hay ian beith john (49 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Lewis Baumer (illustratore). Blue cloth; gilt spine lettering. Fourth printing; first published 1914. Illustrated with plates reproduced from pastel drawings by Baumer. Humorous novel by the Scottish author (1876-1952), dedicated to "the members of the most responsible, the least advertised, the worst paid, and the most richly rewarded profession in the world." Faint rubbing to cover extremities. The signatures in this volume were irregularly bound in so that the fore edges are not uniform--some leaves over-extend and are curled and sun-darkened, some are too short. Prior owner name, address neatly written at upper front end paper. Otherwise clean and tight.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. [A Satire about the plight of the Englishman, The Irish question] Near fine. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 3 preliminary leaves, 3-88 pages, 1 leaf ; 18 cm.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp.ix, 238 pages, a very good hardback, publisher's original brown cloth binding with red lettering to the spine and front cover. NOT FROM A LIBRARY and indeed completely clean from any former owner markings. Hard to find outside America, and the only other one in the UK is £98, but that is signed!

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Cloth. Uncommon hardcover edition of this charming story of Excalibur/Scally the dog, which was first printed in the "Saturday Evening Post," in June, 1914 (Curtis Publishing Company). Hay, the pen-anme for Beith (1876-1952) was a Scottish schoolmaster, novelist, and playright, better-known for his longer works of later years. Faint rubbing to cover extremities. Spine moderately sunned. Clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This volume continues Ian Hay's celebrated account of the First Battalion of Kitchener's Army, following his earlier The First Hundred Thousand. Written with humor and realism, it chronicles the daily life, camaraderie, and endurance of British soldiers on the Western Front. Hay blends trenchant observation with soldierly wit, portraying trench warfare, artillery coordination, and the evolving tactics of 1916-1917. The tone alternates between grim authenticity and light irony, capturing the resilience of ordinary men amid mechanized war. Good overall condition, solid binding, cover printing (red) has faded, some staining on various pages and edges. The handwritten gift inscription ("Margaret McDonnell from Colin Thompson") documents this book's provenance. This book is BROWN, not green as the photos appear to show! Hard cover edition without dustjacket. 238 pages. Dimensions: 5" by 7.5". Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. 1st printing, 1917. Brown binding. Cover defect(s): Some fading. Slight corner/edge damage. Page defect(s): Some dog eared pages. Some soiling/smudges from handling. 1.5 Pound Media Shipping Rate. Combine items and SAVE! Genre(s): World War I / Military History / Military Memoir / English. (B011).

hardcover. Condizione: Good +. First Edition. Small octavo (approx. 5" wide by 7 1/2" tall) blue cloth covers gilt titles on top cover and spine. Spine titles dulled, and wear at head and foot of spine. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper (H.C.C. Newnham) and another former owner inscription on front free endpaper. Browning on a couple of pages. ix [3] + 316 pages. " The First Hundred Thousand closed with the Battle of Loos. The present narrative follows certain friends of ours from the scene of that costly but valuable experience, through a winter campaign in the neighbourhood of Ypres and Ploegsteert, to profitable participation in the Battle of the Somme." -- from the Author's Note. Text is clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. World War I, The Great War. 092508C.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First American edition. Tan cloth with bright red lettering stamped on front and spine, lacking advertisement in rear. Contemporary owner's gift inscription and bookplate on front endpapers, title foxed, spine a bit cocked, else very good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First American edition. Four page ads in rear. Tan cloth with bright red lettering stamped on front and spine. Contemporary owner's gift inscription on front fly, cloth lightly soiled, light stains on page five, else very good.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 379 pages; Description: x, 379 p. , [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill. ; 19 cm. Genre: Fiction -- Novel. 1st American edition. 3 Kg.

Octavo, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Four novellas of the cheerful frothy variety that the author was famous for. During this period of the 1920s he turned to the theater and produced successful collaborations with P. G. Wodehouse, A. E. W. Mason and Guy Bolton, among others. Lightly bumped corners, slight spine lean, otherwise a bright, tight, near fine copy. (#117375).

Octavo, original blue cloth stamped in black. First edition. The collection mainly consists of school stories and war stories. Spine panel just a bit sunned, a clean, tight, very good copy. (#117372).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover in Good+ condition, 8vo, 362 pages. Red cloth with spine titles in gold, no copyright date (1917 on title page). Tips and spine ends lightly worn, spine faded and a bit cocked, light soiling to block edges, booksellers tag on back paste-down (Norman, Remington Co., Baltimore-Toledo), p.o. name in pencil on front free end-paper. Author's first book, first published by Wm. Blackwood, London, in 1907. Bookseller accession no.: 23720.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good with no dust jacket. 163 pp. Frontis. 22 illus. Spine ends, corners bumped and rubbed. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine. Coat of arms embossed on front board. A comprehensive description of the memorial honouring the Scottis war dead. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition book. An earlier dated first edition. Light bumps to the edges. The untrimmed page edges are foxed. The internal contents are considerably clearer with crisp print and a good binding. A nice example.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Thus. [1930]. 1st thus, in Hodder and Stoughton's self proclaimed 'famous' 2s series. 312pp, plus viii page publisher's catalogue at rear. Red cloth covered boards, blind ruled with black titles on spine. Boards a little faded, sunned on spine, rubbed at corners and spine ends. Previous owner's name on front, slightly toned, endpaper, else internally neat, clean and tight. Vintage crime fiction. Ian Hay was the pen name of Major General John Hay Beith. The Poor Gentleman, his 11th novel, was first published in 1928. 12mo.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 379 pages; Description: x, 379 p. , [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill. ; 19 cm. Genre: Fiction -- Novel. 1st American edition. 1 Kg.

