Search Results: Authors starting with E from Island Books

Reprographic Centre, Brighton,, [1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; plum cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter just a trifle browned at backstrip.

Peter Davies,, [1943]. 8vo., First UK Edition; original brown cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, clean copy. Nice copy (albeit to wartime production standards) of the first UK edition. Detailed account of the leading American war correspondent's service from 1937 to 1941. Published simultaneously with the US edition (titled 'Freely to Pass'). The UK edition is scarce in this condition. Enser, p.327

Heinemann,, 1907. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; beige cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, uncut, top and covers lightly dust-soiled, a very good, bright, clean copy. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.

Longmans Green & Co.,, 1930. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper. Small contemporary signature on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; original red-brown cloth, gilt back, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled else a bright, clean copy. SCARCE.

T. Fisher Unwin,, [1924]. 8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; cloth ruled and lettered in white, backstrip ruled and lettered in white, uncut, fire-edges lightly age-soiled, hinges starting (but binding entirely sound) else a good, clean copy. Scarce

Oxford University Press,, 1968. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; tan cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Oxford University Press,, 1968. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, neat signature on front paste-down; tan cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

International Institute of African Languages & Cultures,, 1933. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps (one folding and one double-page); blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1963. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous tables in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its neat numbers on front free endpaper only. SCARCE.

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, [1990]. 8vo., cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Oxford History of English Literature, III. Chambers' classic study was first published in 1945.

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1923. 4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with four frontispiece (all original tissue guards present), a double-page plan and 8 illustrations (3 full-page) in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original burgundy buckram, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Read 2570.

Seeley Service,, 1912. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, plates in monochrome and numerous illustrations in the text (a number full-page), free endpapers mildly browned; blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt with coloured illustration (repeated from frontispiece) mounted in gilt frame, gilt back, gilt top, an unusually well-preserved bright, clean, crisp copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.

KSL Publications, [Bedford],, [1983]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece, and very numerous plates, facsimiles and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. VERY SCARCE.

Heinemann,, [1966]. 8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, 22 plates on 8 and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Reconstructed account of the notable survivors. Standard reference by one of SOE's two pioneer historians. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.396; Foot, p.456.

Allan Lane,, [1979]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition.

Arthur Barker,, [1966]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and 4 maps (one double-page) in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Cookridge and Foot were the two pioneer historians of SOE in Europe and both their accounts have stood the test of time. Whilst the latter's SOE in France (1966) had official blessing, Cookridge's work is perhaps the more accessible. If nothing else, they launched a minor industry of scholarship and given that they were writing before the release of the 'Ultra' papers and the SOE files in general, performed a very creditable role. Enser, p.410.

Heath Cranton,, 1932. 8vo., First Edition, neat signature on front free endpaper; original cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter wanting half of backstrip and with minor loss at edges. Scarce in the dustwrapper. Steward, 395.

University Press, Cambridge,, 1938. 4to., First Edition, with folding coloured frontispiece and plates in monochrome; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, unevenly sunned dustwrapper.

SPCK,, 1889. 8vo., Seventeenth Thousand; original chocolate cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, chocolate endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. With contemporary prize certificate mounted on front free endpaper. Scarce, especially in this condition.

T Fisher Unwin,, 1912. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 35 plates on 31 and 2 large folding maps on japon, half-title lightly spotted otherwise some very light and occasional marginal spotting to text; original pictorial blue cloth, upper elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, upper hinge cracked (but binding wholly sound), a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its faint tape-marks on covers, bookplate on front paste-down, press-mark on front free endpaper and small blind stamp on title. Well-illustrated account of the revolution at Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang. One of the first Caucasians to live in China for any length of time, Dingle was resident in Hankow at the outbreak and remained throughout the revolt. Includes a valuable set of otherwise unpublished photographs of localities, military detail and leading personalities (many of the images are from the… Read More