Benn First Edition (90 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition hardcover no dust jacket green cloth with gold embossed borders and spine . light wear . Chip gone to top spine end. light scuffs to rear cover. Woodblock illustrations Maud Reed.

Cloth, small 8vo, xvi, 17-244 pp, 30 plates, ills. From the blurb : "The reader of this book is invited to take part in a real adventure of detection. Instead of looking for the misprint on page 33 and the other minutiae of the first-edition collector, he is sent on a quest for the true reason for a book's existence. Solid though the print may appear to be, the investigator quickly finds that nothing is certain in the history of any individual book. Being the product of many different hands - writers, publishers, paper-makers, printers, binders, etc. - books have been the victim of the most remarkable accidents, closely connected with the political, religious, or social history of their times. Words are twisted, passages withdrawn or altered, illustrations wrongly attributed, authors' and publishers names concealed, bindings transferred, and paper and print subjected to a hundred curious turns. Mr. Collison closely examines the possible reasons for these accidents and suggests a method for each stage of the investigation. He shows how book-collecting can be a fascinating pursuit - and by no means an expensive one - that grows more rewarding as skill is acquired in a hobby calling on all the knowledge that can be accumulated in a lifetime. Fully illustrated." Bookplate of Roy A. Gillespie on front pastedown endpaper, an ex-library copy with a large library blindstamp on the rear board, number on the spine, tape-marks on the endpapers, stamps and accession marks on the prelims and stamps on the plates, covers slightly rubbed and spine slightly faded.…

Cloth, small 8vo, xvi, 17-244 pp, 30 plates, ills. From the blurb : "The reader of this book is invited to take part in a real adventure of detection. Instead of looking for the misprint on page 33 and the other minutiae of the first-edition collector, he is sent on a quest for the true reason for a book's existence. Solid though the print may appear to be, the investigator quickly finds that nothing is certain in the history of any individual book. Being the product of many different hands - writers, publishers, paper-makers, printers, binders, etc. - books have been the victim of the most remarkable accidents, closely connected with the political, religious, or social history of their times. Words are twisted, passages withdrawn or altered, illustrations wrongly attributed, authors' and publishers names concealed, bindings transferred, and paper and print subjected to a hundred curious turns. Mr. Collison closely examines the possible reasons for these accidents and suggests a method for each stage of the investigation. He shows how book-collecting can be a fascinating pursuit - and by no means an expensive one - that grows more rewarding as skill is acquired in a hobby calling on all the knowledge that can be accumulated in a lifetime. Fully illustrated." Very Good in slightly used dustwrapper.…

Cloth, small 8vo, xvi, 17-244 pp, 30 plates, ills. From the blurb : "The reader of this book is invited to take part in a real adventure of detection. Instead of looking for the misprint on page 33 and the other minutiae of the first-edition collector, he is sent on a quest for the true reason for a book's existence. Solid though the print may appear to be, the investigator quickly finds that nothing is certain in the history of any individual book. Being the product of many different hands - writers, publishers, paper-makers, printers, binders, etc. - books have been the victim of the most remarkable accidents, closely connected with the political, religious, or social history of their times. Words are twisted, passages withdrawn or altered, illustrations wrongly attributed, authors' and publishers names concealed, bindings transferred, and paper and print subjected to a hundred curious turns. Mr. Collison closely examines the possible reasons for these accidents and suggests a method for each stage of the investigation. He shows how book-collecting can be a fascinating pursuit - and by no means an expensive one - that grows more rewarding as skill is acquired in a hobby calling on all the knowledge that can be accumulated in a lifetime. Fully illustrated." Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, otherwise Very Good in Very Good price-clipped dustwrapper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. hardback, 8vo, xviii,437pp, 32 illustrations, scattered light foxing, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth, spine browning, Good condition / no dustwrappers.

