allen lane penguin books harmondsworth middlesex (18 results)

Reprint. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 464 pages ; 18 cm. Subjects; Latin literature. English literature Translations from Latin. Latin literature Influence. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 335pp, photographs. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair ++Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 1st Penguin Edition. 155 pages. Orange and cream background covers, taped spine - spine has both inner hinges taped and most of the spine has been taped. Dark browning to pages, page-margins lightly browned o/w pages clean and tidy.

Reprint. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 464 pages ; 18 cm. Subjects; Latin literature. English literature Translations from Latin. Latin literature Influence. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Classic Penguin design. Particularly well-preserved. Physical description: 158 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, 19 cm. Subjects: Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism. Genre: Literature. Language: English. 1 Kg.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Photographic (illustrator). First Edition. Sources of photographs, acknowledgements, notes, further reading, chronology of events and index. As would be expected, the text is illustrated with copious black-and-white photography from Britain in the 1880s. Photographic paperback binding with orange and white coloured titles to the front panel and orange and yellow coloured titles to the back strip. In the 1880s the camera development had become such that it was more mobile, relatively fast and flexible, and, could be used outside stiff studio setting. In this book the decade of the 1880s has been photographed by various photographers in Britain dealing with all aspects of life: Â including working life, childhood, education, recreations, pomp and ceremony and illness, old age and death were documented. A little creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges, panels and either side of the back strip. Light age toning of the text block edges and pages. First softcover edition. Size: Folio (over 12" tall ). [9], 10 - 335 pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Photography; Britain/UK; 19th century; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0140067116. ISBN/EAN: 9780140067118. Inventory No: 0124615.

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Classic Penguin design. Particularly well-preserved. Physical description: 158 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, 19 cm. Subjects: Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism. Genre: Literature. Language: English. 1 Kg.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. Penguin Catalogue No. A557. A 1966 reprint of the first UK paperback edition - originally published in paperback in 1962. First published in hardback by Edward Arnold in 1927. ***A very good copy in black printed turquoise-blue and white wrappers. Covers have some marks and creasing commensurate with age and handling. Bottom corner of front cover creased, with a couple of small indentations also on the front cover. ***173 pages, plus an Index at the back of the book. 180mm x 110mm. ***Contents: Notes, 1. Introductory, 2. The Story, 3. People, 4. People (continued), 5. The Plot, 6. Fantasy, 7. Prophecy, 8. Pattern and Rhythm, 9. Conclusion, Index. ***'The effort to see through novels, not round them - that is how E. M. Forster describes the driving force behind this book. He discards the weighty 'historical' view with its cumbersome apparatus of 'tendencies', 'influences', and 'periods'. Instead we are to imagine all novelists at work together in a circular room. With this welcome freshness of approach the author of "A Passage to India" discusses the various ways we can look at a novel.' [Quote taken from the back cover]. ***'Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 Jan 1879 - 7 Jun 1970) was an English fiction writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 separate years.' ***'"Aspects of the Novel" was compiled from a series of lectures delivered by E. M. Forster at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1927, in which he discussed the English language novel. By using examples from classic texts, he highlights the seven universal aspects of the novel: story, characters, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm. Some critics have taken issue with the fact that Forster, as a renowned novelist, formulated a normative theory of how to write prose. W. Somerset Maugham commented that, having read the book, "I learned that the only way to write novels was like Mr. E. M. Forster." Virginia Woolf, reviewing "Aspects of the Novel" in Nation and Athenaeum, on the other hand, praised some aspects of the book. According to Woolf, Forster, unlike other male critics, never exercises stern authority to save the lady (i.e. fiction), he merely acts as a casual friend who happens to have been admitted into the bedroom.' [Wiki] ***A 1966 reprint of the first paperback edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

