Walter allen introduction (23 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Acceptable. Fourth Impression 1976. The hardcover book is in good condition, with the binding intact and pages clean. The dust jacket is worn, displaying tears and some missing pieces, particularly along the edges. Despite these flaws, the jacket still serves its protective purpose, and the book's interior remains well-preserved, showcasing the vibrant color plates effectively. Worn with tears and missing pieces.…

Condición: Very Good. reprint. Paperback, VG. xviii+503pp, a near fine copy. Semi autobigraphical novel about a brother & sister growing up in a small village and in particular the relationships of the sister. 275 grams.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Very Good -. Normal dust jacket wear; a nice copy of book. 332 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 12mo. volume in red cloth binding. B&W illustrations. Condition: minor sun-fading to spine; else VG. Pages: xv, 161.

Hardcover. Condición: Interior is excellent. Minimal wear to cover and jacket.

Green Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Very Good (in mylar). Reprint. Everyman's Library,Two-Volume Set; Retired library copies, minimally stamped, stickered, labeled and marked. Last page of Vol. I is torn and loose, else textblocks are clean and tight; Tape stains on top and bottom edges of front and back covers, usual bumping to the head and foot of the spine and corners. Price clipped dust jacket on Vol. I and unclipped dust jacket on Vol. II, usual shelf wear, mylar sleeved. Vol. I is 367pp. Vol. II is 366p. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. First American Edition. Xv, 141 Pp. White Cloth Spine, Gilt, Marbled Boards, Red Topstain. First Printing, American Issue, Using Sheets Printed In Great Britain. Fine . Not The Uk Signed Issue. Frontispiece, Plates (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Complete in two volumes. Reprints. Blue cloth-covered board with gilt lettering on the spines. Patterned endpapers. 12mos. Cloth is a little worn, gently rounded at spine ends. Upper text block edges a little toned. Internally both volumes are neat, clean, bright and tight. In their original dust wrappers, worn, faded, heavily rubbed and chipped at edges, sunned over spine; that on volume one is a little misfitted.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Biography and bibliography copyright © 1958, 1965". Harper code 'H-P' on copyright page. Near fine plus, if not fine 495 page hardback in near fine plus, if not fine dust jacket ($2.25). Book has two very light 1/4 inch by 1/4 inch coffee-colored spots on top edge of block. Dust jacket has a very light 3/8 inch by 1/8 inch dark spot along top edge of front panel. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book an dust jacket: primarily to spine tips of dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Thus. Clean and firmly bound with no writing inside. Jacket not price clipped with a little handling wear on the corners and the top and base of the spine, also a small closed tear on the lower back edge internally repaired with tape.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good or Better. First Edition. 256 pp. Original tan cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Edges a bit sunned. Bottom corners and spine ends slightly bumped. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper. DJ moderately soiled w/ light chipping to corners and spine ends. Approx. 1/4" loss at bottom edge of front panel near spine. Illust. w/ numerous b/w photos. Contents nice. Walter Rutherford (Photographs) (ilustrador).…

Full-Leather. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Not Issued. Collector's Edition (Part Of The One Hundred Greatest Books Series). The Book Is Bound In Brown Leather Over Boards With Gilt Lettering And Decoration On The Front, Back And Spine. Three Raised Bands. All Edges Gilt. Green Marker Ribbon Bound In. There Are A Few Scuffs To The Gilt Edging. Fading At The Parameter Of The Pastedowns And The Front And Last Endpaper. The Decoration Is Even And Bright, Despite The Scan. Ardizzone, Edward (ilustrador).…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Published. Original Printed Green Wrappers. 1/2" separation at top of spine. 72 pages. Photopraphic plates of Osbert Sitwell, Robert Gravs, T. S. Eliot, Denton Welch, Orwell, Joyce Cary, Yeats, Edith Sitwell, etc. Contributions by L.P.Hartley, Kenneth Muir, John Morris, Walter Allen, C.V.Wedgwood, G.S.Fraser and John Russell. The first volume of an annual publication.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near fine. First edition thus. Octavo. xx, 423, (3)pp. Half black cloth, spine ruled & lettered in gilt, over marbled boards. House in publisher's matching marbled paper slipcase with off-white spine label lettered in black. Illustrated with a title page vignette in brown and 16 pages of color plates. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #1363), signed on the limitation leaf by the artist Edward Adizzone and the book's designer-printer Joseph Blumenthal. Slipcase with minor rubbing at extremities, otherwise a fine copy. Contents: The boarding house -- Horatio Sparkins -- The Bloomsbury christening -- Mr. Minns and his cousin -- Nobody's story -- Going into society -- Somebody's luggage -- Mrs. Lirriper's lodgings -- Mrs. Lirriper's legacy -- Dr. Marigold -- Mugby Junction -- "Births. Mrs. Meek, of a son" -- The lamplighter -- To be read at dusk -- Hunted down -- George Silverman's explanation.…

Condición: Good.

