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ref. 0951565567.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 4014yUK: The CricketerLondon. Good. Paperback. 1924. with Vol 5 no's 3 to 5891113161718spine worn 2021 covers parted some staple rust 15 copies . The Cricketer,London paperback
1982ref. 1404121011084Warner Brothers Publications 1982-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Nice looking book has minor edge wear.has mane on title page. small tear on front cover. Warner Brothers Publications paperback
ref. 1528385667.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1916ref. C204431London: Smith Elder & Co. 1916. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 328pp. Original blue cloth with black titles. Light wear to extremities slight foxing to fore-edge otherwise near very good indeed. No dust jacket. Smith, Elder & Co., hardcover
1958ref. 86734London: Chatto and Windus 1958. Text bright light spotting on closed edges binding firm some rubbing to boards chipping and sunning to dust jacket with tape repairs to the edges. Hard. Good/Fair. 8vo. Chatto and Windus Hardcover
1800ref. 71648London: Printed By R Cruttwell. This is a Good Only Copy of this Book in what would appear to be the original plain grey boards with red faded moroccan title label to spine.No raised bands to spine.Inner hinge join is weakened and semi detached along the bottom section.rare hinge jpoin is also weakened.There are NO previous names or inscriptions present.With engraved title page.There are several small sketch maps present along with engraved tail pieces as chapter endings and the book has footnotes to accompany the text.Uncommon title dated 1800 Second Edition to the Title Page.8vo 365pp Second Edition Size: 8vo - over 4¾" - 5¾" Tall . Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 1800. Printed By R Cruttwell hardcover
1941ref. 909355UK: John Lane The Bodley Head 1941. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1941 2nd imp. no dustjacket. soiling to spine. 336 pages. John Lane, The Bodley Head Hardcover
1946ref. 796R7London Sydney Toronto Bombay and Stockholm: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd 1946. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 6.5". Not Stated. An in-depth history of Lord's Cricket Ground in London illustrated with colour plates. This work examines the birth of the grounds its development during the nineteenth century and through the wars.Written by Sir Pelham Francis Warner a Test cricketer.Illustrated with twelve plates in colour as well as plates in black and white throughout. Collated complete.With a printed gift inscription: 'To R. D. Evans Esq on the occasion of his retirement With Best Wishes from the Export Sales Dept. 9th May 1947'. It has then been signed by seven co-workers. A fascinating piece of cricketing history. In an original full cloth binding. Externally very smart with just a small stain to the front board and a little general wear. Gift inscription to the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are a little spotted on occasion Very Good George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd hardcover
1971ref. 2872London: Chatto & Windus 1971. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION ROGER PEERS' COPY. 8vo. Original salmon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends. Dints to bottom board edges faint spotting to edges. Fawn book label of "Roger Neville Russ Peers" to front pastedown inscribed in the curator's elegant hand in brown ink to ffep: "Roger Peers September 1974 Norfolk Broads." Else clean tight and tidy. In the original chartreuse typographical dust jacket: faint sunning to spine edgewear and related fine bands of darkening. Very good/ very good A rather lovely association copy of Warner's final collection of non-Elfin short stories written during the years preceding her partner Valentine Ackland's death in November 1969 from the collection of Roger Peers Curator of the Dorset County Museum 1959-1992 late friend of STW and saviour of her personal library and papers many items of which were transferred to the Museum; in establishing its STW collection he played a crucial role in ensuring her cultural legacy. A prominent curator Roger Peers 1932-2023 was also Secretary of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society DNHAS through which he met STW. The elderly author granted Peers "the chance to choose for the collection of DNHAS which owns the Dorset County Museum any books from the library in her house at Frome Vauchurch and also for myself" Peers 2017. In 1986 with the house needing to be cleared Peers worked with bookseller John Ruston to "put aside all the copies of STW's and VA's books all the presentation copies of other authors and a great many books of significance and reference as well as shopping lists and drafts of poems". Peers also retrieved manuscripts of STW's musical compositions from rubbish bags. Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 33a; Roger Peers 2017 'A Dilemma and a Narrow Escape.' The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society 172. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1990ref. 72740Glasgow: Brown Son & Ferguson 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Signed by Author. "Jackie Warner was the Chief Inspector of Diving at the Department of Energy and Fred Park was a journalist on the staff of the Aberdeen Press and Journal during the early days of exploration and exploitation of offshore oil and gas in the North Sea. On his retirement Jackie Warner decided to write a book about the North Sea bad old days or klondike days depending which side one was on and persuaded Fred Park to collaborate. It is the story of 15 years of diving fatalities of getting from "no rules no holds barred" to become a safe well regulated and professional industry." This copy in laminated boards as issued is missing the front free endpaper but is also inscribed on the half-title by Jackie Warner. Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 72740. . Brown, Son & Ferguson hardcover
