Mare Walter Editor (35 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing. Name of previous owner on ffep. Sunning to spine of price clipped dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Kenneth Hopkins, ed. Dj is price-clipped and worn and torn.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First Am. Ed. Binding fine. DJ frayed on edges including 3/8ths inch tear top front near spine, plus a few stains and soiling. Former owner's sticker on flyleaf. Illustrated by Margery Gill. 253 pages. Index of authors. Index of first lines. Binding tight, square.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book with usual markings. **Has staining** Acceptable Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket. Later Printing. Later [5th] printing. An anthology of fiction, folklore and poetry about ghosts. Brown pictorial buckram binding, 187+ pages. Near Fine copy [purchase price and date partially erased from the rear-paste-down no dust jacket. clph.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Printing. Green cloth binding . Tanned spine. If print, unable to read. Sun tanned edges all around.Grey headedge. Previous owner gift note on front flyleaf. Second note "Smith College".Very sound and otherwise unmarked. 168 pages including index of first lines and list of reference books .

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 132 pages. Illustrated. JB Priestley novels and plays, London Books Fairs, Walter de la Mare poet and author, Ellery Queen crime novels, Algernon Blackwood supernatural tales and EM Forster.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 282 Pp. Near Fine Book With Light Wear And Bumping To Ends Of Spine, No Fraying, No Names Or Marks Or Stains. Dj Also Lightly Used, Light Browning To Spine With Wear And Bumping At Ends, No Chipping Or Tears, Not Price-Clipped.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Frontis: Walter De La Mare (illustrator). 1st. stapled pictorial wraps; pp.186-256; clean, unmarked pages; includes items by/about: Children's Literature; Editorial (Thing of Beauty Brings Its Maker Near); Eleanor Farjeon (Walter De La Mare); Herbert Read (Walter De La Mare); The Books of Walter De La Mare); Pamela Bianco (Walter De La Mare); Etc.

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Two tone cloth, dj, VG/VG. 288pp, b/w ffrontis & 7 b/w plates by Joan Souter Robinson, woodcut vignettes by Thomas Bewick, dustjacket rubbed with some loss at the head & tail of the fafded spine, otherwise a near fine copy. A nicely produced collection of poems, chosen by De La Mare to appeal to children. 450 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 360 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 28 pages. Max Lerner "The Human Heart And The Human Will" / Denis Saurat "Paul Valery" / Pierre-Jean Jiuve "Les Quatre Cavaliers" / George's Duhamel "Le Cavalier Seul Ou L'Equipe" / Valentin Katayev "He Passed (Short Story)" / Alfred Kerr "Propos D'Un Critique" / Tribute to Herman Ould by Walter De la Mare, Rose Macaulay, Storm Jameson and Denis Saurat.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 498 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Pamphlet. 48p., 7.25x9.75 inches, introduction, poetry, reviews and criticism, good poetry journal, booklet in stapled toned and lightly worn pictorial wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 149 pages. Sketches for an autobiography / Edward Sackville-West -- A small world / William Sansom --Dreams of a summer night / George Barker -- Pages from an essay on Dorothy Osborne / David Cecil --Dirge for the new sunrise ; The canticle of the rose / Edith Sitwell -- La tragedie de Guy de Maupassant / René Dumesnil --The Meeg / Philip O'Connor -- Reflections ; The risen sun ; She said ; A daydream / Walter de la Mare -- The innocent / Graham Greene --Benvolio : the "cousin" theme in the early novels of Henry James / S. Gorley Putt -- Les roses de Noel ; Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux / Louis Aragon ; translated by Frances Cornford -- Oak and olive : being pages from Great morning. I, Mark Kirkby ; II, Montegufoni / Osbert Sitwell -- Humming birds / Anthony Rye --The Daniells / Stephen Bone -- White temple by the sea / Joseph Chiari --Doctor Johnson in his relations with women / Margaret Lane -- Airgraph I / Geoffrey Parsons -- Winter encounter ; The letter bearer / W.H. Osborne --The innumerable laughter / Ethel Wilson -- Joyce's progress / Henry Reed --Drunken ship / J.N.A. Rimbaud ; translated by George Duncan Painter. (U.P.).