A Writer's Notes on His Trade by Montague, C. E - 1930

Chatto & Windus, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. 1930. First Issued in Phoenix Library. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Introductory Essay by H. M. Tomlinson. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

New York: Kennikat Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Sticker remnant on front cover. .

Chatto and Windus, 1930. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1930. No Edition Remarks. 254 pages. Beige dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Scuffed paper remnants to front pastedown. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Mild sunning to spine and edges. Book is slightly forward leaning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to spine and edges. Rubbed marking to surfaces.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1931. Hardcover, red cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Good/Dust Jacket condition good. Phoenix Library. 254 pages, endpapers spotted. Red & white dust jacket, spine sunned, somewhat fragile, chipped. Essays on the craft of writing, published posthumously.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. 1930, Edition not stated. Hardcover in Very Good condition, with very light edge wear. The neatly price clipped dust jacket is also in Good+ condition, with light edge wear, rubbing, and handling soil.

Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1969 Kennikat Press, Port Washington, NY. 1969. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1930 original. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light scattered scuffing to boards. No DJ. Green cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 253 pp 8vo. Charles Edward Montague (1867-1928) was an editor and journalist, with the Manchester Guardian from 1890 to 1925, apart from a break for his war service. This book was published from his notes posthumously. Introductory by H.M. Tomlinson who knew Montague in WWI. This is a collection of analytical essays which reflect Montague's work as a critic and his thoughts on writing. A clean very presentable copy.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1949. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. a copy that is about 50 years old, age toning of the page edges, and some handling marks. Please refer to the attached image. Previous owner's name at the top of the 1st page, couple of grubby marks, and one page not trimmed properly stop First Penguin Publication. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Books for Writers; Books on Books. Inventory No: 0262787. .

London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This edition has been printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. It consists of seven hundred numbered copies for sale and of fifty complimentary copies which are not numbered all signed by H. M. Tomlinson. The woodcut portrait of C. E. Montague on the title-page is by Percy Smith. This is No. 435. Front and rear hinges are cracked. Otherwise the book is in good condition.

Chatto and Windus, 1931. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With usual stamps and markings, In good all round condition. Dust Jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:

London: Penguin, 1949. Penguin first edition of the 1930 original - Pelican No.A219. Card covers, 192pp. Covers have light wear to extrems, some grubby marks, dusty, foxed page edges and prelims and yellowing pages. But otherwise internally clean and tight and a solid copy for its age. Ref:093283. First Penguin Edition. Card Covers. VG-/N/a. 11x18cm.

Harpercollins, 1991. First edition, as stated, first printing . Hardcover. Fine/near fine. r. 446 pp. This is a rare first edition copy signed by both Oliver North and William Novak. North's inscription, "Margo and Sam, all the best," appears in blue ink on the half title page with North's signature and the date "3 Nov 91" and Novak's signature in black ink. Dust jacket slightly wrinkled at top of spine. Free USPS tracking with every US order. Ships from MA.

New York: Continuum, 2006. 8vo size trade paperback with black and white photo illustrated cover; 414 pages From back: "Cinema, which first arrived in Japan in 1896 with the Kinetoscope prototype, came at the very time that Japan was transforming its economic base and society into that of a major international power. The first cinema, the Asakusa Denikikan, was opened in Tokyo in 1903 and within 13 years 300 cinemas had sprung up throughout the country... (The author) focuses on the historical development of Japanese film, illustrated by a series of typical Japanese film posters. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation." Edgewear, creases to bottom and bottom and top corners of front cover, soil on bottom and light soil to outside pages. We note pencilled underlining on at least 29 pages and pencilled marginalia on at least three pages and four creased page corners. Quotes… Read More

New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. Fine in Near Fine jacket Signed by Author A Gideon Oliver Mystery, SIGNED on title pg. Edgar Award winner best mystery npc 197pp. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition

New York: Private Printing. Fine with no dust jacket. 1976. Limited Signed Edition. Softcover. The artist's abstract and quite varied series of 43 drawings of flags, all printed monochrome on the recto of pages. Kingsley Parker has been exhibiting and represented by galleries since the mid-1970s and has a work in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, NY. The artist is quite active with new works. Signed in ink "K. Parker/1976 ©" in the front matter where Parker explains his motivation for drawing the series of abstract flags. Copy 158 of a limited edition of 600, numbered in the colophon. Approximately 44 pages, unpaginated. Printed on fine, machine-made paper in brown wraps. The title and a flag drawing are framed on the front cover. In absolutely clean, Fine condition. ; Drawings; Square 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 44 pages; Signed by Artist .

London, Ariel Productions, c 1955.. Foreword by Sir John D. Cockcroft. Includes "High-speed flight" by Neville Duke, and "Rockets and Space flight" by Wernher von Braun. Large hardback in very good condition in a very good unclipped dustwrapper.

London, Longman, 1981.. 1st edition. Concentrates on the military aspects of the war, including the soldiers, arms and armour, the battles, and siege warfare. Longman Travellers Series. There is a small stamp on the front endpaper, otherwise in very good condition in a very good unclipped dustwrapper.

New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2003. Z2 - A Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus Edition hardcover book SIGNED by the Charlaine Harris in as new condition in as new dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead. 8.5"x5.75", 612 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club (BCE/BOMC).

RARE. Collectible: 1916. Signed by the author. Cambridge MA: University Press. Very Good. Hardcover. Light soil to green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped title, author's name, and design. A bright solid, book - 27 pages; Inside covers are sunned. Pages clean and bright. Frontspiece. "View from Mrs. Thaxter's Garden Gate. 29 illustrations. Small book: 7" x 5"

Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Flat signed and dated by author on FFEP and Inscribed by author to a friend on half-title page. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine except for author's inscription and signature. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows light rubbing, light chipping at spine head, and light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 150 pages. illus. A reflection of the relationships of two artists -- Grant Wood (1891-1942) and Marvin Cone (1891-1965) -- with the community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A loving biography by a woman who knew them both. Laid-in are two letters to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette; one from Woods' sister, and another from a friend of Woods and the author.

Burnet, Texas: Nortex Press, 1978. CL5 - A hardcover book SIGNED by author on the front free endpaper in very good condition that is cocked, some scattered light scratches and rubbing, light tanning and shelf wear with no dust jacket. Brown covered boards with gilt lettering. 8.5"x5.5", 84 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.