2003ref. 893M18London: Warner Bros.; Bloomsbury 2003. First edition. Annual. As New. 7.5" by 5.5". Robert Walster; Warner Bros. A delightful organiser based on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets containing a notepad ruler stickers and organiser pages. A Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets organiser in the publisher's original pictorial hardback ring binder sealed in the plastic wrap. A wonderful 2003 ring-bound organiser based on the 2002 film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets containing organiser information pages and Harry Potter-themed articles such as a notepad a ruler two sheets of stickers. The information pages are grouped by pictorial dividers illustrated with photographs of popular characters from the Harry Potter series with sections named 'Personal' 'Diary' 'Contacts' and others and room for notes and doodles. This highly collectable organiser is now a scarce find. In the publisher's original pictorial hardback ring binder sealed in the plastic wrap. In overall lovely condition. As New Warner Bros.; Bloomsbury unknown
1997ref. 48717Dovecote Press Wimborne 1997. 8vo. First Edition with plates and full-page pedigree in the tet; blue cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE. [Dovecote Press, Wimborne], hardcover
1830ref. 67088London: Longman Rees. 1830. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 1 of 2 397pp bound in sl worn half leather/marbled boards apparent gift inscr to Warner on endpapers and manuscritpt letter on prelims; Octavo . Longman Rees hardcover
ref. 34147CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRES 2004. 1ST EDITION. NEAR FINE COPY IN LAMINATED BOARDS. THIS COMPREHENSIVE VOLUME WILL SATISFY ALL WHO NEED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE WEATHER AND CLIMATE OF ARID LANDS. NAME NEATLY IN INK ON FEP. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRES, 2004 hardcover
1961ref. C12041London: Cassell & Company 1961. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 158. Original publisher's black cloth lettered silver at the spine. From the Donald Rudd collection of detective fiction. The rare true first from Cassell in 1961. Filmed in 1963 as 'The Informers' with Nigel Patrick as as Chief Inspector John Edward Johnnoe and Derren Nesbitt as Bertie Hoyle. Slight lean else good in very good dust jacket; slightly marked at rear and very slightly nicked at head of spine. No inscriptions not price-clipped. Front panel of jacket by Edward Gage in good order showing three men in a low lit street; two of them are carrying briefcases. Cassell & Company, hardcover
ref. 1931956820.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1994ref. C50461Gerrards Cross 1994. First Edition Thus. About fine. Warner's plays were originally published in the Oxford Theatre Texts series. Two volumes. 8vo. pp. viii 465 iii; viii 330. Coloured frontispieces. Original publisher's purple cloth lettered gilt on spines and upper covers. Pictorial dust jackets lettered gilt and black. Contained in a purple cloth slipcase. Presentation copy: 'For Dadie Rylands with love from Francis Warner Cambridge August 1994.' Oxford University Dramatic Society flyer for Byzantium a play by Francis Warner loosely inserted with a note from Warner to Dadie Rylands on reverse consisting of about 60 words in which he keeps Rylands up to date with the cast of the play and ends 'May you be well and may all Olympus bless you.' The first volume consists of a play about Periclean Athens a trilogy of Roman plays the Byzantium and a play set in Florence during the fifteenth century. The second volume is set in the twentieth century and opens with a comedy of love George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands 1902 Ð 1999 known as Dadie Rylands was a literary scholar theatre director particularly Shakespeare and a Fellow of King's College Cambridge. Francis Warner born 1937 is a poet dramatist and academic. Small mark on spine of slipcase otherwise about fine. 0861403746 hardcover
1984ref. 006126Kingston and Montreal / Gloucester: Mcgill-Queen's University Press / Alan Sutton 1984. Book. Near Fine. Cloth Titled in Red. First Gt Britain Edition. 10 " x 6 1/2". xx 211 pages 106 black and white illustrations. Hb despite lacking a dw this is a crisp clean near fine copy. Mcgill-Queen's University Press / Alan Sutton Hardcover
2022ref. QT-MH46-G7452022. Hardcover. 2022 States Academic Press hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. hardcover
1900ref. 66062London: William Heinemann 1900. 8vo. xiii 271 pp. Green glazed printed boards. Darkening to the spine with wear to the extremities including loss to the head. Slight lean to the binding and some scattered spotting. Illustrated in black and white throughout. The half-a-crown edition. . Good. Decorated Boards. First Edition. 1900. William Heinemann 1900 hardcover
ref. 51316London: Mills & Boon Limited 1912. 1st edition. Account of the England Cricket team tour of Australia in 1911-12 by the former captain who had been due to lead his Enland team but who unfortunately fell ill and was unable to play. Johnny Douglas took over the captaincy for all five Test matches. Despite losing the first Test at Sydney a side which included Jack Hobbs Frank Woolley Sydney Barnes and Wilfred Rhodes hit back to win the remaining four Tests. They thus regained The Ashes. 22.5cms x 15cms x 5cms. Pp.xiv/284 team photo frontispiece 47 further pages of black & white photos a few very light spots faint pencil notation to front free endpaper endpapers toned. Red cloth gilt title to front and spine very slight sunning to spine bumps to corner tips. VG. London: Mills & Boon Limited, 1912. hardcover
1931ref. 008360Joiner and Steele Ltd. formerly William Jackson Books Ltd. 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First edition. Pale red buckram with title in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Condition: Very good with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. One of a limited edition of 550 copies this being copy no. 479. Signed by Sylvia Townsend Warner underneath the limitation details. 47pp. B/w frontispiece by the Australian artist William Kermode 1895-1959. Joiner and Steele Ltd. (formerly William Jackson (Books) Ltd.) Hardcover
ref. 0873371216.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 1343796490.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover