Francis Rose Illus (9 results)

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Former Library book. Volume 1. Front hinge cracked. Frontis loosening. [catholic, catholicism, church, architecture].

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 62 pages. Subjects; Chinese Fairy Tales. Lao Tzu. Fairy Tales. 1 Kg. …

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 62 pages. Subjects; Chinese Fairy Tales. Lao Tzu. Fairy Tales. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. Dark green and orange cloth, spine panel lettered in gilt. Lacking dust jacket. Minor rubbing to extremities, text block edges a bit tanned, minor bump to top rear corner. Vertical crease to front flyleaf. No statement of edition/printing on copyright page, thus not a 1st but clearly a vintage copy, likely issued after 1962 when Harper's two-letter scheme was discontinued. 288 pp., illus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

dj. First U.K. Edition. Slim octavo (22cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pink pictorial dust jacket; 83pp.; pictorial endpapers, text illus. throughout. Chips and a few tiny losses to jacket extremities, notably to top spine corner of upper panel (not touching image or text), extremities darkened, spine a bit toned, else Very Good or better in Very Good jacket. WILSON A37c.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 83. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's white cloth with green lettering at spine. Black and white line drawings throughout. Very good in very good dust jacket, with slight edgewear and slight fading. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.…

Hardcover. Dust jacket. First Edition. Book has faint loss of colour but nothing substantial, very good indeed. Dj is only slightly nicked to top edge and head of spine, which also has 0.5cm and 1cm chips at foot with short accompanying closed tears, there, to the front joint. Dj is internally browned and externally moderately dusty with spine sunned. Very good. A slightly scarcer title of Stein's; perhaps the approaching war, referred to in the blurb, was taking peoples attention from reading. Acquired from Maud Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. Later she wrote, with her husband, Nigel Gosling, influential dance books and reviews under the pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, they became his surrogate parents.…