Bennett Arnold Introduction By (28 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf wear with bumped corners and edgewear, but binding is tight and the pages are all clean with no markings. The burgundy cloth spine is sunfaded but the gilt titling is still legible. The edges of the textblock are lightly tanned buut the interiiors are bright and clear especially the 19 color plate illustrations by John Austen.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used-Acceptable. 590 pp. Book shows heavy use, but still a good reading copy with clean text. Damage to fore edge of front cover. Light foxing on page edges. First end page torn in half. Slightly creased spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 624 pages. 7.50x5.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Twenty Third Edition Revised. 1940 Twenty-Third Edition Revised. Size 12mo, 95 pages plus 13 pages of publisher's advertisements for similar volumes on sale. Crimson cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, no dust jacket. Condition very good, corners a little rubbed, spine slightly sunned and gilt dulled, contents very clean.…

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Twenty Third Edition Revised. 1940 Twenty-Third Edition Revised. Size 12mo, 95 pages plus 13 pages of publisher's advertisements for similar volumes on sale. Crimson cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, no dust jacket. Condition very good, corners a little rubbed, spine slightly sunned and gilt dulled, contents very clean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. first printing thus in this format.vg hardback in vg dustwrappert.nice looking copy.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: VG++, Wear, Ink Name, Offset. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+, PC, Large Chips, Wear. 1st Thus. Traveller's Library No.104. Author's first book. In this edition, 'two additional stories, Desolation and The Father, now first published in book form, are included in this Volume'. Expanded condition report/scan on request.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 624 pages. 7.50x5.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. slipcase edges are loose.729 p.].

Hardback. Condition: Fine. First thus. Arnold Bennett was an amazingly prolific writer. Not only did he produce 34 novels, he wrote short stories, successful plays and later silent movie scripts, popular self-help books, was an active journalist, and even briefly ran the British Ministry of Information during World War I. He was one of the best selling authors of the late 19th/early 20th century. His reputation declined after his death in 1935 but has been reevaluated in recent years. Yet this book, "The Old Wives' Tale," originally published in 1908, which follows the lives of two very different sisters from their youth into old age, has always been considered one of his very best works, even by his critics. This is a particularly lovely edition, and in excellent condition. The cover has a floral pattern reminiscent of William Morris. There are full-page color drawings throughout, as well as half-page black-and-white drawings at the beginning of every chapter. The text block is tight and there are no marks, creases, or tears on the pages. The only damage is slight, where what appears to have been a book plate was removed from the inside of the back cover. There is a bit of confusion within the industry about the copyright date: The Heritage Press was originally created as the Limited Editions Club by George Macy to produce fine editions of reprints of classic works. By the time this work was published, Macy had dropped the "limited editions" part of its remit and changed the imprint's name but the fineness of the books it published remained. The book itself says Macy copyrighted the book in 1940, but the Library of Congress, acknowledging that in its catalog, says the Heritage Press published it in 1947. Regardless, you can be assured of getting a distinguished copy with this book. See our photos. Austen, John (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good binding. First Edition. 12mo. [8], 149, [1], [6 (adverts)] pp., frontis, plates. First edition. In publisher's cloth; all plates are present. Binding is rubbed at the extremities with minor soiling; toning to some of the leaves adjacent to plates, this includes the title page; previous owner bookplate, otherwise clean. An interesting series of letters from a World War I aviator with many photographic plates of planes.…

Condition: Very Good. 1919. hardback. Fine in illustrated card covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing some age and shelf wear. Ownership details on ffep. Lightly toned, a little foxing on end pages and page edges, text is crisp and clear and remains a good-very good copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with title and small illustration in gold on front board, title on spine. Corners and spine ends lightly frayed. Edge wear and rubbing. Spine damp spotted. Text pages are clean. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; B/w Illus; 8VO.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. 5th rev. & enlarged ed. 1st -Nov.1918. Brown cloth cover. 61+(3 notices for other Stopes books), uncut fore-edge and bottom edge; internally clean, tight and unmarked but light tanning to half title, verso final leaf, endpapers edges and spotting to fore-edge; covers clean and almost unworn but slight rubbing to bottom spine and bottom outer corners. Primarily concerned with methods of contraception. …

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original russet cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼'' 62, xiv [pp]. Front end paper missing and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SOCIAL & HUMANITIES.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original maroon cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼'' 95, xiv [pp]. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SOCIAL & HUMANITIES.

