R W Chapman Notes (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This is "Phineas Finn" by Anthony Trollope. It is the Oxford University Press hardcover edition, issued in 1977, and is embellished with the line drawings of T. L. B. Huskinson. The book has an introduction by Shane Leslie. A small impression on the rear cover tells us that this is a book club edition. "Phineas Finn" is the second of Trollope's 'Palliser Novels', and is a thorough satirical send-up (but a joyously sympathetic one) of Parliamentary Politics and English societal culture that formed around Politics. Politics with a capital P were close to Trollope's heart, and in this novel he brings a clear view of Parliamentary shennanigans to the surface. SERIES : The Palliser Novels (No. 2) TITLE : Phineas Finn (bound as 2 volumes in one) AUTHOR : Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) PREFACE : Sir Shane Leslie (Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Baronet, 1885 - 1971) Leslie was an Anglo-Irish diplomat and writer who championed Home Rule for Ireland. He was a first cousin of Sir Winston Churchill. NOTES & WHO'S WHO : R. W. Chapman (at the end of the book) ILLUSTRATIONS : T. L. B. Huskinson IMPRINT : Oxford University Press PLACE : Oxford DATE : (1977) EDITION : Third Printing - Issued through a Book Club (a wee stamped impression on the rear cover indicates this) DETAILS : Hardcover Book; approximately 4 7/8" x 7 1/4", brown, cloth-covered boards and spine with gilt lettering against a red panel on the spine; top text-block edge dyed dark brown; contains a Preface and line illustrations; vermillion endpapers; 705 pages. CONDITION -- BOOK : VERY GOOD --- JACKET : VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted : BOOK CLUB ISSUE. EXTERIOR -- Boards and spine have good color and negligible wear; gilt lettering is bright; text-block top edge is somewhat rubbed, else edges are clean. BINDING -- The book has obviously been read, and thus the text-block is not as tight as when issued, however, the binding remains solid, with no detached or loose leaves. INTERIOR -- A small number of creased leaf tips, else the interior is clean and free of marking. No signatures. DUST-JACKET -- Modest wear to jacket edges (chipping and nicking - most obvious at the spine panel extremities; front flap has a crease to the lower corner tip - else jacket is crisp and clean with but near-negligible signs of handling. T. L. B. Huskinson (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. (Xxii), 235 Pp. Cloth Spine With Paper Label Printed In Black, Over Green Boards. Third Edition, 1926, A Facsimile Of The Second Edition 1871, With New Material And A Two Page Postscript Omitted From The Second Edition, All Here Reproduced In A 1951 Printing. Book Fine Except For A Little Foxing To Endpapers And Edges Of Page Block; Small Booksellers Ticket On Front Pastedown. Very Scarce Original Glassine Dj Has Well Protected The Book From Wear Or Fading, But Glassine Is Yellowed, Worn, Chipped And With Short Tears But Almost All There.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine bumped and worn, small rip at base of spine join with cover 1 cm, internally in reasonable condition, pages crisp but water mark on bottom edge of most pages and some notes and underlining in pen and pencil.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Firmly bound, navy blue cloth boards. Dust spotting on cover and spine. Browning on the end papers. No jacket.

1st (thus). Green cloth, black lettering & decoration. Frontispiece. Contents: good and clean. School stamp fep. Boards: light splash marks to edges. Edge & corners of spine frayed. A tight copy. 195 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1953 rep. xv. 195pp. Frontis portrait. Dark Blue cloth binding. Condition notes : Wear to edges particularly head and tail of spine. Cloth creased across top corner of front board, and reciprocal crease in interior, board is ok only cloth is creased. Text block is clean and tight. A good serviceable copy.…