Duncan William James Editor (17 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. NO JACKET, LIBRARY WITHDRAWN, INTERIOR IS VERY GOOD, BRIGHT & CLEAN. Nicholas Jainschigg (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Spine sunned. Clean, unmarked pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Printing. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Introduction; Just a Song at Twilight by Robert Aickman; The Private Torture Chamber by Rosemary Timperley; Fear by Paul Tabori; Hapladies by John Christopher writing as Anthony Rye; A Bit Simple by Ronald Blythe; The Face in the Mirror by Denys Val Baker; The Home Stretch by Peter Ford; Sarah by D. G. Compton; Consanquinity by Ronald Duncan; The Lorraine Cross by Evelyn Fabyan; The Expert by Kate Barlay; A Local Haunting by Charles Causley; The Game of Dice by Alain Danielou; Dear Ghost by Fielden Hughes; Exorcizing Baldassare by Edward Hyams; On Terms by Christine Brooke-Rose; Ivory Joe by John Pudney; A Saving Grace by William Sansom; The Unquiet Spirit by Jean Stubbs; The House by the Water by R.W. Thompson; Water Water Wallflower by Fred Urquhart; Averil at Endercombe by Rosalind Wade; and The Guardian by James Turner. Book.…

Stiff printed wrappers. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Square 8vo. Pp. 52. Stiff printed wraps, titles in green on the cover and spine, French flaps, embossed endpapers, leaves printed black on light brown paper. Spine darkened, offsetting to ffep. (Please see photos.). Festival program followed by poems from guests (Robert Frost, Stanley Kunitz etc), undergraduates and faculty (Willis Barnstone, George Garrett, Richard Wilbur etc.) A stunning collection of contributors, including Roethke, William Carlos Williams, James Wright, Donald Justice, et al. William Wondriska (book design) (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. . 351 pages, edges foxed, previous owner's embossed stamp to flyleaf. Taken principally from Scottish Revivals by Couper, supplemented from various other works.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title. Nicholas Jainschigg (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 100 pages. Illustrated. R A Duncan "A New London" / Dacre Balsdon "We Regret To Announce" / D S MacColl "Patmore And Hopkins Sense and Nonsense in English Prosody" / Penistan Chapman "Protest" / Vincent Brun "New Deal With Women" / Leslie Halward "Portrait Of A Leader" / Martin Cooper "Music And The Stage" / William Plomer "The Woman At The Window" (poem). …

