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Wright, I.C.
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Ex Library hardcover (no jacket) in good condition. Labels on the pastedowns; label and residue on FEP. Stamps and light marks on the page block and a few pages throughout. Tiny pen marks on one or two early pages. The binding remains sound; all content is clear. Very good for age. CM Used
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Hopkinson, Diana; et al
A Garden of Beliefs: The Memoirs and Poetry of David Martin Hopkinson, Author and Educationalist, 1914-2002
Hardcover. No jacket. Pages are bright and clean. Text and illustrations are clear. AF Used
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Firth, Raymond
Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Malinowski
Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. Second impression with corrections 1960. The jacket is lightly marked, worn and sunned; minor nick on the rear upper edge. Light marks on the page block and a few pages. All text is clear, with sound binding. CM Used
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Butler, Lance St. John
Alternative Hardy
Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. Light scores, tanning and edgewear to the jacket. Parts of the hardcover edges are worn, most notably on the spine foot. Minor tanning on the pastedowns and endpapers; label on rear pastedown. A few lightly creased page corners. All text is clear, with sound binding. CM Used
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Thomas, D.O.; Peach, W. Bernard (eds.)
The Correspondence of Richard Price: Volume I: July 1748-March 1778
Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. Volume One. The jacket is lightly marked, sunned and edgeworn; the front lower edge and upper leading corner, each have small tears. The front inner flap is creased and has parts of the text underlined in pen. Pencil marginalia (plus one or two instances in pen) on some pages; all text remains legible throughout. The binding is sound. CM Used
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Schofield, Nicholas
William Lockhart: First Fruits of the Oxford Movement
Paperback in very good condition. Light creases on the cover and on a few pages throughout. All text is clear, with sound binding. CM Used
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Bottrall, Margaret
Every Man a Phoenix: Studies in Seventeenth-century Autobiography
Hardcover with jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is lightly marked. Jacket spine is slightly faded. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are worn, torn and chipped. Hardcover is slightly tanned and edge-worn. Page block and a few pages are lightly marked. Text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Pottle, Frederick A. (ed.)
Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763
Hardcover. Dust jacket is protected with a clear cellophane cover. Very worn and tanned jacket with numerous scores and marks. Several tears on front upper leading corner and spine ends of jacket. One or two minor scores on boards. Hardcover spine is a little bumped. Some tanning on pastedowns and endpapers. Page block is tanned. Binding is slightly exposed near front. Text is clear throughout. AF Used
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Brady, Frank; Pottle, Frederick A. (eds.)
Boswell in Search of a Wife
Hardcover. Dust jacket is protected with a clear cellophane cover. Foxed jacket with a few bumps and nicks. One or two minor scores on boards. Light foxing and tanning on page block. Hardcover spine ends are bumped. Minor marks on pages. Text and illustrations are clear. AF Used
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Wimsatt, William K., Jr.; Pottle, Frederick A. (eds.)
Boswell for the Defence, 1769-1774
Hardcover. Dust jacket is protected with a clear cellophane cover. Shelf-worn dust jacket with several bumps, nicks and marks. Portions of jacket are torn from edges and spine ends. Minor pencilled notes on rear of jacket. Mark left by a cup on front board. Hardcover spine ends and lower leading corners are bumped. Tanning and light foxing on page block. Minor foxing at front and rear. Lower leading corners of several pages at rear are bumped. One or two minor marks on pages. Contents are clear. AF Used
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Cooke, Alistair
Christmas in Vermont
Paperback with jacket. One of a limited edition of 225 for friends of Bodley Head. Dedicated by publisher and owner of Bodley Head Max Reinhardt on last page of text. From the collection of Catherine Ardizzone, wife of the late artist Edward Ardizzone. Small format. Lightly tanned dust jacket with one or two minor marks. Pages are clean. Text is clear. AF Used
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McLachlan, H. John (ed.)
The Downing Flavour: Arthur Benjamin Downing: A Memorial Volume
Hardcover (no dust jacket). Slight bumping on spine ends. Light marks on page block and one or two pages. Contents are clear. AF Used
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Knepler, Henry
The Gilded Stage
Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. The price clipped jacket is a little tanned and edgeworn, with a few minor marks. Slight bump and wear to the hardcover spine foot. Previous owner's dedication note penned on FEP. The pages are clean and sound; all text and images are clear. CM Used
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Witemeyer, Hugh (ed.)
William Carlos Williams and James Laughlin: Selected Letters
Hardcover. Several light scores and a few bumps on dust jacket. Minor fading on jacket spine and flaps. Upper leading corner of front flap is clipped. Slight fading around edges of boards. Light bumping on hardcover spine ends. Head of page block is lightly marked. Pages are clean. Text is clear. AF Used
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Draper, Jo
Thomas Hardy: A Life in Pictures
Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. The jacket is a little scored and shelfworn, with light creases to the upper edges and spine head. A few tiny abrasions on the leading edges of the jacket. Minor foxing on the page block. The binding is sound, with clear text and images. CM Used
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Gobbi, Tito; Cook, Ida
My Life
Hardcover. Signed by Tito Gobbi on title page, and on a Royal Opera House leaflet, dated 1956, which is laid in between front pastedown and FEP. Penned dedication on reverse of first title page. Dust jacket is lightly scored and a little edge-worn. Minor wear to hardcover spine ends; spine foot is slightly bumped. Binding is sound and pages are tight and clean throughout. Text and illustrations are clear. AF Used
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Jackson, Basil H. (ed.)
