Foyle W A (15 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. In Stock.

Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Cloth, gilt cover title, edges untrimmed, 8vo, xvii, 93 pp. Approximately 100 entries. An early attempt to provide bibliographical information for the collectors of "modern firsts", and still of interest for the lesser authors for whom no comprehensive bibliography exists. With an interesting introductory essay by William Foyle, who finds it necessary to defend himself against the charge of revealing trade secrets to the public. Copy No. 240. Lower corners bumped, rear board partly faded, otherwise good in a duststained dustwrapper with twosmall wormholes to the rear inside flap.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. tiny foxing, 94 pages - rough cut.

Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Cloth, gilt cover title, edges untrimmed, 8vo, xvii, 93 pp. Approximately 100 entries. An early attempt to provide bibliographical information for the collectors of "modern firsts", and still of interest for the lesser authors for whom no comprehensive bibliography exists. With an interesting introductory essay by William Foyle, who finds it necessary to defend himself against the charge of revealing trade secrets to the public. Copy No 668. Second series only. Front board soiled at bottom inch, two pages badly separated at untrimmed edge, otherwise Good.…

Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Cloth, gilt cover title, edges untrimmed, 8vo, xvii, 93 pp. Approximately 100 entries. An early attempt to provide bibliographical information for the collectors of "modern firsts", and still of interest for the lesser authors for whom no comprehensive bibliography exists. With an interesting introductory essay by William Foyle, who finds it necessary to defend himself against the charge of revealing trade secrets to the public. Copy No. 849. Top edge slightly duststained, otherwise Very Good in somewhat browned and slightly edgeworn dustwrapper.…

Edition limited to 750 numbered copies. Cloth, edges untrimmed, 8vo, xxvii, 99, [1]pp. Approximately 100 entries. An early attempt to provide bibliographical information for the collectors of "modern firsts", and still of interest for the lesser authors for whom no comprehensive bibliography exists. An unnumbered copy. Top edge duststained, a little rubbed, slightly bumped at spine-ends, otherwise a Good bright copy in a browned, chipped and edgeworn dustwrapper. …

Edition limited to 750 numbered copies. Cloth, edges untrimmed, 8vo, xxvii, 99, [1]pp. Approximately 100 entries. An early attempt to provide bibliographical information for the collectors of "modern firsts", and still of interest for the lesser authors for whom no comprehensive bibliography exists. An unnumbered copy. A few neat ink annotations, otherwise Near Very Good. …

Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Cloth, gilt cover title, edges untrimmed, 8vo, xvii, 93 pp. Approximately 100 entries. An early attempt to provide bibliographical information for the collectors of "modern firsts", and still of interest for the lesser authors for whom no comprehensive bibliography exists. With an interesting introductory essay by William Foyle, who finds it necessary to defend himself against the charge of revealing trade secrets to the public. Copy No. 931. Covers slightly scuffed, Good.…

Edition limited to 750 numbered copies. Cloth, edges untrimmed, 8vo, xxvii, 99, [1]pp. Approximately 100 entries. An early attempt to provide bibliographical information for the collectors of "modern firsts", and still of interest for the lesser authors for whom no comprehensive bibliography exists. An unnumbered copy. Covers a little rubbed, Good. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. 1st ed. Limited ed 489/1000, buckram with gilt lettering. (ar0).

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour printed laminated covers with Type 43 Bugatti 2.3 litre straight eight engine to front cover. 8vo 7¼" x 5" 92 pp. Monochrome photographic illustrations on glossy silk art paper. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. MOTORING, SPORTS CARS.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour printed laminated covers with Type 43 Bugatti 2.3 litre straight eight engine to front cover. 8vo 7¼" x 5" 92 pp. Monochrome photographic illustrations on glossy silk art paper. In Very Good condition with 15 mm repair to foot of spine, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. MOTORING, SPORTS CARS.…

London, 1931. 93 pp. Cloth. Nr. 744 (of 1000). Ex-library.

Editions limited to 750, 1000 and 750 numbered copies. 3 vols, cloth, 8vo, xi, 83, xvii, 93, xxvii, 99 pp. Approximately 300 entries. An early attempt to provide bibliographical information for the collectors of "modern firsts", and still of interest for the lesser authors for whom no comprehensive bibliography exists. With interesting introductory essays by Fabes and, in the second volume, his collaborator William Foyle, who finds it necessary to defend himself against the charge of revealing trade secrets to the public. Authors for whom one or more works are described are : Lascelles Abercombie, Michael Arlen, Maurice Baring, J.M.Barrie, H.E. Bates, Max Beerbohm, Hilaire Belloc, Arnold Bennett, Augustine Birrell, David Bone, Rupert Brooke, Thomas Burke, Roy Campbell, A.E. Coppard, G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, 'Baron' Corvo, Hubert Crackanthorpe, S.R. Crockett, John Davidson, Rhys Davies, W.H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, William de Morgan, Austin Dobson, Ernest Dowson, C.L. Dodgson, Norman Douglas, A. Conan Doyle, John Drinkwater, Lord Dunsany, L. Feutwanger, J.E. Flecker, Ronald Firbank, John Freeman, John Galsworthy, R.B.C. Graham, Robert Graves, H. Rider Haggard, James Hanley, Frank Harris, A.P. Herbert, Radclyffe Hall, Thomas Hardy, Maurice Hewlett, Norah Hoult, A.E. Housman, Lawrence Housman, Aldous Huxley, W.W. Jacobs, J.K. Jerome, Margaret Kennedy, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, T.E. Lawrence, Francis Letwidge, Shane Leslie, Sinclair Lewis, W.J. Locke, Arthur Machen, Compton Mackenzie, Katherine Mansfield, John Masefield, W.S. Maugham, George Meredith, Leonard Merrick, Alice Meynell, C.K. Montague, George Moore, R.H. Mottram, H.H. Munro, A.E. Newton, Alfred Noyes, Liam O'Flaherty, Eden Phillpotts, T.F. Powys, J.B. Priestley, A. Quiller-Couch, E. Remarque, Michael Sadleir, Sean O'Casey, Siegfried Sassoon, A.D. Sedgwick, Osbert Sitwell, George Bernard Shaw, M.P. Shiel, Somerville & Ross, J. Stephens, R.L. Stevenson, J.A. Symonds, Arthur Symons, Edward Thomas, Helen Thomas, H.M. Tomlinson, Edgar Wallace, Hugh Walpole, H.G. Wells, Stanley Weyman, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats. Presentation Copies, each volume being warmly inscribed to Biill Newman (eg "To Bill Newman, known and liked by all good booksellers." on the front free endpaper or the limitation page and signed by Gilbert Fabes. Copy numbers 347, 599 and 255. Very Good copies in somewhat marked and chipped price-clipped dustwrappers, the dustwrapper for the second volume having a torn area on the rear panel repaired by tape on the inside panel.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 3 volumes 8vo (23 cm), XIV, 86 pp; XX, 94 pp; XXVII, 98 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered front covers and spines, included dj of the third volume only, binding of the second issue somewhat rubbed, few pencil notes. The second issue published in 1931, the third in 1932. Printed on thick Arches paper, fore- and bottom edges uncut. Limited to 750, 1000 and 750 copies, these are copies 583, 615 and 36. An early guide to collecting modern first editions, aiming to distinguish between different issues and document corresponding relative prices.…