Toynbee Edith (6 results)

Softcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Some pages are falling out. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. HARDBACK cloth with ornately decorated front cover and spine gilt lettering on spine frontispiece with tissue guard pages: 256 some plates 120mm x 184mm (4.75 x 7.25") decorative prize label (dated 1900) on front fixed end-paper head tail and corners lightly bumped covers a little worn with marks on back 0.

Hardback, cloth. Condition: Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. New Writing and Daylight (Winter 1943-44) by various authors, edited by John Lehmann and with contributions by him, Edith Sitwell, Noel Blakiston, Frank Sargeson, Hamish Henderson, Philip Toynbee, Stephen Spender, Denton Welch and the artist Keith Vaughan, who designed the dust jacket. Hardback, 1944, first edition, illustrated, published by The Hogarth Press, London, 168 pages. Octavo/8vo, measures around 5 5/8" by 8 5/8" by 3/4". Pictorial dust jacket displays marking, scuffing, tattering and tearing with some loss, particularly to head and tail of spine section. Red cloth binding, gilt lettering to front board and spine. A little marking and scuffing to binding and some straining around heard and tail of spine but otherwise quite clean and colouring still vivid. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges. Slightly bumped corners. A little slackness to binding but book contents firm. Page edges browned, marked, scuffed and a little foxed. Previous owner name and date to front pastedown and a little foxing to endpapers. Some tanning to pages and a little foxing and other marking to surfaces throughout but no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information. 168 pp. n.

Condition: Good. Bound in printed wraps. 8vo. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 inches. 76 pp. A review of literature & art. Contributors include Balthus, Bertrand Russell, Edith Sitwell, Philip Toynbee.Chipping to spie, some soiling of cover. Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. Sixteen Issues, First Printings. From The Library Of Ian Ballantine, Then The American Representative For Penguin Books, Prior To His Founding Of Ballantine Books. The Issues Contain A Mixture Of Original Items And Reprints From Earlier Publication. All Are Near Fine Or Fine, Unread, No Marks. American Issue Dust Jackets Present On #6, #7, #8, (With 25 Cent Prices On Front Flap, List Of "Recent American Releases" On Rear Flaps, Flight To Victory Ads On Rear Panels), All Near Fine Or Fine Except 23 Which Has A 1" Open Tear At Bottom Of Spine Panel, 31 Which Is Worn And Only Very Good, And 33 Which Has Slight Rubbing At Corners. A Few Issues With Ballantine's Tiny Handwritten Editorial Note "Anthol 436" At Upper Left Corner Of Front Cover, No Other Marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No jacket. First edition. Fair condition.Griffith Farran Browne & Co(no date mentioned but probably 1896-1897).First edition.Pictorial tan hardback(a couple of tears,nicks,scratch,pen marks,marks on the cover and spine) in fair condition,no Dj.Illustrated with b/w photos,however they have been coloured in my previous owner.Clean pages but tainted and aged on the outer edges,ink marks and writting on the first blank page of the book,small foxing marks,ink marks,nicks and creases on the edges of the pages,tear and some marks inside the front and back cover,pen marks and writting on the title page,the inside of the front cover is slightly loose.The book is in fair condition for its age but with some shelf wear.256pp.Rare and collectable book.The book contains 32 true stories from Scottish history,including:The Beginnings of Scottish History,The Monks of Iona,The Vikings,The Days of James IV,Montrose,The Union and many more.