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UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top +fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,sharp-cornered publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4-246pp [paginated] includes editor's introduction,3 sections including writings from The Manchester Guardian,'Sligo' (1930) from 'Sailing Sailing Swiftly' (1933), 'The Aramanthers','And To You Also' (1944),'The Silencer','The Careless Flower' (1947) and 'In Sand' (1964 - play); plus [unpaginated] half-title+title page,editorial note,contents… Read More

UK,small 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Originally published by this publisher,1894,and the first of Yeats' plays to be performed professionally.This new edition is from or part of Unwin's Cabinet Library,1925 (No. 23 in the series) and therefore a 1st edn thus.] FINE/VG+.Handwritten ink gift presentation inscrptn to front free endpaper - publisher's price (3/6 NET) to spine/backstrip of dw/dj. Lightly grubbed khaki/tan background with single-line border to front panel with brown lettering,darkened spine/backstrip with similar lettering and some decoration,rear panel with publisher's advert for H.G. Wells's titles in same series; with shelf-wear to edges and corners - some minimal creasing,top two corner tips rubbed with some minimal chipping and losses to same and minimal chipping to head with small loss,lettering unaffected,small closed tear at foot of spine/backstrip, and a small closed tear to rear,lower edges of dw/dj but still with approx. 99% present.Top edges gilt… Read More

UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6th imp.[Complete number line 6 8 10 9 7.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain taupe cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,and immaculate colour marbled endpapers.UK,slim 12mo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,10-61pp [paginated] includes an introduction by Peter Porter,32 poems,12 colour 19th & 20thC English and Irish paintings throughout the text,notes on the paintings; plus [unpaginated] half-title page with colour illustrated frntis,title page,and contents list/table. W.B. Yeats was the 20thC heir of the… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[19 stories from his 1888 and 1892 collections.1865-1895 was the period of his most intense interest in folklore.] FINE/NFINE.Owner's inked name to ffe but no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - usually indicates an export edition,and generally believed to precede UK trade issue/distribution. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by P. J. Lynch,illustrated front panel of dw/dj with white+yellow lettering,rear panel with oval black+yellow vignette illustration; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners,minor,light,superficial scoring/indents to both panels of dw/dj but without any penetration or affecting boards beneath.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,publisher's original,sharp-cornered,dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to… Read More

US,slim,square Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn, minus dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Maurice Sendak, illustrated bds; with with red+black lettering with immaculate plain yellow laid-paper eps,with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. US,slim,square Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,40pp [unpaginated] includes colour pictorial illustrated half-title page,double-page title page,12 double-page,11 single-page,full-colour illustrations by Maurice Sendak,hand-lettered text with extra text in text bubbles throughout,by Jeanyee Wong. See also, my book ID's rja278 - 'Little Bear' and rja629216 - 'Bears' for other Maurice Sendak illustrated edns.      This is the story of Giuseppe Giaweeni who leaves Italy in his ship to look for China.Instead he ends up in Miami where he finds the Mishbookers,a lost tribe of dancing giants.He persuades Ted,one of the dancing… Read More

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten,blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour photographic illustrated dw/dj - design repeated to laminated boards - with immaculate plain white endpapers; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - as new.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - an unread copy? UK,slim Qrto HB+ dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,4-95pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,6 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text and the book,publisher's 1pp advert to rear; lus [unpaginated] half-title page and SIGNED,title page. David Young,TV presenter,architect, writer and raconteur has,for more years than he cares to remember, been travelling the South West of England with… Read More

SOUTH AFRICA,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. [Author is the Shipping Editor of the 'Cape Times'.] NFINE/VG.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,blue ink handwritten dedication, signature and date: ' - a few moments of nostalgia - Geo Young 7. 9. 80' to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price. Bright,ships' colour illustrations and photographs montage'd dw/dj panels with rubbing,chipping with miniscule loss,and creasing to edges and corners and head+foot of spine/backstrip.Internally to front fold and spine's gutter's front edge with brown adhesive tape repair/strengthening to dw/dj.Top+fore-edges ubiquitously aged/toned; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog- ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,generally clean,sharp-cornered,original plain pale blue cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked black ink printed letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white… Read More

