Buxton John Editor (39 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4th Printing. [Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton; John Buxton, Editor] {Oxford University Press; New York; 1982; Trade Paperback; Good/No Jacket; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 4th Printing; ISBN: 0-19-281511-3.} Covers have been neatly covered with clear contact paper; scrape in clear contact over price sticker on rear cover; sticker discolored by black marker (now purplish-gray); about 20 (of 378) pages have margin notes and/or underlining in black ink (actually quite unobtrusive); a few page corners creased. Listing updated 3-20-2009.…

192 pages. Hardcover: H 30.25cm x L 25cm. Dust jacket rubbed with several scratches; bumping/creasing at edges; 7.5cm closed tear at front panel's bottom center; several other shorter tears; peeling and residue from past bookstore's removed price sticker at front flap's top right; rear flap strongly creased; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Blue cloth; light scratch to front board; spine ends bumped as are rear board's fore-edge corners; spine's gilt stamping still vibrant. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding is firm. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 3.25 pounds (1.47 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 1557503397.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. No Edition Or Printing Stated. The Book Was Originally Bound In Blue Cloth Over Boards With Gilt Lettering On The Spine. The Cloth Covering To The Boards Is Missing And The Front Board Is Not Attached To The Text Block. Only A Small Amount Of The Covering Is Left At The Spine. The Top Edges Are Gilt And There Is A Blue Marker Ribbon Bound In.…

Condition: Fair. 1948. Reprinted. 496 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with minor defects. Moderate issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Front free end paper clipped. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Book binding in fair condition; front leather cover split from board on all sides, with interior padding exposed, back cover similar but with lower outside corner still attached; one half of spine missing; former owner's name in pencil front free end paper; light toning to clean interior; binding sound. 661 numbered pages. Red/gold page edge gilding. Black leather boards with celluloid cameo portrait of Keats within cut out medallion on front board and gold stamped decoration and lettering surround.7 3/8 x 5 in. Inv. PW014. …

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good Jacket. . Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 76 pp. Light wear. The cover features Princess Anne with her baby son Peter. This issue contains: Christmas with the Choirboys of England by Alan Maitland; The Real Father Christmas by Dorothy Bushell; The Last Collection by Colin Carr; These Things Shall Never Die by Sarah Doudney; The Roadmaster by Michael Fairless; The Old Farm Labourer by Marion Holden; John Bunyan by John Blake; English Heroes by Rose Coombs; Market Harborough by Mariel Buxton; Dolly's Pride by Cleone Simons; Farmer Daisyfield Remebers by Kenneth Goodacre; John's England by Richard Jerred; Characters from Dickens by Charles Dickens; London's Little Lanes by Elizabeth Le Mesurier; Staithes - Captain Cook's Village by Edwin Mitchell; Captain Cook: England's Greatest Explorer by Robert Lumsden; along with many other features and columns. Size: 4to. Book.…

