Search Results: Literature from Stephen Rench

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xiii, [i], 218 pages. Hardback with dustwrapper which has some light creasing to the edges, otherwise just light signs of use..

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1875 Book. Fair. Hardcover. [iii]-viii, 298; iv, 325, [1]; iv, 356 pages. Lacking a half title page to vol 1? Bound in half red leather. the spine of vol 2 is split and worn down the rear edge. Other joints also split. Spotting and staining, more heavily to vol 1 and start and finish of each vol. Armorial bookplates of Nathaniel Bond, Grange. An abrasion on the title page of vol 1 has removed the Sa of Sampson in publisher's imprint..

London: Duckworth & Co;, 1899 Book. Good. Hardcover. 125, [3] pages. In the original cloth binding which is soiled, browned and darkened. Spine a little worn. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Stanley and Rosalie Amsden. Free end papers are browned. Some spotting and light soiling to pages throughout. Pages 89 - 96 have some damage to the upper inner corner of pages where they have been carelessly opened..

London: Published for the Crown Perfumery Company by Hamilton Adams & Co 31 and 32 Paternoster Row, 1876 Book. Fair. Hardcover. vi, [ii], 117, [3] pages. In the original green cloth binding, which is damp stained. End papers also damp/mould stained. Small old price label to the front pastedown 1/6. Pages lightly browned throughout. Pages at the start and finish are very spotted..

London: Rich & Cowan, 1933 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 174, [2] pages. In the original printed paper covers. Spine creased and faded. Page corners a little creased..

London: Constable, 1963 Book. Fair. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 347, [1] pages. In the original cloth binding, no dustwrapper. Pages spotted at front and rear. Signed by the author to the title page and with a presentation inscription to Bernard Bergonzi to the front free end paper. Edges of the text block also spotted and browned..

Cambridge: The Author, 1974 Book. Good. Hardcover. 31, [1] pages. Original cloth covered boards with leather spine which has some light wear. Manuscript poem to the front pastedown. Presentation inscription from the author to the front free end paper. Another photocopied poem pasted to the rear pastedown..

London: Printed and sold by J. Smeeton, 148 St Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, 1795 Book. Fair. Hardcover. xvi, 108 pages. ESTC T114964. Here bound without the final 4 unnumbered pages of advertisements. An ex library book in a rather unpleasant binding - cloth covered boards with a replacement paper spine. Bookplate removed from the front pastedown. Blindstamp to the title page and a few other pages. Ink number at the head of the title page and an ink tick to the verso. Pages 143-146 bound incorrectly after page 158. Occasional spotting and staining. No date given on the title page, ESTC dates it to 1795..

London: Seeley and Co, Limited, 1893 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. [ii], 183, [5] pages. Re-bound in modern blue cloth. A few marks here and there to the pages. Previous owner's book label to the front pastedown and his ink date to the foot of the front free end paper. Pencil date to the rear free end paper, presumably that of the rebinding..

Tokyo: Ogawa Seibundo, 1924 Book. Good. Hardcover. [ii], viii, 271, [3] pages. Page of Japanese writing to the rear end papers. Ink inscription to the front free end paper dated 1925. In the original red cloth but this is worn and discoloured, the binding is also coming loose and the pages separating internally..

Bristol: John Wright, 1887 Book. Good. Full-Leather. Bound volume of three works by Agrikler. 1] Poems, humorous and philosophical by Agrikler. A new series with the latest additions. Bristol: John Wright; [1887?] viii, 165, [3] pages + frontispiece and 12 plates. Preliminary pages misbound. Bound with 2] Poems, humorous and philosophical By Agrikler. New series. London: Griffith & Farran. iv, 140 pages + 13 plates. Bound with 3] Rhymes in the West Country dialect by Agrikler. Fourth edition. London: Houlston and Sons. iv, 124 pages + 12 plates. Bound together in full leather, gilt decorated and lettered to the front board and lettered to the spine. Leather lightly rubbed and the spine is lightly faded and a bit dulled. Pages are all edges gilt. The first title is dated from "The valedictory" on page viii. Pencil note to the head of the first title page - Morocco binding. The plates are printed illustrations glued onto blank pages which have been bound in, presumably as extra… Read More

London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930 Book. Good. Soft cover. 129, [1] pages. In the original paper covers these are stained and browned. The front inner flap of the covers is creased along the upper edge. The blurb on the front flap - A brain is constructed in the Sahara Desert - presently It grows larger than the desert - out of pure mechanism, by the whole of the human race, It controls the whole activities and does all the thinking of the world. Ultimately a star collides with the sun while man is still tied within the limits of the solar system. The Brain describes the approaching process, Its helplessness in comparison with Its former omnipotent power over the world. It deplores mankind's delay in not co-operating earlier, which makes it impossible now to escape the catastrophe. It has visions, premonitions of what might have been. Some light browning to pages..

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xii, 221, [1] pages. Harback with papercovered boards. Just light signs of use..

Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1890 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Arrowsmith's Bristol Library Vol 1. Undated, circa 1890? Hugh Conway appears to be a pseudonym used by Frederick John Fargus. [iv], 194 pages. Bound in red cloth with a leather spine. The spine is scuffed at the edges. Small ink stamp of the binder to the foot of the front pastedown - Birdsall & Son Northampton. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Frank Algernon Hall. Stains to the title page.

London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly, 1864 Book. Good. Half leather. Vol 1 dated 1864 - Vol 2 is dated 1865. Volume 1 - [viii], 320 pages + 20 plates. Volume 2 - vi, [ii], 320 pages + 20 plates. In half leather bindings - ink stamp of Bayntun of Bath to the front free end papers. The spines are faded and scuffed. Pages are top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Bookplates of William Roughead to the front pastedowns. Some spotting and soiling to pages..

London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, Pater Noster Row, 1814 Book. Good. Hardcover. [xvi], 263, [1] pages, The title page has been backed with linen. Underlining to some passages throughout. In half leather binding but the leather spine is a more modern replacement. Soiling to some pages. Pencil number to the head of the title page.

London, 1793 Book. Good. Disbound. xv, [i], 200 pages. ESTC T163121 with just 4 UK and 2 US locations. In the remains of the old full leather binding - front board detached, lettering label lost from spine and spine splitting also. Leather very worn. A few pages stained. Modern bookplate to the front pastedown of Charles Hughes. Needs rebinding..

London: Jonathan Cape Thirty Bedford Square for The Poetry Bookshop, 1925 Book. Good. Hardcover. 122, [2] pages. In the original paper covered boards, small amount of loss to the head of the spine. With the dustwrapper, but this is torn with some loss and has old tape stains to the verso. End papers browned. Some light browning to page edges..

London: John Warren, 1820 Book. Good. Half leather. 3 titles by William Henry Halpin also known as Peter Quince the Younger. The first published in 1820 - viii, 137, [1] pages. Creasing throughout. The second published in 1826 by Simpkin and Marshall - viii, 135, [1] pages. Creasing throughout. The third title published 1825 by Simpkin and Marshall - [iii]-viii, 174 pages + errata leaf tipped in at the end. Bound together in 19th century half leather, some rubbing to the edges. End papers are browned and spotted. There are some pencil lines to margins throughout. Armorial bookplate of George Montgomery Traherne to the front pastedown and also a small book label for J.O. Edwards..

Hull: Hull University Press, 1985 Book. Good. Soft cover. xii, 266 pages. 1985 reprint of the 1984 edition. In the original thin card covers, light signs of use. Covers lightly browned..