Foreword by Compton Mackenzie (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo. Blue cl., silver, blue lettering, bkstr. sl. faded. Bookplate inside front cover, name on ffep. 287pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Wilgart Hofheinz (illustrator). First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's original blue pictorial cloth,with orange cloth spine with title lettering in red.The title lettering to the upper cover is in orange.This copy comes with it's original colourful Dust-Jacket and is graded Good,with a few shallow nicks to the edges of the wrapper at spine tips and corners.Not price clipped,with inner flap showing 5s net.beautifully illustrated with scissor-cut drawings in black and white by Wilgart Hofheinz.Their is one neat ownership inscription to the ffep.This is a nice clean copy internally with no foxing or turned corners to pages etc.The book has a firm binding with no leaning or rolling to spine.A great addition to any children's collection.8vo 267pp First UK Edition (Not dated But believed to be early 1930's) Scarce title particularly in this condition and the d/j comes well protected in a dust-jacket cover sleeve,8vo 114pp First Edition undated But Circa 1930.

Hardcover. 1st edition. Thomas Clarkson 193-95, Benjamin Jowett 212-16, G.K. Chesterton 228-43, Edmund Clerihew Bentley 243-49, Cecil Chesterson 265-76. xvi, 335 p.; 19 cm. VG lt. sunned crimson cl. Gilt arms on cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback. Clean & tight book. FRONT END PAPER HAS A PAPERCLIP MARK. TEXT HAS SOME NEAT RED UNDERLINING. Jacket has edge wear & minor loss. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref H567.

Hard Cover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition thus. octavo. 20 cm x 14 cm.Yellow cloth in color pictorial dust jacket. 111pp Color frontispiece and other illustrations in black and white. A very nice copy in a lightly chipped dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original brick red paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9¼'' x 6''. Contains 297 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. A little wear to the spine ends, mottling to the blue end papers. Very Good condition book in near Very Good condition dust wrapper with nicks to the spine ends and corners, age darkening to the spine, not price clipped 50s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 44pp, 1/4 bound red cloth with pale blue boards, title label to front panel. Contents:- Cats Between Covers; The Cat in History; Poets' Cats' Cat Lovers' Cats; Storytellers' Cats; Practical Cats; Artists' Cats; Children's Cats; Some Foreign Books. Red endpapers, colour has run onto page edges in a few places, minor fault. Overall an excellent clean copy.

Blue pictorial cloth,with orange cloth spine with title lettering in red. A couple of tiny foxing spots to the title page otherwise a near Fine copy in a VG+ attractive dustjacket retaining its original price of 5/-. Scarce, especially is such nice condition.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. 273 Pp. First Edition, First Printing, 1941, Macmillan, Blue Grey Cloth, Used And With Some Wear, Contents Clean And Unmarked, Small Dampstain 1/8" Deep Along Bottom Half Of Foredge Of Front Endpaper. Not Signed. [With] The English Edition Of This Same Book, Titled Music On Record, Published By Robert Hale, London 1946, Inscribed By Gaisberg To His Nephew, Warren Forster [Son Of Rudolph Forster, Chief Clerk Of The White House, Washington Circa 1897 - 1941], And Dated In London June 25, 1947. Inscribed by Author(s).