Search Results: Literature from Roz Hulse

Crane, Stephen. Active Service. London, William Heinemann, 1899. First English Edition pp316, pp32 publishers adverts. Buff cloth with two colour woodblock design by William Nicholson to front back and spine. Binding is a little age toned and bumped. End free end paper removed. Pages rough cut and clean. Active Service published in 1899 is based on the Greco-Turkish War. In the same year Crane returned to Cuba, to cover the Spanish-American War, but due to poor health returned to England. Crane died on June 5, 1900 in Germany. Active Service is his last book to be published in his very short lifetime.

Bulwer Lytton, E. Arasmanes or The Seeker. London, Maclaren an Co. nd Ca 1905. 12mo. Marbled paper design slipcase. Paper covers with title in black to front and spine, red letter device to front and printers black devise to verso. With armorial bookplate of Geoffrey Drew Wood on front pastedown. Illustrated frontis. pp66. Slip cases is age soiled, covers age toned where not protected by slipcase. All pages in fine condition, the frontis print, strong and bright with good plate indent. A scarce book.

Beeton. S. O., Beeton's Boy's Book of History and Adventure. The Annual for 1869.Ward, Lock, and Tyler, Warwick House, London. 1869. 1st Edition. 8vo. Red cloth boards, decorative gilt titles to front and spine. Bound by W Bone and Son. PP656 all edges gilt. Full colour frontis and title page, 31 full page black and white engravings as called for. Covers are bumped and marked, erased signature on front pastedown. All pages and illustrations are in excellent clean and bright condition. The binding is tight. The book includes stories, such as The Finger of Fate and of the Beggars. Nature's Hints to Inventors include contributions about Insects, Birds and Spiders. Miscellaneous items include The Syrian War, Indian Blowpipes and Time and Time Keepers. Poetry from around the world is included and "How to Make" instructions with supporting diagrams for Locomotives, Steam Boat and Beam Engine. There are many puzzle pages too. An interesting book, a snapshot of 1869.

Sherry, Gordon. Black Limelight. London, Nelson and Sons, 1939. Ist Ed. Soft cover illustrating stage curtains and priced at 2/-net. A little dust soiled. Pp103 including play script and production notes. Pages have a little age tone to edges,otherwise clean, bright and unmarked throughout. Play first performed in 1937 at the St James Theatre, London.

Beckwith. Reginald,. Boys in Brown. Percival Marshall, no date Circa 1948. 8vo. Card Covers, balck titles to front. Pp 81. Some small loss to cover spine and back cover. Tight, bright and clean. Scarce soft cover edition.

Le Queux. William,. The Breath of Suspicion. John Long, Haymarket. 1917. 1st Edition. 8vo. Brown boards, quarter cloth, gilt title to spine. Pp314. Shelf wear to edges of binding. Some light foxing to pages, with some marks to blank margin. Cancelled Library stamp of the Railway Clearing House Literary Society on front pastedown, title page and page 7. A well read scarce book.

Pakenham, Lady,. Catholic Approaches. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London. 1955. 1st Edition. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper, has price overwritten in red ink, in removable protective film. PP227. Includes Art and Sacrament by David Jones. Excellent clean bright and tight condition throughout.

Townsend Warner, Sylvia. Collected Poems. Carcanet New Press, Manchester. 1982. Ist edition. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper. Pp290. Dustwrapper faded at edges and spine. With neat ownership mark of poet Arnold Rattenbury, a close friend of Sylvia Townsend Warner, on front free endpaper. Pages and binding in excellent order. A lovely book with an interesting provenance.

Gascoyne, David. Collected Verse Translations. London, Oxford University Press. 1970. 8vo. 1st Edition. Limited 1000 copies. Hardback, blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper, glassine protected. Pp128. Signed by author on title page. Covers a lighted a little at top and bottom edges. Otherwise in near fine order throughout. Benford C4.

Tagore, Sir Rabindranath. The Cycle of Spring. London, Macmillan, 1917. Ist Edition. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. Pp134, [2] adverts of works by Tagore. Neat ownership inscription by poet Arnold Rattenbury date 1940 on front free end paper. Binding bumped at edges and darkend at spine, page edges lightly age toned to edges.

Lever, Charles, The Dodd Family Abroad Illustrated by Phiz: London: Chapman & Hall, 1854. First edition. Octavo. Half calf on Marbled boards, bumped and rubbed with some loss to calf. PP624. Illustrated on Frontis, Title and throughout. Bright and clean.

