Milne a a Intro (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. cover shows moderate to heavy wear, tear, staining, some loss at the extremities. pages tanned with some tidemarks.

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Small format (7" High) book with dark blue covers, paste-on title at spine. Small beastie tooth marks at upper corner front cover, embossed "Saki" at front. 242 pages, solid binding, some foxing over about 20 pages towards the front, small stain at page ends, otherwise text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save back of last page with price from prev. owner. Cute classic. Keywords: Reginald and Reginald in Russia, Unberable Bassington, When William Came, Beasts and Super-Beasts, Square Egg, Mrs. Packletide, Lady Bastable, Adrian, Easter Egg, Filboid Studge. …

FIRST EDITION, lg quarto, illus heavy boards, blue lettering to spine, frontispiece, 87pp, illus, VG- (moderate to heavy warping & bruising to extrems, moderate foxing & tanning to lower board edges, light water staining to lower edge of rear board, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, light foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate chipping to edges with tidy archival tape repairs, moderate foxing, heavy tanning to spine). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 245 pages, frontispiece and the 15 plates by Rackham. Number 1428 of 2020 copies, signed by Bruce Rogers. Some darkening and slight curve to spine. No inscriptions or bookplate; binding sound. Publisher's 'The Inside Story' for this volume laid in. Lacking slipcase. 11.5 x 8.1 inches. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). Signed by printer. …

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. xii, 178 pages, frontispiece and the 11 Rackham plates in colour. Fine binding in red polished calf by Frost & Co. of Bath. All edges gilt. Bookplate to front free endpaper; no inscriptions. A superb example, with no rubbing to edges. 9.1 x 6.1 inches. Howard Pyle, John J. Enneking, Edmund H. Garrett (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Handsome vintage cartoon book by the celebrated British cartoonist Fougasse (aka Cyril Kenneth Bird). Copy is in good condition. Some general wear to the pictorial card boards. Fraying to the corners. Interior is clean and unmarked with solid, secure binding. Due to the size and weight of this book, additional shipping charges will be required. Fougasse [Bird, Cyril Kenneth] (illustrator). …

Full Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Collector's Edition. 190pp. Bound in full tan leather. Two raised bands to spine, moire endpapers, silk ribbon. This edition features color and black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. AEG. Moire endpapers. Tiny smudge to front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1927 1st edition 1st impression. Large format book. Pictorial paper-covered boards. 7 colour plates with verses by E.V. Knox, plus b/w drawings with captions. First appeared in Punch. Condition: Very Good. Some edge wear and browning, cockling to paper on boards in places. A couple of stains to boards. Light foxing to endpapers. Internally clean and bright. Size: 12.5x10in / 32x26cm. 87pp. Weight: 940g. E.H. Shepard (illustrator).…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Egypt Exploration Society / Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1932 - In-4° relié, cartonnage éditeur bleu, titre doré au dos, portrait de F. Ll. Griffiths en noir sous serpente en frontispice, 74 planches hors texte en noir, 503 pages, légères traces du temps (rousseurs sur tranche, légère décoloration au dos) sinon bon exemplaire, propre. Réunion de 75 textes en anglais, allemand et français, offerts en hommage à Griffith pour son 70e anniversaire par ses confrères et collaborateurs égyptologues, classés en huit parties : History - Texts and Philology (Hyeroglyphic and Hieratic) - Texts and Philology (Demotic, Coptic, Arabic and Old-Nubian) - Texts and Philology (Greek) - Art, Archaeology and Science - Religion - Anthropology - History and Egyptology -- Ouvrage lourd, prévoir des frais de port supplémentaires.…

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Vibrantly bound in quarter morocco, this is the illustrated first edition of Nigel Playfair's account of the history of the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith. The first edition, first impression.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and seventeen plates, after Lovat Fraser, Sheringham, Zinkeisen and Kapp. Collated, complete.Playfair presents an account of the West London theatre that he revitalised in the early 20th century. The book recounts the Lyric"s origins and development, its architectural features, and its struggles before Playfair"s management.In a handsome quarter morocco binding. In a quarter morocco binding, with marbled paper covered boards, and with endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned, with instances of light spotting to first and last few leaves. Near Fine. After Lovat Fraser, Sheringham, Zinkeisen, Kapp (illustrator). book. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A charming musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's enduring children's book, with compositions set by Harold Fraser-Simson. The first edition of these 'Songs from Alice in Wonderland', a collection of music set to the words of Lewis Carroll's beloved children's tale, composed by Harold Fraser-Simson. With the publisher's scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. With in-text reproductions of John Tenniel's classic illustrations from the original edition. With an introduction by English playwright and poet A. A. Milne, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh. In the original quarter cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with minor shelf wear and marginal toning. Front board is ever so slightly warped. Dust wrapper is a smart survival. Dust-dulled, with sunning to the spine and wrap edges. Handling marks and a couple small nicks and closed tears to the perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Minor offsetting to the endpapers, otherwise bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. John Tenniel (illustrator). book.…

Condition: Very Good -. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's yellow stamped in black; ix,[1],378pp. Moderate wear to cloth extremities with brief fraying at spine crown, corners bumped, the whole rather dust-soiled and lightly damp-spotted, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Good to Very Good and sound copy overall. Substantial crime omnibus featuring works by Agatha Christie, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, and many others.…