Search Results: Authors starting with W from C L Hawley

Country Life. Hardback. 162pp. Illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Illustrated title page and 13 further illustrations, the full page illustrations and title page all on blue paper. A donkey story rather than a pony story but still contains much on country life and learning to ride. Tan boards with gilt titles to spine are very clean and neat. Clean dust wrapper is rubbed to all edges with some small areas of loss to corners and spine ends. Very good copy in good+ dust wrapper . Hardback. 1955.

London: Constable. Hardback 304pp. Blue cloth is very clean but slightly rubbed and bumped. Pages are lightly tanned. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1934.

London: Constable. Hardback 211pp. Black boards with silver titles to spine are very clean but with a narrow line of sunning to head of spine. dust jacket is faintly dust marked to white background and slightly sunned to spine else clean and neat. Very good copy in good+ dust jacket . Hardback. 1979.

Constable. Hardback. xiv,41pp. Introduction by Helen Waddell. Blue cloth with gilt title to front. Gilt is very bright. Very clean and neat. Very good copy . Hardback. 1947.

Faber and Faber. Paperback. 422pp. A look at Mecklenburgh Square in interwar Bloomsbury and five women who lived there H.D., Dorothy L. Sayers, Jane Ellen Harrison, Eileen Power and Virginia Woolf. New, unread copy. New . Paperback. 2020.

Octagon Books,. Hardback. 269pp. Biography of the English poet, Anglican cleric and theologian. With a Selected Bibliography of Criticism by Robert Allerton Parker. REd cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to front is very clean but has some surface scratches. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1969.

Littlewood Press. Paperback. 58pp. Poetry from the Leeds born writer and critic. Inscribed by the author. Lightly rubbed. Clean and sound. Very good copy . Paperback. 1987.

Greenwich Exchange. Paperback. 80pp. Faded to spine and edges. Lightly rubbed and scuffed. Occasional pencil annotation. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1997.

Thames and Hudson,. Paperback. Published toincide with exhibition The Beauty of Life: William Morris & the Art of Design organized by the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Illsutrated in colour throughout. 280 by 210mm (11 by 8¼ inches). Very clean, bright and neat. . 2014.

George Allen and Unwin,. Hardback. 234pp. A study of five European fictional heroines in the light of contemporary feminist theory: Madame de Merteuil from Les Liasons dangereuses, Jane Eyre, Emma Bovary, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Tony Buddenbrook from Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann. It also draws on Cousine Bette from the novel by Honoré de Balzac, Cathy Earshaw from Wuthering Heights, Anna Karenina and Cousin Brazilio by Eca de Queiroz. Red boards with gilt titles to spine are clean and neat. Dust wrapper is lightly rubbed with the occasional minor surface mark. Very good copy in good+ dust wrapper . Hardback. 1972.

Esslingen: Verlag J. F. Schreiber. Hardback. Eßlinger reprints series, a reprint of what appears to be a Victorian children's book. "Ein Bilderbuch mit 22 feinen Bildtafeln. Enthaltend lustige Kinderscenen gezeichnet von Paul Wagner und anderen". 22 colour illustrations and black and white illustrations throughout. Rubbed and a little faded to very edges. Very clean and neat. Very good copy . Hardback. 1979.

Vintage,. Paperback. 215pp. Edition produced as a giveaway with a Jo Nesbo novel. Translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death. Creased to one corner. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 2012.

Vintage,. Paperback. 215pp. Edition produced as a giveaway with a Jo Nesbo novel. Translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death.k Very clean and neat. appears unread. Near fine, bright copy . Paperback. 2012.

London: Macmillan,. Hardback. 396pp. Based on the first nine lectures John Wain gave as Oxford Professor of Poetry. Some rubbing to edge of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is creased to edges and inner flaps. Very good copy in Good dw. . Hardcover. First edition. 1977.

Bristol Classical Press,. Paperback. 399pp. 13 essays from a variety of contributors across the range of Christian thought and practice, produced for the anniversary of Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation ed. by Charles Gore (1889). Clean and sound. Lightly rubbed. slightly sunned to spine. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1989.

London: Michael Joseph,. Hardback. 216pp. With photographs by Derry Brabbs. Reprint. Colour photographs throughout. Blue boards with silver titles to spine are neat. Dust wrapper has significant chips and tears. Very good copy in chipped and torn dust wrapper . Hardback. Reprint. 1985.

Aylesbury: Shire Publications Ltd,. Paperback. 63pp. Fascinating introduction to the subject of English dialects. Pages tanned, lightly rubbed to edges. Good+, sound copy. . Paperback. 1979.

Evans Bothers Ltd.,. Hardback. 328pp. Introduced and edited by F. Alan Walbank. Authors selected here include Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs. Henry Wood, Mrs Oliphant, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "Ouida" (Louise Rame), Rhoda Broughton, "The Duchess" (Margaret Hungerford), Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Marie Corelli. Colour frontis. Adverts to endpapers. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine is very clean but bumped to spine ends. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1950.

Buckingham: Open University Press,. Stapled with card covers. 27pp. Inaugural lecture given on 8th March 2001. Considers the importance of the literary experience drawing on his own childhood experience with Dickens' works in South Africa, and on the experiences of Mandela and other political prisoners for whom books represented, thought, freedom, action, inspiration and more. Clean and neat. Very good copy . Pamphlet. 2001.

Buckingham: Open University Press,. Stapled with card covers. 27pp. Inaugural lecture given on 8th March 2001. Considers the importance of the literary experience drawing on his own childhood experience with Dickens' works in South Africa, and on the experiences of Mandela and other political prisoners for whom books represented, thought, freedom, action, inspiration and more. Clean and neat. Fine, bright copy. . Pamphlet. 2001.