Diaries, Letters, And Essays from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Secker & Warburg 1950. 8vo. First edition. [vii], 212 pp. Recently bound in half green morocco over green cloth boards. Raised bands to spine with decorative gilt devices and gilt lettering. Top edge stained red. New endpapers. Minor spotting to fore-edge, otherwise clean. Includes the pieces grouped together under the title 'I write as I please', which are a… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Jonathan Cape 1938. Small 4to. x, 11-731 pp. 8 colour plates and 47 duotone plates, including frontis. Publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth. Sunning to spine and bumping at its base. Minor mark to rear board and ink inscription to pastedown, otherwise internally clean. . Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. First UK Edition. 1938.

London: Heinemann 1960. 8vo. First UK edition, edited and with an introduction by Laurence Durrell. Navy hardback in an illustrated jacket, xvi, 397 pp. Head of spine lightly bumped, edges of jackets lightly rubbed with minor chips and tears. Slight offsetting to half title-page and on p246-247, otherwise internally clean. An anthology tracing the principal themes of Henry Miller's life… Ler mais sobre este item

Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1896. Small 8vo. li, 504 pp. Full brown morocco prize binding with blind borders and gilt stamp to front board and spine. Raised bands, title label and gilt lettering; marbled endpapers and edges; blind dentelle turn-ins. Minor rubbing to bands, spine ends and some small patches of wear to rear board. Internally fresh and clean with… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Edward Arnold 1956. 8vo. First edition. 222 pp. Cloth with red lettering to spine in unclipped, spotted jacket. Ink inscription to ffep, otherwise clean. A few black and white photographic and illustrated plates. McBryde first met James in 1896 at Cambridge. These letters range from 1904 to shortly before his death. Uncommon James title. . Very Good. Cloth. First… Ler mais sobre este item

Denby Dale: The Fleece Press 2000. 4to.Illustrated. Limited edition. 2 volumes. Vellum spines over marbled boards with gilt lettering to the spine; in a slipcase. 1 of 40 copies bound in vellum. Decorated lavishly with in text illustrations, photographs and plates throughout both volumes. Clean and in fine condition. Joan Hassall was a wood engraver and book illustrator whose work… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971. Large 8vo. Two volumes. xii, 538 ; viii, 539-1079 pp. Publisher's cloth with red title label and gilt lettering to spine in jacket. Light rubbing to jackets. Internally clean. Volume 1 covers 1812-1848 and volume 2 covers 1849-1866. Edited on behalf of the Royal Institution by L. Pearce Williams. This is a heavy set and… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Collins Harvill 1987. Large 8vo.Illustrated. First trade edition but with the Libanus Press jacket.. 46 pp + letters. Red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustjacket. Includes English and Italian dual-text translations of Pietro Bembo's poetry. With wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. Some minor bumping and fading at the head and tail of the spine, but… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Chatto and Windus 1946. 8vo. First Edition. viii, 258 pp. Cloth with gilt lettering to spine in unclipped jacket. Small areas of loss to spine's ends, which has darkened. From the library of Jamaican writer, Andrew Salkey, whose name is in ink at ffep, otherwise internally clean. The author was Professor of Biometry at the University of London. .… Ler mais sobre este item

London / Sydney / Toronto / Bombay: George G. Harrap and Company Ltd. 1949. 8vo. First Edition. 288 pp. Cloth in unclipped illustrated jacket. Minor spotting and chipping to jacket and minor foxing to earlier pages, otherwise clean internally. The editor of this work was the grandson of the diarist and also himself a vicar in Norfolk. The diaries provide… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1912. 12mo. bound in 6's. vii, 70 pp. Paper boards with decorative cover in contemporary slipcase with paper onlay. Boards yellowed; internally clean and bright with pasted paper illustrations. Slipcase is rubbed to extremities and has several small tears to edges. Essays on 'The Optimism of Byron', 'Pope and the Art of Satire', 'Stevenson', 'Rostand' and… Ler mais sobre este item

[unknown]: [unknown] [n.d.] circa 1890. 8vo. Unpaginated. Black full morocco with a working brass key-locked clasp. All edges and endpapers marbled. With a contemporary pink ribbon attached to the key. Leaves are ruled and blank. Edgewear and rubbing to boards alongside some chipping to the leather at the spine. Some damage to the endpapers from the nails fastening the lock… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Jonathan Cape 1967. 8vo. First Edition. xix, 459 pp. Cloth spine with gilt lettering over boards in unclipped pictorial jacket. Minor chipping and rubbing to jacket. Internally clean. The letters cover his early life in England, his journeys in Mexico and British Columbia and his return to Europe and England. A very insightful collection of letters. . Very Good.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Secker & Warburg 1941. 16mo. First edition. 127 pp. Original cream-coloured boards with green lettering to spine in dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly edgeworn with a few marks and tanning, and a small tear to back panel. Binding a little slanted. Orwell's essay on socialism, patriotism and the class system in wartime Britain. Clean copy. . Very Good. Hardcover.… Ler mais sobre este item

Oxford: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press 1919. Small 8vo. First edition. [v], 160 pp. Blue cloth in printed jacket, which has some chipping and short tears. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities of book. Later ink inscription to ffep, otherwise internally clean. Includes essays on Dante and Goethe, Jane Austen, John Ruskin, Flattery and the English Church and the… Ler mais sobre este item

London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1950. 16mo. 432, 427 pp. Pink cloth in dust jackets. Spine of jackets slightly sunned; some small chips and tears to volume 2. Ink inscription of previous owner to FFEPs. Internally clean. Everyman edition based on the three-volume edition of 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb', which was edited and annotated by E.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Cassell & Co. 1929. 8vo. x, 325 pp. Blue buckram with bevelled boards in dust jacket (not price clipped). Slight sunning to spine; a little discolouration to bottom edge of book and some bumping to bottom corners. Clean boards. Dust jacket a little tanned and spotted, with a few chips and tears. Light foxing to edges and endpapers, otherwise… Ler mais sobre este item

London: C. Clement 1824. 12mo. Unpaginated. Quarter calf over marbled boards. Red morocco title label, gilt lettering, blind stamped bands. Minimal rubbing. Pages are tanned, with the occasional spot or stain. Cobbett writes in a series of letters to his son the importance of good grammar and clarity of expression, including mistakes in grammar taken from the writings of Samuel… Ler mais sobre este item

Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955. 8vo. 6 volumes. Dark blue cloth in printed and unclipped jackets. Blind-stamped Oxford crest to boards and gilt lettering to spines. Chipping, spotting and sunning to jackets, with short tears. Slight bumping to extremities of books. All internally clean. Evelyn's diaires form a highly authoritative source for scholars of late 17th century England, now in a… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall 1780. 8vo. First English Edition. 142 pp. Original wraps, uncut. Spine sympathetically repaired. Two small bookplates to prelims. Internally clean. The essays were originally published in France in 1732, with the marchioness being a notable salonniere. With an introductory letter to William Melmoth, Esq. 23.5 cms tall. UK copies at the British Library, the… Ler mais sobre este item