Condizione: Very Good. 1917. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo Very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Staples slightly rusty. From the collection of David J. Hall; sold in aid of the Friends of the National Libraries.

Condizione: Very Good. 1917. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo Very good copy. . . . .

Octavo, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. World War I fiction. The AEF in England and France. Some foxing to endpapers and text block, some minor stains on rear cover, a very good copy. (#117368).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Reprint. First published in 1921, this is an undated subsequent edition, in a classic Hodder yellow jacket of about 1930. Edge wear, chipping, closed tears and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, 1" loss to top of spine, creasing and long closed tears to back jacket, some overall dust and time staining, corners rubbed with small loss, some foxing to page fore edges and endpapers. Not clipped (price on spine 2/-), no inscriptions, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, internally quite clean tight and square, overall a reading copy only. 320pp. A tale of true love during the first World War. Major General John Hay Beith, CBE (1876-1952), was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but he is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. A history of the sovereign's bodyguard when in Scotland. Includes 36*b/w illustrations and photographs and several tables. x, 300pp. Green cloth boards with the company emblem in gilt to the upper and lower boards and gilt lettering to spine. Light shelf-wear to corners. Light shelf and handling wear to boards.

Condizione: Vg. (x),(3)-299 Pp. Colour frontis and b&w. illus. Green cloth with gilt to spine and front cover.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Charles Livingston Bull (illustratore). First Edition. Light novella of a young family who decide to acquire a dog, settle on a breed, then rescue a puppy mutt. Scally, is not, as one might suppose, short for 'Scalawag', but rather for 'Excalibur'. Hay, a pen name for British schoolmaster John Hay Beith, was known for light fiction & drama, sometimes collaborating with P. G. Wodehouse, and also for his Great War memoir. Small hardcover in most of the jacket, as pictured; the first American edition (first printing), with same date on title & copyright pages. Light wear to book, minor bumping to corners; jacket rubbed & torn with large piece missing from head of spine & upper front panel - though the corners are clipped, the 75 cent price is on the spine. Text clean, no names or marks; [4], [92] pages, b/w frontispiece illustration of the titular creature. Size: Duodecimo.

Condizione: Good. This William Blackwood and Sons tenth impression (1916) is of interest to collectors of First World War literature, Ian Hay (John Hay Beith), and books with distinguished bookseller provenance bindings. About: A handsome copy in a full tan leather binding by J. & E. Bumpus Ltd. of 360 Oxford Street, London - booksellers holding the Royal Warrant to His Majesty the King. The raised-band spine with red morocco label is characteristic of Bumpus's quality trade bindings. A distinguished provenance piece combining a celebrated WWI text with one of London's most prestigious bookselling imprints.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Abbe (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition.Published 1921 ( no date) A new novel.( so stated).Eleven titles to rear panel with last being The Last Million. A NEAR FINE book ( previous owner's name to front free endpaper in NEAR FINE white jacket ( some wear and chipping to bottom edge) beautifully illustrated by "Abbe". 7/6 price to spine. Blue boards with black lettering. SCARCE in this condition in jacket!!!

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Kleber Hall (Frontispiece) (illustratore). 1st American Edition Thus. Patterned paper-covered boards. The base colour of the pattern (brown) had 'faded' to green on the spine but all titling /pattern clear. NO dustjacket. The book is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks good. Corners rubbed with the bottom 2 corners showing a little of the boards. A little discolouration/bumping to the head/tail of the spine. Page fore-edges have some light marks. (6) + 78 pp. Internally, this copy is SIGNED by the author in green ink to the front free endpaper (Ian Hay Beith). The Frontispiece is stained around the edges of the image - but, very oddly, no stains affect the remainder of the pages / text, which is VG. I'd be tempted to say that the frontispiece was stained before being inserted on publication? But really I have no idea? . "Major General John Hay Beith (1876-1952) was a British schoolmaster and soldier and was Awarded the Silver Cross for bravery in action during the First World War. Best remembered, however, as a novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay." . A BIBLIO-STORY. See Images; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. pp 128. A symposium by ten famous men. Covers slightly marked and slightly soiled; VG-.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by Bip Parsi (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR BIP PARSI, IN PENCIL ON TITLE PAGE 'Bip Parsi, Hampstead 1933', so it may have been his own copy. Some edge wear and browning to top and bottom of largely cream jacket and spine, spine and extremities browned, some slight overall dust staining, corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (price on spine 2/6), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 96pp, illustrated. Major General John Hay Beith (1876-1952), was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but he is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay. His witty memoirs of India in the last days of the Raj. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. None (illustratore). First edition. The final of three volumes of this good humoured account of army life from British soldier Major General John Hay Beith. First edition. A collection of the author's good-humoured accounts of army life, describing with wry wit life in his battalion, and becoming one of the most popular stories of the time. The third volume of three written by Beith, on the strength of the first, he was sent to work in the information section of the British War Mission in Washington, D.C. Written by Major General John Hay Beith, a British schoolmaster and soldier, best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist, and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay. Dated from the University of Cambridge Libraries. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting, predominantly to the first and last few pages. Minor age toning to the endpapers. With a contemporary ink inscription to the front pastedown. Very Good. book.