First Edition. Good paperback copy only; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Spine worn. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; 128 pages ; 18cm. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain. Fascism. International cooperation. World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Poor paperback copy. Spine worn. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; 128 pages ; 18cm. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain. Fascism. International cooperation. World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Good paperback copy only; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Spine worn. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; 128 pages ; 18cm. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain. Fascism. International cooperation. World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Poor paperback copy. Spine worn. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; 128 pages ; 18cm. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain. Fascism. International cooperation. World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain. 1 Kg.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Penguin Catalogue No. A82. First impression of the first UK edition - published as a paperback original during the Second World War in 1941. Illustrated with 32 monochrome plates at the centre of the book. With nice period adverts for Euthymol toothpaste on the final page and Pears transparent soap [rear cover]. The book includes a tipped in folding chart at the back which shows a timeline of Painters and Sculptors from Duccio (1255-1319) and Giotto (1276-1336) to Monet (1840-1926) and Renoir (1841-1919). ***Very good in black printed turquoise-blue and white wrappers. Covers have some marks and creasing commensurate with age and handling [see scans]. No creases. No tears. No reading creases to the spine. Spine slightly darkened. With a shadow of a price sticker left on the back cover. With a neat contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper 'M. D. Fleming 1942'. Internal pages clean, although the paper has browned slightly. The folding chart at the back of the book is printed on very thin paper and there is a short closed tear to the inner margin which affects the text. ***128 pages, including diagrams at the back of the book. 180mm x 110mm. ***Contents: Foreword, PART ONE - I. The Nature of the Arts, II. The Representational Arts, III. East and West, IV. The Development of European Art, V. The Stone Age, VI. Egypt and Mesopotamia, VII. The Aegean and Athens, VIII. Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic, IX. Florence, Siena and Venice, X. Flanders, Germany, Spain, Holland, XI. Paris, XII. The Art of the Twentieth Century, XIII. Diagrams. ***'Eric Newton (1893-1965) was an English artist, writer, broadcaster and art critic. He produced several books in addition to his newspaper and radio work. His radio broadcasts made him well known to the British public in the 1930s. After gaining a BA from Manchester University in 1913, he worked as a designer at Ludwig Oppenheimer Ltd, the mosaic firm founded by his grandfather and based in Old Trafford, Manchester. His work, and that of the Oppenheimer firm is still to be seen in several churches in Britain and Ireland. He took part in the Paris exhibition in 1925. He is best known as an art critic and writer. He was appointed art critic of the Manchester Guardian in 1930, although he had provided copy for that paper for some years prior to this. He was art critic for The Times for three years from 1947, and wrote frequently for the New York Times, Time and Tide magazine and ArtReview. Newton delivered radio lectures on art, notably the 1935 BBC 12 part series "The Artist and his Public" [1935] subsequently turned into the first of several books, and took part in the radio arts series The Critics.' [Wiki] ***First impression of the first UK edition - published as a paperback original during the Second World War in 1941. A nice wartime title in the Pelican series in first impression - wartime editions had lower print runs. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 127p. A fine copy, in a fine d.j. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing of the true first edition - Penguin Special S-85, published in December 1940. A paperback original. Illustrated with 31 sepia photographic plates. With a poignant dedication page printed as follows: 'For my brother Pilot Officer Grahame Walker. Reported missing September 19, 1940.' Please note this is printed in the book, not hand written. ***Very good in colour-illustrated wrappers. Covers quite clean, but with some marks and creasing commensurate with age and handling [see scans]. Top corner of back wrapper torn off. No reading creases to the spine. Interior pages clean, with no foxing. Paper slightly tanned. No inscriptions. No dustwrapper. ***127 pages. 178mm x 110mm. The last four pages are in the form of a table listing German and British aircraft and crew losses during Battle of Britain, August to October 1940. ***First printing of the true first edition, a Penguin Special paperback original, published at the end of the first full year of the Second World War. Uncommon and fragile. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Paperback Edition. A first printing of the first UK paperback edition - the third in the Penguin Hansard series - published as a paperback original on 11th March 1941 [the book states February 1941 but publication was delayed due to the war] - Penguin Catalogue No. H.3 - unpriced [the price only appeared on the dustwrapper for these wartime editions, not on the front cover]. This was the third title to be published in Penguin's Hansard series, which ran to just six volumes in all. ***A very good copy in illustrated dark blue and white card wrappers, with the original Penguin style of horizontal stripes. The covers have some marks and creasing commensurate with age and handling but are largely clean and unmarked. No major faults - just some light rubbing and creasing to the edges of the covers. The spine just has some light wear but no reading creases. There is no reading lean to the binding. No fading to the covers. Internally the book is also very good, with no inscriptions and no serious creases or tears - just some light creasing to the top corners of most pages. The paper stock is only slightly tanned with age. No foxing. Without the original dustwrapper [assuming one was issued]. ***288 pages including a 4pp Index to Speakers at the back of the book. 180mm x 110mm. ***The Penguin Hansard - Taken verbatim from the House of Commons Official Report of Parliamentary Debates - 'This was an ambitious project attempting to bring the words of political leaders spoken in Parliament to the people. H1 - From Chamberlain to Churchill appeared in August 1940. The final volume, H6 - The War Moves East, was issued in September 1942. Penguin experimented with trying to bring current politics to the people. The 'official' Parliamentary record Hansard only sold a few hundred copies. Allen Lane wanted to bring these important war-time debates into popular readership. Unfortunately, this special series of books did not stimulate the public and not many were sold. They are thus rather scarce these days. The cover design is similar to that of Penguin Specials but in the more familiar colours of the Pelican series - of blue and white.' [Penguin First Editions site] ***A first printing of this wartime Penguin Hansard paperback in very nice collectable condition. Copies of these fragile books, published at the height of the Second World War, are quite scarce now. Impressive that an 80 year old paperback has survived in such nice condition. A rare survivor. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First printing of the first UK paperback edition, published as a Pelican Original - revised from the first hardback edition which was published by W. H. Allen in 1967. Illustrated with 16 pages of plates. ***A near fine copy in illustrated card covers. The covers have some marks and creasing commensurate with age and handling, but are clean and undamaged. No significant creases or tears - just a light crease to the bottom corner of the back cover. Light reading creases to the spine. Back cover slightly marked [being a white background] ***288 pages, including an Appendix by Max Beerbohm, a detailed section of Notes, and an Index at the back of the book. 180mm x 112mm. ***Contents: List of Illustrations, Foreword, 1. Beginnings [1872-88], 2. The High st4ool [1888-91], 3. The Well-Travelled Portfolio [1892-3], 4. Aubrey and Oscar [1893-5], 5. The Beardsley Boom [1893-4], 6. The Prevalence of Yellow [1894-5], 7. Beardsley in Limbo [1895], 8. The Savoy Ascendant [1896], 9. The Savoy in extremis [1896], 10. Retreat [1896-7], 11. Exile [1897], 12. Mentone [1898], Afterword: The Long Shadow, Appendix, Notes, Index. ***'Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 Aug 1872 - 16 Mar 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles was significant despite his early death from tuberculosis. He is one of the important Modern Style figures.' [Wiki] ***'Aubrey Beardsley died in 1898 at the age of twenty-five. Although his active career as a draughtsman lasted only five years, he established, in that brief period, the graphic style of the age of Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Book.' ***"Mr Weintraub's book needs no successor." - New York Times. [Quote and review quote taken from the back cover] ***A 1972 first paperback edition - revised from the hardback edition, and illustrated with some very attractive plates. A very nice copy. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Various (illustrator). First Edition. Folk tales are part of the universal heritage of mankind. This beautiful and unusual collection of sixty-five tales from around the world reveals the extraordinary coincidence of stories told in all age and all countries. Some tales are found in nearly every society throughout history, with only the cultural details being different. This volume includes, for instance, an Algonquin Indian version of Cinderella and a Norse William Tell. Each story has a short introduction that traces its history through various cultures. Then, a single version of the tale is selected and evocatively told by Idries Shah. The hundred and one outstanding illustrations are by thirty-seven famous leading illustrators, all living in Britain. Each picture has been specially commissioned for this book. These illustrations not only add a dimension of beauty and depth to the stories, but also serve as an introduction to the world of contemporary art. This combination of modern illustrations and timeless folk tales gives the reader a unique insight into our cultural heritage. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xi + 260. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket has edge wear with piece missing at top front edge, but is otherwise intact, with both flaps. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Gilt titles spine. very slight colour fading to top edge of covers. blue cloth; illustrated by 101 colour drawings throughout. Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Myths, Legends & Folklore; Folk Tales; Short Stories; Traditionnal Stories; Children. ISBN: 0722668600. ISBN/EAN: 9780722668603. Dewey Code: 398.21. Inventory No: 4952. This book is fairly heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.