Makepeace Gordon (47 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. grey pictorial cover w/black titles; edgewear, front flyleaf missing; 128 clean, unmarked pages+ pubihser's listings; sticker mark on front pastedown. Gordon Browne (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. green pictorial cover; 159 clean, unmarked pages; owner's name; in mylar protective wraps; no date given (circa 1920?). Gordon Browne (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Third only of four volumes of Thackeray's letters. Reprint, originally published by Harvard in 1946. Hardcover, full blue cloth, gilt titling. Light wear, near fine but for bump to base of spine; no jacket, possibly as issued. Text clean; viii, 695 pages; index of correspondents, manuscript facsimile, folding map, b/w plates. Size: Large Octavo. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. An upper-left stapled handbook measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing five sheets printed on one side. No date, although 1980. Possibly associated with a press kit, which I do not have. Containing the cover sheet with primary production credits; list of The Cast of Characters; list of The Credits; The Filmmakers Wish to Thank. Front cover lightly age-yellowed.…

Soft cover. Condition: VG. A VG or better folded original release 27 x 41 one sheet. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine+. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. The Heritage Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1945. First (1st) Edition Thus. Near Fine+ condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, soft white, tight, straight and square with no markings other than the remains of occasional erasures of underlining in pencil in the first 63 pages. The Binding is fulll reddish-brown cloth, color uniform throughout, with design, title and author in bright gilt to the front board, the same to the spine, off-white endpapers unmarked except for a prior owner's name plate on the front endpaper, and all corners square and sharp. No Dust Jacket. Twelve (12) color illustrations by Gordon Ross on unnumbered pages. xi+198 pages, including the Prefatory Notes by William Makepeace Thackeray, XXVI chapters, Translations of the Mottoes and Some Notes, etc. 6 3/8" x 9 1/2". Sir Roger de Coverly is a fictional character, devised by Joseph Addison, who portrayed him as the ostensible author of papers and letters published in Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's journal. The Spectator. The name of the character is taken from the name of an English and Scottish country dance from the 17th century, which is also referenced, inter alia, in a short story, "The Bedford-Row Conspiracy", by Thackeray. Gordon Ross (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Thus. Very good clean tight copy. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged. Gordon Browne (illustrator).

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket Has New Mylar Cover. -----------Dark red cloth, gilt spine letters and cover design, very thick book, 2 1/4" thick, and 9 1/2" tall. 853 pages, with frontispiece and 25 other illustrations.NEAR FINE CONDITION- - dust jacket chipped, torn and rescued now and protected.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Text is clean. Grey cloth shows normal wear, light bump to head/base of spine. Dust jacket shows edgewear, some rubbing along folds. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Includes introduction by Gordon Ray. ; Toledano bindings style '8', Kent Endpapers, dust jacket style 'h5', listing 348 titles. ; The Modern Library; Vol. 80.3; 615 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 'Now first reprinted'. The first reappearance of Thackeray's reviews and articles for the Morning Chronicle, that he published anonymously before finding fame and unlike his other anonymous writing, was never republished by him. Contains reviews of Disraeli's Coningsby and Sybil among others. Quarter cloth with decorative paper. Mild shelf-wear and bumping to edges. Tanning to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good.…

LACKS D/W; super octavo hardcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good or Better. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. (No Date) 160 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ a light yellow discoloration to front board. Light foxing to edges of text block. DJ lacking spine. Large piece missing from top edges of front and rear panels. Small chips to corners. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Gordon Browne (illustrator). …

Condition: VG+/Good+ (see notes). 1st US. 8vo. 2700+ pp. NO INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY. DJs have some chipping at top, v. IV has. chip bottom spine, spines of DJ toned, couple drip spots. No international or priority please, but we will send the set media. mail at the single book shipping price.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Interesting Inscription written by the previous owner and signed " Visit to General Motors Works at Port Elizabeth. South Africa 2nd July 1931"? Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 230 pages. There is black lettering on the spine and front cover. The boards are a touch edge worn. There is foxing around the block of the book and on the early and last pages, little within the body of the book. All pages are accessible. The binding is secure. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Cover. Good green cloth hardcover with pictorial cover, color frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations by Gordon Browne no date (circa 1910) cover has some wear, hinges worn. Browne, Gordon (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Reprint. Modern Library no. 80, Fall 1950 printing. Tanning to paper and soil to outer edges. Price clipped DJ has edge/rub wear, chipping, a large piece missing from the rear panel, tears, creasing and light soiling. DJ artwork by Edward McKnight Kauffer. Actual book for sale pictured. 12.8 x 18.5 x 2.9cm, wt600g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 254pp, bw ills. Blue cloth, no jacket. Spine faded with title over-written in blue ink, endpapers toned with small bookseller label on front pastedown, both hinges cracked but holding. Stories of big game hunting in Africa. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 358 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN 95050472 ; LC Z2014.P7 B39 1997 ; ISBN 9780847819584, 0847819582 ; OCLC 33818867 ; black and tan cloth in photographic dustjacket ; The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture ; Contents: Foreword / by Paul LeClerc -- Introduction / by Rodney Phillips -- The magical value of manuscripts / Dana Gioia -- Poems and papers. John Donne -- Alexander Pope -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Leigh Hunt -- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Emily Bronte? -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Lewis Carroll -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rudyard Kipling -- Thomas Hardy -- Charlotte Mew -- Hilaire Belloc -- Oscar Wilde -- Ernest Dowson -- William Butler Yeats -- James Stephens -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Rupert Brooke -- Issac Rosenberg -- Humbert Wolfe -- Anna Wickham -- D.H. Lawrence -- Robert Graves -- Elinor Wylie -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Robinson Jeffers -- William Faulkner -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- T.S. Eliot -- Marianne Moore -- E.E. Cummings -- Vladimir Nabokov -- W.H. Auden -- Louise Bogan -- Kay Boyle -- Lorine Niedecker -- Louis Zukofsky -- Charles Olson -- Stanley Kunitz -- Jean Garrigue -- May Sarton -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Delmore Schwartz -- Dylan Thomas -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Howard Moss -- Richard Wilbur -- Jack Kerouac -- Allen Ginsberg -- Gary Snyder -- Robert Duncan -- Denise Levertov -- Robert Creeley -- James Schuyler -- Frank O'Hara -- Kenneth Koch -- Ted Berrigan -- Ron Padgett -- Anne Waldman -- Donald Justice -- Samuel Menashe -- James Merrill -- Amy Clampitt -- James Wright -- W.S. Merwin -- Anne Sexton -- Sylvia Plath -- Philip Levine -- Jean Valentine -- Adrienne Rich -- Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Mark Strand -- Louise Glu?ck -- Charles Simic -- Ai -- Dana Gioia -- Julia Alvarez -- The Prado of poetry : a history of the Berg Collection / Dana Gioia -- Suggestions for further reading -- Checklist of illustrations/permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index ; Based on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented. Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" and W.H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks"--Make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

