Walpole Cecil (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Thin hardcover bound in red cloth boards, some rubbing and fraying to bottom of spine. Second page is a picture of the subject, but the page has come loose and is laid in. U-6593.

Condition: Good. 1950. Revised Edition. 178 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth. Black and white photographic plates. Subtle foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and staining to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has noticeable sunning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Condition: Good. 1954. Reprint. 48 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. B&W frontispiece. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.

Condition: Good. 1941. First Edition. 182 pages. Signed by the author. Illustrated dust jacket over yellow cloth. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Black and white photographic plates. Signed by the author with dedication to front free endpaper. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

First edition hardback, no dustjacket. The cloth binding has some light wear and marks, the spine is browning, it remains sound. There is some light foxing to the first and last few pages, the rest of the text is clean. Illustrated, 182.

First edition hardback in dustjacket. The jacket is torn. The cloth binding has some light wear and slight staining, it remains sound. The endpapers have torn losses. There is some very light edge foxing to the text. Illustrated, 182.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Cloth in worn dj, 112 pp, with 4 beautiful full colour ills. by John Buchanan. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by Hermione Lee. 349pp. A small area of offsetting on the first few pages from something previously laid in, near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Introduction by Hermione Lee. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Light blue cloth, lettered/illus. in red. 1st ptg.: Nov. 1939. Prefatory note by Queen Elizabeth, wife of George VI and later known as "the Queen Mother" (parents of Elizabeth II), with contributions by 50 British authors and artists in aid of the Lord Mayor of London's Fund for the Red Cross and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Published on the eve of, and mostly occasioned by, British involvement in WW2. 255 pp., illus. Cover cloth faded somewhat unevenly,tanned spine panel and text block edges. Firm binding, unmarked interior. Top corner of title page neatly clipped (not affecting lettering), perhaps to remove a gift inscription, otherwise complete and intact, lacking dust jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Fourth Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Art & Design; England; Biography & Autobiography. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 25761. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition thus, with a new introduction by Hermione Lee. 349pp. A shadow from sticker removal on the front pastedown else near fine in a very good spine faded dust jacket with a faint dampstain on the top edge.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 84 pages. George Orwell "The Lessons Of War" / Stephen Spender "September Journal" / Cecil Day Lewis "The Fourth Georgic" / Rhys Davies "The Wages Of Love" / Sir Hugh Walpole "Henry James" / Pierre Jean Jouve "The Present Greatness of Mozart" / G F Green "Most Wanted" / Louis MacNiece "Dublin" / Peter Quenelle reviews Osbert Sitwell's "Escape With Me!".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First. Good condition. Wear to d/j. not price clipped.

First Edition. [Child Welfare] PRESENTATION COPY TO MRS ATTLEE. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. With eight half-tone plates and a chromolithographic frontispiece. Deluxe binding of blue full calf with gilt titles to spine and white watered silk endpapers, with a silver strip to hinges. Bookplate to verso for flyleaf: 'Presented to Mrs. C.R. Attlee on the occasion of her visit to the Printing Technical School of the National Children's Home, Harpenden.' A fresh bookplate detailing provenance loose to preliminaries. Silver hinges heavily oxidised; some damp stains and light spotting to endpapers. Heavy rubbing to corners, joints and head and tail of spine. Spine a little toned and dry. Good. A view of the National Children's Home in the mid 1940's. From the library of Clement Attlee (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1945-1951), and his wife Violet.