Introduction by Alan Ross (7 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good (no DJ). Later printing. 12mo, 421 pp. A good reading copy with boards a bit handled and worn, light superficial insect damage to rear board, stain to bottom edge and edge of front pastedown, page edges tanned, small stain to Table of Contents page; text clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a clean, unmarked copy with light outer wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First British edition, first printing, with "First published in England in 1949 by The Grey Walls Press Limited" stated on the copyright page. NEAR FINE book without dust jacket. Bright, tight and square with no sunning, bumping or edge wear. Just some slight surface wear to the boards. Flawless interior with bright, clean pages. No previous owner markings.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good to Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good + D. J. First Printig. CLEAN Very Good to Near Fine 1957 first edition hardcover with good + dust jacket. Includes errata slip. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear, some short closed tears and chipping to top and bottom of largely brick red jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, slight creasing to bottom inside flap, not price clipped (21s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 320pp. Twenty five stories by Ring Lardner, illustrating his ability to depict diverse aspects of turn of the century American life with insight and wit. Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (1885-1933), was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, baseball, marriage and the theatre. His contemporaries, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, all professed strong admiration for his writing and author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him. Sadly he died young from complications of tuberculosis, aged 48. Very scarce with jacket. Jacket by Harvey (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1989. Expanded edition. John Murray. London. 1989. Expanded edition. Hardback, octavo; blue cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. xviii, 217 pages. Illustrated with several b&w drawings. English. 240x160mm. 0.55kg. Very good, in very good dust jacket; slight shelf wear, not price-clipped; slight spotting to edges. The expanded edition of the journals of the Neo-Romantic artist Keith Vaughan. Vaughan recorded his artistic and personal thoughts in notebooks throughout his life. A selection was published as Keith Vaughan. Journals & Drawings 1939-1965 in 1966 and this new edition includes entries from the final turbulent decade of Vaughan's life. Some drawings by the artist accompany the text. Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller.…