Search Results: Titles starting with B from Lasting Words Ltd

UK: Hollis and Carter, 1948. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. BB Deny Watkins Pitchford. 1st Edition 1948. Ilustrated throughout by BB. Book is very good++ and very bright. Spine a little lightened. Contents good. Endpapers darkened. The complete wrapper is very good++ and bright. Light foxing to wrapper. Long repaired tear to front. Edges rubbed and nicked. Very un-common in such bright condition. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 13416

UK: Juvenile Productions, 1941. First Edition . Original Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Olive F Openshaw. 1st Edition 1941. A Nice clean collectable book. Re-bound to look the same as the original book. Original endpapers retained. The contents are very clean and bright. Name to reverse of endpaper. Conforms to all 1st Edition points as required in the Blyton bibliography. More images can be taken upon request. Ref001070####

UK: Longmans, 1944. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1943. Gift inscription to Bill which is probably Henry Williamson's first son William Hibbert Williamson or Windles/Bill. Williamson would have owned this book when he was living at Old Hall Farm Stiffkey, Norfolk. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. Book is very good+ and with quite bright boards. Contents good. The wrapper is very good with a chip to spine top. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. More images can be taken upon request. ref 17592

UK: Dent, 1983. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1983. Flat signed and dedicated by the author to the title page. Great whitty inscription from Williams so unusual.Book is very good+ with a little rubbing and pushing to spine tips. One corner bumped. The complete wrapper is very good ++ and bright. Light edge rubbing. Un-common signed. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 14036 ##16239

UK: Dent, 1983. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1983. Flat signed and dedicated by the author to the title page. Book is very good++ and bright. The complete wrapper is very good ++ and bright. Light edge rubbing. Spine slightly lightened. Uncommon signed. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 14433

UK: R. & T. Washbourne, 1907. First Edition 1st Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. E J Wheeler. 1st Edition 1907. Signed inscription by the author to the endpaper. Illustrtaed by E J Wheeler. Scarce early 20th century English crime fiction. A collection o nine short stories. According to her preface "To my reader" "These stories a fact, not fiction. They are not the invention of a vivid imagination, but th sober, uncoloured portrayal of criminal lives whose threads have become interwoven amongst my mother's during her labours in prison, workhouse, and slum." Beatrice Chase (5 July 1874 - 3 July 1955) was the pen name for a British writer known during the first half of the 20th century for her Dartmoor-based novels. Her real name was Olive Katharine Parr, and she claimed to be directly descended from William Parr, the brother of Catherine, the sixth wife of Henry VIII. Book is very good++ and quite bright.… Read More

UK: The Falcon Press, 1948. First Edition 1st Printing. Original Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Leslie Atkinson. 1st Edition 1948. Wonderful full colour and black and white line drawings by Leslie Atkinson. Very uncommon with the dust jacket. Book is very good++ with bright boards. The wrapper is very good++ and very bright. A really nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18119

USA: Longmans, 1947. First Edition 1st Printing. Original Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Leslie Atkinson. 1st Edition 1947. Wonderful with black and white line drawings by Leslie Atkinson. Book is very good++ with bright boards. The wrapper is very good with rubbing/odd nicks/small closed tears to edges. Light restoration to spine tips. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18120

UK: Baedeker, 1914. 5th or later Printing. Cloth. Good ++. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 12th Edition 1914. Baedeker, Karl: Southern Germany (Wurtemburg and Bavaria) Leipzig, London & New York: Karl Baedeker, 1914. xxx,388pp. plus folding maps, city plans, and illustrations.12mo. Limp red cloth. Somewhat used and rubbed, with a shallow tidemark at the top edges of the first dozen or so leaves, a couple of maps slightly proud at the fore-edge, front inner hinge cracking slightly, but a good, sound, well-travelled copy. The Twelfth Revised edition, and the last edition published before the outbreak of the Great War. At the beginning of September 1928 Sassoon set out in his newly acquired, red Packard, on a road trip to Munich, to meet his lover, Stephen Tennant. Tennant had left Britain on the 21st of January for a holiday in the Bavarian Alps hoping that the air might help his lungs. Later, on the 5th of September, Sassoon drove from Munich to Haus Hirth, a guesthouse in the… Read More

UK: De La More Press, 1900. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 1st Edition Circa 1900. Undated. A charming little book. Part of the De La More Booklets series. Book is very good++. Contents very nice indeed. Un-common as nice as this. Digital images can be sent upon request.Ref4719 ###007309

