Search Results: Authors starting with S from Island Books

International Council for Bird Preservation,, 1970. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With personal stamp in blind on front free endpaper.

Blandford Press,, [1947]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Here the chronicler of the Marshes turns his attention to the Essex woodlands. Scarce in this condition.

Noel Douglas,, [1928]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates toned in sepia, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Collects no fewer than sixty-seven short stories by the laureate of the Essex marches. SCARCE.

Routledge,, [1937]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original red cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, clean copy. Short stories by the laureate of the marshes. Uncommon, especially in this condition

Routledge & Kegan Paul,, 1949. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, boards faded at top edges, backstrip pulled at head else a good, clean copy in fragmentary dustwrapper. More tales and sketches from the 'laureate' of the Essex marshlands.

Routledge,, [1947]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and frayed at extremities. Collects forty-four short stories set, as ever, in the Essex marshlands. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.

Duckworth,, [1954]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (repeated on wrapper) by Rowland Suddaby; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss (affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Collects no fewer than ninety-nine short (and longer) stories by the laureate of the Essex marches. SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION.

[Privately Printed],, [1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and photographs in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE.

Werner Laurie,, [1955]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 16 plates; some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, upper joint bumped near headband else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with one neat marginal repair on rear panel.

Allen & Unwin,, [1967]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of the attempts, in ancient and modern times, to exploit one of the great mineral areas of Europe.

Sotheby,, 1925. 8vo., First Edition [Illustrated Issue], with 59 fine collotype facsimiles on 44 plates; ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS, sewed as issued, covers a trifle faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. WITH THE SEPARATELY PRINTED REQUEST SLIP LOOSELY INSERTED. The catalogue lists 797 lots and is fully indexed. RARE.

Sotheby,, 1925. 8vo., First Edition [Illustrated Issue], with 30 fine collotype facsimiles on 24 plates (not 25 as incorrectly called for; one folding); ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS, sewed as issued, covers a trifle faded, backstrip a little scuffed else a very good, bright, clean copy. WITH THE SEPARATELY PRINTED REQUEST SLIP LOOSELY INSERTED. The catalogue comprises 692 lots. RARE.

Odhams,, [1952]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with fine portrait frontispiece and several plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at joints and extremities, and chipped (not materially affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Churchill's biography of his father was first published (in two volumes) in 1906. This first one-volume edition includes a new Introduction, and Appendix V, together with the Statement by Lord Justice Fitzgibbon following Appendix IX, appear here for the first time. VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THIS CONDITION. Woods A8(c).

Odhams,, [1962]. 8vo., First Edition, with fine coloured portrait frontsipiece, and plates in monochrome; original red buckram, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, red edges, red textured endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first appearance of Heath's anthology. It was later reissued, together with 'Painting as a Pastime' and Thomson's 'Churchill: His Life and Times', as a three-volume set in 1965 [although still dated 1962]. The reissued volumes are considerably smaller. VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THIS CONDITION.

Purnell,, [1971]. 23 vols., sm. folio, First Edition thus, with very numerous photographs, illustrations and maps throughout; red faux-morocco boards, upper boards blocked in lion in gilt, gilt backs, terracotta endpapers, two or three backstrips frayed at head else a near fine set. The final form of Purnell's pioneering and mammoth partwork, the result of several years of preparation, with numerous contributors working to the editorial board comprising Mortimer Wheeler, Hugh Trevor-Roper and A.J.P. Tayor - three of the most eminent historians of the period. The partwork was issued originally in 112 weekly parts intended to be housed in seven optional and separately issued branded binders. Consequently it required considerable time, effort and motivation to acquire and bind a complete set. This final version is arguably the most accessible edition, comprising twenty-three compact and rather more manageable volumes. COMPLETE SETS ARE SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

Henry Teesdale,, 1830. Roy. 8vo., First [Sole?] Edition, some occasional light offsetting to text; strongly bound in late nineteenth-century cloth, uncut, a very good, clean copy. Very scarce; much harder to find than Marshall's 'Alphabetical Index of the County of Palatine of Lancaster' published two years later. Clarke also compiled the less notable 'Conversations on the History of England'. Not recorded by Anderson.

SCM Press,, 1956. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Essex Countryside, [Letchworth],, n.d. [c.1970]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates, and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

Northwestern University Press, Evanston IL for the Renaissance English Text Society,, 1965. 2 works in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper; with illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. High quality facsimile reissues of two seventeenth century works.

Scholarly Resources, Wilmington DE,, [1993]. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.