A Map of Hearts by Stefan Schimanski Henry Treece (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 185pp. G/Fair. Yellow dusty cloth covered boards with red lettering on face and faded lettering on spine. Toned top page edges. Wear to top and tail of spine. Gift inscription on ffep. 25 contributors including Alan Ross who has signed his piece. Torn dust jacket at spine with tape repair on inside. Small loss to top and tail of spine of dj. Price unclipped (8s 6d). General shelf wear. All now protected in clear archival film. Signed by a Contributor.

[Short stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 185 [1]. Publisher's yellow cloth, pink titles and pictorial motifs blocked to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 8s 6d to front flap. Cloth lightly toned to extremities. Some toning and gentle edgewear to jacket. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket by Henry Moore (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression, undated but 1944 from other bibliographic sources. Some edge wear, chipping, rubbing and small loss to top and bottom of striking colourful signed jacket by sculptor and artist Henry Moore (Moore 44.), spine somewhat faded and with 1" piece missing from bottom spine and small piece from top spine, corners rubbed and bruised with small loss, not price clipped (8s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age and poor wartime paper. 185pp. A collection of essays and short stories. Henry Treece (1911-66), was a popular and prolific historical novelist for children, I have been able to find out almost nothing about Stefan Schimanski, beyond the supposition that he may have been a Polish Jew who fled to America to escape the Nazis. Henry Moore (1898-1986), was one of the greatest sculptors and artists of the 20th century. A scarce book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Bright yellow pictorial cl., purple lettering, design, backstr. sl. faded. Names on ffep. 185pp. Contributors: Stephen Watts, Hsiao Ch'ien, Rayner Heppenstall, John Pudney, J. F. Hendry, Lina Thomas, Inez Holden Donald Swanson, Alan Ross,Gervase Stewart, F. J. Brown, John Heath-Stubbs, Henry Treece, Alan Storey, Denis Magill, Gwyn Jones, Mulk Raj Anand, William Sansom, Mary Lavin, Stefan Schimanski, Paul Bloomfield.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Edited by Stefan Schimanski & Henry Treece. 2nd ed. London (Lindsay Drummond) 1945. Covers soiled and name on endpaper, else a very good copy.