Batchelor Denzil: Signed (16 results)

Condition: Good. 1954. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Flat signed by author to front free endpaper. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. …

Condition: Fair. 1949. First Edition. 283 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Signed by the author with dedication to front free endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Slight crinkling to paper at gutters, however binding remains firm. Water staining to text block edges. Text is unaffected. Boards have slight edge wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning. Unclipped jacket. Panels have heavy edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Large areas of loss to edges and spine. Water marks overall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with inscription to previous owner. Stated First Edition. No other writing, marks, or creased page corners to text. Cover corners are square; small scuff/bump on fore edge of front cover and bumps to spine ends. Binding is solid. Jacket is tattered at spine ends, shows wear at corners, has a little light staining and wear at top edge, and has some small edge tears. Price clipped on front flap. Scarce. We are unable to ship oversize books and multi-volume sets internationally. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The Autobiography of Denzil Batchelor. Signed by Batchelor "To Doris with much love from Denzil". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ] Hardback, 224 pages, VG+ in VG dj (dj now in protective mylar). A Dorothy's very small name top edge ffep o/w book itself quite nice. DJ minor imperfections, good color, still rather attractive, price corner intact. Title page inscription by and SIGNED by the author: "Darling Dorothy, Why didn't I have a more memorable life for your sake? -Denzil". RWR5 Biography Autobiography Signed. Inscribed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s)While the book is not signed by the author himself, it has been signed on the front end page by Reg Sweet, a famous author of the time. The book itself is shelf rubbed and worn. The pages internally are neat and square but foxed throughout. The dust jacket is extremely shelf rubbed, foxed and worn. The spine has darkened and the illustration on the spine has faded. The bottom of the spine has a chip out of it and the edges on both ends are quite torn and frayed. An otherwise strongly bound book that will present more solidly in cellophane. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. [6], 1-248, [2] pp. Black cloth boards with red lettering on the spine. Price sticker with "5/- Net" covering original price on the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed "With love from Denzil" on free front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with a closed tear on its spine panel and rubbing and a few areas of discoloration.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, this hardcover First Edition is VG in very slightly chipped wrapper.Inscribed and signed on FFEP thus: "Blessings on you. Denzil Batchelor". 224pp with index, Portrait Frontis, and unclipped wrapper. Wrapper has tiny chips at top/tail of spine and corners, otherwise all VG. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bound in blue cloth, with bright silver lettering to spine, this hardcover FIrst Edition is VG in Vg wrapper. 190pp with inscription and signature of author on FFEP. Wrapper has miniscule chips at corners, but unclipped, with one or two marks to rear panel. Book beneath all VG. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Joyce with love from Denzil". The top edge of the dustwrapper has 2 small tears at the top of the spine. The bottom edge of the dustwrapper is a little rubbed. Photographs available on request. Otherwise a decent copy. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Well-illustrated gallery of great cricketers from WG Grace to the early 1950s. 4to. 224pp. Very good is rather edgeworn dustjacket. Gift inscription to half-title. This copy has the signatures of the author and 50 of the finest cricketers of the 20th century including Frank Tyson, Len Braund, George Gunn x2, Jack Hobbs x3, Jack Hearne, Herbert Sutcliffe x 2, Arthur Mailey, Arthur Gilligan, George Duckworth x 2, Gubby Allen, Learie Constantine, Bill Bowes x 2, Bill O'Reilly, Jack Fingleton, Bill Voce, Len Hutton, Bill Edrich, Denis Compton, Alec Bedser, Keith Miller x 2, Jim Laker x 2, Godfey Evans, and many more. From our large stock of cricket books and publications. Signed by Author(s).…

An account of the 1964 Ashes cricket series in England. 8vo. 162pp + [2]. 16 pages of photographs. Bookplate to flyleaf. Dust-wrapper. Very good condition. Signed by the author to title-page (not dedicated).

Profile of eleven top international cricketers in their own words and seen through the single match that stands out in their memory. 1st edition. 8vo. 208pp. plus 8 pages of photographs. Short gift inscription and bookplate to flyleaf. Dust-wrapper, lightly rubbed. Good condition. Signed and dedicated by the author to Nicholas Sharp, who wrote many books on Sussex cricket.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back bound in publisher's original light turquoise cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine. 8vo 8¾" x 5½" 182 pp. SIGNED presentation copy by the author to front end paper 'With all the best wishes from Denzil Batchelor.' Without inscription. Very Good in Nr. Very Good dust wrapper with 10 mm chips to spine ends and corners, spine not faded, not price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT [Cricket]. …

Post-tour cricket brochure, with an account of each of the five Test matches in the 1956 Ashes series. Paperback. Small 4to. 48pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Pictorial paper wrappers, split and held together neatly with tape. Old tape residue to insides of both covers. Signed across their relevant photographs by Burke (twice), Mackay, Benaud (three times), Burge (twice), Craig, Davidson, and to the inside back cover by some Australians who were not on the tour - Simpson, Jarman, Meckiff, Kline and three unidentified. Fair condition.…

First edition of Batchelor's moving story exploring the pathos of childhood. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With love from Denzil Batchelor." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. This is a novel about the clash between two worlds; the world in which adults live, and the world of children. The resolution of this stalemate is as brilliant as it is imaginative in a story at once moving and exciting and written with an extraordinary understanding both of the integrity and pathos of childhood and of the love and bafflement of fatherhood.…