Searle Noel (18 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover in dust jacket, 10 by 7 3/4 inches, 206 pages, drawn illustrations including The Rakes Progress, poet, novelist and painter, by Searle each a page long. Jacket has wear at front fold over, edge chipping an inch missing to head of spine. Binding itself has only very very slight wear. Pages clea. Bppkselers ticket, Dresser of Darlington on inside of rear cover. Ronald Searle (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 128 pages. Illustrated. Noel Coward "This Time Tomorrow" (fiction) / Dal Stivens "There's Nothing Like Rawhide" (fiction) / Patrick Campbell "A Jolly Day with the Jellydogs" (fiction) / Ronald Searle "Festival Celebrations at St Trinians" / Raymond Postgate "Port in a Storm" (SL#121).…

first edition 156pp ills.[b/w by searle] VG+ (ill.grey cloth,sl.bumps and soiling to extrems.,dealer's stamp to front pastedown,prelims.and edges sl.foxed) in VG- d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,browned spine,chipping to extrems.w.sl.losses to head/foot of spine).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. True first British printing with original clipped jacket. Illustrated by Ronald Searle. Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, few small (approx. 2cms) tears, a little patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine, corners and back upper edge), patchy creasing/rubbing to edges, a few marks, patchy browning (including to spine), browning/creasing/rubbing to front/back inner flaps, the odd spot of foxing, pushing/bumping to head/tail of spine and to corners and is in only fair condition. Boards are very good (having been well protected by the jacket) with minor pushing/bumping to corners, the odd very small mark, odd small bump/rub to edges and a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Top edge of pages dyed black. Pages little tanned. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges and bottoms. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted. Searle, Ronald (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 156 pages. front end paper and edges foxed. Text otherwise clean. Cover has edge scuffs. A tight book. Ronald Searle (illustrator).

FIRST EDITION 1949, 8vo, cloth printed all over with black, white and sepia illustration, gilt lettering to spine on black panel, top edges grey, 156 pages. Black and white illustrations heightened with pale mauve, some full page. The story concerns the love of the poet Dante for Beatrice set in 14th century Italy. No inscriptions, book leaning, head and tail of spine and corners just slightly rubbed, small corner cut from front endpaper, endpapers, half-title, title page and last 2 pages faintly foxed. A very good copy in good plus DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, 25 mm (1") missing at top of spine, not affecting title, 10 mm (½") chips to corners and tail of spine, spine and folds slightly rubbed). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The Inconstant Moon,Noel Langley illustrated,Ronald Searle, first edition, pp156, contains black & white photographic images. original printed cover and gilt title on spine, original dust jacket. Condition: pages have minimal spotting, cover general shelf-ware, the printed cover is vibrant and gilt on spine is vibrant and intact. Dust cover is in a protective sleeve with general shelf-ware, split/wrinkles but fully intact. A good, tight clean copy. ronald searle (illustrator).…

First Edition. Very good paper-covered board copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 156p. : ill. ; 23cm. Notes: Illustrated by Robert Searle. Subjects: English fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good paper-covered board copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 156p. : ill. ; 23cm. Notes: Illustrated by Robert Searle. Subjects: English fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Octavo, pp 189. Bound in black cloth covered hard boards and in the original dust jacket, un-clipped and priced 8s 6d net. Seven short stories. The book is clean and unmarked within, but the boards are marked and rubbed. The jacket browned to the spine and has a little chipping at both ends of the spine. Overall in Good/Good condition. Ronald Searle (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition.

First edition. Octavo. 156 pages. Unusual pictorial cloth. A novel of Dante and Beatrice. Cover design, title-page drawing and numerous headpieces and tailpieces by Ronald Searle.Tail of spine slightly bumped. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly darkened at the spine and with a few small chips and nicks.…

1st edition laminated boards As New octavo 163pp., frontis., b/w plates, text ills., The Searle's were English farmers who embarked for Australia on the Marco Polo in 1854. Limited edition. This being No. 27 of 100 restricted copies.

dj. First Edition. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.156. With wood engraved head-pieces and occasional full page illustrations by Searle. Publisher's illustrated cloth with gilt titles to black backing on spine. Top edge tinted black. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 10s 6d. Some light spotting, more to textblock edges and endpapers, light bumping to lower corners, worn cloth to spine edge, sunning to jacket spine, tearing to jacket. Near fine. 'one of the most brilliant of the new post-war artists and illustrators'.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Much sought after DOUBLE ISSUE, remarkably few signs of age or use. No contents missing, ideal for any collector.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. The first edition of this novel by Noel Langely, illustrated by Ronald Searle. A fictional novel by Noel Langley. The first edition. With illustrations by Ronald Searle, regarded to the flyleaf as 'one of the most brilliant of the new post-war artists and illustrators. This work deals with Dante's love for Beatrice and focuses on a young Dante. Noel Langley was a South African novelist, screenwriter and director. He is known for writing the screen-play which formed the basis for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. In original cloth covered boards and held in original dustwrapper. Externally, very smart. Small amount of rubbing to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Further light rubbing to the joints. Dustwrapper is chipped to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Loss to the head of front wrap and to the head and tail of rear wrap due to chipping. Further loss to the head and tail of spine. Marks to the wraps. Tape repairs internally to works. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd spot throughout. Very Good Indeed. Ronald Searle (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Nine smart volumes by novelist and playwright Noel Langley, five of which being signed by the author. Nine volumes of work from South African born novelist, playwright, screen writer and director Noel Langley.Including The Music of the Heart (1946), The Cabbage Patch (1947), Hocus Pocus (1948), There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us (1948), Edward, My Son (1948), Nymph in Clover (1948), The Constant Moon (1949), Cuckoo in the Dell (1951) and The Rift in the Lute (1946).The Constant Moon, Nymph in Clover, The Cabbage Patch, Cuckoo in the Dell are signed by the author to the front free endpaper to Hilda and Guy. Edward, My Son is also signed by the author to the front free endpaper, dedicated to Tim.Hocus Pocus, There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us and The Rift in the Lute have a previous owner inscription to the front free endpapers for T. J. Alison. The Music of the Heart has a pencil inscription to the front free endpaper for Hilda Alison.There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us is a reprint by Arthur Barker, Hocus Pocus is a fifth edition copy, all the other volumes are first editions.Edward, My Son is a play written by Robert Morley and Noel Langley and is in the original unclipped dust wrapper.Nymph in the Clover is also illustrated by the author throughout the text. The Inconstant Moon is illustrated by Ronald Searle throughout the text. All volumes are in the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with some bumping to the head and tail of the spines of The Music of the Heart, Porpoise, The Inconstant Moon and The Cabbage Patch. All the spines are faded with some marks to the boards. Inscriptions to all front free endpapers Alison.Internally, all volumes are firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Edward, My Son is in the original unclipped dust wrapper which is smart with some fading to the spine and rear board. Very Good. Noel Langley; Ronald Searle (illustrator). book.…