Chapman Sadleir Michael (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 46 pages. Text of the 4 broadcasts. Red cloth w/title on spine. Interior has prior owner name on inside front cover, otherwise unmarked, tight and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good book in a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. T.L.B. Huskinson (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition first printing Crown Edition two volumes Octavo hardbacks. xiv + 364 pp.+ viii + 371 pp Illustrated with sepia plates and many text illustrations Brown cloth gilt Top edge of page block a bit foxed otherwise Very Good condition. No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Hector Whistler (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition first printing Crown Edition two volumes Octavo hardbacks. xviii + 382 pp.+ viii + 398 pp Illustrated with two colour frontispiece and many black and white plates and text illustrations Brown cloth gilt Near Very Good condition (one vokume has some damp spotting on surface which has slightly lightened the cloth colour and one volume has slight dint across the middle) . No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. T.L.B. Huskinson (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition first printing Crown Edition two volumes Octavo hardbacks. xiv + 356 pp.+ viii + 368 pp Illustrated with sepia plates and many text illustrations Brown cloth gilt Very Good condition. No inscriptions.

cloth. small 8vo. cloth. 49 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket, else a near fine copy. Preface by John Carter followed by articles on The Sense of the Past, Why First Editions, The Technical Approach and Bookshop and Auction Room.

First Edition. Pp. 46(last blank); cr. 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; top edges red; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed and split, the backstrip lightly browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers lightly offset, the upper pastedown slightly foxed; Bowes & Bowes, Cambridge, 1950. First edition.

1st edition. LIMITED to 500 copies. 70, [2] pp. Text printed on blue paper. Inserted plates. 8vo. 9" x 6" An excellent treatise on the subject. Slight lean. Moderate wear to binding, a few rubs to spine. Paper age-toned, some foxing. Withal, a VG copy. Quarter-bound vellu spine, gilt stamped lettering, over blue & grey marbled paper boards. Dark grey endpapers.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. First editions of works which highlight the legacy of the iconic and witty novelist Jane Austen, including biographies, bibliographies, and fictional continuations of her work. Seven intriguing works that showcase the legacy of the iconic novelist Jane Austen, including biographies, fictional continuations, and bibliographies. An attractive set.All first editions, with Things Past being a reprint, published between 1927-1953.In the publisher's original cloth.- Jane Austen, a biography including her views on morals, manners and marriage, written by R. Brimley Johnson. (Published by Sheed and Ward in 1927).- Somehow Lengthened, an adapted and 'finished' version of Jane Austen's final and unfinished novel Sanditon, written by Alice Cobett. A scarce work, with only nine institutional copies available. (Published by Ernest Benn Limited, 1932).- Great Lives: Jane Austen, a biography written by Guy Rawlence. Volume 30 in the Great Lives series from Duckworth. (Published by Duckworth, 1934).- Things Past, A series of essays mostly on early nineteenth century authors, including Austen, written by biographer Michael Sadleir. Contains a frontispiece by Comte de Forbin. (Published by Constable in 1944).- Pemberley Shades, a Gothic yet witty continuation of Pride and Prejudice, the second sequel novel of her works to be made, written by D.A. Bonavia-Hunt. (Published by Allan Wingate in 1949).- Jane Austen, a scarce biography written by English novelist and playwright Margaret Kennedy, who is best known for her novel The Constant Nymph. (Published by Arthur Barker, 1950).- Jane Austen: A Critical Bibliography, containing a list of her writings, as well as writings on the female novelist, written by R.W. Chapman. (Published by Clarendon Press, 1953). In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, smart, with the odd faint mark to boards. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine, to the whole spine of Johnson, and to the extremities. Fading to spines of Cobbett, Rawlence, Kennedy, Bonavia and Constable. Minor rubbing to joints of Rawlence, Bonavia, Johonson and Corbett. End papers are generally bright and clean, with the odd small spot. Faint offsetting to free end papers of Chapman and Rawlence, with end papers of Kennedy bright and clean. Slight wear to rear end paper hinge of Corbett. Internally, firmly bound. Minor worming to first leaves of Johnson, heaviest to half-title and title leaf. Pages are bright and clean, with slight age toning, heaviest to extremities of Bonavia. Offsetting to half-title and advertisement leaf of Kennedy. Very Good. book.