Published Anonymously (113 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Second edition. Octavo hardback. vi, 314 pp. +2 pp. adverts. Spine slightly faded, corners slightly rubbed, generally Very Good condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 16mo. 96pp. Red cloth boards missing paper spine label. Very good with previous owner's signature on the front free endpaper with rubbing, foxing, and bumped spine ends and corners. Poems about World War I and its affect on the author.

Condition: Poor. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Medium 8vo with marbled boards and black leather half binding. Raised bands, gilt decoration and gilt lettering within two brown leather panels on backstrip. Some shelf wear including bumped corners. and an inch long tear in backstrip seam. Top of backstrip peeling away with some chipping. Marbled edges and end papers. Interior is secure, clean and clear save for some foxing. A few pages have some minor chipping. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine condition, small octavo, printed title and device of the Woodland Press (by Reginald Hallward) on grey boards, plain tan canvas spine, original tissue wrapper, title page also bears Woodland Press device, printed on hand made paper, errata slip present, foxing to outer edges, 44 pages. Early work published anonymously by the Woodland Press with later attributed works by Reginald Hallward. [Hallward gave Oscar Wilde the idea for Dorian Grey]. [GENERAL INFORMATION: Photographs available - please specify. Postage and packaging at cost based on average size book and surface post outside UK. Sets and heavy items may require additional postage charges: please contact us before ordering.].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. In excellent condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. 35pp. Illustrated with photographs. Stapled pictorial wrappers, the staples rusted, and the wrappers fractionally dust soiled, and with a little chafing to the natural fold. A very good copy. Prepared by Bates whilst he was serving at the Directorate of Public Relations at the Air Ministry. Eads A49. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 415pp. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped vignette to the upper board. Tip of one corner knocked and the cloth at the backstrip and board margins a little tanned. Some spotting to the endpapers and occasional text leaf margins. Quite a bright copy, lacking the dust wrapper. A roman à clef of the thirties featuring thinly disguised versions of T. E. Lawrence (as 'G. B. Everest' ["my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson]), C. R. W. Nevinson ('Cahnnerson'), D. H. Lawrence ('David Torrence'), Siegfried Sassoon ('Sherston Savage'), Aldous Huxley ('Adolf Stucley'), T. S. Eliot ('P. S. Etiol)', John Galsworthy ('Holsworthy'), H. G. Wells ('Springs') and J. B. Priestley ('P. B. Bradford' - Priestley took considerable umbrage to his portrayal, taking his revenge in a review: "a great oozing slab of self-pity, bearing the wet trade-mark of Henry Williamson").

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 8" x 5". iv + 382pp + [2] pp pub cat. Bookplate of previous owner on paste down fep. Sporadic foxing, else, very good hardback in publishers original blind and gilt stamped brown cloth.

Half Bound in Blue Leather. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. New Edition. Collection of stories by the author of 'John Halifax, Gentleman', Blue leather spine and corners over marbled boards, marbled endpapers and page edges. Five raised bands to spine with gilt design. Gilt title on red labels to segments 2 & 3. 382pp. Boards detached. Rubbing to spine, edges and corners. Text block good, uninscribed copy, but binding poor. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Half Bound in Blue Leather. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. New Edition. Novel. Blue leather spine and corners over marbled boards, marbled endpapers and page edges. Five raised bands to spine with gilt design. Gilt title on red labels to segments 2 & 3. 432pp. Boards detached. Rubbing to spine, edges and corners, bottom section of backstrip detached and two sections loose. Text block good, uninscribed copy, but binding poor. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition, sextodecimo, rebound in full blue leather, four raised bands and titles stamped in gilt across spine, all edges gilt, new end papers, 273 pages. [neat penciled note on foot of table of contents re authorship.] [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Medium octavo, brown embossed cloth, wear to corners and spine extremities, title in gilt across spine, authorship on spine incorrectly attributed to Warburton, this edition was published anonymously, light water stain on each leaf, otherwise good,French bookseller's label on front end paper, x plus 232 pages. [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition, medium octavo, red cloth blocked in black and gilt, light wear to spine extremities, top edges gilt, 282 pages. [QP.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Presumed First Edition. No stated date c1868. Presumed first edition. 160pp., frontispiece and 3 other black and white illustrations, and header and footer vignettes to each chapter. This is a story for the older child, set in France. The author is not stated but it is known to be Mary Elizabeth Gellie (1838-1919). She was born in Oxford, the daughter of chief clerk for the Admiralty John Marlett Boddy, and in 1877 she married Scottish landowner William Gellie. Before and after her marriage, Gellie wrote several novels aimed at young adult readers. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with titling against a gold background and black designs on the spine and black titling and designs with a gold illustration on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and light soiling to the boards and bumping to the spine ends and top corners. There is a light dent near the top of the front board and the spine is very slightly cocked. The contents are tight and clean apart from some scattered small marks and stains from finger smudges, etc., and a few more noticeable small stains on pages 9 to 11. The back of the frontispiece, last page and the free endpapers are browned and there are remains of a partly removed school prize label on the front fixed endpaper. There is some partial splitting down the spine gutter of the endpapers.