Condition: Very Good. 3rd impression. Cloth, VG. lxxvii+491pp, b/w frontis, 1 b/w plates, cloth a little rubbed, upper hinge cracked. Oxford Edition series. The complete poetical works of Keats, with a long introduction & footnotes. 875 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. foxed. Cracking spine. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Softcover with pictorial boards, black and red text across covers. Art on cover by Erma Graeber. Edges of covers toned. Crown and foot of staple-bound spine show wear: front cover directly next to crown has slight fold, likely from being bumped. Foot shows a very small open tear, triangle of cover (less than 1cm in width/length) missing. No title page or copyright page, but edition dates to 1957. 76 pages. Includes a selection of works by various authors, as follows: "Woodland Treasure" by John Parker; foreword by Neita Oviatt Friend; "Silken Cords and Velvet Snares" by Louise Leighton; "The Set Of The Sails" by Sayle Mender; "Sinclair Lewis's Advice To Beginning Writers" by Ruth Fouts Pochman; "King Of The Monkeys" by Gerald Millward; "The Boundary Of Now" by August Derleth; "The Rat Trap" by Gwendolyn Kaltenbach; "Northwestern Mutual: Giant Of The West" by John C. Burden; "The Seventh Son (Conclusion)" by Harriet E. Dake; "Is This The Same Wind?" by Emily Sprague Wurl; "Fallen Tree" by Margaret Buxton; "A Protest In Sonnet Form" by Hazel B. Holt; "Auto Lights In My Mirror" by Lenore S. Harms; "My Mother's Aprons" by Margaret S. Anderson; "Steam Is Through" by Frances Crewes; and "Marine Mail Route" by John M. Miller. Several black and white illustrations throughout text. Back free and attached endpapers feature advertisements. Short pamphlet tucked into front cover reads "Van Antwerp: Wisconsin Folklore Collection" and provides information on said event, as well as a background of the Wisconsin Regional Writers' Association, Inc. Majority of pages show very light foxing, no text or illustration obscured. Binding neat and strong. Please email us with questions or to request photos.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good Jacket. Signed by the author. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item. Signed.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. A biography about Howard Hughes, A biography about Howard Hughes, with photographs.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1945 Reprint of the 1936 Edition. Dark Blue cloth cover with blind stamped Oxford University Motif on front & Gilt Lettering on spine. Blind stamped Linear Design to front & spine. Top page edges Blue. 575 Pages, 410g, 7 1/2" Tall. Very slight edge wear. Initials and ols penciled price on free endpaper. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Dust jacket, age-toned with some dampstaining on spine, lightly edgeworn, some small closer tears, unclipped; blue cloth covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, rear cover lightly bowed, top edge slightly grubby, binding tight. ; The Muses' Library; 7.12 x 4.8 x 1; 332 pages. …

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Small volume in blue cloth with metallic copper colored printing on spine. Sharp corners and no marks of any kind. Dust jacket is not price clipped, has a small amount of edge tanning and edgewear with two tiny ( 1/16") closed tears. Part of "The Muses' Library" series. 286 pp. Poetry. …

Hardcover. Illustrated with an engraved frontis. Reprint Edition. Octavo. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary full leather with raised bands on spine. Top edge gilt. Volume IV only of Library Edition of Keats's Works. Good, small chip at base of spine, light staining to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine +. None -as Issued. Another National Geographic action gem! Koala on cover and platypus on the back. 6 action scenes in total - MY favourite is the echidna . It is very SIMPLE but somehow effective, I think its the spines. There is also perentie, striped possum, and platypus for example. All are impressive. Colours are VIVID !! Drawings are imaginative. Paper engineering by Diaz, Morrison and White Heat. Cond: There are some v. minor creases and the like on the front board but NOT sig, One fold down grass action is folded / creased. One leaf is creased. All pull tabs show a little wear but NO tears.Everything WORKS. The most fragile parts (possum's tail,e.g.) are VF+. I think you'll be impresseed, note especially the ants which the thorny devils are eating. Size: 8vo. John Sibbick (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good plus copy in bright blue cloth with gilt titles and very good jacket. Jacket is light blue with blue titles on spine. Book has light shelf-wear, dust-staining to top edge of page block. Some pages remain uncut. Some foxing on pastedowns. Jacket has toned spine with chipping and spine ends and fore-edge corners. Poetry.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Full Maroon Morocco binding. Gilt titling to cover and spine, which shows a little fading. Internally clean and sound: no foxing and binding sound. Original ownerâÂÂs signature neatly to FEP. Marbled end papers. Gilt to page edges which are rounded rather than square. A handsome copy. All proceeds of sale go to LOROS, a Hospice Charity serving Leicestershire and Rutland.…

Hard. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust jacket in fair condition, bumped and chipped along edges and at corners, rubbed and stained in places, boards clean with only very light spotting to head of boards, also spotting to closed edges at head, price sticker to inside flap of d-j, previous owner's inscription to endpapers, pp clean and unmarked, binding sound. Size: 12mo. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ No dust jacket as issued. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Fading to spine. Previous owner's name on front endpaper "Florence S. Hartley". Narrow split to gutter at frontispiece.; (lxxix), [1], 491, [1] pages + frontispiece "Portrait of Keats". 1 full page illustration on page lxxix, "Haydon's Life-mask of Keats". Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt lettering on front board. Red stamped decoration on boards. Page dimensions: 184 x 122mm. With an Introduction by the editor on pages ix-lxi. With textual footnotes.…

