Walter Dexter (263 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Tight softcover in good condition. 8vo. 83pp. plus advertising pages in front & back. Pages are printed on coated stock. Black & white illustrations & photographs within text. The wrappers have a little wear & edgewear that is deeper at the top of the backstrip. The front wrapper has 2 specks of light soiling. The leaves are in very good condition with no markings. Ships within 24 hours. Scans available upon request. We have additional volumes of The Dickensian available in other listings.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Tight softcover in good condition. 8vo. 85pp. plus advertising pages in front. Pages are printed on coated stock. Black & white illustrations & photographs within text. The wrappers have a little wear & edgewear that is deeper at the top of the backstrip. This book has a light vertical crease towards the back of book. The leaves are in very good condition with no markings. The top corner has a light corner crease. Ships within 24 hours. Scans available upon request. We have additional volumes of The Dickensian available in other listings.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Tight softcover in good condition. 8vo. 83pp. plus advertising pages in front & back. Pages are printed on coated stock. Black & white illustrations & photographs within text. The wrappers have a little wear & edgewear that is deeper at the top of the backstrip. The leaves are in good condition with no markings. Ships within 24 hours. Scans available upon request. We have additional volumes of The Dickensian available in other listings.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Tight softcover in good condition. 8vo. 80pp. plus advertising pages in front & back. Pages are printed on coated stock. Black & white illustrations & photographs within text. The wrappers have a little wear & edgewear. This book has a vertical crease that is deeper toward back of book. The leaves are in good condition with no markings - the top corner of some of the leaves has a diagonal corner crease. Ships within 24 hours. Scans available upon request. We have additional volumes of The Dickensian available in other listings.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Tight softcover in good condition. 8vo. 83pp. plus advertising pages in front & back. Pages are printed on coated stock. Black & white illustrations, photographs, and map within text. The wrappers have a little wear & edgewear. The leaves are in very good condition with no markings - the top corner has a tiny vertical corner crease. Ships within 24 hours. Scans available upon request. We have additional volumes of The Dickensian available in other listings.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Tight softcover in good condition. 8vo. 83pp. plus advertising pages in front & back. Pages are printed on coated stock. Black & white illustrations & photographs within text. The wrappers have a little wear. edgewear. and light crease at top corner. The front wrapper has a small stain that goes through to first advertising page. The leaves are in good condition with no markings - the top corner has a varying diagonal corner crease. Ships within 24 hours. Scans available upon request. We have additional volumes of The Dickensian available in other listings.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Tight softcover in good condition. 8vo. 80pp. plus advertising pages in front & back. Pages are printed on coated stock. Black & white illustrations, photographs, and map within text. The wrappers have a little wear & edgewear. The back wrapper has a small stain that goes through to a smaller & smaller speck through the back advertising pages. The leaves are in good condition with no markings - the top corner of the first few pages has a light diagonal corner crease. Ships within 24 hours. Scans available upon request. We have additional volumes of The Dickensian available in other listings.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Over 20 b/w illustrations; Musical examples; Advertising Matter (illustrator). First Edition. [3], 82-164, [2] pages. Includes an account of the birthday dinner of the Dickens Fellowship (with a tribute by Stanley Baldwin); plus such articles as "The Pickwicks of Bath", "The Truth About Mr. Mopes", "Datchery's Disguise", "The Songs of Silas Wegg", etc. Slight wear to head and foot of spine; slight rubbing and browning to wrappers; slight internal browning and stains to few leaves. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ephemera.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of mystery short stories by various authors. Each story was published earlier in separate magazines or collections. Light sun fading to the spine of the dustjacket. In fine / near fine condition.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Good. Facsimile Edition. Book states copyright date of 1937 but appears to be a facsimile reprint; mild toning, moisture mark to rear cover w/small spot to page ends and light wrinkling to pages, small sticker on front cover, creases to corners; b/w photos and drawings; 85 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by author on title page. General shelf/age wear. No jacket. Pages clean.

