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Published by Hutchinson, London, 1968
ISBN 10: 0090892003ISBN 13: 9780090892006
Seller: Companion Books, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very little wear to the book, light bump to the spine top. Bound in green hardcovers. Dust jacket spine is a touch faded; a little yellowing here & there; the top edges lightly rubbed. Text is clean. 'One of the most successful ballad-mongers of all time, even if to-day his name is less well-known than 'It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,' his most famous first line of all. He seems so remote from this century that it will surprise many readers of [the editor's] delightful introduction to learn that he did not die until 1922, at the age of 75. In his lifetime he was a household name. . . The charming decorations include a number of lantern slides which were used at public recitals of these tear-jerking verses.' Illustrated. 152 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by Hutchinson of London, 1968
Seller: Jonathan Gibbs Books, Malvern, United Kingdom
Selected and Introduced by Arthur Calder-Marshall. Hardback, (9.75 x 6.75 ins), vi, 152p, text illus,some taken from a number of lantern slides used at the public recitals. Pictorial eps Book is VG. Dust wrapper edges ittle rubbed o/w VG. 0.0.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1968
ISBN 10: 0090892003ISBN 13: 9780090892006
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardback. 1st Edition. Tall Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with sepia-toned photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 152 pages. A selection of the famous ballads of this journalist, playwright & famous balladist.
Published by London Hutchinson
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.
Published by Hutchinson of London, London, 1968
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. vi, 152pp, sepia ills. Or green cloth in jacket. Front flap creased, slight fading to spine. A selection of 17 of Sims' best ballads with a perceptive introduction. Size: Sml 4to.
Published by Hutchinson & Co 1968, 1968
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by London, Hutchinson, 1968., 1968
Seller: Dial-A-Book, NARRABEEN, NSW, Australia
Large 8vo. hardcover. 152pp. b/w illus. very good, light foxing to endpapers. / very good, lightly chipped d/w.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1968
Seller: Primrose Hill Books BA, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+ DJ. First edition. Discolouration to dj.
Published by 3 The Grove Lower Teddington Road Hampton Wick Kingston-upon-Thames. 15 January, 1968
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
1p., 4to. In good condition, lightly aged. The main topic of the letter is Marshall's work preparing his book 'Prepare to shed them now. The Ballads of George R. Sims' (London: Hutchinson, 1968). A long and characteristic letter. After references to their meeting at the British Museum and to 'that excellent bookseller, Mr Wallace of The Guild Hall Bookshop' ('he showed me a selection of the Dagonet Ballads nothing like as good as the copy you saw'), he turns to a 'Sims letter' which Spilstead sent him: 'I cant at the moment date it. He was living in Clarence Terrace, Regents Park, when he died in 1922. [ ] He was a cagey chap personally. Acknowledged marrying Florence Wykes in 1901, but in 1886 dedicated a book to his gentle wife Bessie.' He continues: 'I think that I have all I want of G. R. S's books from the London Library. My Hutchinson book will be hung on the Dagonet Ballads. I am chiefly interested in visual material. I've located a film of Christmas Day in the Workhouse. But I think there must have been Temperance Lantern Slides of other poems. I'd like to find also engravings etc of Slum Conditions, Prostitution, East End music halls etc around the 1880's 1890's.' He explains that his life is 'a bit chaotic', with a cousin 'going quitely [sic] mad in Edinburgh, while her octogenerian [sic] mother wont die'. He has got to go to Scotland, 'to see what can unobtrusively be done. Also, until I can disentangle what Sims's copyright position is, I cant be sure, despite Hutchinsons wish to do the book, whether they can get the clearances.' Spilstead's invitation to dine at Rule's is 'delightful'; it is one of his favourite restaurants, 'Ruled usually Out now that one can't charge what for a free lance [sic] are legitimate expenses'. He concludes: 'Lunches with daughters are special. I have two beautiful ones the elder at 21 [the actress Anna Calder Marshall] just about to play Juliet and St John at Bormingham [sic] Rep., the younger accessible in London, because she works for the Evening Standard'.