Smith George Founder (10 results)

Condition: Very Good. V4 No. 1, February 1959; 50c cover price, 70pp, side-stapled and perfect-bound, distributed by Kable News, B/W/Color throughout. Vintage magazine devoted to erotic photography, literature, tongue-in-cheek illustration, acknowledging the preferred lifestyle of a progressive single male, akin to Playboy. Series ran 1955-2006, becoming like so many, pornographic after the VHS revolution. An important magazine with regard to music coverage and a staff of "Humorama" regular artists. Fashion redhead & stud cover/5pp, Buelow illus. rear cover, Jean Patrick 5pp, Terry Higgins seminude in desert 5pp/vignette, jazz 1958 4pp, "America's Top Illustrators", Brandy liquor, drinkware, fiction (hi-fi, fairy tale, Christmas play, and "Crashout" by McCoy). Very Good overall, rubbing, creases, tiny chips, light foxing. For consenting, mature audiences.…

Reprint. Vol. 1: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Vol. 2: Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Subjects: Great Britain ; Bio-bibliography. Great Britain ; Biography. Physical description: 2 volumes ; 24 cm. Contents: Part 1 : From the beginnings to 1900, being an epitome of the main work and its supplement. -- Part 2 : 1901-1950, being an epitome of the twentieth century D.N.B. down to the end of 1950. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Part I - FIRST EDITION with dust jacket + ex libris plate inside cover - Rare and Collectable - will send out 1st class post.

Reprint. Vol. 1: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Vol. 2: Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Subjects: Great Britain ; Bio-bibliography. Great Britain ; Biography. Physical description: 2 volumes ; 24 cm. Contents: Part 1 : From the beginnings to 1900, being an epitome of the main work and its supplement. -- Part 2 : 1901-1950, being an epitome of the twentieth century D.N.B. down to the end of 1950. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good (Book condition). 35 volumes in all. This includes the 22-volume edition (21-vols + 1 supplement) covering the period "From The Earliest Times to 1900" (1968 printings); the 3-volume Second Supplement (1901-1911) (1912 printings); 9 volumes (1912-1990) (1937-1996 printings); Corrections and Additions to the Dictionary of National Biography (1923-1963) (1966 printing). Included as a bonus is "DNB - Index and Epitome," 1903 ("A summary guide to the vast and varied contents of the Dictionary and its Supplement.") Ex-library, in very good or better condition. The most recent 5 volumes have dustjackets. All are published by Oxford University Press, except Second Supplement which is published by Macmillan, NY.…

From the first Smith has been considered as the model of the 'Sir Joseph Porter' of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'HMS Pinafore', and Disraeli himself is said to have referred to him as 'Pinafore Smith'. See Smith's entry in the Oxford DNB. The present item is signed 'W. H. Smith', addressed to 'Mr Townsend Warner', and headed 'Private'. The recipient is the historian and Harrow housemaster George Townsend Warner (1865-1916), father of the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner. 2pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. Smith, who has evidently been applied to with a request to fish in a private stream, asks Warner to 'do me a favour in saying whether the writer of the enclosed is one to whose request I might assent without being open to similar requests all round'. He does not know the writer. 'The stream is a very small and short one, and I am anxious to reserve it for private friends as far as possible, as I have given up my rights in the Teign to the Fishery Association'. At the time of writing Smith was Leader of the Commons, but one is still surprised to see such a letter written on a Downing Street letterhead.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcovers with DJ's. 20 BOOK SET (of a 22 volume set).MISSING VOLUMES 1 & 6. Ex-Library with usual markings. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear. Bindings tight, hinges strong. Dust jackets show edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.…

31 vols, a very good set in original blue cloth, gilt, (ex libris Gilbert Morse of North Court, Brandon, Suffolk); the nine supplementary 20thC volumes in dust-wrappers. Dictionary Biography.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good (Book condition). 35 volumes in all. This includes the 22-volume edition (21-vols + 1 supplement) covering the period "From The Earliest Times to 1900" (1968 printings); the 3-volume Second Supplement (1901-1911) (1912 printings); 9 volumes (1912-1990) (1937-1996 printings); Corrections and Additions to the Dictionary of National Biography (1923-1963) (1966 printing). Included as a bonus is "DNB - Index and Epitome," 1903 ("A summary guide to the vast and varied contents of the Dictionary and its Supplement.") Ex-library, in very good or better condition. The most recent 5 volumes have dustjackets. All are published by Oxford University Press, except Second Supplement which is published by Macmillan, NY. Book.…