Search Results: Titles starting with D from Lasting Words Ltd

UK: Chatto and Windus, 1930. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1930. Limited edition of 260 with this being number 220. Signed by the author. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request.Ref10878 ###012938

UK: Elkin Mathews, 1923. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 5th Edition 1923. A new rewritten edition. Signed Presentation inscription from the author to Charles Harold Herford, 1853-1931 who was an English literary scholar and critic. He is remembered principally for his biography and edition of the works of Ben Jonson. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1878-1962 was a British Georgian poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work. Book is very good++ with bright boards and clean contents. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16966

UK: Ernest Nister and Griffith and Farren, 1887. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1st Edition 1887. Verses by Agnes M Clausen, E Nesbit, Carl Otto, Graham Tomson, and Robert Mack. Illustrated. Lithographed and printed by Ernest Nister of Nuremberg. Book is very good and bright. Edges rubbed and covers a little rubbed/lightly worn. Corner with surface lossContents good.Pages a little age toned. Inscription from 1887 to inner page. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18409

UK: Westmorland Gazette, 1976. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1st Edition 1976. Signed by the author to the endpaper. With full page drawings by the author with accompanying text to facing page. Wonderful provenance. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and bright.Spine slightly faded. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18210

UK: Herbert Jenkins, 1940. Reprint . Cloth. Very Good ++/Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 21st Imp C1940. Book is very good++ with bright boards. Contents good. The wrapper is good++ and bright. Lightly soiled. Wrapper has been laminated in the past with archival acetate. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17526

UK: Bloomsbury, 1987. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1987. Un-common. Memoir of the widow of a famous British actor of the mid-20th century. Book is near fine with bright boards. Spine tips and one edge a little pushed. Contents good. The wrapper is near fine and bright. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 14855

UK: Faber, 1945. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprint 1945. Signed by the author to the title page, Rare Thus. Dandelion Days is the second novel in The Flax of Dream tetralogy describing the life of Willie Maddison. This volume continues the story of Willie's boyhood with escapades at school and idyllic adventures in the countryside. The moving, at times almost Arcadian account, of youth before the Great War is shattered at the end when we learn 10943 Private W. B. Maddison has enlisted and is serving in a territorial Infantry Battalion in the Ypres Salient". Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Small loss to spine tips. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. More images can be taken upon request. Ref A1234

UK: Collins, 1922. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1922. Un-common with a print run of 600 copies. Never reprinted in this state and was radically revised by the author in 1929. Dandelion Days is the second novel in The Flax of Dream tetralogy describing the life of Willie Maddison. This volume continues the story of Willie's boyhood with escapades at school and idyllic adventures in the countryside. The moving, at times almost Arcadian account, of youth before the Great War is shattered at the end when we learn 10943 Private W. B. Maddison has enlisted and is serving in a territorial Infantry Battalion in the Ypres Salient". Book is very good++ and very bright. Spine tips and some edges lightly rubbed. Contents good with age toning to endpapers. A lovely example. More images can be taken uon request. Ref 14273

UK: Sherratt and Hughes, 1902. New Edition . Soft cover. Good ++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Robert Cruikshank. New Edition 1902. A new printing of the original 1819 edition. The soft back book is good++ and bright. Light edge and surface rubbing. Light marking to covers. Contents good. Age toning to pages . More images can be taken upon request. Ref18209

UK: D C Thompson, 1954. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1st Edition 1954. Very un-common spin off from the Dandy annual. Book is very good+ and bright. Light rubbing to some edges/corner and spine tips. Small loss to top corner on front board. Contents very good. A good example. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 9773 ###012164

UK: Harrap, 1968. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1968. A very un-common book especially signed. Book is very good++ with nice bright boards and spine. A little bump to spine edge. Title page has 10mm strip cut off affecting the title wording. Contents very clean. The complete wrapper is very good++ slight rubbing/nicks/fine creasing to edges. A few small closed tears to edges. More images can be taken upon request. Ref##002841

UK: Hutchinson, 1965. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1965. Flat signed to title page by author. Book is very good++ and bright. The complete wrapper is very good++ with slight rubbing to edges. Un-common signed. More images can be taken upon request. Ref12692##014677

UK: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1993. Signed and dated with the year of publication by the author to the endpaper. Book is fine and very bright. Pages slightly age toned. The complete wrapper is fine and bright. A lovely example. More digital images can be taken upon request. Ref 15620

UK: Cape, 1977. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1977. Signed inscription from the author to his accountant. Book is very good and bright. One corner quite bumped and creased. Contents good. Pages slightly age toned. The wrapper is very good and bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. Lightened spine. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15132 ###1881

UK: Hollis and Carter, 1953. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good++. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. D J Watkins Pitchford. 1st Edition 1953. Coloured illustrations. Book is near fine and very bright and clean. Contents very good. Wrapper is very good++ with a few small closed tears, odd nicks, creasing and rubbing to edges. Long repaired closed tear with light creasing to front. A very nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref14703

UK: Macdonald, 1984. New Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition 1984. One of Two of The Williamson Family File Copies Used by Anne Williamson in the Henry Williamson Literary Archives. This would have been given by the publishers to the Williamson family for approval. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. A new publication of the 1st book in the Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight. Book is near fine with bright boards. Small bump to one corner. Contents good. The wrapper is near fine and bright. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 17750

UK: Macdonald, 1951. First Edition . Cloth. Near Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Broom Lyne. 1st Edition 1951. Signed presentation from the author to Sir John Heygate. A nice association copy as Heygate appears in Williamsons Chronicle novels as Sir Piers Tofield and the characters father is first introduced in this volume, wooing the mother to be of the central character Philip Maddison. 1st book in the Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight. Book is near very good and quite bright. Spine wording dull and light repair to hinge top. Contents good. Page edges lightly foxed. The wrapper is very good+ and quite bright. . Rear lightly soiled and foxed. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. Small loss to spine top. Price clipped. More images can be taken upon request. Ref10522/15637

UK: Eyre and Spottiswood, 1951. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1951. Signed by author. A psychological thriller/fantasy concerning extended amnesia, where a man who was badly injured in a railway accident during the war, recovers consciousness in hospital with absolutely no idea who he is. Like Bell's novel 'The Inconstant Wife' written the year before on the same subject, the narrative follows the protagonist on his outer and inward journey to discover his true identity. Mainly of fantasy interest but edges into the supernatural. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good+ and bright. Light rubbing to edges. Spine lightened. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 15718

UK: Crowswing Books, 2005. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 2005. Nice fine condition. Flat signed by the author to title page. Contents good with a hint of age toning to page edges. More images can be taken upon request. Ref A1234

UK: Faber, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1964. This complimentary copy was sent to Williamson by the publisher Faber. Inscription in Williamson's hand to endpaper about his review of the book. Newspaper clipping about eye problems which Williamson suffered from and a theme of the book. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. Book is very good++ and with bright boards. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. More images can be taken upon request. ref 17592