Cloth, small 8vo, xvi, 17-244 pp, 30 plates, ills. From the blurb : "The reader of this book is invited to take part in a real adventure of detection. Instead of looking for the misprint on page 33 and the other minutiae of the first-edition collector, he is sent on a quest for the true reason for a book's existence. Solid though the print may appear to be, the investigator quickly finds that nothing is certain in the history of any individual book. Being the product of many different hands - writers, publishers, paper-makers, printers, binders, etc. - books have been the victim of the most remarkable accidents, closely connected with the political, religious, or social history of their times. Words are twisted, passages withdrawn or altered, illustrations wrongly attributed, authors' and publishers names concealed, bindings transferred, and paper and print subjected to a hundred curious turns. Mr. Collison closely examines the possible reasons for these accidents and suggests a method for each stage of the investigation. He shows how book-collecting can be a fascinating pursuit - and by no means an expensive one - that grows more rewarding as skill is acquired in a hobby calling on all the knowledge that can be accumulated in a lifetime. Fully illustrated." Good in used and slightly torn dustwrapper, top edge duststained.…

Cloth, small 8vo, xvi, 17-244 pp, 30 plates, ills. From the blurb : "The reader of this book is invited to take part in a real adventure of detection. Instead of looking for the misprint on page 33 and the other minutiae of the first-edition collector, he is sent on a quest for the true reason for a book's existence. Solid though the print may appear to be, the investigator quickly finds that nothing is certain in the history of any individual book. Being the product of many different hands - writers, publishers, paper-makers, printers, binders, etc. - books have been the victim of the most remarkable accidents, closely connected with the political, religious, or social history of their times. Words are twisted, passages withdrawn or altered, illustrations wrongly attributed, authors' and publishers names concealed, bindings transferred, and paper and print subjected to a hundred curious turns. Mr. Collison closely examines the possible reasons for these accidents and suggests a method for each stage of the investigation. He shows how book-collecting can be a fascinating pursuit - and by no means an expensive one - that grows more rewarding as skill is acquired in a hobby calling on all the knowledge that can be accumulated in a lifetime. Fully illustrated." Good in used and price-clipped dustwrapper.…

8vo [25 x 16 cm]; 320 pp, index, bibliography. original navy blue cloth, gilt spine title lettering, small chip at upper spine, very good+ clean copy, sound and solid. A fascinating study of early movements and travels of people in Europe, the Near East, Americas, Polynesia, including the Nordic invasion of Polynesia, Maoris in New Zealand, ancient civilizations in Puebla, Mississippi valley, Mongolian settlement of Peru, relation to Incas, colonization of Santa Cruz and San Cristobal, etc. A picture of this book is available on request.…

8vo [21.5 x 14 cm]; 207 pp, illustrations from photos and drwgs, index. original cloth, spine title lettering, dj (worn, very chipped), small stain in outer edge, else very good in worn dj. With detailed information on glasshouse flower growing and marketing, the author presents still valuable information, including on flowering border plants, pot plants, annuals in pots, bulbs and corms, orchids, control of pests and diseases, greenhouse operations, cultivation, etc. A picture of this book is available on request.…

HB BLUE CLOTH GOOD PP101 DW VERY GOOD 12M0 Illustrations by the author.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original deep navy cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼'' 191 pp. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Spine slightly faded, and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. NUMISMATICS (Currency).…

Condition: Good. First edition hard back publisher's original green cloth covers, black stamping to spine and upper panel. 8vo 7" x 4¾" 288 pp. Heavy foxing to end papers and page edges, library binding. Good reference condition copy. Customs duty applies for orders shipped into the EU from outside the EU, Delivered Duty Paid (DDP), our shipping price includes DDP. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945.…

8vo, 200pp, 125 b/w plates, orig. cloth gilt. A fine copy in VG dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Frontispiece portrait and 33 plates in half-tne of Eric Gill's stone-carvings and designs 1910-1924. grey paper-covered boards, blue cloth back titled in gilt. Henry Towner book label. Lacks dust-jacket. A very good copy. One of the series of monographs of Contemporary British artists published under the general editorship of Albert Rutherston.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Pink paper-covered boards, green cloth back with printed label. Dust-jacket severely spotted, else a very good bright copy. A parody of T.E. Eliot's Wasteland and Ash Wednesday.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Profusely illustrated within the text. Black cloth with gilt spine titling. A very good copy.

Condition: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 288 printed pages of text with 4 maps and 16 pages of monochrome photographs. Fine condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with sun fading of the red colour down the spine, small rubs to the spine ends and corners. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0510386288 RUSSIAN & SOVIET HISTORY.…

Condition: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original deep navy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. Quarto. 10½'' x 8¼''. Ex library with usual stamps. Contains 571 pp with monochrome and colour illustrations and photographs throughout. In Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CERAMICS & POTTERY.…

HB GREEN CLOTH EDGEWEAR ELSE NEAR FINE PP487 DW NEAR FINE 8V0 The authorÕs Collected Light Verse.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original toffee paper covered boards, silver title and author lettering to the spine, maps to the end papers. 8vo. 8'' x 5¼''. Contains 220 printed pages of text. Mottling to the upper corner of the rear panel. Very Good condition book in near Very Good condition art work dust wrapper with irregular part of the cover missing to the top of the upper rear corner, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo 9½" x 6¼" 286 pp. Working condition copy with cracking of paper to lower end paper, spine faded, rubbing across spine ends, corners bumped. Member of the P.B.F.A. FRANCE [Literature & History).

