Montague Weekley (37 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Boards, dj, F/VG. 150pp, b/w frontis, 4pp b/w plates, 17 text illustrations, price clipped dustjacket sunned to the spine & a little worn along the top edge. x+160pp, index, a fine copy. Transcripts of letters written at the end of Thomas Bewick's life to his friend John F M Dovaston. The text illustrations are by Bewick 600 grams.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. dj has browning on spine. Wood engravings by Thomas Bewick.

Condition: Good. 1953. 224 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket orange cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Loss to spine ends.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Cloth, 8vo., DW, (vi), 224 pages. Title-page wood engraving by Joan Hassall, one wood engraving by Reynolds Stone and 29 by Bewick. Review copy with slip laid in. Very good in DW with chip at head of spine and light soiling, in archival mylar.

ed. hardback very good condition in a dust jacket with some darkening.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Part of the Duckworth Great Lives series, 136 pages. no dw.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Clean pages except for age-toning at edges and endpapers; square, securely sewn binding, the orange cloth showing an area of rippling at the right front but otherwise sound. Dust jacket is priceclipped and bears some internal tape repair at the spine and foreedges, small open tears along verticals, toning along spine, a reddish streak at the lower rear, and chipping at extremities, yet remains generally attractive and is now protected in a clear sleeve. x, 224pp. with index.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Not heavily illustrated! Serious look at this great illustrator. Strong binding. Clean text. GOOD copy only. illustrated (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Brick color buckram boards. Title page engraving by Joan Hassall. Fine with fine price-intact dust jacket in mylar cover.

First 4to, cloth. x+224 pp, 31 b/w illustrations, index. Freitag 709. Very good except for some interior staining.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Hardcover in very good condition for its age. From the collection of Ian Angus, former librarian at King's College, London, and deputy librarian at University College, London. Ownership pencilled to FEP. Removable plastic covered clipped dust in acceptable condition. Jacket is marked and sunned. Edges are creased and torn with chips noted. Board edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block foot is rough cut. Page block and endpapers are lightly tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition First Impression. 1961 First Edition First Impression. Size octavo, 204 pages. Pale aqua hard cover with blue titles in frame to the front cover and blue titles with vignette to the spine, with dust jacket. Book condition near fine, spine ends slightly rubbed, else fine, contents very clean. Dust jacket condition very good plus, corners slightly rubbed, 1cm tear at front fold at head of spine, spine ends slightly creased, spine slightly sunned, folds a little rubbed, not price clipped. Edited and with an introduction by Montague Weekley. Illustrated with reproductions of Bewick's own woodcuts. Thomas Bewick (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 136pp. Red cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges and endpapers starting to tan and fox. Previous owner's name plate on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has 8cm closed tear at spine head on front joint, light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A firm, clean copy in price clipped and somewhat foxed dustwrapper.

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w ( VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. The dustwrapper has some wear to the edges and corners, with some small rips and chips to folds and both ends of spine, the spine and folds are discoloured. The red boards are clean with mild bumping to the edges, with bright small lettering to the spine. Foxing to page and inside covers, mild foxing throughout book. The binding is firm. The pages otherwise appear clean and crease free. This book has 135 pages. All in all a nice example of this book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Ex library copy with stamps, label and usual handling wear. Plastic cover of the jacket stuck down with Sellotape causing brown vertical mark down the last couple of pages. wood engravings by Thomas Bewick (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Worn dust jacket is in a protective sleeve, bookseller's pencil marks. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday.

Condition: Good. In torn dust wrapper. Txt unmarked. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Original Cloth. Condition: Near VG Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Book has modest wear. Dj has large chips off head and heel of spine, edgewear, foxing. Signed and dated by the Author on the half title page. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase very good. 270 pages ( inc frontispiece illustration & Title page). leather & cloth hardback binding good, spine edge wear. in the original slip-case very good, minor dirt. Contents look mint and very tight, no inscriptions or signs of being read. First Folio Society edition. Thomas Bewick (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 10 preliminary pages, 224 pages, black and white illustrations, good/very good condition in cloth binding, spine browned, boards slightly marked, ink ownership inscription of F P Lole on front free end-paper, text in fine, clean condition.

8vo. x, 224pp, title-page vignette, text illustrations. Original red cloth gilt. Spine and part of boards sun-faded. * We hold many fine and rare editions of Bewick's works. Please contact us directly for further information.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Thomas Bewick. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Slightly rolled spine. Orange cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Author's Acknowledgements. Prologue. Cheeryburn. The Industrious Apprentice. Wander-Year (1) Traveller's Joy. (2) The Great Wen. Bewick and Wood Engraving. The Firm of Beilby and Bewick. Later Years. Pupils and Successors. Bewickiana. Index. Illustrated. 224 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Dust jacket unclipped with light edgewear. Complete with wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. NEW EU 5 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original decorated cloth; classic folio society design with the original slip case. An exceptional example; overall tight, bright and clean. Physical description; 270 pages illustrations 19 cm. Subjects; 1770-1850. Childhood. Innocence. Solitude. Art. Humanity. Music. Materialism. Alienation. Industrialization. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illustrations within the text; grey cloth, spine gilt, pictorial dust-jacket just a little chipped at extremities. A very good copy. Thomas Bewick.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original decorated cloth; classic folio society design with the original slip case. An exceptional example; overall tight, bright and clean. Physical description; 270 pages illustrations 19 cm. Subjects; 1770-1850. Childhood. Innocence. Solitude. Art. Humanity. Music. Materialism. Alienation. Industrialization. 1 Kg. …

8vo. x, 224pp, title-page vignette, text illustrations. Original red cloth gilt, glassine-protected slightly chipped d/w. Original publisher's advertising 'flyer' loosely inserted.

Condition: Near Fine. Limited edition hard back binding in publisher's original midnight blue cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6½''. Contains 135 printed pages of text. Near Fine condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).