Recollections of Thomas Graham Jackson 1835-1924
Hardcover (no dust jacket). One or two small marks on boards and spine. Minor score on spine. Slight bumping on spine ends. Slight wear on lower leading corners. Page block is foxed. Foxing at front and rear. Text and illustrations are clear. AF Used
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Jackson, Basil H. (ed.)
Recollections of Thomas Graham Jackson 1835-1924
Hardcover (no dust jacket). A few minor marks on boards. Light bumping on spine ends. Lower leading corners are bumped. Page block is foxed. Foxing at front and rear. Text and illustrations are clear. AF Used
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The Charles B. Hoyt Collection: Memorial Exhibition: February 13-March 30, 1952
Paperback in good condition. The cover is sunned and edgeworn, with a few faint creases and scores. Minor marks on page block. Light creases on a few pages and on the opening pasted in image. The spine is a little cocked, however the binding remains sound. All text and images are clear. CM Used
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Cooley, John (ed.)
Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens Angelfish Correspondence, 1905-1910
Hardcover in very lightly shelfworn jacket, with one or two faint marks on page block. Text is clear, and pages are clean and sound. TS Used
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Lively, Penelope
Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir
Hardcover with jacket. Hardcover spine foot is bumped. Pages are clean. Text is clear. AF
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Tokes, Rudolf L.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (The Week-End Library)
Hardcover in good condition for age. Jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is marked and tanned. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are worn, creased and torn. One or two tears are repaired with tape. Tear across front of jacket has been repaired. Sticker on front inner flap. Boards are lightly marked and worn. Hardcover leading corners and spine ends are bumped. Page block and a few pages are lightly marked and tanned. Previous owner's name penned on FEP. Text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Stott, Mary
Forgetting's No Excuse
Hardcover. Minor sunning, one or two scores and a few small stains on dust jacket. Laminated coating has begun to peel slightly on front lower edge of jacket. Slight marking on upper edges of boards and hardcover spine ends. Text is clear. AF Used
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Furley, Sir John
In Peace and War: Autobiographical Sketches
Hardcover (no dust jacket). From the library of the late Reverend Thomas Alfred Walker (b. 1862), Fellow and Senior Bursar of Peterhouse, Cambridge, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Minor shelf-wear and some fading on boards. Minor puncture on spine head. Light foxing on page block. Foxing at front and rear. Text remains clear. AF Used
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Finney, Brian
The Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the Twentieth Century
Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. Light marks and edgewear to the jacket, with a slight crease to the front upper leading corner. The page block is slightly tanned. The pages are clean and sound; all text is clear. CM Used
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Clifton, Reverend M.
Amigo: Friend of the Poor
Paperback. Light sunning to the cover, otherwise all in very good condition. CM Used
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Kitchen, Paddy
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. The jacket is lightly edgeworn, with small tears to the front upper edge and upper leading corners. Sunning on the jacket spine. The binding is sound; all content is clear. CM Used
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Janouch, Gustav
Conversations with Kafka
Paperback in good condition. Light shelfwear to the cover; slight peeling on the front lower leading corner and spine head. The leading edges of the covers have lifted slightly. Label on inside rear cover. Slight nicks to the opening page edges. The binding is sound; all text is clear. Translated from the German by Goronwy Rees. Introduction by Hugh Haughton. CM Used
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Symons, Julian
The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Hardcover. Minor edge-wear and a few light bumps and scores on dust jacket. Light bump on hardcover spine head. Page block head is lightly marked. Contents are clean and clear. AF Used
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Millgate, Michael
Testamentary Acts: Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy
Paperback in very good condition. Light scores and shelfwear to the cover. Front hinge is a little loose, however the binding remains sound, with clear text. CM Used
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Rolt, L.T.C.
Landscape with Canals
Paperback in good condition. The cover is lightly scored and shelfworn. A few light marks on the page block. Sticker on inside front cover. The binding is sound; all content is clear. CM Used
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Kenward, James
The Suburban Child
Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. First edition. Illustrated in black and white by Edward Ardizzone. Boards, page block and some pages are marked and tanned. Contents are clear throughout. HCW Used
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Hughes, Michael
The Letters of Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn: A Transatlantic Dialogue, 1938-70
Hardcover with jacket. Acceptable condition. The jacket is lightly edgeworn, with stains to the upper and lower parts, also affecting the inner flaps. Parts of the jacket are partially stuck to the hardcover. The hardcover and discoloured page block are marked. Some of the pages also have some marks, most notably at the front and rear. The spine is a little cocked, although the pages are sound; all text is clear. CM Used
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Redford, Bruce (ed.)
