Looker Samuel Editor (29 results)

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

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (nature, natural history, country life) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.…

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 156pp. Frontis and 57 other illustrations. The Worthing Cavalcade. Navy cloth boards, gilt lettering, slightly crushed bottom front corner.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition dust jacket. Previous owners book plate on front end paper. Kight foxing to page edges.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 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. Briscoe, E. E. (illustrator).

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: Good. No Jacket. 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. Will F. Taylor (Photographs) (illustrator). Book.

Hard Back/Hard Covers. Condition: Good ++. Dustjacket Poor. 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. Parker, Agnes Miller (Illustrators) (illustrator).…

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Published by The Grey Walls Press Ltd in 1948, here is the first hardback printing of The Nature Diaries and Note-Books of Richard Jefferies edited with an introduction and notes by Samuel J Looker. Green cloth binding, gilt spine lettering, 291 pages the book is in good condition with some light marking to the rear cloth cover. The dust jacket is fair plus with some rubbing to the folds, corners and edges plus a few tears to the top edge and corners.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 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. Luckett Jefferies, Richard; Luckett Jefferies, John (illustrator). Used.…

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. …

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.…

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover with removable plastic covered unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is marked and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked. Board corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block, endpapers and the occasional page within are lightly tanned and foxed. Binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW. Used.…

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. 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. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2nd printing. Both book and dust jacket show use.

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).…

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).…

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

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.

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

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

Condition: Very good. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition (no dust jacket).I/8 " split to top of spine. Internally clean and tight.

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

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A smart first edition of this charming book on cricket, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. A lovely little book and really scarce in the original pictorial dust wrapper The Beechwood Books. With a colour frontispiece and illustrations to the endpapers. A collection of essays and short pieces on the game of cricket, with chapters entitled: Hambledon Men, The Charm of Cricket, Cricket in the Past, Giants of the Past, "Lord's", Batting, Bowling, The Game in Fiction, and more. Edited with a foreword by Samuel J. Looker, a British poet and writer. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light fading to the extremities and the odd small mark. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and minor chipping to the extremities. The odd small closed tear with small marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…