Edited William Plomer (43 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. Slight wear DJ edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 288 pages; 7 5/8 x 10 1/4" A couple small letters written in ink on top first page; jacket edges are lightly worn; jacket in mylar sleeve. Shipping will be extra for this heavy book, please inquire.

PICTORIAL HARDCOVER. Condition: VG. LARGE PRINT EDITION.

Orange Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 24 Photogravure Plates and 40 Drawings in Line (illustrator). First American Edition. 224 Pages. Orange Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Printing. Pon In Ink On Ffep. Dj With Sizable Chips Top And Bottom Of Spine And Rear Cover; The Rear Has A 4 3/4" Vertical Tear Beginning At Top Edge. Tips Of Dj And Front Top Edge Chipped.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, quarto, pictorial upper board, lettered gilt to spine, dust wrapper not called for, small nick to cloth on bottom edge of lower board else a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, i8llustrated throughout, 288pp.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated By Edward Ardizzone. (illustrator). hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in a well preserved pictorial dust wrapper which is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, 174pp.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated By Edward Ardizzone. (illustrator). hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust wrapper which is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, brief gift inscription to a previous owner on the front free endpaper, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, 174pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. 5 X 7 1/2 in. high. 52 pages. Green cloth. Condition of the book is GOOD +; Corner bent, spine faded, endpapers & covers have light water-stains at edges, text is clean, binding is tight.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, x,278pp, clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth gilt, Very Good / no dustwrapper. ISBN: 0224014897.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, x,278pp, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper; price-clipped. ISBN: 0224014897.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). Abridged Edition. Small handling wear on jacket. It is price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 448 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt, Boards. Second And Corrected Edition, 1960, Volume Two Only. Fine In Near Fine Price Clipped Dust Jacket, American Issue With "Macmillan" Publisher's Label On Spine.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Number 74. Fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by: Ted Hughes, William Plomer, Ernest Frost, Edwin Brock, Joanna Lynham, John Barron Mays, Philip Hobsbaum, Nicholas Moore, David Holliday, Jean Kenward, and many more.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Paperback. This Diary, which paints a unique picture of country life in mid-Victorian times, has come to be recognized as a classic: its author has been compared to Dorothy Wordsworth, whom he admired, and even to Pepys. It was kept from January 1870 until March 1879, and closely written in 22 notebooks.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. This Diary, which paints a unique picture of country life in mid-Victorian times, has come to be recognized as a classic: its author has been compared to Dorothy Wordsworth, whom he admired, and even to Pepys. It was kept from January 1870 until March 1879, and closely written in 22 notebooks.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. This Diary, which paints a unique picture of country life in mid-Victorian times, has come to be recognized as a classic: its author has been compared to Dorothy Wordsworth, whom he admired, and even to Pepys. It was kept from January 1870 until March 1879, and closely written in 22 notebooks.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Decorative paper-covered boards. Slight foxing on topedge, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a faint crease and a bit of spotting on the rear flap. Contains the first book appearance of "Thistles" and "Unknown Soldier" by Ted Hughes [S&T B9]; and the first appearance of Louis MacNeice's "The Wiper" [not in Armitage], and poems by Thomas Kinsella, Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Jennings, Stevie Smith et al.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Dust jacket unclipped. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Ben Nicholson and others (illustrator). Paperback. 21.5x15.5cm. 230 pages. Flat spine. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref A29. London Magazine. July - August 1969. Volume 9. Numbers 4 & 5. The 100th Number. Contains: Two poems by William Plomer; The Theatre of Chatting by Alberto Moravia; Four Early Drawings by Ben Nicholson: St James's Palace 1938, Cornwall 1939, King Charles 1931, Hyacinth 1923.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1943 very good hardback, page edges and endpapers browned, in a very good dust wrapper, corners and edges lightly rubbed, foxing and browning to cover edges and spine inside and outside cover. Owner's inscription. Not price clipped. 52 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 104pp. Perfectbound printed wrappers. Front wrap with a small faint stamp, cover slightly soiled with edgewear, very good. Prints "A Message" by T.S. Eliot and "Canto In Memoriam Dylan Thomas" by Louis MacNiece; additional contributions by Hugo Charteris, Elizabeth Jennings, Pierre Gascar, William Plomer, Elizabeth Bowen, Thom Gunn and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Decorative paper-covered boards. 134pp., [1]pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with spine tanned, short tear on top corner on rear panel. Contains the first book appearance of "Thistles" and "Unknown Soldier" by Ted Hughes [S&T B9]; and the first appearance of Louis MacNeice's "The Wiper" [not in Armitage], and poems by Thomas Kinsella, Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Jennings, Stevie Smith et al.

