Decaying Splendours by Weeks Stephen (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. worn with edge tears. First published 1979. The book is a hardcover edition with a worn dust jacket that exhibits edge tears. The binding remains intact, ensuring the book?s structural integrity. Inside, the pages are clean with no inscriptions or library markings. The cover shows some wear consistent with its age, but overall, it remains a solid copy for collectors and readers alike. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Very Good DJ. First edition. Introduction by Penelope Chetwode. Numerous b&w and colour illustrations. Previous owners details on ffep. Scuffing and creasing to dj. Some small tears along edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The dustwrapper lightly rubbed, has some wear to the edges and corners, with some small rips to the edges. The grey boards are clean with some bumping to the bottom edges, with bright lettering to the spine. The binding is firm. The pages are clean and crease free. This book has 104 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.…

London; British Broadcasting Corporation, 1979. 22,5x19 cm. 104 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's boards with printed dustjacket. A small scrape mark on front panel of the jacket. A fine copy. "Film-maker Stephen Weeks needed to find a location which would perfectly evoke the England of the 1930s. His problem was that most of the likley sites hade become over-familiar to audiences. He wanted unfamiliar but convincing country houses in a landscape free from jarring traces of the post-war world, and motor-cars which did not look as they were on hire from a motor museum. He found all these things, magically preserved, in India." (front flap). From the library of Sten Åke Nilsson, Swedish professor of art.…

BINDING - Hardcover. Condition: CONDITION - Used/ Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket - Fair. with some wear. 1st Edition. 104 Pages. Illustrated. Signed By Author On Half Title Page. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original pastel green paper covered boards, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 8''. Contains 104 printed pages of text with colour and monochrome photographs 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 0563175168 INDIA (Bharat Ganarajya).…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy small quarto 104pp., col. & b/w pls..

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Film-maker Stephen Weeks needed to find country houses in unfamiliar settings which would evoke 1930's England. These he found in India. First edition. 104pp, b/w and colour plates.Fine in fine dw.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition of this wonderful book, closely based on the BBC Television series. This perceptive account of the author's search for perfect period locations for a film led him to India. He discovered a perfect landscape free from jarring traces of the post war world, and motor cars which did not look like expensively hired costly period pieces out of a museum. A superb and fascinating record of a time and place that has long gone.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

First edition. British Broadcasting Corporation, London. 1979. Hardback with dust-wrapper. SIGNED presentation slip tipped in to front endpaper. Large square 8vo. 104 pages. Colour and b&w photographs throughout. A very good, clean and fresh copy in wrapper.