & white plates; Portrait to the frontispiece; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #180482|| Condition:

Oxford: Past Times, 2002. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (matching pictorial boards). Physically 8½” x 6” (0.8 kg); 192pp; Index; Bibliography; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #148136|| Condition:

London, 1873. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Edges of the textblock heavily tanned. Slightly shaken. . Hardback. Physically 6¾” x 4¼” (0.4 kg); 245pp; Contains: Black & white plates [6]; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #180281|| Condition:

London & Glasgow: Collins, 1951. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Very Good — in Good Slip Case. Slip case worn and marked. Private book plate to the pastedown, gift inscription to the first blank. The contents complete, clean and tight otherwise. . Hardback. Physically 8½” x 5½” (1.8 kg); 1376pp; Edited by Peter Alexander; Includes: Ribbon markers (1); Colour plates; Glossary; Top edge gilt; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #188621|| Condition:

Chapman & Hall, 1872. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Poor. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding with notable fading. Shaken with the hinges weak at both blanks, near detached at the rear. Text complete, clean and tight but the fly-leaves to the plates are now discoloured and, in some cases, detached.. H. K. Browne. Hardback. Physically 9” x 5¾” (1.3 kg); 698, (4)pp; Illustrated by H. K. Browne; Illustrated frontis and ½ title page with flyleaf, other illustrations throughout. || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #113442|| Condition:

New York: William Morrow, 1999. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (quarter-bound black on purple boards with silver titling to the spine) Physically 9½” x 6¼” (0.7 kg); Cover art by Richard L Aquan; ISBN: 0-688-16566-4 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #117956|| Condition:

London: Privately Printed, 1920. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Very Good. Spines on both volumes dulled. Pages very gently age-tanned. . Louis Chalon. Hardback. Physically 9” x 5½” (1.6 kg); (xxi,xiii) 332,404pp; Illustrated by Louis Chalon; A limited printing of 1000 copies of which this is number 498. Contains: Wood engravings; Black & white drawings; Frontispiece to volume I; Top edge gilt; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #183109|| Condition:

London: Privately Printed for The Navarre Society, 1905. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Both volumes darkened at the spine, less so at the boards but a few small marks here and there. Pages lightly age-tanned with scattered spotting. Fly leaves to the frontispieces darkened. . Louis Chalon. ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 2.2kg. shipping beyond the shores of my utopian country will be by ParcelForce World Wide, and starts at £15.00 Europe/£30.00 Elsewhere (less the displayed cost) for a 5-7 day service, tracked, duties unpaid. ### Hardback. Physically 9¼”x 6” (2.2 kg); (x/xiii) 332/404pp; Translated by J. M. Rigg; Illustrated by Louis Chalon; Includes: Tissue-guarded Frontispiece; Photogravures (15); Top edge gilt; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER!… Read More

Privately Printed for The Navarre Society, 1905. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Both volumes darkened at the spine, less so at the boards but a little light soiling to both volumes. Pages lightly age-tanned with scattered spotting. Fly leaves to the frontispieces darkened. . Louis Chalon. ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 2.2kg. shipping beyond the shores of my utopian country will be by ParcelForce World Wide, and starts at £15.00 Europe/£30.00 Elsewhere (less the displayed cost) for a 5-7 day service, tracked, duties unpaid. ### Hardback. Physically 9¼”x 6” (2.2 kg); (x /xiii) 332/404pp; Translated by J. M. Rigg; Illustrated by Louis Chalon; Illustrated by way of: Photogravures [15]; Two volumes. || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means… Read More