Worlds Library of Best Books by Wilfred Whitten (15 results)

Condition: Very Good. Rebound in 3/4 red leather. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear but spine heavily rubbed. Book has clean and bright contents with no markings, full-page colour plates.

Condition: Very Good. Rebound in 3/4 red leather. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear but spine heavily rubbed. Book has clean and bright contents with no markings, full-page colour plates.

Half Leather. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Illustrated with 12 Colour Plates and Many Black & White Plates Throughout (illustrator). Circa 1950's. The top of the spine is badly damaged, though binding intact. .FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Not Signed or Inscribed.

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. A good condition incomplete set of three volumes out of a potential 5. Undated but vintage and still in their original blue cloth binding with blindstamped decoration. All are from the same collection and so are uniform in edition and condition, with light crushing to spine ends and bumps to book corners. Occasional light rubbing. The page edges are decoratively speckled. A few typical signs of handling and marks throughout and typical mild age. The binding is slackening in places but altogether sound throughout all three books. A handsome beginning to a collection.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Spine damaged. English.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Spine damaged. English.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Spine damaged. English.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Spine damaged. English.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Spine damaged. English.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Spine damaged. English.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Spine damaged. English.

Hardcover. Condition: Worn. No Jacket. Various Artists (illustrator). Spine coming adrift.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Various Artists (illustrator).

Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed. 260mm x 180mm (10" x 7"). 484pp; 480pp; 476pp; 476pp; 476pp + plates. 60 colour plates. John O' London. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. Blue hardback half-leather cover.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A smart collection of uniformly bound volumes on the literature of the world, from George Newnes Limited. Seven volumes. This set contains: The Outline of Literature, 1923-1924. Complete in two volumes. Each volume is illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour title page, twelve colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A study of world literature, with chapters on the first books in the world, Homer, the Bible, Greek myth, Shakespeare, Milton, the Restoration dramatists, Dr. Johnson, Robert Burns, Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron, Dickens, and more. Edited by John Drinkwater, an English poet and dramatist, known as one of the Dymock poets. The World's Library of Best Books, 1924-1925. Complete in five volumes. Each volume is illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour title page, eleven colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed collection of studies on some of the best books in the world, with chapters on Antony and Cleopatra, The Pickwick Papers, Barrack-Room Ballads, Don Juan, and A Doll's House, amongst others. Edited by Wilfred Whitten, a British writer and editor whose pseudonym was "John O'London", from where the influential John O'London's Weekly obtained its name. Dated from the British Library. Bound in half morocco with red cloth boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities resulting in minor loss. Fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the boards. Further fading to the rear board of volume IV and front board of volume V of The World's Library of Best Books, with a small puncture mark to the front board of volume V. Light cocking to the front board of volume V of The World's Library of Best Books. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Very Good. book.