Plomer James (33 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Spotless inside and out. Very light toning. One very slight crease in the upper right corner of the front cover. Very little wear otherwise. It will be packed with a backing card, bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Inauguration of Pool Train Service"; "Wood or Steel? How Times Change!" by Jack Beatty; "for South Africa.Mallet Compounds from Montreal" by James Plomer; "Diagram" (Temiscouata Railway's 11 and 12); "Our Readers Write"; "Right-of-Way for the Mail!" by O.S.A. Lavallee; and "Notes and News" by W. L. Pharoah.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Just a trace of wear. Light toning (age tanning) to pages. Very nice copy. It will be backed with cardboard and carefully packed in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. (Important Note: I have many issues of this publication. I only charge .50 shipping for second and subsequent items in the same order within the United States.) This issue includes: "Innauguration of Pool Train Service"; "Wood or Steel? How Times Change!"; "For South Africa.Mallet Compound from Montreal" by James Plomer; "Diagram (Temiscouata Railway's 4-4-0 Nos. 11 & 12)"; "Our Readers Write"; "Right-of-Way for the Mail!" by O.S.A. Lavallee; "Notes and News" compiled by W.L. Pharoah; and "Transit Plan" cartoon by Doug Wright.

British first edition. 176 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Blue cloth; spine head chipped and frayed with lesser wear at heel; some slender wear and loss at board corners; spine's gilt lettering dulled but legible with front board's gilt stamped lettering still bright. Strong toning to edges with interior text leaves affected likewise but with toning diminishing inward from margins (paper stock utilized by printer affected by "economy standards," i.e. wartime-period rationing regulation). Light toning to endpapers; novelist Nancy Hallinan's name handwritten in green ink at top of front free endpaper recto with additional notation in the same green ink handwriting "from Hal Christmas-1945" at bottom of page. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy. Features a collection of essays, commentary, poems, etc.: "In Daylight - I" and "Elegy" by John Lehmann, "The Two Loves" and "Some Notes on 'King Lear'" by Edith Sitwell, "Lament" by George Barker, "Island Dances" by George Seferis, "I Hear You Say So" by Elizabeth Bowen, "Five Poems" by Terence Tiller, "No News From Home" by Cecil Keeling, "The Woman Who Was Loved" by James Stern, "The Poems" by Peter Yates, "Two Poems" by Odysseus Elytis, "The Man Who Killed" by Jiri Weiss, "War" by Andre Chamson, "The Hidden Force" by William Plomer, "The Pre-Raphaelite Literary Painters" by Stephen Spender, "W.H. Auden in America" and "The Place and the Person" by Henry Reed, plus other contributions by Heinrich Fischer, Hero Pesopoulos, Demetrios Capetanakis, Alexander Astruc, J. MacLaren-Ross, C.H. Peacock, J.P. Hodin, and Percy Coates. The eldest daughter of Charles T. "Hal" Hallinan (1880-1971), novelist Nancy Hallinan (1921-2014) authored the critically acclaimed novels "Rough Winds of May" (1955), "A Voice from the Wings" (1965), and "Night Swimmers" (1976) as well as the 1980 O'Henry award winning short story "Women in a Roman Courtyard." Her papers are held by Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Missing front free end paper, stamp marked out bottom of title page. Light edge wear to dust jacket ; A tight solid book. DJ in Mylar ; 103 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 100 pages. Graham Greene on Kipling / Stephen Spender "Poem in Four Movements" / Alberto Moravia "The Tree in the House" / Bianca Vanorden "A Night of levitation" / Henry Miller "Literature as a Dead Duck" / Elizabeth Bowen "Coming to London - VI" / R A Scott-James "The New Weekly" / William Plomer on R S Thomas / Jean Stewart on Mme. de Sevigne.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 215pp., index, appendices, ill., photos, map. Light wear.

