Powell Anthony Lancaster Osbert (14 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. Osbert Lancaster (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing in this format. Cover art by Osbert Lancaster. Covers slightly rubbed and marked and crease to corner of rear cover. Toning to pages as usual.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Osbert Lancaster (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Penguin paperback edition (1968). Heavy creasing to spine, but binding remains sound and book on the whole remains in good+ condition with clean, unmarked pages which are free from notes and underlining and no creasing to covers. Dispatched from UK within three days.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Lancaster, Osbert (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First printing of the first UK paperback edition. Originally published in the UK by Heinemann in hard covers in 1960. Spine has light reading creasing and edge rubbing. Browning to the page edges. Name of the original owner in ink on the inside of the front cover - this was Howard Erskine-Hill, a literary scholar and former Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. The pages are browned with a tiny tear to the edge of the first page but they are otherwise unmarked. Cover illustration by Osbert Lancaster. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Osbert Lancaster (jacket) (illustrator). First U.S. Wear to tips, corners and edges of book and priced jacket, page edges soiled/spotted. previous owner's incription and stamp to the endpapers else clean and unmarked. The jacket has the Osbert Lancaster illustrations from the Penguin paperback editions of the novels on the front and rear panels. Lancaster was Powell's preferred illustrator but unfortunately this is the only American hard cover edition to use his work. The true first publication of these two early Anthony Powell novels in the United States. After the first appearance of A Question of Upbringing the Periscope Bookshop and the Holliday Bookshop, New York City, cooperated in bringing out these two early works by Powell in an edition of perhaps 4,000 volumes. The unsold stock was taken over by Little Brown in 1963 after they became Powell's American publishers. This copy carries none of the Little Brown markings. Lilley, A.10. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. We specialize in the works of and about Anthony Powell. Browse my books: www.abebooks.com/The-Book-Shed-Benson-VT-U.S.A/602765/sf Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Tracking number and estimated delivery date always provided. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed, an ABE Heritage Seller, has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997 An on-line bookseller with a bookshop sensibility.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Osbert Lancaster (jacket) (illustrator). First U.S. much wear to tips, corners and edges of book and priced jacket, top edge dusty o/w clean and unmarked. The jacket has the Osbert Lancaster illustrations from the Penguin paperback editions of the novels on the front and rear panels. Lancaster was Powell's preferred illustrator but unfortunately this is the only American hard cover edition to use his work. The true first publication of these two early Anthony Powell novels in the United States. After the first appearance of A Question of Upbringing the Periscope Bookshop and the Holliday Bookshop, New York City, cooperated in bringing out these two early works by Powell in an edition of perhaps 4,000 volumes. The unsold stock was taken over by Little Brown in 1963 after they became Powell's American publishers. This copy carries none of the Little Brown markings. Lilley, A.10. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. We specialize in the works of and about Anthony Powell. Browse my books: www.abebooks.com/The-Book-Shed-Benson-VT-U.S.A/602765/sf Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Tracking number and estimated delivery date always provided. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed, an ABE Heritage Seller, has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997 An on-line bookseller with a bookshop sensibility.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Lancaster, Osbert (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. Originally published in the UK by Heinemann in hard covers in 1957. First printing of the first UK paperback edition. Spine has light reading creasing. Browning to the pages which are otherwise clean and unmarked. Cover illustration by Osbert Lancaster. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good-. Osbert Lancaster (jacket) (illustrator). New Edition. light wear to book and jacket, top edge dusty. Agents & Patients was Powell's fourth novel originally published in 1936 by Duckworth. It is published here in a new editon after the success of the very first volumes of A Dance to the Music of Time. Lilley A5 (b) Published in this new edition in an edition of 3,000 copies on July 11, 1955. It has the Osbert Lancaster original jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. From the University of Chicago Press edition: "Written from a vantage point both high and necessarily narrow, Powells early novels nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and what makes people behave as they do. Filled with eccentric characters and piercing insights, Powells work is achingly hilarious, human, and true." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First edition as Fontana, 255, (1) pp., stiff pictorial paper wrappers. Light wear and age toning, very good copy. 18 x 11 cm.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First edition in Penguin Books, 204, 4() pp., stiff paper wrappers. Age toning, wear on wrappers, name in pen on verso front wrapper, good copy. 18 x 11 cm.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First edition in Penguin Books, 206, (1) pp., stiff paper wrappers. Age toning, wear on wrappers, good copy. 18 x 11 cm.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 187 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. Contents; The garden god.--The rest I'll whistle. Subjects; English drama. Drama in English, 1945- Texts. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 187 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. Contents; The garden god.--The rest I'll whistle. Subjects; English drama. Drama in English, 1945- Texts. 1 Kg.

With four set designs by Osbert Lancaster. 187 pp. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's black boards in dust jacket. First edition. A fine copy in a very slightly tanned jacket with some slight use. Inscribed by Anthony Powell on the front free endpaper for Alison Lurie: "Alison from Tony with love July 1971." Powell also crossed out his printed name on the title page and signed his name in full.