Priestley Eric (21 results)

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ. Previous owner's name to endpaper.

Condition: Very Good. Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. shelf wear. bumped edges. Paperback.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Book and cover look really nearly new. Binding is tight and square. Book is clean as a whistle inside and out but with minor shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition, no additional pri. NOT an ex library book. 146 pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book is near fine with slight edge wear in a very good dust jacket with light edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (No Additional Printing Stated, Thus First). The Book Is Bound In Blue Cloth Over Boards With Gilt Lettering On The Spine. Small J Written Near The Upper Corner Of The Ffep. The Unclipped Jacket Has Two Tiny Tears At The Lower Spine.

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi, 286 pages. Contents; On beginning --; The grumbler's apology --; Open house --; Three men --; Other people's accomplishments --; Lectures --; On not meeting authors --; High, low, broad --; Those terrible novelists --; The editor --; Making writing simple --; The artist --; The peep --; The man with the flare --; Cranks --; On hating strangers --; On vulgar optimists --; The pessimists --; Parties --; A paragon of hosts --; The inn of the six angler --; A London hotel --; Commerical interlude --; A vanished lodging --; Out of it --; This insubstantial pagent --; A road and some moods --; Reminiscences of travel --; Smell of Tahiti --; Lilac in the rain --; American notes --; The skipper --; On overlooking Ccovent Garden --; At a concert --; The disillusioned --; At the circus --; Little tich --; A film actor --; Ellen Terry --; Seeing Stratford --; The Illyrians --; Midsummer day's dream --; Bully bottom --; The Dickens Fayre --; The two wellers --; Mr. Pickwick returns --; Prince Seithenyn --; Trying new. Subjects; English essays 20th century. 3 Kg.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi, 286 pages. Contents; On beginning --; The grumbler's apology --; Open house --; Three men --; Other people's accomplishments --; Lectures --; On not meeting authors --; High, low, broad --; Those terrible novelists --; The editor --; Making writing simple --; The artist --; The peep --; The man with the flare --; Cranks --; On hating strangers --; On vulgar optimists --; The pessimists --; Parties --; A paragon of hosts --; The inn of the six angler --; A London hotel --; Commerical interlude --; A vanished lodging --; Out of it --; This insubstantial pagent --; A road and some moods --; Reminiscences of travel --; Smell of Tahiti --; Lilac in the rain --; American notes --; The skipper --; On overlooking Ccovent Garden --; At a concert --; The disillusioned --; At the circus --; Little tich --; A film actor --; Ellen Terry --; Seeing Stratford --; The Illyrians --; Midsummer day's dream --; Bully bottom --; The Dickens Fayre --; The two wellers --; Mr. Pickwick returns --; Prince Seithenyn --; Trying new. Subjects; English essays 20th century. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket by Eric Fraser (illustrator). 1st Edition. First published in May 1951, this is a third impression of later the same year. Edge wear, chipping, short closed tears and some loss to top and bottom of fabulous retro jacket by Eric Fraser, spine faded, corners and folds rubbed with loss, some browning and spotting to page fore edges. Not price clipped (15s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a reasonable copy for its age. 593pp. A light hearted novel which concentrates on a few weeks in the life of a village community in England leading up to a summer festival. Author, playwright and broadcaster J. B. Priestley (1894-1984), published it almost certainly to coincide with the Festival of Britain in 1951 it has a large cast of characters and perfectly captures the spirit of a bygone and simpler age.

1p., 8vo. Priestley's agents have forwarded an invitation from Crozier 'to write a piece on Alan Herbert for a special issue you are planning'. Although Priestley has 'a high regard' for Herbert, he is 'particularly anxious just now not to accept commissions of this kind, and so must reluctantly refuse'.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Marquette University: Haggerty Museum of Art, 2003. 4to, 70 p., original wraps. First edition of this collection of essays on Watts and the work of John Outterbridge, Jayne Cortez, Dale Davis, Noah Purifoy and others, with several poems by Cortez ("You Know", "Nigerian/ American Relations", "Jazz Fan Looks Back" and others. Book slightly bowed, else NF.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 228.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very scarce booklet of poetry and other writings by African-American authors including Quincy Troupe, Stanley Crouch and Eric Priestly among others. The book was "dedicated to Thaddeus Morgan Brevard Better known in Watts as 'Fats', 'Watts Fats; 'Fats' was shot nine times by the L. A. Police Department on November 14, 1967 while on his knees." Pages are clean and unmarked, lightly toned. There is significant wear along the spine edge of the booklet and the front and back covers are both partially detached. Front cover is clean and the back cover shows just a few light water spots. There are also a couple of light creases in the upper left corner of the back cover. (Note: Photos may show a flash reflection.) PayPal always welcome. We pack all our books with care and ship in cardboard boxes. Shipment outside of the United States may require extra funds. Additional photos emailed upon request.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 228.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 228.