Condition: New. In.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Plomer, James; Capon, Alan R. DESPERATE VENTURE Belleville, ON: Mika Publishing Company 1979 VG/VG 220pp. 4to. Dust jacket does show heavy wear along the edges with a few small tears. Back cover of the dust jacket is age toned and does show shelf wear and some light staining. Brown boards are dusty with some light staining and titling on the front and spine. Text is age toned as well but otherwise clean and binding is strong. Overall book is in very good condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 215 (7pp) Profusely illustrated with b & w photos.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Some light edgewear to wrapper, otherwise a very good clean copy. Overseas postage may be extra due to the weight.

Condition: New.

4to. 215, [7] pp. Over 100 photos, text illusts., diagrams. Brown linen, silver lettrng (slght bmpng to couple crnrs), w/ d.j. (slght shlfwr, vry slght bmpg ft of spine), VG/VG copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. "The histories and specifications of these ships are accompanied by 118 photos, most of which have never been reproduced in print. They are shown as they appeared when still in the hands of the RN, and at different periods during their RCN service. Many detailed on-board photos are included." - dust jacket. 103 glossy pages profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Oblong 26.5 x 22.5cm. ; 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First American. These 222 pages examine the rise, and eventual decline, of the (C.O.R.) Central Ontario Railway. One of the financial backers was Samiel J. Ritchie. The locale : Prince Edward County. LEARN more about : Coe Hill, C.J. Pusey, Bancroft extension, turntable, Weller's Bay, Henry C. McMullen, marble quarry, Bessemer Branch, Murray Canal, Bloomfield Station, and Marmora Railway and Mining Company. TEXT assisted by plenty of b/w (archive) photographs. Cond : Boards are grey-brown with gilt lettering - face and spine. White end-papers. D.J. is white with lettering similar. Train under full steam in cover illistrastion by G. Nott. Volume is clean and square and bright. In all SENSES collectible ! ! No names. Minimal wear. QUote (p. 111) : " Macleod found all the locomotives in very good repair, except one that was in the shops for overhaul, as were the passenger and freight equipment that he encountered. From the point of view of maintenance generally he considered the C.O.R. was well-managed. After that he ._._._. . " Size: Quarto.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

First edition in publisher's original peach paper yapp wraps [soft back]. 10" x 7". Contains paginated printed pages of text [viii], 96, [x-xiv]-2. Illustrated throughout including a full page plate by Annabel Sprigge. Article by H. E. Bates is 'The Poems of John Clare'. Edges a little curled. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERARY CRITICISM.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 100 pages. Illustrated. R A Duncan "A New London" / Dacre Balsdon "We Regret To Announce" / D S MacColl "Patmore And Hopkins Sense and Nonsense in English Prosody" / Penistan Chapman "Protest" / Vincent Brun "New Deal With Women" / Leslie Halward "Portrait Of A Leader" / Martin Cooper "Music And The Stage" / William Plomer "The Woman At The Window" (poem).

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Four titles bound in one volume: v, 67; xxiii, 61; xviii, 142; viii, 73 pp.; 8vo, half dark green morocco, five raised bands; t.e.g.; original wrappers for three of the titles bound in at rear. Handsomely bound by C. & C. McLeish. Wilfred Merton's copy, with his booklabel on front pastedown. A fine copy, with some offsetting from turn-ins onto endleaves.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. Newlands, Don (cover photo); Halkett, Bill (illustrator). First Edition. 72 pages. Features: Conversations with Quebec's Revolutionaries, by Peter Gzowski; One Man's Intimate Picture of the FLQ; The Savage Legacy of Columbia's Civil War; The Life and Times of Wheeler-Dealer Ralph Farris - nice photos; The Wild Trade in new and used animals, by Robert Thomas Allen; The Gold-Braid Mind is Destroying our Navy - so says James Plomer; What Jack McClelland has done to book publishing in Canada; Portrait of a great modern shrine - Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal; Artistic full-page ad for TCA (Trans-Canada Airlines); Funky full-page colour photo ad for Martini & Rossi shows man and woman with dog at ice machine; Colour photo Coke ad on back cover shows rows of empty bottles on picnic table with smiling couple at far end. Somewhat above-average wear. Coverfold partially open and tender. A worthy vintage copy.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.