Robert Rhodes James Editor (13 results)

Soft Cover. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened text pages. Wraps have edge rubbing and light handling wear. Previous owner's name, top front corner of wraps. Contents: Nairn, "Twilight of the British State." Biermann, "In conversation with Stuart Hood." Green, "The Third Round in Poland." Geratana, "Althusser and Stalinism." García Márquez, "Operation Carlota." Löwy, "Rosa Luxemburg: a re-assessment." Discussion among Szymanski, Petras, Rhoads, "Is US Imperialism Resurgent?" and "Reply to Critics."; 8.75" (21 cm) tall; 160 pages. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover without dust jacket in good condition. Boards are marked. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed, with a crease along the length of the spine. Page block is tanned, blemished and lightly foxed. A few very light spots of foxing on the pastedowns and endpapers. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition, 2nd impression. Cloth, dj, F/VG. [viii]+496pp, 32pp b/w plates showing 42 images, index a fine copy in a slightly edge worn price clipped dustjacket that is almost fine. The diaries of Sir Henry Channon [ 1897 - 1958 ] the American-born British Conservative politician, author and diarist. This 1967 edition is expurgated, as Robert Rhodes James, said he saw well-connected people go white when they heard that Channon had kept a journal. Nancy Mitford said of the diary, 'you can't think how vile & spiteful & silly it is. One always thought Chips was rather a dear, but he was black inside how sinister!' The full text was not published until 2021, in accordance with Channon's wishes. 1125 grams.

1st edn 1st printing. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (spine faded - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 495, illus with b&w photos (front free endpaper torn at gutter; no inscriptions).

1st edn 2nd printing. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (page edges lightly spotted - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (worn at edges - in protective cover, price clipped). Pp. 495, illus with b&w photos (previous owners' neat inscriptions on front endpapers).

Second impression (in the same year as the first). Hardcover. Top edge slightly foxed, neat small name stamp on the front free endpaper, otherwise very good in a good/fair price-clipped dustjacket, with some tape shadows (showing mainly on the jacket flaps and the verso). A witty and informative selection of Chips Channon's diaries, compiled by the MP over nearly 40 years, from 1918 when the young American from Chicago arrived in Europe, to 1958. Illustrated with b/w photographs. This heavy book will cost more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted (most likely twice any default rate).

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. B/W Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. SUBTITLED : ` The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon '. A 1924 diary entry by Henry Channon, then aged 27, claimed he had hads `interesting opportunities of intimacy with interesting people'. As his life later unfolded , he could mark the Queen Mother, Marcel Proust and Jean Cocteau among his contacts. LEARN more about : Sir Lancelot Oliphant, Pyrford, No, 12 Downing Street, Beli Dvor, Maurice Collis, Leslie Belisha, Le Bourget, Barbie Wallace, Coppius, Joe Kennedy, ambassador, Kik Hartington, Circe Londonderry, and purple siren-suit. 495 pages with INDEX at back and interspersed with b/w photographs . Cond: Boards are black with gilt lettering at spine. White end-papers. Gold coloured d.j. is not price clipped. Augustus John drawing of Chips on cover. Volume is clean, tight, bright, and square. No names nor marks. D.J. has wear at top edge and spine foot. Total is very collectible ! ! QUote (p. 155) : " And his bedroom he has turned into a sort of `Chapelle ardente' to his mother's memory. There are photographs of her taken at all times, and personal relics, as well as a striking portrait, painted from memory. She adored him and ._._._. .".

First edition. Hardcover. Top edge and endpapers slightly foxed, neat small name stamp on the front free endpaper (of "Joel Greenberg"-- most likely the Australian journalist/book reviewer), otherwise very good in a good dustjacket, with a small professionally restored fingernail-size chip on the back panel and a few small closed tears. Sterling price intact. A witty and informative selection of Chips Channon's diaries, compiled by the MP over nearly 40 years, from 1918 when the young American from Chicago arrived in Europe, to 1958. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Uncommon in the British first edition in a better than decent jacket. Scan available on request. This heavy book will cost more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted (approximately twice any default).

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. annotated edition edition. 526 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.75 inches. In Stock.

First Edition (& 1st printing). Small octavo, original pictorial boards. 255 pp. 500 copies printed.Pictorial postcard, bookmark, and facsimile signature of M.R. James laid in, as issued. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "If there is anything about which the present generation is bewilderingly well-informed it is the subject of spooks." "Seraphita" Friends and Spectres is a companion volume to Ghosts of the Chit-Chat (2020), an anthology of ghost stories by authors who had been members of the Cambridge University Chit-Chat Club along with M. R. James. Here the associations with MRJ are less formal, but stronger and more enduring: for it is the bond of genuine friendship that ties these writers to him. The majority of pieces here were originally published under pseudonyms, and over half appeared first in amateur magazines or local newspapers. All deal with the supernatural, and several of the stories are themselves spectresor more properly "revenants", only now re-emerging into the light after decades of oblivion. There are rediscoveries here of "lost" tales by Arthur Reed Ropes, E. G. Swain, and the enigmatic "B.".