Marmaduke Dixey (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Dust Jacket. Fair to good condition with cover wear including tears at the top and bottom of the spine as well as fading to spine. The inside is in good condition with a solid binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 304pp, bound in purple cloth, with the binding and hinges tight. Small previous ownership label inside the front cover. White speckles to the front cover, spine darkened.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth covers exhibit light soiling, wear and bumping on top and bottom edges and spine ends. Moderate soiling to covers and page ends. Foxing and yellowing to inside front and back covers. Yellowing to text which is otherwise clean and unmarked. Hinges are tight. Illustrated dj is in a protective mylar cover with small tears, chips and creasing on edges, corners and spine ends. Moderate soiling and shelf wear to covers. A collection of humorous poems from Punch detailing the world of bridge-players good, bad and indifferent. All books are individually described. Never ex-lib unless stated.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to hard back book. Green boards.Pages are clean and tight. No name or inscription.Gilt titles on spine. Clifford Webb (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hard cover first edition. Condition: Very Good with moderate edgewear and chips to Dust Jacket and no marks to text. Jacket shows taped closed tear on bottom corner of spine edge.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"; 304 pages.…

Hard Cover. First Edition. Very good with no dust jacket. A little spotting and soiling generally to the page edges and endpapers. Purple cloth with red lettering and decorations; cloth is a little sunned on the spine. Lower corner of half title page was miscut in the binding process.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 19.5 x 13.5. Octavo. 304 pages. Stated first edition. Purple cloth red lettering. Spine is faded and has a small gouge. Darkening to the front and rear endpaper and inside front and rear cover as if someone had laid in a piece of paper. Former owner's small stamp inside back cover.…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Original teal cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine in original dust jacket. Original poems and illustrations by Clifford Webb. Eccentric book featuring animals in moral fables. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Dust jacket chipped and stained but intact. Staining to front cover. Pages clean and bright.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good or better. First trade edition. Slim 8vo. [6], 7-63, [1] pp. Purple cloth with green lettering on the spine. Price of 3s. 6d. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a foreword by Ely Culbertson. First published in Punch magazine. The boards bowed; jacket with a few chips and soiled on its spine panel.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback: lovely b/w woodcut style illustrations by CLIFFORD WEBB, no dj, book is bound in cloth, gilt spine titles and vignette, edges slightly rubbed, back cover slightly marked, flyleaves darkened, a few small internal marks, else vg. 8vo, 97pp. Poetry. Clifford Webb (illustrator). …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. 21cm x 14cm. 97pp. Title vignette. Illustrated throughout by Clifford Webb. 1st edition 1936. Binding slightly worn, with red mark to front board. A little foxing. Webb, Clifford (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Publisher Faber, London 1938. First edition. Very Good condition. Purple boards with yellow lettering. Front board slightly bowed, otherwise minimal wear. Some foxing to endpapers. Tight binding, no markings or inscriptions. Original blue pictorial unclipped d/j in fair condition, small tears and marks, spine discoloured. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustwrapper. First Edition. Bright boards, slightly rubbed. very bright clean contents with no markings. Clifford Webb (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Good +. First Edition. Dust jacket complete, unclipped 3s 6d net price on flap. Slight wear to edges, slightly fading. Red cloth with bright black titling on spine, a little dusty. Neat previous owner's inscription on ffep. Illustrated title page. 64 pages clean and tight. READERS of Punch have, at intervals during the Year of Grace 1938, been delighted by excerpts (which Punch kindly permits us to republish) from the Poem now first presented at full length to the world of bridge-players, good, bad and indifferent. Mr. Dixey's deliciously humorous verses claim to instruct as well as to amuse. Thus he defines his aim: `To sing of bridge in measures neat and terse; To clothe its laws in finely-tailored verse: To justify, as well as couplets can, The complex ways of Culbertson to Man.' And so he does-as the great Culbertson himself, to whom we sent The Beauties of Bridge while yet in the galley-proof stage, appreciatively confirms in his witty foreword. But he does it so deftly, that one scarcely knows it is being done. Size: 12mo.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. 98 pp. Teal cloth with gilt lettering & illustration to spine, in illustrated dj. Dj slightly grubby with a few small chips and tears, and pencil initials to corner. Ownership inscription of a W. F. Hayner, from Christmas 1946 in ink to ffep, and a strip of offsetting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. 21 fables, illustrated throughout by Clifford Webb, the English illustrator specialising in animal drawings. 8vo. Webb, Clifford (illustrator).…