Viscount Halifax Foreword (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket Has New Mylar Cover. First Printing. ------Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, book is 8" tall. 245 pages.VERY GOOD CONDITION, solid binding, clean text, very slight wear cover edges, old bookplate with no name, is inside front cover- - - dust jacket has no spine, but the front and back of dust jackt is not assembled under new clear mylar cover. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Facsimile edition. First published in 1936, this is a facsimile edition of 1973. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, slight yellowing to extremities of white jacket, not price clipped £3.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 208pp, illustrated. The Roman remains of Yorkshire.…

Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Green cloth hard boards in clipped dust jacket. Pp xiv, 245, illustrated with woodcuts. A little spine end bump, othersise a square, tight, clean copy; contents firm and clean with no previous names, markings etc. The jacket has small loss to spine head and adjacent and stain to reverse, a little edgewear and repaired flap split but is predominantly clean and holding well. Images/further information available upon request. J. E. Maunton (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. Publisher's original red cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. 298pp. Un-clipped DJ image based on Blake drawing, Some loss at the extremities and closed tears repaired, Good only.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 37 edition on red cloth with slightly faded spine cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. First Edition. Red cloth hard boards. Pp 170. Covers a little grubby and spine ends untidy, otherwise a square, tight, copy with bright, clean text; a few foxspots to lst endpapers; no previous names, markings etc. Image/further details available upon request.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1937. First edition. xi, 171pp. plus 4 pages detailing the first 'Ghost Book' together with press opinions. Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (1839-1934), was a British Anglo-Catholic ecumenist who served as president of the English Church Union. he was also a collector of ghost stories, and his first volume was published in 1936. This second selection includes the following stories: Exorcism at St. Donat's Castle; The Shrouded Watcher; President Lincoln's Dream; The Ghost of Tintern Abbey; Labedoyere's Doom; and Bishop King's Escape. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with light bumping to the spine ends and top front corner. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has some shelf wear with light soiling and the spine is slightly faded. The corners and spine ends are bumped with a tear of about 1/4" on the top rear spine corner.…