Hardback. Condition: Good. First Thus. First thus. Small hardback, two volumes (complete). Rebound in plain publisher's cloth with gilt titling to spines. Each 15.5 × 11cm, 302pp + 302pp. The first novel from Eleanor Frances Poynter, the daughter of architect Ambrose Poynter, and sister of translator Clara Bell (1834-1927), painter Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919), and author Harrietta May Poynter. Condition: A good reading copy. The cloth is faded and bumped a little to the corners with some light fraying to the joints. Internally, the pages are tanned with a little marginal loss to the first few pages but not affecting text. The inner binding is secure. Previous owner's nameplate to both books (John Foster; but I don't know if this is the John Foster who was a literary critic, close friend of Charles Dickens, and owner of a large library.).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1847. Presumed first edition. 115pp., frontispiece and black and white illustrations. This little book was published anonymously but we understand the author to be Charles Tomlinson (1808-1897), a British scientist who published papers on meteorology and the physical properties of liquids. He was a lecturer on experimental science at King's College School, and during the 1840s and 1850s he published several scientific works relating to phenomena of the weather for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, alongside a range of scientific and literary works. The present book is a scientific study on the nature, properties, and dangers of dew and mist across the world. It includes accounts of the historical records of the process, the science of heat, inquiries into the phenomena, illustrations and explanations, further observations, hoar frost, hygrometry, mists and fogs, and more. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered boards with gold titling on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling to the boards. The spine ends and bottom front corner are lightly bumped. The contents are tight and clean with 'Norton Parish Library' and the number 28 written on the front fixed endpaper. The ink has caused some staining on the front free endpaper and 28 has also been written on the top edge of the title-page and this has left a stain on the top of the frontispiece. There are light traces of removed labels or a cover for the book on the front and rear fixed endpapers.

Blue buckram, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, device in gilt on lower front cover. Green floral end papers. Shelf wear to spine ends, hinges loose but intact, bookplate on front end paper, a clean very good copy. A long (742pp.) melodramatic novel containins some elements of the occult and much religious philosophy. Some mysterious elements, a secret murder in the past, etc. The author was Henry Holt, the American publisher. A second edition, revised, was published the same year.

White pictorial wrappers. 97 leaves, printed on rectos only. Light edge wear, small piece torn from front fly leaf; nice copy. Part of the series: "Poemario de la Resistencia". This is the third volume in this series, preceded by two published in 1977 and 1978; this volume was first published in 1980. WorldCat lists the author as: Hugo Arellano Herrera.

8vo. [230] pages. Original drab boards, spine rebacked with red cloth tape. Frontispiece by George Cruikshank. Inner hinges strengthened with paper tape, lacking the rear end paper, inner front hinge cracked a title, very good otherwise. The Cruikshank frontispiece is somewhat foxed. See Cohn: George Cruikshank, No. 782. The first edition was printed for J.A.Hessey, 1828.

[258]pp. + 8pp. ads at rear. Light blue pictorial wrappers designed and lettered in red. Frontispiece, several plates and many vignette illustrations. Spine wrinkled, light wear to edges, but a very nice copy of a fragile book. First edition under this title; originally published by Carleton in 1880 as: "College Tramps. A Narrative of the Adventures of a Party of Yale Students during a Summer Vacation in Europe, with Knapsack and Alpenstock, and incidents of a voyage to Rotterdam and return, taken in steerage." This re-titled edition is scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Near Fine or better copy. Internally unmarked and the pages are in fresh condition. Edges rough cut. Brick coloured boards with titles on light green paper label on spine. Spine lightly faded. Edges lightly to moderately worn. In the price clipped soiled, chipped and faded jacket, which is price clipped. A Scarce book. By the author of The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller. Robust shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 415pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped decoration, repeated in blind to the upper board. Edges and endpapers spotted and with a little further spotting to a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves, and to occasional leaves throughout. A good copy in spotted, toned, torn and nicked price-clipped dust wrapper, split into two parts at the rear panel-spine panel join and, an inch of loss from the head of the front panel and several smaller areas of loss. A celebrated roman à clef of the thirties, with the added frisson of anonymity. Featuring thinly disguised versions of T. E. Lawrence (as 'G. B. Everest' ["my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson]), C. R. W. Nevinson, D. H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, Thomas Washington Metcalfe and J. B. Priestley. (Priestley took considerable umbrage to his portrayal, taking his revenge in a review: "a great oozing slab of self-pity, bearing the wet trade-mark of Henry Williamson").

