Parker John Henry Editor (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hellcoal Press Providence, Rhode Island 1979. First Edition. First edition. An anthology of poems and prose. Pictorial wrappers [about 6" x 9"], 100 pages. Very good copy with cover rubbed, top to bottom front cover crease/fold. clphE.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. (xi) 490 pp. Pocket Book 108. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. Writing by: P. F. Wodehouse; Saki; W. Somerset Maugham; Alexander Woollcott; Henry David Thoreau; Thomas De Quincey; Dorothy Parker; Henry James; John Steinbeck; Walt Whitman; James Thurber; Jan Struther; Clarence Day; Archibald MacLeish; A E. Housman; and many others. Book.…

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Original blind stamped cloth, VG+. vi+[iii-viii]+399pp, 2 colour plates, 2 b/w maps [ LACKS the map of the Deanery of Woodstock ] 6 b/w plates & many b/w text illustrations, expertly rebacked preserving the original spine, new endpapers, slight marginal dampstaining to the rear of the book, a nice tight copy. Architectural descriptions of many churches in a 30 miles radius of Oxford, grouped together in 'rides'. 900 grams.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Hardback, brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. viii, 308pp, [1]. With 3 maps, numerous illustrations and plates including 2 in colour. Spine a little skewed, a few bumps to exterior edges. Bookplate to front pastedown, previous owners' details to front free end-paper. Front inner hinge split across end-papers, binding remains secure. Tape marks to corners of free end-papers. A little occasional foxing to contents. Private ownership. (r42). …

Condition: Very Good. 2nd edition. Half morocco over marbled boards, VG+. viii+[v-xi]+399pp, 2 colour plates, 4 b/w maps, b/w plates & many b/w text illustrations, leather rubbed along the edges, some light foxing internally which affects some plates. Large Library bookplate to the pastedown, no other library evidence, a nice copy. Architectural descriptions of many churches in a 30 miles radius of Oxford, grouped together in 'rides'. Covers many parishes, with the emphasis on Ecclesiastic buildings. 100 grams.…

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Cloth, G+. xii+288+[58]+[iv]+63pp, [ the book is bound as follows - firstly are the three parts (of 4) of the Oxford work, then 58pp of Architectural studies of Gothic windows (printed on verso & recto only) then the Wakefield work]. 4 title pages in total, 3 b/w maps, 6 b/w plates & 2 colour plates to the Oxford work, 5 plates to the Wakefield work & 16 plates of windows, many b/w text illustrations, cloth rubbed, some foxing internally which affects some plates, an odd collection on Gothic architecture, the Buckler quite scarce. Parker's work was completed with the publication of a second 'ride' dealing with the Cuddesden Deanery. As its stands this book contains information on architectural details [ mouldings, windows etc ], mainly on Churches in 60 parishes around Oxford - some as distant as Bicester & Northleigh. The work on Wakefield is a detailed description of the Chantry Chapel which sits in the middle of a Medieval bridge over the river Calder. 900 grams. …