Search Results: Authors starting with P from Lucius Books

London: Chatto and Windus. 2004. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by the author. Original illustrated card wrappers. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight. The contents with one dot of foxing to the top edge of the textblock are otherwise clean throughout and free from any previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Signed and inscribed by Padel in blue ink on the title page: "For Pat / in memory of York(shire) / on a gorgeous sunny / day: Beverley / Ruth Padel / Oct. '04". Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, 2004. Provenance: from the library of the multi-award winning poet Pat Borthwick. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: T. Werner Laurie. [1921]. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with black titles and decoration to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips and corners. The cloth remains fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. The top edge of the closed text block is a little dusty. Complete with the rubbed and nicked original dustwrapper that has a few small chips at the head and tail of the darkened spine. Correctly priced 3/6 net to the spine. Very scarce in dustwrapper. A fantasy story featuring a man with bat like wings who can fly. (Locke: Spectrum of Fantasy; Bleiler). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Belfast: The Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster. January 1959. Second printing of the December 1958 first edition. Second printing of the December 1958 first edition. Signed by the author. Original pictorial softcover. Illustrated with black and white plates. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the edges with some rubbing and dustiness. The contents, with some toning to the margins, are otherwise clean throughout. Signed by the Protestant evangelical minister and the former First Minister of Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley in blue ink on the half title. Uncommon thus. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: [published by the translators]. 1976. First edition thus. First edition thus. Signed and inscribed by the translator, Theodore Stephanides. Original printed card wrappers with titles in black to the upper cover and spine. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a bump and a 1cm split to the lower joint at the head of the spine and a little rubbing to the edges of the spine. The contents with a touch of toning are otherwise clean and bright throughout. Signed and inscribed by Theodore Stephanides in black ink to the front free endpaper "To John and Camilla / with best compliments, / Theodore Stephanides / London, December 1976". The first edition of Stephanides and Katsimbalis' translation of Palamas' poetical work, first published in Greek in 1921. Theodore Stephanides (1896-1983) was a Greek-British doctor and polymath, known as a naturalist, biologist, astronomer, poet, writer and translator, although is perhaps best remembered today as the friend and mentor… Read More

Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1889. First edition. First edition. Large paper edition, signed. Quarter vellum with burgundy cloth. Gilt titles to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A better than very good copy, the binding firm and square with mild wear to the board corners and a little bumping at the extremities. Spine a little darkened. The contents, with different previous owner's bookplates to the front and rear pastedowns, are otherwise clean throughout. Numbered 34 of 585 copies, signed by Palgrave in black ink to the limitation page. A collection of hymns by poets such as Edmund Spencer, John Donne, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, edited, introduced and annotated by Francis Turner Palgrave, a poet and critic who worked as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Provenance: from the library of Martin Stone. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Manchester: Carcanet. 1990. First UK edition, first printing. First UK edition, first printing. Hardcover issue. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding clean and square, the contents without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased original dustwrapper. Not price-clipped (£12.95 to the front flap). The first English language edition of the author's first book. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1952. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original red cloth with black titles to the spine and an illustration in black to the upper board, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Mary Smith. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth clean and fresh. Rhe contents, with faint offsetting to the endpapers and a little very light spotting to the text block edges, are otherwise clean and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with thelightly rubbed and nicked illustrated dustwrapper that has has a couple of short closed tears to the edges. Not price clipped (8s. 6d. net to the front flap). A lovely copy. The tenth title in the 'Bunkle' Series. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: John Lane. 1913. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's presentation binding by Bickers for the author. Full vellum with illustration and borders in gilt to the upper and lower board and spine. Titles and decoration in gilt to the spine. Marbled endpapers, gilt inner dentelles. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with four black and white plates from drawings by Dorothy Parker. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some light rubbing and bumping at the extremities. The contents are entirely complete and clean throughout. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front free endpaper "Dorothy B. Ramsay / from her friend / Louis N. Parker / Jan 27. 1914". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Samuel French 1915. First acting edition, first printing. First acting edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's presentation binding by Bickers for the author. Three quarter vellum over brown buckram with titles in gilt to the spine. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some rubbing and several black (ink?) marks to the spine. The contents are entirely complete, and clean throughout. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front free endpaper "D[orothy] B. R[amsay] / from / L[ouis] N. P[arker] / Sept 21. 1916". The printed dedication reads simply "To Dorothy" although it is highly likely for the author's daughter Dorothy Parker who as an actress had a role in this original production. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

