Will Y Darling (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Tear to dust jacket. base of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First collected volume combining the previous two Bankrupt Bookseller editions. Spine, binding and covers all fine though boards are faded. Dustcover is faded and quite damaged on the top edge. Contents clean throughout and no inscription. 351 pages.…

Condition: Fair. 1947 Grant Press harsdcover, solid binding, unmarked text, no jacket, good interior, covers have edge wear and tear. Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure Bubble Mailer.

SIGNED & DATED. 8vo, 351 pp.; red buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; top edge stained red; VG (moderate scuffing, fading & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light fraying; light tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; stamp in blue ink to ffep; author inscription to tp). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Collected Volume. 351 pages. Original orange cloth gilt, in a dustwrapper. Book in nice clean condition, the dustwrapper missing slightly at the head, but still clean and bright. The Collected Edition from 1947, featuring "The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller" and "The Bankrupt Bookseller Speaks Again". Will Y. Darling's The Bankrupt Bookseller, published by Robert Grant in 1947, offers a wry, lightly fictionalised memoir of a struggling Edinburgh bookseller. In crisp, self-deprecating sketches, Darling charts impecunious trade, eccentric customers, and the stubborn, often irrational devotion that keeps a failing shop and its proprietor alive. Size: 13.5 x 20 cms. Category: Varied Books; Books on Books; New Arrivals. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Robert Grant & Son Ltd. 1947 edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket, price clipped. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Red boards with gilt lettering to spine. Binding firm. Bookplate to pastedown endpaper. Dj missing top of spine with tears to bottom of spine, has been price clipped.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Very nice copy octavo 351pp., Combined edition with two of the authors previously published books. The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller (1931) & The Bankrupt Bookseller Speaks Again (1938). Very nice copy in very nice unclipped dust jacket. Scarce in this condition & with dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. First combined edition, hardcover, has a strong lean to the binding, slight bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and a touch of dark soiling to the tail of the covers and a few of the first and last pages. Overall, this is a solid, Near Very Good copy in an unclipped, Very Good dust jacket, which has slight bumps to the spine ends and corners, faint sunning to the spine, and some mild smudging with a few tiny spots to the covers and spine. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.…

Hardback. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. [6], 7-215pp, [5]. Original cloth in DJ, top edge stained red. DJ slightly chipped to spine ends and corners, tear from foot of upper joint between upper panel and spine of about two inches, spine and lower panel lightly browned. Light foxing to fore edge of text block, internally fairly bright and clean. Large inscription by the author to ffep. With a dust jacket designed by Arthur Wragg, and a frontispiece replicating the upper panel of the DJ. Will Y. Darling is best known for his 'The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller' Size: 12mo. Wragg, Arthur (illustrator). Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. [351] pp. DARLING, Will. Y. Robert Grant & Son Ltd 1947 8.5" x 5.5" First Combined Edition, collecting two of the author's previously published books: 1) The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller (1931), and 2) The Bankrupt Bookseller Speaks Again (1938).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardbound w/ Dust Jacket. First Combined Edition. Includes a letter, SIGNED by William Darling, laid in. This collected edition includes both "The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller" (1931) and "The Bankrupt Bookseller Speaks Again" (1938). Dust Jacket shows some marks and a few small, closed tears that were previously repaired with tape. Now protected under a mylar cover. There is light foxing to the book's page edges, and some writing in pencil on the front free endpage. Interior pages are otherwise clean with no writing, underlining, or similar marks. Binding sound. RARE. Signed by Author(s).…