Two Five by Knowles, Used (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. (1935) First edition, pictorial title page by Malcolm Easton. Publishers blue cloth with spine titles in black. Collection of 12 stories most if not all fantasy. Locke SPECTRUM OF FANTASY pg-130. VG in age tanned dust wrapper with short creased tear to rear panel at upper spine fold, old tape mend to blank side.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Two and Two Make Five by Vernon Knowles (First Edition) Minor bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends with slight sunning to spine. Previous owner's plate to front pasted end page. Wear to edges and spine ends with 1 inch loss to top of sunned spine. Price-clipped. Not dated. Original blue cloth with gold lettering; 256 pages. "Fabular short stories, taken in part from earlier volumes. Including [a] THE CURIOUS ACTIVITIES OF BASIL THORPENDEN. He is an occult engineer, with a means of travelling through time, and an apparatus for storing emotions. He is also able to enter the Land of Ideas, where he progresses to the Territory of Reality. [b] THE FIRST COMING. Christ manifested himself (before the incarnation in Palestine) to a people who accepted him with love. This upset the Divine Plan, and the scenario had to be transferred" (Bleiler). BOOK.

Presumed 1st Edition. Hardback. Near very good in good, worn, chipped, browned, price clipped and plastic protected, d/w. Spine and corners bumped, pages a bit browned. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Frontispiece and jacket by Malcolm Easton. (illustrator). First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. Beyond the minor chipping a very nice copy of this collection of twelve tales by Australian author Knowles, "tales of the super-real rather than the supernatural, or, if you will, fairy tales for grown-ups." (jacket). VG+/VG, no inscriptions, uncut pages, in a VG unclipped wrapper with a slither of loss to the top of the spine Beyond the minor chipping a very nice copy of this collection of twelve tales by Australian author Knowles, "tales of the super-real rather than the supernatural, or, if you will, fairy tales for grown-ups." (jacket). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A collection of five plays bound together in contemporary half calf with gilt decorations to the spine, the binding is lightly rubbed. Two of the works are inscribed by the author. The Wife, A Tale of Mantua, Edward Moxon London 1836 the seventh edition; Caius Gracchus, A Tragedy; Glasgow Reid and Henderson 1833, first edition, inscribed by the author to Viscount Shayford???; Virginius, A Tragedy Reid and Henderson Glasgow 1824, the sixth edition, inscribed by the author to the same recipient; The Lady of Lyons or Love and Pride, Saunders and Otley, London 1838 the fifth edition AND The Love Chase a Comedy in Five Acts , Edward Moxon, London 1838, the third edition. James Sheridan Knowles (12 May 1784 - 30 November 1862) was a Cork born Irish dramatist and actor. His talents secured him the friendship of William Hazlitt, who introduced him to Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Scarce, signed works by Knowles seldom appear on the market. Signed by Author(s).