Forster John W (37 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Black CLOTH thin HARDCOVERS (LIMP). VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT.; GOLD TITLES SPINE SHIELD LOGO. AN ESSPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE BINDING FOR THIS POPULAR SERIES.GOLD SPINE TITLES INSIDE 5 RAISED BANDS.SPINE SHOWS GOLD VE RI TAS (shield), Author, spine #7 & "COLLIER".COVER SHOWS BLIND EMBOSED 1" SHIELD.GOLD TOP EDGE With DECORATED ENDPAPERS SAILING SHIPS, TALL CHURCH SPIRES, WHITE CLOUDS.ALL GREEN INK ON WHITE ENDPAPERS. SINGLE VOLUME PART OF A NICE S E T. ; 480pg pages. Illustrated by DICKENS BIRTH HOUSE Frontis Ilust (illustrator). …

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 88 pages. Illustrated. L P Hartley "The Ghost-Writers" / Jean Rhys "Tigers are Better-looking" / Andrew Currey "Winter Sun" / Brigid Brophy "Firbank's Mauve Roots" / Edward Lucie-Smith "Caravaggio Dying" / Jasia Reichardt "Victor Pasmore: Developments in Style" / John Lehmann reviews "E M Forster" (by K W Gransden) / Paul West "Scott Fitzgerald reconsidered" / Ann Titterington introduces Five Angolan Poets. …

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Fair reading copy. An insect has been chewing away at the back of the book, otherwise clean throughout. Cover art by John Richards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition. Green leather covers with gilt and white titles. English text to stories, introductions in Russian. 416 pages. Slight age tanning.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Front endpaper has a gift inscription and a little marking from where a newspaper article had been laid in.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Genetics and Breeding for Productivity Traits in Forage and Bioenergy Grasses. Book.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Special Issue to provide a forum for contemporary studies of the genetics, genomics and phenomics of productivity traits in forage and bioenergy grasses, along with the application of such data to breeding practices and cultivar development.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThe Special Issue to provide a forum for contemporary studies of the genetics, genomics and phenomics of productivity traits in forage and bioenergy grasses, along with the application of such data to breeding practices and cultiv.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Maroon cloth cover has light wear to corners and spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's name on front end sheet. Light foxing to front matter. Frontispiece protected by tissue. Pages are clean and very good. .…

1/2 Leather. Condition: Good - Very Good. Originally published in 1911 by Chapman & Hall. This is an undated edition in 2 volumes published by the Waverley Book Co. Owner's name followed by the date Jan 1912 on half-title page of Vol 1, so likely to be end of 1911 or beginning of 1912. The books appear to be bound in 1/2 red leather, though it is very thin. The labels are in a contrasting green leather with title in gilt. Top edge gilt, other edges rough cut. Both volumes are sunned to the spine. There is bumping to the foot of the spines which are rubbed with some surface loss. There is a visible repair to a split at the head of the spine of vol 1 and a small chip. (pictures available). Some rubbing to the surface to the rear board. Internally, name & date to half-titles as mentioned. A few spots to the prelims. Clean and in good order. Heavy set weighing 3 kgs, but no extra postage within UK - will be sent by Standard Parcels or Parcelforce. Please enquire for cost of other options and for overseas. Illus (illustrator).…

Illus. Disbound, dusted. Also containing a summary of M.G. Lewis's 'The Monk'.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 80 pages. Features: Q-Ships were expendable; The Propagandist; Ape for Murder; Bog for Sale; Sir Barney Rides Out; The Comanche; Beloved Brethren; Cricket's Cavalier Carries his Bat; Dollars for Sports Cars; Clean, Bright and Lightly Toiled; Afro-Eborican Marie Lloyd?; Making a Hole in it; Admirable Bivalve; Concerning Clothes; Homo Sapiens; David Langdon's New York Sketch Book - "Dollar Holiday"; Future Hopes - A.G. Davies and Michael Lindsay; How to Make a Girl Dance in the Nude; Gulliver Awheel; Good Books Lately; and photos of Rita Boel, Shirley Deane and Karen Sharpe - gorgeous centrefold photos; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy.…

