Sacheverell Editor (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Oversized book, may require additional shipping charges. Dust jacket is protected by mylar.

First printing of this Atlantic Monthly Press edition (with publisher's requisite statement on copyright page; originally published 1956). xii, 189 pages. Hardcover: H 30.75cm x L 23.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed slightly bumped at edges; front flap is not price-clipped. Blue cloth; slight bumping to boards' top fore-edge corners; some flaking loss to spine's otherwise bright gilt stamping. Impression of removed paper clip at top margins of pages 97-102; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. Features "Note to the New Edition;" "Foreword" by S. Dillon Ripley; "Introduction" by Handasyde Buchanan; "The Romance of the Flower Book" by Sacheverell Sitwell; "The Illustrators of the Great Flower Books" by Wilfrid Blunt; "The Notes;" "An Introduction to the Bibliography" by Patrick M. Synge; "The Bibliography" by W.T. Stearn, Sabine Wilson, and Handasyde Buchanan; "List of the Plates" by Elizabeth Braun; "Appendix to the New Edition" by Handasyde Buchanan; Index. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 4 pounds (1.81 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0871132842.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. B Hutchison "The Anatomy of Remainders" / Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849-1924 - publications/ Tauchnitz Of Leipzig publications 3402 to 3500 / Sotheby's "The Property of Mrs.Madeleine Buxton Holmes" (8 pages) / Sacheverell Sitwell booklets / Autograph Letters and Historical Documents (6 pages).…

Limited edn (850) signed and inscribed by Reresby Sitwell on front endpaper. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red ruled black cloth (faint spotting on page edges - otherwise VG in torn cover). Pp. 160, illus with b&w drawings in text (no other inscriptions).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. No dust jacket. Some spotting and staining on boards.; Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages. Illustrated by Edwin Smith (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 72 pages. Stephen Spender "The Air Raid Across The Bay" (poem) / Four Spanish War Posters / C Day Lewis "Dedicatory Stanzas For A Translation Of The Georgics" (poem) / John Betjeman "The Archaeological Picnic" (poem) / Brian Howard "Notes On Civilians At Bay" / George Orwell reviews 'Poltergeists' by Sacheverell Sitwell / Hugh Kingsmill "Rudyard Kipling" / Stephen Spender "A Look At The Worst" / Arthur Calder-Marshall "The Cap And The Bantam".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 318 (2) pages, fully illustrated, 12 3/4" x 9 3/4", red covers with blue and gilt printing to the spine. The spine is slightly sunned and the edges a bit bumped. The contents are bright and nice. About Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine condition yellow boards, blue-green front cover lettering and decoration, and blue-green spine lettering. Includes List of Gould's Works; Introduction; Notes to the Plates and Note on John Gould. Illustrated with 16 beautiful fine facsimile full colour reproduction plates from the original old prints, engravings and drawings by John Gould, plus two additional black-and-white drawings. Batsford Colour Books. "John Gould's Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands (1875-1888) is one of the most elaborately illustrated ornithological works which has ever appeared. Some of its finest and most interesting plates are here reproduced in full colour together with a selection from Gould's other works. The Fiery Parakeet, Blue-streaked Lory, New Ireland Fruit Pigeon and Leadbeater's Cockatoo are among the birds illustrated, and their appearance will be found to be fully as exotic and colourful as their names. The Introduction and Notes on the Plates have been contributed by Sacheverell Sitwell." - from the inner front jacket flap.…

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Editions. All nine parts present. 12mo. 18 by 12.5 cm. Light wear and occasional soiling. Overall, a lovely and well-preserved set of the full run of this legendary theatrical magazine that had a stellar line-up of contributors. Rex Whistler, John Hassell, etc. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Published to celebrate Sacheverell Sitwell's eightieth birthday, contains poems by Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, John Betjeman, George Mackay Brown, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, R.S. Thomas, Hugh McDiarmid, Stephen Spender. #136 of 175 copies, beautiful copy in plain white dj. Book. …