Search Results: Titles starting with F from The Plantagenet King

Hodder & Stoughton. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950 8vo., green publisher's cloth gilt to spine; unclipped green dust wrapper (12'6 net), featuring a portrait illustration of Bradman with his facsimile signature beneath; pp. [iv], 5-320; with black and white frontispiece portrait of the author and a further 27 personally-chosen photographs throughout; spine tips sightly pressed; light spotting and offsetting to the endleaves and paste-downs; a very clean copy, otherwise; in the bright dust jacket slightly toned to lower panel with light shelf wear; nicks and chips to spine ends, one to the lower panel; two slightly larger chips at head; a very good example.   First edition of this autobiographical work, neatly signed by the author in blue ink pen underneath his portrait to p. [ii]. The photographs included feature personal family snaps (the author as a baby, Bradman's wife 'who has been such an inspiration throughout my career), as well as a series from his… Read More

William Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866 8vo., 3 vols; original brick red publisher's cloth, blindstamped with decorative borders in blind to both boards; lettered and decorated in gilt along backstrips; pale yellow endpapers; pp. [v], 2-303, [i]; [v], 2-290, [v], 2-283, [ii], [2-4, ads]; boards a little scuffed and rubbed, particularly edges and spine tips; some of the gutters cracked, but firm, the odd spot and pencil mark to prelims; one or two corner creases; complete with all three half-titles; perhaps slightly toned in places, but a very uptogether set. First edition, first issue, in triple decker format. Carter's rare and most desirable 'D' binding, considered the most superior by the publisher and "uniform in style with Adam Bede, Silas Mariner, and The Mill on the Floss". Set during the first Reform Act of 1832, Eliot's socio-political novel follows an election contested by a local landowner, Harold… Read More

Jonathan Cape. First UK edition published by Jonathan Cape in 1941. This is a near fine copy. The Tisdall jacket has not been price clipped displaying 9s. 0d. net on the inside flap. There are no tears, chips or loss. There is only light wear to the upper spine end and upper edge. The blue cloth boards are in great shape with straight corners and edges. There are a couple of browning patches to the end papers otherwise the pages are clean and without marks. There are no previous owner's inscriptions. Overall it is a highly collectible copy.  Hemingway's Spanish civil war novel, and highly acclaimed. It was listed in the BBC's 100 most inspiring novels and La Mondes 100 books of the twentieth century recently.  . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1941.

Macmillan and Co. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1932 8vo., forest green publisher's boards, ruled and with central device in blind to upper board; spine ruled and lettered in gilt; upper edge green; complete in the rather wonderful dust jacket designed by Rex Whistler (7s. 6d. net); pp. [iv], v-xiv, 923, [i], [6, ads.]; with title vignette also by the artist; a fantastic, and bright copy, near-fine, with light compression to spine tips and very minor portion where the upper edge stain has bled onto the outer edge; the dust jacket also in near-fine condition, save for a couple of creases and two small closed tears to the spine.   First edition.  From the opening lines of the first short story, "The gray twilight gives to the long, pale stretches of sand the sense of something strangely unreal", Walpole's collection of these three enigmatic tales present the reader with mystery, intrigue, and a touch of the macabre. The four stories included are Maradick… Read More