, xxviii, 710 pages, black and white frontispiece of Forster, contains a brief life of John Forster, the catalogue, index to the catalogue and errata at the end First Edition , edges of spine scuffed, boards slightly stained at edges, internally clean and tight, book in good condition , quarter brown morocco with green cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt 26.5 x 17 cm Hardback ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. Facsimile covers, manuscript & photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 996 pages; 1st US issue of this extra-illustrated Memorial Edition edited by B. W. Matz. No date given at front, this edition is made up from plates printed by T. And A. Constable, Edinburgh. The title page is a cancel with the Lippincott masthead imprint added for the exported US edition. The binding design matches that of the 1911 Chapman & Hall London edition save for the change to Lippincott in lieu of Chapman at the base of the cloth spines. Dark blue cloth with double blind ruled borders to boards; elaborate decorative title design in gilt to spine with the CD monogramed letters framing the JF inner monogram, repeated to the upper board at center. This Memorial edition issued from Forster's revised edition text but with substantial additions collected by Matz including numerous facsimile wrapper designs from 1st edition Dickens, titles, portrait reproduction, photographs of locations and persons etc. Both volumes snugly bound and neat with mild shelf rub apparent to cloth at tips and light crimping and superficial stress at spine ends. Xxxiv, 481, [1]; xxvi, 515 pp. Errata sheet tipped in between xxii and xxiii in Vol I. Handsome set in the uncommon 1st US edition - printed and bound in England using a Lippincott imprint on a cancel title page. Overall VG+ . Oversize book set will require additional charges for most methods of shipping. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Secret Death - A weird story from Georgia in Russia, a wild land where might is right and feuds never end; Capturing Wild Animals Alive - how John Alfred Jordan captured a collection of African animals to be shipped to Zoos in Europe; A Tragedy in the Clouds - Frenchmen Sergeant Legendre and Adjutant Casale of the French Aviation Service bring down their eighth German plane piloted by a German named Haspel; Six Weeks Among the Buddhas - Part I - Juliet Bredon and her husband toured temples in China; The Man Who Found Himself - munitions worker William Francis claims to have entirely lost his memory for two years after an injury; Across Germany to Freedom - Part I - French soldiers Georges Prieur and Tristan du Tartre escape from Hammelburg camp in Bavaria; When the Dam Burst - a 'Santa Rosa' (South American monsoon) causes a night of terror at the harbour works of the 'Obras del Nuevo Puerto de la Capital' in Argentina; Almost a Tragedy - forgetful nearly results in multiple deaths; Between the Devil and the Deep - a French fishing-smack sinks a German submarine - article with photos; When the Fuses Spluttered - Roy Norton, F.R.G.S. escapes death in a mine by seconds; Buried Alive - injury while filming 'The Jarvis Case'; A Fight With An Ostrich - the awful plight of engineer Geo. Daws who tried to cross an ostrich 'camp' during their breeding season; Historic Crimes and Mysteries - The Sign at the Gallows, The Law & The Lackey; The Pirates of the 'Flowery Land' - mutiny and murder on the high seas between London and Singapore; The Hidden City - Tulum is located in the thick jungle of the Yucatan; Bethlehem's Distressing Christmas Scenes - festive occasion marred by petty quarrels of rival sects;The Last of the Bandits - The Poe-Hart Gang terrorizes Oklahoma by robbing banks and fighting sheriff's posses; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2], 92-176, 9-24 [ads]. Covers partially loose. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, December 1917, The Secret Death, Georgia, Russia, feuds, Capturing Wild Animals Alive, John Alfred Jordan, Zoo animals - capture, A Tragedy in the Clouds, Sergeant Legendre, Adjutant Casale, French Aviation Service, Haspel, Six Week.…

[Complete Works] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS, the Gadshill Edition. Complete in 38 volumes. Octavo (20 x 15cm). With original illustrations by Cruikshank and numerous additional ones by Charles Green, Harry Furniss, etc. Very fine contemporary or slightly later red half morocco for BUMPUS, with raised bands, gilt titles and ruling to spines, and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt, with marbled endpapers. Some toning and spotting to edges, otherwise clean, bright copies, in an exquisite, fresh binding. Near fine. The first complete and fully edited edition of Dicken's works, including notes to every book, actually provided by the editor B.W. Matz, rather than Andrew Lang, who wrote the introduction, as stated on the title page. SPENCER, Andrew, 'Charles Dickens: A Guide to the Collected Editions' (Chesney Wold 2021), pp.36-39.…