UK,8vo HB+polythene protected dw/dj,ex-public library,1st edn. [Complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.] VG+/VG.Colour photographic illustrated upper panel of dw/dj,with white lettering; with some minimal chipping/rubbing and reciprocal loss to both head+ foot of spine/backstrip and a couple of the corners, otherwise negligible shelf-wear and creasing to remaining edges,due to protective polythene sleeve. Red ink,rectangular boxed 'Withdrawn from Plymouth Library Services' library stamp to ffe,along with residue of removed,pasted paper library bookplate/label,and residual sellotape ghost marks to both pastedowns, price-clip to clear,polythene protected dw/dj.The only other library marks present,are a red inked Plympton Library stamp to verso of title page,another library stamp to foot of last page of book,before the index and a faded and barely decipherable,complete black inked library stamp to bottom edges of book - no other library markings noted.Top edges slightly aged/toned - as usual/normal -… Read More

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt colour photographic illustrated upper panel of dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain white cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8220pp [paginated] includes co-author's (Dante) preface,foreword by Fred Etre,12 chapters,statistics, 16pp of contemporary b/w+colour autobiographical photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp32/3 (all b/w) and pp192/3 (mixture b/w+colour),an index.Plus [unpaginated] title page,a dedication, contents list/table,Neil Young dedication page,an illustrations… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 001.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,part wrap-around sepia photographic illustrated front+spine/backstrip of dw/dj with textured glittered,white lettered author and title to front,similarly lettered spine/backstrip with capitalised brown-lettered publisher's name to foot of same; rear panel of dw/dj with contemporary b/w photographic author/subject's 3/4 length portrait of him stood at rear of a car with landscape beside and behind it. Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Light creasing to front,top edge,very gentle, miniscule pushing and reciprocal creasing to head of spine/ backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean and without blemish or foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – pristine,possibly unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean and… Read More

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,glossy,laminated,black+red upper wrap with white,black,orange letters with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no major nicks or tears - corners not bumped/creased.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creases.Top edge very,very lightly dust-soiled,and along with fore-edge showing miniscule onset of light foxing/spots; otherwise,overall,generally clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Unblemished,plain red paper-covered boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-253pp includes half-title+title pages,contents list,author foreword,18 chapters,an epilogue,an appendix,a bibliography and index and 2pp blanks to rear. In the years 1937-39 Mr A.P. Young had… Read More

UK,slim 8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG-.No owner inscrptn.Pale grey background with black+pale grey artwork in repetetive illustrations by Edward Ardizzone,paper-covered card boards,a black cloth blind-spine with slightly dulled/oxidised blocked,gilt lettering to same,plain white endpapers with off-setting to opposing recto+verso of facing front+rear free endpapers respectively; with some minimal shelf-wear, bumping with rubbing,to board's edges and corners causing some minimal paper loss to those,and all corners bumped,rubbed with minimal paper loss and generally rounded,as opposed to being sharp-cornered.Head+foot of spine/backstrip gently pushed and creased but without any other splits,tears or major nicks present. op edges coloured pale blue/grey(?),fore-edges aged/toned; contents generally bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to pages' corner tips other than an accidental top corner tip crease to last page of the index.UK,slim 8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,5-143pp [paginated] includes… Read More

UK,slim 8vo wraps,no dw/dj - as issued,reprint.[Originally and first published 1973,then reprinted twice in the 70's and nine times in the 80's upto 1989 - this example that 9th reprint of that decade and the 11th reprint overall.] VG+.No owner inscrptn,and an absence of publisher's printed price to card covers. Bright,clean,b/w+colour pictorial illustrated front card cover with black lettering to front+spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges inevitably but lightly aged/toned; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread,apart from my own collation.UK,slim 8vo wraps,no dw/dj - as issued,reprint,3-40pp [paginated] includes an introduction,chronology,illus with contemporary b/w reproduction illustrations,b/w photographs,with colour plates by Michael Roffe, notes to plates; plus [unpaginated] title page. Visually… Read More

UK,8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn and minus issued dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original green cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge plum coloured,fore-edges with minimal,sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK, 8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn,v-xxiiipp+3-371pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illustrations lists/tables, author's preface,acknowledgements,Pts I-III covering periods: 1882- 1900,1901-1914 and 1914-1933 respectively,illus with contemporary b/w iIlustrations,photographs and facsimile reproductions of documents,letters,musical notations etc. throughout the text and the book,an appendix,a biographical index of correspondents,an index of… Read More