Search Results: Authors starting with K from Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA

The Vanguard Press, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG-. SLOBODKIN, Louis. First Edition. 13.7 x 20.7 yellow cloth backed boards with red and black decorations and titles to the front and spine, 191[1]pp with black and white illustrations by Louis Slobodkin throughout. In original price clipped jacket. The boards are clean and bright with a 3mm split at the head of the spine and a small ding along the bottom edge of the front board and a tiny bump on the bottom front corner. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate and just a touch of toning to the endpapers where the dust jacket does not reach. The dust jacket has wear to the spine tips, edges and corners with loss of 1.8 cm from the top of the fore edge on the front panel and less than 0.5 cm on the others. The spine tips have some surface abrasion and the head of the spine has loss of up to 0.5 cm. All in all the book presents very well in its clear removable cover (not shown) and is a lovely 1st edition copy. Rainford &… Read More

Stanley Paul & Co., 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG-. 12.5 x 19.3cm green cloth with blind stamped title to the front and gilt stamped titles to the spine, uncut edges 327pp +(1)+32pp catalogue. The boards are a little worn with patchy fading. There is a 1.5cm split in the cloth at the foot of the spine and there are patches of loss cloth measuring 2mm and 4mm to the bottom of the front board and one of 7mm to the rear board. The cloth on the front shoulder is worn through in places. The book has a very slight lean, although the binding is firm. Internally the book has a previous owner's initials to the title page but otherwise is generally very clean. Kenealy was a nurse, motor and balloon enthusiast, journalist and novelist. This is a scarce work, dealing with inter-racial marriage, by an unusual, sensationalist writer who appeared to attract a surprising amount of controversy. The book was the subject of a failed legal action by Kenealy against WH Smith's Lending Library after they… Read More

Hodder and Stoughton, nd(c1920) 1920. -. Hardcover. VG+. DULAC, Edmund. Early reprint. 22.3 x 28.5 cm red cloth with gilt stamped titles and decoration to the front and spine, plain endpapers with 20 tipped in plates by Edmund Dulac each with captioned tissue-guards. A lovely looking copy with bright gilt decoration and firm sharp corners. There is a touch of shelf wear to the bottom edge and spine tips and a faint band of fading to the top 1cm of the front board and rear boards and the spine edge of rear board. Internally there is a bookplate for Major Sir Brunel Cohen, who was both an MP and disabled rights campaingner. Otherwise there are no inscriptions or foxing and just a small smudge in the top corner of the tissue guard to the plate to Quatraine I and a 2mm ink spot to the tissue guard for Quatraine XL. A very presentable copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged… Read More

George G. Harrap, nd [c.1930] 1930. Full Leather. NF/VG. POGANY, Willy. Reprint. 15 x 22.5 cm leather binding with gilt stamped titles and decoration to the front and titles to the spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut, marble endpapers. Unpaginated 75 quatrains printed in green with decorative boarder and 16 full page colour plates by Willy Pogany. The book is contained within a brown card slipcase. A near fine book with the merest hint of rubbing to the spine tips. Internally the book is clean, without name, inscription or bookplate and the plates fine. The slip case is very good and with just a touch of rubbing to the corners and edges and a 25/- price pencilled in on the front. All in all a lovely example of Pogany's first set of Rubaiyat illustrations. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

E P Dutton, 1922. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. FISH, Anne Harriet. 1st US Edition illustrated by Fish. 23.2 x 29.2 cm 4to., black cloth spine over orange black and cream paper covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Cream and orange paisley designed endpapers. Edges uncut, 108pp black and orange decorated initial letter to each stanza with 20 colour images in the Art Deco style with silver and gold highlights by Anne Fish, all with tissue guards. The book comes with its scarce original dust jacket. The boards are very good plus with a little bruising to the corners and a hint of shelfwear to the bottom edge. The gilt titles on the spine are a touch faded. Internally, there is no name inscription or book plate, the patterned front free endpaper has been removed at some point in the past and has now been professionally replaced with a copy. The images are all in fine condition and there is just a hint of spotting to the uncut edges. The dust jacket now protected by a removable… Read More

