Search Results: Fiction and Poetry from Abbey Antiquarian Books

London: Ward, Lock & Co. 1st First edition dated on the titlepage, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good-. Plates (4) by Sutcliffe.. Octavo olive pictorial cloth (tips rubbed) 256pp minor foxing else V.G clean crisp and tight.

Basel Switzerland: Gute Schriften, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo patterned boards with cover and spine title labels (tips sl.rubbed) 62pp. Unveranderter Nachdruck von Reclams Universal-Bibliotheck No.7328. Minor pale foxing/tanning towards edges. Very clean and tight. *Born in Ostisland of peasant stock he settled in Copenhagen in about 1907 but never forgetting his native traditions and legends of his home.

London: James Blackwood 90th thousand, 1860s by impression). Hardcover. Good. Frontis + Pictorial Titlepage + text illlustrations by Edward Bradley. Three parts in One volume. Octavo half leather on 4 raised bands. Spine with gilt red title to spine plum pebbled cloth sides (hinges and corners rubbed/spine gilt rubbed). Frontis + Titlepage + vi +112pp +108pp +112pp Name to fly leaf, somewhat cropped to top edge. Endpapers and last page slightly foxed. Some signs of use but no loose pages, no ripped pages, and over 80 marvelous illustrations, playing billiards, punting, and fencing. *Humorous Oxford undergraduate at (fictional) Brasenface College. Here paginated in three parts only LATER editions are through paginated.

London: Warner Futura, 1995. Softcover. Fine. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLEPAGE. Paperback pictorial covers 294pp Mint signed copy. *Crime Novelist with many successful books.

London: Wordsworth Classics, 1992. Softcover. Very Good-. Cover after a detail of painting by John Singer Sargent.. Paperback card covers (edges rubbed) half title + titlepage + introduction +380pp + booklist. Clean tight and no loose pages or tears.

New York: Harper&Row first edition, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo cloth spined boards in slightly edge nicked dust jacket 362pp V.G+

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883. Hardcover. Good. Etching of Whittier with fascimile signature under tissue guard.. 174x106mm olive pictorial cloth gilt, seascape with title on gilt moon (tips sl.worn) list of author's books +half title +Frontis +Titlepage +85pp +16pp publisher's catalogue. Name on fly leaf. *American poetry.

London: Grayson & Grayson 1st first edition, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good-. Octavo blue cloth (spine faded slight sunning) 314pp neat name to top of flyleaf. Very clean, crisp and tight.

London: Chatto & Windus New Edition, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo blue decorated cloth (spine rubbed/tips worn) vi +328pp +32pp catalogue dated Oct.1890. Names to half title Lilian Gregson and (crossed out) Captain George Phillips. Blindstamp to corner of flyleaf. Very clean bright and tight.

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1902. Hardcover. Good. Plates (4) by S. H. Vedder.. Octavo blue ribbed cloth with pink onlay (tips worn) 465pp. Inscription on back of frontis dated 1902 + pencil ownership to dedication page. Paper tanned as usual but clean and tight. Endpapers with advertistments for "One of the most elaborate and expensive productions of drama ever given at the National Theatre" etc.

Upton-upon-Severn Worcestershire. UK: Malvern Publishing Co. 1st edition first edition, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo boards in dust jacket 220pp +[2]pp of Romance & Historical Romance. *As New. Left an orphan Lucy is determined to fend for herself, not easy for women in Regency times. Adventure and romance.

London: Flamingo/HarperCollins 1st edition, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo boards in price clipped dust jacket 282pp near Fine in V.G+ jacket. 1st printing with all the impression numbers from 1 present.

London: Chatto and Windus /Zodiac Books No.18 First edition, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Duodecimo yellow pictorial boards in edge torn dust jacket 64pp V.G in edge torn but complete jacket missing small triangle to foot of rear hinge & a bit dust marked.

London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1885] and 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. Frontis, plates & illustrations to each volume by W. Ralston.. Two Volumes in One small octavo green cloth (tips worn but sound) 116pp and 116pp 2 titlepages the second dated 1892. Endpapers and a few pages at beginning & end with pale foxing else neat copy of these humorous novels of Regimental life.

London: Collins first edition, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Frontis. by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. Octavo cloth in dust jacket (sl.bump to fore-edge/tips sl.rubbed) 223pp inscription on FEP else V.G in edge rubbed jacket

London: Macmillan 1st first edition, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo boards in dust jacket (tips slightly rubbed) [8]+328pp *A second novel by this ex Royal Marine commando turned diplomat. Writing about what he knows about war and a mysterious charitable foundation based in Canada. A novel of suspense and the shadowland between good and evil.

London: Faber Music 1st edition, 1966. Softcover. Very Good/Good. Duodecimo card in dust jacket wrapper (one closed tear and some wrinkling and slight brown marking) 38pp slight waviness else clean, neat and no damp marking to pages.

London: Heinemann 1st edition, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo black cloth in edge rubbed dust jacket (marked by white paint? splash) 256pp internally V.G+ in V.G jacket

London: Boardman American Bloodhoud series 1st English edition, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo orange boards with bloodhound logo (tips slightly rubbed) 191pp V.G+

London: Warren House Press 1st first English Edition, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Frontis portrait. . Octavo plum cloth in dust jacket (tips bumped) 56pp inscription to half title else clean and tight. Poetry.