Anstey Pseud (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 119pp., maroon cloth, stamped in gilt. Cloth a little marked, but a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. original cloth-backed boards, spine bumped and a trifle chipped, corners rubbed, illustrated by J Bernard Partridge, occasional spotting, a nice copy. 136 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. original decorated cloth, spine bumped sunned and a trifle chipped, advertisement leaves, later endpapers, good. first published 1884; 384 pages; keywords: fiction;

Hardcover. Condition: Good. original decorated cloth, spine bumped and chipped with minor loss at head, ex Tunbridge Wells Tutors with their occasional stamp, advertisement leaves, good. first published 1886; 334 pages; keywords: fiction;

Hardcover. Condition: Good. bound with AUERBACH Berthold 'Brigitta. A Tale' from the German by Clara Bell, contemporary cloth, spine bumped and sunned, ex Flinton Library with their label front free endpaper, sprinkled edges, good. together two titles 'A Fallen Idol': an extravaganza; 'Brigitta': a peasant-story, both titles bound without series half-titles; 320 and 286 pages; keywords: fiction; Todd and Bowden 2415 and C41.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. contemporary cloth, spine bumped, feintly spotted, a nice copy. bound without series half-title; 311 pages; keywords: fiction; Todd and Bowden 3897.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. spine bumped sunned and a trifle marked, illustrated by J Bernard Partridge, advertisement leaf, good. author s presentation copy inscribed front free endpaper: To Patrick Brown/ from his friend/ F Anstey / April 22-4: 1922 ; first published 1893; 266 pages; keywords: fiction; Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. re-backed with original backstrip relaid, illustrated by H R Millar, occasional spotting and marginal soiling, later endpapers, good. first edition; 260 pages; keywords: fiction; Wolff 165.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 334pp., yellow ochre fine diagonal ribbed cloth, stamped in black, blind and gilt. Covers dust marked, but a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. contemporary half-leather over cloth, raised bands, ruled in gilt, leather labels, closed tear to one leaf repaired with archival tape, scattered spotting, a handsome copy. from the library of Nevile Reid with his armorial bookplate front pastedown; first published 1882; 370 pages; keywords: fiction;

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. illustrated by J Bernard Partridge, original cloth, spine bumped and sunned, minor marks to covers, a nice copy; 218 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. original pictorial cloth, spine bumped sunned and a trifle chipped, illustrated by Gordon Browne, red and black titlepage, top edge gilt, feintly spotted, later front endpaper, good. first edition; 295 pages; keywords: fiction;

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. original pictorial cloth, spine bumped and a trifle sunned, illustrated by J B Partridge, advertisement leaves, top edge gilt, a nice copy; first edition; 275 pages; not in Wolff.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. original decorated cloth, spine bumped, illustrated, red and black title-page, bright, a nice copy. first edition; 119 pages; keywords: fiction; not in Wolff.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. spine bumped, near fine. first edition; 312 pages; keywords: fiction; Wolff 165.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. collected, improved and re-arranged from "Punch", original two-tone pictorial cloth, spine bumped and a trifle chipped, illustrated, lightly spotted, a nice copy. first edition; 172 pages; not in Wolff.

FIRST EDITION. Half title. viii, 439pp. Orig. green cloth, blocked in black, spine lettered in gilt. Ownership inscription in ink on leading pastedown, blind stamp of W.H. Smith Lending Library in blind on leading f.e.p. Sadleir 46; Wolff 158. One of its author's more serious works, this novel concerns a struggling author who passes off a more successful friend's manuscript as his own. Ironically, Anstey was accused of plagiarising Follett Synge's book Tom Singleton.

FIRST EDITION. Half title, illus., 2pp ads. Orig. blue cloth, blocked in black, lettered in gilt; fore-edge sl. rubbed, spine sl. darkened. Sadleir 48; Wolff 161.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Autograph letter signed, 1p. 8vo, [London] (16 Duke Street Mansions), 3 November 1902. "I have so much to attend to just now with rehearsals all day that I fear your Autograph Album might be lost or mislaid if you sent it to the Theatre." But, if she sends it along, he will write his name in it "with pleasure " The "Dear Madam" he addresses was the 15-year-old daughter of a retired licensed victualler, younger sister of the actress Maud Gill (1883-1950), who began her career with Herbert Beerbohm Tree and made her name playing Thirza Tapper in Eden Phillpotts The Farmer's Wife (1916, taking the same role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1928 film). Mabel Hill (1887-1987) married in 1917 John Goss, a musician, and lived to be 100. F. Anstey (né Thomas Anstey Guthrie, 1855 1934) became famous overnight with his first novel, Vice Versa (1882), from reading which Anthony Trollope is said to have died laughing. The play he was rehearsing was Lyre and Lancet at the Royalty Theatre, a dramatisation with Kinsey Peile of Anstey's 1895 novel; it bankrupted the producer, C.B. Cochran. Inscribed by Author(s).

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [ii], ii, 172. Contemporary half red roan, marbled boards, spine divided by raised bands, second compartments gilt-lettered direct, marbled edges and endpapers. Rubbed (especially to joints), a few small scrapes. Bookplate of Chesterfield House to front pastedown. A humourous early example of a time travel novel. Sadleir 54.

FIRST EDITION. 8pp ads. Orig. brown cloth, blocked & lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt; sl. marking to boards. Sadleir 53; Wolff 167a. In this copy the advert for Conway's 'Called Back' is on the verso of the Contents leaf, rather than the verso of the title as in Wolff's copy.