John Hay Beith (75 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Blue cloth; gilt spine lettering. Fourth printing; first published 1914. Illustrated with plates reproduced from pastel drawings by Baumer. Humorous novel by the Scottish author (1876-1952), dedicated to "the members of the most responsible, the least advertised, the worst paid, and th…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp.ix, 238 pages, a very good hardback, publisher's original brown cloth binding with red lettering to the spine and front cover. NOT FROM A LIBRARY and indeed completely clean from any former owner markings. Hard to find outside America, and the only other one in the UK is £98, but…

Condition: Fair. 1915. Third Impression. 342 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Colour frontispiece. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Front hinge cracked. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Heavy tanning to…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Cloth. Uncommon hardcover edition of this charming story of Excalibur/Scally the dog, which was first printed in the "Saturday Evening Post," in June, 1914 (Curtis Publishing Company). Hay, the pen-anme for Beith (1876-1952) was a Scottish schoolmaster, novelist, and pla…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This volume continues Ian Hay's celebrated account of the First Battalion of Kitchener's Army, following his earlier The First Hundred Thousand. Written with humor and realism, it chronicles the daily life, camaraderie, and endurance of British soldiers on the Western Front.…

Condition: Fair. 1915. 2nd Impression. 342 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping.…

hardcover. Condition: Good +. First Edition. Small octavo (approx. 5" wide by 7 1/2" tall) blue cloth covers gilt titles on top cover and spine. Spine titles dulled, and wear at head and foot of spine. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper (H.C.C. Newnham) and another former owner inscription on front free endpaper…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 379 pages; Description: x, 379 p. , [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill. ; 19 cm. Genre: Fiction -- Novel. 1st Amer…

Octavo, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Four novellas of the cheerful frothy variety that the author was famous for. During this period of the 1920s he turned to the theater and produced successful collaborations with P. G. Wodehouse, A. E. W. Mason and Guy Bolton, among others. Lightl…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover in Good+ condition, 8vo, 362 pages. Red cloth with spine titles in gold, no copyright date (1917 on title page). Tips and spine ends lightly worn, spine faded and a bit cocked, light soiling to block edges, booksellers tag on back paste-down (Norman, Remington Co., Baltimore-Toledo), p.o. na…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 379 pages; Description: x, 379 p. , [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill. ; 19 cm. Genre: Fiction -- Novel. 1st Amer…