sitwell george osbert (32 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Book club edition. Minor wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1989 Hard Cover. 656 pages. Includes: Introduction; Worlds of Wonder, Worlds of Difference; ENCHANTMENTS: Green is the Color; Wooden Tony; Lest Levitation Come Upon Us; Prince Bull; The Triumph of Vice; Turandina; The Princess and the Frog; WONDERS: Darkness Box; Jack and the Beanstalk; Peter Pan; The Thrush's Nest; Lock-out Time; The Mouse Festival; A Proper Santa Claus; Inside Out; The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime; The Woman Who Thought She Could Read; The Third Level; CREATURES: The Griffin and the Minor Canon; The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles; The Dragons; On the Downhill Side; The Parrot; The Gray Wolf; The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath; The Last of the Dragons; Lila the Werewolf; The Drowned Giant; WORLDS: The Enchanted Buffalo; Narrow Valley; Beyond the Dead Reef; The King's Bride; Under the Garden; ADVENTURES: The Things That Are Gods; The King of Nodland and His Dwarf; The Seventeen Virgins; The Bagful of Dreams; The Hollow Land.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. VG++/G. White cloth hardcover copy with dust jacket. 1947. Light edgewear and browning to pages. Dust jacket has chipping and edgewear and tears and soiling. Nice solid copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, slim octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust jacket, the text clean and unmarked, Illustrated by Meriel Edmunds, 128pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG+. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG-. First American Edition. A distillation of a lifetime's thought on the purposed and planning of gardens.,

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. First Thus. First Edition Thus. Not price-clipped (£10.00 price intact). Published by Michael Russell, 1984. Octavo. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelfwear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Slight rubbing to edges of price-clipped dust-jacket, now protected using removable clear wrap, otherwise in very good condition. Next day dispatch by Royal Mail in sturdy, recyclable packaging. 1000's of satisfied customers! Please contact us with any enquiries.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. illustrated 128 pages.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First American edition with cancel title page. 168pp. Illustrated. Pages lightly age-toned, spine with a few tiny spots, boards with modest edgewear, very good in a price-clipped about very good dust jacket with a small round tear on the spine (affecting the title), tanning, an ink mark on the front flap and small chips and tears along the edges. Prints an essay on Paul Valêry by Andrê Gide; additional contributions by Louis MacNiece, William Sansom, George Seferis, Rose Macaulay, V.S. Pritchett, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Lawrence Durrell and more.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 303 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, slim octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed on the title page to a previous owner and signed under by Reresby Sitwell, Illustrated by Meriel Edmunds, 128pp. Signed by Author(s).

Green Boards. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. 128pp. A very well preserved copy of a scarce book on the Sitwells and gardening. The dustwrapper is price clipped. Two very slight stain to tail of dust wrapper not affecting the book itself. A near fine copy.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. No Jacket. George Cruikshank (illustratore). 1st Edition. Delivered as the Northcliffe lectures at the University of London in 1937. Contents include: Dickens And The Modern Novel, The Modern Novel: It's Cause And Cure, Three Eras Of Modern Poetry, Palladian England and George Cruikshank. Red/brown cloth boards, rubbed at extremities. Gilt lettering to spine. Mark from sticker removal on front board. No inscriptions or plates. End papers age darkened with date stamp on rear pastedown. Internally clean and tight to spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Illustrations by Meriel Edmunds. Signed presentation from the author to George Rainbird: 'For George and Leno/ another slim volume with best wishes/ from one of the contributors, for Christmas and 1985/ and lots of love/ Reresby/ 19.xii.1984.' With bookplate of George Rainbird on front pastedown. ISBN: 0-85955-106-7 Pages: 128 Fine in fine dust wrapper (dust jacket price-clipped). Signedes.

Condizione: New.

