P S Mortimer (15 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Various Photographers (illustrator). 16 separate issues in a blue binder. First Volume of History of the English-speaking peoples. Very heavy - extra psotage will apply.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. 4to bound in blue cloth 2578pp-3088. Book.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1958 first edition on red cloth.

Sheets in spine binder. Condition: Very Good. [ii], 101pp. Clearly-reproduced typed A4 sheets in printed card covers with blue plastic spine binder. Pages clean and in very good order, some with slight curl to tip of the upper corner; illustrated front cover faintly creased towards the bottom, where there is a little fading. Hatfield was Clinical Assistant in Psychiatry at Barts at about this period.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Black titles on tan coloured cloth boards which have some minor marks and fading to spine but with no wear. Internally there is a small name to front pastedown, some age darkening to endpapers, foxing to top edge and minor creasing to a few pages else clean, tight and unmarked. xi + 181 pages. Edited by Kenneth E. Kirk. The following lectures were delivered in Queen's College Hall in the Michaelmas Term of 1933 and comprise : Education by Burnett Hillman Streeter; Marriage by Kenneth E. Kirk; Patriotism by John Maud; Social Inequalities by Charles Morris; Earning and Spending by Robert Lowe Hall; Gambling by Robert C. Mortimer; Ethics and Religion by J.S. Bezzant C3D Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 128 p. : Chiefly col. ill. ; 30 cm. ISBN 9780821216774, 9780821216712, 0821216775, 0821216716 OCLC 471008889 LCCN 87082617 LC ND2638.L67 L48 1988 Dewey 751.730979494 "A New York Graphic Society book." ; blue grey cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; artists include: John Garrett, Tim Guyer, David Larks, Art Mortimer, Kent Twitchell, Dennis Fitzpatrick, D. Botello, W. Healy, Daniel Martinez, Terry Schoonhoven, Ann Thiermann, Jane Golden, G J Keith, N Fram, T Downs, George Yepes, Paul D Harper, R Arenivar, Ernie Barnes, Joe Gonzalez, Ruben Brucelyn, Angelus Temple, S Anaya, P Fleischman, Eduardo Carillo, John Wehrle, Donald Kanner, Frank Romero, Judy Baca, Les Grimes, Arno Jordan, John Valadez, Roberto Tito Delgado, Vic Henderson, Jim Frazin, Jody Hormel, Richard Wyatt, Willie Herron, Glenna Boltuch-Avila, Eloy Torrez, Thierry Bernard, Frank Romero, B Gonzalez, J Correla, Judith Hernandez, Josefina Quesada, Rene and Renata, Margaret Garcia, Carlos Callejo, E Rodriguez, Joe Bravo, Roderick Sykes, R Cronk, Daniel Alonzo, Ann Walken, Thomas Suriya ; name on front endpaper ; else FINE/FINE. Book.

broché catonné. in-8 24 + LXII + 32 pages illustré de photographies et images contrecollées, trace de mouillures couverture, usures bordures de couverture, couverture réparée. Ajustement des frais d'envoi en fonction du poids.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With several photos. 21x30cm, 76p.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Ansel E. Adams, Marion Randall Parsons, Ray J. Baker, C.S. Carlsmith, Walter L. Huber, J.N. LeConte, E.A. Hornuth, C.S. Tappaan, Ansel F. Hall, W.B. Putnam, Chester Versteeg, George J. Young, Harold C. Bradley, Howard C. Tibbitts, George L. Beam (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1922. First Edition. First published Ansel Adams photographs. Vol XI, No. 3, for 1922. This was published during a several-year time period when the Sierra Club did not stipulate the month of an issue, just the volume, the number, and the year; monthly designations for such an infrequent publication having always been somewhat unnecessary in any case. Original printed wrappers, 9 1/4" x 6 1/4", 113 pp. + numerous unpaginated photographic plates, features and ads - including two very precious shots which are the first published Ansel Adams photographs. Buff stapled wraps, Very Good or better, and internally fine, of course. Circuit binding (yapp binding) was used, in which cover edges were intentionally extended out beyond page edges, but over time the extended part becomes pressed inward somewhat (see third scan for the unusual degree of this is this issue). A handsome copy. See scans. Binding sturdy, contents fine. See scan of contents page for the lineup of impassioned club writers and their always engaging and adventurous topics. In addition to the two early and memorable Ansel Adams shots mentioned above, this issue is chock full of photographic plates by the club's best photographers, as well as others, including Ansel E. Adams, Marion Randall Parsons, Ray J. Baker, C.S. Carlsmith, Walter L. Huber, J.N. LeConte, E.A. Hornuth, C.S. Tappaan, Ansel F. Hall, W.B. Putnam, Chester Versteeg, George J. Young, Harold C. Bradley, Howard C. Tibbitts, and George L. Beam, as well as several uncredited artists. SC2.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. . No date circa 1912. 192 pages, b/w illustrations, numerous b/w adverts including prices, coloured advert card tipped in for Goerz Emulsion and colour advert for the Popular Pressman camera. Pages 3-16 cover the article by Mortimer, but the rest of the book is devoted to adverts and is essentially a photographic catalogue. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering, good with some general wear and rubbing to extremities, cloth a little marked with a small blue ink stain to the bottom corner of the front board. Contents good and tight, some pencil notes and marks, a little general reading wear. A good tight copy. Seemingly produced just for this Bristol retailer - M. W. Dunscombe and therefore scarce - no copy is recorded on Copac. Size: 12mo (11 x 16cm). Book.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Features: Boat High with Hyrofoils - article with great photos - "New Sea Wings Lift Boat, Motor and All Out of Water - Gives Smoother and Faster Riding"; What Kind of Boat do You Want to Buy? Now What Kind of Motor?; What's Ahead in Boating?; Photo illustrating why government-approved life preservers need by used; List of items required by government regulation to be taken on power driven pleasure boats; Should I Bother Painting? - add years of life to your boat; Nice photo ad for the Canadian Canoe Company of Peterborough, Ontario; Trout do come Big in July - Silver Springs Lodge, South River, Ontario; Do You Like Bugs?; Sedge Night in British Columbia, by H. Mortimer Batten of Kamloops, B.C.; How to Get Those Bass?; Two Ways to Hunt Woodchuck; Handmade Canadian Free Rifle Design; The Hungarian Vizsla - article with photo of "Elza Von Schloss Loosdorf" owned by Stephen Brunyanski of St. Catherines, Ontario; and more. Average wear. A sound copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Text 24 pp., with 64 plates, 4 tipped-in plates, 37 pp. advert. Photographic annual; short description of the years work; international. Original cloth, no dust jacket, spine partly loose.