Hancox alan (10 résultats)

stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. A bookseller's catalogue to celebrate Edward Thomas' works. A few black and white photographs and poems are in this collection listing of Edward Thomas. Near fine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. Thomas, Edward (illustrateur).…

Illustrated printed wrappers, 8vo, 26 pp, ills. 164 items. Probably the first bookseller catalogue exclusively devoted to Henry Williamson, with much useful information in the notes. Very Good.

Softcover. Etat : Fine. Bookseller catalog. Cover by Shelagh Powys. Octavo. 60pp. Just about fine in stapled wrappers. A slim volume that offers over 1500 books for sale.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 42 pages, 30 cm. Subjects; Modern First Editions & Authors. Catalogs. Names. Bibliography. Private Press Books. General Antiquarian. 1 Kg. …

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Covers a little ribbed and darkened at spine, staples rusting. From the library of the bookseller and crime writer George Sims; loosely inserted a typed note signed from Alan Hancox to "Miss Thomas", probably Myfanwy Thomas, 1p. 8vo (on lined index card), [1972]. 530 items. Hancox regrets that The Hills & The Vale is sold [item 256 in the catalogue, Richard Jefferies's "hitherto uncollected essays", 1909, with an introduction by Edward Thomas, £3.50], also 456 [Helen Thomas, As It Was / World Without End (1925), £1.50]. "Had many copies for most of the Edward Thomas books [30 items listed]. I'll send you a copy of my special catalogue when it is ready, but I find it very difficult to make a decision . . . whether to break up my collection or whether to sell items separately . . . I suppose it is too much to hope that you might have any material that might make my catalogue of greater interest . . . letters for instance?" Myfanwy Thomas (1910-2005) was the poet Edward Thomas's younger daughter. Alan Hancox's 150-item catalogue Edward Thomas: the man and his books was published later the same year. George Sims first met Thomas's widow, Helen, in the house she shared with her daughter Myfanwy, in 1959 or 1960; he harvested rich material from the family.…

Hard Cover. Etat : Nr Fine. No DJ. Limited / Numbered / Edition. Limited edition Numbered Copy No. 219.March 1993. This tribute to Alan Hancox was assembled by Alan Tucker, and set in Goudy Modern type and printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made paper in an edition of 350 copies. Brown cloth spine with bright gilt embossed title, Patterned cloth boards. Title-page wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Size: 4to. Miriam MacGregor (illustrateur).…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. All books outside UK sent airmail and over £40 tracked and inside UK signed for. With an introduction by Melvyn Bragg. Illustrated with six woodcuts. First Edition, 42 numbered pages plus 2 pages blank. Original wrappers, thread sewn.

Etat : Good. 8vo. Stapled Wraps, 24 pp., Very Good. Illustrated cover.Provenance: Herb Yellin (1935-2014) was the highly respected publisher and founder of Lord John Press, considered by many to be one of the most important small presses of the 20th century.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Cover drawing by John Higgins. From the library of the bookseller and crime writer George Sims. 404 items. "The death of T.S. Eliot takes away a man whose poetry and criticism have an irreplaceable authority. This catalogue, spanning a lifetime of dedication, of integrity, of coherence, shows a body of work of formidable weight. It is probably the largest collection of T.S. Eliot material ever listed in a bookseller's catalogue." Dated February 1965, the month after Eliot's death, it runs to 36 pages, all items individually priced - in case the collection didn't sell en bloc, which it did before the catalogue was issued, for £750. Prufrock is priced at £65, The Waste Land (unfortunately lacking title-label) £20. Two typed letters signed to Geoffrey Grigson, 1932 ("I should be glad to put my blessing upon 'New Verse' for what its worth; but the only new verses that I have written (and not published) are some nursery rhymes which are set up for the next Criterion"), are each £6 6s.…

1p, 8vo. In good condition, lightly aged and creased. Folded once. 'I was hoping you would make a suggestion about price. I had at first thought of asking £5 for each copy, but if you would throw in that copy of my father's book (my own is in pieces) I suggest £12 for the three. Of course I want you to make your profit.' He ends by asking if Hancox would like the books signed.…