Search Results: Titles starting with P from Nigel Sustins Books

UK: Dent, 1952. Very rare first edition of this ghost story collection in dust-wrapper. Book is generally in good condition with some wear and browning to covers. Contents and binding sound. Dust-wrapper is largely intact but has some losses to the edges, and is browned/soiled in places.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable.

London: Lund Humphries, 1921. 1921 edition. Good with fading and marking to covers, personalised greeting on a front plate signed by the Editor W. Gamble. Extra postage required.. Hardcover. Good.

USA: Mirage Press, 1972. L Sprague de Camp was a writer of fantasy and science fiction ('Conan'), a forerunner of George R R Martin ('Game of Thrones'). This is a collection of de Camp's poetry, published in a limited edition of 1,000 copies (number 209 is hand-written on the limitation page at the end). Some wear to covers, light foxing to edges, internally very good. Dust-wrapper is chipped, rubbed and marked in places.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illus. by Tim Kirk.

UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. The true story of Bumble the Pig, and other animals in the author's sanctuary in Wales, signed by her to half title, moderate wear to cloth cover, including spine tips, edges have brown foxing stains, mostly to fore-edge, previous owner's name to front free endpaper, illustrated with photographs of Bumble and his other animal friends, d/w is rubbed, chipped and creased to the edges, with browning to the back, 2 cm frayed tear to one corner, with adjacent crease to the front, through the word 'Paradise', colour photograph of Bumble on the front is laergely unaffected.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor.

Spain: Diputacion Foral De Alava, 2000. Inscribed (to the International Playing Card Society) and signed by author to title page. Text in English. Large paperback with some rubbing/creasing to corners, fading to spine. Extra postage outside Europe.One of a collection of titles, some rare, on cards and card-playing. Enquire for more details.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

London: T Cadell, 1801 Half-leather with marbled boards, red title panel to spine with gilt lettering and decoration, losses to top and bottom of spine with partial splitting to edges, corners bumped and frayed, boards worn and marked, but original binding otherwise intact, dust to edges, evidence of sticker removal from front pastedown, attractive black and white engravings, internally generally good with some browning to pages, and the occasional light pencil underlining or annotation.. Half-Leather. Good.

UK: Harvill Secker, 2006. Signed first UK printing of Pearl's second novel, lined 'I remember the day it began' and dated 23 May 06 (publication date) to title page; a fine unread copy in fine dust-wrapper. The author's Victorian mystery: 'The Last Dickens' is also available signed. Extra postage required. . Signed by Author. First UK Edition. Hard Back. Fine/Fine.

UK: Eton College, 1937. Privately printed for Eton College in the Riccardi Press fount of the Medici Society, 1937; vellum-covered bevelled boards with some wear/marking, presentation page completed in ink and signed by Claudius Elliott, Headmaster. Edges browned/foxed, internally generally good (some spotting).. Hardcover. Good.

UK: Elkin Mathews/John Lane, 1893. Two volumes: First series published 1893 (one of an edition of 600) and illustrated by Ricketts (all plates present with tissue guards), green cloth with gilt decorations (rose petals and heart with angel), small black spots to front board at bottom, spine ends/corners pushed and rubbed, top edge gilt (dulled and dusty), dust to rough-trimmed edges, affixed to front pastedown and first free endpaper is the text of 'A Poet's Grave' with a quote from De Tabley, internally generally good; Second series published 1895 (one of an edition of 550 for England), not illustrated, same cover design, spine darkened, rubbing/fraying to spine ends and corners, dust to edges, browning/spotting to endpapers, internally generally good with some splitting to hinges and strain to stitching.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Illus. by C S Ricketts.

London: Imperial War Museum, 1993. With an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon and and a portrait of the author. Hardcover, Red cloth, with printed title label. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Limited edition of 300 copies (this one no. 211) produced for the centenary of Owen's birth. A facsimile reprint of the original edition published by Chatto and Windus in London, 1920, including the dust jacket. Additional material: an introduction by Martin Taylor of the Museum's Department of Printed Books, a bibliography and a previously unpublished poetic tribute to Owen by Edmund Blunden.. First Thus. Hardcover. As New/As New.

London: Egoist Ltd., 1919. Translations by Richard Aldington and Edward Storer, 'Poets' Translation' series, second set no. 2, initialled by 'I G', dated 1919 (identified as from the library of Israel Gollancz), boards have slight rubbing and marking, internally clean.. Hardcover. Good.

Market Drayton, Shropshire: Tern Press, 1989. [53pp.] Set in 16pt Poliphilus & Blado type. Printed on Antik mould made paper. Bound decorated grey paper over boards with a speckled rough tweedy linen spine (extraneous blue mark to rear board at the top), two light bumps to top board edges, printed paper label to front cover and spine. Pale grey endpapers. 12 full page lino prints by Nicholas Parry. Internally fine. No. 38 of 90 numbered copies. Signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry (book designers/producers). The book is a sympathetically-crafted whole. Extra postage required.. Signed by Illustrator. Limited. Hardcover. Very Good.

UK: John Russell Smith, 1856. Brown boards with blind-stamp designs, fraying to spine ends, pages rough-trimmed and dusty, frontispiece portrait, browning to endpapers, internally generally good.. Hardcover. Good.

UK: Cambridge at the University Press, 1938. 18th century essays, publisher's review slip inserted, small owner bookplate to front pastedown, turquoise cloth with some wear and mottling, fading to spine, dust/browning to edges, contents good.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

London: David Nutt, 1899. The first 12 issues in the series [there being ultimately 16], all bound in one volume, with the original black-printed, green thin-card covers preserved. Rubs to binding, otherwise good, in contemporary half-leather with cloth-covered boards. Neat embossed stamp-impression of Keele University to the blank lower margin of the cover to No. 1, and with the most unusual bookplate of the original owner* to the front pastedown. *Richard Pearse Chope (Antiquarian, printer, and author of 'Ballads Weird and Wonderful'), motto: 'He That Can't Schemy Must Louster'. Subjects covered include Celtic Romance, Ossian, King Arthur, the Rigveda, Shakespeare's Fairy Mythology, the Mabinogion and the Edda. Dates of publication 1899-1902. Extra postage required.. Hardcover. Good.

China: Dr Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, 1977. Fifty full page colour portraits, with text in Chinese on opposite page, English translations in one continuous section at front; red cloth cover, gilt lettering, title in English on front, and Chinese on back, minor wear, slight foxing and browning to edges, but otherwise very good; no d/w.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Very good hardback in illustrated boards, bump to the lower spine, but contents virtually as new. Extra postage required for despatch outside the UK.

London: Faber & Faber, 2008. First printing, signed copy. Fine in dust-wrapper. Other signed P D James titles available. Extra postage outside the UK.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New.

UK: The Author, 2001. A hand-crafted book of poetry with printed calligraphy, bound by Sessions of York in imitation vellum white Polyurethane ('Quinel Nubuk'), gilt lettering on the cover, contents very good, some marks/wear to the covers (offsetting of lettering to the front). Inscribed and signed by author as 'Michael' and dated 2008 to front free endpaper. Large volume (12 x 10 inches) which will require extra postage outside Europe.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Good in green cloth, brown foxing stains to top edge, and a small stain to the fore-edge, otherwise internally very good. Dust-wrapper is good with some marks and rubbing.