plomer james (30 resultados)

British first edition. 176 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Blue cloth; spine head chipped and frayed with lesser wear at heel; some slender wear and loss at board corners; spine's gilt lettering dulled but legible with front board's gilt stamped lettering still bright. Strong toning to edges with interior text leaves affected likewise but with toning diminishing inward from margins (paper stock utilized by printer affected by "economy standards," i.e. wartime-period rationing regulation). Light toning to endpapers; novelist Nancy Hallinan's name handwritten in green ink at top of front free endpaper recto with additional notation in the same green ink handwriting "from Hal Christmas-1945" at bottom of page. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy. Features a collection of essays, commentary, poems, etc.: "In Daylight - I" and "Elegy" by John Lehmann, "The Two Loves" and "Some Notes on 'King Lear'" by Edith Sitwell, "Lament" by George Barker, "Island Dances" by George Seferis, "I Hear You Say So" by Elizabeth Bowen, "Five Poems" by Terence Tiller, "No News From Home" by Cecil Keeling, "The Woman Who Was Loved" by James Stern, "The Poems" by Peter Yates, "Two Poems" by Odysseus Elytis, "The Man Who Killed" by Jiri Weiss, "War" by Andre Chamson, "The Hidden Force" by William Plomer, "The Pre-Raphaelite Literary Painters" by Stephen Spender, "W.H. Auden in America" and "The Place and the Person" by Henry Reed, plus other contributions by Heinrich Fischer, Hero Pesopoulos, Demetrios Capetanakis, Alexander Astruc, J. MacLaren-Ross, C.H. Peacock, J.P. Hodin, and Percy Coates. The eldest daughter of Charles T. "Hal" Hallinan (1880-1971), novelist Nancy Hallinan (1921-2014) authored the critically acclaimed novels "Rough Winds of May" (1955), "A Voice from the Wings" (1965), and "Night Swimmers" (1976) as well as the 1980 O'Henry award winning short story "Women in a Roman Courtyard." Her papers are held by Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Missing front free end paper, stamp marked out bottom of title page. Light edge wear to dust jacket; A tight solid book. DJ in Mylar; 103 pages.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 100 pages. Graham Greene on Kipling / Stephen Spender "Poem in Four Movements" / Alberto Moravia "The Tree in the House" / Bianca Vanorden "A Night of levitation" / Henry Miller "Literature as a Dead Duck" / Elizabeth Bowen "Coming to London - VI" / R A Scott-James "The New Weekly" / William Plomer on R S Thomas / Jean Stewart on Mme. de Sevigne.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. 215pp., index, appendices, ill., photos, map. Light wear.

Condición: New. In.

Hard Cover. Condición: VG. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. Oblong, 103pp. with b/w illustrations. Light tanning to paper and light creasing from page handling. DJ has edge/rub wear, a faint soil mark at the top of the front flap and light creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 26.5 x 22.5 x 1.2cm, wt750g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condición: VG. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. Oblong, 103pp. with b/w illustrations. DJ has light edge/rub wear. Actual book for sale pictured. 26.5 x 22.5 x 1.2cm, wt750g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Minor shelf wear. History of Central Ontario Railway. Black and white photos. Index.

Condición: New. In.