The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776
Hardcover. The Hyde Edition. Dust jacket is protected with a clear plastic wrapper. Head of page block is foxed. Several very small marks on front pastedown. Pages are clean. Contents are clear throughout. AF Used
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Pritt, D.N.
The Autobiography of D.N. Pritt: Part Two: Brasshats and Bureaucrats
Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. Part Two. Jacket is lightly marked, sunned and edgeworn, with slight nicks to the leading corners. Minor marks on the boards, page block and opening pages. The pages are sound; all text and images are clear. CM Used
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Green, Richard
Lessons in Love and Fortitude: The Story of Cwetla Erlich
Paperback in very good condition. Covers are lightly scored and worn. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. HCW Used
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Shindler, Karolyn
Discovering Dorothea: The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate
Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition. Slight bumps to the hardcover spine head. Pages are clean; all text and images are clear. CM Used
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Bower, Tom
Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge
Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition. First edition. One or two very faint scores on the jacket. Pages are clean; all text and images are clear. CM Used
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Bauer, Karoline
Memoirs of Karoline Bauer from the German. In Two Volumes.
Hardcovers in acceptable condition. No jackets. Two volumes. Ex-university library. From Somerville College, Oxford. Boards are slightly marked and faded. Leading corners and edges are bumped and worn. Leading corners, spine ends and rear spine side of volume one are split. Stamps on page blocks and a few pages. Page blocks and pages are marked and tanned. Library plates on front pastedowns. Light label residue on FEPs. Pen on reverse of half title pages. Previous owner's name penned on title pages. Creases throughout pages. Spines are cocked. Binding is exposed between a few pages but remains intact. Text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Grunwald, Henry
Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight
Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition. Signed and dedicated by the author, to Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, on a label, on the half title page. Very faint marks on the page block. One or two closing pages are slightly nicked and creased on the upper edges. The binding is sound; all text is clear. CM Used
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Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli; Schilpp, Paul Arthur (eds.)
The Philosophy of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Paperback in very good condition. The Library of Living Philosophers, Volume Eight. CM Used
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Hirschfield, R (Ed)
The Power of the Presidency: Concepts & Controversy
Cover tanned and a little rubbed/ shelfworn but overall in good condition, and all contents clean, tight and bright. Used
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Dixon Hunt, John
The Wider Sea: A Life of John Ruskin
Hardcover. First U.S. edition. From the collection of the late David Bradshaw, Professor of English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford, with his name penned on FEP. Minor tanning and one or two slight nicks, bumps and scores on dust jacket. Slight bumping on hardcover spine ends. Contents are clean and clear. AF Used
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Meighan, Roland
John Holt: Personalised Education and the Reconstruction of Schooling
Hardcover (no jacket) in very good condition. CM Used
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Meerzon, Yana
The Path of a Character: Michael Chekhov's Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics
Paperback in very good condition. A few faint marks on the page block. Pages are clean; all text is clear. Band 29. CM Used
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Malone, Dumas
Jefferson the Virginian
Paperbacks (Six volumes) in very good condition. Foreword by Merrill D. Peterson. The books come in a slipcase, which has some minor marks and wear. Slight marks to the spine heads of volumes one, two and three. The page blocks are a little marked. Pages are clean and sound; all content is clear. CM Used
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Smith, Henry
The Impersonal Autobiography of an Economist: How You Appear to Me
Paperback. One or two minor scores and bumps on covers. Minor pen marking on foot of page block. Contents are clean and clear. AF Used
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Palazzoli, Mara Selvini; Selvini, Matteo (eds.)
The Work of Mara Selvini Palazzoli
Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans. Minor sunning and edgewear to the jacket. The binding is slightly visible on the contents page, otherwise sound. Pen marginalia (mostly underlining and highlighting of text) on some pages - all text remains legible throughout. CM Used
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Hughes, Spike
Second Movement
Hardcover protected with a clear plastic wrapper. Includes a postcard from the author enclosed within front flap of wrapper. Dirty and very worn dust jacket with numerous tears and nicks. Several minor bumps on boards. Hardcover spine ends are bumped. Half-centimetre tear on hardcover spine head. Moderate foxing on page block, and at front and rear. Text is clear. AF Used
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Barnes, Malcolm (ed.); Hare, Augustus J. C.
The Years with Mother, Being an Abridgement of the First Three Volumes of the Story of My Life
Hardcover with jacket in acceptable condition. Plastic-protected jacket is marked and tanned. Jacket leading corners and edges are worn, creased and nicked. Jacket spine ends are chipped. Slight fading on hardcover. Hardcover leading corners, lower edges and spine ends are bumped and worn. Page block and a few pages are lightly tanned and foxed. Minor bumps and nicks on a few pages. Text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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