John Manifold (34 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Great book explaining the source of well known Australian folksongs. With line drawings.

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 89pp. Light foxing & toning at edges of text block. Slightly soiled & nicked dust jacket fractionally darkened at spine with light wear at head of spine & head fore corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. Very good, sound, and clean except for old damp damage to the outer edge of the front and rear cover. The dustjacket is missing excep tof three sections that were clipped an glued inside the rear cover.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 85 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Tan Cloth Hard Cover With The Title Stamped In Green On Spine And Front Cover. 85 Pages Of Individual Poems And Verse On Each Page.Clean And Tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 90pp. 21.5cm. Attractive private bookplate. A shop rubber stamp on end paper. Hard cover in worn and slightly soiled dust jacket. A good clean copy [247g].

Condition: Very Good. 12 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: London Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

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

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. VG++. First Edition. The First U.S. Edition of the Australian author's 1st book; shows scant scuffing to top spine end. D.W. shows overall darkening with slight chipping to top edge & bottom corners.

8vo; pp. 176; original cloth in dustjacket, a very good copy. First edition.

8vo, 193pp. A good paperback copy. Spine faded.

89pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, backstrip sunned, . A very good copy. First edition.

Hardback. 1971, First edition. A fine copy in a very good, unclipped d/w with some shelf rubbing.

Stapled wrapper, 14x21.5cm, [12pp]. Good condition. General wear. Tanned edges. Creased corners. Bookseller's stamp at front cover. This item is light and may attract less postage.

8vo, 176pp. A very good hardback copy in a slightly discoloured d/j.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The dust jacket has a bit of wear, with foxing, a few small tears on the edges, and fading. The page edges are moderately tanned. The endpapers are foxed. 176 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. First Edition. Original First Edition Eight Very Good Australian Ballads Broadsides Printed B/W Illustrated Ballads in Card Stock Folder Loose Sheet Music. Red Printed Folder in Good- Shape with Sunning, little tears and creases. The 8 seperate Sheets of Music ballad pages in clean Very Good+ shape. Because the folder that holds the limited edition Austrailia Broadsides has wear the music pages themselver are Very Good and it is sold at a bargain price. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans of Folder, Partial Scan of Sheets..…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book is tight and the pages are clean with some foxing. Covers show heavy fading / sun bleaching and various other light wear and tear. Please see photos.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good PLUS. HARDBACK IN JACKET 1948. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Jacket spine is darkened, with 0.5cm loss at top. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. LAID IN: Review slip. . Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 52.3. Selected Verse John Manifold.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 192pp; yellow faded d/j, green title to spine faded, shelfwear,inscription to fep. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.88. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Edited by Geoffrey Moore. Edges toned, binding sunned to spine with titles dulled to a dark green, some marks to cloth. Uncommon. Very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Slim publication - Uncommon. Stapled 32pp. VG with some light wear and browning at spine.

90pp. 8vo. Original cloth, backstrip a little faded, in dustwrapper. Faint foxing to edges. A very good copy. . First edition. Signed by the author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 7.5" x 5"; 15pp.; saddle-stapled in printed green wraps. Sunning to perimeters of wraps; light bumping to yapped corners; soft crease at top front corner. Contents fine. An early collection of nine poems by the Australian poet, critic, and musicologist. Manifold (1915-1985) studied at Cambridge in the late 1930s, then served as a British intelligence officer during WWII, before returning to Australia in 1949. There he divided his time between literary and leftist political organizations--Manifold had embraced communism in the 1930s--while collecting material for several books on Australian folksong. Much of the work in The Death of Ned Kelly exemplify Manifold's interest in the traditional bush ballad ("The Griesly Wife," "The Bunyip and the Whistling Kettle," etc.), though he also demonstrates his affinity for traditional forms ("Prefatory Sonnet") and poems with social themes ("Nightpiece"). An uncommon publication. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. A very clean copy with only minor signs of wear.

8pp. Original loose sheet music in folder. Folder somewhat sunned and edgeworn. Black and white illustrations to sheet music. A very good copy. First edition. With letter from the Press owner Ron Edwards dated 1955.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Text bright with occasional lightly pencilled annotation, binding firm, light shelf wear to boards. Size: 12mo.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Stapled wrappers. 16pp. 'None of these ballads claim to be historically accurate. Why should they? Several of the Kelly brothers were together at Glenrowan, but popular imagination has singled out Ned for the glory.' A Good copy, outwardly rather rubbed and (as usual) faded, the staples rusty, a little spotted internally and with an old ownership inscription to the inside upper wrapper, but serviceable nonetheless.…

8pp. Original loose sheet music in folder. Folder somewhat sunned and edgeworn. Black and white illustrations to sheet music. A very good copy. Signed and inscribed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, pp. 16; original printed wrappers (faded as usual). Scarce. We will advise postage costs and delivery times, which will vary from those quoted by ABE.

, 16 pages First Edition , fading to margins of wraps, slight rubbing to edges and small mark to fornt cover, small marks to title page, good condition , printed wraps , 19 cm x 13 cm Paperback ISBN.