Knight J C B Illus (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Hbk; Lovely unfaded bright red cloth covers; no handwriting inside eg names; 4 b/w plates; vg; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Illustrated by J C B Knight (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. H/b; illus boards; g; 8vo; 96pp; spine cracking down one side; paper loss on small parts of spine exposing netting; cover edges rubbed; brown mark inside cover - damp? Name on fep with date 1935 written on fep, and pencil marks; sepia frontis; contents generally clean;; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Illustrated by J C B Knight (illustrator). …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Very Good Minus. First Edition. Essays (by various contributors) on relevant topics to mark the retirement of R.L. Graeme Ritchie (1880-1954) from the Chair of French Language and Literature at the University of Birmingham. Topics covered include: Proust and Hardy/'A Semantic Group in Alpine Romance'/'A Bibliography of Eighteenth-Century Translations of Voltaire'/Rene Bruyez/'An Anglo-French Collection of Books in the Royal Malta Library'/Theophile Gautier/Pontigny/'Two French Attempts to Invade England during the Hundred Years' War'/'Ernest Renan and Alfred Loisy'/Taine and the Goncourt Brothers, etc. First Edn., 1949; full green cloth; titling/plain rules blocked in gilt (bright) to spine; xvi+259+[1]pp.; illus. bw. portrait frontispiece. Spine very lightly crushed at tail, but clean/bright/robust; boards clean/robust/quite crisp/very bright; top/fore edges lightly foxed, but pages very clean/crisp/bright; dj. very lightly foxed on front and lightly rubbed at top/bottom edges, with very small nicks to top of lightly scuffed/lightly sunned spine, but clean/complete. No inscriptions. VG in VG- unclipped dj. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Illus. by MARGERY B. ALEXANDER (Frontispiece) (illustrator). Hardback.…