William Lax (49 results)

Condition: Fair. 1930. Seventh Edition. 240 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Fourth Edition. B&W Illustrations; 240 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Markings on prelim pages. Rubbing (shelf wear) to covers, moderate. Stains to covers. No markings on text pages. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your or…

Condition: Good. 1927. 4th Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth with lettering. Illustrated by Alfred E. Bestall. Author's signature to fep. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Some rub-marking and foxing to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubb…

Hardback, cloth. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Second Edition. Let's Go to Poplar by William H. Lax, with pen an ink sketches by Alfred E. Bestall. Hardback, 1929, second edition, illustrated, published by The Epworth Press/J. Alfred Sharp, London, 240 pages. Octavo/8vo, measures around 7 5/8" by 5 1/8" by 1 1/8"…

Condition: Fair. 1929. Second Edition. 240 pages. Orange dust jacket with blue lettering over green cloth. B&W illustrations throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Notable sunning to sp…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Second Edition. B&W Illustrations; 275 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Cocked spine, slightly. Foxing (very light) to exterior edge of pages. No markings on text pages or major defects. Yellowing to pages. Rubbing (shelf wear) to covers. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer f…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 144pp, printed wrappers. Impressive literary review from 1971 New York, includes an interview with Allen Ginsberg, a 25-page section on Black Poets in New York, and work by Robert Lax, Muriel Rukeyser, et al. Unmarked copy, lig…

Condition: Good. 1935. First Edition. 256 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing. Notable sunning to spine, which has mild crushing t…

Hardback. Condition: Good+, sound copy. Reprint. Hardback. 256pp. Autobiography of the Lancashire born Methodist minister of Poplar in London. Illustrated by Alfred E. Bestall, best known for drawing Rupert Bear, with a number of full page drawings. Also illustrated with photographs of local people and places. A very early repri…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. Inscription to flyleaf 'With our best regards Milliee Lax October 5 1936' - author is W.H. Lax, is this inscription by his wife ? 256 pages. No dustjacket. Light blue Hardback binding is lighter to spine, light wear/small creases to spine-ends, light wear to boards' corne…

2nd impression. Hardback, no dustwrapper. Blue boards, gilt titles. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Decorative endpapers. Contents: some light scattered spotting. Endpapers lightly browned. Otherwise pages generally good+ and clean. Previous owner's inscription front endpaper. Boards: very good and bright. Light shelf-wear to extremi…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Impression. Subtitled "An attempt At Biography Some Record of the Extraordinary Doings of an Ordinary Woman". Sequel to "Adventures in Poplar." Illustrated. The jacket is fixed to the paper covers of this book which was originally published as a har…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1933. Blue cloth hardcover with red lettering and ruled borders to front board. An attractive and increasingly uncommon work relating to Poplar and East London social history. This copy is warmly inscribed and signed by the author, William H. Lax, dated 21 Januar…

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. Good condition. No dust jacket…