Hard Cover. Condición: VG. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. First Edition. 215pp. with b/w illustrations and index. Foxing/spotting mainly to endpapers, light tanning to paper, light creasing from page handling and light soil to outer edges. DJ has edge/rub wear, creasing, tears, shallow chipping, light soiling and stain marks on the spine. Actual book for sale pictured. 21.4 x 28.9 x 2.2cm, wt1.4Kg. Please note the book is oversized and it may require extra postage. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hard Cover. Condición: VG. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. First Edition. 215pp. with b/w illustrations and index. Light tanning to paper, foxing/spotting and light soil to outer edges. DJ has edge/rub wear, creasing, tears, chipping and light soiling. Actual book for sale pictured. 21.4 x 28.9 x 2.2cm, wt1.4Kg. Please note the book is oversized and it may require extra postage. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. dj: fine. book: as new quarto hbak.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Plomer, James; Capon, Alan R. DESPERATE VENTURE Belleville, ON: Mika Publishing Company 1979 VG/VG 220pp. 4to. Dust jacket does show heavy wear along the edges with a few small tears. Back cover of the dust jacket is age toned and does show shelf wear and some light staining. Brown boards are dusty with some light staining and titling on the front and spine. Text is age toned as well but otherwise clean and binding is strong. Overall book is in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 215 (7pp) Profusely illustrated with b & w photos.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good ++. B/W Photographs Ilustrador. First American. These 222 pages examine the rise, and eventual decline, of the (C.O.R.) Central Ontario Railway. One of the financial backers was Samiel J. Ritchie. The locale : Prince Edward County. LEARN more about : Coe Hill, C.J. Pusey, Bancroft extension, turntable, Weller's Bay, Henry C. McMullen, marble quarry, Bessemer Branch, Murray Canal, Bloomfield Station, and Marmora Railway and Mining Company. TEXT assisted by plenty of b/w (archive) photographs. Cond : Boards are grey-brown with gilt lettering - face and spine. White end-papers. D.J. is white with lettering similar. Train under full steam in cover illistrastion by G. Nott. Volume is clean and square and bright. In all SENSES collectible ! ! No names. Minimal wear. QUote (p. 111) : " Macleod found all the locomotives in very good repair, except one that was in the shops for overhaul, as were the passenger and freight equipment that he encountered. From the point of view of maintenance generally he considered the C.O.R. was well-managed. After that he ._._._. . " Size: Quarto.

4to. 215, [7] pp. Over 100 photos, text illusts., diagrams. Brown linen, silver lettrng (slght bmpng to couple crnrs), w/ d.j. (slght shlfwr, vry slght bmpg ft of spine), VG/VG copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. "The histories and specifications of these ships are accompanied by 118 photos, most of which have never been reproduced in print. They are shown as they appeared when still in the hands of the RN, and at different periods during their RCN service. Many detailed on-board photos are included." - dust jacket. 103 glossy pages profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Oblong 26.5 x 22.5cm. ; 8vo.

Condición: New.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 100 pages. Illustrated. R A Duncan "A New London" / Dacre Balsdon "We Regret To Announce" / D S MacColl "Patmore And Hopkins Sense and Nonsense in English Prosody" / Penistan Chapman "Protest" / Vincent Brun "New Deal With Women" / Leslie Halward "Portrait Of A Leader" / Martin Cooper "Music And The Stage" / William Plomer "The Woman At The Window" (poem).

Condición: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original peach paper yapp wraps [soft back]. 10" x 7". Contains paginated printed pages of text [viii], 96, [x-xiv]-2. Illustrated throughout including a full page plate by Annabel Sprigge. Article by H. E. Bates is 'The Poems of John Clare'. Edges a little curled. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERARY CRITICISM.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Four titles bound in one volume: v, 67; xxiii, 61; xviii, 142; viii, 73 pp.; 8vo, half dark green morocco, five raised bands; t.e.g.; original wrappers for three of the titles bound in at rear. Handsomely bound by C. & C. McLeish. Wilfred Merton's copy, with his booklabel on front pastedown. A fine copy, with some offsetting from turn-ins onto endleaves.

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Fair. Newlands, Don (cover photo); Halkett, Bill Ilustrador. First Edition. 72 pages. Features: Conversations with Quebec's Revolutionaries, by Peter Gzowski; One Man's Intimate Picture of the FLQ; The Savage Legacy of Columbia's Civil War; The Life and Times of Wheeler-Dealer Ralph Farris - nice photos; The Wild Trade in new and used animals, by Robert Thomas Allen; The Gold-Braid Mind is Destroying our Navy - so says James Plomer; What Jack McClelland has done to book publishing in Canada; Portrait of a great modern shrine - Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal; Artistic full-page ad for TCA (Trans-Canada Airlines); Funky full-page colour photo ad for Martini & Rossi shows man and woman with dog at ice machine; Colour photo Coke ad on back cover shows rows of empty bottles on picnic table with smiling couple at far end. Somewhat above-average wear. Coverfold partially open and tender. A worthy vintage copy.

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

Condición: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1922 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 370 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 370 Language: English.

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

Condición: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.