Search Results: Authors starting with I from Keel Row Books

Copenhagen; Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag (F Hegel & Son), 1896., 1896. Original Wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, [8], 245. Original printed paper wraps. Spine lightly creased & toned; foxing to covers. Scattered foxing mainly to prelims, and a few fingermarks otherwise contents clean and bright. A Very Good copy. Penultimate play by Ibsen. Scarce, particularly in the paper wraps.

London; William Heinemann, 1893., 1893. Hard Cover. New Edition. Octavo, pp xi, [5], 256, [2] with original printed paper wrappers bound-in. Maroon pebbled half-calf bound by Robertson of Edinburgh with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper-covered boards with crest of Signet Society in gilt to upper board. All edges sprinkled red. Spine lightly rubbed. "Signet Library" inscribed to paper wrapper with reference number in ink; matching number inscribed to front pastedown; endpapers very lightly soiled. A Very Good copy. Translated from the Norwegian by Gosse & Archer with biographical note and appendix for critics.

Copenhagen; Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag (F Hegel & Son), 1890., 1890. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Danish text. Octavo, pp [4], 236. Half brown calf with 4 raised bands. gilt titles and gilt and black decoration to spine with black cloth-covered boards; green floral endpapers. Edges rubbed with very minor wear to corners and small bump top edge of lower board. Ownership inscription to ffep in ink, and pencilled initials to following blank; faint ink stain to pp 126-7 otherwise contents clean. A Very Good copy. Ibsen's classic of realism, and his most-performed play.

London; Pan Books Ltd, 1957., 1957. Mass Market Paperback. Pan Paperback No 46. Octavo, pp. 250, [6] Epilogue & catalogue. Pictorial card wraps. Covers slightly surface soiled and a little creased, with square surface loss to upper cover (where presumably price label has been removed). Leaves lightly toned; scattered light foxing, mainly to textblock edge. A very good copy with no annotation or inscriptions. Crime novel of domestic murder, with a twist.

London; The Crime Club, Collins, 1993., 1993. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 190. Bound in red publisher's cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the unclipped publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. Fine in a Fine dust-jacket. An unpopular children's TV presenter is murdered at a book launch in this taut, well-plotted thriller.

London; William Heinemann, 1913., 1913. Hardcover. Large octavo. Xix, 549 pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham: 24 tipped-in colour plates on grey paper with printed tissue guards plus 12 duotone plates and 66 illustrations in text. Book Condition: Near Fine. Full deep red morocco with gilt titles bound by Hatchards of Piccadilly with five raised bands, floral dentelles. Top edge gilt; red silk placemarker. A few very minor scuff marks to covers otherwise fine. Printed armorial bookplate to front pastedown. A very handsome copy indeed of this scarce and sought after volume.

London; HarperCollins Publishers, 1999., 1999. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp 287. 8 colour plates and over 100 black-and-white photographs and line drawings in text. Publishers' green cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Robert Gillmor. Gift inscription to ffep dated 1999 otherwise a Fine copy. Jacket lightly creased top edge with very small nick at upper corner of rear fold. Overall a Near Fine copy in like jacket. A study of the causes and effects of plant diseases caused by fungi, viruses and bacteria, their symptoms and resistance.

London; Collins, 1978., 1978. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp 290. Publishers' red cloth with gilt titles & ruling to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A clean tight copy; "To Bill" inscribed to ffep with no further annotation or inscriptions. Jacket very lightly creased to spine and faintly toned to white background otherwise crisp. A Near Fine copy in like jacket. The Author's second novel, set in the 12th century and featuring civil war and witchcraft in Norman England.

Oxford; Basil Blackwell, 1970., 1970. Hardcover. Revised. Octavo. Book Conditon: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Green cloth with gilt titles in price-clipped light grey dust-jacket. Very clean internally with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket toned, particularly to spine, with small stain to front.

London; Privately printed, 1964., 1964. Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION with 2 signed letters from the Author, one written on the author's headed paper. Octavo, pp. xxii, 238, [2]. Numerous monochrome plates including frontispiece portrait of Greet with facsimile signature below. Original canary yellow cloth with black titles to spine in plain mylar dust-jacket as issued. Letters and errata slip loosely inserted. Spine faintly sunned; upper board slightly rippled. Title page and first leaf of forewords corner-creased with associated small nicks; p. 141 annotated at foot in green ink. Author's signature to half-title in purple ink, dated in year of publication. Jacket a little wrinkled with 2cm split at rear fold, with associated creasing. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Biography of the English Shakespearian actor-manager Ben Greet (1857-1936), with forewords by Sybil Thorndike, Malcolm Morley and Leslie French. The letters from the Author are inscribed in purple ink, and the second in sequence… Read More

London; Methuen & Co Ltd, 1966., 1966. Original Wrappers. Uncorrected Proof copy. Octavo, pp. [12], 254. Publisher's printed cream card wraps. Covers toned and lightly soiled and scuffed, with a little corner creasing. A little light foxing top prelims and minor corner creasing otherwise contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. Collection of assorted pieces by the Anglo-American writer including poetry, literary criticism, short stories and biographical material.

New York; G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1982., 1982. Hard Cover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo, pp. 183, [1]. Publishers' jade green quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and cream paper-covered boards, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Joel Avirom. Clean and crisp with no annotation or inscriptions; publishers' remainder "P" mark to upper edge of text-block. Jacket slightly toned to white flaps and a little surface scuffed but bright and unfaded. A Near Fine copy in like jacket. 'A Pale View of Hills' won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. First Edition of the first novel by the Nobel Prize�winning author.