Introduction Viscount Halifax (7 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).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. 253 pages. Paranormal Activity.

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. First Edition. 8vo.327pp. Illus.,frontis.,maps. Ex-library. Spine sunned, spine and covers rubbed and bumped, spine and covers damp stained, library label and pocket on front pastedown. library label on ffep, palte opposite page 178 has at some time become detached and replaced opposite page 176, foxed. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This copy has some corner bumping, edge wear. Rubbing of the covers. Very small spot of board showing on the bottom corner of the back cover. Hinges and gutters are solid but have early foxing of the endpapers. Interior text has yellowed slightly with age, tight in binding. A good copy.…

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Lord Halifax's Ghost Book by Charles Lindley (First Edition) A firm copy with moderate wear to spine edges; bumping to corners. Small crease to top edge of front and rear cover. 1" tear to the bottom left corner spine hinge cloth. Small book seller label to front free endpaper. Chipping to dust jacket edges. Minor tears in dust jacket hinges. Nice shape for such a thin dust jacket. First published October 1939. First Edition thus published as one volume. Tan cloth with reddish brown lettering. Bottom edges untrimmed. 413 pp. Viscount Halifax(Introduction) (illustrator). BOOK.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. "One of the hobbies of the late Lord Halifax was the collection of gruesome tales of the supernatural. Of the great number, told to him by friends and acquaintances, which he recorded during his long life - the best are published here for the first time. Includes stories connected with famous English or Scottish mansions, while their veracity is vouched for by many distinguished persons and in one case by the late King. With an introduction by his son." - dust jacket. viii, 244 p. First printing. Bit of insect damage inside front board. Faint erasures atop front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Binding tender but intact. Average wear to original black cloth brightly lettered in gilt. Above-average wear to clipped dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A worthy example of the rare first edition.; 8vo.…