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. BROCK, C. E. and BROCK, H. M. (illustrator). Octavo, green cloth, titles in gilt on front and across spine, moderate wear and sunning (it has lived and has more life left). toning and juvenile ownership on front end papers, internally clean and complete, many illustrations by the Brock brothers. This is an anthology of poetry aimed at children by many authors. xv plus 557 pages including indeces. [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Here is a volume of essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, that was edited by John Drinkwater, Poet Laureate of England. The essays are on obscure and not-so-obscure literary subjects, but one of them ventures into science, and another into historians. Drinkwater, himself a Fellow member, also contributed an essay and the book's Introduction. The book was published in 1932 by Cambridge University Press. This is the First Edition. The book has a very interesting provenance and gift inscription (See Below). The Book is now OP. TABLE OF CONTENTS : - Sir Henry Taylor - by Lascelles Abercrombie - Arthur Hugh Clough - by Humbert Wolfe - The Early Novels of Wilkie Collins - by Walter De La Mare - Exit Planché . Enter Gilbert - by Harley Granville-Barker - Punch in the 'Sixties ("Punch Magazine") - by C. L. Graves - Historians in the 'Sixties - by F. S. Boas - Eneas Sweetland Dallas - by John Drinkwater - George Whyte-Melville - by Sir John Fortescue - Science in the 'Sixties - by Sir Oliver Lodge TITLE : The Eighteen-Sixties - Essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature EDITOR : John Drinkwater (1882 - 1937) INTRODUCTION : John Drinkwater AUTHORS - CONTRIBUTORS : John Drinkwater; Lascelles Ambercrombie; Humbert Wolfe; Walter De La Mare; Harley Granville-Barker; C.L. Graves; F. S. Boas; Sir John Fortescue; Sir Oliver Lodge IMPRINT : Cambridge University Press PLACE : Cambridge, England DATE : 1932 EDITION : First Edition PROVENANCE : From the personal library of a famous Doctor, deceased SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Has interesting gift inscription. PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade Hardcover; Contains an Introduction, nine essays, and an Index; has three line illustrations (reproduced from "Punch Magazine") ; x + 282 pages; 5 1/2" x 8 3/4"; smooth brown cloth-covered boards and spine; gilt lettering and decorative embellishment on spine; Royal Society device stamped in gilt on front cover; bottom text-block edges rough cut. At the top fore-edge corner of the front pastedown is the following gift inscription (or, rather, and inscription by the book's owner that the book was a gift) : "W. R Bett - 16.ix.34 - from W. R. Dawson. " W. R. Bett was Dr. Walter Reginald Bett (1903 - 1968). Physician, medical historian, author, orator, scholar, librarian and man of letters; he was the co-founder of the Osler Club of London. W. R. Dawson (1888- 1968); Warren Royal Dawson was an English librarian, Egyptologist and antiquarian. He was encouraged by Wallis Budge to pursue Egyptology , and became an expert on hieroglyphs and mummification. He wrote several esteemed books on Egyptology, among which were "Mummy as a Drug", and "Magician and Leech: a Study in the beginnings of medicine with special reference to ancient Egypt". It's a very interesting inscription, revealing a friendship between scholars who shared interests in history, medicine, literature ,and who had had an extended correspondence by mail. CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR -- The spine displays some abrasion and loss of surface color - at the head the loss is more clearly discernible ' spine extremities are compressed and display abrasion, with fraying just starting; gilt lettering still fairly bright; front board is clean with but mild rub; rear board is clean , but has slightly more rub; rear board edges display a few small dents; text-block edges are toned, else clean. BINDING -- Paper over end-paper hinges are not split; hinges are cracked between pp 112 and 113, else binding is still solid with no loose or detached leaves. INTERIOR : Interesting Gift Inscription on front paste-down (see below). End-papers toned, and displaying slight smudging; small book number label affixed to bottom fore-edge corner of front paste-down; text paper is toned and displays foxing ; else the interior is clean and free of marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Scarce edition, this flawless copy is Number 336 in a Limited Edition of 365 copies, attractive brick red cloth covers and beige cloth spine with a bright silver at title-label at top of spine, title page printed in black and red and a frontis illustration of the words and music for the traditional Willow Song adapted by Shakespeare in Othello from a manuscript dated 1600, this unique copy includes the original silver-foil slipcase, the spine-ends are split, also surface-wear at the edges and moderate rubbing to the cover, it remains intact and we can thank this little box for keeping the book in such beautiful shape over the years.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. 1st British Paperback. An uncreased spine with very light edge rubbings. No store stamp. Stories by : Arthur Machen, W.B. Seabrook, E.F.Benson, L.P. Hartley, Walter de la Mare,Ex-Private X, William Younger, Dennis Wheatley.

