H Cecil Hunt (9 results)

Condition: Good. 1953. First Edition. 114 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. Light wear to clipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Third Impression. 127pp. Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. External cover has some wear with bottom right corner subjected to loss. Corner of final page also subject to loss. (Text unaffected.) Spine is intact and clear to read. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. "Howlers", "fresh Howlers", "Fun with the Famous". 8vo. Pp, 127, 127, 120. Original orange cloth lettered black. A little wear to extremities. A decent copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. A collection of amuzing 'Howlers' grouped into topics.

Signed copy, Sixtieth Thousand: Paperback, colour illustrated front cover, black tiltles, 120 x 185 mm., 200g., 125 pp., signed and inscribed by the author, H, Cecil Hunt on front cover, foxing to fore-edges and prelims, light edge wear, Good+ copy.

Condition: BUONO USATO. IED. Da revisionare INGLESE Pagine in buono stato di conservazione, lieve fioritura ai tagli, coperta morbida illustrata, leggermente usurata, dorso usurato e con piccoli strappi Numero Pagine 114.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American edtion, 1st printing ; 487 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm ; ISBN: 0517547457; 9780517547458; National Library: 014878580 LCCN: 82-12196 ; LC: PR5812; Dewey: 828/.809 ; OCLC: 8587824 ; purple cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Poems -- Requiescat - Ravenna -- Wasted days -- Madonna mia -- Sonnet to liberty -- The arlot's ome -- On the sale by auction of Keat's love letters -- The new remorse -- To my wife, with a copy of my poems -- The Sphinx -- The ballad of Reading Gaol -- Poems in prose -- The disciple -- The artist -- Prose fiction -- Lord Arthur Savile's crime -- The happy prince -- The nightmare and the rose -- The remarkable rocket -- The selfish giant -- The birthday of the Infanta -- The picture of Dorian gray -- Plays -- Lady Windermere's fan -- Salome -- The importance of being Earnest -- The Gribsby episode -- Lectures and essays -- The Irish poets of '48 -- Impressions of America -- Pen, pencil and poison -- The soul of man under socialism -- Phrases and philosophies for the use of the young -- Letters - De Profundis -- To Robert Ross from Reading Prison -- To the Daily Chronicle -- The case of Warder Martin : some cruelties of prison life -- To Robert Ross from Berneval, France -- To the Daily Chronicle -- Prison reform -- To Robert Ross from Rome ; "Critical introduction and background information accompany selections of Wilde's writings that includes The Selfish Giant, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Picture of Dorian Gray" ; large, heavy volume ; nick on corner of dustjacket, else FINE/FINE. Book.…

Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 8vo pp.127,127,120. book.

1st edition. A collection of humorous (?) mistakes and blunders. Pp.127, occasional minor spots. Yellow illustrated stiff card cover, toned with wear to spine. Good.