8vo; original red cloth, lettered in black on spine and upper cover; no dustwrapper (likely as issued); pp. xii + 230; plates. Presentation inscription from expedition member Billie Williams to frontis. A very bright, clean copy. Very good condition. "Using a Chevrolet sedan and a one-ton truck built at the new Port Elizabeth plant, this well-organised safari, which was even equipped with wireless transmitting and receiving equipment, struggled through to Cairo and on via the eastern Mediterranean coast to Stockholm in nine months." - R. H. Johnston: Early Motoring in South Africa, p. 147. "The Chevrolet Expedition organised by General Motors South African Limited, Port Elizabeth, left Capetown on March 7th, 1928, and arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7th, 1928. The Expedition consisted of a sedan car and a one-ton truck, the aim of the journey through three continents to Stockholm being to prove the endurance and reliability of these vehicles. The trip was one of the most gruelling feats of endurance performed in modern motor cars, for the journey through the African continent was begun at a time when Central and East Africa were in full flood, and when transport of all kinds in those areas was practically suspended. . It is my aim to tell you of some of the wonderful things we saw along that great road of romance and adventure, the Great North Road to Cairo and beyond, and I want you if you will to laugh with me along the way." - from the author's foreword.…

Hardcover. Four volumes. Fine, clean & tight condition / published without dust jackets.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. NO JACKET. Hardback 1955. inscription by the Editor: "With dearest wishes Gordon N. Ray 17 September 1955". No other inscriptions. Clean & tight. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref m68. William Makepeace Thackeray Contributions to the Morning Chronicle. Edited by Gordon N. Ray.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ex-college libray copies, library book plates are the only markings. Dust jackets have some chipping and have browned spines. Vol. 1 has chipping to the top spine end. Maps at the end of Vol. 2 & Vol. 3 are creased at the outer edges. Vol. 3 has chipping to the front spine corners. Vol. 4 is missing approx. 1 1/4" from the top spine end. ; Four volumes in two slip cases. Slip cases have some edge and corner wear.…

Black hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition thus. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Splits to spine. 210mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 60pp + plates. 21 plates (8 colour, 8 brown monochrome, 5 sepia). Sample illustrations and text from Vanity Fair and Pendennis, with fold-out sample bindings at rear.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. No publication date; circa 1910. Green cloth with decorated front board & spine. A bit of light rubbing at tips of corners and along spine edges. A bit of light creasing along spine cloth. Else binding very clean. Some darkening on half-title page and on last 2 blank pages (appears to be from acidic paper laid-in). Frontis tissue is missing. Else pages are very clean; illustrations clean & bright. All illustrations are present. Nice copy. ; CHH15D; 159 pages. Illustrated by Gordon Browne (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original red cloth protected in mylar. xii, 230pp + 40 b/w photo plates (collated complete). The covers would be very good if not for a 1cm patch of loss to the upper hinge, with spine faded. The interiors are fine with spotting and foxing, with previous owner's name pencilled to the front pastedown. The expedition for General Motors South Africa included Clive Victor Hume Lacey (Leader), Gordon Makepeace (Motor Editor of The Johannesburg Star, and representative the Argus Group), Billy Williams (cinematographer), Wally Williams (wireless operator), and Tonge Simon (Zambian general assistant). Travelling in a Chevrolet sedan and a one-ton truck, they left Cape Town in March and arrived in Stockholm in December. They travelled via Rhodesia, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, the Balkans, Switzerland, France, and England. They aimed to "prove the endurance and reliability of these vehicles", and the trip proved to be "one of the most gruelling feats of endurance performed in modern motorcars - when Central and East Africa were in full flood" (p. xi). During the expedition Makepeace prepared the "Cape to Cairo Argus - The First Newspaper ever produced on a Trans-continental Motor Run" which went through at least 2 issues, reporting on progress. …

Hard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. Complete four volume set. First editions. Hard covers in original cloth. Published Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945 - 1946, first printings. 8vo., 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", clxxiii+522; viii+853; viii+695; x+586pp., illustrated throughout with plates, drawings, maps and facsimilies - some fold-out. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles. Spine titles slightly dulled, else very good, clean, attractive set, bright, unmarked. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4 volumes. Some fading of boards and spines.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. very good hardcover. Minor cosmetic wear in some volumes. 4 VOLUME SET.