compton mackenzie ed (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very good book in lightly spotted blue cloth covers; gilt design to front and titles to spine. Internally very good without inscriptions. Frontispiece in colour and many b/w photographs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is aged toned. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is aged toned. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is aged toned. No DJ.

Hard Cover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). A very heavy book of 978 pp. Complete dustjacket. A very clean copy. Classic writing on cricket - articles include Neville Cardus on Sobers, John Arlott on M C Cowdrey, Compton Mackenzie 'Shillings for W G', A Middlesex Century, The Dreaded Cypher etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in black cloth this hardcover collection of 12 copies of The Gramophone from June 1935 to May 1936, from No.145 to No. 156 are in VG condition. Bound up professionally by the Company with extensive Index, numerous illustrations, performance and record reviews, plus reviews of Radios and Gramophones Condition all VG.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A collection of the magazine The Gramophone bound up professionally by the Company in black cloth with gilt titles to front board and spine, this collection extends from June 1934 to May 1935, from Volume X11, No 133 to Volume X11,144. Vast collection of B/W photos, extensive Index including new models of gramophones and Radios. Clean endpapers, sound binding, spine slightly faded, otherwise Vg.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Edward Bawden; Various (illustratore). First edition. A three-volume collection of illustrated first editions celebrating mid-century London, from its poetry and post-war fashion to the history of the iconic Savoy Hotel, with their original dust wrappers. In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with The Savoy of London in the original pictorial hardback binding.Complete with the publisher's original dust wrappers. Unclipped, with the exception of the clear plastic wrap of The Savoy of London, which has been price-clipped.First editions.A three-volume collection of mid-20th-century works celebrating London"s culture, fashion, and social life, comprising: London is London: A Selection of Prose & Verse, by D. M. Low (1949). First edition. Illustrated by Edward Bawden with thirty-two plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. A curated literary portrait of London. Fashion in London, by Barbara Worsley-Gough (1952). First edition. Illustrated with eleven double-sided monochrome plates and a frontispiece. Collated, complete.A lively survey of London"s fashion scene in the post-war era, charting designers and trends. The Savoy of London, by Compton Mackenzie (1953). First edition. Illustrated with eighteen double-sided plates featuring numerous colour illustrations, plus two additional colour plates including the frontispiece. Collated, complete. A celebratory history of the Savoy Hotel, exploring its history, traditions, and status as a symbol of London luxury. In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with "The Savoy of London" in the original pictorial hardback binding.Externally, very smart. Slight shelf wear to extremities. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Previous bookseller"s discreet label to front paste down of "London is London." Slight fading to extremities. Dust wrapper, smart. Wrapper of "The Savoy" clipped. Tape repairs along inside upper and lower extremities of wrap of "Fashions", with slight loss at head of spine. The odd minor chip, closed tear, and crease to extremities. Slight age toning with one or two spots. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots, heavier to first and last few leaves and fore edges more apparent to older copies. Very Good Indeed. book.

First, Limited Edition. Quarto. 26.5cm. Publisher's burgundy leather spine titled in gilt, over decorated green paper covered boards. 67pp. A little light scuffing to the spine leather, some light discoloration to the upper edge of the boards, strong and sound; internally clean. A very good copy indeed. #47 of 350 numbered copies, with the first 50 copies being signed by the full compliment of contributors including the editor, and illustrator. With a laid in invitation to Hugh Macdiarmid's birthday party, and a brief note of thanks and acknowledgement from Duncan Glen, the editor, to Nathaniel Tarn who contributed the poem "Eagle Hunt." and whose signature can be found on the limitation page. A very attractive contributor's copy with excellent provenance. Signed.