MacDiarmid. Hugh. A Drunk man looks a the Thistle. Castle Wynd Printers, Edinburgh. Third Edition. 1956. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. PP116. Lacks dustwrapper. Binding in good condition, all pages in excellent clean and bright condition throughout.

Drury Lane Plays. Gil Blas A Comedy, The Regicide or James the first of Scotland a Tragedy, Coriolanus, The Foundling. Bound in one volume. 8vo Approx 120mm x 190mm. Recent half calf on cloth, 5 raised bands, leather title piece with gilt titles, hand sewn headbands. New end papers, early hand written note retained on front pastedown, by Delrue. Gil Blas As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane By Mr Moore. London R Franklin, in Russell Street, Covent Garden, 1751. Title page with woodcut motif, Contemporary handwritten page indexing 5 of the 4 dramas included in this volume., Dedication, iv, Prologue, I, PP92 Introduction close cropped to edge. Woodcut motif at Finis. Publishers Advert. The Regicide or James the first of Scotland a Tragedy by the author of Roderick Random [Tobias Smollett ]. Preface v, Persons of the Drama i, PP80. Title page torn with loss, missing Publ details. [Osbourne and Millar 1749]. Woodcut motif at Finis. Coriolanus A Tragedy As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in… Read More

Galsworthy. John,. Ex Libris. William Heinemann, London. 1933 1st edition. 8vo. Decorated cloth boards, black titles to front and spine. Pp112. Black and red printed alphabetical list of quotations. Ada Galsworthy wrote: "The nucleus of this little book has been provided by John Galsworthy; a score or so of quotations were chosen by him…..". "Of Imagination. "There's nothing wrong with our humanity; it's our imagination ---------" Covers a little aged, all pages and print tight, bright and clean. An interesting presentation.

Ehrenburg. Ilya. The Fall of Paris. Hutchinson and Co, London, Ca 1942. 1st edition. 8vo. Black boards, blind title to spine, publishers gold device to front. Pp381. Lacks dust wrapper. All edges to binding rubbed. All pages bound tight, bright and clean. On front free end paper is a gift inscription dated 1942 together with an ownership mark of H B Rattenbury, a methodist minister and missionary to China. A neat book with an interesting provenance.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Stories of Men and Books. London, Chatto and Windus. 1924, 1st Edition, 8vo. Card boards, cloth spine with gilt titles. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pp385. Binding a little bumped at corners. Neat ownership mark of 1932 on front free endpaper. All pages tight bught and clean.

Dreiser, Theodore. The Financier. Dell Publishing, New York. 1961. 1st Edition. 8vo. Paperback. Pp542, pp2 Publishers Ads. Illustrated paperback covers. All edges coloured green. Covers chipped and bumped at edges, cover corners fold marks. Pages age toned to edges. Binding tight, all pages bright and clean. Scare in this format at this time. A good Vintage Paperback.

Crane, Stephen, George’s Mother. London and new York, Edward Arnold, 1896, Small 8vo 120mm x 180mm. Blue cloth with Light grey titles to front and spine. Pp185, pp6 publishers adverts. Binding a little shelf worn and bumped, all pages a little age toned to edges, otherwise bright and clean throughout. Published in the year he met his lifelong partner Cora Taylor this work is an example of Crane’s use of realism to expose social ills. Much comment had been made to this work and that of the life of his mother and brother. A good book from this writer who was to die some 4 years later at 28 years of age.

Morley. Frank,. The Great North Road. London, Hutchinson. 1961. 1st Edition. 8vo. Green cloth covered boards, gilt motif to front, gilt motif title to spine on brown label. Dustwrapper designed by Davis Jones, pp328, motif on title page by David Jones. Dustwrapper chipped at top spine edge, now in loose protective cover. Binding and all pages in fine order throughout.

Belloc. Hilaire. The Haunted House. Arrowsmith, London, 1927. First edition. 8vo.  Blue cloth light grey titles to front and spine. Top edge yellow.  Pp270 with 25 illustration by G K Chesterton, as called for.  Binding is worn and chipped on edges with small loss. One full page illustration is loose otherwise book is bright and tight. Neat ownership inscription on front free end paper of  Stella Tennyson Jesse, sister of the author  F. Tennyson Jesse.