Paperback. Octavo, [23cm/9inches], paperbound with Sheffield green pictorial covers, pp. 77-157. Features: The Lord Chief Justice's Tribute to Charles Dickens, Pickwick as an Aid to Trade, Dickens and New York, The Road to Ediburgh, Peggoty's Boat House, &tc. . Walter Dexter was born in London on 7 June 1877 and after school at St Olave's Grammar School he entered the business house where his father held a responsible position. After a while he branched out and put his energy and enterprise into becoming a general produce merchant and shipper with interests in many overseas countries. Outside his career, he decided to devote his leisure time to studying Charles Dickens. He became a member of the Dickens Fellowship in 1905 and spent much of his spare time in travelling throughout England seeking to identify towns, villages and other scenes associated with the life and writing of his favourite author, about whom he wrote many books. Relinquishing the Honorary Treasurer of the Dickens Fellowship, a post he had held for some years, he became editor of Fellowship's magazine 'The Dickensian' in 1925 and he held the post until his death. He was also the first Honorary Secretary of the Dickens Fellowship Dramatic Society, formed in 1905. In addition he performed with the society and one of his last appearances was as Captain Cuttle at the Pickwick Centenary Matinee at the London Palladium in 1936. In exceptionally good condition.

Paperback. Octavo, [23cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 81-162. Features: The Birthday Dinner Great Tribute by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Pickwick Frescoes at Duncannon, Shaw & Dickens A Protest From New York, The London of David Copperfield, About the Proctors of Doctors Common, The Songs of Dickens, &tc. . Walter Dexter was born in London on 7 June 1877 and after school at St Olave's Grammar School he entered the business house where his father held a responsible position. After a while he branched out and put his energy and enterprise into becoming a general produce merchant and shipper with interests in many overseas countries. Outside his career, he decided to devote his leisure time to studying Charles Dickens. He became a member of the Dickens Fellowship in 1905 and spent much of his spare time in travelling throughout England seeking to identify towns, villages and other scenes associated with the life and writing of his favourite author, about whom he wrote many books. Relinquishing the Honorary Treasurer of the Dickens Fellowship, a post he had held for some years, he became editor of Fellowship's magazine 'The Dickensian' in 1925 and he held the post until his death. He was also the first Honorary Secretary of the Dickens Fellowship Dramatic Society, formed in 1905. In addition he performed with the society and one of his last appearances was as Captain Cuttle at the Pickwick Centenary Matinee at the London Palladium in 1936. In exceptionally good condition.

Paperback. Octavo, [23cm/9inches], paperbound with Sheffield green pictorial covers, pp. 243-324. Fetures: True Story of the Gad's Hill Gazette, Dicken's America and Todays, How Stands Dickens Today, Dickens in Stained Glass, Who was Chevy Slime, The Ediburgh Conference, &tc. . Walter Dexter was born in London on 7 June 1877 and after school at St Olave's Grammar School he entered the business house where his father held a responsible position. After a while he branched out and put his energy and enterprise into becoming a general produce merchant and shipper with interests in many overseas countries. Outside his career, he decided to devote his leisure time to studying Charles Dickens. He became a member of the Dickens Fellowship in 1905 and spent much of his spare time in travelling throughout England seeking to identify towns, villages and other scenes associated with the life and writing of his favourite author, about whom he wrote many books. Relinquishing the Honorary Treasurer of the Dickens Fellowship, a post he had held for some years, he became editor of Fellowship's magazine 'The Dickensian' in 1925 and he held the post until his death. He was also the first Honorary Secretary of the Dickens Fellowship Dramatic Society, formed in 1905. In addition he performed with the society and one of his last appearances was as Captain Cuttle at the Pickwick Centenary Matinee at the London Palladium in 1936. . Walter Dexter was born in London on 7 June 1877 and after school at St Olave's Grammar School he entered the business house where his father held a responsible position. After a while he branched out and put his energy and enterprise into becoming a general produce merchant and shipper with interests in many overseas countries. Outside his career, he decided to devote his leisure time to studying Charles Dickens. He became a member of the Dickens Fellowship in 1905 and spent much of his spare time in travelling throughout England seeking to identify towns, villages and other scenes associated with the life and writing of his favourite author, about whom he wrote many books. Relinquishing the Honorary Treasurer of the Dickens Fellowship, a post he had held for some years, he became editor of Fellowship's magazine 'The Dickensian' in 1925 and he held the post until his death. He was also the first Honorary Secretary of the Dickens Fellowship Dramatic Society, formed in 1905. In addition he performed with the society and one of his last appearances was as Captain Cuttle at the Pickwick Centenary Matinee at the London Palladium in 1936. . Walter Dexter was born in London on 7 June 1877 and after school at St Olave's Grammar School he entered the business house where his father held a responsible position. After a while he branched out and put his energy and enterprise into becoming a general produce merchant and shipper with interests in many overseas countries. Outside his career, he decided to devote his leisure time to studying Charles Dickens. He became a member of the Dickens Fellowship in 1905 and spent much of his spare time in travelling throughout England seeking to identify towns, villages and other scenes associated with the life and writing of his favourite author, about whom he wrote many books. Relinquishing the Honorary Treasurer of the Dickens Fellowship, a post he had held for some years, he became editor of Fellowship's magazine 'The Dickensian' in 1925 and he held the post until his death. He was also the first Honorary Secretary of the Dickens Fellowship Dramatic Society, formed in 1905. In addition he performed with the society and one of his last appearances was as Captain Cuttle at the Pickwick Centenary Matinee at the London Palladium in 1936. . Walter Dexter was born in London on 7 June 1877 and after school at St Olave's Grammar School he entered the business house where his father held a responsible position. After a while he branched out and put his energy and enterprise into becoming a general produce merchan.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Says 1937 and indicates it is a first, but it looks more like a photographic reprint.

