Compiled Librarian (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In very good condition. Original wrappers bound in green hardcover with black lettering on spine. iv, 212 pages. 252 x 182 mm.

Condition: Good. 1940. Pamphlet. Reprinted from the North Munster Antiquarian Journal, 1940.16pp. In original wrappers. Good clean copy. Covers stained and showing some age. Toned pages, text and drawings/illustrations clear and remains a nice copy. Keywords: Ireland, Limerick. . . . .

Softcovers. Condition: Very Good. Sixth Edition. No stated date c1984. Sixth edition and presumed first thus. 41pp. including the inside of the rear cover. Charles Harold St. John Hamilton (1876-1961) was an English writer, specialising in writing long-running series of stories for weekly magazines about recurrent casts of characters, his most frequent and famous genre being boys' public school stories, though he also wrote in other genres. He used a variety of pen-names, generally using a different name for each set of characters he wrote about, the most famous being Frank Richards for the Greyfriars School stories featuring Billy Bunter. The Hamiltonian Library was founded in 1953, and became the largest lending library of Hamiltoniana anywhere. No facsimiles were stocked and it was the Library's policy not to stock stories by substitute writers. This is the sixth catalogue of the Library, and includes a loosely inserted consolidated amendment list from 1996. The book is bound in the original green card covers with a darker green cloth spine and black titling on the front cover. The book is in very good condition with light shelf wear to the covers. The contents are secure and clean with some amendments made in ball-point ink to the section showing postal borrowing costs.

