Holroyd Michael Ed (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 184 pages. Light shelf wear, pages yellowing; a good sound binding. The jacket has light wear, discoloring. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0030859956. ISBN/EAN: 9780030859953. Inventory No: 203836.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, mild shelfwear. Book.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. 238pp. Extremities lightly rubbed; owner name ffep. Dj extremities rubbed;; lamination peeling top rear cover Dj. Illus.; index.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Well-illustrated (illustrator). 1st. Small 4to, 238 pp.

Condition: Good. Boards are clean. Content is clean with light toning. Good DJ with little wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st edition 1979 fine/very good+ fully intact small selotape repair dustjacket, lavishly illustrated in colour and b/w. 238pp.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket and turquoise hardcover with silver lettering on spine in very good clean condition, showing minimal signs of wear. Occasional pencil underlining throughout text. T. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover. 'Being the transactions of the Royal Society of Literature'. Dust jacket has a few minor scores and light creases. Pages are rather tanned around edges. Binding is sound, pages are tight and text is clear throughout. AF. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

1st.ed. Some pencil underlining/sidelining; pages in last half (approx) damp-buckled; good reading copy. Used - Very Good. Good hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. Good hardback in VG dust jacket.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:0030435412.

Cloth Over Board. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good (Protective cover). 1st Edition. tight binding; signed by previous owner; dust jacket has a bit of creasing near top back cover and clipped corner Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 238 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction / Michael Holroyd The first twenty years / John O'Donovan An Irishman abroad / Terence de Vere White In the picture galleries / Stanley Weintraub The music critic / Charles Osborne Religion and philosophy / John Stewart Collis The way of no flesh / Brigid Brophy The Fabian ethic / Robert Skidelsky The critic's critic / Hilary Spurling The plays / Irving Wardle Women and the body politic / Michael Holroyd 'As lonely as God' / Margot Peters A funny man / Benny Green Man of letters / Barbara Smoker A personal view / Colin Wilson. Subjects; Dramatists, English. Dramatists, Irish. Critics. Drama. Literature. 19th century. 20th century. Biography. Congresses. Illustrated. Plates. 1 Kg.

HC. Condition: f/f. 1st ed. A very small tear to top edge of DJ, otherwise perfect. 184pp.

Condition: Good. Scuffs, kncoks and fading to cover. Tanning to textblock and edg eo fpages. Contents good.

First Edition. 1971 1st edition, tightly bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine; top front corner bumped. Dust jacket not price-clipped with faintly discoloured spine and a little wear to edges; loss to top front corner; long, diagonal tear to front from hinge corner which has been taped on inner surface. Pale, scattered foxing to page fore-edges. Internally, initial pages have some pale discolouration marks; otherwise, a good, tidy copy. Used - Good. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket Used - Good. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket.

Original publisher's blue paper-covered boards, silver lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, small 4to: frontispiece portrait, 238pp., richly illustrated, acknowledgements, contributors, notes on text, notes on illustrations, index. Very fine copy.

Condition: Fair. Volume 42. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0851151736.

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Imperial octavo, hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Publisher - Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1979. Fine in near fine clipped jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: F-. First Edition. F-/F-. 8vo. original brown boards gilt (faint leaf edge speckling) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a trifle rubbed); pp. vi, 184, with frontispiece portrait. A near fine copy.

Pocketbook. Condition: Good. Pocketbook. wraps, 365 pp covers worn and creased on the front Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardback, small 4to, 238pp. Very good condition (light wear; pages a little yellowed) in very good dustwrapper (light wear and chipping; price-clipped). ISBN: 0340241462.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Very nice copy octavo vi + 184pp., frontis., illusts.,

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Fine octavo. 184pp., b/w ills., frontis.,

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. xi+190 pp., as new 8vo in unclipped dj, essays by Meyer [Ibsen v.Strindberg], Skidelsky [Keynes & Bloomsbury, Gilbert [Churchill], Conquest [Modernism], Merchant [Shakespeare], Stacey [Parson Poets], Wright [Trollope]. Woodhouse [Plato], Tomlin [literature], Symons [biography], Lewin [biographer]. Eleven Learned literary essays, as new book. Size: 8vo.

1st edition / 1st printing hardbacks with dust jacket Very nice copies octavo xxii + 475, xii + 754pp., colour frontis.(2), b/w plates, bibliog., indexes, Two volumes in a nice decorated slip-case.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). A very smart set of four first edition volumes on notable figures Lytton Strachey, Gertrude Bell, Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf. A four volume set of works on notable figures.In the original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers.Comprising of:(1971) Lytton Strachey by Himself: A Self-PortraitEdited with an introduction by Michael Holroyd. The first edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece. The diary of Lytton Strachey, an English writer and critic who was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and the author of Eminent Victorians. He established a new form of biography in whichpsychologicalinsight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit.(1978) Gertrude BellBy H.V.F. Gertrude Bell. The first edition. Illustrated with 8 double sided plates and in text illustrations. A work on Gertrude Bell, an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, andarchaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping theMiddle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as anArabistdue to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels.(1992) Vita and Harold: The Letters of Sackville-West and Harold NicolsonEdited by Nigel Nicolson. The first edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 8 double sided plates. Vita Sackville-West was a prolific author and garden designer, whilst Harold Nicolson was a British politician, writer, broadcaster and gardener. The two were married.(1994) Virginia WoolfBy James King. The first edition, first impression. Illustrated with 8 double sided plates. A work on Virginia Woolf, an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-centurymodernistauthors. She helped to pioneer the use ofstream of consciousnessnarration as a literary device. In publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, excellent. Minor shelf wear to extremities. Dust wrappers are very smart, with just slight shelf wear to edges. Mark to spine of 'Lytton Strachey' wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. book.