Summerfield william (19 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear and a couple of short closed tears to top and bottom of largely pale yellow jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, spine very slightly faded, inside flaps creased, some slight yellowing to page block, not price clipped (£2.10, 42s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 288pp. A witty novel two young men making a career in the art world. By English writer Harry Summerfield Hoff (1910-2002), writing under the name William Cooper. Jacket by George Hardie (illustrator).…

Research Paper No. 3: No pagination, 10 PP (tyipescript recto only) with 7 figures (1 map, 1 plan, 5 graphs/plots). Loose wrappers with a little foxing, o/wise very good. 28 x 21.5. Waves and tides at Australia's Antarctic base of Mawson, during 1965.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 277 pp. Dusty top edge. Very Good in Good dust wrapper with small nicks to spine tips and edges, spine faded, not price clipped 25s. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. 169 pp. Very good or better in like jacket. Maroon cloth with gold titling to spine. Title page is inscribed "with love to Ian and Jen" and dated 1990 by author using his real name Harry [Summerfield Hoff]. FFEP is signed by previous owner, author John Metcalf. Bright and clean internally. Minor bleeding of maroon colour and light water stain to the back bottom edge of the dust jacket (not at all visible through the underside and there is no waviness). Very minor sunning to spine. An otherwise smart, and unclipped jacket featuring the vibrant illustration of Paul Collicut. Brodart wrapped. A tight and attractive copy. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. 250 pp. Very good in like jacket. Red cloth. Title page is signed by Cooper in blue ink. FFEP is signed by previous owner, author John Metcalf. The FFEP is also neatly signed by another previous owner, R.H. Hill. Clean internally with no annotions. Minor pushing in to head and foot. Unclipped jacket. Jacket is showing some minor sunning to spine, also some edgewear with a some short tears to head and foot. Front of jacket has a light brown area of discolouration near the word "from." Jacket is now protected in mylar. Overall, a nice and tight copy. Securely shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).…

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo 7½" x 5¼". Fine in Very Good dust wrapper with slight fading to spine, not price clipped 25s, without any tears or chips. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good condition. Boydell Press. xxii, 533 pp.

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, scarlet lettering to spine. 8vo 9½" x 6¼" pp. ISBN 856190633. Small mark to lower page edge. Nr. Fine in Fine dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Cover very slightly yapped and soiled. Slightly cocked. Owner's name on inside of fc. Small annotation on back of htp. Underlining in tp. Orig. title: Scenes from Provincial Life. 8vo. 227 pp. Swedish.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK Edition. Octavo. 258 pp. Near fine in like jacket. Navy cloth with gold titling to spine. Title page is warmly inscribed to Denis "for old time's sake" by Cooper in black ink. FFEP is also signed by previous owner, author John Metcalf. Minor spotting and fox spots to top of block. Minor edgewear to boards and head and foot. Smart, unclipped jacket (now Brodart wrapped). A very tight and attractive copy. Securely shipped in a box. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo. 214 pp. Near fine in like jacket. Blue cloth. Title page is signed in black ink using author's real name Harry [Summerfield Hoff], "Signed with the greatest pleasures - For David- by the author Harry Nov 84." FFEP is also signed by the previous owner, author John Metcalf. Very small bumped upper front corner. Minor toning to the block. Crisp, unclipped jacket. A tight and attractive copy. Brodart wrapped. Securely shipped in a box. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo 7½" x 5¼" 252 pp. Fine in Nr. Fine dust wrapper with slight age darkening to spine, not price clipped 12s 6d, without any tears of chips. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

Zustand: Fine. Second impression hard back binding in publisher's original navy buckram cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 10'' x 7''. Contains General Notes (Including the Order of a Specification, and Notes of Items Often Omitted From a Specification). Form of Outside Cover For a Specification. General Heading to a Specification. List of General Conditions of a Contract. Preliminary items (Including Shoring and House Breaker). Drainage (Including Rain-Water Well and Reports). Excavator (Including Concrete Floors, Roofs, Stairs, and Walls). Pavior. Bricklayer (Including Flintwork, River and Other Walling, Spring-Water Wells, Storage Tanks, Fountains, Filters). Terra Cotta and Faience. Artificial Stone. Mason. Carpenter, Joiner and Ironmonger (Including Fencing and Piling). Smith and Founder (Including Heating, Fire Hydrants, Stable and Cowhouse Fittings). Slater (Including Slate Mason). Roof Tiler. Stone Tiler. Shingler. Thatcher. Plumber (Including Hot Water). Zincworker. Coppersmith. Plasterer. Floor and Wall Tiler. Floor Coverings. Gasfitter. Bellhanger and Electric Bells. Glazier. Painter. Paperhanger. General Repairs and Alterations. Ventilation. Road-Making. Electric Lighting. (xxv), 645 pp with monochrome illustrations throughout. Just light rubbing to the cover extremities, contents in Fine condition, no dust wrapper. Three flyers for related books loosely inserted. Heavy volume weighing 2 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Good+ Hardback. Good dust jacket, not priceclipped. Browned. Tape mend on spine. Small pieces missing from head & foot of spine & lower front corner. Minor brown speckling on prelims. Boards are a bit loose at hinges. Very scarce. Tight sewn binding. viii. + 360p. Used.…

First edition of the author's sixth novel, but only the second published under his William Cooper pseudonym. First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth, white lettering to spine and upper cover, with the unclipped dust-jacket, slightly tanned, some rubbing to extremities, else very good.…

First edition of this satirical novel set in a boys school. First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with the unclipped dust-jacket, spine and rear panel slightly tanned, else very good.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition, first printing hard back binding in publisher's original sand cloth covered boards, lettered in red to the back and front. 8vo. 7¾'' x 5¼''. Contains 270 pp. Spotting to the end papers. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing to the edges, corners and spine ends, not price clipped, dust wrapper protected. Loosely inserted 1961 newspaper article by Kingsley Amis on this William Cooper novel and also 'Scenes from Married Life'. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Arthur Mizener, author of the first biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his wife: "Love to Rosemary & Arthur. Harry, 7.iv.58." With their bookplate to the front pastedown. This is the third impression (issued the same year as the first). Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles to front board and spine in red. With dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, light foxing to endpapers. An excellent copy in the jacket with some short closed tears and rubbed extremities. …

First Edition. H Baer dustjacket art. Author's extremely scarce first book of a man trying to sell tennis racquets in Jugo-Slavia. Hoff, better known by his pseudonym, William Cooper, started an English school of writing that rejected the modernist tradition in favor of naturalism, and set the prototype for later works by Kingsley Amis, John Braine, Anthony Burgess and Malcolm Bradbury. His most famous work published in 1950, Scenes from Provincial Life, was " hailed as seminal by John Braine, Malcolm Bradbury and other writers of the period, who also chose provincial, anarchic but ambitious lower middle class heroes and a low-key realist tone in what some have come to see as a reaction against Modernism. When the novel was republished in 1982, together with two sequels in the series, it was judged by one critic to be more accomplished than anything of the same genre which followed". The author wrote two other novels in the 1930's, Rhea and Lisa, both as difficult to find as this title. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with some shallow loss at spine ends and few flap corners, some mild soiling to spine.…