Brian Rhys (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Originally published as La Conquête de Plassans (1874). Circa 1880 Ernest Vizetelly translated the 4th volume of Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart sequence into English under the more faithfully worded The Conquest of Plassans. In 1957 Brian Rhys published this…

Condition: Good. 1929. First Edition. 160 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Black and white illustrations by Doris Burton. Colour frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Two ill…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st English. green hardcover cloth binding square and tight, slight sun-faded along edges, lightly bumped corners. Clean and tight interior. Only mark is the designation 'F.22' in ink on ffep and a small bookshop sticker on fep. 222 pages, a bit soiled text block…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition. This translation by Brian Rhys was originally published in hard covers by Paul Elek in 1957. The front and back covers have some creasing around the corners and some edge wear. The spine has reading creasing, edge rubbing and two punctur…

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. 1st Edition. Near Fine/VG++. 1st Edition. The Children's Library : Fourth Series. Glorious illustrations for this anthology of ballads. Book has two ink gift inscriptions on the FFEP. Jacket is spine browned and h as several tears. Scan on re…

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. First Edition. Part of the Children's Library series (fourth series, over 10 years), 160pp. with b/w line illustrations and a colour frontispiece. Small corner creasing and light soil to outer edges. Bump wear to board corners. DJ has edge/rub wear, tears, chipping, soiling, creasing and pieces missing…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American Edition, first printing. Brown illustrated dust-jacket, some chipping along the top edge but tidy and clean inside a clear removable cover. Attractively bound grey leather boards, and cream cloth over the spine, patterned, clean bright…

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original ivory cloth covers, black lettering to spine. 8vo 7½" x 5¼" 192 pp. Monochrome illustrations. Near Fine in Very Good dust wrapper with shallow rubs across spine tips and corners, spine not faded, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archival ace…

Condition: Very Good. First thus edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 294 printed pages of text. Light foxing to the closed upper edges and to the top of the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in Fine cond…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition In English. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 251. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. The publisher's own retained copy with their label on front pastedown and perforated stamp in the preliminaries, reading 'File Copy'. Publication date given as January 10…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 'Cheap Edition.' First Thus. Hardback. Dust Jacket 8vo. pp 251. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Smalleat name on front endpaper from 1933 ow VG+ in red patterned jacket with very slight wear at spine ends. Price- clipped with reviews on printed inner flap. "the man w…

Poet and mountaineer son of Ernest and Grace Rhys. One page, 4to, good condition, suitable for framing, Poem, two stanzas, 16 lines, title at end "[On attempting Snowdon Aug . 09]", starting "When first afar I saw thy mighty height . . . fading in beauty 'fore thy gifted sight. / But when thy foot, O Searcher into Heav'n! . . .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, limited and hand-numbered #202/400 copies on the colophon page. Tightly bound in quarter blue cloth and marbled paper covered boards. Slight fading to spine color, a few small and faint spots, very minor edge wear and extremely slight bowing to the boards. The unprinted…

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. First Edition Thus. (Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire):The Golden Cockerel Press. 1928. 34pp.+colophon page. Illustrated with wood engravings by Paul Nash.  Hardcover. Limited numbered edition, No. 264 of 400 copies. Blue cloth spine with marbled boards. Spine slightly sun-faded with…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Limited Edition. One of 400 copies, octavo size, 37 pp., with dust jacket. A "philosophical novel" by Jules Tellier (1863-1889), wherein "an old scholar in Algeria.grapples with his inner conflicts concerning faith as he faces his mortality. The novel explores th…

Limited edition. Eight volumes. Signed by the author, illustrators and contributors. Publisher's original black cloth with silver and red titles to the spine, with blind and red illustration to the upper boards, in the illustrated dustwrappers. Volumes I-III are housed in the black and red cloth slipcase, with silver and red tit…

Condition: Very Good. [Berkshire, England]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. First U.K. Edition, Limited to 400 copies of which this is no. 26. Octavo (22.8cm); 34pp. 3 plates including frontispiece. No dust jacket. Marbled paper quarter bound with blue cloth along the spine. Top edge gilt, all other edges deckled. Includes gilt…