including thomas hardy rudyard kipling (2 résultats)

Hardback, cloth. Etat : Good. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. Tales of Make Believe by various authors, including Charles Dickens, Mrs Molesworth, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling et al. Edited and introduced by Roger Lancelyn Green, illustrated with four pages of colour plates and line-drawings in the text by Harry Toothill. Hardback, 1960, first edition thus, published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 235 pages. Sextodecimo/16mo, measures around 8 1/2" by 5 5/8" by 7/8". No dust jacket. Pictorial beige cloth binding, black detail, red lettering to front board and spine. A little marking and scuffing to binding but quite clean and colouring still vivid. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges and on hinges, bumped corners. Some slackness to binding but book contents reasonably firm. Page edges browned, scuffed and a bit marked. The odd mark to page surfaces but otherwise clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information. 235 pp. n.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Two anthologies compiled from the pocket literature broadsheets distributed to military serviceman in 1915, in the early days of The Great War. The writings contained within are from a host of the great names in English literature, including; Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett et al. The original broadsheets were printed on thin paper so they could be including with a letter, and were indeed sent in their hundreds of thousands. 2 Volumes; A Book of Broadsheets & A Second Book of Broadsheets, with an Introduction by Geoffrey Dawson, Editor of 'The Times'. Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd., London. A book of Broadsheets is a second edition, published in 1928, printed soon after the first printing of October 4th 1928. A Second Book of Broadsheets is a first edition from 1929. Some mild offsetting to endpapers. Previous owner's name to first free endpaper. One volume carries the namecard of a Captain Gilbert Pybus, of the 1st Battalion The Sikh Regiment (King George's Own'). A good set of two blue cloth hardbacks with gilt cover design and gilt titles to spine. With some rubbing and bumping. With a little give in the spine. Text is bright and clean throughout, with occasional light scattered spotting. Illustrated. Occasional light scattered spotting and a few spots to edge of text block. Gilt top edge. Text in English. First Book: xvi + 301pp  + 8pp Publisher's list;  Second Book: xviii + 301pp  + 8pp Publisher's list.  Weight approximately 822g (the set - unpacked). Dimensions:  Each volume approximately 195mm high x 130mm wide x 35mm deep.