Distant Hills, First Edition (10 results)

Condition: Good. 1967. First Edition Thus. 187 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Card Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Peter Barnfield (illustrator). First Edition. Mounted in the illustrated card covers showing a line drawing of a Welsh hill landscape is a single A4 sheet folded in four which at first unfolding reveals a photograph of a man (Peter Barnfield?) holding an empty frame before the same landscape and, when completely opened; a photograph of a half naked woman (Ginny Barfield?) holding a pot seated before a blank white window on a dais with the photographed landscape marked as if by a map grid on its riser and a poem entitled Distant Hills? Name in small neat hand on inside cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 3 preliminary leaves, 16 pages, 1 leaf 21 cm. "Two hundred copies printed for the author, by William Edwin Rudge in October, 1920 ." Poems. Inscribed on the second leaf; also laid in is a card for "Mrs. Grenfell Florence, Women's City Club". Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 164 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over yellow cloth. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. 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. Clipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover first edition, Robert Hale 1985 Great Britain. This book is in good+ condition - edges of boards lightly bumped; small amount of writing in pen on ffep; foxing to top edge, slightly to front edge and a few spots on several pages. No dustjacket as issued.

Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Limited First Edition. Book has minor wear. Paper wrapper is torn and missing pieces. Signed by the Poet # 177 of 200 copies. Signed by the Poet. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Paperback. First edition, 1995. 69pp. Slight sunning to spine, else a fine copy.

1st ed. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition, minor edgewear, autograph (author's written name title page). 300 pp. An Australian novel by Elizabeth Egan set in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales in the 1930s and 1940s, against a backdrop of the Depression and World War. This sweeping tale has a large cast of colourful characters: Gran Rose who fled the Irish potato famine, Irene's discontented mother who was an English war bride, her gentle father, two brothers who can't wait to enlist in the current war, the woebegone children of the family she boards with, and the rest who make this a very interesting novel. First edition stated.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. The scarce first edition of this collection of two Christian allegories by Oxford theologian, Rev. William Adams. In the publisher's original green cloth binding with gilt.First edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece. Collated, complete.This copy offers two religious and moral allegories by William Adams, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Both pieces employ symbolic narrative to explore themes of Christian duty and the soul"s relationship with God. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight shelf wear to extremities. Contemporary ink prize inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1905. Offsetting from removed label to front free endpaper. Endpapers age toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd very minor spot and handling mark to first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed. book.

Three vols. Folio. xv, [3], 198; xiv, [2], 281, [1]; xvi, 302, [2] pp. Double-page illust. titles in each vol., with 393 plates, 43 colour plates, numerous maps. Publisher's blue, brown, and red cloth respectively, all with d.j.s, (slight shelfwear), NF/NF set. First editions of the first three volumes of Cahill's "A History of Chinese Painting." These lavishly illustrated works provide an invaluable reference to the texture, breadth, and achievements of Chinese art in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties.