Dearmer Geoffrey (79 results)

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Reprint. Gift inscription; newspaper photo of Dearmer on front pastedown; dustjacket spine & front panel faded. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG price-clipped dustjacket.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. In.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. In.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 8vo. 82pp. Brown cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. With a portrait frontispiece. Forty-six of Dearmer's poems, primarily drawn from his war poetry and later peace-time verse. Very good in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Hardcover, in a heavily worn Dust Jacket. Not ex. library. 256 pages, illustrated with b/w drawings. Some spotting and tanning to endpapers, front endpaper removed. Nice clean red boards with minimal wear. Stories for children from the "BBC Children's Hour" by: Elf Lewis Clark; M.S. Park; George Baker; Ken Francis; E.E. Ellsworth; Edward Cranston; Kitty Styles and others. Includes the story of the Magic Walnut Tree. Contents clean, tight and bright. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust jacket worn, see image. Photograph available on request.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Good. 1948. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Light thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to rear pastedown and endpaper. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is forward leaning. Light tanning to spine and edges. Area of sunning to rear board.

Hard Back. Selected poems to mark the poets 100th Birthday Foreword by Jon Stallworthy In very good condition with a slightly faded dust jacket and clean undamaged pages pp 82nbsp. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 82pp. Brown cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece. Forty-six of Dearmer's poems, primarily drawn from his war poetry and later peace-time verse (he fought at Gallipoli, where his brother was killed, and later severed in the trenches of the Western Front). Top edge lightly dust marked and paperstock lightly tanned. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. In.

Original Red Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Steed, Cicely (illustrator). First Edition. 1948. x, 256pp. B&W illustrations. Includes stories by: Elf Lewis Clark; M.S. Park; George Baker; Ken Francis; E.E. Ellsworth; Edward Cranston; and Kitty Styles; et.al. Book has printed titles to spine and light wear to edges and corners with some fading to spine and spash marks to boards. Foxing to edges. Browning to endpapers and very occasional foxing to prelims. Otherwise in vg condition with no inscriptions.

Condition: Good. First editionon blue faded cloth signed by Author (first name) by way of a dedication to end paper.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Compiled by Geoffrey Dearmer of the BBC's "Childrens Hour" these thirty-three stories written by authors including Elf Lewis Clark(Who has signed the book on the front end-paper with the words: "with love from the author of the first three stories, Christmas 1948"); M. S. Park; George Baker; Ken Francis; E .E. Ellsworth; Edward Cranston; Kitty Styles & others were, for the most part, heard in the "Children's Hour" programme which was broadcast from 1922 to 1964 on British radio. Contents list to the front. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 256 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Black titles spine. a number of pages have small pieces missing from the outer corners but not affecting text or pictures; a few spots to some pages. illustrated by b/w. drawings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; Short Stories; Childrens' Stories; BBC Radio; Children. Inventory No: 3891.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good condition. From the collection of poet Gavin Ewart, with his penned name, and the author's, 'flat signature' on F E P, dated 19/3/93. In unclipped dust jacket. Pages tanned, text fine. RB. Signed by Author. Used.

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. First Edition. 69pp. Paper covers a little dusty but no inscriptions or serious faults.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Magazine. Printed wrappers. Octavo. 59pp. Rubbing, edgewear, and a long tear on the rear panel, good. This issue features Hugh MacDiarmid, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Naomi Mitchison, Douglas Young, A.V. Stuart, Alexander Buist, William Kean Seymour, David Low, C. Day Lewis, Sir Francis Meynell, Canon Adam Fox, John Smith, Lady Margaret Sackville, Vernon Scannell, and Margaret Stanley-Wrench. Additional contributors include Gilbert Thomas, Paul Selver, Ilko Iliev, Paula Nelson, Phyllis M. Scott, Canon Adam Fox, Mary Field, Rita Spurr, M. Shand Smith, Evelyn D. Bangay, Stephen Graham, Kathleen Valmai Richardson, Joan Forman, Geoffrey Johnson, Geoggrey Dearmer, Herbert Palmer, Robert Armstrong, and Kennedy Williamson.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Printed wrappers. Octavo. 195-256pp. Small pen mark in margin of last page, faint age-toning on wrappers, near fine. Laid in is a typed and Signed letter from Honor Carr, Cultural assistant for The Poetry Society addressed to fellow poet Daniel Hoffman. This issue features "Portrait of Sir Compton Mackenzie." Contributions by C. Day Lewis, Clive Sansom, John Smith, Philip Larkin, Elizabeth Jennings, Peter Redgrove, Celia Randall, Kenneth Hare, A.O. Field, Francis Engleheart, Herbert Palmer, Phoebe Hesketh, Robert Armstrong, Jennifer McConnachie, Gilbert Thomas, Terence Thompson, John Stuart Anderson, Margaret Sackville, Kenneth Wood, Margaret Stanley-Wrench, Stanton Coblentz, Paul Scott, Geoffrey Dearmer, Mabel Parker, Griselda Scott, Dorothea Ramsey, Charles T. Parish, Ruth Duffin, Jill Tyler, and David Holbrook.

LeatheBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 24. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1929 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 24.

paperback. Condition: Good. 1918 New Edition HB Herinemann; very good in very good unclipped jacket; previous owner signature to ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Dearmer, Geoffrey. They Chose to Be Birds. London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, [1935]. First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-280. Original green cloth, spine panel stamped in white, publisher's trademark blind-stamped on rear panel. Spine panel darkened, else a nice copy in a fair pictorial dust jacket missing an uneven strip of half-an-inch along top panel, and a defective spine panel (faded, top two inches chipped). Increasingly scarce. #1489. $100. A hallucinogenic drug convinces the hero he has been transformed into a bird. "A strange moralistic comedy, appealing in its eccentricity." -- Stableford in Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-100. "Light fantastic allegory treating on serious questions; vicar and scientist transmuted into birds by guardian angels, reach a deeper appreciation of universal truths. Wellsian in treatment, albeit less intellectually rigorous; entertaining nonetheless." -- Robert Knowlton.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 98 pages. 10.00x7.50x0.23 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. They Chose to Be Birds by Geoffrey Dearmer (First Edition) Scarce A firm copy with slight warp to front panel. Very minor wear to corners. Mild foxing to text block edges. Occasional mild foxing near page margins. Not price-clipped. A jacket with moderate wear to edges. Mild soiling to cover. Two small tears to rear flap fold. First published 1935, stated. Green cloth with white lettering; publisher's logo blind stamped to rear panel. 280 pp."a fantasticated Scientific Romance, a preacher of closed mind is unsettlingly duped into "becoming" a bird, and as such learns some Wellsian lessons about the true nature of the world." SFE 1/12/2025. BOOK.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Heinemann in 1918. The BOOK is in VERY GOOD-condition. Stiff card wrappers show mild edge wear with a vertical crease to the front cover. Very minimal loss at the spine ends. The spine is slightly toned but essentially intact with the red titling still present. A little loss of the final letter 'r' of 'Dearmer'. Some separation of the lower quarter of the front cover from the spine. The page edges are toned due to the quality of the paper used. Pages are moderately spotted especially to the latter section of the book. Free from inscriptions. A very fragile cheaply produced book which has managed to survive over 100 years. Contains his famous 'The Sentinel' and 'The Somme' poems. Scarce to find with the spine intact - the first copy we have handled to date.Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.