jerry speer (7 risultati)

Condizione: Good. No Edition Remarks. 64 pages. Dust jacket over brown cloth. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with mild thumb-marking. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Notable rubbing and marking all over. Moderate water staining to front panel.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Gift quality, undated (circa 1973) attractive hardcover in pumpkin buckram covered boards with bright gilt spine title, sharp tips and spine ends. No writing, soil or tears in the 64pp sewn in text. Unclipped, and unpriced original dust jacket illustrated with vignettes by Ken Duxbury. There are no illustrations in the book. Jacket has two repaired closed tears and a 1" indentation near the foot of the front panel. Also light rubbing at the lower fore edge of rear panel and a light brown spot at the rear flap fold. Jacket now in new mylar and displays beautifully with sitting yogi and galloping polo player on frt and another polo vignette on the rear dj panel. A collaboration of two young Englishmen as they find themselves spending 55 yrs between them, in India. Speer as a teaplanter in the South and Wilfrid in business that took him from Bombay to Wah. The poems in this book show the development of typical young Englishmen in India.

64pp. Poems by a Travancore tea-planter and a Bombay businessman. Foreword by John Masters. Fine in fine dw.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. xvi, 787-1023pp. Tear in gutter of preliminary page, scattered foxing on pages, spine age-toned and creased, about very good. Featuring "Uncle Remus and the Ubiquitous Rabbit" by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.; "An Interview with William Styron" by Ben Forkner and Gilbert Schricke. Poetry by Wendell Berry entitled *Song*; *The Cold Pane*; *Goods*; *A Dance*; and *A Purification*. Contributions by Louis D. Rubin, Jr., William Bedford Clark, William C. Havard, William F. Steirer, Jr., Jerry H. Bryant, Speer Morgan, Richard P. Adams, Andre Malraux, Max Webb, Edwin Mims, Donald Davidson, Ben Forkner, Gilbert Schricke, Wendell Berry, Thomas H. Landess, Pinkie, Gordon Lane, Kathryn Stripling, Frank Manley, Van K. Brock, Claude Koch, Larry Rubin, Michael Cass, Louis Dollarhide, and Ingrid Smith.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Hard cover book in good+ condition with dust jacket in good- condition. Shelfwear and fading to edges of jacket with pen-type marks to front. Pages tanned throughout. 8vo. 64pp.

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Dedication by the author to Capt Theon Wilkinson, founder of the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asha (BACSA). Dedication by author.

Hardback, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Brown cloth with gilt to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW slightly faded on spine and edges, not clipped, in protective sleeve.) Cover clean and smart. Publisher?s slip loose in front. Signed on front endpaper by Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, and both Authors. Pages all very clean and tight. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 64pp.