York: Privately printed by the Yorkshire Herald Co. 1916. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's presentation binding of full vellum with titles in gilt to the spine. Top egde gilt. A very good copy, the binding and little marked and bowed, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front free endpaper "D[orothy] B. R[amsay] / from / L[ouis] N. P[arker] / Sept. 21 / 1916". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: John Lane. 1913. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with four black and white plates from drawings by Dorothy Parker. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some rubbing, light marking and bumping at the extremities. The contents are entirely complete, with some spotting to the endpapers and one page with a single short closed tear to the margin. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front free endpaper "Dorothy B. Ramsay / from / Louis N. Parker / Jan 7. 1914". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: John Lane. 1912. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with four plates. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some rubbing, light marking and bumping at the extremities. The contents are entirely complete, without loose or torn pages with some spotting to the endpapers. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front free endpaper "Dorothy B. Ramsay from Louis N. Parker / Sept. 17. 1912". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: John Lane. 1916. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's olive green card covers printed in black to the upper cover. A better than very good copy, the binding firm with light rubbing and creasing at the extremities. The contents are entirely complete and with the exception of a little offsetting from a contemporary review (loosely laid in) clean throughout. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front free endpaper "D[orothy] B. R[amsay] / from / L[ouis] N. P[arker] / Oct 18. '16". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: G. W. Press Ltd. 1995. First edition, first printing of the critically acclaimed French artists' publication: an artist's book and novel of speculative fiction. First edition, first printing of the critically acclaimed French artists' publication: an artist's book and novel of speculative fiction. Publisher's original white card covers, illustration after an original drawing by Philippe Parreno to the upper cover titles printed in black to the upper cover and spine. A very near fine copy, just a hint of rubbing to the binding extremities. The contents are clean and bright throughout. Scarce. In late 1994 Philippe Parreno dictated to Liam Gillick and Jack Wendler a fantastical description of a party that had not yet occured. Snow Dancing, is a record of his original conversation and the party it described. At the Consortium in Dijon two months later, hundreds of people were invited to participate in a promotional event that played out Parreno's earlier description.… Read More

Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. 2002. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author. Presentation copy. Publisher's original grey cloth with gilt titles to the spine and a lilac paper title inlay on the upper board. A lovely fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and bright throughout. Inscribed by Graham Parry in black ink on the front free endpaper "For Geoff / A memento of the Great Symposium / of '99 / Best Wishes. / Graham [underlined] / 24.V.02". The recipient is Geoffrey Wall, acclaimed biographer and translator of Gustave Flaubert. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Edinburgh: Mainstream. 1996. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth, decorated and lettered in silver, in dustwrapper. A sharp, fine copy. Minimal pushing to the foot of the spine, otherwise without marks or blemishes. The dustwrapper, lavishly illustrated in colour by Alasdair Gray, is equally fine. Not price-clipped and correctly priced (£25) to the front flap. A lovely copy. A collection of over a hundred traditional songs (ballads, love lyrics, lullabies) complete with texts and simple musical accompaniments. Printed throughout in black and red and filled with a generous array of typographical and illustrative content from Alasdair Gray. The boards, designed and decorated by Gray with characteristic intricacy show framed images of the Saltire flag with a selection of Celtic musical intruments (bagpipes, fiddle, harp) flanking a tree-stump mounted by a singing bird and the exhortation to "SING AS IF YOU LIVE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF A BETTER… Read More

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 1977. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with titles in silver to the spine and the author's initials in blind to the upper board, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with eight full page and four half page drawings in black, grey and white throughout. An excellent very near fine copy, the binding square and firm with just a little rubbing to the spine tips, the cloth remains bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed and creased first state dustwrapper that has a few tiny nicks, without loss at the spine tips. Not price-clipped ($7.95 to the upper front flap). A lovely example. The beloved Newbery Medal winning story of unbreakable friendship and loss, featuring two children and their imaginary magical forest kingdom of 'Terabithia'. The basis for the 2007 critically acclaimed, award winning film of the same… Read More

[London]: Constable and Co. 1946.. Second printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original blue paper covered boards with green titles and red decorations to the upper board. With an in depth introduction from the editor. A very good copy, the boards toned to the edges with some chipping to the spine. The toned contents are clean throughout. Inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper in black ink. Patmore was a writer and journalist, who worked as a war correspondant in the Balkans and in the Middle East. He was the great grandson of the poet Coventry Patmore. Provenance: from the library of Martin Stone. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Helsinki: Eurographica. 1984. First edition thus. First edition thus. Signed by the author. Original publisher's card covers in dustwrapper. Printed by Tipografia Nobili on special Michelangelo paper made at the Magnani Paper Mills in Pescia, Italy. A fine unread copy in fine dustwrapper. Signed and dated by the author in blue ink on the title page. Numbered 163 of 350 copies to the limitation page at the rear. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Jonathan Cape. 1961. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy with no inscriptions or stamps in very good lightly worn dustwrapper which is not price-clipped. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.