Soft Cover. Printed wraps. Octavo, 85pp., Admission slip to Dickens House tipped-in on back endpaper. Light wear and soiling. Good+ Numerous photos and illustrations.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Walter Dexter (illustrator). 330 Pages; 20 Chapters; Preface In Front; Index In Rear Of Book; Numerous Full Pages Of Illustrations In Color And Black And White Including Frontispiece, " The Rue De L'hotel De Ville;" String Binding; No Markings On Pages; Few Smudges On End Pages; Front 9Onner Spine Crease Weakened But All Pages Intact. Navy Blue Hard Covers With Gild Lettering And Design On Front Cover And Spine. Moderate Shelf Wear. Slight Fading And Rubbing; Slight Discoloration Area On Cover Bottom; Moderate Shelf Wear. Book Is About Paris And Parisians With Especially The Study Of Older Paris Streets. Street Map Of Paris Included. Chapter Headings Include; The English Gates Of Paris; Notre Dame; The Tuileries; The Latin Quarterl Two Zoos; Montmatre; The Place Des Vosges; And Hugo's House; The Bastille, Etc. Very Rare Vintage Copy.

Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company. Reading copy: hinges cracked and weak, spine cloth splitting/No Dustjacket. Circa 1920. 8vo., 284 pp. . Reading copy: hinges cracked and weak, spine cloth splitting/No Dustjacket.

Condition: Good. New edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Softcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Many wrinkles in the cover. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Very Good. First Edition. Blue Cloth, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Pages Clean, Binding Tight. Published July. Sticker remnant to cover. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No. Reprint. Good green hardcover. 1973 reprint of the l932 edition. Former University of Arizona library book, usual markings.296 pgs, indexed. Correspondence between Dickens and his oldest friend, Thomas Beard. Nonfiction. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Good. 1927. First Edition. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Rough cut edges to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.

Library Binding. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Paperback. Condition: Good. A Quarterly Magazine for Dickens Lovers. Contents: The Original Pickwick Papers, The Macbeth MOtif in Edwin Drood, More unpublished letters of Dickens, The Small Star in the East and other articles. 1/2 inch of paper lacking from top of spine. ; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ".

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A Quarterly Magazine for Dickens Lovers. Contents: The Dickens Dietary by T. W. Hill, More About Poe and Dickens by Leo Mason, A Dickens Diary One Hundred Years Ago, Notes for Dombey and Son by T. Kent Brumleigh, The Key of the Street and other articles. text block is loose in paper wraps. ; 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 ".

Hardcover. Illustrated by Walter Dexter (illustrator). Twelfth Edition. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear; 264 pages.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. EXCEPT FOR NEWSPAPER OFFSETTING ON A FEW PAGES, THIS IS A CLEAN, TIGHT COPY WITHOUT WRITING OR NAMES IN A VERY GOOD DUST JACKET WITH $2.00 PRICE. GOOD COLOR, AND PARTIAL SUNNING TO SPINE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hard cover. Very good condition with a bit of wear at top of spine, little other wear, shows a bit of age as well as a small previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Top edge gilt.