Edited Denys Val Baker (15 results)

Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light blue cloth, spine faded, crease on lower rear corner, slight fraying on lower tips. 359 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pbk, 96 p. ill. Some rust-marks on rear cover o/w a clean unmarked copy in very good condition. [Poetry Cornwall - Art Cornwall Literature Cornwall - Social life and customs ; Periodicals] v82 / m16103.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 162pp; with stories by mary lavin, Arturo Barea, William Sansom, Henry Miller et al; Size: 8vo. Book.

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 336 pages. Dust jacket in clear protective sleeve over blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. More pronounced to endpapers, pastedowns and text block edges. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is dulled. Light sunning to spine and edges with some crushing to ends. Unclipped dust jacket. Panels to dust jacket have light edge wear with tears and creasing.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Size 7½" x 4¾" 224 pages including bibliography. Yellow cloth covered boards with burgundy and silver titles to the spine, top page edge navy blue, patterned pastedowns and endpapers. Condition very good, near fine, cover slightly grubby, corners slightly rubbed spine edges a little bent, contents clean, complete, intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Near fine with an ink notation on the front endpaper, in a very good dustwrapper with a small chip at the top of the spine, two tears at the bottom of the spine, light soiling.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Contributors include: A.L. Barker, Daphne du Maurier, Ruth Fainlight, Susan Hill, Mary Lavin, Doris Lessing, Olivia Manning, Penelope Mortimer, Edna O'Brien, Muriel Spark, Elizabeth Taylor and Fay Weldon.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. Modest foxing on page edges, near fine in a very good dust jacket with light foxing, and a toned spine with loss at the foot. Contains contributions by: Denise Levertov, Dylan Thomas, Alan Ross, V.S. Pritchett, Vernon Watkins, Walter Allen, and more.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no DJ. First edition. Previous owners details on ffep. Sunning to spine on cloth, some scuffing and light staining.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Blotchy browning on endpapers, very good in a very good faded, lightly soiled and edgeworn dustwrapper.

Stapled Booklet. Condition: Very Good Plus. Stapled Booklet. 88 pages. 21x15cm. Clean & tight & flat. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 66751.3. The Cornish Review Number Twenty-Three. SPRING 1973. Edited by Denys Val Baker.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. NO JACKET. Hardback 1945. Spine lettering is bright. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref O777. Little Reviews Anthology 1945. Includes a John Betjeman Contribution: On a Late Victorian Water Colour of Oxford. Edited by Denys Val Baker. Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in jacket. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Jacket is not torn. Front flap is not price-clipped: £2.75. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. Ref q2012. Cornish Harvest. An Anthology by Edited by Denys Val Baker. Published in 1974 by William Kimber, London.

Condition: Good. Plastic covered jacket. Wrap has perished/torn along spine, with tears and scuffs to jacket also. Fading to spine board where exposed. Previous owner name on ffep. Light foxing throughout.

8vo. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. [viii} + 162 + [1] pp. Bound in original orange cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has edge loss, including head and tail of spine. Lower part of boards damp stained, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 7 full page drawings, including frontispiece and by endpiece vignette. Decorated by publisher's device on verso of title. A collection of sixteen short stories, whose authors include Walter de la Mare and Henry Miller. Edited by Denys Val Baker (1917-84), Welsh born novelist and short story writer, who in the 1950s moved to Cornwall, where he found inspiration for many of his later books, including autobiographical works. Illustrated by Sheila Jackson (1922-2011), artist, illustrator and later costume designer. FICTION SHORT STORIES LIT. FICTION 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED FICTION.