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. An early edition (originally issued in 1833). viii + 563pp. Original publisher's brown embossed cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to the backstrip. With a hand-colour lithographic frontispiece, a tinted title page decoration and numerous black and white vignettes throughout. A dusty copy, quite nicked at the spine ends, the hinges tender but secure and with some quite severe foxing to the preliminary leaves, otherwise really quite bright internally. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of this anonymous collection of Great War poems by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, author and journalist more widely known now for the small role he played in events following Oscar Wilde's trial and imprisonment (with Lord Alfred Douglas he persecuted Robbie Ross in the civil courts in a variety of actions and the two unsuccessfully sued Arthur Ransome for libelling Douglas in his 1912 book on Wilde). Small 8vo. 95pp. Red cloth with a tanned and just a little chipped paper spine label. Cloth chafed, dust marked and a little soiled, but, bar some tanning to the half-title and final text leaf, a nice crisp copy internally. Forty-two poems, several of which originally appeared in newspapers and periodicals with the remainder printed here for the first time. Reilly p. 100.

Half Bound in Blue Leather. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. W Small (illustrator). Novel, undated edition. Blue leather spine and corners over marbled boards, marbled endpapers and page edges. Five raised bands to spine with gilt design. 359pp illustrated with engraving of Edna and Letty, attributed to W Small, to frontis. Rubbing to spine, edges and corners, title rubbed off, minor loss to tail of backstrip and evidence of damp damage to early pages, otherwise fair uninscribed copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

12mo. Full calf, covers ruled in gilt, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Marbled end papers, armorial bookplate ("Alington") and small binder's ticket on the inner front cover. A few scuffs, light wear to spine ends, a very good copy. First published in 1812, a celebrated collection of parodies occasioned by the opening of the new Drury Lane Theatre in 1812, at which a prize was offered for the writing of the best opening address; these are parodies of the addresses entered in this competition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'Poetry of Bye-Gone Days and Other Selected Pieces' by Maria Arthington (published anonymously). Richard Barrett Printer 1861. Original publisher's cloth. Fraying to the top and base of the spine and some marks to the boards. Sound binding. Generally quite good.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 1838. Two titles bound and published as one. Third thousand (Three Experiments) and possible first UK edition (Elinor Fulton). 106pp. plus a 2-page catalogue; 116pp. (each work has its own title-page). Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (1780-1865) was an American author, best known for her 1837 novelette 'Three Experiments of Living' which was published in more than 30 editions in the United States, and 10 in England. It was soon followed by the sequel 'Elinor Fulton'. Three Experiments of Living explores three different approaches to living: living within the means, living up to the means, and living beyond the means. Lee presents these three experiments as a way of examining the different ways people approach their lives and their finances. In the first experiment, living within the means, the author advocates for a simple and frugal lifestyle. This means living within one's financial limits and avoiding unnecessary expenses. The second experiment, living up to the means, involves a more moderate approach. This means living comfortably but not extravagantly, and making sure to save for the future. The third experiment, living beyond the means, is a cautionary tale about the dangers of overspending and living beyond one's financial limits. Lee provides examples and anecdotes to illustrate each of these three experiments. She also offers practical advice on budgeting, saving, and managing money. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with expected shelf wear and some soiling to the boards. The bottom corners and spine ends are bumped. The contents are tight and clean with a handwritten school presentation inscription, dated 1885, on the front free endpaper.

First American edition. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the title on a bed of red. Top edge gilt. A bit of discoloration of cloth at lower spine and edges, a clean very good copy generally. The British edition was published by Smith, Elder in the same year. Written in the form of diary entries.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 415pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped decoration, repeated in blind to the upper board. Top edge lightly dust soiled and with a tiny area of spotting to the fore edge. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. Very good indeed non-price-clipped dust wrapper, split into two parts at the rear panel-spine panel fold, considerably tanned at the spine panel, and with some nicking and several slivers of edge-loss. A celebrated roman à clef of the thirties, with the added frisson of anonymity. Featuring thinly disguised versions of T. E. Lawrence (as 'G. B. Everest' ["my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson]), C. R. W. Nevinson, D. H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, Thomas Washington Metcalfe and J. B. Priestley. (Priestley took considerable umbrage to his portrayal, taking his revenge in a review: "a great oozing slab of self-pity, bearing the wet trade-mark of Henry Williamson").