Hardback. Condizione: good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Paperback book sized magazine, slightly sepped but still tight, a small piece of old selotape on the front.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. This Is "A Programme Anthology Of The Poems Read By Their Authors" ."At The Poetry Reading In The Wigmore Hall September 14Th, 1943", Conducted As A Benefit. It Is A 47 Pp Booklet With A Full Page Of Acknowledgement At End, Stating That The Authors All Took Part In The Reading And Gave Permission For The Printing Of Their Poems. There Is Further Citation Of The Publishers For Particular Poems, And To The Authors Who Gave Permission To Print Copyright Material, And A Note That The Poems Of C Day Lewis Were Previously Unpublished, And Heart And Mind By Edith Sitwell Had Previously Appeared Only In The Times Literary Supplement. It Was Printed By Warren & Son, Winchester, But No Limitation Statement Or Price. The Compiler And Editor, Dorothy (Field) Dudley Short, Was The Author Of Children's Books And Books And Chapters Of Books On Sikhism, Reviews, Etc. She Was The Wife Of Caricaturist Norman Dudley Short. An Unused Example, One Of The Editor's Personal Copies.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. John Piper (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, limited edition, this numbered 490 of 1000. Green paper dustjacket is in two parts, split long front edge of spine. Darkened to edges and loss to top of spine and top corners. Green cloth covered boards with gilt impression of garden to front and title to spine. Some fading to edges. Two small previous owners names otherwise internally clean. Very good / fair condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.149; [3]. Publisher's white cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of eight shillings and sixpence net to upper. Edges toned, top edge a little dusty, offset toning to endpapers. Dust-jacket a little worn to extremities, some closed tears and chips, splash mark to upper. Very good. A Miscellany.

Prefazione di Giorgio Soavi, dipinti di Antonio Saliola, rilegato, tela, sovracoperta, formato 8, pagine 156, illustrato a colori, ottime condizioni - 12446 2.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardback with DJ - not ex library. 1st edition published in 1963 by Jonathan Cape, London. Shelf wear to boards/DJ, front hinge cracked exposing webbing & foxing to page edges otherwise a clean, sound copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 4F*.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. An Ex-Library Hardback with dust jacket. Officially withdrawn with usual library stamps and markings. 1st edition published in 1963 by Jonathan Cape Ltd., London. Shelf wear to boards and dust jacket & page edges little grubby otherwise a clean, sound copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 7B*.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Colour illustrations by John Piper. Very Good in Very Good (â") Dust Jacket. (DJ spine sunned.) DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London: Dropmore Press, (1949). First limited edition, first printing. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper is markedly clean, with some toning at the edges. There is a slight soiling mark at the bottom of the spine. It has not been price clipped. The heavy boards are very near fine in the publisher's cloth and gilt tooling. Internally, the bookplates of Elizabeth Burton and Allen Freer are present on the front endpapers. Of the 1000 numbered copies, this is no. 535. The text blocks are speckled on the top edge but otherwise clean. The John piper illustrations are all present and wonderfully so. Overall, this is a near fine copy of a fine collaborative work. It was a nervous breakdown that drew Sir George Sitwell to Italy in the 20th century. And it was the incomparable gardens of Tuscany, Rome, and the Italian Lake district that inspired him to write his classic analysis of what he considered the timeless principles of garden design.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good +. John Piper (illustratore). 1st Edition. 113pp + xvi prelims. Printed on cream wove hand-made paper in a limited numbered edition of 1000 copies. This is copy #120. Bound in green buckram with gilt lettering on spine and gilt illustration on front cover. Green flecks on top page edge. Untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Red and yellow sewn headbands. Illustrations by John Piper, including frontispiece. Tightly bound. Previous owner's book plate on front paste down. Two original book shop labels on rear paste down - W. & G. Foyle Ltd and Selfridges Bookshop (both London). Unclipped light blue dust jacket with red lettering on face and on sun toned spine. Horizontal tear to spine of dust jacket and wear to top and tail of spine. Age toning to dust jacket margins. All now protected in clear archival wraps.

Buckram. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Piper, John (illustratore). Limited Edition. Limited Edition, no. 251 of 1000 copies; signed by John Piper to ffep. [vi], xvi, 115 pp. Green buckram with gilt illustration to boards and lettering to spine in dust jacket. Scratching to front panel and a small open tear to top of rear panel; some foxing to sunned spine and top edge of rear panel of jacket. Leaves uncut and a firm binding. Inscription from John and Myfanway Piper dated to 1949. Colour lithographic illustrations and decorations by John Piper. A foreword by the author's son Osbert Sitwell; the author was an expert in gardens, especially those in Italy, and this book represents his analysis of the principles of their design. 8vo. Limited Edition.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.