Condition: Poor. Light shelfwear, some tanning to the content. The book has been used, but remains in a decent condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 200 pages. 10.00x7.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. four VOLUME SET IN ORIGINAL DECORATED CLOTH.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Buckland-Wright's greatest work & one of the most important Golden Cockerel publications. The DeLuxe Issue, one of 100 specially-bound & SIGNED copies, from an edition of 500. In the original full vellum by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, a few small marks, gilt illustration to both boards, gilt spine title & publishers mark, raised bands. Internally, frontis, [4], 5-150 pp, [1], [1] limitation, 58 wood-engraved illustrations by John Buckland Wright, light patch of browning to front paste down & front free endpaper, occasional foxing, t.e.g., others uncut, a few light marks. Housed in the publishers green cloth slip-case, bevelled edges, (corners rubbed). (313*192 mm). (Cockalorum 175). *** Buckland Wright took over four years to produce this work and considered it to be his greatest achievement. [The edition was begun in January 1943 & wasn't completed until November 1947.] 'In his 58 illustrations Buckland Wright is both as classical and as romantic as the poet could have desired. His vision, it seems to me, approaches that of Keats as closely as is possible for any artist working in our generation. While there is more than a hint of classicism in his admirable figures, their groupings and settings are romantic' Christopher Sandford in Cockalorum. BUCKLAND-WRIGHT John 1897-1954 (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st. 1st, thus #575 of a limited printing of 1025, Edited with Notes and Appendices by H. Buxton Forman. Revised with Additions by Maurice Buxton Forman. With an Introduction by John Masefield. Bound in palest grey-off-white buckram with black leather labels at spine stamped in gilt, front cover stamped in blind, top edges gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, each volume in a very good slipcase. #575 of a limited printing of 1025, signed by John Masefield and Maurice Buxton Forman; slight tanning of gutters and end papers, and a spine; in mylar protective wraps. volume I is signed at the end of Masefield's and at the end of Buxton's contributions. Signed By Notables.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Two volumes. Full blue cloth boards. Slight wear to dust jackets with tiny tears at edges. Previous owner's name inside. This two-volume scholarly edition presents the collected poetry of the Elizabethan and Jacobean poet including his sonnets, pastoral eclogues, heroical epistles, and the chorographical epic Poly-Olbion. Keywords: Elizabethan Poetry, Poly Olbion, Heroical Epistles, Idea Sonnets, English Renaissance, Pastoral Eclogues, Muses Library, Warwickshire Poet, Chorographical Epic, Petrarchan Sonnets, Topographical Verse, Jacobean Literature.…

Condition: akzeptabel - gebraucht. Gebundene Ausgabe 292 S. altersentsprechend zufriedenstellend Goldkopfschnitt, goldgeprägter Deckel und Rücken, Rücken oben ca. 1 cm fehlend, Beleistifteinträge, The complete library, Zustand: 8, akzeptabel - gebraucht, Gebundene Ausgabe Gowards and Gray, Glasgow , 1901 292 S. , The complete works of John Keats - Vol 3 (III) - posthumous poems 1812-1820 essays and notes, Keats, John (Autor), Forman, Buxton (Editor). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. London: Reeves & Turner, 1895. Octavo. Hardcover lacking a dust jacket. This is the revised edition, edited by H. Buxton Forman. Brick colored boards with elaborate gilt lettering and designs. Rubbing along the edges of the boards and to the ends of the spine. Pencil to the inside of the back board. Book is on the lower end of very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. ex library hardback with original blue boards, no D/J, usual stamps/markings. VOLUME 1 ONLY. 1953 publication by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. Light wear to boards otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-5C*.