Anthony C Deane Ed (3 results)

Condition: Good. 1932. Second Edition. 251 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Minor foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Light creasing to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild mottling, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has noticeably tanning with soft splitting and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. …

Hardcovver. Condition: Good. NO. 1932 The Gateway Library Edition. Hardcover NO Library NO Dust Jacket. Good condition gilt to top edges, with piece of label to first blank page and inscription to the inside front cover possible Ex-Library free from marks. u5A20.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A very scarce posthumous selection of Richard Lawson Gales"s poems, a presentation copy to the founder of the Anglican Shrine of Walsingham, with his heraldic bookplate. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with decorative paper covered boards. First edition. A posthumous selection of poems by Richard Lawson Gales (18621927), the Anglican clergyman, essayist and poet whose verse was admired for its medievalising ballad form and devotional tone. Introduced by Anthony C. Deane. Poems include "David in Heaven," "A Ballad of Dick Whittington," "A Ballad of Saint Christopher," "The Light of the World," and "Why Restless, My Soul?," among others. A presentation copy, inscribed by a member of the Gales family: "To Fr. Hope-Patten with all good wishes from L. E. Gales. Christmas 1934." Hope-Patten was founder of the modern shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, one of the most influential Anglo-Catholic figures of the 20th century, with his bookplate to front paste down. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with decorative paper covered boards. Externally very smart. .The slightest shelf wear to extremities. Bookplates of A. Hope Patten and C. J. Sturman to front paste down. Slight offsetting to first and final leaves. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two light spots. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…