Muriel Bowen (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. (vii) 272 pp. Red boards lettered in white on the spine; dark blue endpapers; headband; ribbon marker. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; small ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Dustjacket art by Eyvind Earle. This anthology contains: A Visit to the Bank by Shirley Jackson; A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas; The Little Restaurant Near Place des Ternes by Georges Simenon; The Gift by Ray Bradbury; The Loaf Sweeper by Muriel Spark; A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote; A Cold Christmas Walk in the Country by Laurie Lee; The Ghost Ships by Angela Carter; A Christmas Party and a Wedding by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; St. Anthony and His Pig by Paul Arene; Boys by Anton Chekhov; Midnight Mass by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; Reginald's Christmas Revel by Saki; The Legend of the Christmas Rose by Selma Lagerlof; A Chaparral Christmas Gift by O. Henry; Noel by Irene Nemirovsky; Dancing Dan's Christmas by Damon Runyon; The Necklace of Pearls by Dorothy L. Sayers; One Christmas Eve by Langston Hughes; The Christmas Turkey by Mario de Andrade; Green Holly by Elizabeth Bowen; Christmas Morning by Frank O' Connor; The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen; The Cat on teh Dovrefjell by Peter Christen Asbjornson and Jorgen Moe; The Loan by Wolfdietrich Schnurre; Christmas Eve by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen; The Loudest voice by Grace Paley; Santa's Children by Italo Calvino; Christmas by Tove Jansson; Just Becauise of Xmas by Cyprian Ekwensi; and Noel, Texas, 1956 by Lucia Berlin. Size: 8vo. Eyvind Earle; (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. (vii) 272 pp. Red boards lettered in white on the spine; dark blue endpapers; headband; ribbon marker. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; two small ink marks on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Dustjacket art by Eyvind Earle. This anthology contains: A Visit to the Bank by Shirley Jackson; A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas; The Little Restaurant Near Place des Ternes by Georges Simenon; The Gift by Ray Bradbury; The Loaf Sweeper by Muriel Spark; A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote; A Cold Christmas Walk in the Country by Laurie Lee; The Ghost Ships by Angela Carter; A Christmas Party and a Wedding by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; St. Anthony and His Pig by Paul Arene; Boys by Anton Chekhov; Midnight Mass by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; Reginald's Christmas Revel by Saki; The Legend of the Christmas Rose by Selma Lagerlof; A Chaparral Christmas Gift by O. Henry; Noel by Irene Nemirovsky; Dancing Dan's Christmas by Damon Runyon; The Necklace of Pearls by Dorothy L. Sayers; One Christmas Eve by Langston Hughes; The Christmas Turkey by Mario de Andrade; Green Holly by Elizabeth Bowen; Christmas Morning by Frank O' Connor; The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen; The Cat on teh Dovrefjell by Peter Christen Asbjornson and Jorgen Moe; The Loan by Wolfdietrich Schnurre; Christmas Eve by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen; The Loudest voice by Grace Paley; Santa's Children by Italo Calvino; Christmas by Tove Jansson; Just Becauise of Xmas by Cyprian Ekwensi; and Noel, Texas, 1956 by Lucia Berlin. Size: 8vo. Eyvind Earle; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club Edition. Book of the Month Club (BOMC) better than usual quality printing. A nice and newish unread book with stiff spine, rigid boards and pointed tips. Tiny smudge on top of text block. Jacket has tiny tear at bottom spine back. Looks great in its new plastic book protector. A great edition that gives a cross section of excellent mystery writers for someone who thought about getting into the mystery genre but hasn't yet done so. …

Small Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. 2024 13th printing. Brand new from publisher. vii, 271, [1] pp. This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space. Here are classic tales from writers including Truman Capote, Shirley Jackson, Dylan Thomas, Saki and Chekhov, as well as little-known treasures such as Italo Calvino's wry sideways look at Christmas consumerism, Wolfdietrich Schnurre's story of festive ingenuity in Berlin, Selma Lagerlof's enchanted forest in Sweden, and Irene Nemerovsky's dark family portrait. Featuring santas, ghosts, trolls, unexpected guests, curmudgeons and miracles, here is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short story writers of all time. Includes: The Fir Tree; The Cat on the Dovrefjell; A Christmas Party and a Wedding; St Anthony and His Pig; Boys; Midnight Mass; Reginald's Christmas Revel; The Legend of the Christmas Rose; A Chaparral Christmas Gift; Noel; Dancing Dan's Christmas; The Necklace of Pearls; One Christmas Eve; The Christmas Turkey; Green Holly; Christmas Morning; A Child's Christmas in Wales; The Little Restaurant Near Place des Ternes; The Gift; A Visit to the Bank; The Prisoners; The Leaf-Sweeper; A Christmas Memory; The Loan; Christmas Eve; The Loudest Voice; A Cold Christmas Walk in the Country; Santa's Children; Christmas; Just Because of Xmas; Noel. Texas. 1956; The Ghost Ships.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a very good copy in the publisher's cloth. Inscription on the front end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a very good copy in the publisher's cloth.

