Steni L (36 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. cloth, dj, F/VG. 234pp, chips on priceclipped dustjacket to head of spine, otherwise a fine copy. A novel set in post war france concerning exiled Poles.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: G, Wear,Bumps, Foxing,Browning. Dust Jacket Condition: G, Wear, Chips, Tears, Foxing. 1st Edition. Post-war drama. Jacket design by Joan Henry. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Condition: Fair. 1930. First Published. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Brown staining to pages 64 and 65. Visible creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Black marks to boards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Small 8vo. [6], 285 pages. Romantic novel with elements of crime, set in England and various Continental locations. Stains and rubbing to spine label; slight stains and rubbing to covers; slight rubbing to upper right corner of front free endpaper; slight internal browning to edges; else a very serviceable copy of a very scarce book. B/w Decorative Floral Endpapers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with wrinkle in cloth of rear board in a very near fine dust jacket with very light wear to corners of panels. Story of dispirited lives immediately following World War II.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with front board bowed in a near fine dust jacket with light soiling to rear panel. Story of the title character's arrival to the Caribbean island of Santa Barbara from mainland Spain in the eightteenth century.

Hardcover. Condition: Worn - Age Spots. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good first edition copy in black cloth binding, foxing in edges and just into endpapers. Dust jacket is unclipped, wear to top corners, slightly faded at the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition First Impression. 1957 First Edition First Impression. Size octavo, 234 pages. Black hard cover with orange titles to the spine. Dust jacket with wrap around illustration by Joan Henry. Book condition near fine, corners slightly rubbed, end-papers slightly toned, else fine, a very clean copy. Dust jacket condition very good plus, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, spine slightly sunned, else fine, not price clipped, price 15s net. Joan Henry (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red cloth boards with stamp decoration. Dark topstain. Decorative endpapers. Deckle edges. Silver paper title on spine, scuffed. Spine sunned. Corners bumped. Some play to spine. Minor wear to head and tail of backstrip. No marks. 285 pp. (shelf 014). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. (modest wear to extremities, but generally a good sound copy]. Novel in which (as described by a contemporary reviewer) "a beautiful young girl ripe for love becomes hard, promiscuous and vulgarized through necessity and with a very slow self-realization." The author wrote a half-dozen or so novels (this being the second) between the late 1920s and the late 1940s, but I've been unable to uncover any biographical information about him (or her); according to OCLC, "L. Steni" is a pseudonym, but that's as much as I know.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Story of several Londoners whose lives are bound together.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Only. First Edition. "Author's Edition"; chips to spine ends of DW affecting some text; 306pp. Unique dustwrapper design.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Black boards with gilt titles. Mostly clean i with foxing mainly present on end papers and page edges. Some handling wear and marks. Jacket not price clipped with some creasing and chipping to top edges and corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good+ condition black hardback book. Pages have minor spotting to edges but otherwise all clean and text clear. Dust jacket - pictorial - good condition with minor tears to edges. First edition published 1954.

1st edn. 8vo. Original yellow lettered black cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 234 (top and fore-edge spotted; no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 132 pp. Dk-brown cloth boards w. gilt title to spine. Illustrated dust-wrapper in protective clear cover. List of publisher's titles on rear. Half-title page. List of author's titles. Title page. Dedication. Novel set in the West Indies. Nice, neat copy.

Original Cloth. Condition: Near VG Plus. NVG. First Edition. Book has light soiling. Dj has edgewear, modest soiling. Book.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Impression. 1930 first edition, first impression. Inscribed by Author. Size octavo, 287 pages. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, no dust jacket. Condition good, edgewear, a few minor marks to covers, spine and cover edges sunned, pages a little toned otherwise clean. Inscribed by L. Steni to Betty Barrett ( E. Warington-Smyth ) on the front end-paper; "To the beginning of a very delightful friendship L Steni 6/2/40" From the collection of Jonathan Gili (1943-2004), film-maker, director and collector of many things including books. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition, First Impression. 1946 first edition, first impression. Size 12mo, 132 pages. Brown cloth covered boards gilt titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book and jacket condition good, corners and spine ends a little rubbed, a little of the gilt on the spine is rubbed, pages a little toned otherwise clean. Dust jacket condition good, corners and edges a little rubbed/chipped slightly age browned spine sunned, not price clipped. Inscribed to the front end-paper "To my dearest Betty whose friendship has been as delightful as I once prophesied that it would, with an always growing admiration and affection from Barre" From the collection of Jonathan Gili (1943-2004), film-maker, director and collector of many things including books. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardback. L. Steni, Heinemann. Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsUnknown. Hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st printing; dj w/moderate wear, chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; 256 clean, unmarked pages. Author's first novel. Julie Brown Dust Jacket (illustrator).

8vo, 251pp. Uncorrected proof copy. Paper wraps foxed with spine age toned. A fair sound paperback copy.

1st ed. Binding tight; dust jacket chipped at head of spine Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp 234 foxing on e/p's D/J.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. VG DW. 1st Edition.

First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth over boards, stained top edge, deckle edge, illustrated endpapers, color decorated dust jacket. Novel about a woman who falls into prostitution and crime. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket, webbing showing at rear inner hinge, shallow loss at spine ends, fading to spine, tape repairs at spine, edgewear. …

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The boards have only very slight edge rubbing but are otherwise bright and unmarked. Light browning to the top edges of the pages which are otherwise unmarked. The jacket has a little chipping at the top of the spine, two tiny nicks in the top edge of the rear panel and some corner rubbing. The title panel on the spine is browned and there is some browning to the rear panel also. First printing.…

1st UK edition. 256 pp. Green publisher advert postcard laid-in: "If you are interested in Books, fill in / and despatch this postcard." Crown 8vo. Nothing good comes from having a mistress, or so the author would have us believe from this tale. VG+/VG (spine darkened/some minor edge wear). Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp 132 D/J.