Phoebe Hesketh (83 results)

Condition: Good. 1956. First Edition. 68 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; [13], 193, [8] p. : illus., port. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Rivington (England) History. Rivington (England) Social life and customs. Villages England Lancashire History. Phoebe Hesketh. 3 Kg.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:090528996X.

Condition: Very Good. book club edition. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/VG. [xiv]+193pp, 8pp b/w plates, dustjacket a little rubbed along the egdes & yellowed to the spine and with the rear panel a little marked. The book is part autobiography & part local history as the author describes 40 years of life in the Lancashire village of Rivington. Phoebe Hesketh [ 1909 - 2005 ] English poet & author. 425 grams.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stapled edition. Firmly bound and mostly clean.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 88 pages. 'The City of the Sybarites' (article) by Gerald Brenan/poems by George MacBeth, Nathaniel Zimskind, Phoebe Hesketh, Dom Moraes/'The Nude renewed: Sex, Style, and Geometry' by Lionel Trilling/'L'Affaire Djilas'/'The Man with the Moon in Him: A Story' (fiction) by William Sansom/'Asia is not Russia or America, either' (economics/political article) by Bertrand de Jouvenel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

First trade paperback printing. 89 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine dust jacket. John Barron Mays introduces this collection.

Condition: Good. 1952. First Edition. 130 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over red cloth.From the personal library of previous owner, with expected ownership plates and inscriptions. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Light tanning to spine and edges.

First Edition. Very good pamphlet copy; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 36 p. Pamphlet copy. Subjects; Poetry. American poets. English Literature. English poets. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Limited edition of 50 signed by author and artist, this being number 46. Light edgewear and surfacewear. Spine slightly suntanned. A nice, bright copy. ; B&W Illlustrations; 8vo; 224 pages; Signed by Author & Illustrator.

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Neat dedication on the opening page.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Square Format. Single Sheet Foded Once.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; [13], 193, [8] p. : illus., port. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Rivington (England) History. Rivington (England) Social life and customs. Villages England Lancashire History. Phoebe Hesketh. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: [13], 193, [8] pages illustrations, portrait; 23 cm. Subjects: Hesketh, Phoebe; Villages England Lancashire History; Villages; Rivington (England) History; England Lancashire; England Rivington; Rivington, Lancs. Social life and customs; Rivington (England) Social life and customs; Rivington (Lancashire); Lancashire - Rivington; Lancashire Rivington Social life Personal observations. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 51p ; 22cm. Subjects; Loneliness. Mortality in literature. Poetry collection. Widows. Poetry in English 1945 Texts. 20th century poets. 3 Kg.

First edition, first printing. Fine paperback original.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Ed. Fine in pink pictorial wraps with green lettering. A collection of poems written over a 45 year period by daughter of the pioneer radiologist A.E. Rayner. Poetry, Women Poets.

First edition, first printing. Number 267 from an edion of 300 copies signed by the author and illustrator. Fine tall format paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Worn. No Jacket. There are library stamps on the first and last pages, the cover has some creasing along the spine.

First Edition. Very good pamphlet copy; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 36 p. Pamphlet copy. Subjects; Poetry. American poets. English Literature. English poets. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: [13], 193, [8] pages illustrations, portrait; 23 cm. Subjects: Hesketh, Phoebe; Villages England Lancashire History; Villages; Rivington (England) History; England Lancashire; England Rivington; Rivington, Lancs. Social life and customs; Rivington (England) Social life and customs; Rivington (Lancashire); Lancashire - Rivington; Lancashire Rivington Social life Personal observations. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 51p ; 22cm. Subjects; Loneliness. Mortality in literature. Poetry collection. Widows. Poetry in English 1945 Texts. 20th century poets. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. allen freer (illustrator). Limited Edition. Softcover. Dark green card covered thread sewn booklet with green marbled paper dustjacket. Condition: Very good with very light shelfwear. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear and a small mark just to left of title on front cover. Unpaginated. Illustrations by Allen Freer. One of a limited edition of 300 numbered copies signed by both Phoebe Hesketh and Allen Freer. This is no.177. This illustrated selection of poems by Phoebe Hesketh (1909-2005) was published in celebration of her seventy-fifth birthday.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Printed wrappers. Octavo. 195-256pp. Small pen mark in margin of last page, faint age-toning on wrappers, near fine. Laid in is a typed and Signed letter from Honor Carr, Cultural assistant for The Poetry Society addressed to fellow poet Daniel Hoffman. This issue features "Portrait of Sir Compton Mackenzie." Contributions by C. Day Lewis, Clive Sansom, John Smith, Philip Larkin, Elizabeth Jennings, Peter Redgrove, Celia Randall, Kenneth Hare, A.O. Field, Francis Engleheart, Herbert Palmer, Phoebe Hesketh, Robert Armstrong, Jennifer McConnachie, Gilbert Thomas, Terence Thompson, John Stuart Anderson, Margaret Sackville, Kenneth Wood, Margaret Stanley-Wrench, Stanton Coblentz, Paul Scott, Geoffrey Dearmer, Mabel Parker, Griselda Scott, Dorothea Ramsey, Charles T. Parish, Ruth Duffin, Jill Tyler, and David Holbrook.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Allen Frere (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition. New and Collected Poems. With an introduction by Anne Stevenson. 224pp. Illustrations by Allen Frere. Wrappers. Hint of wear o/w in very good condition.

first edition 130pp VG+ (red cloth,sl.soiled w.sl.bumps to extrems.,content edges sl.foxed o/w clean and tight) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,browned spine,sl.wear to extrems.).

First edition, first printing. Fine paperback in near fine price clipped dustjacket. Errata and Corrigenda label tipped in.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. Light scattered foxing, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with short closed tear on top edge of front panel. Poetry.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 301-356pp. Perfect bound paper wraps. Slight tanning to the wraps, crease to corner and miniscule chip, about near fine. Poetry anthology with contributions from Lawrence Durrell ("Deus Loci"), Rachel Annand Taylor, Wilfrid Gibson, R.H. Mottram, Wilfred Rowland Childe, Stanley Snaith, D'Arcy Cresswell, Wrenne Jarman, Geoffrey Johnson, Gawsworth, Hugh Gordon Porteus, Phoebe Hesketh, John Heath-Stubbs, David Marcus, George Moor, Arthur Caddick, James Brockway, Theodore Roscoe, Lionel Johnson, and Marvin Magalaner.