Robert Dobell (10 results)

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Card wrappers, F. 42pp, text illustrations, a nice copy. Cotswold tale written in dialect. 100 grams.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 140 pages. Illustrated. P L Heyworth "Unfamiliar Libraries XVI The Forbes Library" / Alfred Fairbank "Arrighi & Papal Briefs" / Richard Colles Johnson "An Attempt At A Union Of Editions Of Melville, 1846-91" / Robert J Dobell "Bertram Dobell And T J Wise".

Condition: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: Book Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition, clean inside and out, no writing or highlighting on pages.

Stapled Booklet, Stiff Cover. Condition: Good. 1st Printing of 1st Edition. 98 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First. DJ intact with some small tears and shelfwear. No markings on the text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 2nd Printing, 1961. 600 pp. Over-sized and/or over weight book; extra postage required. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Solidly bound copy and dust jacket with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dust jacket shows extensive wear and rips along the front and back.

Contained in The Book Collector, Volume 19, No. 3, Autumn 1970. Pp. 297-432(including advertisements), 8 plates (1 folding); demy 8vo; printed stiff green paper wrappers, the lower wrapper a trifle soiled, backstrip faded; The Collector Ltd, London, 1970. *Robert Dobell's article, on pages 348-355, is about Thomas J. Wise's business dealings with his family's bookshop and is based mainly on his grandfather Bertram Dobell's diary.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A scarce set of first editions of British poetry, published and written during the First World War, Interwar and Second World War. A scarce five volume set of charming poetry, all first editions written during the First World War, Interwar period, or Second World War. Published between 1915 and 1944.Sonnets and Lyrics: A Little Book on Verse on the Present War, poet, bookseller and London literary figure Bertram Dobell, a poetic anthology written at the outbreak of the First World War and his final year. Published by his brothers, including Percy Dobell who has signed the front free end paper. (P.J. and A.E. Dobell, 1915. In the publisher's original quarter cloth, with paper boards).Short Swallow Flights of Song, written by poet A.B. Pears, a very scarce anthology. Pears was encouraged by friends to publish his poems for wider consumption, including poems Silence, Twilight and Dawn, and The Matterhorn. (Brash Bros., 1920. In the publisher's original quarter cloth, paper boards).Antrin Sangs, written by Scottish poet Andrew Dodds. A keen supporter of agricultural unions, Dodds was known for depicting the struggles of farm labourers. Alongside his poetry, having previously written Lothian Land in 1917, he wrote many newspaper articles supporting Labour politics. (The Scottish Farm Servant, 1921. In the publisher's original red paper wraps).More Lauds and Libels, written by English-Irish editor and author Charles Lacrom Graves, the uncle of poet Robert Graves. An amusing poet as expressed in this anthology, today Graves is perhaps most well-known for his anonymous spoof of H.G. Wells's sci-fi classic War of the Worlds as War of the Wenuses. (Clement Ingleby, 1924. In the publisher's original quarter cloth, marble paper boards).Green and Grey: Collected Poems, written and signed by senior British diplomat and writer Lord Robert Vansittart. A personal collection of poetry both from his youth and the present World War. Today, Vansittart is both known for his staunch opposition to appeasement. (Hutchinson and Co., 1944. In the publisher's original cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper). In the publisher's original binding. Externally, smart. The occasional faint mark to Vansittart, Dodds, heavier to rear joint, and extremities of Pears. Fading to the spine of Dobell, Vansittart, and Dodds. Minor bumping to the heads and tails of the spine, and to the extremities of Vansittart, Pears and Graves. A small chip to front joint, and to head of spine, of Dodds. Small chip to right extremities of front wrapper. Unclipped dust wrapper of Vansittart is generally bright and clean, with slight signs of edge wear and fading to wrapper spine. The occasional small spot to wrapper spine. Minor offsetting to end papers of Pears and Dobell. Publisher's and poet's signed inscriptions to front free end papers of Dobell and Vansittart respectively. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with slight browning to first and last leaves of Pears, and spotting to first and final leaves of Dodds. Very Good. book.