Looker Samuel Editor (31 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Parker, Agnes Miller (illustrator). Photo - Reprint of 1st Edition. A very good copy of this collection of Jefferies' essays published in the centenary year of his birth. Frontispiece and 7 full page illustrations by Parker with another 16 in the text. Miller and Matthews B36.4. No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. This is a selection of this authors work. With drawings by Charles Whymper. This is a 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket in good condition-the top & bottom of the spines dustjacket is a little chipped, as are a number of edges. (342 pages & 8 pages of introductiion & 4 pages of illustrations).

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG Pc DW. 1st Edition. Name of owner at front of book. Book is in very fine condition with virtually no signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is price clipped. Dustwrapper has internal celotape strengthening.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. there is some foxing of foredges and of dust wrapper but apart from this it is exceptionally well preserved.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Pale blue cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx. 292 pp. First Edition 1948. The first translation of Jefferies' field diaries. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Good (Book- mild general shelf wear/soiling to cloth, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- heavy shelf rubbing to extremities - with nicks/ small tears and loss - max tear 45 mm to rear panel at head-gutter, max area of loss - 20 x 12 mm approx head/fold to front panel, respectably clean, non price clipped - cover 12s6d. No other notable defects to book or jacket). Please state when placing order if you would wish that a removable proprietary protective sleeve be fitted.

Hard Back/Hard Covers. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Poor. Parker, Agnes Miller (Illustrators) (illustrator). First Edition. 215 pages incl. notes. Dustjacket in pieces, tatty around the edges and missing areas of the front panel. Green hardback binding with dulled gilt-coloured titles. Light wear/rubs to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges lightly browned o/w pages clean and sound with attractive B&W drawings. Size: 8" Tall By 5 1/2 " Wide Approx.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Will F. Taylor (Photographs) (illustrator). Another Edition. Illustrated with twenty-three photographs. Green cloth covers. Previous owners name on front free endpaper. Crease on front cover corner. Size: 190mm Tall, 12mo. Book.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Good/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jefferies, Richard; and Jefferies, John Luckett (illustrator). 1st. A good copy of this collection of essays. No inscriptions, and jacket not clipped, though rubbed and slightly chipped at margins. Miller and Matthews B34.1(a).

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Bottom front corner bumped. Small white mark to the rear panel of the boards which have a few other slight patches of discolouration and slight edge wear but are otherwise clean and unmarked. Page edges a little browned and there is light browning and spotting to the endpapers with a little surface tearing over the front hinge at the top of the endpapers but the pages are otherwise unmarked. Jacket has a little chipping at the top and bottom of the spine and to the corners and the spine is browned. First printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. A good plus copy in dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. There are creases on the surface of the front cover but these do not affect the book internally. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 169 pages. 31illustrations including colour frontispiece. A tribute to the late 19th/early 20th century naturalist.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good, clean and sound example. Original binding. No inscriptions. Dust jacket not price clipped, some short closed tears to edges, slightly dust soiled. 156 pages, illus. Approx. size 10.5" by 8". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 27542.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Agnes Miller Parker (illustrator). 1st Edition. 2nd printing. Both book and dust jacket show use.

Cloth. Condition: Good/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Parker, Agnes Miller (illustrator). 1st. A good copy of this collection of Jefferies' essays published in the centenary year of his birth. Ownership inscription on ffep, together with small address label. These are of Miss K M Sewell, who is a collateral descendant of Jefferies. Jacket clipped and chipped. Frontispiece and 7 full page illustrations by Parker with another 16 in the text. Miller and Matthews B36.1.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Navy Blue cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and front, 265 x 195 mm approx. 156pp. 58 b/w illustrations as called for.First Edition 1946 being the second in the Worthing Cavalcade Series on Jefferies. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Boo- negligible shelf wear or soiling to boards, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket - 2 small tears - max 2 cm top front corner, and very mild general shelf rubbing, no notable soiling. No other notable defects to book or jacket, the latter now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve).

Lutterworth Press. 1944. First edition. Hardback with DW. b&w illustrations. Upper board stained to upper edge. Internally clean and tight. DW rather grubby, with peripheral wear, including small open tear to top corner. Overall a very acceptable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Luckett Jefferies, Richard; Luckett Jefferies, John (illustrator). Hardcover in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is worn, marked and sunned, and edges are creased. Board spine ends are slightly bumped, and page block is blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear throughout. LW. Used.

Cloth. Condition: Good Ex.academic Librar. No Jacket. Richard Jefferies & John Luckett Jefferies (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good/fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A very good copy of this 70 page book, edited and with an introduction by, Samuel J. Looker. 10 essays. No inscription, and boards not bumped or cocked.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Rather worn and frayed. First Edition. Illustrated, large octavo, pp 169, clean internally, blue soft cloth a bit stained, the dustwrapper is rubbed, creased and repaired, lacking a small piece on the rear cover but now nicely protected in a removable clear cover.

First edition, 4to, 156 pp. Black and white illustrations. Original gilt titled cloth, d.w. with some soiling to the lower wrapper, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Light overall wear to book, no dust jacket.

Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Scattered small to medium spots of foxing throughout, especially top and fore edges of pages, and owner name on front pastedown (underneath dj flap); dust jacket is foxed too, but not on spine panel, has light wear to ends of flap folds, and a 1/2" tear top of rear spine fold. "Readers will make many discoveries among these little-known masterpieces, many of them never anthologized before."; 64 pages. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper "To Reginald Addyes-Scott / with kind regards of Samuel J. Looker / 'a book to please myself, remember this! But if you like it too 'tis not amiss.' / S.J.L. / February 1942." Additionally laid-into this copy is correspondence and notes from the author to Addyes-Scott: 3-page TLS dated 14.1.42 with discussion of literature of the day; 1-page TLS dated 3.8.42 (in original envelope addressed to Addyes-Scott, Wokingham); 2-page ALS dated 5/5/42 (in original envelope); and a New Year 1943 card plus a second poem card (poem by Looker) (in original envelope). Signed by Author.

First edition. Fine in a near fine d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Previous owner's name and date on ffep.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Small, light stain on front cover; light foxing on pastedowns and frontfly.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Briscoe, E. E. (illustrator). Reprint. London: Lutterworth, 1947. Reprint. 12mo. Cloth binding, gilt titles. 182 pp. followed by bibliography of major titles. Special illustrations by E. E. Briscoe. Near fine in near fine dustjacket.

First edition. 8vo. 291 pp. Cloth binding in clipped dustwrapper, else very good copy. (94103). Introduction and notes by Samuel J. Looker.

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Maud Tindal Atkinson (illustrator). First Edition. A rather scarce nursery book, with 12 superb colour plates & fifty black & white in the text , just the job for bedtime stories.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cloth is heavily rubbed along the spine, corners have some wear. Interior is clean and tight. Frontispiece by Lovat, Beechwood Books series.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Claud Lovat Fraser (frontispiece) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Small 8v. Pp, xxii, 237. End-paper illustrations. Original green cloth lettered and ruled black. A tight, sound copy.