original paper covered boards. 4to. original paper covered boards. (iv), xii, 156 pages. Reprint of the 1831 edition (Lowndes, 21). Limited to 350 copies. Additional appendix of Foulis Press bibliography. Hinges cracked.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the 1st edition of British Butterflies, vol III of Entomology from the Naturalist's Library edited by Sir William Jardine. In the original publisher's cloth binding with gilt titles to the spine, with 34 plates of which 32 are hand coloured. With volume listing for the Naturalist's Library; notice from the publisher; half title; frontispiece portrait of Werner; hand coloured vignette title page; 2 further title pages; advertisement; contents listing; Memoir of Werner; text with illustrations, 2 plain plates and 32 hand coloured plates - tissue-guarded; and publishers adverts (20 pages) at the rear. The binding has been rebacked preserving the original spine which was complete but had a central split. The binding is sound and tight. The front board is faded at the edges with some turning to corners and light edge wear. The back board is more faded and with a lot of surface scuffing and some repair to corners. The original green endpapers are present with professional repair at the joints. The contents are complete and clean. Most of the text pages have been opened only recently and are very clean with toning to the paper at the edges. The plates are bright and very well coloured with some offsetting to the tissue guards. The plate paper is toned around the edges.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the 1st edition in the publisher's brown (originally purple) cloth binding with 30 hand coloured plates. With volume listing for the Naturalist's Library; half title; black and white frontispiece of Lamarck; hand coloured vignette title page of butterflies and a lizard; 2 further title pages; publisher's advertisement; contents listing; Memoir of Lamarck; text with 30 colour plates bound in - plate 1 is double size; and publisher's advert for the Naturalist's Library at the rear. The binding has been rebacked preserving the original spine and is sound and tight. There is fading around the spine and board edges. Corners are turned inwards. The original green endpapers are present: there are a couple of creases to the bottom corner of the front free endpaper and part of the top edge is missing on the rear free endpaper. Most of the preliminaries and text pages were opened recently so are very clean with slight toning to edges, particularly at the top. The plates are very brightly coloured with a lot of offsetting to the tissue guards. The guard to the frontispiece has been replaced. Plate 17 has a crease to the top corner tip.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Morison, Glasgow, 1886. 2nd Edition . Good. Reprint of the 1831 edition and limited to 350 copies. Additional appendix of books printed by the Foulises. Quatro, library rebound in green cloth with gilt titles on spine & library name on cover. Xii + 156pp. Ex reference library with minimal markings, pictorial bookplate on front pastedown, single stamp on front endpaper & a couple of blind stamps (see pictures). Generally in very good condition with a very occasional mark or two.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Text (269 pp) clear. VG. 30 hand colored plates. Cover Boards and spine only Fair with losses. In need of some repair.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the 1st edition of British Moths in the original publisher's cloth binding. With listing of the Naturalist's Library; half title; black and white engraved frontispiece of Madame Merian; black and white vignette title page - showing 2 cherubs chasing butterflies; 2 further title pages; an advert; contents listing; Memoir of Maria Sibilla Merian; text with 30 hand coloured plates bound in; and a 4 page publisher's catalogue (for Simpkin Marshall) at the rear. The binding has been rebacked and the contents restitched so the book is sound and tight. The original spine, which is lightly sunned has been relaid. The boards have sunning to the edges which have a number of slight indentations. Corners turned inwards. The original green endpapers are present with professional repair to the joints. Contents are clean with light toning towards the edges of text and plate paper. There is the occasional small mark or spot to the text pages, and some corners have been lightly turned over at the tip. Plates are clean with relatively little offsetting to the tissue guards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Pp. 248; engraved frontispiece plate of Sir Hans Sloane; engraved title page with b/w vignette; 30 engraved plates hand-coloured ; letterpress title and half-title pages. half red leather binding with marbled covered boards, very good and firm. Contents clean and tight, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, a few spots to the front and rear blanks, otherwise clean, all plates unmarked. A very good clean copy. Size: 12mo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Presentation page following title page printed with: "Presented to The Maitland Club by Andrew MacGeorge". Andrew MacGeorge also contributes the preface. Edited by William James Duncan, with his name printed at end of appendix to the preface. Both Duncan & MacGeorge being members of The Maitland Club, as printed on page 6. Contains two plates, both being facsimiles of documents, with frontispiece facing title page & second plate facing p.59, as issued. The preface begins: "The collection of Papers, formerly deposited in the Scots College at Paris, from which the contents of the present volume have been selected, was well known to our forefathers, as one of the most valuable stores for the illustration of Scottish History, and especially of those transactions in which Archbishop Betoun, the Scottish Ambassador at the French Court during the greater part of the reigns of Mary and James VI, was engaged. For many years this collection has been supposed to have been, in a great measure, lost or destroyed". Regarding the club: "The Maitland Club was a Scottish historical and literary club and text publication society, modelled on the Roxburghe Club and the Bannatyne Club. It took its name from Sir Richard Maitland (later Lord Lethington), the Scottish poet. The club was founded in Glasgow in 1828, to edit and publish early Scottish texts. Since the distribution of the publications was usually limited to members, the typical print run was between seventy and a hundred copies. The club was wound up in 1859, after publishing its own history as its 80th volume." Laid paper. Deckle fore-edge. Bound in original plain brown boards with printed paper label to spine. Interesting label pasted to front pastedown: "Wemyss Castle". Wemyss Castle is situated in Wemyss on the sea cliffs in Fife, Scotland. Historically, the castle is perhaps best known as the location where Mary, Queen of Scots, met her future husband Lord Darnley, in 1565. Second label pasted to front pastedown: "Bound by Carss, Glasgow". Printed in Glasgow by Edward Khull, Printer to the University. Mild wear to boards & spine, rear few pages slightly soiled, spine separating at rear gutter (though not detached), light offsetting from frontispiece, otherwise a nice clean tight solid complete copy. Full pagination as follows: ffep, blank, frontispiece, title page, presentation page, The Maitland Club members list - with 78 names (p.5-8), preface (ix-xvi), appendix to the preface (xvii-xxviii), list of contents, note on the plates in this volume, pages 1-130, illustrative notes (p.131-174), index (i-x), corrections & remarks by Bishop Kyle (xi-xii), blank, rear endpaper. Pagination complete. xxxi + 174pp + xii. Heavy large volume, extra shipping may be required. RARE.…

Reprint edition limited to 350 copies, 4to, pp. [8], ix-xii, [4], 156; frontispiece engraving by John Horsburgh of a medallion of Robert Foulis; contemporary half tan calf, blind-stamped spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1; a very good, sound copy. Bookplate of J. L. Weir. This copy inscribed "To Mr. David C. Coghill with Dr. Somerville's best wishes, March 19, 1906." Originally prepared for members of the Maitland Club, this edition supplies 10 pages of new material at the back.…