Lancaster Peter Editor (9 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Birkhaeuser; Boston, 1996. Hardcover. A Very Good, binding firm, interior and extremities tidy, trace handling marks, mild spine edge and board corner wear, minimal scattered foxing top text block edge, bumped top spine edge, without Dust wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches], 435pp., appendix. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. 72 pages, photographs throughout. Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster cover article, as well as pieces on David Byrne, Jim Jarmusch, Christopher Isherwood.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. (xiv) 433 pp. Red boards decorated in black on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. This collection contains: The Recruitment of the Archtraitor by Robert Asprey; The Defection of Kuznetov by Leon Uris; Happy the Joe by George Locke Howe; The Stockings of Major Andre by Bruce Lancaster; Conspiracy Up to the Ears by Roman Goul; A Conversation on the Train by Rebecca West; Mr Vladimir and Mr Verloc by Joseph Conrad; The General of the Order by Alexandre Dumas; Entrapping a Lady by Baroness Orczy; The Bruce Partington Plans - The Later Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle; The Intruders by Erskine Childers; Guarding the Zeppelins by Manning Coles; A Defector Who Didn't Make It by Peter Cheyney; A Message to Umballa by Rudyard Kipling; I.A. by Lawrence Durrell; Far from Home by James Leasor; The Assistant Producer by Vladimir Nabokov; Betrayal by Arthur Koestler; Belgrade 1926 by Eric Ambler; A Problem of Identity by E. Phillips Oppenheim; A Confusion of Celts by Helen MacInnes; The Trojan Horse by Virgil; A Belated Promotion by Duff Cooper; A Curious Experience by Mark Twain; A Little Piece of Hungary by Len Deighton; The Trigger by Richard Condon; Taylor's Run by John le Carre; The End of James by Ian Fleming; Giulia Lazzari by W. Somerset Maugham; All's Well by David St John; The Recruitment of Major Blenkinsop by Sir Compton MacKenzie; and The Inventive Mr Wormold by Graham Greene. Size: 8vo. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 206 pages. Illustrated. Peter Quennell "1768: The Literary Background" / 1768: London Traffic Annual Register" / Bevis Hillier "1768: The Art Scene" / Brendan Lehane "1768: The Unknown World" / R Prawer Jhabvala "A Course of English Studies" / John Betjeman "Dilton Marsh Halt" (poem) / Hippolyte Bouche "A Journey to America in 1849" / Hubert Van Zeller "Bed and Breakfast" / Osbert Lancaster "Pocket Cartoons (8)" / Lord Kinross "The Opening of the Suez Canal: 1869" / Penelope Gilliatt "Come Back if it Doesn't Get Better" (U.P.).

No direct edition/printing statement provided (but with Harper's "H-F" code for August 1956 upon copyright page). i-xviii, 19-159, [1] pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 12.75cm. Dust jacket lightly soiled; toning along spine; nicks/scuffs and a few short tears at edges; front flap retains publisher's printed price at top right. White spine with gray boards. Ink ownership inscription (dated October 1956) upon front free endpaper; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Introduction by Russell Lynes; "The English Aristocracy" by Nancy Mitford; "U and Non-U" by Alan S.C. Ross; "An Open Letter to the Hon. Mrs. Peter Rodd (Nancy Mitford) on a Very Serious Subject" by Evelyn Waugh; "Posh Lingo" by Strix (pseudonym of Peter Fleming); "What U-Future?" by Christopher Sykes; "How to Get On in Society" by John Betjeman.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Lancaster, Osbert; Fuseli, Henry (illustrator). First Edition. Spine slightly faded. Slight spotting to the page edges. Light surface marking to front and rear covers. Includes 'Workshop' by Mass-Observation, 'Boswell's Progress - I' by Quennell, 'The Reputation of Henry Fuseli' by Todd, 'This Mortal Coil' by Maclaren-Ross, 'Fragment of Autobiography - VIII' by John and poems by Aragon and Krige. Reproductions of one work by Lancaster and two by Fuseli. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 339 pages. 10.25x7.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 2012 edition. 638 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 180 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.55 inches. In Stock.