John Leale (14 results)

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Light wear to boards. Content has spotting and the previous owners name on the ffep. Good DJ with some edge wear, toning and marks.

Condition: Good. 1957. First Edition. 106 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with tears and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine. …

Condition: Good. 1957. First Edition. 107 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white illustrations by Sillince. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. More pronounced to endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Marked sunning to spine and edges with some crushing to ends. Unclipped dust jacket. Panels to dust jacket have heavy edge wear with chips, tears and areas of loss.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. .106pp. Stamped picture of 'The Saint and the Boy' on front cover. Title, author and Publisher colour stamped on spine.Store mark on inside free front endpaper and foxing on endpapers and edges otherwise very good cond. .DJ chipped on spine and edges and browned. B&W illus for every story. Very nice paper stock Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The book is clean and unmarked. The dust wrapper has some small chips and is not price clipped. Sillince (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Plus. Soft cover. Flat covers. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref m9.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. 1st Edition. Signed By Marion Leale.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Black Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 192pp. Signed by the editor & 18 contributors: Gavin Ewart, Peter Porter, Pamela Lewis, Anna Adams, Wes Magee, Kit Wright, Dinah Livingstone, Elaine Feinstein, Abigail Mozely,l Ian Harrow, W. Price Turner, Alan Brownjohn, John Mole, B.C. Leale, Fleur Adcock, Harriet Rose, Farida Majid, James Berry & illegible! Small stain on rear panel of dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Ed Thus. Wraps. 8vo. Stapled wraps. pp 32 (unpaginated). Reprinted from the Guernsey Evening Press. Wraps slightly creased, some splitting at spine ends, short closed tear at top edge, spine and edges slightly sunned, pages browned ; VG- with clean text .

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. red bds with blue tiles to spine & blue outline vig to front. bds lightly faded & soiled. faint pencil inscrip to fep. b/w illus. Sillince (illustrator).

Tall 8vo. 311, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., 21 photo illustrations. Sailcloth publisher's binding by Cardoza as issued, cover illustrations by L.B. Haste (slightly shaken), w/ d.j. cover art of sidewheeler ferry on San Francisco Bay by Haste (minor creasing, couple minor closed tears, slight rubbing), still NF/VG bright copy, inscribed by compiler and editor, Marion Whitfield Leale, September, 1939. First edition, 1 of 1000 copies, and inscribed by the editor & compiler, John Leale's daughter Marion of this remarkable autobiography from the original manuscript of this pioneering steamboat, and ferryboat captain venturing up the Sacramento River among the tule rushes, and crisscrossing San Francisco Bay on ferryboats. Urged on by famed Alexander Robertson, San Francisco bookseller, John under the encouragement of his daughters had written his autobiography, later substantially added and annotated with interpolations by his daughter. …

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Broadside portfolio. Five broadsides, each measuring approximately 8½" x 12" and with an original Signed etching; the artists are James Parfitt, Cherry Hulls, George Szirtes, Paul Martin, and Clarissa Upchurch. Accompanied by a smaller, letterpress-printed title page and an ad for the Dodman press, laid into a portfolio with printed paper label. The broadsides are fine and the portfolio is just about near fine with some creasing at two corners. Each broadside is Signed by both the poet and artist. A handsome production, printed on handmade paper, issued in 55 sets only. The poems are "Visiting" by John Cotton; "Ad Hoc" by Wendy Freeman; "Offer (For Bernard J. Freeman)" by B. C. Leale; "Daily Mirror Nightly" by Peter Porter; and "The Gatehouse" by Peter Scupham. *OCLC* locates two copies (Delaware, Cambridge).…

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Broadside portfolio. Five broadsides, each measuring approximately 8½" x 12" and with an original Signed etching; the artists are James Parfitt, Cherry Hulls, George Szirtes, Paul Martin, and Clarissa Upchurch. Accompanied by a smaller, letterpress-printed title page and an ad for the Dodman press, laid into a portfolio with printed paper label. The broadsides are fine and the portfolio is fine with a tiny bit of creasing at the corners. Each broadside is Signed by both the poet and artist. A handsome production, printed on handmade paper, issued in 55 sets only. The poems are "Visiting" by John Cotton; "Ad Hoc" by Wendy Freeman; "Offer (For Bernard J. Freeman)" by B. C. Leale; "Daily Mirror Nightly" by Peter Porter; and "The Gatehouse" by Peter Scupham. *OCLC* locates two copies (Delaware, Cambridge).…