Mackenzie Compton Et Al (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1922, Brentano's, HB (no dj) 231pp, Fair (edges and corners worn, front flyleaf missing, previous owner's book plate, interior clean and unmarked, hinges loose, paper title plate on spine chipped).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 320pp. Classic illustrated children's annual style publication with short stories and factual articles. Some wear, but still a tidy copy, one prelim. page is missing and there is light foxing on the early and late pages. Please email with any queries. 7"x10".

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. tear to spine. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Rebound in red library buckram; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. An Edinburgh University "rag week" publication, 19. Contributors include: Hugh MacDiarmid, Compton Mackenzie, Ogden Nash, A.D. Mackie, Nigel Tranter, Georges Mikes, Lady Cayley, Prof. W. L. Renwick, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Alan Tait, Peter Kennedy, Dolores Wright. Wonderful advertisements throughout. Small patch of foxing to top of pages for most of the book and neat ink doodles on front cover. Otherwise in a very good bright condition and a scarce item. Frank Renwick (illustrator).…

Magazine. pp268-357 + ads, 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos, drawings, cartoons, playscript, etc., worn magazine in original stapled yellow & black wraps. Also: I Look at the Theatre by Mackenzie. The Tributary Theatre. Sam Jaffe in Grand Hotel photo. Tantivy Towers: two scenes. Playwriting as a Profession. Arkansas Goes to the Show. Russian Character Makeup. Mardis Gras in New Orleans. Orozco's murals at Pomona.…

Hardcover. Condition: very good/very good. Quarto. 10" x 7". 220pp. Patterned cloth covers. In dust jacket. Eight color tipped in plates and others in black and white. Dust jacket has a few tears and some loss at spine.

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). A very heavy book of 978 pp. Complete dustjacket. A very clean copy. Classic writing on cricket - articles include Neville Cardus on Sobers, John Arlott on M C Cowdrey, Compton Mackenzie 'Shillings for W G', A Middlesex Century, The Dreaded Cypher etc.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. Contributed by; Compton Mackenzie; Maurice Hewlett; Robert Ross; Walter Crane; T. Sturge Moore; Harold Monro. 47pp. Pages rough cut. Some rubbing to boards. A decent copy. (p2).

Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. Stiff Boards. Limited. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 47 pp. Only names of interest among the poets contributing are Compton Mackenzie, Harold Monro, Ernesty Rhys. Light stains on front and rear cover. Some chips out of spine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. Contributed by; Compton Mackenzie; Maurice Hewlett; Robert Ross; Walter Crane; T. Sturge Moore; Harold Monro. 47pp. Slight wear to boards. Pages rough cut. A decent copy. (p2).

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Booklet, stapled, colour front cover by Edward Ardizzone. 30.5cm x 24cm. Pp. 885-960. Illus. Slight wear to covers. Pages somewhat age-discoloured. A decent copy. (p6).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardback annual, 1939, with no jacket as issued. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - green cloth boards, with pictorial on-lay to front, a touch rubbed and darkened with small nick to cloth at spine tail and slight bump to upper front rh corner tip. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends with a little light spotting here and there but text, illustrated endpapers and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.…

Condition: Gut. 18.3 cm x 24.8 cm. Frontispiece, 246 pages. Black and white and several tipped-in colour-illustrations. Illustrators include Harry Rountree, C.T.Nightingale, Maria Wolff, Mary Baker, Audrey Teago, Josephine Leslie etc. Original Hardcover. Decorative cloth boards. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns. Good+ condition. Binding a little shaky but holding with endpapers intact. Minor wear and rubbing to cover. Moderate foxing to edges. Minor foxing to pages throughout. Many previous owners names in ink to half-title and title pages. A few colour markings throughout. Pages separating from book block in places. Includes for example the following stories: The Nixie From Rotterdam by Olive Dehn / Spikey Toes by Madeleine Nightingale / The Wolf, The Hare and The Hedgehog by Valery Carrick / The Stairs That Kept On Going Down by Compton Mackenzie / Seven For A Secret by Hugh Chesterman / The House-Book by Malcolm Taylor / Annabel in Africa by Josephine Leslie etc.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Publisher Travel Press, Edinburgh 1934. In blue boards with gilt lettering. Boards badly faded and damaged, corners bumped but contents in very good condition. Tight binding, all pages intact, no markings or inscriptions. 24 articles by various authors including Compton Mackenzie and John Buchan, comprising the entire issue, without advertisements, of the SMT Magazine published on 1st June 1934.…

Hardback. Condition: VG. No DW. 1st Edition. Grye-green boards with five brown circles at top. Brown elather spine lettered in gold. 256 of 350 copies. Signed at limitation by Glen and Penrice. AN EX LIBRARY BOOK with library marks only on spine, title page and limitation page. Else Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Large octavo. 256pp. Original red cloth with gilt titles. Very good indeed in a very good, slightly worn and rubbed dust jacket with slight chipping and tearing at top edge.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The first American edition of the third Joy Street annual, a richly illustrated children's anthology featuring A. A. Milne, Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, and many others, in the scarce original pictorial dust wrapper. In the publisher's original patterned cloth binding. First American edition, published in 1925, following the British first edition issued by Basil Blackwell earlier the same year. Illustrated with eight tipped-in colour plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Vera Hibbert, Doris Palthorpe, A. H. Watson, Hugh Chesterman, Harry Rountree, W. G. Raffe and others. Collated, complete. Complete with the scarce original unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, designed by Alec Buckels. The third volume in the Joy Street series, an annual anthology of prose and verse for children, bringing together stories, poems and imaginative pieces by a distinguished group of contemporary writers In the publisher's original patterned cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight fading to spine with slight rubbing to extremities resulting in minor fading to the pattern. Very slight discolouration to perimeters of boards with one or two very slight marks. Dust wrapper, generally smart. Slight edge wear to extremities resulting in the odd chip, closed tear, and crease, more so to spine ends, with slight loss. Spine slightly sunned. Minor rubbing to wraps. Slight colour offsetting to inside wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with light age toning to fore edge. Near Fine. Vera Hibbert; Doris Palthorpe; A. H. Watson; Hugh Chesterman; Harry Rountree; W. G. Raffe; Et al. (illustrator). book.…

First, Limited Edition. Quarto. 26.5cm. Publisher's burgundy leather spine titled in gilt, over decorated green paper covered boards. 67pp. A little light scuffing to the spine leather, some light discoloration to the upper edge of the boards, strong and sound; internally clean. A very good copy indeed. #47 of 350 numbered copies, with the first 50 copies being signed by the full compliment of contributors including the editor, and illustrator. With a laid in invitation to Hugh Macdiarmid's birthday party, and a brief note of thanks and acknowledgement from Duncan Glen, the editor, to Nathaniel Tarn who contributed the poem "Eagle Hunt." and whose signature can be found on the limitation page. A very attractive contributor's copy with excellent provenance. Signed.…