Graham Mottram (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Eleventh. GOOD sound binding, spine spotted.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 254 pp. Stated: "First published in the U.S.A. 1980". Following the Editor's Introduction, Contents divided into 11 Essays: (1) Ian Walker, " Black Nightmare: The Fiction of Richard Wright"; (2) Brian Lee, " ' Who's Passing for Who? ' in the Fiction of Langston Hughes"; (3) Theodore L. Gross, "Ann Petry: The Novelist as Social Critic"; (4) Lawrence B. Holland, "Ellison in Black and White: Confession, Violence and Rhetoric in Invisible Man"; (5) William Wasserstrom, "James Baldwin: Stepping Out on the Promise; (6) Eric Mottram, "Towards the Alternative: The Prose of LeRoi Jones"; (7) Frank McConnell, "Ishmael Reed's Fiction: Da Hoodoo is Put on America"; (8) C.W.E. Bigsby, "Judgement Day is Coming! The Apocalyptic Dream in Recent Afro-American Fiction"; (9) Faith Pullin, "Landscapes of Reality: The Fiction of Contemporary Afro-American Women"; (10) Graham Clarke, "Beyond Realism: Recent Black Fiction and the Language of ' The Real Thing ' "; (11) A. Robert Lee, "Making New: Styles of Innovation in the Contemporary Black American Novel"; Index, pp. 251-254. Black boards with brilliant gilt lettering on spine. Shiny black dustwrapper (rear cover solid white with ISBN in small print) not price-clipped (NO price) with Title (large letters) and Editor name lettering (smaller) in red across top half and lower front cover, respectively, Subtitle in white letters across middle front cover. Small amount of rubbing at corners and across top spine (describes worse than it is), essentially As New: Now in Brodart mylar which forgives peccadilloes graciously. Tight Binding, like a New Book (NO cracks); Sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Despite cosmetic flaws, book ensemble looks UNREAD, essentially As New. Gift-Giving Quality or you may need new friends.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. The cover has a bit of wear, with a few scuffs on the edges. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. 96 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition. Limited first edition, number 175 of 312 copies, signed by the author to the colophon. Card wraps with fading and creasing. Very clean text throughout. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 6 x 9.5 inches (15.5 x 24 cm). Paperback. Printed pages: [2], 12, [1]. Signed by Author. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped, top and bottom of spine a little bumped, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clerar.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Mint. First Edition. This copy is in mint, unread condition, bright, white, tight and square, in illustrated card covers as issued. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. Lavishly illustrated with over 136 rare photographs in black and white and colour most from the archives of the R.N.A.S. and puiblished here for the first time. Ref HHH4.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Internally in very good condition, cover has some light wear.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Limited to 300 copies, signed by the author. Slim octavo. (21)pp. Original plain wraps with light creasing, otherwise very good in a slightly creased and edge nicked, near very good dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: V. Good. Unpaginated, (poems numbered). Lt-grey cover, colour faded at edges, w. gilt title and gilt motif on front cover. No.103 of 312 copies printed by Juliet Standing of Stoke Ferry, Norfolk. Nos. 1-300 stitched into wrappers and signed by the author. Printed on Tosa Butten paper. A.L.S. - Hand-written three-line letter dated 17/9/70. Also, folded card entitled 'The Old Picture' , containing hitherto unpublished poem inside, with ink inscription from 'Sophia'. Card sent as a Christmas greeting by the poet's family and Daedalus Press in 1972. Title page. Dedicatory poem by Edmund Blunden. Signed on rear page by the author. Poetry. Nice copy. Rigby Graham (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original card covers in clean, bright condition, in a similar printed wrapper, number 70 from an edition of 312, signed by the author, illustrated by Rigby Graham. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Graham, Rigby (illustrator).…

Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Limited Edition No. 133 of 312 copies, signed by the author on the colophon and printed on cream Tossa Butten paper. Grey wrappers with gilt title and design to front cover by Rigby Graham, plus frontispiece and illustration in text. Facsimile of hand-written dedicatory poem by Edmund Blunden on preliminary page. Unpaginated. Poems numbered and titled. A near fine copy. Rigby Graham (illustrator). Signed By The Author.…

9th edition 1943/1900. The Scientific basis of food and nutrition. 652pp. Maroon cloth with no dj. VG.

dj. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[22]. Number 8 of 300 copies SIGNED by the author. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the grey dust-jacket titled in gilt to front cover. Bumped to corners, with some light handling. Near fine. Signed.

London: Edwin Arnold, 1948. xxvii, 727 pp. Later printing of a popular English book on health and diet. This copy is inscribed by Mottram, one of the editors, "To Stef from his friend V.H. Mottram with a suggestion that he look himself up in the index. June, 1948." The index has six references to Stefansson and his writings on the role of diet in Arctic exploration. This was a theme of considerable importance to the great explorer - particularly survival without carbohydrates. Bound in blue cloth, lightly sunned, but very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Tenth Edition. Presentation copy to explorer Vlhjalmar Steffansons, who led an expedition 1913-1916. Nicely preserved copy, light polished bue cloth, silver pressed titles, no dustjacket. xxvii + 709 p w/ index. Inscribed and signed by Mottram on ffe: "To 'Stef' from his friend/ V. H. Mottraam with a sug-/sestion that he look him-/self up in the index./ June 1948" The index lists six references to Steffenson and his writings about his Artic explorations, that, in part, reflect on the effects of the Artic diet, particularly on surviving without carbohydrates. Unusual association copy.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1901 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 583 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 583 Language: English.…