Search Results: Authors starting with B from Lasting Words Ltd

UK: Collins, 1992. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edtion 1992. New Naturalist no. 77. 14 colour photographs and 150 b/w photographs and drawings. Book is fine and very bright. Contents very good. The complete wrapper is near fine and ver bright. Slight darkeneing to inner flap edge. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 6890###008998

UK: Gresham, 1910. New Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. New Edition C1910. Undated. A new printing of his poems for Gresham publications. Wonderful art nouveau decorative cloth binding by Talwin Morris. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15856

UK: Eliot Stock, 1910. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1910. Illustrated throughout. Bound in the original cloth covers. Book is very good with ligtly rubbed edges. Covers slightly lightened in areas. Contents good. Bookplate. More images can be taken upon request. Ref13539

UK: Longmans, 1949. New Impression . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition 1949. A new edition with photo lithography. From the library of Henry Williamson and His Family. This being their retained copy. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. Morel images can be taken upon request. Ref17748

UK: A and C Black, 1913. First Edition Thus . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition Thus 1913. A nice early cricket book. Never issued with a dust wrapper. Book is very good witrh a little rubbing to edges and covers. Contents good with a small name stamps to pages. More images can be taken upon request. Ref###002922

UK: Limited Editions Club, 1953. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good ++. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Rene Ben Sussan. 1st Edition Thus 1953. With an Introduction by John Mason Brown and 12 Hand-Coloured Etchings by Rene Ben Sussan. Signed by the illustrator and number 156 of 1500 copies. Book is very good++ and very bright. Contents good. Includes the average rubbed slip case. Spine quite age toned/marked. Lovely production quality. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17598

UK: Thornton Butterworth, 1925. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1925. The atmospheric Abbey wrapper is the original and correctly priced at 7/6 net 'Dramatic short stories of the underworld of London...which should not shock anybody who is accustomed to reading...Sunday newspapers'A contemporary review in the Spectator gives a flavour of the brutal depiction of London criminal classes: "Two stories compete for the honour of being the most horrifying- " The Second Visit," which concerns the brutal murder of an old lady who has just entertained her murderers to a meal, and " The Cottage," in which the heroine narrowly escapes from assault by a mental defective" Book is very good+ and quite bright. Light small patched to spine tips. Contents good. The wrapper is near very good and quite bright. Edges rubbed and nicked. Small loss to spine tips.. A few small closed tears to edges. More… Read More

UK: Fisher Unwin, 1899. Second Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2nd Edition 1899. The second edition of Yeats important and successful collection, and the first to be issued with Althea Gyles attractive rosicrucian design, which was reused over multiple revisions of the text over the following thirty years. Book is very good++ and very bright. Contents good.Foxing to some pages. A nice bright example of the poets poems. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18149

UK: Bullen, 1909. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1909. Book is very and quite bright. Light edge rubbing. Light marking to cloth. Contents quite good. Pages age toned as usual. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 13470###015624

UK: Macmillan, 1934. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1934. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents very good. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. Spine a little age toned. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 15875###20501

UK: Macmillan, 1933. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1933. Which consisted of 2000 copies, of one of the great collections of poetry from Yeats's later years. Included are "Coole Park," "For Anne Gregory," "Byzantium," "A Dialogue of Self and Soul" and the Crazy Jane poems. (There had been a briefer collection by the same title, published in New York by the Fountain Press in 1929, but that collection did not include, for example, four of the five poems cited above.) The elaborate binding design is by T. Sturge Moore. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Light edge rubbing. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18408

UK: Bullen, 1906. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1906. Binding designed by Irish poet and artist Althea Gyles. Title page in red and black lettering.The poems contained in this beautifully produced book are the following:- The Shadowy Waters;- On Baile's Strand; - In the Seven Woods; - The King's Threshold. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Light edge rubbing. Contents quite good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18408

UK: Oxford Clarendon Press, 1941. Reprint . Full-Leather. Very Good ++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprint 1941. Book is very good++ and very bright. Full leather Sangorski and Sutclffe binding with decorative gilt work and tooling. Contents good. A lovely book. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 10152 ###013250

UK, 1923. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. An Original Early Signed Photograph of German Pianist Wilhelm Backhaus. Dated 1923 Wilhelm Backhaus 1884-1969 was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. He was also much admired as a chamber musician. Size is 255mm x 215mm. Condition is good. Mounted on card. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18066

UK, 1835. First Edition . Paper. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. An Original Postal Free Front Written and Signed By John Backhouse C1835. John Backhouse 1784-1845 was a Secretary for State in Foreign Affairs during Peels and Canning's governments. His family were merchants with mercantile operations in the America's. Size 120mm x75mm. Edge rubbing. Condition is average. Light age toning and marking. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 16870

UK, 1853. First Edition . Paper. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. An Original Signed Address headed letter by James Backhouse. Dated 1853. An excellent letter from James Bakehouse to his son from Staveneger Norway. The letter is very detailed and discusses his travels, botany and teachings within the Norwegian Fjords. James Backhouse 1794 - 1869 was a botanist and missionary for the Quaker church in Australia. He visited Norway in 1851, 1853 and 1860, holding more than 200 meetings in 1853 and 1860. His son, also James Backhouse (1825-1890), was also a botanist..Written on four sides. Size 215mm x 135mm Condition is very good. Feint centre fold creases. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16606

UK: Longmans, 1907. New Edition . Full-Leather. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition 1907. Full leather binding with marbled endpapers, gilt tooling and raised bands. Book is very good++ with bright clean boards and contents. Contants good but some pages quite foxed. Gift plate to endpaper. A very nice , tight clean full leather binding. More images can be taken upon request. Ref###004252

UK: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 2nd imp 1936. printed 9 months after the 1st Edition. Repriced. A very un-common and a classic of the genre. Book is very good+ and bright. Cloth boards edges a little dulled and lightened. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and bright. Spine lightly age toned. Miniscule chip to spine top. Odd nicks and light rubbing to edges. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 3139 ##005471

UK, 1847. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. An Original Hand Written and Signed Letter by Poet Joanna Baillie. Dated 1847. A letter about her writing and confirming a request. Joanna Baillie 1762-1851 was a Scottish poet and dramatist, known for such works as Plays on the Passions and Fugitive Verses. Her work shows an interest in moral philosophy and the Gothic. She was critically acclaimed in her lifetime. She died at the age of 88. Size is 138mm x 88mm. Condition is good. Mounted on paper. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17707

1950. No Binding. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. An Original Concert Programme Signed by Isobel Baillie for the Harvest Cantata at the Watford Methodist Church 1950. Dame Isobel Baillie 1895 - 1983, née Isabella Douglas Baillie, was a Scottish soprano. She made a local success in Manchester, where she was brought up, and in 1923 made a successful London debut. Her career, encouraged by the conductor Sir Hamilton Harty, quickly developed, with breaks in the first years for vocal study in Milan. Baillie's career was almost wholly as a concert singer: she only once acted in an opera production on stage. She was associated above all with oratorio, becoming well known for her many performances in Handel's Messiah, Haydn's The Creation, Mendelssohn's Elijah and 30mm and in good condition. Small edge loss to base. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 16601