Fred Bason (72 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Review slip laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. (1950). First Edition, 176pp, index. Edited and introduced by Nicolas Bentley. About Fair in a G dj. Dampstain at the bottom of the front and rear covers, with minor bowing and small areas of bleeding at the front and rear pastedowns, not affecting the interior. The dj is lightly chipped, price clipped and with a bit of bleed through on the front cover. With a full page inscription, signed, by Bason, on the first free endpaper. He has also signed on the frontispiece portrait. The first of four diaries by the cockney bookseller and autograph collector.

Condition: Good. 1952. First Edition. 159 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Heavy foxing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 159pp. Edited and Introduced by L.A.G. Strong. Heavy offsetting on free endpapers and with the upper corner of the front endpaper cut away, spine cocked, very good lacking the dust jacket. Memoirs of a Cockney bookseller.

Hard Bound Cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. Full page warm presentation inscription - also Bason has signed the frontiespiece portrait of himself.

Condition: Good. 1955. First Published. 184 pages. Signed by the author. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth covered boards with gilt. Signed by the author with dedication to front free end paper, and two other places. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. End-papers are more notably tanned. Binding remains firm. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end-papers. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with tears and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine.

trade paper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Signed by Author Author States Only 20 Copies Printed For U.S.A, Signed By Fred Bason, Best Known Of All Cockney Authors, White Paper Wrapper With Printed Paper Jacket, Very Light Edge Wear, Contents Clean, Stapled Binding Tight And Square, Over 17 Years Book Selling Experience.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 13 pages, illustrated. With list of books. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Hutchinson, 1957. Octavo. Green boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Light spotting to page ends. Boards have shelf wear and light fading. No dust jacket. 293 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

hardcover. Condition: Good. ***Please Read*** DUST JACKET A FEW TEARS - NOTE IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK IN PENCIL - NO MARKS ON TEXT - My shelf location 45-E-38*GREIF.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Frontispiece Photo (illustrator). Blue binding with silver title and publisher on spine. This copy is in VERY GOOD condition. 159pp. Indexed. Content clean, bright and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Pictorial softcover wraps. First printing of first edition. Limited to 1000 copies. SIGNED and inscribed by author on title page. "My 14th book and extremely rare, there were only 1000 printed and I have 6000 readers! Sincerely, Fred Bason 1963." Book is in near fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. A slim memoir about the author's life as a rare book and manuscript dealer, and his lifelong obsession with autographed books. 12mo. 19 pp.

hardcover. Condition: Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket + dedication - Rare and Collectable - will send out 1st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Len Deighton dust wrapper (illustrator). 1st Edition. 184 pp frontispiece cartoon by Nicolas Bentley, red cloth gilt title Signed "ello! Fred Bason" on frontis. Cloth a little marked, pages a little tanned, protected dust wrapper tanned and a little edge worn small hole to edge of spine. Signed by Author(s).

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Limited Edition. Inscribed and signed by the Author to title-page. 15pp. Stapled wraps. V.g. Signed by Author(s).

1951, 2nd impression. (hardcover) Very good plus in good dust jacket. 175pp, [1]. 12mo. Red cloth boards; lettering in gold to spine. Dust jacket toned, as common; edgewear; not price clipped, showing 8s 6d net. Binder's wrinkle to ffep. Internally clean. Frontispiece portrait sketch by Ronald Searle.

8vo. 176pp. B/w frontispiece. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A few pencilled margnalia A very good copy. . 2nd impression.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. GOOD: Good Copy of the First Edition of 1955 with a Gift Inscription, signed by the Author - Fred Bason- on the front end paper. Another of his signatures is under his portrait on the Frontis, and yet another signature and short note on page 184 (last page) and the Authors address label on the rear inside end paper. There is a former owner's name in pen on the inside rear end paper. End papers have minor toning and spine is faded. Binding is slightly cocked. Location: V25. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo, Card Covers, with Card Wrap, 14 Pages, Inscription from Author to Title Page. Some Light Marking to Card Wrap, Overall A Very Good Copy in Very Good Card Wrap. Extra Postage Costs May Apply to Overseas Orders. Inscribed by Author(s).

8vo. 160pp. B/w frontispiece. Original cloth in dustwrapper.A very good copy. . First edition.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 18 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: Saturday Books; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Paper covers are slightly marked from shelving; binding is tight; pages are crisp and unmarked; author's signature on title page. Overall, this is a very nice copy with no signs of previous reading. ; 4.5 x 0.1 x 7.1 inches; 19 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. WINGATE FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Condition: Good. 1950. First Edition. 175 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Some small tape repairs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. London: Allan Wingate Ltd, 1952. Uncommon first printing. SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the front free endpaper. With a eight-line inscription to no one in particular, but mentioning that "George will enjoy this!" -- NOT personalized to anyone specifically. Signed a second time by Bason on the dedication page. The book itself is rated only Good due to moderate bumps to the cover only [NO pages are affected]. Internal condition is Very Good+. Very nice Near Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. NOT price clipped (9s 6d net). NO bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. Second volume of this second-hand bookseller's memoirs. Edited and Introduced by L. A. G. Strong. 1952. First Printing of the First Edition with "First published 1952" and no other impressions indicated. Photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Bound in the original pale green boards, stamped in black on the spine. Complete with an unusually nice dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Good condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 159pp. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the AUTHOR.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Frontis. by Ronald SEARLE (illustrator). Second Impression. 12mo, 175 pages, red cloth; edgeworn dj GBS, Maugham, J.Joyce, Z.Grey, GKC, Arnold Bennett, Einstein, Hitler, A.Huxley , Rackham, Yeats, H.G.Wells. Frontispiece portrait of Bason by Ronald Searle. Jottings by famed rare bookman, Bason, who persisted to produce the bibliography of Somerset Maugham. With a full-page inscription on New Year's Day, 1952, to bibliophile Dr. John Pounder, of Pennsylavania. " The book trade has been nice and kind to me. And my side-line as a greyhound tipster had been O.K. as well". :My best and biggest and most startling find of this trip has been to get in the flea market (some three miles ouitside Paris) forty-five copies of ALICE IN WONDERLAND, all in English, all dated 1885, all the 74th thousand, all red cloth, all done up with a bit of rope. A real mystery find, so utterly unexplainable. Why did forty-five copies of the same edition get together and stay together?".

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. North Shields, 'Published in a limited edition and presented with the compliments of Tyne Brand Products Limited', 1961. Duodecimo, 14 pages. Wrappers slightly sunned about the spine; an excellent copy. Inscribed and signed 'My friend A.G. Miller gives you this. We hope you enjoy it. Fred Bason'. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Clothbound. Very Good +. First Printing. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 184 pages. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED twice by author. Front end paper reads ' Your friend- our friend- Norman Brydon hopes this unusual bbook will give you pleasure. I do so as will. Me? I wrote it. Very Sincerely, Fred Bason". Also signed and inscribed on last page of text " If, IF, I've pleased you do speak kindly of this book, Fred". Signed by Author(s).