Search Results: Titles starting with U from Lasting Words Ltd

UK: Herbert Jenkins, 1926. Reprint . Cloth. Near Very Good/Good++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 4th Imp Circa 1926. Undated. Dated by the wrapper. Book is very good and quite bright. Light edge rubbing. Contents good. Page edges lightly foxed. The wrapper is good++ and quite bright. Edges rubbed, lightly creased and nicked. Wrapper lightly soiled. Two very long closed repaired tears to front. A few small closed tears to edges. Small loss to spine tips. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 16863

UK: Dean, 1895. First Edition . Cloth. Good ++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Baroness Orczy. 1st Edition 1895 A scarce title of 19th Century fantasy fiction by Baroness Orczy (1865-1947) 64 pages. with b/w frontis and text illustrations by Baroness Orczy and her husband, Montagu Barstow. Book is good++ and quite bright. Edges lightly rubbed in places. Contents good. Small inscription to inner page, Pages lightly foxed with one small plate hand coloured. Feint bookplate to front endpaper. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16290

UK: F and C Rivington, 1795. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 1st Edition 1795. Unanimity the Security of a Nation. - A Sermon Preached at Hackney on Thursday April 23rd 1795 on the Presentation of the Colours To the Loyal Hackney Volunteers. 32 pages, complete in it's own right. Condition is quite good. . Pages age toned/foxed. Taken from a book. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15211

UK: Penguin, 1963. First Edition Thus . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Paperback Edition 1963. Published at the same time as a hardback edition by George Allen and Unwin. Inscribed by the author to the endpaper. The softcover book is very good and bright. Light edge rubbing. Contents good. Pages a little age toned. More digital images can be taken upon request. Ref15494

UK: Chatto & Windus, 1927. Tenth Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J A Sheperd. 10th Edition 1927. Undated. Wonderful illustrations in colour and black & white by J.A. Shepherd. A very bright book. Very un-common in this condition. Book is very good++ and very bright. Odd light marks to covers. Contents very good. Feint foxing to some pages. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15891

UK: Blackie, 1910. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. New Edition C1910. Book design by Talwin Morris a leading illustrator and book designer during the late 19th and early 20th century. Book is very good++ and bright. Spine and edges lightly rubbed. Contents good. School gift bookplate to endpaper. Very uncommon edition. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 16579

UK: Eclipse, 1950. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. New Edition C1950. Bound in faux styled leather. Undated. Book is very good++ and very bright. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17284

UK. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. An Uncommon Original Signed Page by English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. Undated. Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens 1869-1944 was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior". The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century".Lutyens played an instrumental role in designing and building New Delhi, which would later on serve as the seat of the Government of India. In recognition of his contribution, New Delhi is also known as "Lutyens' Delhi". In collaboration with Sir Herbert Baker, he was also… Read More

UK: Chapman and Hall, 1961. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 1st Edition 1961. Third Voulme in the Men of Arms trilogy. Book is near fine and bright. Contents very good. The complete wrappper is near fine and bright. A hint of rubbing to spine tips. Very un-common as nice as this. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 7019###010391

UK: Macmillan, 1942. Reprint . Full-Leather. Very Good ++. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Reprint 1942. Book is very good++ and in bright condition. Nice clean contents. Edges lightly rubbed. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 9323 ###011218

UK: Macmillan, 1940. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Clare Leighton. 1st Edition 1940. New edition with wonderful wood engravings by Clare Leighton. Book is very good++ and in bright condition. Nice clean contents. The wrapper is very good++ bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. Spine slightly age toned. Quite a nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref A1234

UK: Metheun, 1926. New Edition . Full-Leather. Very Good ++. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. New Edition 1926. (11th overall) Delux pocket edition. Bound in full leather with decorative stamping. Book is very good+ and bright. Edges lightly rubbed. Spine a little lightened. Contents good. A nice example. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 16052

USA: Viking, 1981. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Leonard Baskin. 1st US Edition 1981. Flat signed to title page by author. There is also a correction to one word in a poem by Ted Hughes. Book is fine and very bright, clean and fresh. The complete wrapper is fine. Small pen squibble to inner wrapper flap. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 10165 ###012997

UK: Ash Tree Press, 1995. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1995.. 'Although all of the stories in the collection are set in and around Buxton, in the Derbyshire Peaks, those who know the area may be surprised by the dark depths Lamley imagines exist under the surface of a seemingly placid, somewhat faded town. Limited Edition of 500 copies published. Fine in fine wrapper. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 15491

UK: Harpers, 1898. New Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition 1898. 1st publication by this publisher. Uncommon. Book is very good++ with bright boards. Foxing to early pages. Contents good. Pages a little age toned. Small inscription to title page. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 17431

UK: Collins, 1930. New Edition . Hardcover. Very Good ++/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Percy Graves. New Edition Circa 1930. Undated. Illustrated by Percy Graves. A lovely little cloth bound edition with decorative tooling to the boards. Book is very good++ and bright. The uncommon jacker is very good++ and bright. Minuscule loss to age toned spine base. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 16660

UK: Macmillan, 1929. Reprint . Full-Leather. Very Good +. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Reprint 1929. Reprint of the Wessex Uniform edition. Very un-common deluxe full leather decorative binding. Book is very good+ and bright. Spine tips a little lightly rubbed. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 13817

UK: Routledge, 1892. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. New Edition Dated 1892. An early 'Yellowback novel' A yellowback is a cheap novel which was published in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. Developed in the 1840s to compete with the "penny dreadful", yellow-backs were marketed as entertaining reading. They had brightly coloured covers, often printed by chromoxylography, that were attractive to a new class of readers, thanks to the spread of education and rail travel. Routledge was one of the first publishers to begin marketing yellow-backs by starting their "Railway Library" in 1848. The series included 1,277 titles, published over 50 years. These mainly consisted of stereotyped reprints of novels originally published as cloth editions. By the late 19th century quite a few publishers were issuing their own versions of yellow-backs eg Chatto and Windus, Smith Elder,Longmans, Ward Lock. They included… Read More

UK: Williams and Norgate, 1926. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1964. Henry Williamson's initials to the endpaper. Non-fiction writings on the nautical and political world of post-WWI. 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 bright. Light marking to cloth. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked, More images can be taken upon request. ref 17593

UK: Macmillan, 1949. First Edition Thus . Original Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition Thus 1949. The Library Edition. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. Light edge rubbing. A nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18097