Hore Ruthven Patrick (22 results)

Condition: Fair. 1944. 28 pages. Beige pictorial boards and jacket. 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 crushe…

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Stiff wraps. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. This poem is an homage to George Herbert, the influential Welsh-born, English-educated "metaphysical" poet of the 17th century, state orator, and priest of the Church of England. His best-known religious poems are The Temple, The Country Parson, and J…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd edition. Was Frank Bradlow's personal copy. The dust jacket is shelf rubbed, edge worn and foxed, but remains whole and intact. The boards are strong and sturdy. Internally, Bradlow's ex-libris plate is on the front end page and there is moderate foxing and tanning thr…

8vo (22x14cm), hardback, prelims + 18pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (sunned, grubby, bumped, chipped at head of spine with small tear to upper front with associated creasing, a few little marks and indents). Bumped, foxed, small indent lo left front, bookseller's label at front pastedown, faint offset marks to endpapers,…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket in Protective Sleeve. First Edition. 18 pages. Frontis is b/w photo of the author, who was a Captain in the British Army during WW 2. He was later killed in action. Some foxing on the cover. Overall a nice tight copy, internally clean. Dust jacket has light foxing, p…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 233 pages; blue cloth, gilt spine titles; top edge blue; inscribed and signed by author in blue ink to front free endpaper ("August 1951/ Henry -- with love and thanks for a wonderful visit to Gl--? Castle --/ Patrick"); black & white frontispiece; some wear to extre…

Hardback. First edition. Portrait  of Patrick Hore-Ruthven - b&w Frontispiece. A small book of poems written during World War II by the English poet and soldier Patrick Hore-Ruthven.Foreword by General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Commander-in-Chief, Middle east. Preface by the author's mother. Good condition overall. Som…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Stapled laminated wraps. pp 28. 2 illustrations. No date, c.1980s. World War two poetry. Neat presentation from someone unknown to Ian Gilmour (Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar 1926 Ð 2007) and his wife 'For Caroline and Ian, to remember this Golden Day.' Privately printed…

Small 8vo, in fours. 8.75 x 5.25 inches. 28 pp. Bound in stiff card boards with decorative border enclosing title on front board, in price clipped dust wrapper, which has neat repairs at head and tail of spine. Minor edge wear and browning of flyleaves, otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece. Deco…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Boards and spine are worn and stained. There is foxing and staining on endpapers, edges and some pages. Previous bookseller's sticker on front pastedown endpaper. Binding is a little loose. Else book is in good condition. Edited by Ethel Anderson. Signed by Ethel Anderson. *We always descri…