Introduction Alec Waugh (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Moderate scuffing/sunning to outer slipcase, covers clean and square, book block clean and square, binding good.

Hardcover. Condition: fine. NOT an ex library book. Book with dark red leather binding. Raised bands across spine, print and decoration in gold. Gilt on all three edges. Moire endpapers. Clean pages with ribbon marker.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. No dustjacket. Light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Dark navy-blue flexible binding - somewhere between hardback and softcover. Titles faded off spine. 768 pages - thinner paper so only about 1 inch thick.pages. Ink writing back of flyleaf o/w pages very clean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardcover, in dustjacket. Rubbing at the edges, and some mottling, mostly near the spine extremities. Spine extremities bumped. Previous owner gift inscription inked on the verso of the front flyleaf. Page edges age-darkened, and with some freckling. Else pages clean. DJ has edgewear and tears. Loss at the DJ spine extremities, and a tear at the lower front spine edge and across the spine. Some soil & age-darkening to the DJ. Ink scribble on the DJ inner front flap. ; 30B; 7-1/8" x 4-3/8"; 768 pages.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1/1600 copies signed by the illustrator, Lajos Szalay. Quarter green buffalo calfskin with hand-made marbled paper covered boards. Blindstamp of prior collector, one sentence underlined on page vi. Slipcased. Lajos Szalay (illustrator). Signed.

Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket as issued. Collector's Edition. xvi + 187 pp, Introduction, a novel with 8 color illustrations & numerous b&w drawings. 6.5" x 9.5" black leather boards, gilt design, lettering, and text block all around. with notes from the archives, replica library catalog cars, and unused bookplate laid in lossely. in full Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, (born October 28 [November 9, New Style], 1818, Oryol, Russia-died August 22 [September 3], 1883, Bougival, near Paris, France), Size: Octavo. Szalay, Lajos (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Smaller sized hardcover with half bound, marbled boards, no dust jacket, in very good condition for its age. Title label attached to the spine is creased front side. Spine ends are slightly bumped. Page block is blemished and bumped in places. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.…

[Haynes, E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock], [1877-1949]. Waugh, Alec, [1898-1981], Introduction. A Lawyer's Notebook. London: Martin Secker, 1932. [2], 246 pp, 1 leaf. Three-quarter cloth over marbled boards. Paper label to spine. Moderate shelfwear. Minor offsetting to endpapers. Some penciling internally. A good copy. $30. * A collection of short essays, notes and personal reflections published anonymously by British solicitor and author E.S.P. Haynes. Although it was printed without the author's name, readers quickly recognized Haynes's distinct wit, vast learning and highly independent opinions. The book became a major literary success.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LIMITED EDITION. 4to. LIMITED SIGNED EDITION, one of 1500 copies, SIGNED by the illustrator. T.e.g. Bumping to fore-corners. Some soiling and shelfwear to slipcase. VG in VG slipcase. Illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First thus, limited to 1,600 copies, hand-signed by the illustrator, Lajos Szalay. Book in fine condition; slipcase with toning along margins and mild shelf wear, else fine. Lajos Szalay (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 272. Original publisher's cloth binding in beige shot with orange, lettered brown at spine, with orange abstract print. Dust jacket in ivory, lettered black with a Wood cut of a rocky landscape. Endpaper map of America showing the route of the girl who hiked alone across the United States. Autobiography of "an American girl, in the middle Twenties. To say 'modern American girl' would be to evoke a picture of speakeasies, nightclubs, cocktail and petting parties. Yet 'modern American girl' would be the accurate label, for only in these last ten years would it have been possible for a girl to have done and written of the things this book describes; and in no country but America." Very good in very good dust jacket. Faint wear. Dust jacket slightly marked and nicked at edges. Decent copy.…