Swaffer Hannen (42 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paper Cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Striking Will Dyson cartoon on cover. 20pp.

Condition: Good. 1946. No Edition Remarks. 135 pages. No dust jacket. Blue 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 sunning.

Condition: Good. 1946. No Edition Remarks. 135 pages. No dust jacket. Blue 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 sunning.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 100 pages. Illustrated. Hannen Swaffer "Flashback" / Gale Pedrick "In the American Way" / S/Ldr. E M Salzer "The Battle Of Music" / Mike Dennis "They GROW on you!" / Humphrey Knight "John Gielgud : The Theatre & Tomorrow" / Audrey Williamson "Margot Fonteyn Ballerina" / Spike Hughes "My Kind Of Music" / Stephen Henry "Young King Carl Barriteau" / Ross Warren "Millions Dancing" / Stuart Allen "Top Notes" / Max Miller "Don't get me wrong, Lady!" / Alan Fletcher "One Good Play after Another" / Martin Lane "Back Stage With Band Wagon" / Peter Noble "Classic Come-Back" (SL#19).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pbk, 20p. Labour Publications, 1936. Covers rather dulled with some foxing o/w a clean copy in good condition. 'Every new reader you get for the 'Daily Herald' means in the end another vote for socialism and because of that, the nearing of the day when Mankind will be free.' f281 / m2926.

Condition: Good. 1939. Reprint. 292 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. 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 tanning.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages. Illustrated. Hannen Swaffer "Three Jeers for the Good Old Days" / Kathleen Hewitt "Watch Out for the Bogey Man!" / John Boulting "This is Where We Came Out" / B G Craig "Gone With The Woodwind" / Herbert Lom "It Gets In My Hair" / John Davidson "How The Ring Was Written" / Ruth Conti "How I Find The Stars" / Sylvia Duncan "Glamour at the B.B.C." / Eric Nicholls "It's In The Basket!" / Mike Dennis "I Have Been Hung" / Ronald Hayes "Alice In Theatreland" / Hero Rider-Rider "Here's a Plan For Travel" (SL#48).

Paper Cover. Condition: Good. no date circa 1938 -cover illustration in colour on cover is signed Gaya 38. Has been folded in half. 12pp rare.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This copy is in very good condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square, it lacks its f.e.p. A dustwrapper is not present. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted.Frederick Charles Hannen Swaffer (1 November 1879 - 16 January 1962) was an English journalist and drama critic. Although his views were left-wing, he worked mostly for right-wing publications, many of them owned by Lord Northcliffe. He was a proponent of spiritualism, and an opponent of capital punishment. This copy is from the library of Admiral Sir Brian Thomas Brown KCB CBE (born 31 August 1934) is a senior Royal Navy officer from 1852 to 1991 who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel. Ref III4.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Stated. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth with gilt lettering. Book is Undated. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Jacket worn, price clipped on flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Foxed endpapers and some (ancient) water spots on cloth of binding. Dust-wrapper has small chips on edges, and remnants of a label on lower spine. Price unclipped (3/6). Contains a Preface and thirteen psychical stories, previously published in Brittania and Eve. Uncommon, especially in dust-wrapper.

Condition: Fair. 1939. Reprinted. 299 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining and red marking to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to rear board.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. Boards have light wear, fading. Content has light age tone. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A really nice copy of the first edition. Hannen Swaffer was a British journalist and critic, and a supporter of Spritualism. Here he narrates some of his experiences among mediums. This is the first edition from 1945. Pages are clean and bright:usually this cheaper wartime paper is often marked or foxed, but not this copy where they are excellent. No inscriptions. Binding is tight. Blue boards are clean with just the slightest give. The most minor shelf wear. A really excellent copy and rare thus. See photos, all of which are of the copy for sale, we don't use stock photos. More photos on request, thanks!

