Beau Ideal, Signed (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Biography of the great Surrey and England medium pacer. Large 8vo. 66pp. No. 294 in a signed limited edition of 500 copies. From our large stock of cricket books and publications. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Limited edition 500 numbered copies , This is no. 224 Signed by the author on the front end paper illustrated 65 pages. Signed by Author(s).

The first cricket biography of George Lohmann (1865-1901) the greatest English medium-pace bowler of the late Victorian period and fondly known as "Our George" by his adoring Oval public. Paperback. 8vo. 66pp. Illustrated. Original owner's name to first page. Pictorial soft covers. No.43 of a Limited Editon of 500 copies signed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. SIGNED by the author to bookplate. Good overall with some occasional light spotting and some dulling to red spine cloth. No jacket. Has previous owner address stamp to front pastedown. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London, John Murray, July 1928 (first edition). Octavo, 348, [4] (music for 'The Song of the Legion. The March Theme of the Paramount Picture "Beau Geste"') pages. Cloth slightly marked and rubbed; spine a little sunned; edges foxed and a little marked; free endpapers a little unevenly tanned; a very good copy. Wren's armorial bookplate, signed by him in ink, is mounted on the front pastedown. Loosely inserted is the publisher's small two-colour pictorial flyer for other works by Wren (one side a little tanned). The third in the author's series about the Geste brothers, adapted for the film of the same name in 1931. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Inscribed by P.C. Wren on one of his own bookplates, which is affixed to the front pastedown. The second sequel to Beau Geste (1924), this novel served as the basis for the 1931 pre-Code adventure film starring Ralph Forbes, Loretta Young, Irene Rich, and Lester Vail. Octavo: 348 p. with The Song of the Legion at the rear. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. Just a hint of foxing, with some mild dust staining to the top edge; otherwise very good in a lightly shelfworn dust jacket with a bit of toning along the spine and folds.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The author's own copy of this famous work about the French Foreign Legion; showing author's signature in blue ink on his personal library bookplate. The exterior cover has some discolouration (shown in photograph), also rear cover & lower spine similar; dust jacket absent. Internally, slight fixing to tile page and few pages following but generally clean, with binding in good condition. Text block edges clean. Additional images or information available on request. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Signed by Author(s).