Lord Byron Quennell Peter Editor (5 results)

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 117pp, owner's inscription on endpaper (from the library of John Julius Norwich, and Diana Cooper), text clean and sound, Very Good / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dj w/moderate chipping, in mylar; blue c w/gilt spine titles; owner's name; 701 clean, unmarked pages.

Flex Binding. Condition: Very Good. Fronspiece (illustrator). 1st Edition. Red leather binding with gold print on spine and blind-stamped edge line on front cover. Silk marker ribbon.Grey & white logo wallpaper pattern endpapers. Only defect is light colored water stain in bottom 3" of crease for first 20 pages.Very sound and otherwise unmarked. 703 pages. Slipcase is very good with light wear at spine ends and corner tips.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). A smart biography of Lord Byron with letters and sketches, in two volumes. Two volumes. First edition 1950. Reprinted 1950. A collection of letters, biographical sketches, and commentary on the life of George Gordon Byron, an English poet and peer considered one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement and among the greatest of English poets. Each volume contains a portrait frontispiece. Edited by Sir Peter Quennell, an English biographer, editor, essayist, critic, and historian who wrote on social history. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear. Fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Near Fine. book.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!