UK: De La More Press, 1900. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 1st Edition Circa 1900. Undated. A charming little book. Part of the De La More Booklets series. Book is very good++. Contents very nice indeed. Un-common as nice as this. Digital images can be sent upon request.Ref4719

UK: Rupert Hart Davis, 1953. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1953. Also, cut out by Sassoon and slipped into the book, is a newspaper clipping of the poem "How to get on in Society" by John Betjeman. From the Library of Siegfried Sassoon and Sold by Sotheby's in 1991. The book carries the Sassoon monogram sticker inside the front cover as provenance that it was part of Sotheby's sale of 1991 when books from Sassoon's library were auctioned off. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. Part of a large library of Sassoon's books More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18041

UK: Wingate, 1951. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1951. Limited deluxe edition signed by Beaton on title page as called for on this edition. Limitation slip not present but it is belived only 50 copies were published in this Powder Blue Moire silk binding. Book is very good and bright. Spine age toned/faded. Nice clean contents. A very rare item. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15949

UK, 1839. First Edition . Soft cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ballot by Rev Sydney Smith 1st Edition London 1839 Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 - 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric. Smith's first book 'Six Sermons, preached in Charlotte Street Chapel, Edinburgh' was published in 1800. He married Catharine Amelia Pybus in the same year and the couple settled in Edinburgh. While there, he helped set up the 'Edinburgh Review' and became its first editor in 1802. He continued to write articles for the review for the next quarter of the century which were a key element to the publication's success. Smith's reputation among his contemporaries as a humourist and wit grew to such an extent that a number of the observations which are now attributed to him may be of doubtful provenance. Lord Houghton recorded that he never, except once, knew Smith to make a jest of any religious subject, "and then he immediately… Read More

UK: Cape, 1928. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1928. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Age toning to spine and light marks to wrapper. A few nicks and light rubbing to edges. Rubbing loss to spine tips. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18467

UK: Hogarth Press, 1972. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. New Edition 1972. Signed by the author on a Waterstones bookplate. A re-issue of the classic work POW novel. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. Edges lightly rubbed. Light soiling to white wrapper. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 10682/14552

UK: Gresham, 1900. First Edition Thus . Half-Leather. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. L Leslie Brooke. 1st Edition Thus. Illustrated by L Leslie Brooke. No date but Circa 1900. Illustrated, title page printed in red and black. A very nice book in an attractive late-Victorian period half leather binding with art noveau style decoration in gilt. Six lovely full page black and white illustrations. Book is very good++ and in bright condition. Light edge rubbing. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 16579

UK: Stratford Upon Avon. Shakespeare Head Press, 1929. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Three-Quarter Leather. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1929. Two Volumes Complete. Printed by the Shakespeare Head Edition and limited to 525 copies, edited by Michael Sadleir. Three quarter bespoke leather bindings bound by the famous bookbinder Sangorski & Sutcliffe. From the library of William Foyle (1883-1963), one of the greatest booksellers of the 20th century, was the co-founder with his brother Gilbert of the eponymous and iconic London bookshop on Charing Cross Road. Having purchased the former medieval monastery of Beeleigh Abbey in 1943, William built an impressive and unrivaled personal library of manuscripts and books on English history and literature, European and world history and discovery, which he housed in the beautiful former monastic dormitory. Includes a leather bookplate W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey. Books are fine and in lovely bright clean… Read More

UK: Gresham, 1900. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. L Leslie Brooke. 1st Edition Thus. Illustrated by L Leslie Brooke. No date but Circa 1900. Illustrated, title page printed in red and black. Publisher's blue cloth with art nouveau style decoration in gilt and colours, grey drab endpapers. A very nice book in an attractive late-Victorian period polychrome case-binding. Six lovely full page black and white illustrations. Book is very good++ and bright. Light edge rubbing. Contents good. Heavy foxing to endpapers and page edges. More images can be taken request. Ref 16579

UK: Dent, 1899. First Edition Thus . Full-Leather. Very Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. F C Tilney. 1st Edition Thus 1899. 1st printing in this edition. The Temple Edition. Illustrated frontis plate to both volumes. Bound in full soft leather. Books are very good and quite bright. Light edge rubbing.Nice clean contents. Endpapers age toned with name. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15750