Hodder and Stoughton, nd (1915) 1915. -. Hardcover. VG/VG-. DULAC, Edmund. Early reprint. 22.3 x 28.5 cm russet cloth with gilt stamped titles and decoration to the front and spine, plain endpapers with 20 tipped in plates by Edmund Dulac, each with captioned tissue-guards. The book comes with its original dust jacket. The book has been well protected by the dust jacket and is very good, with just 4 small splits in the cloth at the foot of the spine, a little shelf wear along the bottom edge and slight dulling to the gilt decoration. Internally, there is a bookplate and a little toning to the endpapers. The plates are all present and in fine condition without rubbing, tears or creasing as are the captioned paper guards. The binding is firm and square. The dust jacket is a rare survivor and is mostly complete with a little loss to the spine tips extending to 1.2 cm on the upper joints and minimal loss to the corners. The spine is toned and there are some marks on the rear panel and an ownership… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton, nd[1913] 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. BULL, René. 1st Trade Edition. 21.5 x 28.2 cm, brown cloth with blue and gilt stamped titles and decoration to the front and gilt stamped titles to the spine. Top edge brown, unpaginated 78 leaves, with 10 full page tipped in colour illustrations mounted within gilt decorative borders and with captioned tissue-guards; together with 19 smaller mounted vignettes. There are also many in-text drawings, head and tail pieces and elaborate borders. The boards have a touch of shelf wear with light rubbing to the corners and edges and spine tips and to the gilt decoration. There is a split in the cloth across the very tip of the foot of the spine, slight pushing to the bottom corners and a 3mm drip mark to the top edge of the front board. Internally there is a book plate to the front pastedown but no inscriptions. The free endpapers have some toning (acid migration) and the following and preceding few leaves have a touch of spotting whilst… Read More

Penguin Books Ltd, 1963. 1st Edition. Softcover. VG+. A Puffin book 11 x 18 cm paperback, 156(3)pp with black and white illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Flat signed by the author to the front free endpaper. The book is in lovely condition considering its age. The spine is firm and uncreased and there is just a touch of rubbing to the joints ant spine tips and a crease to the top, front corner. There is also a faint tide mark that runs half way down the fore edge on the inside cover. Internally, the book has the usual toning to the pages that would be expected from a paperback book of this era but it is otherwise clean and there is only one crease to the top corner of one page affecting the margin only. What makes this book remarkable is that it is signed by the author and as such is extremely uncommon. This is the true 1st Edition of this modern classic children's book, preceding the hardback edition published by Hamish Hamilton two years later. All in all a remarkable survivor which is now… Read More

Kestrel Books, 1980. 1st Thus. Hardcover. NF/VG+. 1st Thus. 14 x 22.2 cm blue boards with gilt stamped titles to the spine. 158(2)pp with black and white illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. In original unclipped dust jacket with £3.95 price. Inscribed and signed by Clive King to fellow authors Jill Paton Walsh and John Rowe Townsend. A near fine book, clean and bright with just a touch of shelf wear to the bottom edge. Internally the book is very clean with just the author's inscription and signature. The dust jacket, which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown), has a little light dust marking and a hint or rubbing to the corners. Signed copies of King's most popular popular book are scarce and this is a lovely scarce copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Macmillan, 1980. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. VG++/VG-. 1st US Edition, 14.3 x 21.3 cm blue cloth backed paper covered boards with black titles to the spine. [vi] 243[1]pp with a double page map by Ian Newsham. In original dust jacket with a $9.95 price. Signed and inscribed by the King to fellow writers John Rowe Townsend and Jill Paton Walsh on the front free endpaper. The book has been well protected by its dust jacket with just a touch of pushing to the foot of the spine and the merest hint of sunning to the very top and bottom edges. Internally the book is clean and bright with just the author's inscription. The dust jacket, which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown), has sunning to the rear panel, spine and for a couple of centimetres on the front panel. A scarce signed 1st US edition copy of this historical tale. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged… Read More

Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1925. 1st Edition. Softcover. NF. 12mo., 11.2 x 17.4cm fold over yellow wraps with titles, 'Two Shillings net' price and publisher's device, in black to the front and titles to the spine, (vi),38pp (2)pp with uncut edges. (Richards A355). A near fine copy with only minor creasing to the yapped edges of the wrapper. Internally there are no inscriptions or other marks. Indeed the book appears unread as many pages are unopened. A collection of 31 poems including the first English publication of 'A Choice of Songs' All in all a very collectable copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1932. 1st Thus. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. TRESILIAN, Stuart. 1st Thus. 4to., 18.6 x 25.2cm red cloth with black stamped illustration to the front and titles and decoration to the spine. 215pp (1) with 8 coloured plates and numerous black and white illustrations by Stuart Tresillian. Original illustrated unclipped dust jacket with 6/-price to the front flap and list of author's children's titles to the rear panel. The only issue to have 8 full colour plates (Richards E1-134). The boards are bright and clean with the black printed illustration contrasting dramatically with the red cloth. There is just a very little rubbing and loss of colour to the upper and lower edge and faint spotting to the edge of the text block. Internally, the book is very good with no inscriptions or book plates and only very light toning to the free endpapers and the occasional area of light spotting. The extremely scarce dust jacket illustrated by Stuart Tresillian is lightly dust stained to… Read More