A Ll Matthison (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author on ffep. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. 1951. No edition remarks. 128 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with light tanning throughout. Notable foxing to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and board edges. Heavy dust marking and speckling to boards. Books has a backward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Tape to edges. Mild water staining to panels. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Notable rubbing and marking all over. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback. 110 pp Illustrated Very Good condition. No inscriptions.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No d/w. First Edition. 124pp + 4 pp appendix + 14 b/w photographic illustrations; With an introduction by Macqueen-Pope, W.; Size: 12mo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Cornish Brothers Limited (Birmingham), 1951, hardback, no editon stated, NAP, Very Good + (slight shelfwear)/no dust jacket, 128 pages, illustrated with b/w photographs; D1286 P8P; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Tatty. First Edition. 151 pages. Tatty dustjacket with losses and splits and taped up repairs. Bokk has a moderate musty smell o/w blue hardback binding and pages clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Inscribed (but not signed) "With the author's love." Good in Good (edge-worn, foxed, closed tear) DJ. Some foxing and scholar's notes in pen and pencil to inner pages and end-papers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., Inscribed and Signed to ffep by the Author, Hard cover mustard yellow cloth bds, VG+, red titles to spine, unclipped dust jacket, Good+, faded at spine area, one or two small marks, age-spotting to pge edge blocks, some age-spotting through text, b/w plates and frontis. of the author, pp100. Nothing about Woolverton "The subjects dealt with contain interesting reminiscences of the Theatre; Physical Culture; Birmingham in the 70's and 80's; the Postal Telegraph Service; the Varnish and Paint Industry; Broadcasting; Socialism; Osculation; and many other attractive matters which are dealt with in the author's usual entertaining manner.". Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Vg clean firm interior for the age with no marks or inscriptions just lightly toned to closed-edge of pages, contains a b&w f/p and several excellent sketches - vg-plus clean firm boards; d/j has standard usage, loss to lower rear corner and shelfwear-dulled with foxing specks as shown but all intact and acceptable and covered with a new removable sleeve-protector, not price-clipped./.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Nr Very Good. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper, now protected, has a few chips and some fading on the spine. It is price clipped.

First edition (hardback). 8vo, [iv], 128pp. Frontispiece and 13 plates. Original red cloth. Endpapers foxed, else the book is in good to very good condition. A worn dustwrapper is present.

Colour frontis, 156pp, 66 illustrations, many in colour Gilt lettered cloth, 22x14. Top of front cover scuffed, spine a little faded, else nice, bright copy. A most interesting technical account with much out-of-the-way information on this now ubiquitous material.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 173 pp, illustrations. dj dusty, chips and tears along edges. Boards have edgewear, bumped corners. Top edge dusty and spotted. Leaves tanned. Interior unmarked and solid.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 112 pgs; 24 pgs. advertisements. Ex-business library. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titles on front & spine. Cover shows some edge wear, with frayed corners; small white "M" inked on base of spine. Book plate, notation, & inscription on front endsheets; card pocket removed from rear endsheet. Interior otherwise clean. Hinges tight & sound. Presents technical information on the composition of varnishes, & methods of application on tin plate.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Publisher - Cornish Brothers, Birmingham, 1944. 1st ed. First edition. With a Foreword by Sir Barry Jackson. Good condition, yellow boards rather grubby and with bumped corners and spine ends, but binding is tight. No marks or inscriptions. A collection of prose 'sketches'.…

Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Blue cloth, no. D. J. , spine sunned, light shelf wear only. SIGNED by author on the half title.; 8vo.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Poor DW. 1st Edition. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper "To . With the Authors kindest regards A Ll Matthison March 1957". The DW is clean but has large piece out of top of rear cover. Inscribed By the Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1931. Red cloth gilt corners bumped & unevenly stained. Signatures & addresses on flyleaves. Pages clean & tight. Illustrated. 156 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A follow-up to his autobiography, Art, Paint and Vanity. This copy appears to have been gifted by the author to an acquaintance: flyleaf reads "G. [Gertrude] Middleton from Arthur (1937)?" in Middleton's hand. The text bears Middleton's annotations in the text and her own personalized index on the rear endpages, showing that she had some outside knowledge of Mathison's life. A very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. Uncommon. 8 copies in OCLC. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Matthison's only mystery - scarce. Bumped and rubbed, spine damp stained and faded. Hinges cracking, front end paper removed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Original red cloth, lettered in black to the spine. 8vo - 279, [1] pp.The book is solid. There is offsetting to the endpapers and scattered foxing to the endpapers and the fore-edge. The complete dust jacket is very bright and pleasing. The 7/6 price is present on the flap. Now very scarce. Very Good / Near Fine.…