F G Hurrell (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Spine a bit faded, general shelf wear. Pages clean, binding sturdy.

Condition: Fair. 1934. First Published in GB. 286 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Sticker to front pastedown. Brown staining to pages throughout. Visible creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to boards.…

Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. The Winter 1968/69. FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Various (illustrator). Not Signed or Inscribed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Acceptable. No Jacket. First Edition. Stated first edition; Moderate soiling to covers, yellowing to book block, binding separation at pg30, binding otherwise intact.

Condition: Fair. 1934. First thus. 286 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Binding has remained firm. Moderate corner creasing in places. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Boards are notably bowed. Book has a prominent forward lean. Moderate water marks to boards and spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good or Better. No Dust Jacket. (1918) 306 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Binding lightly soiled. Spine sunned w/ light fraying to ends. Dampstain to top edge of text block and top margin of several leaves, not affecting any text.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (Unstated with simple copyright notice on the publication page per the publisher's 1918 practice). Fair to Good 12mo hardcover in no dj. Crimson boards with black titling are lightly rubbed / soiled / stained with some moderately rubbed edges. Small patch of dust staining on the bottom text block edge. Blacked out name and corner stain on the ffep; small starter precedes the title page. Remaining contents are somewhat age tanned but clean and well-bound. NOT an ex-library copy.…

Hardback. Condition: G++. G+ DW. 1st Edition. Very good clean tight text throughout BUT text edges are browned / spotted. End papers browned and covers are a bit faded and bumped in places. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is noticeably browned / dust marked and has some tears / chips along the edges which have been reinforced with clear tape.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. Blue cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of any markings or major flaws inside and out. Near Fine. Clipped Dust Jacket shows price in GBP as 7s 6d Net in lower corner. Mild overall soiling to cream colored paper but little to no scuffing or shelfwear - DJ is close to near fine but Very Good conservatively. Introduction by Andre Maurois. "Mr. Hurrell writes of the Paris that lives and breathes in these several hundred little sketches . . ." Beautiful pen sketches throughout accompanying short vignetttes. 245 pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First American Edition. 286p octavo. A very good copy in green and red cloth.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket price clipped and with small open and closed tears along edges. Blue cloth with titles to spine. Cloth discoloured and with shelf wear/rubbing to edges and corners. No ownership markings. Black and white illustrations. 245 pages clean and tightly bound. Size: 8vo. Black and white Illustrations (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. dj with shelf wear and fading on spine, protective plastic wraps, Introduction by Andre Mauois. D5 3. Ex Lib.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60005355: 1936. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur bon état. 287 pages. Pages et cahiers se détachant. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Original publisher's orange/coral cloth, lettered in black to the spine. 8vo -286 pp. The spine shows a little fading. The book remains very square and solid. The complete dust jacket has the 7/6 price at the bottom of the front flap. The cover art is by Trever Evans. Some minor soiling to the rear panel, else fine. A mystery novel featuring "dual personalities" similar to Jekyll and Hyde. Listed in Hubin. Very Good / Near Fine.…

Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-286 [287-288: blank], publisher's orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. "John Lillibud, a struggling writer in London, becomes a successful inventor and marketer of novelties. One day a substance is brought to him that provides a kind of instant plastic surgery -- a putty that molds itself to look like the flesh it is applied to. If left on too long it becomes permanent. This leads Lillibud to have an artificial nose created, to put on over his own, which he has always considered too small and crooked. The mere wearing of the nose leads to the creation of a new personality: Richard Whittington, a strong self-confident author from Bloomsbury. He proceeds to recruit a French female personal secretary named Anna and installs her in the flat (keeping all this from Lillibud's wife, Clarissa). Lillibud, which has become the successful brand name of his inventions, goes back and forth between these two personalities, which gradually become further and further divorced from each other. Whittington writes The Man With the Crooked Nose, a roman a clef novel satirizing Lillibud, which leads to the threat of a lawsuit -- against himself. One evening, a man named Strapkin (originally Strapotkin) comes to the Bloomsbury flat and tells Whittington that he is the Master Mind of a group of deaf-mutes living nearby who have organized themselves into a secret society called The Voice, which is telepathically broadcasting Marxist-Leninist propaganda. Their current project is to bring down the capitalist enterprise of Lillibud's Novelties, Ltd. But Strapkin confesses that he himself is leading a hypocritical double life, having come to rely on the Lillibud cerebral vibrator. Further convolutions and duplicities ensue. An intriguing novel, mingling psychological, occult and science fictional thrills with black comedy, very much of a piece with other offerings from this publisher in the 1930s, such as THE TORTURE GARDEN by Octave Mirbeau and TWISTED CLAY by Frank Walford. The modest starting point and straightforward style of the writing make a good foil for its increasingly fantastic story. The principal motif is that of the double, harkening back inevitably to Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde; but the image of the nose recalls Gogol's surrealistic novella about a detachable nose; and the protagonist's name, in conjunction with his status as a budding author, calls up the iconic image of Oscar Wilde holding a lily; Richard Whittington, a popular 15th century lord mayor of London, gave rise to Dick Whittington, a figure of English legend and pantomime. Stevenson's tale has the apparent simplicity of a fable or allegory, whereas Hurrell's has the arabesques of a faintly surreal extravaganza, spinning off doubles within doubles and duplicities within duplicities. An unusual book that should be better known" (Robert Eldridge). Bleiler (1948), p. 156. Reginald 07644. Not in Bleiler (1978). Spine lean, spine panel a bit sunned, vertical crease to spine panel, corner tips lightly bruised, a good, sound copy married to a 7/6 pictorial dust jacket in poor condition (rear panel and rear flap missing, trimmed and backed with paper).…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Chieftain goatskins, dyed the exact shade of RAF wool-barathea wartime uniform fabric. The front cover is gold-blocked with the title and incorporates specially woven RAF wings of 1940 type by Gieves and Hawkes, No. 1 Savile Row, London, with the King's crown, the marker ribbon of blue silk bearing the emblems of the Battle of Britain Fighter Association, 22-carat gold edging. 4to. 13¼'' x 10''. The print run is strictly limited to 401 copies, No. 1 being presented to HM The Queen. This copy being number 173. Each copy bears the handwritten signatures of the twenty-five selected Battle of Britain pilots: Wg Cdr P. P. C. Barthropp; Wg Cdr R. P. Beaumont; Sqn Ldr G. H. Bennions; Air Vice-Marshal H. A. C. Bird-Wilson; Air Cdre P. M. Brothers; Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling; Gp Capt W. D. David; Air Cdre A. C. Deere; Sqn Ldr B. H. Drobinski; Flt Lt J. H. Duart; Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris; Gp Capt T. P. Gleave; Wg Cdr N. P. W. Hancock; Sqn Ldr C. Haw; Cdr R. C. Hay; Gp Capt C. B. F. Kingcome; Colonel Henry Gaston Lafont; Air Cdre A. R. D. MacDonell; Sqn Ldr M. J. Mansfeld; W Cdr A. G. Page; Wg Cdr P. L. Parrott; Gp Capt D. F. B. Sheen; Wg Cdr F. M. Smith; Wg Cdr J. E. Storrar; Wg Cdr G. C. Unwin. Housed in matching buckram clamshell box with blue silk lining and gilt titling. Unopened book in new condition in Fine condition box. Pocket inside the box holds original sales receipt, The Times colour supplement advertisement, typed letter from the original purchaser to Air Vice Marshall Freddie Hurrell confirming his order and enclosed cheque, he also mentions that he would wish to collect the book himself from Hartnolls in Bodmin when the book was ready. SIGNED letter from Air Vice Marshall Freddie Hurrell to the recipient on Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund letter-headed paper with details of the book. Hartnoll Delivery Note. Advertisement prospectus giving in-depth details concerning the various elements of production with a photograph of the six protagonists: Michael Pierce, John Golley, Roy Asser, Bill Gunston, Brian Masterton, and Freddie Hurrell to the front cover viewing the finished product. Remains wrapped in Hartnoll's original brown paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATTLE OF BRITAIN.…