Langbridge Morgan Charles (44 results)

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 20pp.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. Page edges browning. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 218pp.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 225pp.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 225pp.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Uncut pages. 210mm x 210mm (8" x 8"). 56pp. Vellum spine with marbled boards and gilt titles.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 306pp.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with poor dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 237pp.

Condition: New.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Good. No jacket. Minor storage wear to boards. Previous owner details on endpaper; Tanning and foxing throughout.

Condition: Good. 1919. No edition remarks. 348 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Re-bound. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Some pencil marginalia and affixed typed notes. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning.

Maroon hardback leather cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition with dark brown slipcase. Spine faded. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). vii, 160pp.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Acceptable. PAPERBACK edition. 8 pages. Previous owner's inscription/signature inside cover. Foxing/tanning to cover and text. Photograph available on request.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Late on an afternoon in September a boy, wearing a naval mackintosh and a felt hat, came out of Torquay railway-station and hailed a cab. His figure, his voice, and his manner, which was nervous and a little self-conscious, suggested that his age was about eighteen. He took a handful of change out of his pocket, and, when he had selected from it, with momentary hesitation, a sixpence to give the porter who had brought his luggage, he cast over the few bystanders a look almost of resentment, as if he thought they had been watching and criticizing him. If an older man had intercepted this glance its character might have puzzled him. He would have asked himself how, in eighteen years, a boy, who had obviously known nothing of the poverty and hard usage that age the street urchin, could have made the discoveries about life which were reflected in the face he saw. Not that a man's experience lay in this boy's features; rather did he seem to have lost too early the swifter wisdom of a child. He had developed a faculty of suspicion before the years had taught him what he should suspect. He had faced sorrow before he had learned to distinguish clearly between sorrow and bitterness. A child's pride and the humility that springs from discipline; a love of freedom and an acquaintance with restriction; a hatred of cruelty and a knowledge of its refinements-all these had been mingled in him to the destruction of simplicity. He stood there, on the outskirts of the strange naval world into which this cab was to bear him, a boy whose premature manhood might have caused a perceptive woman to fear for him. She would have seen that he was not physically delicate, and have been glad that his body, at any rate, had power to endure; but she would have noticed, too, and trembled for her discovery, that the boy's lips and eyes suggested an imagination which could throw ugliness as well as beauty into relief. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition with rubbed, darkened and chipped dust jacket. Slight lean to spine. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 434pp.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Previous owner inscription to fep. 210mm x 210mm (8" x 8"). 56pp. Cream vellum spine with marbled boards and gilt titles.

Frontespizio: With an Essay on singleness of mind and a Foreword. In-16° gr. (cm. 18,1 x 11,3), pp. 255. Bross. verde con tit. nero e albatross b/n entro doppia cornice filettata nera e tip. al piatto ant., tit. nero al ds., albatross b/n entro doppia cornice filettata b/n al piatto post., privo di sovr., cornice tip. al frontespizio. Bruniture al ds., strappetto alla cuffia inf., tracce di consunzione al ds., fioriture ai tagli.

In-16° gr. (cm. 18,1 x 11,3), pp. 337 (2) (4) cat. edit. Bross. verde con tit. nero e albatross b/n entro doppia cornice filettata nera e tip. al piatto ant., tit. nero al ds., albatross b/n entro doppia cornice filettata b/n al piatto post., privo di sovr. Bruniture al ds., strappetto alla cuffia inf., tracce di consunzione al ds., fioriture ai tagli.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 348. Original publisher's purple / blue cloth letterd in gilt at spine. Controversial work, never banned but not reprinted until 1968 after CM's death: It "caused a storm in naval circles where it was seen as either wildly untrue or deeply disloyal, or both. The Admiralty had to deal with communications from the parents of midshipmen enquiring if it was an accurate assessment of life in the gunroom" (Laura Rowe, Morale and Discipline in the Royal Navy during the First World War, Cambridge University Press, 2018., p. 28) A little tanned and sun faded at spine else sound VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 348. Original publisher's black cloth. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, "To Chris Arrow-Forston, from Charles Morgan - a return, after many years for W. E. Henley's poems. but no return for all they stood for, Brasenose College Oxford, October, 1919." Slight rubbing to covers and lacking spine strap, overall used, very good minus with clean text. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket (but for some chipping, as pictured). A copy with clean text and price ($2.75) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Prior owner's signature on front endpaper. Morgan was President of PEN International from 1953-56, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1940. This title (the novel) was also published as a play.

