George Goodchild Editor (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. N.d., circa 1915, Frontispiece and owners name(in pencil) on ffep are dated 1915. Illustrated. Very good+/no jacket. endpapers are browned on half of page, scratch on back cover, spine is a little wrinkled. Various (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Color illustrated frontispiece tipped-in. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. Front inner hinge is weak at the title page. Wear to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate on the front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean and bright.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tan cloth, lettered and decorated in brown. Cloth mildly soiled, with spine panel a bit darkened by age, rubbed corners and extremities. Evidence of repair to front hinge and at main title, with short tear to title page near binding edge. Handwritten ownership note in fountain ink on front blank preceding half-title. 232 pp., illus. w/ color, b&w plates, including tipped-in color frontis. Scattered light internal soiling. Wear commensurate with age, but still respectable. Scarce. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. [1915] 226+pp. Original white cloth covers, moderately soiled and rubbed. Corners bumped. Spine a bit sunned. Light foxing throughout. Inscription to previous owner on front blank endpaper. Illust. w/ color and b/w plates. Frontispiece is tipped-in color plate.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Issued without dust jacket. 1st Edition. This is a UK first edition hardcover published by Hutchinson circa 1930s. The book is issued without dust jacket and is in Very Good condition with straight spine, sharp corners and lightly softened spine ends.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Kessinger, no date. Soft cover. Book condition : Near fine. appears little read. Facsimile of original first published in 1901 by David Douglas Edinburgh.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 47 pages. Red boards with gilt text to spine and emblem to cover. Top edge gilt, other edges rough cut. Text printed in black, with red running titles. Elaborate floral border on the title page; title page in black and red. Small piece missing from base of spine. A very clean bright tight copy - no marks or inscriptions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Another Edition. A collection of stories by a variety of authors including John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, G. K. Chesterton, W. Heath Robinson, Edmund Gosse, Frank Wright, and others. Well illustrated with full page plates, some in colour. All profits from this book went to St Dunstans, Regents Park, for the welfare of those blinded in the First World War. Not dated, [1915?] Light wear to covers. Light foxing on title page and following few pages and page edges. Size: 250mm Tall, 4to. Book.…

Cloth Bound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1915 first edition with excellent contributions from leading writers such as H.G. Wells and G.K. Chesterton, and superb coloured plates by leading artists such as Heath Robinson and Hugh Thomson. 231-page text in very good, tight, clean condition, with no inscriptions. Light age-browning of blank end papers. Decorated binding in very good, tight condition, with light wear to extremities. See photographs attached. (BM4)). Heath Robinson, Hugh Thomson etc (illustrator).…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Undated, but World War I publication. 226 plus pages with contributions by Galsworthy, Gosse, Eden Phillpotts, H.G.Wells, G.K.Chesterton, etc., etc. Frontispiece (The Blinded Soldier) by Hugh Thomson loose but intact; edges foxed.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This very scarce Jarrold & Sons' Miniature Classics edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's beloved poem The Sensitive Plant, with Ode to the West Wind also included to the rear of the work. This edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Sensitive Plant forms part of the Jarrold & Sons Miniature Classics series. Undated, however dated as having been published circa 1920 using other works in the series.Edited by George Goodchild, a prolific British writer, screenwriter, and director who authored more than two hundred published works.This Miniature Classics edition of the work very scarcely encountered.The Sensitive Plant is one of the later poems written by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Produced during a period of great suffering for the poet, it is a contemplative, dream-like work which describes a garden full of flowers in an allegory for one's place in the universe. Full bound in the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally, generally smart with age toning and a few minor handling marks to the front board's paper label, in addition to rubbing, heaviest to the rear board. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities. Internally, central section of the binding strained. Pages are a trifle age toned however generally bright and clean, with just very mild spotting and a touch of browning at the fore edge. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 9 1/2" x 7 1/2". Illustrated with color and b/w plates by Frank Brangwyn, Hugh Thomson, Harry Folkard and W. Heath Robinson. Original tan pictorial cloth stamped in green and maroon. No dust jacket. Very good (light browning to endpapers). 231 pages. Printed by Jarrold & Sons/Empire Press. With essays by H. G. Wells, G. K. Chesterton, E. Nesbit, John Galsworthy, Robert Hichens, etc. Bookplate of Irish prelate Vincent Lloyd Russell on the front pastedown. Sullivan 274 "Shakespeare and the Germans".…