Magazine. Eight issue run for the year, about 16p. each, 5x8 inches, poetry, news, contests, good booklets in stapled wraps. Amateur poetry journal. Only two holdings located in OCLCC as of 8/2022.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the stated first edition, preceding the British edition by one year. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with a short closed tear to upper front cover, a small rub to front cover-fold, faint toning to spine, and light wear to corners and spine ends, else fine. Angus McBean (Author photo); Muriel Nasser (illustrator). …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 271 pages; Description: 271 p. ; 22 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [261]-[262]. Subjects: John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. xvi, 222 p. 23 cm. Frontispiece and 7 other b&w plates. Brown cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket has creases and light wear, some spots and rubbing. Scratch on rear cover of book. A few spots on top edge. Clean neat interior. Foreword by Lt.-Col. Harry Llewellyn, Olympic gold medalist. …

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. In less than ideal condition but still a good reading or reference copy only. No dust jacket. Pages at the start of the book have been removed and a further page is almost falling out. These are only the title pages however and book itself is still intact. Titles pages also have been written on and stained. Pages and text block are yellowed and inside back cover also stained. Corners, edges and spine bumped. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 271 pages; Description: 271 p. ; 22 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [261]-[262]. Subjects: John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005. 1 Kg.

Edit. Casterman - "autres temps, autres mondes", 1976, in-8°, 245 pages, cartonnage éditeur, sous jaquette illustrée (bords lég. défraîchis), sinon très bon état, couvert avec soin. Français.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a clean unmarked copy in dust wrapper, which is a bit scuffed at the extremities. Signed by the author on the front end paper. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: Very good. good +. first edition. No date stated, but circa 1954, 1955. Octavo, burnt-orange cloth covers, xvi + 222 pages. Illustrated in black and white by Lionel Edwards. Dust jacket has a little chipping at edges, price clipped. "Though hunting has been an integral part of Irish life since earliest times this is the first occasion to record the history, the colour, the pageantry of the country's thirty-five packs of foxhounds and staghounds. From the horses with odd begininngs who won Grand Nationals to the early Irish huntsmen who, in the days before the Bible, swore by their hunting horns, it is a story rich in colour and romance." --from the dust jacket. 090617A Hunting, Ireland. Edwards, Lionel (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Tralee, The Kerryman, [1954]. Octavo; cloth; extremities a little bumped; rear cover and top edge slightly marked; a very good copy with the dustwrapper a little bumped, creased, chipped and torn with a little loss (chiefly to the head and foot of the spine). The history, the colour and the pageantry of Ireland's thirty-five packs of foxhounds and staghounds. Illustrations by Lionel Edwards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. No date, but1954. 8vo. Pp xvi, 222.Frontis & plates. Original cloth. Unclipped d/w a little edge-worn with an abrasion to spine. A nice copy. Edwards, Lionel (illustrator).

Illustrated Boards. Condition: Good. First Edition. Undated but probably mid 1950s. There is quite heavy rubbing to the corners of the illustrated boards and some rubbing along the edges. Browning to the page edges . Gift message in ink in the ownership section on the reverse of the front free endpaper. There is some writing in pen on page 84 and a few spots and stains and the pages are a little browned but generally otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket as issued. The comic strips are illustrated in colour, two tone and black and white by Hugh McClelland. There are also a number of stories which are also illustrated in colour, two tone and black and white and in most cases both the writers and the artists are credited. First printing. McClelland, Hugh; Wragg, Bernard; Walsh, David; Wilson, Maurice; Roberts, Joan; Hoddell, Moira; Scott, Ian; Whitear, Albert; Haywood, Helen; Eastman, N.; O'Leary, G.; Ross, Victor; (illustrator).…

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Deutsche Erstausgabe. 123 Seiten Eine Sammlung meisterhafter Erzählungen von weltberühmten Autorinnen, die sich mit den faszinierenden Spielformen der Rache auseinandersetzen. Zustand: Einband mit geringfügigen Gebrauchsspuren, insgesamt SEHR GUTER Zustand! HC1-829-3/8-00451928 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 422. …