Bates Farmer Peter (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ***please read*** Minimal shelf wear with foxing - pencil note on flyleaf - no marks on text - DJ is in very good condition but with foxing (now in a mylar wrap) - 96 pages - my shelf location - 28-f-24*.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Cover. Peter Farmer (illustrator). First Edition. Very Good Hardcover 1961 illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Peter Farmer (illustrator). 1st Edition. Some light foxing. The jacket has a couple of small chips and closed tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. PETER FARMER (illustrator). THE DUST JACKET IS RUBBED AND FADED. THERE IS A SMALL TEAR TO THE TOP OF THE FRONT AND REAR JACKET. THE CORNERS ARE BUMPED. THE SPINE IS RUBBED AND BOTH ENDS ARE BUMPED. THE PRICE IS UNCLIPPED. THERE IS A SMALL PENNED MARK TO THE FFEP. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Peter Farmer (illustrator). Some fox spots to endpapers. Binding tight. Dustwrapper price-clopped but smart in new Brodart plastic overwrapper.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Peter Farmer (illustrator). First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to end papers and page edges and no bumping to corners. 94pp. A story about a man in his late 50s nd a brief joyful interlude in his life with a vivacious woman named Kitty. Tucked in is a copy of an obituary from The Times 1974 of the author. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 7.5 x 5 inches.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 93 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Subjects; H. E. Bates. Fiction. Genre; Novels - England - 20th century. 3 Kg.

Third Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his personalized bookplate to front pastedown. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 93 pages; Physical description.: 93 p : ill ; 20 cm. Subject: Fiction -- Fictional Characters -- Texts. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Farmer, Peter (illustrator). 1st Edition. True first British printing. With original unclipped jacket (7s 6d). Illustrated by Peter Farmer. Jacket has patchy edge/shelf wear, a little patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine and to corners), few small (approx. 5mms) tears, little browning to spine, the odd small mark, little creasing/rubbing to edges and is in only fair condition. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with a hint of pushing to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Little spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages are a bit tanned. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 93 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Subjects; H. E. Bates. Fiction. Genre; Novels - England - 20th century. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Farmer, Peter (illustrator). 1st Edition. D/W slight wear and snags to edges, spine browned and ends worn, slight ageing to edges and a few handling marks. Front design repeated on rear. Green boards with title/author on front in gold, rubbed spine ends, slightly warped and a small dirt mark at front base . Internally vg, with no insc. 96pps, inc 24 b/w illus, many full page. . Please read notes on shipping.

Third Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his personalized bookplate to front pastedown. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 93 pages; Physical description.: 93 p : ill ; 20 cm. Subject: Fiction -- Fictional Characters -- Texts. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Peter Farmer (illustrator). 1st Edition. 94 pp. Fred Tomlinson, a middle-aged bachelor lives an uneventful life with his three elderly, crazy sisters and their horde of pets. What happens when a girl in the local dairy has an accident not only revolutionises Fred's life but allows the author to show his five characters in a light that begins by being almost mocking and ends by illuminating them with an intense humanity and compassion.

FARMER, Peter (illustrator). BATES, H.E. Day of the Tortoise. Illustrated by Peter Farmer. Original wrappers. London: Michael Joseph, [1961]. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy. A very good copy.

Cloth Bound. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Peter Farmer (illustrator). 1st Edition. Binding and text in fine, tight, clean condition. Dust jacket in very good condition, price-clipped, with very slight wear to top of spine and faded on spine. Charming illustrations. First edition, first issue. 96 pages. See photographs attached.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, Not Price Clipped. Peter Farmer (illustrator). First Edition/First Printing. Light fading to jacket spine, now in protected jacket. Fred Tomlinson, a middle-aged bachelor, leads an uneventful and complaintless existance with his three elderly and crazy sisters and their horde of pets in a big Edwardian house where there are no longer servants. Fred, in fact, is the one and only servant, ever ready, ever obedient, ever dutiful.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Peter Farmer (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of one of H. E. Bates's short stories with illustrations and in the original dust wrapper. First edition of The Day of the Tortoise by H. E. Bates in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated throughout the text in black and white, and in colour to the title page, by Peter Farmer, British book illustrator and theatre artist.This is a lovely first edition copy of this short story. Herbert Ernest Bates CBE was an English write, best known for Love for Lydia and My Uncle Silas. He was a prolific writer and this is one of his many short stories.Prior owner's book plate and ink inscription from 1965 to the first pastedown. From the library of John Anderson. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. There is some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. To the dust wrapper, there are a couple of very small tears. There is some slight spotting to the fore edge. Prior owner's book plate and ink inscription from 1965 to the first pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Peter Farmer (illustrator). A first edition of this poignant short story by H. E. Bates, presented in a superior dust wrapper. This novella follows Fred Tomlinson, a middle-aged bachelor who lives with his elderly sisters in an enormous old house; his life takes an unexpected twist when a girl in the dairy has an accident.Written by H. E. Bates, a prolific English author of short stories, novels and non-fiction.Illustrated by Peter Farmer.Complete with an excellent and unclipped dust wrapper.The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper is in excellent condition, with just the slightest sunning to the spine. Pencil ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Peter Farmer (illustrator). 1st Edition. SIGNED and dated by the author with dedication to"Bob and Sheila with love from H.E." Most people who knew him called him H.E., including the crowd of children who, after playing on the green on hot summer afternoons, used to gather at his gate for impromptu lemonade parties. SIGNED, also "with love"by the illustrator PETER FARMER. Green cloth boards and firm text block both clean, neat and unworn. Slight waviness to front of DJ and also very slight rubbing to top of its spine.