Beginning by Walter Mare (28 results)

FINE, unused jacket only, NO BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Condition. Red cloth binding with silver title, author and publisher on spine. 256pp. Content clean, bright and sound. No date of publication noted. Introduction date 1955.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good hardcover with good clipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Chipping at head of spine on jacket. Moderate shelving and handling wear to extremities of book. Page edges have moderate foxing.

Condition: Very Good. 1955. First Edition. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding remains firm. Boards with minimal shelf wear. Unclipped jacket has very light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some very mild rubbing and marking to surfaces.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, price-clipped. 1st edition 2nd Impression. 256pp. green d.j. with a yellow spine and white titles.

256 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket and wraparound band. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine bright jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Small sticker from Shutter & Shooter. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. A small piece of the spine panel is missing. The text within the book is bright and clear. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane.The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First edition. 256 pp. Two small tape shadows to both first and last leaves, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Faber & Faber, London, undated but circa 1955.hardback light red cloth gilt title to spine 256 pages, some small tears and discolouring to green/white clipped dj Otherwise covers and inside in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Spine slightly dull, top edge slightly spotted. With the pencilled ownership inscription of Lord David Cecil, 1955, and his contents-page pencillings. Cecil was a devotee of Walter de la Mare, and an advocate for him, with a special interest in his prose; he introduced Private View, a collection of de la Mare's essays, in 1953, and the checklist to an exhibition of his books and manuscripts at the National Book League in 1956, and gave his presidential address for the English Association on de la Mare in 1973.

8vo, 256pp. A near fine hardback copy in price clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). A mixed collection of short fiction including four supernatural tales, ''An Anniversary,'' ''Bad Company,'' ''The Guardian'' and ''The Quincunx.''. Page edges just a little browned, else a fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket with spine edge wear.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. 256pp. Original red cloth with gilt spine titles. Very good indeed in near very good indeed, lightly edge worn dust jacket.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. A mixed collection of short fiction including four supernatural tales, "An Anniversary," "Bad Company," "The Guardian" and "The Quincunx." Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 509. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 177. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with light wear at edges, soiling to rear panel, and clipped price. (#113904).

1st ed. 1st edition. Owner's name; front end paper & dust jacket flaps slightly foxed; slight wear to edges of dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition, with Book Society band. Octavo, original red cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine, stained top edge, dustjacket. Short story collection, in Bleiler. Near Fine, in Near Fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. First Edition. Dustjacket has two 6 mm tears along lower edge of front panel and one 16 mm tear on upper edge of back panel. A near fine copy in very good+ dustjacket. Collects thirteen stories of the supernatural. ; Octavo; 256 pages. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright,Binding firm,Light wear to edges,Dust jacket unclipped. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) 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.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Page edges slightly discoloured. Small stains to rear end papers. Wrapper stained. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 256 pages 19 cm. Contents; Odd shop -- Music -- The stranger -- Neighbours -- The princess -- The guardian -- The face -- The cartouche -- The picture -- The quincunx -- An anniversary -- Bad company -- A beginning. Subjects; 1900-1999. English fiction 20th century. Short stories, English 20th century. English fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1955 1 reprint, 8vo., small address label on rear endpaper, near fine red cloth, dust jacket.

1st ed. ". this volume of original and imaginative stories, published in the author's eighty-third year ." Pp. 256, fep absent. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w price-clipped. G+/G+.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Page edges slightly discoloured. Small stains to rear end papers. Wrapper stained. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 256 pages 19 cm. Contents; Odd shop -- Music -- The stranger -- Neighbours -- The princess -- The guardian -- The face -- The cartouche -- The picture -- The quincunx -- An anniversary -- Bad company -- A beginning. Subjects; 1900-1999. English fiction 20th century. Short stories, English 20th century. English fiction. 1 Kg.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No signatures. Some fading to dust-jacket spine. 10mm tear at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket is not price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. A nice copy of this title.; First printing. 256 pages. Salmon pink cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 187 x 123mm. A collection of short stories. Contents: Odd Shop; Music; The Stranger; Neighbours; The Princess; The Guardian; The Face; The Cartouche; The Picture; The Quincunx; An Anniversary; Bad Company; A Beginning.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 509. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 177. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#67242).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 509. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 177. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#67239).

First Edition. A BEGINNING & OTHER STORIES, Faber & Faber, 1955, first edition, just about fine in like dust-wrapper. A curiously uncommon book.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.