Condition: Good. 1940. Pamphlet. Reprinted from the North Munster Antiquarian Journal, 1940.16pp. In original wrappers. Good clean copy. Covers stained and showing some age. Toned pages, text and drawings/illustrations clear and remains a nice copy. Keywords: Ireland, Limerick. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Softcovers. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. No sated date c1968. Fourth edition and presumed first thus. Unpaginated but with 40pp., printed on white, orange, blue and cream pages, and black and white illustrations. Charles Harold St. John Hamilton (1876-1961) was an English writer, specialising in writing long-running series of stories for weekly magazines about recurrent casts of characters, his most frequent and famous genre being boys' public school stories, though he also wrote in other genres. He used a variety of pen-names, generally using a different name for each set of characters he wrote about, the most famous being Frank Richards for the Greyfriars School stories featuring Billy Bunter. The Hamiltonian Library was founded in 1953, and became the largest lending library of Hamiltoniana anywhere. No facsimiles were stocked and it was the Library's policy not to stock stories by substitute writers. This is the fourth catalogue of the Library, and includes a loosely inserted amendment list. The book is bound in the original green card covers with a darker green cloth spine and black titling on the front cover. The book is in very good condition with some shelf wear to the covers and a small stain on the rear cover. The contents are secure and clean with some amendments made in ball-point ink to the section showing postal borrowing costs, a small change of address label for the Librarian on fifth page, and some small marks beside a few entries on the eighteenth page. Tipped-in on the front free endpaper is a signed letter from Roger Jenkins (Honorary Librarian), dated 1975. SIGNED COPY.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1291pp. Still well bound. Marbled end-papers and all edges. Gilt titling & decoration to spine. Handsome pictorial ex-libris Library bookplate. Apart from a couple of small handwritten ref numbers & tiny circular blind stamps no other lib markings (no rubber stamps etc). Interior good & clean, no foxing except very light on a couple of end-pages. Heavy - Weighs 1.7kg. Additional P&P may be requested for overseas shipment. One of the volumes in attached pic which start with 1822-23 top left & consecutively left to right 1826-27 top row & 1827-28 to 1830-31 below. This vol missing top title label to spine.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1457pp. Still well bound. Marbled end-papers and all edges. Gilt titling & decoration to spine. Handsome pictorial ex-libris Library bookplate. Apart from a couple of small handwritten ref numbers & tiny circular blind stamps no other lib markings (no rubber stamps etc). Interior good & clean, no foxing except very light on a couple of end-pages. Heavy - Weighs 1.9kg. Additional P&P may be requested for overseas shipment. One of the volumes in attached pic which start with 1822-23 top left & consecutively left to right 1826-27 top row & 1827-28 to 1830-31 below. This vol missing date title label to spine.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1292pp. Still well bound. Marbled end-papers and all edges. Gilt titling & decoration to spine. Handsome pictorial ex-libris Library bookplate. Apart from a couple of small handwritten ref numbers & tiny circular blind stamps no other lib markings (no rubber stamps etc). Interior good & clean, no foxing except very light on a couple of end-pages. Heavy - Weighs 1.7kg. Additional P&P may be requested for overseas shipment. One of the volumes in attached pic which start with 1822-23 top left & consecutively left to right 1826-27 top row & 1827-28 to 1830-31 below.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1251pp. Still well bound. Marbled end-papers and all edges. Gilt titling & decoration to spine. Handsome pictorial ex-libris Library bookplate. Apart from a couple of small handwritten ref numbers & tiny circular blind stamps no other lib markings (no rubber stamps etc). Interior good & clean, no foxing except very light on a couple of end-pages. Heavy - Weighs 1.7kg. Additional P&P may be requested for overseas shipment. One of the volumes in attached pic which start with 1822-23 top left & consecutively left to right 1826-27 top row & 1827-28 to 1830-31 below.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1011pp. Still well bound. Marbled end-papers and all edges. Gilt titling & decoration to spine. Handsome pictorial ex-libris Library bookplate. Apart from a couple of small handwritten ref numbers & tiny circular blind stamps no other lib markings (no rubber stamps etc). Interior good & clean, no foxing except very light on a couple of end-pages. Heavy - Weighs 1.4kg. Additional P&P may be requested for overseas shipment. One of the volumes in attached pic which start with 1822-23 top left & consecutively left to right 1826-27 top row & 1827-28 to 1830-31 below. This one missing it's title labels.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1291pp. Still well bound. Marbled end-papers and all edges. Gilt titling & decoration to spine. Handsome pictorial ex-libris Library bookplate. Apart from a couple of small handwritten ref numbers & tiny circular blind stamps no other lib markings (no rubber stamps etc). Interior good & clean, no foxing except very light on a couple of end-pages. Heavy - Weighs 1.7kg. Additional P&P may be requested for overseas shipment. One of the volumes in attached pic which start with 1822-23 top left & consecutively left to right 1826-27 top row & 1827-28 to 1830-31 below.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. 923pp. Still well bound. Marbled end-papers and all edges. Gilt titling & decoration to spine. Handsome pictorial ex-libris Library bookplate. Apart from a couple of small handwritten ref numbers & tiny circular blind stamps no other lib markings (no rubber stamps etc). Interior good & clean, no foxing except very light on a couple of end-pages. Heavy - Weighs 1.3kg. Additional P&P may be requested for overseas shipment. One of the volumes in attached pic which start with 1822-23 top left & consecutively left to right 1826-27 top row & 1827-28 to 1830-31 below.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1140pp. Still well bound. Marbled end-papers and all edges. Gilt titling & decoration to spine. Handsome pictorial ex-libris Library bookplate. Apart from a couple of small handwritten ref numbers & tiny circular blind stamps no other lib markings (no rubber stamps etc). Interior good & clean, some pages towards the end have a fairly faint moisture stain mainly in the margin (no wrinkling). Heavy - Weighs 1.6kg. Additional P&P may be requested for overseas shipment. . One of the volumes in attached pic which start with 1822-23 top left & consecutively left to right 1826-27 top row & 1827-28 to 1830-31 below.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1429 pages. Light wear around edges of spine labels. Clean hardback with slight browning to end papers. See image from Winghale Books. British and Foreign State Papers, 1849-1850 (1). Vol. XXXVIII in series.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hellmuth Weissenborn (illustrator). 1st Edition. 16pp. Exhibition catalogue of fifty exhibits on display at Malvern Library Art Gallery in autumn 1992. Thread bound within pink card covers. Illustration by Hellmuth Weissenborn on front cover. Introduction by John Randle. Shelf wear to tail of spine and top right hand corner of the covers. Crease and colour fade to lower right hand cover. Inside pages in fine condition with no inscriptions. Local newspaper article reviewing the exhibition is enclosed. All now protected in a clear archival envelope.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Spine faded. ; 8 consecutive years, 1936-1943. Pagination: [iv], 108; [iv], 96; [iv], 105, [1]; [iv], 76; [iv], 128; [iv], 92; [ii], 68; [ii], 128. Red half-cloth binding. Each issue is arranged both by author and by subject, followed by a smaller section of fiction arranged by author and by title. The majority of titles added each year were recently published, although some earlier acquisitions also feature in the lists, e.g. George Francis White's "Views in India" (1838), acquired in 1936. It is interesting to read the lists of contemporary fiction, both well known titles such as Crime Club novels and Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not" (1937), acquired in 1938, alongside other authors now in varying degrees of obscurity.; 8vo.