Bishop Percy (47 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1882 edition. Blue cloth cover with decoration in black and gilt shows minor wear. Gift inscription in the prelims. Minor foxing on the edges, pages are lightly tanned and clean.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 47, no. 5. Edited by Charles E. Fritch. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "The Hunting of Mike Shayne" (short novel) by Brett Halliday; "Ghost Writer" (novelet) by J. W. Sternquist; "Dead Easy" by Paul Bishop; "See Jack Run" by Robert Chesmore; "The Tinker's Legs" by Jean Darling; "A Fine Figure" by Richard B. Givan; "Death Affair" by Percy Spurlark Parker; "Such a Neighborhood" by Gerry Maddren; "Reef Diver" by William M. Stephens. Features: "Stiff Competition" (book reviews) by John Ball; "Mike Shayne Mystery Makers"; "From the Crime Fighter's Catalog". Creasing and a little edgewear; tanning; minor soiling. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. dj w/lite wear, in mylar; olive green c w/gilt spine titles; decorative end papers; booksellers stamp on flyleaf; 440 clean, unmarkd pages+publishers addenda.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Author(s) VG in VG DJ. Light chips, wear along top edge, corners. This copy SIGNED and inscribed by Percy Bishop. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. Signed and inscribed by Percy Bishop on ffep, DJ rubbed with edge-wear, slight cock to spine, good signed reading copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Covers scuffed and rubbed, with corners slightly bumped; ends of backstrip frayed, with splits in cloth at edges; pages faintly edge-browned; faint erasure on rear endpaper; bookplate inside front cover; margin of frontispiece creased; otherwise very good condition. . 536p.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue cloth boards with titles to spine and no DW. Bookseller stamp to FFEP but no inscriptions. A tight and clean copy with little to no foxing. 88pp. (13x19cm). Please contact us for any more information.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Thus. Firmly bound red boards without a jacket, some scuffing on the corners and on the edges of the spine, scuffing and residue from a removed label on the front paste down, brown marks on the top corner of the first and last pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green, tweed cloth spine with dark green boards and paper label. 5 X 7 1/2 inches, 35 pages. Illustrated with hand carved linoleum block prints, set in Centaur type. Numbered at the rear colophon. Near Fine. X.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Vol. 3, No. 29. Various paginations. 26 cm. Stapled paper covers. Some soiling to covers, rusting to staples. The Official Organ of the International Philatelic Union. Contains The Philatelic Review of Reviews, a Monthly Resume of Periodical Literature Appertaining to Philately, Vol. 2, No. 5.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Vol. 2, No. 21. Various paginations. 26 cm. Stapled paper covers. Some tears in spine, soiling to covers, rusting to staples. The Official Organ of the International Philatelic Union. Contains The Philatelic Review of Reviews, a Monthly Resume of Periodical Literature Appertaining to Philately, Vol. I, No. 9.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882, later printing, 8vo, 578 pages, color frontis. Book bound in a blue cloth, no dust jacket. Sone wear to spine top, spine faded, else good condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Not dated possibly 1930s or earlier. Light brown suede, title in gilt, covers a little dulled perhaps, but no obvious wear. Coloured frontis plate, text clean, no inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Cloth backed boards, front cover label. No. 10 of 105 copies. Inscribed by printers. Uncut page edges. Illustrations. From the Preface: The author was born in 1729, attended Christ Church College and was appointed to several small parishes in Northampton. "Percy's contribution to English letters was important to the expanding literary climate of 18th century England. He published numerous translations, including a Chinese novel & Celtic & Nordic prose. Historically, his most famous work was a collection of 16th century anonymous poems, which he compiled and edited from an ancient manuscript found beneath a cabinet in the home of Humphrey Pitt dating from about 1660". Contents include: Walking in a Meadowe Greene; Off a Puritane; A Maid and a Younge Man; I Dreamed My Love; etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated. Moderate wear at the crown, else near fine in an about very good dust jacket with several large chips, and a small stain on the spine. Contains two poems, possibly his first appearance in print in book form, by Morris Bishop and many others; reproduces two illustrations by Percy Crosby and work by other illustrators.

Collection of poems, many unattributed, from the 16th and 17th centuries. Name to fep otherwise VG.

[1974]. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 257pp. Signed by Bishop. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. (Fiction, Canadian, Finance).

A New Edition, Edited, with Additional Notes. pp. xxxvi, 452, (viii) of adverts. 8vo. Quarter cloth, boards, spine slightly darkened. Top edge gilt. 3rd edition.

Hardcover. Gift inscription on darkened endpapers. Plastic cover has; Clear plastic coversheet. Index of first lines. 500gms weight; Macdonald Illustrated Classics; Vol. 5; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 528 pages Very Good closed tear top corner.

Hardcover. in which they were respectively written [orig. 1790]. To which is added A key to the New Testament,by Thomas Percy [orig. 1766] xii, 412 p.; 23 cm. VG lt. edgeworn orig. black cloth gilt.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 12mo. Pp 24 in later paper wrappers. No date, circa 1880. Woodcut on title and title verso. Pages 10 and 16 are printed upside down. This defect is not mentioned on Copac, but must occur in all copies as rectos are printed correctly. A poorly printed poem on cheap newspaper-quality paper, with a couple of small repairs with what looks like old stamp hinges. Post free in the UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Slight weakness to inside front hinge.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 147 pages (complete). A contentedly gently aging copy. The boards are contented. They have some scuffing, marks and wear. They are also comforting. Within, the pages have age-related tanning and marks. Nonetheless, the pages are benign, thrilling, assured, generous, more than competent, still boyish. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1859 new edition. Europe. Henry G. Bohn/London. Ex-library good text and beautiful color frontis piece, but missing front marbled board, still good leather spine 578p., back cover is present but just hanging on (8/24 wrapped).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 12mo. Pp xii 32 with printed green paper covers. As well as the poem there is an introductory chapter upon the castle and hermitage by the Rev J W Dunn. A couple of small marks to covers but generally a VG copy of an ephemeral item.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. E. B. Bensell (illustrator). First Edition. First edition, first issue, Bal 11268 without the statement "The Boy's Library of Legend & Chivalry" on the binding. Illustrated with fifty illustrations from original designs. "From Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, together with an appendix containing two ballads from the original Percy Folio Ms.". Edited for boys with an introduction by Sidney Lanier. Near Fine, no jacket. Brown cloth with gilt, black and brown stamped design and title front and spine, black endpapers, very light foxing to pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. E. B. Bensell (illustrator). First Edition. First edition, first issue, Bal 11268 without the statement "The Boy's Library of Legend & Chivalry" on the binding. Illustrated with fifty illustrations from original designs. "From Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, together with an appendix containing two ballads from the original Percy Folio Ms.". Edited for boys with an introduction by Sidney Lanier. Very good, no jacket. Green cloth with gilt, black and green front and spine, dark brown endpapers, light foxing to pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. H D & H G Webb (illustrator). 1st Edition. Bound in paper-covered boards with linen spine. Paper title label on front board. Foxing to boards is the only fault . Little sign of wear externally. Inside, free end papers partially tanned. Clean and no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Like New.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dustjacket has some minor edgewear, covers are blue/silver, SIGNED by Percy Bishop on flep, bookstore codes in pencil on flep also, in-laid in pamphlet about this novel, light wear only. Signed by one of the Authors.