Robert Lynd Yy (13 results)

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Reprint. 242 pages. No dustjacket. Brown binding with light partial cup marks & a couple of small spots to front, light diagonal crease to upper rear. Light wear/small creases to spine-ends, light wear to boards' corners. Light paper-cracks to inner hinges. Page-edges a little darkened. Very attractive b/w illustrations. Text is very clean & in nice condition. Spurrier, Steven (Drawings by) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. viii, 216pp, 8pp publisher's ads. Green cloth-covered boards; blind-embossed titles on front, gilt titles on spine. 16mo. Sun-faded spine and edges, rubbed corners and spine ends with cloth fraying; quite cocked. Text block edge tanning. Free endpapers tanning; pages ageing, volume quite loose. Otherwise internally neat and clean. A collection of Lynd's essays on philosophical and religious themes.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 216, 8pp. Peacock blue cloth-covered boards, blind stamped on front panel, gilt lettering on spine. 160mo. Vivid boards, just a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Internally a little creamy else neat, clean and tight. In its original matte dust wrapper, a little shelf worn and gently rubbed at edges, slightly faded over spine. A collection of essays on topics such as Bears, Kittens and Smoking in the House, with a hilarious view on the difficulties of driving in the very early days of motoring.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Illustrated.Small stain[spot] to ffep. Steven Spurrier (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. rare in dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, Hardback/Hardcover, usual stamps and marking. Clean text, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Publisher - J.M. Dent, London, 1941. 1st ed. First edition. Near fine condition with no sunning just fraying to bottom of spine. Internally fine. With drawings by Steven Spurrier. Lighthearted prose set in war time.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 200pp. + 8pp publisher's list. 7 inches. No dw. Red cloth, gilt titles on spine, impressed titles and line border to front. Gilt tops, untrimmed base edges. Vg with slightly sunned spine, foxed fore-edges. Very slight forward lean. Internally, owner's name and inscription to fepp. Contents vg. Uncommon in First Edition, collection of essays by prolific Northern Irish writer, a fervent Irish Nationalist who became a Sinn Fein activist. In his literary work he used the pseudonym Y.Y. (wise!). (Essays, English, Literature, Humour, Irish) Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. …

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original brick red cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼'' 234 pp. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Small message to the title page. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with age tanning to spine, small rubs to corners and spine tips, not price clipped 7s 6d. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. HUMOUR (Satire, Cartoon).…

First Edition. 1st edition, 1937. Bookplate with gift inscription on front free endpaper. Foxing to page edges and dust jacket. Dust jacket not price-clipped; browned with edge wear and chipping; small losses to spine head/foot; protected in removable clear film. Used - Good. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket Used - Good. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket.…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp viii, 215. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, 'Ernest Parke, from Robert Lynd, 26/10/24.' Slight foxing to preliminaries with a slight lean, otherwise sound, about very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp viii, 213, 8. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine and front cover. Neat name on front endpaper, otherwise very good+ in slightly used, very good- dust jacket.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A suberb portrait after a drawing by David Low, printed in 1926. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame . Very good condition . Shows a fine portrait of Robert Lynd, the Irish writer who used the pseudonym YY. David LOW (illustrator).