Search Results: Authors starting with P from Richard Beaton

London: Cassell & Co., 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Undated, reprint (c1926). Original light brown cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Spine faintly sunned, signature (1926) on front free endpaper, some foxing, otherwise very good. Novel, set in Rhodesia.

London: Hurst & Blackett, 1918. Book. Good. Hardcover. Twelfth edition: undated, c1918. Original red cloth. War-time copy (with inscription dated 1918) produced with low-grade paper which is now geryish in tone. Spine sunned, otherwise a good reading copy of this novel set in Rhodesia.

London: Hurst & Blackett, 1918. Book. Good. Hardcover. Eighth edition, undated (c1918). Original red cloth, lettered and illustrated in red. Spine lightly sunned, inscription and note (1918) on front endpapers. good..

London: Ward, Lock & co., 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. [Second Edition]. Original light green cloth, lettered and framed in black. A few light marks, light foxing, undated signature on front free endpaper, very good..

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Original orange cloth. Spine and part of front board sunned, front free endpaper removed. A reading copy..

London: Cassell & Co, 1892. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Late C19th rebinding in brown cloth; brown leather title label on spine, name ("Shavington") in gilt on bottom edge of front board. Clean, tight copy: very good. A mixture of parodies, comic sketches and short stories..

London: Methuen & Co., 1904. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition.. Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt. CSpine lightly sunned, undated signature on front free endpaper, very good. The story of a man who squanders his talents and (almost) wrecks his life..

London: Martin Secker, 1914. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in white, gilt on spine. Spine sunned, boards edges lightly sunned, foxing on early pages, good. Short stories both comic -- and detective..

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original beige cloth, framed and lettered in black. Minimal scuffing: a clean, bright, tight copy, very good..

London: T. Werner Laurie, 1922. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Undated first edition [1922]. Original yellow cloth, lettered in black; first and last leaves used as endpapers, with advertisement for Pain's Robinson Crusoe. Spine sunned, pages lightly tanned on edges, good. The cover reads: Barry Pain's Parody of "If Winter Comes". If Summer Don't. A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H. NOTSOMUCHINSON. BARRY PAIN. Pain's target is A. S. M. Hutchinson's bestseller If Winter Comes, which he accuses of misusing the First World War for the purpose of fiction "It is altogether too easy. It buys the emotional situation ready-made"..

London: Harper & Brothers, 1898. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original green cloth: front board decorated with flowers in yellow and green; lettered in dark green on spine. Corners bumped, chipped on spine corners, stain at foot of boards (see photo), W. H. Smith's Subscription Library plate on front pastedown, undated signature on front free endpaper, good. Contains the short novel Wilmay and 4 shorter pieces: The Love Story of a Plain Woman, The History of Clare Tollison, The Forgiveness of the Dead & A Complete Recovery. A scarce Pain title..

1915. Book. Good. No Binding. A response from Pain to a query about the author's date of birth. On plain paper, with handwritten address (8 Langford Place, N. W.). Laid on larger sheet of paper (possibly the endpaper of a book). Slightly wrinkled at top, a little tanning, good..

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Undated first edition [1903]. Full maroon leather; no title on spine; owner's initials (E. M.) in gilt on front board. Lightly scuffed, page edges faintly tanned, otherwise very good. A collection of brief short stories. Issued in both card and cloth bindings: this rebound copy was presumably originally in card..

London: John W. Parker, 1837. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Mid-C19th blue leather over marbled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; grey marbled endpapers. Extremities lightly scuffed, a little faint foxing, armorial bookplate on front pastedown, stain on rear endpapers and (more faintly) on last few leaves of text, good. "Sir Francis Palgrave.has imagined a visit by Marco Polo, during which the Venetian falls into the company of Roger Bacon and is introduced by him to various scenes exhibiting the political and social system of the country". (The Edinburgh Review, Jan 1838).

London: Henry S. King & Co., 1872. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition in Two Volumes.. Two volumes in late C19th maroon leather over red marbled boards. Small chips on spine tips, small piece of insect damage to leather on volume I, larger area of wear and small chips on lower hinge on volume II, signature (1892) on prelims/endpapers, fair/good. Wolff [5384]. The novel tells the story of Hermann Wolff, a Saxon carried off into captivity by the Turks, who becomes the favourite officer of Ali Bey, ruler of Egypt and later Syria, at the end of the C18th. "Tense with the passionate love of the desert and the free-life of the Bedouin." (Baker: Historical Fiction). A heavy two-volume set which qill require additional postage..

London: John Dicks, 1875. Book. Good. Soft cover. Fourteen illustrations by F. Gilbert. In modern card wrapper. Signature (1875) in pencil on title page, good. Undated, c1875. Short sensational romance, probably originally serialised in Dicks's Bow Bells magazine..

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. YELLOWBACK. Stereotyped Edition. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Some small chips to paper on front board, 2mm loss at head of spine, surface of paper rubbed on lower third of spine, some rubbing and light staining around board edges; contents clean and tight, good. Topp [IX, p114]. Partly a novel, partly a sermon, partly a depiction of the Church (personalities and politics). Parker was a noted theologian and preacher..

London: Methuen & Co., 1896. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4th Edition.. Original fine-ribbed dark green cloth, lettered in gilt. Light speckling and grazing on boards, two small holes on lower hinge, , signature (1897) on front free endpaper, good. Parker's first full-length novel: a study of character set initially on a voyage between Australia and England, later in Canada..

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1914. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Nelson's Library (pocket edition). Undated (c1914). Frontispiece. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Very good..

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Undated [1920]. Original red cloth, lettered in black, Faintly sunned on spine, inscription (1920) on front free endpaper, foxing spots on fore-edges, very good. Canadian-born novelist Parker wrote widely on imperial themes; the opening up of North America (The Trail of the Sword, 1894) or Egypt (Donovan Pasha, 1902); and war (The Battle of the Strong, 1898). Unsurprisingly, Parker was a Conservative Imperialist MP (for Gravesend) for 18 years. This is one of his later, more uncommon novels. The novel is concerned with the revolutionary 1790s: the setting is Ireland and the eastern seaboard of America..