Kite by Rex Warner (11 results)

Condition: Good. 1943. Reprint. 191 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with black lettering over pink cloth. Jacket appears to be trimmed along top or bottom edge. Colour frontispiece with B&W illustrations throughout. Front endpaper missing. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal tanning to page edges. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with light marking to boards. Clipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Moderate tanning and soiling, with small stains to DJ.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1943 EDITION with rubbed dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 2nd class tracked post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

First revised edition. Hardcover. About a dozen small ink marks on pages, o/w very good in good price-clipped dustjacket with some rubbing and small repairs. Illustrated by Edward Pagram.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Magenta cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 200 x 140 mm approx. 192 pp. Colour frontis + 8 monochrome plates as called for. First Published in Sept 1936 the copy offered is of the 2nd impression 1943. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good no d/j (Book- mild shelf wear, no notable soiling, ink gift insc. to front free end paper - Christmas 1943. War economy paper of book block evenly tanned. No other notable defects).

Hard covers, dust jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine/fine, tiny nick in wrapper at base of spine, clipped, sl. corner wear. Col. frontispiece, 8 monochrome illustrations by a variety of artists including K. Millar. iv, 5-191 pp. Weight: 1 Language: English Reprint of 1936 edition. Tales of Action series no. 8.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. vi, 252pp. Purple cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With a colour frontispiece and eight captioned plates of unaccredited black and white illustrations. Edges and endpapers spotted, and with some further sporadic spotting throughout. The binding just a fraction tender at a number of gatherings. Very good, albeit lacking the dust wrapper. The author's first book, a 'boy's own' adventure novel set in Egypt and Cyprus.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Purle boards and spine, the latter, with a slight lean, lettered in gilt. Heavilly foxed price-clipped jacket rubbed on four front corners,frayed around head and base of spine and a 5 mm tear to top rear edge. Internally foxing on endpapers and rear of colour frontis, just affecting title page. Name on ffep. Clean contents with illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. H.R. Millar (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition octavo hardback orange cloth with blue titles 250 pages illustrated colour frontispice and 7 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar Good + condition. "To Margaret and Gordon from Rex" (Verified with other images of author's signature. Author's first novel. Scarce. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 1936. 1st Edition / 1st Impression. From the Tales Of Action No.8. Description: Illustrated DJ over burgundy purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Colour frontis and 8 other bw plates. Language: English. Book Condition> Very Good: Light sunning to spine and edges. Sharp corners, edges and spine ends. Tightly bound with lightly spotted intact endpapers with strong hinges. Light spotting to other prelims. Light spotting to text block edges that has seeped on to the margins of some pages. Occasional marks to pages. DJ Condition> Poor: Heavy wear to and losses to upper spine end and heavy chipping and minor loss to lower end. Tears to corners with heavy creasing and chipping to upper and lower edges. Lightly foxed and soiled cover with tanned spine. Clipped 252pp. Size: 12mo (large), 20cm by 14cm. PLEASE ASK for additional photographs if required.

First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; 8vo; colour frontispiece, 8 plates in black and white, previous ownership inscription to front pastedown; publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, closed tear to front panel, loss to corners and foot of spine, slight spotting and soiling, else very good. First edition of Rex Warner's first novel, lengthily inscribed by him in blue ink to the front pastedown: 'Poor old / RCBM [?] 1934 [in another hand] / was compelled by financial difficulties to sell this lone book (written in 16 days). It was since acquired by Mr C.L. Greenwood, when flushed by illusory triumphs at imperfectly understood games, + is dedicated to him by a grateful, but athletically inferior, author. / Rex Warner'. This volume is number eight in the scarce Basil Blackwell series Tales of Action by Men of Letters, in which the publisher made the bold experiment of commissioning swashbuckling adventure stories for young adults from scholarly types like the classicist Warner.

First edition of Warner's first book, a boy's adventure story, published in Blackwell's "Tales of Action" series. Set in Egypt and Cyprus, where Warner had worked and travelled in his twenties, it is "well packed with kidnapping, code-breaking, escapes, car chases, and a series of mysterious baroque murders" (Reeve, p. 10). N. H. Reeve, The Novels of Rex Warner: An Introduction, 1989. Octavo. Colour frontispiece and 7 black and white plates by H. R. Millar. Original purple cloth, gilt-lettered spine. With dust jacket. Gift inscription (dated 1941) to front free endpaper. Some foxing to edges and endpapers; an excellent copy in the bright, unclipped jacket that has short closed tears to the spine ends and some nicks to the extremities.