Bennett Arnold Intro (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Arnold Bennett's first novella is the story of a 'generic man from the North' coming to London with aspirations as a writer and discovering a thrilling new world, alongside frustration, office politics and crippling writer's block.

Hardcover. Condition: New. This novel follows shy, retiring Constance Baines and her bold, romantic sister Sophia from their childhood in Victorian Staffordshire to their European travels, their differing married lives, and finally their reunion as old women in the early 19th century.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF HIS MAJESTY KING FREDERICK IX OF DENMARK THE ROYAL DANISH BALLET FROM THE ROYAL THEATRE IN COPENHAGEN, SAN FRANCISCO OPERA HOUSE (GALA OPENING FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1960) AND THEREAFTER LOS ANGELES, DALLAS, OKLAHOMA CITY, KANSAS CITY, ST. LOUIS, CHICAGO, MINNEAPOLIS, DETROIT, PHILADELPHIA, WASHINGTON D.C., HARTFORD, MONTREAL. Isadora Bennett and Richrad Pleasant (intro.); Arnold Eagle, Mogens Van Haven, Mydtskov, Elfelt, Mitchell, Greenhaus and others (photos). Columbia Artists Management. 1960. 40p. magazine sized stapled paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked--10.00.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 1st printing; brown c w/black titles; list wear at extremities; 314 clean, unmarked pages.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Austen,john Ilust (illustrator). HARDCOVER. VERY GOOD Condition Red CLOTH SPINE STRIP; 729ps heavy pages; Red cloth spine bound.Flower decorated cover boards. Spine titles bit fade.

hardcover, Condition: Good, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, c.1919, 15th.prtg., 12mo., hardcover, (xii,112)pp., G in edgeworn dj $.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Michael Brown (jacket) (illustrator). 1st in this ed. Foxing on dj covers, some wear and minor tearing on dj edges, light cloth wear, foxing on top edge, otherwise vg. 400 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st printing; dj w/lite chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; blue c w/paper label, lite sunning of spine; lite toning of end papers; 352 clean, unmarked pages.

Paperback. pp. xli, 565. 8vo. Light shelfwear, crease to cover, moisture stain and rippling to top corner; very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 612p. A red cloth hardcover book in good condition. Mild edgewear and spine faded. Former owner name on front endpaper. Pencil notes in margins of a few pages; red crayon scribble marks on last two pages (611 and 612). Majority of pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight.

Hardcover. 1st printing, GHD colophon on title page. 8x5.5", vi+543 pp. Spine slightly sunned, name on flyleaf, else clean, solid, VG, no dj.

Hardcover. Condition: New. This comedic work follows Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin, a washerwoman's son from the Five Towns who cheats his way into grammar school and scrambles up the social ladder to become a local town mayor.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Color and half-tone plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages; 1927 George H. Doran Company. HC 1st American edition. Snugly bound and fresh in royal blue cloth with titles brightly in gilt to cover and spine. Just trace shelf evidence to cloth at extremities. Illustrated with b&w half-tone plates and 2 color plates. NF.

No illustrations (illustrator). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very good condition-edges of cover yellowed/No Dustjacket. (1919). 12mo., 114 pp. . Very good condition-edges of cover yellowed/No Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 290. Spine tips lightly rubbed; small bump at bottom corner, with small wrinkled throughout text block. Dust jacket a little chipped along the edges; spine somewhat darkened. An excellent working copy.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dark blue quarter-cloth over light blue papered hard covers with paper title-lables to front and spine, in dust jacket. Shallow edge-wear and mild toning to jacket (in new archival mylar sleeve). Neat contemporary (1921) Christmas gift inscription to front endpaper. Otherwise, clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. xiv,112pp.

Octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1975 reprint. Paperback. Introduction by Alan Sillitoe. Notes by James Gordon. Condition: Very good. Light wear to and age toning to cover. Pages lightly age toned. Size: 7x4.5in / 18x11cm. 590pp. Weight: 330g.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Light general wear, minor chipping to spine ends, slightly cocked and shaken, pages clean and bright. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 149 pages with 12 photo plates showing 22 various aircraft and people. Blue cloth gilt titles, spine titles a little dull final leaf a review of the book itself. Minor wear, all Very Good+ and a scarce 1st war account through the letters home by this flying officer with the Royal Navy.

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. After Lovat Fraser, Sheringham, Zinkeisen, Kapp (illustrator). First edition. Vibrantly bound in quarter morocco, this is the illustrated first edition of Nigel Playfair's account of the history of the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith. The first edition, first impression.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and seventeen plates, after Lovat Fraser, Sheringham, Zinkeisen and Kapp. Collated, complete.Playfair presents an account of the West London theatre that he revitalised in the early 20th century. The book recounts the Lyric"s origins and development, its architectural features, and its struggles before Playfair"s management.In a handsome quarter morocco binding. In a quarter morocco binding, with marbled paper covered boards, and with endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned, with instances of light spotting to first and last few leaves. Near Fine. book.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. [New York]: Printed for the Members of the The Limited Editions Club at the University Press Oxford, 1941. 2 vols., 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Quarter green cloth and floral patterned boards, matching slipcase. Dust jacket spine panels toned and with some edgewear, board tips of vol. 1 bumped, slipcase a little worn, volumes clean and square. ß Edition of 1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Bennett's very successful story of the lives of two sisters which was adapted into a 1921 film starring Fay Compton. Signed.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. [New York]: Printed for the Members of the The Limited Editions Club at the University Press Oxford, 1941. 2 vols., 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Quarter green cloth and floral patterned boards, matching slipcase. Vol. 1 with printed dust jacket, dust jacket of vol. 2 lacking. Bumping and wear to tips of vol. 2, shelf wear to slipcase, otherwise a clean square copy. ß Copy #245 of 1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Bennett's very successful story of the lives of two sisters which was adapted into a 1921 film starring Fay Compton. Signed.