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 68 pp with monochrome throughout. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with sun fading down the spine. Member of the P.B.F.A. MUSIC [Classical].…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original strawberry and cream paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, lime dyed upper edges. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 224 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0510185002 BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original vivid blue cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼'' 101 pp. End paper maps, colour frontispiece, monochrome illustrations throughout. Small name inside the front cover and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHAKESPEARE, William.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 8½'' x 5¼'' 95 pp. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition price clipped dust wrapper with one small scuff mark to front cover. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Member of the P.B.F.A. LONDON (Londinium).…

Cloth, 4to, 29 cm, xv, 359 pp, plates, ills (some colour). From the blurb: "The seven volumes of The Fleuron - A Journal of Typography were published between 1923 and 1930. They celebrated, but also largely contrived, the typographic renaissance of their time. Oliver Simon was the begetter of The Fleuron and the editor of the first four volumes - aided editorially by Stanley Morison, while Harold Curwen provided the opportunity and the printing skills. In 1925 Oliver Simon and Harold Curwen, pressed by other duties, happily transferred The Fleuron to Stanley Morison as editor and to the Cambridge University Press as printer-publisher. The seven volumes, totalling 1350 pages, are now virtually impossible to come by. Since the influence and interest of their contents have been in no way diminished by the passage of time or by the new technical devices of 'occasional' printing, a wide selection of the most significant Fleuron articles, profusely illustrated, is now published in a single volume: The Fleuron Anthology. By a happy chance Francis Meynell and Herbert Simon, two men who were associated with the original Fleuron venture and are known also for their own typographic achievements, have been available to edit this significant and handsome volume, adding their 'Retrospectus'. The illustrations to the chosen articles, a major feature of The Fleuron, are reproduced in their original size." Contents: English Printing Before The Fleuron: A Retrospectus; Printers' Flowers and Arabesques, by Frances Meynell and Stanley Morison; Claud Lovat Fraser: Illustrator, by Holbrook Jackson; Initial Letters in the Printed Book, by Percy J. D. Smith; The Title-Page, by Oliver Simon; Emil Rudolf Weiss, by Julius Meier-Graefe; On the Planning of Printing, by D. B. Updike; Emery Walker, by Bernard H. Newdigate; Mr. C. H. St. John Hornby's Ashendene Press, by Bernard H. Newdigate; Stanley Morison, by Frank Sidgwick; the Nonage of 19th Century Printing in England, by Holbrook Jackson; D. B. Updike and The Merrymount Press, by W. A. Dwiggins; Modern Styles in Music Printing in England, by Hubert J. Foss; Typographical Work of Percy Smith, by Frank Sidgwick; On the Work of Bruce Rogers, by Frederic Warde; Karl Klingspor, by Julius Rodenberg (Translated by Anna Simons); 'Garamond' Types: XVI & XVn Century Sources Considered, by Paul Beaujon; The Work of Rudolf Koch, by Albert Windisch; Geofroy Tory, by A. F. Johnson; On Decorative Printing in America, by Paul Beaujon; Eric Gill: Sculptor of Letters, by Paul Beaujon; An Unacknowledged Movement in Fine Printing, by A.J. A. Symons; Thomas Maitland Cleland, by D. B. Updike; Decorated Types, by Stanley Morison. Very Good in a dustwrapper with some edgewear.…

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cherry red paper covered boards, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 199 printed pages of text with monochrome and colour illustrations, diagrams and photographs throughout. Minimal marking to the closed page edges, smudges to the front free end paper. Near Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper with light rubs and creases. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0510001343 ANGLING & SPORT FISHING.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy blue cloth covered boards with black cloth spine, gilt title block and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 319 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Very little wear to the covers, ink name dated 1928 to the front paste down, a few tan age spots to the closed fore edges and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEOLOGY & RELIGION.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original camel cloth covers, black lettering to spine. 8vo 7½" x 5¼" 287 pp. Light rubbing to corners of spine tips and corners and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.

8vo, 124pp. Very good hardback copy in good dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author to a "Nick" who puportedly provided the funds for publication.