Stephen Lister (141 results)

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition Thus. 235 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1959 reprint. Purple cloth boards with faded patches; bumped corners; light wear round edges; author blind stamped on front; author, title & pbl in gilt on spine; pbl blind stamped on back. Cut edges lightly tanned, foxed. Endpapers lightly tanned; slight foxi…

Condition: Good. 1957. First Edition. 260 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear w…

Condition: Good. 1946. Reprinted. 250 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sun…

Condition: Good. 1955. Reprinted. 183 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Sunning to spine. Book has a slig…

Condition: Good. 1957. First Edition. 260 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corne…

Condition: Good. 1958. First Edition. 240 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil and ink stamp markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rub…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing of Lister's enjoyable Utopian satire. Stock lightly toned, with some marking to one or two pages, but for the most part all in good internal order. Rems of paper label to fep. Blue boards a little worn and marked and heavily faded to spine. A good reading copy th…

Condition: Fair. 1943. First Published. 266 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Light foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, lighter to pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and creasing to gutters and hinges; noticeable looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards…

Condition: Fair. 1958. First Edition. 240 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt letterin…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Entertaining Lister novel about landed gentry and the rise of socialism in pre-war England. Ex-hospital library copy as evidenced by stamp to front pastedown, but no other indications of library use. Stock lightly toned, with occasional spotting, but for the most part all in VG…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A re-working of Lister's 1955 Fit For A Bishop volume, with much additional content. Food and drink examined with "sober wisdom, barbed wit, wry humour, held together by the mortar of good taste". Some light marking to edge of block, but otherwise all in…