Red Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. 342, (X) Pp. First Binding (Currey A) Of Red Cloth. Stated First Edition. Inscribed "With Best Wishes" By Judith Merrill. Fine, No Rubbing At All, Not A Hint Of It; Two Tape Offset Ghosts On Front Endpaper And Two More On Rear Endpaper, Not From Adhesion, Just Offset From Back Of Tape. Dust Jacket Fine, Not Price Clipped, Just A Trace Of Rubbing At Corners. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Red Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good DJ. Second Edition, First Printing. Xv, 161 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. Second Edition, Revised And Enlarged., First Printing Book Is Near Fine, Trace Of Rubbing At Corners. Dj Price Clipped But Otherwise Complete Except For Very Light Chipping At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips, Spine A Little Darkened. With, A Very Cordial May 18, 1939 Two Page Typed, Signed Letter From Berry To Balzer, Responding To Balzer's Letter Of May 6, Enclosing Berry's Brochure Of Burgundy Wines, Opining That At Present The 1929'S Are Excellent But The 1928'S Will Live Longer, Discussing California Wines And Robert L Stevenson's Writings, Quoting The Latter, And Ending "We Shall Be Very Pleased To See You Here, And Perhaps Arrange If You Are Agreeable To Crack A Bottle Or Two Over A Simple Luncheon." Also With A Folding Printed Menu For "Lunch At The Sign Of The Coffee Mill", 3 St. James's Street, S. W. 1 [London], With Typed Details Indicating A Luncheon For Mrs. Robert L. Balzer, 24Th August 1939, Fourline Quotation, And Two Page Menu Inside [Served With A 1923 Hospices De Beaune Mersault Charmes; 1929 Binet, United Kingdom Cuvee, A, Apricot Liquor And An 1875 Grande Champagne Des Heritiers; On The Last Page Of The Menu Is A Printed Device Which Is Signed Over In Ink By Charles Berry. Frontispiece, Plates (ilustrador). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. American Imperialism, A Celebration And Obfuscation. Nine Volumes, First 8 Volumes Copyright 1907 And First Editions, Ninth Volume On Alaska Is Copyright 1910, Lacking The 10Th Volume On India. Three Quarter Brown Morocco, Pebbled Black Cloth, Gilt, All Edges Gilt, Marbled Endpapers. Wear At Edges, Fraying At Some Tips, Bindings Sound But Alaska Volume Has Cracked Front Joint. No Marks, Contents Immaculate. Shipping By Media Mail In Us, No International Orders As Insured Shipping Would Be Well Over $155. Engravings And Photographs, Color And B/W, Throughout (ilustrador).…

Hard covers, no dust jacket. Condición: V.g. No Jacket. 1st edition (not the limited edition). Spine faded, half-title spotted, tissue guards to the eight collotype illustrations slilghtly tanned. In three main chapters dealing with claret, burgundy and champagne, this book celebrates fine wines and tells some amusing anecdotes about less appreciative quaffers. xv, 141 pp. Weight: 1 Language: English.…

First US edition. Pale blue cloth and marbled boards; small octavo; xv, (141) pp. Top edge gilt. Eight collotype illustrations Originally published in London in 1929, this Knopf edition bound from the British sheets with cancel title page. Cagle & Stafford 89; Gabler G12920. Fine, in price-clipped, moderately worn jacket. …

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Special Edition. Hardback copy in dark brown leather boards, no dustjacket as issued, 4 raised bands, gold gilt lettering and decoration to spine, front and rear boards, moire fabric end-papers, satin ribbon page-marker incorporated into binding and gilt page edges. 423pp. Colour portrait frontispiece, full page colour illustrations, b/w illustrations within text. (6/5).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Vol. 1: Hawaii (1913); Vol. 2: The Philippines and Japan (1913); Vols. 3 & 4: Japan (1907); Vols. 5 & 6: China (1910); Vol. 7: China and Cuba (1910); Vol. 8: Cuba and Porto Rico (1910); Vol. 9: Alaska (1910); Vol. 10: India (1912). Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spines. Bindings lightly rubbed. Vols. 1, 2, 5, 7, and 9 have light "scratch" marks to front covers. Top edges gilt. Edges of leaves age toned. Each volume illustrated w/ numerous photogravures, colored plates, engravings and maps.…

First Published Edition. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. Loosely inserted is a letter from the publishers, sending the book and suggesting that it would "make an absolute natural as a big solus review by you since you could obviously say all sorts of marvellous things about Lewis and [Arnold] Bennett et al" From the Library of V.S. Pritchett ("VSP").…