Condition: Very Good. 1919. hardback. Fine in illustrated card covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing some age and shelf wear. Ownership details on ffep. Lightly toned, a little foxing on end pages and page edges, text is crisp and clear and remains a good-very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼'' 95, xiv [pp]. Small name and address stamp to the front end paper. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small tear across spine tip, paper clean and fresh. Member of the P.B.F.A. SOCIAL & HUMANITIES.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition. First Edition (GHD colophon on the copyright page). Once listed, I believe this will be the Only dust jacketed first edition for sale anywhere on the Internet. As you can see from the photos, the covers of the book are in quite nice condition, very clean and with minimal wear, pretty impressive for a book not too many years from its hundredth birthday. The edges are in very good condition. The corners have only a wee bit of light rubbing. The spine is only slightly faded. The black lettering on the front and the spine is quite bright. There is a little color fade and wear at the spine ends. This thick 393 page book is square and very solidly bound from cover to cover, with nicely tight pages throughout, absolutely no binding issues. The page edges don't have any conspicuous stains. The middle and bottom page edges are deckled (for that reason you'll find an occasional slightly jagged bottom edge). I turned over every single page in the book, so I can comfortably write that they're in very good condition, with no conspicuous soiling, very clean pages. They are, as would be expected, toned or tanned, but uniformly and not badly. There are no turned-down or placeholder corner creases. I didn't see any dogeared corners. I found one page with a 1 1/2 inch loss off its bottom edge, far from the print. There are no other losses and no tears on any of the other pages. There are three pairs of uncut pages. There's a color frontispiece and one other in color: a painting of a young Arthur Sullivan. The frontispiece is 'from the portrait by Sir J. E. Millais, painted in 1888, and now in the National Portrait Gallery.' Beside the 'Two Four-Color plates, there are Twenty-Nine Half-Tone Plates.' All of the illustrations are in very good condition. There are no attachments of any kind. The book was previously owned by a Henry Heinman II, who penned his name at the top edge of the blank first front end paper along with the date 1952. Below that he stamped his name along with the words 'Littera Scripta Manet' (the written word remains) which is part of a longer expression: Vox audita perit, littera scripta manet (The spoken word perishes, but the written word remains). There is no other writing and no other markings or stampings to be found anywhere else in the book. You can see the rare first edition dust jacket in the first few photos. Given its age, it presents very well. The front and rear are quite clean. I'm not seeing any soiling there. The lettering on the front is very bright. The spine has darkened and has a few fairly inconspicuous spots of soiling. The lettering on the spine is also quite bright. As you can see there is a little bit of loss at the spine ends, but it doesn't quite manage to affect the lettering. All four corners of the flaps are neatly clipped, however the price ($5.00) is untouched. One unfortunate reality: a previous owner placed a number of strips of tape on the inside (not outside) of the jacket. This is a very solid jacket and the use of the tape was really unnecessary as it just covered over a number of very small tears. You won't see the tape because of the fitted protective cover. Note that the white at the top edge in the 1st & 3rd photos is just glare off the plastic of the protective cover (except just to the right and left of the spine where there were losses). From the dust jacket: 'Authoritative, dramatic, human, is this definitive biography of the great musician by his nephew and the famous English editor. The personality of the man who composed the firm measures of "Onward Christian Soldiers" and the rollicking yet subtle measures of "Pinafore" and "The Mikado" is told with critical perception and human understanding. A wealth of incident and psychological analysis illuminates the events of his cloister days, his experience in America, his friendships with Carlisle, Tennyson and other great men of the day, and how he came finally to break with Gilbert, his lifelong partner-librettist.'.…

Condition: Near Fine. Lovely color illustrations enhance the telling of Bennett's best known work. 4to. 26 by 17 cm. xxx, [2], 729 pp. The spine has slight unevenness of color and gentle sunning. Otherwise, the book is tight and clean. The slipcase has survived but needed to be re-assembled. Hardcover. Cloth spine. Decorative paper pasted onto the boards. Slipcase. John Austen (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 52 pages. Heavy foxing.

First printing. Royal octavo; hardcover, full decorated ochre cloth; 546pp., with a colour frontispiece and 8 plates likewise. Very minor wear. Near fine in decorated slipcase with some scattered spotting on top edge, mild rubbing. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slightly faded blue boards and blue spine fading to brown. Some foxing to fore edge. Internally toning to end papers with name and date written on front free one. Clean contents. Includes interesting, rather irascible letter proposing a book about water mills and berating illustrators and such: 'the literary pundits are a hopelessly conceited lot. A practical man with real knowledge of his subject, would have no chance against them'. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine condition. One of 1500 numbered copies printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by John Johnson and signed by John Austen. Bound in publisher's original quarter green cloth and floral decorated boards with the spine stamped in gilt. Uncut. Wear to the extremities and minor tears to some fore edge corners. Previous owner's bookplates on the front pastedown endpapers. Signed.…

Hard Back. First in This Edition. An ex-library copy of this book. ffep missing. One withdrawn stamp to title page. Neat library stamp. Rubbed area to inner board, 1 inch x 3 inch. The jacket would have been in very good condition except for a loss of 1/4inch x 4inch to inner edge. Very small loss to front bottom corner. The jacket is very clean. 178 very clean, bright pages. Rare book. Book.…