Previously published in Britannia and Eve. X11 + 140pp. A good HB copy.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good hardcover signed limited ex-library copy without dustjacket. Tanned spine and edges of boards. Lightly bumped spine ends. Usual stamps, stickers and embossed logos. Contents are otherwise clean and unmarked. Undated, assumed first edition. Signed limited edition of 100 copies.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Light marking but overall a very good copy of a rare spiritual publication 48pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second printing. 8vo. Pp 247. Portrait plate. Original cloth, worn & marked.

Pamphlet. Condition: Good. First Edition. 20pp Superb cartoon on cover by Will Dyson. Staples a bit rusty, otherwise a very bright copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. HB. !930-ish. 87 biographical sketches of contemporary celebrities such as Churchill, Jackie Coogan, Lord Beaverbrook, Jack Buchanan, etc. Foreword by Edgar Wallace. Light brown or dark beige cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine; slight wear to edges and corners; couple of small stains. Outer edges of all eps and half-title and back of frontis reinforced with strips of brown paper (for some unknown reason; how published?). "With publisher's Compliments" stamp on title page. 255 pages, +frontis. Book tight and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Scarce book by the newspaper editor Hannen Swaffer detailing his experiences of Spiritualism & mediumship. First edition of 1945 bound in blue cloth on wartime economy paper; damp staining to exterior, affecting first few pages & bottom edge of rest (faintly). Binding slightly loose but not too bad on the whole. Acceptable/complete working copy.

247pp. Contained in 2 Vols. Stiff paper covers. Spines worn o/w Good. Contents including, Credo and Challenge; The Gift of Healing; Have You Psychic Gifts; What is Inspiration?

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original stapled colour illustrated paper covers. 14½'' x 10½''. Contains 36 printed pages of text with monochrome and sepia illustrations, photographs and advertisements throughout. In Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock 5 other 'The Passing Show' titles from this era. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original stapled colour illustrated paper covers. 12½'' x 9ĵ''. Contains 36 printed pages of text with monochrome and sepia illustrations, photographs and advertisements throughout. In Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock 5 other 'The Passing Show' titles from this era. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original stapled colour illustrated paper covers. 12½'' x 9ĵ''. Contains 36 printed pages of text with monochrome and sepia illustrations, photographs and advertisements throughout. In Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock 5 other 'The Passing Show' titles from this era. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

See the two men's entries in the Oxford DNB. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. Each item in good condition, lightly aged, with creasing and rust staining to one corner from a paperclip. ONE: Swaffer to MP. TLS, signed 'Swaff'. 1p, 4to. 'Dear Popey, / Do you know anything about this woman? [From the context he is sending MP an enquiry he has received from 'Mr. Le Poer Trench'] I presume she was a legitimate actress. If she was on the halls, which is not suggested by the "Isabel", I will ask Georgie Wood to publish a paragraph in the "Performer." You might just drop this man a line.' He ends by apologizing for retaining MP's books: 'I was suddenly asked to do a "Band Waggon" article on the Festival of Britain, not the matter that was originally suggested. / Your books are quite safe. I hope you are.' TWO: Unsigned carbon of TL from MP to Swaffer. 1p, 8vo. Long letter. He is returning Le Poer Trench's letter. 'The only Bilton of whom I know anything was Belle Bilton, who became Lady Dunlo and this is obviously the Isabel Bilton he means.' He gives a good deal of biographical information before continuing, regarding the marriage: 'There was great family opposition, as you might expect, for Belle Bilton was now well-known as a pantomime, music hall and musical comedy performer. The marriage was secret and took place on the 10th July 1889 at the Hampstead Registrar's office. The family opposition continued and there was a whole lot of trouble, into which we need not go. But it has always been my opinion that Belle Bilton was far more sinned [last four words underlined] against than sinning.' He continues with more information, including the fact that, although this 'remarkable woman' 'could not be received at Court in those days', 'Queen Alexandra became her personal friend'. He ends with reassurance over his books, and a report of his ill health.

Paperback. (9pp) 4to, card covers, Spanish State Tourist Department, Barcelona (1938). A very good copy.

2nd impression. 2nd impr., octavo, pp.48, light markings to orig wraps. Very good condn. Rare. The author was a well-known London journalist who worked for Lord Northcliffe. He was also a spiritualist.