Search Results: Authors starting with B from Julian Roberts Fine Books

Hodder & Stougton, 1902. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black boards with gilt titles. Topedge gilt. Wonderful frontispiece map of Kensington Gardens. A near fine copy with very clean boards. No chipping or splitting to cloth & none of the usual fading to black spine. Internally very clean & crisp. Original booksellers blindstamp to rear endpaper. Partial crack to front endpaper. No inscriptions. A really lovely copy & seldom found in this condition. A series of short stories accounting the author's day to day activities in London with a fantastical bent set around Kensington Gardens including the very first appearance of Peter Pan.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1915. Circa 1915. First edition thus [truncated edition]. 8vo. Green boards with gilt titles & vignette to front board. A very good+/near fine copy. No marks to boards. Bright gilt. No chipping or splitting. Some spotting to edges only - text clean. Internally clean with all 24 colour plates present with tissue guards. No inscriptions. Map endpapers original and unsplit. A lovely copy. One of the immortals of children's literature, Peter Pan as a boy living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London and as the children he was invented for grow up so does Peter reappearing in Neverland.

Constable, 1928. First edition, first printing. Blue boards with gilt titles. A very good+ copy. Clean boards with light wear only. Internally complete with no inscriptions. Some light spotting to half title. A really lovely copy. Covers travels in Spain, Portugal, the Recovered Country, France, the Rhine, Tournai & the Three Towns of Life and Death.

Constable, 1925. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt titles. Top edge gilt. A near fine copy. Lovely fresh and clean boards with light wear to extremities. Internally clean with no inscriptions. A very attractive copy & without the usual heavy foxing. A cruising & sea classic about a journey made around the coast of Britain.

Heinemann, 1929. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black boards with gilt titles. A fine copy with clean boards. Internally clean and complete with no inscriptions and no marks to textblock edges. The very good+ dustwrapper is scarce with one small slither chip to top right corner of front panel and a closed tear to left corner. Normal edgewear to extremities & mild toning to spine. Orignal price of 7/6net to spine. Incredibly hard to locate in dustwrapper. Twenty six stories of the Occult.

Isbister and Company Ltd, 1894. First edition, first printing. 8vo. First issue green boards with gilt titles. A near fine/fine copy with clean boards and light wear only. One tiny mark to top left corner of front board. Internally clean with neat inscriptions to front endpaper. Offsetting to endpapers which are original and unsplit. A lovely fresh copy.

Warner Home Video, 1998. Signed by Trevor Willsmer to blank verso of cover. 4to. Illustrated card covers. 48pp. A near fine/fine copy. Clean covers with lightest edgewear. A couple of miniscule closed tears to leading edge of last leaf. Covers all aspects of making the movie & then reviews it in terms of the mass hysteria it caused and the appraised thoughts of Theologians and Critics. Apparently uncommon due to a large quantity being destroyed!

Hamish Hamilton, 1978. First edition, first printing. 4to, Original pictorial boards. A near fine copy with clean boards. Slight pushing/wear at spine tips. None of the usual yellowing/creaming to boards & spine - very bright diamond white boards. Internally complete with no inscriptions. Endpapers clean and unsplit. No inscriptions. Priced £2.95net to foot of back board. A wonderful copy of this classic title. A little boy rushes out on a winters day to build a snowman which comes alive in his dreams at night. Turned into a classic with the short animated film cementing its longevity in the annuals of children's literature.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1941. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Green boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper complete with original Book Society wraparound band [as originally issued]. A near fine copy with clean boards. Very light spotting to textblock edges - internally very clean. No inscriptions. The very good+/near fine dustwrapper is clean and fresh with some light creasing only. None of the usual toning/darkening to bright spine. Original price of 8/3net to front flap. The wraparound band is in very good condition with some light creasing only. Extremely uncommon in this condition with original wraparound band as was issued on the first edition at the time of publication. A dying Sir Edward Leithen undertakes a heroic journey from London to Canadian Northwest to track down a missing man who is literally "sick at heart". In his journey Leithen finds his own redemption.

Gollancz, 1978. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with gilt titles. Yellow Gollancz dustwrapper. A near fine copy with no marks to boards. Internally clean and complete with no inscriptions. The very good dustwrapper has no tears or chipping. Mild lightening to spine & a light watermark to top margin of front panel. Original price of £3.95 to front flap. From the creator of Wycliffe the Cornish detective is a Science Fiction novel set 2000 years into the future.

Gollancz, 1979. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with gilt titles. Yellow Gollancz dustwrapper. A fine copy with clean boards. Internally clean and fresh with no inscriptions. The near fine dustwrapper has no chipping or splitting. A hint of toning to spine o/w fine. Original price of £3.95net to front flap. Gothic tale set in Burley's beloved Cornwall. A glimpse of girl where no girl should be; an unconsecrated tomb at the centre of an overgrown maze and then a confrontation between past and present - between Charles who died a century ago and Brian his mirror image.

Gollancz, 1981. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with gilt titles. A fine copy with clean boards. Internally fresh with no inscriptions. The fine dustwrapper is clean & unworn with none of the usual fading encountered on these Gollancz dustwrappers. A very attractive copy. A delicious blend of witchery and bitchery - an investigation into deceit and scheming set within the aristocratic Care family spanning a number of years and with the wonderful Cornish backdrop so often encountered in Burley's novels.

Gollancz, 1977. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with gilt titles. Yellow Gollancz dustwrapper. A near fine copy with clean boards. No inscriptions. The near fine dustwrapper has light wear to extremities. Original price of £3.75net to front flap. A murder some twenty years ago and a life changing seperation are the backdrop to this murder mystery.

Macdonald, 1967. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black boards with silver gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrappr. A near fine copy with clean boards. A few light spots to leading edges. No inscriptions & internally clean. The near fine dustwrapper is complete with no loss. Some light dusting to wrapper o/w fine. Original price of 16snet to front flap. A Ludovic Travers mystery.