Pickering Collection, First Edition (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, First Printing. NrF. First edition, first printing. Paperback Original. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE COMPILER/EDITOR, on half-title page. Inscription reads, 'For ----/with thanks &/good wishes/Ken 2008'. xx,231pp. This anthology is a unique, international collection of performance pieces taken from a wide variety of ancient and modern texts, many of which are being published in this form for the first time. Carefully designed to suit the needs of students and actors of all ages and levels of ability, this selection will not only prove invaluable for use in grade and diploma examinations, auditions and competitive festivals, but it will also provide a rich source of material for teachers and all those individuals with a passion for oral communication. Light reading creasing to spine; else a near fine copy of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE EDITOR/COMPILER. Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed.

Cloth-backed printed boards, 8vo, 504 pp. 3383 entries. Boards rubbed and darkened, worn at extremities, otherwise Good.

Printed wrappers, 8vo, 52 pp. 687 items. The Minerva Press novels comprise items items 619 to 669, described over pp 48-51 and introduced as follows: "The following 50 novels were all issued at the Minerva Press, the famous novel publishing venture of William Lane and later of A. K. Newman. The Minerva Press was the chief purveyor of the circulating library novel (and gothic novel) and the popularity of the fiction issued under its imprint accounts for the great rarity of so many of the novels at the present time. . The novels . came from a Welsh library and contain the signature of the original purchaser, Eliza Giffard, Nerquis, Flintshire.", Another highlighted item, given a full-page description in the catalogue. was 'A Manuscript Seventeenth Century Novel apparently in the hand of John Locke's brother Thomas Locke. The History of Anaxander and Orazia. An Indian Story.c.1660. Original and complete manuscript romances of the seventeenth Century are very rare. This example is from the Earl of Derby's library at Knowsley Hall.'. Staples rusted, minor marks otherwise Good.

Cloth-backed printed boards, 8vo, 504 pp. 3383 entries. Covers a little marked, endpapers and title-page browned, otherwise Good.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Col. frontis. 484 pages. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.