Distant Prospect by Berners Lord (47 results)

paperback. 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A sequel to First Childhood, 176 pages. Minor wear, previous owner's name, date and indecipherable note on the fore edge margin of the ffep.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A Distant Prospect. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New. The sequel to Lord Berners' First Childhood, A Distant Prospect is a poignant and witty account of Eton, early adolescence and a boy's awakening to the spell of Wagner, ballet and musical composition. Not only witty and amusing, but contains things to ponder over in plenty behind the mere youthful years. The portraits of his friends are complete portraits, sketched brilliantly in a few strokes.' - Tatler'.…

Paperback. 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.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Minor smudge to rear cover, else tight and clean.

Paperback. Condition: Good. PAPERBACK EDITION. Light general wear. May have light notes/highlighting. shelf wear. bumped edges. worn cover. Paperback.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most of our very good books have only minor imperfections such as shelf wear consistent with a new book that's sat on a bookshop shelf for a year or two. Occasionally we may miss other minor imperfections as we have to grade books at speed. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Paperback. 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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Clean, unmarked, unread copy. TM/Misc.

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.

Paperback. 176p. A softcover book in fine condition. Like-new apart from a former owner's neat bookplate inside the front cover. Berners' memoir of his Eton years.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition . Publication of 176 pages. The dust jacket and boards are in near fine condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. London: Constable, (1945). First Edition. 8vo. 126pp. Blue cloth, silver letters, no dj. Near fine condition. Frontispiece by the Author and three photographs. One of Lord Berners' four autobiographical works.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First thus. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in printed wrappers. Re-issue of a book first published in 1945, by a noted English aesthete.

Hardcovers. Condition: Near Fine. -----------Small thin hardcover book, dark navy cloth with bright white lettering, book is about 7 1/2" x 5", about 1/2" thick. 126 pages with frontispiece and 3 photos.NEAR FINE CONDITION, tight solid fresh clean- - no dust jacket.

Condition: Acceptable. Item in acceptable condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. 'Autobiography of the very finest quality. Having enjoyed in the course of reading it the loudest and longest laughs I have enjoyed in the last two years I am quite incapable of making any critical observations. I found the book enchanting from cover to cover.' Compton Mackenzie, Daily Mail 'First Childhood and A Distant Prospect are quietly remarkable volumes of autobiography. Both books are alive with unforgotten terrors and unforgiven indignities.' Alan Hollinghurst, TLS, March 1998 ''Not only witty and amusing, but contains things to ponder over in plenty behind the mere youthful years. The portraits of his friends are complete portraits, sketched brilliantly in a few strokes.' Tatler A Distant Prospect is the second volume of Lord Berner's perfectly formed, hilarious, and beautifully written memoirs. Berners was a great English eccentric, a composer, novelist, painter and conspicuous aesthete whose friends included Gertrude Stein, Diaghilev and Sitwell. The character of L ord Merlin in Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love is based on Lord Berners, who would dip his pigeons into basins of magenta, green and ultramarine so that when released they resembled, Mitford wrote, 'a cloud of confetti in the sky'. These memoirs are classics of their kind.…

Condition: BUONO USATO. IIED. Da revisionare INGLESE Legatura editoriale in cartonato rigido ruvido, copertina in buono stato, con titolo in oro al dorso, protetta da sovraccoperta con bandelle, illustrata in entrambi i piatti. Ritratto fotografico dell' Autore alla bandella posteriore. Interno molto ben conservato, carte ossidate da tonalità ocra e perfettamente tenute, tagli integri e puliti. Numero pagine 176.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, abt fine in V.G. d.j. with tear at top of spine.VVtv3/1.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Title: A Distant Prospect: A Sequel to First Childhood Author: Lord Berners Publisher: London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1945 Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket (8vo, 126 pp.) Genre: Non-Fiction / Autobiography & Memoir Subject: Biography & Memoir / British Eccentrics & Aristocracy Topic: Eton College, British School Life, Modernist Authors & Composers, Early 20th-Century Adolescence Special Attributes: First Edition, Dust Jacket Included, Illustrated Frontispiece & Photographs Provenance: This volume comes from the personal library of the poet and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (né Edward Michael Mendelson). Description: First Edition of the second volume of autobiography by Lord Berners (1883-1950), the noted English composer, painter, novelist, and aesthete. This volume offers an entertaining and affectionate account of his school days at Eton, detailed friendships, and early artistic awakenings. Illustrated with a frontispiece by the author and three photographic plates. Condition: Book: Very Good+. Deep blue cloth covers are vibrant and clean with bright white spine/cover titles. Binding square and tight. Interior leaves clean and completely unmarked, save for a faint vintage pencil notation to top corner of front endpaper. Dust Jacket: Very Good. Original clipped jacket showing age-toning along the spine and minor chipping/short tears to the top spine head and corner folds. NT100.…

Hard Cover. First Edition. First UK Edition. Publisher's blue boards with silver lettering to the front board and spine. A hint of foxing to the top-edge otherwise a fine copy. No dustwrapper. This book (bright and clean boards) is definitely good enough to take a dustwrapper. Photographs/scans available upon request.…

Paperback. Condition: New. The sequel to Lord Berners' First Childhood, A Distant Prospect is a poignant and witty account of Eton, early adolescence and a boy's awakening to the spell of Wagner, ballet and musical composition. Not only witty and amusing, but contains things to ponder over in plenty behind the mere youthful years. The portraits of his friends are complete portraits, sketched brilliantly in a few strokes.' - Tatler'.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. SECOND EDITION. Hardback 1999. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. JACKET SPINE IS A LITTLE FADED. Jacket is not torn. Front flap is priced: £12.99 net. Jacket is now under clear removable protective covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref G17.…

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Alkali spotting/staining at top edge. First page (illustration) loose. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All dustwrappers are film protected. All books sent tracked. PayPal accepted. A second volume of autobiography, following First Childhood. Dustwrapper is browned on edges and spine, marked on rear and a little edgeworn in places.Complete with oriignal price of 8/6. Illustrated Frontispiece By the Author and Three Photographs, All Present as Listed (illustrator).…