Search Results: Titles starting with J from C L Hawley

Hamish Hamilton,. Hardback. First edition. Biography of the playwright, novelist and broadcaster best known for his play An Inspector Calls and his war time broadcasts for the BBC. Two small selections of black and white plates. Black boards with gilt titles to spine are very clean and neat. Clean dust jacket has a three inch tear to the top edge and a significant patch of loss to the back. Very good copy in chipped and torn dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 1988.

Halford, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire: The Celandine Press. Paperback. 9pp.+colophon. Memorial address on the playwright. Limited edition, this being No. 106 of 175 Copies. Sewn pamphlet attractively bound in Cockerell marbled paper over thin card cover. Cream printed title label to front. Title label has the occasional light mark. Text is clean and crisp. Very neat. Near fine, bright copy . Paperback. 1984.

Continuum,. Paperback. Covers the first four Harry Potter novels and the Comic Relief books Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them, and Quidditch Through the Ages. Useful 10 page bibliography. Neatly covered with permanent plastic. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 2001.

Constable,. Hardback. First edition. The story of the author of Peter Pan and his friendship with the Llewellyn Davies family. Llewlyn DAvies and Du Maurier family trees to endpapers. Black and white illustrations to most pages. Detailed index. Brown marl cloth with brown printed label and gilt titles to spine is very clean though slightly softened to spine ends. Dust jacket is a little rubbed and rolled to edges. Clean and sound. Very good copy in good+ dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 1979.

Bodley Head. Hardback. 64pp. Black and white frontis. First edition. Hint of foxing to prelims. Tiny group of ink spots to front. A little rubbed to spine ends. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. First Edition. 1968.

Bodley Head. Hardback. 64pp. Black and white frontis. First edition. Includes letter from Roger Lancelyn Green to Literary critic J. F. Arnott. RLG is writing to make suggested amendments to Arnott over the entry for Barrie, written by Arnott, in the CBEL (Cambridge Biography of English Literature). the letter is written in ink and covers two side of the paper. RLG has also enclosed a copy of his monograph which is here sold with the letter. Lightly rubbed to points Very clean and neat. Letter has a slight roll to one side and is has been stored in the book and is slightly wider so a bent a little around the pages. Very good copy . Hardback. First Edition. 1968.

Routledge and Kegan Paul,. Paperback. 282pp. Routledge Author Guides series. Sunned to spine. Lightly rubbed Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1974.

London: Virgin,. Hardback. 332pp. Biography of beat generation author of 'On the Road'. Light splash stain to top of page edges and inside of dust wrapper. Good+, sound copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. 1998.

London: Harper Collins,. Hardback. 335pp. Biography of the nomadic American writer (Call of the Wilde; White Fang), oyster pirate, seal hunter etc. Two selections of black and white plates. Brief bibliography. Indexed. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust wrapper is a little rubbed and tanned and slightly faded to spine. Near fine copy in good + dw. . Hardcover. 1997.

London: Pluto Press,. Hardback. 206pp. Biography of the American writer best known for his short fiction, his novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang, and autobiographical non-fiction including John Barleycorn and The Road. London was a socialist and this biography is published by the socialist Pluto Press. Selection of black and white photographs. Crease to inner flap of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is lightly rubbed. Near fine copy in very good dw . Hardcover. 1976.

Victor Gollancz. Hardback. 430pp. Green boards with gilt titles to spine are very clean and neat. Yellow Gollancz dust jacket is generally clean but worn with significant chips and tears. Very good copy in chipped and torn dust jacket . Hardback. 1965.

Loughborough: Ladybird. Hardback. Reprint. 52pp. Level 4 from Ladybird's Read it Yourself series. Matt papers to boards. Illustrated by Brian Price Thomas. Rubbed to points. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. Reprint.

W. & R. Chambers. Paperback. Reprint. Chamber's Complete Tales for In fants No. 32. Large print. Small n umber of black and white illustrations. Brief questions and excercises section at the back. Stapled pamphlet binding. Partial remains of old label to front. Split up as far as the lowest staple at the spine. Dust marked to edges. Rubbed. Binding remains sound. Text is clean. Good copy . Paperback. 1934.

Ladybird. Hardback. Colour illustrated laminated boards. Illustrated by Martin Salisbury. Well Loved Tales, Ladybird series 606D. Revised edition. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback.

Loughborough: Ladybird. Hardback. 52pp. Arabic translation of Jack and the Beanstalk with the original illustrations. Well Loved Tales series; Ladybird series 606D. Laminated Boards and glossy pages. Illustrated by Eric Winter. Clean and sound but rubbed and slightly scuffed to all edges. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1991.

Ladybird Books. Hardback. Unpaginated. Favourite Tales series. Illustrated by Martin Salisbury. Colour illustrated laminated boards. Hint of bumping to spine ends. 'This belongs to ...' has been filled in. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1994.

London:: Macmillan,. Hardback. 216pp. Red boards with printed black label to spine and gilt titles to spine are clean and sound. Dust wrapper is a little faded and a little rubbed to edges with some dust marking. Very good copy in good dust wrapper . Hardback. 1966.

London: G. Bell & Sons,. Hardback. 196pp. Illustrated by H. M. Brock (best known for his illustrations of the Macmillan 'Cranford' series). Colour frontis and 7 further plates each with captioned tissue-guard. Attractively bound in dark red cloth with printed cream illustration of a merry-go Illustrated endpapers.-round. Other stories are Daddy Darwin's Dovecott and The Story of a Short Life. Previous owner's gift note in pencil and dated 1914 to endpaper. Cloth is a little faded and rubbed to edges but still a clean, sound attractive copy. Plates are beautiful. Text is clean. This belongs to... has not been filled in. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1913.

London: SPCK,. Hardback. 47pp. Illustrated by Randolph Cadecott. Black and white frontis and illustrated title page. Further integral illustrations throughout. Blue cloth to the spine. Beige papers to boards with colour illustration to front. No date but gift inscription dated 1912. Papers to boards are a little faded. Worn to corners with exposed board to corners. small faint water mark to front. Spine is a little faded. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1913.

D. C. Thomson. Hardback. Features include Kim Wilde, Paul Young, Big Country, Nick Heyward and Alannah Currie of the Thompson Twins, plus the usual articles and stories on Fashion, Make it Yourself, Fiction, Beauty & Living, Romance etc. Jackie was an annual based on the popular teenage magazine of the same name. Picture of Leslie Ash to front endpaper. Scratch with some surface loss to front. A little rubbed to corners. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1985.