Roy Graves (46 results)

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. The item is showing use from the previous owner but works perfectly. Signs of previous ownership which could include: tears, scuffing, notes, excessive highlighting, gift inscriptions, slight water damage, a missing dust jacket, and library markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2nd. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Front end paper torn out. Text is cear of markings. Binding is secure. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Clean and tight. There is a bit of age-related waviness to the edges of the pages, not a problem for the reader. The jacket is protected by a mylar Brodart cover. Fast shipping, careful packing. ; 160 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine with light wrinkling to back cover near bottom of spine and slight fading to spine.Complete issue. Includes essay "The Future of Western Religion" by Robert Graves and "Homage to G.M. Hopkins" , "Encounters in a Garden" by Padraic Colum, and "Three Translations from Baudelaire" by Roy Campbell.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 84 pages. Osbert Sitwell "Recollection of an Awkward Afternoon in Knightsbridge" / Malcolm Bradbury "The Criterion" / William Plomer "Tugela River" (poem) / Jeremy Gardner "The Spoiled Day" / Julian Mitchell "A Writer's Prospect - VII" / Elizabeth Jennings 2 poems / Roy Fuller "Some Vintages of Graves".

97 pages. Jonathan Power (New Proletariat); P.N. Furbank (Arnold Bennett); John Weightman (Theatre: Tom Stoppard, Bernard Shaw); Constanticen Fitzgibbon (Norman Douglas); Mexx Beloff (Thomas Jefferson); Robert Isbet (Rousseau) Janet Adam Smith (Edwin Muir Letters); E.J. Misban (New Inflation); Roy Fuller (Keith Douglas); Poetry (John Nole, Obert Graves, Anthony Twaite, John Mathias, David Rokzah, David Day, Peter Porter); Golo Mann (Geeration Gap).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 168 pages illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits. Publisher's binding sturdy, corners sharp; contents unmarked. The dust jacket rubbed and moderately soiled, and edgeworn. Book and jacket are slightly musty. 920 grams.

Condition: Good. 1965. 392 pages. No dust jacket. Red pictorial cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Book has been laminated.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. V S Naipul - story / Roy Jenkins "Brussels" / John Mander "India" / Nigel Dennis "Lear" / Robert Graves "Hebrew Myths" / F R Allemann "Adenauer" / Wayland Young "Pugwash" / Frank Kermode "Gutenberg".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 176 pages. Michael Baldwin / Robert Graves / Alan Ross / W H Davies / Roy Fuller / William Plomer / Robert Lowry / W H Auden / Ogden Nash / Walter de la Mare / A E Housman / Ted Hughes / Rudyard Kipling / Jonathan Swift / Sylvia Plath / C Day Lewis / Siegfried Sassoon / Wilfred Owen / Louis MacNiece / Stephen Spender (SL#12/1).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Revised edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Covers slightly sunned and lightly crinkled, otherwise a fine copy, in wrappers. Raccoon 23.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ORIGINAL 1957 PUBLICATION; hardcover, includes four folded plates in rear pocket (complete for this publication); ex-corporate library; corners bumped; light foxing/browning of inside boards, endpages and edges; o/w in good condition. This is a heavy volume; extra shipping may be required for priority mail or international orders. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible, Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Al Graves, maps (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Quarto, hardcover, fine in near fine white pictorial dj with steam train and ferry on cover. 168 pp. photo endpapers at back, map on front showing Pt. Reyes and surrounding area. Second edition, 1970, 4th printing 1981.

Condition: Good. 166 pp., hardcover, ex library, else text and binding clean and tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

HC. Condition: good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations (illustrator). 51pp Three plates in rear pocket as called for.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Minor shelf wear to brown cloth hardcover. Dust jacket has a bit of edge wear and rubbing. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. . Illustrated with b/w photos. Index. 168 pp.

Staplebound Wraps. Condition: Fair. Wide 8vo, 64 pp. Cover illustration by Stuart Davis. Dampstain to wrappers and bottom edge also affecting bottom page margins.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Red printed wrappers. Creases on wraps, a couple short tears, very good. Contains G. S. Fraser's four-page review of Basil Bunting's Poems: 1950. Also prints Robert Graves's "The Future of Western Religion," along with Bernard Bergonzi's reviews of two Graves books, and more.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Vol. III, No. 3. Illustrated with black and white plates. Red printed wrappers. Cover unglued from first page, small tear on the spine with a tiny chip at the foot, very good. Contains "Encounters in the Garden" (three poems) by Padraic Colum, G.S. Fraser's four-page review of Basil Bunting's *Poems: 1950.* Also prints Robert Graves's "The Future of Western Religion," along with Bernard Bergonzi's reviews of two of Graves' books.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes writing by Robert Graves, Jaime de Angulo, and other prominent contributors. Unmarked copy, light outer sunning. Not Signed.

Black hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd impression. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 180pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Various(photographs, Illustrations, Maps, and Charts (illustrator). First Edition. Boards (HB) in near fine condition with slight wear top of spine Dust jacket in very good + condition with 2 small enclosed tears back in back. The Story of the North Pacific Coast Railway and San Francisco Bay Paddle-Wheel Ferries. Beginning in 1876 the North Pacific Coast Railroad forged its narrow gauge tracks through the mountains by means of marvelous tunnels, wound through miles of unmatched redwood forests ultimately making the finest of resorts available to the residents of the San Francisco Bay area throughout the 1890's and early 1900's. Pictorial rear endpapers. B/w frontipiece. Profusely illustrated with b/w photos, maps and line drawings. Roster of equipment, appendices, bibliography and index.168 pages. Map on front endpapers. Pictorial rear endpapers. B/w frontipiece. Profusely illustrated with b/w photos, maps and line drawings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 168 pages; black and white photographs; maps; drawings. (The story of the North Pacific Coast Railroad and San Francisco Bay paddle-wheel ferries. This 3 foot railroad ran from 1874 to 1937.).

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Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 4th Printing. Well illustrated history of the narrow gauge North Pacific Coast Railroad and its associated ferries. 168pp. VG copy in worn dust wrapper - small area of loss to top edge of front cover.

Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 4to pp.168. book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 384 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9781841880815, 1841880817 ; OCLC 44484393 ; LOC No SB413.P4 F425 2000 ; Dewey 635.9/3362 ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; With 200 colour photos, illustrations and plans this book celebrates the beauty and influence of the peony and its place in art and history as well as providing comprehensive information for gardeners wishing to choose and grow the right variety for their garden detailing their fragrance, colour, flowering periods and hardiness.; Jane Margaret Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer and garden designer with a diploma in landscape architecture. She won two gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show. ; Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999 ; Contents: Peonies in the past: Out of the wilderness, wild peony species in four continents -- The imperial flower, the passion for peonies in China and Japan -- The peony, the phoenix and the peacock, peonies in Oriental art and mythology -- The peony travels west, plant explorers and their patrons -- Embarras de Richesse, the peony in Europe -- Peonies for the 20th century: Peonies in the New World, the American peony, Canada and New Zealand -- Gardening with peonies, peonies for past, present and future gardens -- Designing with peonies, a scented walk -- Peonies indoors, the flower arranger's flower -- Peony lists: How to use the lists -- Tree peonies and intersectional hybrids, over 80 of the best, others commercially available -- Herbaceous peonies, 125 of the best, others commercially available -- Growing peonies: Where and how to plant peonies -- Aftercare, trouble-shooting and propagation -- Appendix A: Where to see peonies, an international list of peony gardens and collections -- Appendix B: Where to buy peonies, and international list of nurseries -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index. ; FINE. Book.