Lord Peter Editor (35 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. PAPERBACK; 987654321pt line. VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT.; Orange & green titles on green countryside paper cover. ; 367pg pages; crime fiction collection that displays the Irish gift for storytelling,

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Soft cover. Condition: FINE+, Near New. Peter Bramley Painted Covers. (illustrator). PBO - Paperback Original (True 1st). 239 pages. CONTENTS = "Three Lines of Old French" by A. Merritt; "The Callistan Menace" by Isaac Asimov; "The Hashish Man" by Lord Dunsany; "The Weigher of Souls" by Andre Maurois; "The Horror of the Heights" by A. Conan Doyle; "Into the Darkness" by Ross Rocklynne; "It Happened Tomorrow" by Robert Bloch; "Exile of the Eons" by Arthur C. Clarke; "Rebellion" by John W. Campbell. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Peter Bramley (front cover) (illustrator). First Edition. ----------paperback. Faint reading crease, former owner name inside, a VG+ to near fine copy.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hector Garrido; (illustrator). Later Printing. Glossy black boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Very light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by Hector Garrido. This anthology contains: Introduction by Ray Bradbury; The Fairies Revenge by Sinead de Valera; Hell Fire by James Joyce; Witch Wood by Lord Dunsany; The House Among The Laurels by William Hope Hodgson; The Man Wolf by Giraldus Cambrensis; The Friendly Demon by Daniel Defoe; The Parricide's Tale by Charles Robert Maturin; The Soul Cages by T. Crofton Croker; Wicked Captain Walshawe by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; Legends of Witches, Fairies and Leprechauns by Lady Wilde; The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde; The Banshee's Warning by Charlotte Riddell; The Legend of Fin M'Coul by William Carleton; Julia Cahill's Curse by George Moore; The Crucifixion of the Outcast by W. B. Yeats; The Man From Kilsheelan by A. E. Coppard; The Dead Smile by Francis Marion Crawford; The Coonian Ghost by Shane Leslie; The Haunted Spinney by Elliot O'Donnell; The Moon Bog by H. P. Lovecraft; and A Wild Night In Galway by Ray Bradbury. Size: 8vo. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: FAIR, Reading Copy. Painted Front Cover. (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 317 pages. "This anthology contains: The Fairies Revenge by Sinead de Valera; Hell Fire by James Joyce; Witch Wood by Lord Dunsany; The House Among the Laurels by William Hope Hodgson; The Man Wolf by Giraldus Cambrensis; The Friendly Demon by Daniel Defoe; The Parricide's Tale by Charles Robert Maturin; The Soul Cages by T. Crofton Croker; Wicked Captain Walshawe by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; Legends of Witches, Fairies and Leprechauns by Lady Wilde; The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde; The Banshee's Warning by Charlotte Riddell; The Legend of Fin M'Coul by William Carleton; Julia Cahill's Curse by George Moore; The Crucifixion of The Outcast by W. B. Yeats; The Man From Kilsheelan by A. E. Coppard; The Dead Smile by Francis Marion Crawford; The Coonian Ghost by Shane Leslie; The Haunted Spinney by Elliot O'Donnell; The Moon Bog by H. P. Lovecraft; and A Wild Night in Galway by Ray Bradbury." >>This is a reading copy. Heavy cover creasing; pen to interior backcover & last pages; store stamp to interior front cover & front end page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in wrappers with modest paper darkening. No hardcover edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 80 pp. Very light wear; no interior markings. The front cover features Chiddingstone, Kent, 16th and 17th century houses. This issue contains: The Best of Britain: The English Country House by Nigel Nicolson; The Adventures of the Mind by Sir David Wilson; A Treasure-House of Art by Sir Peter Wakefield; Protection Through Ownership by Viscount John Julius Norwich; The Cult of Preservation by Sir Hugh Casson; Understanding the World As It Was by Lord Montague of Beaulieu; and Message from The Queen Mother; along with the usual features. Size: 4to. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. Illustrated. Judith Prendergast "Pembrokeshire Graveyard Survey - A First Report" / Paul Cockerham "The Maddern Slate Memorial Appeal" / Peter Lord "A Lincolnshire Gravestone" / Claude Blair and Elizabeth Darby "Spetchley (Hereford & Worcester), All Saints" / Bridget Cherry "London Excursion 23rd November 1985" / Michael Hodges "Reading Day Trip 22nd March 1986" (SL#3).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 164 pages. Illustrated. London Books Fairs, Dorothy L Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey, Forrest Reid, Kenneth Baker interview, Patricia Lynch - Irish children's author, Bob Hope, H E Bates,

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 206 pages. Illustrated. Peter Quennell "1768: The Literary Background" / 1768: London Traffic Annual Register" / Bevis Hillier "1768: The Art Scene" / Brendan Lehane "1768: The Unknown World" / R Prawer Jhabvala "A Course of English Studies" / John Betjeman "Dilton Marsh Halt" (poem) / Hippolyte Bouche "A Journey to America in 1849" / Hubert Van Zeller "Bed and Breakfast" / Osbert Lancaster "Pocket Cartoons (8)" / Lord Kinross "The Opening of the Suez Canal: 1869" / Penelope Gilliatt "Come Back if it Doesn't Get Better" (U.P.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 116 pages. Illustrated. Charles Rivington "Sir Thomas Davies: The First Bookseller Lord Mayor of London" / Stanley Jones "'Bad English in the Scotch Novels'" / A Crawford and A P Jones "The Early Typography of Printed Welsh".

