Introduction by Viscount Halifax (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Very Good dust jacket. First Edition (so stated). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942. A bright, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (2.50). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are clean and unmarked. From the Dust Jacket: "This is a fascinating and stirring compendium of all the poems about America that the distinguished poet has written. Included are several poems not heretofore published in book form." Bound in the original blue cloth, with printed paper labels (in tan, white and black) on the spine and front cover. . First Edition (so stated). Hard Cover. Fine condition./Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Sisson, Vernon B. (jacket art and interior drawings). 8vo. 134pp. Sisson, Vernon B. (jacket art and interior drawings) (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1937. First edition. xi, 171pp. plus 4 pages detailing the first 'Ghost Book' together with press opinions. Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (1839-1934), was a British Anglo-Catholic ecumenist who served as president of the English Church Union. he was also a collector of ghost stories, and his first volume was published in 1936. This second selection includes the following stories: Exorcism at St. Donat's Castle; The Shrouded Watcher; President Lincoln's Dream; The Ghost of Tintern Abbey; Labedoyere's Doom; and Bishop King's Escape. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with light bumping to the spine ends and top front corner. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has some shelf wear with light soiling and the spine is slightly faded. The corners and spine ends are bumped with a tear of about 1/4" on the top rear spine corner.…