Search Results: Authors starting with P from The Plantagenet King

W & R Chambers Limited . London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, [1917]. Large 4to., gray publisher's boards, stunningly decorated with printed design featuring a camel, giraffe and bear to the upper board, and a penguin to the lower; lettered along spine, featuring the glass slipper; preserved, highly unusually, in the original repeat dust jacket; unpaginated [pp. lxiv]; text and line drawings throughout, printed in brown; complete with all 16 full-page and full-colour illustrations showing the animals in their various roles; slight creasing along spine, and rubbing to extremities; endpapers mildly offset; previous bookseller's sticker discretely applied to inner gutter of front paste down; the jacket, seldom found at all, here with some short closed tears (repaired internally with archival tape); verso a little spotted, and some minor chipping to spine ends, with less than 1 cm of loss. A remarkable example.  First Edition.  A charming children's book, in which the… Read More

Country Life. London: Country Life (1939). A first edition. 4to., original pictorial paper boards, backed with the original green cloth spine; pp. 48; An about very good copy. Missing its jacket. The boards and all pages have browned with age. The upper board has wear and rubbing to the corners. The lower board has marks, a couple of small splash marks and a small number of scratches. The corners are also rubbed. The upper board at the bottom edge says "A Country Life book London 1939". The front free end paper is heavily creased. It has a near contemporary gift inscription from 1941. The third leaf has a handful of tiny pen marks dotted at the bottom of the page. All pages have browning marks although most are sporadic and occasional. Overall an about very good copy of a scarce book. Mervyn Peake's first book and notoriously scarce. Most copies were destroyed in the blitz as the Country Life building was hit, just as the book was about to be… Read More

Eyre & Spotiswoode. First editions published by Eyre & Spotiswoode between 1946 and 1959. The set consists of Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959). It is a fantastic near fine set. Titus Groan has the first state jacket. It has a mark to the back panel.  Gormenghast jacket the spine is sunned. All three volumes are excellent and have not been price clipped. The pages are clean and without marks. One of the greatest fantasy works of the twentieth century, Mervyn Peake's three volume sequence has been adapted to the stage, screen and radio over the years. About the inhabitants of castle Gormenghast. A fantastic set in near fine condition. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1946.

Faber & Faber Limited. London: George Routledge (1924). A first UK edition. 8vo., original brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to the spine, with the original dust jacket; pp. [xxxi] 223; A very good or better copy. The jacket hasn't been price clipped and has very little if any loss. The top of the spine has some minor wear and rubbing. The spine has browned. The upper text block has foxing marks and so does the first four or five preliminary pages. An excellent copy and scarce. Boris Pilniak's (Pilnyak) first book to be published in the English language. It is a collection of his earliest writing. This book was published only two years after his first novel was written in Russia, the censored 'The Naked Year' about the Russian Civil War. This would be a continued theme in the 1920's, with many of Pilniak's works being censored or causing a scandal in Russia. It would not end well for Pilniak as he was falsely accused of… Read More

Methuen & Co Ltd. First edition published by Methuen & Co Ltd in 1969. This is a near fine copy. The wrapper has the odd mark to the front and back panel but overall is clean and with only light wear tp the spine ends. The jacket has the publisher's sticker applied to the front flap. The black publishers boards, lettered in silver to spine are slightly pushed to the spine ends. The final page inside is lightly offset. This copy is boldly inscribed to the title page "To Brice Ritchie, Best Wishes, Harold Pinter", with the ownership plate of the dedicatee to the front paste-down.  A one-act play on the theme of marriage, first broadcast on radio in 1968 and first performed on stage in 1969.  . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1969.

Stanley Nott. First edition published by Stanley Nott in 1935. This is a very good or better copy. The orange dust wrapper with black lettering is complete with only minor wear along the edges. There is no loss and it is not price clipped. The spine is faded. The book is square and tight. The corners are gently pushed. There is light and sporadic foxing that becomes moderate to 3 or 4 pages. Overall a very good or better copy. A book Ezra Pound struggled to get published due to its fascist overtones. Pound compares US democracy with capitalism and facism. He then draws comparisons between fascist prime minister of Italy Benito Mussolini and the US third president Thomas Jefferson. Pound had been living in Italty for some years by this point and had met Mussolini in 1933. A controversial book, Pound's views would continue to be aired, in particular with radio broadcasts, and it would culminate with his imprisonment by the US Army in 1945. A scarce book to find with the dust wrapper and most… Read More

Jonathan Cape. London: Jonathan Cape (1937). First edition. 8vo., blue cloth boards, decorated with gilt to the spine, with the original dust jacket; pp. [vi] 1-322; A very good copy, the front and last free end paper has a couple of light tape scorch marks, presumably from an old jacket protector. There is a previous bookseller's small stamp to the last end paper. The jacket is sunned to the spine. It hasn't been clipped.  The author's dark novel about the concept of Hell: its landscape, scenery and the damned that live there. He tells the story of a man / woman and dog and their journey into the dark underworld.  . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1937.

Jonathan Cape. London: Jonathan Cape (1933). First edition. 8vo., red cloth boards, lettered in light blue to the spine with the publishers logo to the tail, with the original dust jacket; pp. 224; A very good copy, the book has a couple of lightly pushed corner tips. The front and last free end paper has a couple of light tape scorch marks, presumably from an old jacket protector. A publishers book mark is loosely placed at the front of the book. The jacket is sunned to the spine. It hasn't been clipped.  The author considers what he calls inward happiness and refers to this as a modern handbook of contemplation against the hurly burly of life. His non fiction book about dealing with solitude, a reoccuring theme that runs through his novels.    . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1933.

London: Scholastic Press. FIRST UK EDITIONS published by Scholastic between 1995-2000. The 3 volume set consists of: 1. Northern Lights (1995). There is a mark to the side text block and some light foxing to the top text block. There is very minor wear to the top of the spine of the wrapper. Otherwise the wrapper and book are is near fine condition. It has all the first issue points. 2. The Subtle Knife (1997) a sharp copy with no or very little wear. Fine overall. 3. The Amber Spy Glass (2000) a fine copy without wear. Overall the set is in very near fine condition.  Pullman's award winning trilogy, about an alternate Oxford and the adventures of Lyra as she tries to find the truth about her friends disappearance and the meaning of a mysterious entity called dust. The first novel won the Carnegie medal and the cut out medal is displayed on the front panel, as is called for. The series was initially adapted to the big screen under the name 'The Golden Compass' to mixed… Read More