Condition: Brand New. 9.45x6.54x0.71 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Alfred Wurmser; (illustrator). First Edition. (vi) 232 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. This contains writing by: Lord Simon of Wythenshawe; Julian Huxley; Mary Stocks; Bertrand Russell; A. S. Parkes; C. H. Rolph; Jacquetta Hawkes; Michael Young and Peter Willmott; Edward Blishen; J. M. MacKintosh; James Lansdale Hodson; and Sherwin Bailey. Size: 8vo. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 92 pages. Lord Ponsonby "Are We Too Tolerant?" / Marjorie Bowen "The Faith Of A Novelist" / Lord Snell "The Common Heritage Of Man" / Professor J B S Haldane "Why I Am A Materialist" / Llewelyn Powys "A Foot-Path Way Of The Senses" / Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell "The Twilight Of Civilization" / Sir Richard Gregory "Science And Social Ethics" / C E M Joad "The Gosprels Re-Read" / W B Curry "Rationalism And Education" / Ernest Thurthe "The Ebb And Flow Of Freedom" / Henry W Nevinson "The Bible's Influence" / A Gowans Whyte "When The Pope Was Happy" / J W Poynter "The Catholic Ideal Of Sanctity" / John Rowland "The Synthesis Of Superstition" (U.P.).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. FREE SHIPPING IN CANADA,LIGHT READING WEAR,SOME HI-LITING -UNDERLINING,FIRM BINDING.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Catalogue to accompany the exhibition held at the Collection, Lincoln, June 1-Aug. 28, 2007. Contents: Peter DeWint's life and career : 'mine is a beautiful profession' / John Lord -- Peter DeWint and the Lincolnshire landscape : 'the long, extensive distances' / Ian Waites -- Enclosure, drainage and DeWint in Lincolnshire : 'nowt at all but bracken and fuzz' / John Ellis -- The urban man : 'cities and towns . require the pencil; they defy the pen' / John Lord -- Peter DeWitt and the Victorians : 'the mostly truly English of our painters' / Jim Cheshire -- Peter DeWint and Thomas Creswick's paper : 'signed all over' / Peter Bower -- Appendix: a short memoir of the life of Peter DeWint and William Hilton RA / Harriet DeWint. 270 x 245 mm. 208 pp., illustrated throughout, mostly in colour. [ISBN: 978-0853319375] Hardbound. A near fine bright copy free from ownership inscriptions in like dustwrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. Wilson Harris "German Impressions" / Rawle Knox "The Mood Of Eire" / Peter Townsend "Shanghai Now" / E Ashworth Underwood "Jenner And Smallpox" / Lord Milverton "Changes In Borneo" (Papers).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Various (illustrator). Good+ condition in worn dust wrapper in protective cover, octavo, mid brown cloth spine with tan cloth boards, Lonsdale initial and crown in gilt on front, titles and gilt across spine, neat gift inscription dated 1962 on front free end paper, Foyles booksellers label on front end paper, one instance of marginalia - the list of winners of the Grand National stop at 1954, a previous owner has completed from 1963 to 1967. otherwise text is clean and bright and the binding firm, illustrated with a colour plate frontis piece and 69 other illustrations on plates and 5 other illustrations in text (there is a discrpancy between the dust wrapper and the number of plates called for; 334 pages including index. [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 192 pages. Illustrated. 300x235mm. Original publisher's cloth, spine lettered, with original pictorial unclipped dust jacket. 122 full-colour photographs capture the spirit and beauty of Ireland, while 17 essays by the country's leading personalities offer lively insights into the character of its people and its rich cultural traditions. *This copy is signed by Kathleen Jo Ryan and Ciarán MacMathúna.* A near fine copy without any damage, library stamps, inscriptions or other markings. Images and further information available on request. *** WEIGHT OVER 1.2 KG, SHIPPING CHARGE TO AN ADDRESS OUTSIDE OF IRELAND, UK AND EUROPE WILL BE 22.50 EURO ***. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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.

FIRST EDITION Square 4to. brown clothbound hardback, gilt, with dust jacket. 208pp. with colour and b/w illustrations. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Includes loose Exhibition Guide. Dust Jacket has not been price-clipped. VG/VG. (Shelf 25) ISBN: 9780853319375 PLEASE NOTE: Heavy BOOK (1.5kg +) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Condition: Fine. Hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back, drawings to the end papers. Quarto 10½'' x 8¼''. Contains 224 pp with 16 pp of colour plates, 100 monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MONARCHY.

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

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 322 pages. 9.19x6.13x0.73 inches. In Stock.

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

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

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.