Decorative Boards. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Book Club Associated Edition. Hardcover. wear to edge Kilvert's Diary. 1870-1879. Francis Kilvert's account of his daily life as a country clergyman a hundred years ago is one of the finest diaries in the English language.The diary covers the last nine years of Kilver's life - for he died suddenly of peritonitis at the age of thirty-nine. only five weeks after his marriage. Illustrated. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Decorative Boards. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Book Club Associated Edition. Hardcover. Kilvert's Diary. 1870-1879. Francis Kilvert's account of his daily life as a country clergyman a hundred years ago is one of the finest diaries in the English language.The diary covers the last nine years of Kilver's life - for he died suddenly of peritonitis at the age of thirty-nine. only five weeks after his marriage. Illustrated. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Tim Strephens (illustrator). Reissued with Illustrations. Reissued with Illustrations 1977 near fine hardbacks. No Dust Wrappers. Volume One. Near fine hardback, bottom right corner of front board slightly bumped. 396 pages. Illustrations. Volume Two. Near fine hardback. 448 pages. Illustrations. Volume Three. Near fine hardback. 508 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair - Slight Tears, Crease. First Edition. These tales of the wars and loves, faiths and superstitions, prejudices and insights of the back-veld Afrikaner are told by a simple old Boer who is really the embodiment of sly ambiguity. "A writer of international stature" - Alan Paton. "The best short stories that ever came out of South Africa"- Roy Campbell. --------------------------------------- 152 pages. Well-bound copy. ---------- Orders of $100.00 or more are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: About 5½" Wide - 8" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Fourth Edition. These tales of the wars and loves, faiths and superstitions, prejudices and insights of the back-veld Afrikaner are told by a simple old Boer who is really the embodiment of sly ambiguity. "A writer of international stature" - Alan Paton. "The best short stories that ever came out of South Africa"- Roy Campbell. --------------------------------------- 152 pages. Well-bound copy. Size: About 5½" Wide - 8" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1.auflage / 1.edition. gr.oktav hardcover. sehr gutes exemplar. first edition (first edition of this edition), unread, perfect condition, hardcover, color gilt org. half cloth with gilt org. book decoration / color ill. org. plate (in center of front cover set in cloth), color ill. org. endpapers, with org. frontispiece (art. plate), with numerous illustrations / drawings (partly art. plates). org.endpapers, with org.frontispiece (art.plate), with numerous partly polychrome and full-page illustrations / drawings (partly art.plates), with an introduction by the editor, 288 pages on art.paper / erstausgabe( erste auflage dieser ausgabe), ungelesen, tadellos, gebundene ausgabe, farb.goldgepr.org.halbleinen mit goldgepr.org.buchschmuck / farb.ill.org.bildtafel (in mitte v. vorderem einband in leinen eingelassen), farb.ill.org.vorsätze, mit org.frontipiz (kunstdrucktafel), mit zahlreichen teils mehrfarbigen u. ganzseitigen illustrationen / zeichnungen (teils kunstdrucktafeln), mit einer einleitung des herausgebers, 288 seiten auf kunstdruckpapier.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Illustrated Edition (illustrator). 1st Edition Thus. Three volumes in slip-case. A nice clean set. SELLER SUPPLIED IMAGES.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good, slight scuff Marks. First Edition. These tales of the wars and loves, faiths and superstitions, prejudices and insights of the back-veld Afrikaner are told by a simple old Boer who is really the embodiment of sly ambiguity. "A writer of international stature" - Alan Paton. "The best short stories that ever came out of South Africa"- Roy Campbell. --------------------------------------- 189 pages. Foxing on pages and dustjacket due to age. Well-bound copy. Name of previous owner "Emil Nofal" (a South African filmmaker of the 1960's and 1970's) inked on flyleaf. ---------- Orders of $100.00 or more are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: About 5½" Wide - 8" Tall.