Decorative Boards. Condition: Near Fine. 12 issues bound in 2, published between October 1910 - September 1911. [10], 376, iv, [32] ads ; [10], iv, [30] pp. Elegant half cream buckram over decorative boards with gilt-tooled lettering to spine. Uncut. Light discolouration to top of boards, leaves toned but clean throughout. Bookplates to paste-down of vol. 1 and small inscriptions in ink to rear endpapers. 'The Open Window' was a monthly illustrated magazine published in West & Central London, running for six months from October 1910, and then five months from April 1911. These 2 volumes contain the full 12 issues, the third issue containing Katherine Mansfield's first published work 'A Fairy Story'. Written contributions include: Edward Thomas, E. M. Forster, George Bourne, Katherine Mansfield, Maxwell Armfield, Douglas Goldring, W. H. Davies, Geoffrey Whitworth, Lord Dunsany, John Drinkwater, Walter de la Mare and Vivian Locke Ellis etc. Artworks contributors include: C . J. Holmes, John Sloane, Auguste Rodin, Maxwell Armfield, C. M. Gere, Jack B Yeats. Adverts and a pair of wraps bound in. 16mo.…

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. A truly beautiful limited edition set of the works of Anglo-Irish novelist Oliver Goldsmith, illustrated throughout and with a number of volumes signed by the artists. The twelve volume Wakefield Edition of Goldsmith's works, limited to five hundred copies. This set is numbered four-hundred and fifty 'IV 50'.The frontispieces of volumes I to VIII are signed by artists Arthur I. Keller, Albert Sterner, Alfred Fredericks, F. Luis Mora, W. P. Snyder, and Charles Broughton.In sumptuous full crushed morocco bindings, with gilt detailing.Volume I frontispiece signed by Arthur I. Keller, and illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates.Volume II frontispiece signed by Albert Sterner, and illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates.Volume III frontispiece signed by Alfred Fredericks, and illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates.Volume IV frontispiece signed by F. Luis Mora, and illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates.Volume V frontispiece signed by W. P. Snyder, and illustrated with a frontispiece and six plates.Volume VI frontispiece signed by Charles Broughton, and illustrated with a frontispiece and six plates.Volume VII frontispiece signed by Arthur I. Keller, and illustrated with a frontispiece and six plates.Volume VIII frontispiece signed by F. Luis Mora, and illustrated with a frontispiece and six plates.Volume IX illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates.Volume X illustrated witha frontispiece and seven plates.Volume XI illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates.Volume XII illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates.Collated, complete.Plates printed on Japanese vellum.Featuring the major works of eighteenth century Anglo-Irish novelist Oliver Goldsmith, including 'The Vicar of Wakefield', 'Good-Natur'd Man', and 'She Stoops to Conquor'.The final four volumes are John Forster's 'The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith'. In full crushed morocco bindings, with gilt detailing to back strips and board perimeters. Externally, lovely. Light fading to back strips, as is common with green morocco. Light rubbing to front joint of volumes I, IV, XI, XII and head of front and rear joints of volumes II, VI. Touch of rubbing to head of volumes III, VIII and IX front joints. Light rubbing to raised band of volume V. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Retaining all original tissue guards. Near Fine. Arthur I. Keller; Albert Sterner; Alfred Fredericks; F. Luis Mora; W.P. Snyder; Charles Brughton, et al (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

EA; ca 21x13 cm; (16) 357 Seiten mit 1 gest. Frontispiz und 1 mehrfach gefaltete Karte; Halbledereinband d. Zt. auf 5 echten Bünden mit etwas Rückenvergoldung (Einband an den Kanten stärker bestoßen, am oberen Kapital etwas eingerissen, Rückenschild mit Fehlstellen, Vorsätze etwas leimschattig, in der Vorrede zwei Blätter mit kleiner Verklebung, dort etwas Buchstabenverlust, die Karte mit kleinem Randeinriß; sonst guter Zustand) Beschreibt Cook's dritte und letzte Reise, noch vor der offiziellen Buchveröffentlichung erschienen. Dem Buch dürfte das englische Original "Journal of Captain Cook's last Voyage" von 1781 zu Grunde liegen, die erste Veröffentlichung nach der Reise, über dessen Autor Forster auch durch zahlreiche Korrespondenzen nichts erfahren konnte (siehe Vorwort). Der Autor war wohl John Rickman, Cooks 2. Lieutenant, der die Aufzeichnungen von Johan Ledyard, James Cook, W. Ellis und E. Newbery verwendet hat. Kein Versand nach Frankreich.…

First Edition. THE SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF FAME: VOLUME TWO A and B. The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America, Doubleday, 1973, first edition, some light brown staining to small areas of the top page edges with some modest bleed through, else just about fine in like dust-wrapper 's. Contributions by John W. Campbell, Jr., Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Algis Budrys, Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, H. G. Wells, Jack Vance, E. M. Forster, Clifford Simak, Fred Pohl, James Schmitz, Poul Anderson, Jack Williamson, Eric Frank Russell, Theodore Sturgeon, et.al.…