Hugh c milne (5 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 8 x 10 in. 37 pp. Paper covers, B&W photos. Condition is VERY GOOD ; minor wear, spine a bit foxed. Stapled binding tight and text unmarked. Arch. Stax.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Light blue cloth, lettered/illus. in red. 1st ptg.: Nov. 1939. Prefatory note by Queen Elizabeth, wife of George VI and later known as "the Queen Mother" (parents of Elizabeth II), with contributions by 50 British authors and artists in aid of the Lord Mayor of London's Fund for the Red Cross and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Published on the eve of, and mostly occasioned by, British involvement in WW2. 255 pp., illus. Cover cloth faded somewhat unevenly,tanned spine panel and text block edges. Firm binding, unmarked interior. Top corner of title page neatly clipped (not affecting lettering), perhaps to remove a gift inscription, otherwise complete and intact, lacking dust jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.…

Four vintage photographs, including two vintage studio still photographs and two vintage reference photographs, one double weight, from the 1936 film. In spite of his extreme allergy to horses, a man takes up polo to impress his horse-loving next-door neighbor. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good, with light wear and toning to the edges.…

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition. A smart first edition of the second "Joy Street" annual, a richly illustrated children's anthology featuring A. A. Milne, G. K. Chesterton, Walter de la Mare, Hilaire Belloc, among other leading writers and artists. In the publisher's original patterned cloth binding. First edition. This work is undated. Dated here using Jisc, from copies held at insitutions including the University of Oxford Libraries. Illustrated with eight tipped-in colour plates, including a frontispiece, alongside numerous monochrome in-text illustrations by Marian Allen, Hugh Chesterman, Harry Rountree, Valery Carrick, J. R. Monsell, Alec Buckels and numerous other artists. Collated, complete. The second volume in the Joy Street series, an annual anthology of prose and verse for children, bringing together stories, poems and imaginative pieces by a distinguished group of contemporary writers. Contributors include G. K. Chesterton, Walter de la Mare, A. A. Milne, Hilaire Belloc, Hugh Walpole, Edith Sitwell and Rose Fyleman. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight rubbing to extremities with light discolouration, heavier to the spine. Protected by a mylar dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd light spot to first and last few leaves. Near Fine. Marian Allen; Hugh Chesterman; Harry Rountree; Valery Carrick; J. R. Monsell; Alec Buckels; C. T. Nightingale; Kenneth Harrow; Et al. (illustratore). book.…

Paper Covers. Condizione: Very Good. 15 volumes. Orange paper covers with blue spines and lettering. Rubbing to the edges, a few markings, and little sunning to the covers. Some foxing to the edges and internally to 'When I Remember', 'Argument of Blood' and 'Why Britain Fights', occasional pencil markings, but most volumes internally clean. This complete set of Macmillan's War Pamphlets was published as part of the WW2 war effort in Britain to boost public morale, and contains writings by a number of prominent authors of the time. Titles include: Let There Be Liberty by A. P. Herbert; War Without Honour by A. A. Milne; Nordic Twilight by E. M. Forster; The Crooked Cross by the Dean of Winchester; Nazi and Nazarene by Ronald Knox; When I Remember by J. R. Clynes; For Civilization by C. E. M. Joad; The Rights of Man by Harold Laski; Open Letters of An Optimist by Hugh Walpole; The Mysterious English by Dorothy Sayers; Argument of Blood by Julian Huxley; Science in Chains by Sir Richard Gregory; Why Britain Fights by R. H. Tawney; Minds in the Making by E. R. Dodds; Dynamic Democracy by Francis Willams. 19cm tall. Small 8vo. Pamphlet.…