D S Macnutt (8 results)

Condition: Good. 1961. Reprinted. 141 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Latin and English text. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Annotations to some pages. Previous owner's inscriptions to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Sticker to front board. Staining to both boards.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good condition paperback with minimal wear. Contents has toning to page ends.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Old price stamped to top leading edge corner of title page otherwise binding tight and contents clean. Blue cloth covered boards are a little faded and rubbed. xii, 141pp. 327854.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. xxx, 418pp. bound in blue cloth. old price 4/6 in blue pencil on tp otherwise clean and tight. CL138.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Orders shipped daily from the UK. Professional seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Scarce crosswording classic. First Edition [Methuen & Co, London, 1966]; 176 pages; brown cloth, gold titling to spine, spine ends bumped, light offsetting, spotting on page block, concentrated at bottom corner, abrasion inside rear board, a very good copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, unclipped [bookseller stickers over original price], front flap creased, edges rubbed. Derrick Somerset Macnutt was compiler of crosswords for "The Observer" under the pseudonym Ximenes, succeeding Edward Powys Mathers [Torquemada - creator of "Cain's Jawbone"]. This scarce book reveals the Ximenean process & remains both instructive & subject for conjecture amongst the crosswording fraternity. Famous Ximenean followers include Stephen Sondheim, PG Wodehouse & Leonard Bernstein.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. DJ is clean but has very slight loss to edges and a few small tears. Tape marks to endpaper and title page. Contents are clean but very lightly toned.