Cloth. Condition: Good Minus. First Edition. Cocked, spine faded, heavy foxing and tanning to prelims and closed edges, with some patches throughout, bookplate and owner name to ffep, else pp sound. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Attractive first edition, first printing hardcover in blue faux cloth covers with legible gilt titles on browned spine. Tips sharp, spine ends bumped, micro rub at head of spine, feint age-toning on fep from past laid in clipping, hinges fine, 358pp heavy-gauge text is mint. This is a First edition of Morgan's first novel, based on his experiences in the Royal Navy between 1907 and 1913. As a result it was unofficially suppressed and thus fairly scarce. Morgan was interned in Holland until 1917, after which he was allowed to go on leave to England.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First. viii, 348pp., light wear and fading, corners bumped and slightly frayed, head and foot of spine chipped, nearly invisible crack to about 1/3 to 1/2 of the outside of the front hinge, binding sound. Overall a nice copy of a rare work, one that was almost never published at all - Morgan lost his original MS in the sinking of a transport ship. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

First edition. 348 pp. Spine sunned, else very good in boards with light edgewear. Two ink owner names to the front free endpapers.

Condition: Very good. - British playwright & novelist Charles Morgan's autograph penned in black ink on 2 inch high by 2-7/8 inch wide card stock. Dated "London Feb. 20, 1939" and signed "Charles Morgan". There is light offsetting to the card's right edge and to the verso. Very good. The British playwright and novelist Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894-1958) was born to English & Welsh parents. The relationship between "Art, Love, and Death" was the stated theme of his novels and plays. His work includes: "The Voyage", "The River Line", "Portrait in a Mirror", "A Breeze of Morning" and "The Judge's Story". Morgan was married to the Welsh novelist Hilda Vaughan.

Hardcover. First Edition. 348 pages. Morgan served as midshipman in the British Atlantic Fleet and in China. He served in the British navy during WWI. 'A propagandist description of the cruelty to which junior officers are subjected, the book sold well and aroused some controversy. Then, one day the sale was suddenly stopped. The book was not officially suppressed, and the act has never been openly explained.' from the Charles Morgan entry 'Authors Today & Yesterday' Ed. Kunitz, 1934. First edition (first printing). First issue of the binding. A very good copy in blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Spine is faded, covers are mildly soiled. Edge and corner wear. Endpapers are browned. No dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good. London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1919. First Edition. Signed by Charles Morgan without personalized inscription and dated July 1933. Octavo. 348 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine; dark topstain. No dust jacket. Bookplate of American writer Frederic Prokosch to front free endpaper. Slight lean to boards; edgewear with brief exposure; spine faded. Front hinge starting but binding holding. Minor spotting to edges of text block but interior else unmarked. Very Good.

8vo. Together 3 pp. With 1 autograph envelope. Both to his French publisher Maurice Delamain of Librairie Stock. In the earlier letter, Morgan shares information on a man named Paul Herpeux, possibly a translator or literary agent who had previously worked with Jacques Deval and René Rocher, wondering whether he "is acting for Rocher", even suggesting that Delamain call Herpeux under a pretense: "I am deeply grateful for your letter of 23rd. I will take the advice contained in it & communicate it to my English agent who is corresponding with Herpeux. Herpeux was asked what productions he has been responsible for. He replied that he dealt with The First Legion & Tovarich. Now, The First Legion is Rocher's play. This makes me wonder whether Herpeux is acting for Roger. Do you think it would be wise if you, acting on your sister-in-law's behalf, telephoned to Herpeux in a discreet attempt to find out who he is & whether he is acting for a Directeur? I suppose you ought not to mention Roger. [.] But I leave it to you to do what you think best [.]". - The second letter is to thank Delamain for news concerning the French publication of his novel "The Voyage" and favourable criticism thereof, apparently by Frédéric Lefèvre, expressing his sincere hope that the book "should succeed in France". - Well preserved.