Condition: Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream & vermilion wrappers. The wraps are bumped & lightly chipped with the tail of the spine torn. There is light soiling & staining to the rear wrap & the overlapping edges are creased. 100 pages. A few black-and-white illustrations & pictorial ads. The front wrap is detached from the text block along the spine. There is a distributor's stamp at the foot of the title page. The top page corners are slightly bumped. Good Quadrant is an Australian literary and cultural journal publishing poetry and short stories and essays on politics, history, universities and the arts. The journal was founded in 1956 by Richard Krygier, a Polish-Jewish refugee who had been a social-democratic activist in Europe and by James McCauley, a Catholic poet. The publication was a project of the Australian Committee for Cultural Freedom, the Australian branch of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an anti-Communist advocacy group funded by the CIA.Among the contents of this first issue of Quadrant are the articles "James Cook, Seaman" by Alan Villiers, "Walter de la Mare" by Rosemary Dobson, "Good Manners in Street Architecture" by George Molnar and "The Communist Conspiracy in Asia" by Denis Warner.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 217-260; xv-xxvi. Publisher's card wraps printed in red and black, price of one shilling net to upper. Some spotting to edges and covers, staples rusted, lightly handled. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. 312 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Previous owner's stamp, signature, and bookplate on the front endpaper. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Lightly worn on the edges. Grey dustjacket in very good condition with red titles. Darkened on the spine. Smudged and scuffed. Heavy wear on the edges with chips and tears, with one notable large tear on the front of the jacket. 1ST UK EDITION. NPC. NF/VG. Book.

Paperback. Two paperback books in slipcase. Anthology of children's poetry. In slipcase illustrated to all sides. 936pp. Cover illustrations by Eric Blegvad. Former school copy. Each volume stamped to prelim and box stamped to back. Spine uncreased. Slipcase is rubbed to edges, with a couple of minor dings, and a little faded but sound. Very good set in good+ slipcase Very good set in good+ slipcase.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Some light foxing to prelims. Slightly edge-torn and bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; viii,702p 20cm. Subjects; Dreams Literary collections. Sleep Literary collections. English literature Collections. English poetry 20th century. De la Mare, Walter 1873-1956. 3 Kg.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.149; [3]. Publisher's white cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of eight shillings and sixpence net to upper. Edges toned, top edge a little dusty, offset toning to endpapers. Dust-jacket a little worn to extremities, some closed tears and chips, splash mark to upper. Very good. A Miscellany.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Alec Buckels, Roy Meldrum, etc, (illustrator). 1st Edition. 220 pages with 8 tipped in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations, full page and smaller and head & tail piece, original cloth boards with design taken from a 15th century ornament, part of the front wrapper tipped in to FFEP, small inscription ""Barbara Wigley, Christmas 1923", light and minor handling, brown spot to the very edge of some pages, slightly seen when opened, the cloth on the covers have faded at the spine and edges and a small dark spot on the spine noticed. Very good+. Quarto. *A superior style young readers Christmas annual.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Some light foxing to prelims. Slightly edge-torn and bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; viii,702p 20cm. Subjects; Dreams Literary collections. Sleep Literary collections. English literature Collections. English poetry 20th century. De la Mare, Walter 1873-1956. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Harry Rountree, Alec Buckels, Hugh Chesterman, etc. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 220 pages with 8 tipped in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations, full page and smaller and head & tail piece, original cloth boards with design taken from a 15th century ornament, part of the front wrapper tipped in to FFEP, light and minor handling, a corner piece at outer corner of page 99/100, no loss of text, spine a little faded otherwise Very Good+. Quarto. *A superior style young readers Christmas annual. This 2nd annual has a short 17 page story by A. A. Milne written before his "Pooh Bear" books called "Prince Rabbit" and a short story by G. K. Chesterton "The Dragon at Hide and Seek" a story long out of print and a first printing here.