Whelpton Barbara and Eric (22 results)

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright with light toning. Good DJ with some edge wear and minor toning.

Condition: Good. 1948. First Edition. 125 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Colour illustrations throughout. Newspaper clipping about Kensington inserted 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. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. red boards no dw, 224 pages, line drawing illus on coloured paper.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear,a few tears and age tone.

1948 Whelpton, Eric and Barbara THE INTIMATE CHARM OF KENSINGTON London: Nicholson & Watson, c1948 125pp illustrated in color 8vo epages offset, spine slightly sunned, else fine hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good + Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dj. With Map (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Previous owners inscription to ffep. Darkening to D/J with chipping to head and tail of D/J spine.Some chipping to edges of D/J.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 125pp, illustrated, owner's name on endpapers, pages browning, otherwise clean and sound, blue cloth, slightly rubbed, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Thus. 176pp - red cloth - dustwrapper is lightly rubbed and soiled - slight wear and chipping to edges.

8vo. 125[1]pp, coloured full-page text illustrations. Original blue cloth gilt, tp printed in mauve and black. Eps browned.

Hardback. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Hardback. With dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition, Presumed First printing. 125, [3] pages. Ink name and address written inside front board; a second ink name and inscription written inside front free endpaper appears to be signed by a British Lord. Includes Introduction, as well as chapters on Melbury Road, Holland Park Avenue, and District Melbury; Church Street and Campden Hill; Holland House and Holland Walk; Kensington Palace and Kensington Garden; Kensington Square and Victoria Grove; The Albert Memorial and South Kensington; and Brompton and South Kensington. Contains several brown and pink sketches of homes in the area. Some page discoloration noted. Eric George Whelpton (21 March 1894 - 13 February 1981) was an author, teacher and traveler. He entered Hertford College, Oxford in 1913. He taught at Christ Church Cathedral School. At Oxford, Whelpton became a close friend of Dorothy Sayers; upon him she perhaps based the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. Whelpton later taught French at King's College School, London, and was reader in comparative education at King's College London (1931-42). Following the death of her husband, Dorothy Sayers acted as Whelpton's literary secretary. During World War II, Whelpton worked as a BBC news correspondent in France and, as recounted in his travel book, The Balearics: Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, he was told by a Swiss correspondent that he was on the Gestapo blacklist. His last two books, The Making of a European (1974) and The Making of an Englishman (1977), are largely autobiographical. He was married to the artist and writer Barbara Whelpton. The authors conclude that the many quiet streets and corners in Kensington provide much pleasure, but are also threatened by reconstruction. These areas must be protected from ruthless commercialism. If any rebuilding is done, it is important to reflect that our civilization is not made of material things, and that if you give people ugly and tasteless surroundings, their minds and their outlooks will deteriorate accordingly. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) is an Inner London borough with royal status. It is the smallest borough in London and the second smallest district in England; it is one of the most densely populated administrative regions in the United Kingdom. It includes affluent areas such as Notting Hill, Kensington, South Kensington, Chelsea, and Knightsbridge. The borough is immediately west of the City of Westminster and east of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It contains major museums and universities in Albertopolis, department stores such as Harrods, Peter Jones and Harvey Nichols, and embassies in Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Kensington Gardens. The borough is home to the Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's largest, and contains many of the most expensive residential properties in the world. The local authority is Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council. Its motto, adapted from the opening words of Psalm 133, is Quam bonum in Unum habitare, which translates roughly as 'How good it is to dwell in unity'. Of its history the council states: "Despite the boroughs being separate originally, Kensington and Chelsea still retain their unique characters. Even the amalgamation of the two boroughs, unpopular as it was at the time, has been accepted. Today conservation combined with the adoption of sympathetic new architecture is seen as a key objective. In every corner of the borough signs of its history can be seen: from Grade 1 listed buildings Kensington Palace and the Royal Hospital, Chelsea to others recalled in street names such as Pottery Lane and Hippodrome Mews." In 200 years the area has been transformed from a "rural idyll" to a thriving part of the modern metropolis. Chelsea had originally been countryside upon which Thomas More built Beaufort House. He came to Chelsea in 1520 and built the house, which in his day had two courtyards laid out between the house and the river, and in the north of the site acres of gardens and orchards were planted. It was from here in 153. Barbara (Crocker) Whelpton (illustrator).…

Red cloth with faded gilt lettering on faded spine; faint discolouration splodge on bottom 1/4 of front board; Red Cross Library label stuck on front pastedown, over-stamped with 'cancelled' binding tight. Used - Good. Ex-library hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and chipped pieces. The boards are in good condition. There is foxing on the end pages. Internally there are no markings or inscriptions. Presented in cellophane. The binding is secure. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1948 first Nicholson and Watson edition on Blue Cloth with his name's to end papers.

Cloth. Dust Jacket Included. Travel Book Club Edition. Cloth. Travel Book Club Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is very good ++, Dustwrapper is very good small chips to ends, owners inscription to endpaper, Index and maps Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. English tales of French life. Easy reading and entertaining. 192pp illustrated by Barbara Crocker. Signed on the half title by both husband and wife., dated July '53. Barbara Crocker (Mrs Whelpton) (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Bien. Museum Press, 195? Texto en inglés. 192 pp. 22 x 15. Tapa dura de editorial ilustrada con dorados en lomo. Corte superior en azul oscuro de editorial. Sin subrayados. Buen estado de conservación. Libro.

Nicholson and Watson, London. 1948. First edition. Hardback with DW. Illustrated with drawings. Slim 8vo. Blue cloth boards are marked and bumped. Wrapper is grubby and torn with loss to edges and corners. Contents clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edge wear and minor soiling on dj. S2 1. 2 Maps (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published by Robert Hale Limited of London in 1961. Hardcover. 1st edition. Book condition: Very Good. Dark blue cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Inside the pages are in a very good condition also. No Dust Jacket, hence the low price. See photograph. Dims: 220mm x 140mm x 28mm. Travel book written about the authors experiences in Greece. 176 pages. …

Reprint. Illustrated, with maps. 176pp. Blue cloth with vG dj , slightly torn to top of spine. Otherwise VG.