Arthur Stanley Selected (11 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good+ to Very Good. No Jacket. First. Hard Cover. Good+ to Very Good/No Jacket. First. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Rear hinge cracked, lower corners and corner edges worn through, pp. 16-17 browned from newspaper article (Vast Canyon Found in Atlantic Ocean ??) laid in, also front flap of d/j with book info laid in. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. 272 pages.

Softcover. A Norton Critical Edition. xiv, 401 pp. Softcover. LCC: 7728074 Good condition; on covers: touches of wear, and previous owner's signature on front; some pen underlining.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Red Cloth, 282 Pages. A Complete & Soundly Bound Book But Covers Rather Worn And With A Coffee-Cup Ring. Not Ex Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition. Hard cover. Top edge lightly dust darkened. Pages sound - clean and bright. Owner name and date on front flyleaf. No jacket. Cover sound. Spine slightly faded. Slight wear/bumping to corners and spine ends. 272 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Abridged Edition. Good condition hardback pale blue boards spine sun bleached, title shown clearly on spine, no DJ. 282 pages good and clean with clear print plus index of authors, index of annoymous items and index of first lines of verse. A small whitish damp patch on top left of front board near spine approx 3/4" x 1.1/4". No foxing, previous owner written name on fly sheet.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Eric Fitch Daglish (illustrator). Reprint of 1st Edn. Decorated with wood engravings. Dustwrapper foxed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. Cream cloth with blue cloth spine and silver titles to spine. 147 x 223 x 18mm. (xiii) + 350pp. With indexes of authors, and first lines of verse. A bit of staining to rear endpaper and edges of last two or three leaves; otherwise a very nice copy showing no significant signs of age or use. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd Impression. Hardcover. The New Bedside Book: Peace at the Close. An Anthology. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Shelf wear to top edge of D/J. and corners of D/J. Twwenty-three years ago - in September 1932 - we published Arthur Stanley's The Bedside Book. Hailed by Hugh Walpole as 'the best anthology ever made by man' it is still in regular demand: no less that 181,000 copies have been sold. 349 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 ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Decorative Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1932 first edition, second impression. Size 12mo, 7.25" tall, 877 pages. Navy blue leather binding with elaborate gilt borders and gilt title to the front cover and gilt and decoration to the spine, top page edge is gilt, navy blue bookmark ribbon, marbled paste-downs and end-papers. Condition very good, the spine is quite faded, previous owner's name and date on the front paste-down other than this very clean throughout. An anthology of poems, prose, extracts from other works etc for light and short bed time reads.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, 2nd impression. Filled with delights from favourite Authors. "William's Evening Out" Crompton; "The Adventurous Duck" & "Who Rang the Firebell" Blyton; "Saving the Rubber" Johns; "To the North Pole" Ransome; "Their First Circus" Streatfeild . to name but a few. a wonderful selection of content. Blue cloth. A lovely copy, filled with magic for your Bedtime reading! Quite uncommon now.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original strawberry cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 623 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrated headers. Spine ends and corners a little soft. Very Good condition book in near Very Good condition dust wrapper with two 5 mm pieces of papers missing to the top and foot of the spine, chips to the lower corners, not price clipped 7s 6d. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945.