Search Results: Authors starting with K from Paul Foster Books

Cassell and Company Ltd. London. 1950. Fourth printing of this complete collected edition. Originally published in 1929 the book was re-set in 1947 to include The Scandal of Father Brown. 8vo. (8.4 x 5.6 inches). A fine clean copy in a fine leather binding by Bayntun of Bath. Half red morocco, spine with five raised bands. Compartments lettered and decorated in gilt. Mottled red cloth on boards. Top edge gilt. Pink endpapers. A near fine copy.

George Allen & Unwin Ltd. London. 1937. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 8vo. (8 x 5.6 inches). A fine copy in a late twentieth century fine leather binding by Morrell of London. Half deep red morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt piping and floral tooling. Compartments double ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. A beautiful copy of this first English edition of the Author's autobiographical novel, set against the backdrop of the 1905 Russian revolution, inspired by his childhood in Odessa.

Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. 1930. REPRINT OF THE 1927 PAYNE EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 6.1 inches). Illustrated with 20 full page plates by Payne, line drawings with yellow colouring. Fore-edge and the first few pages affected by some very light foxing, otherwise a very good copy of this attractive edition. Publishers orange cloth with black lettering to the spine and front board. Small gilt stamped school badge to the front board. School prize label, dated 1942, on the front free endpaper. In the scarce original colour illustrated dustwrapper. A couple of small chips to the edge of the wrapper and the spine a bit toned but overall in very good condition.

Methuen & Co. London. 1921. ELEVENTH EDITION. 8vo. Black and white frontis by Graham Robertson. A few pages affected by some very light foxing, mostly to the margins. Finely bound in recent half dark blue morocco. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled and decorated in gilt. Twin red labels, gilt. Navy cloth on boards. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed, as issued. -- A true classic.

Chapman & Hall for the Science & art Department of the committee of council on education.,1872. Large 8vo.Illustrated with 24 photographic plates.Very good copy in publishers green cloth boards with brown morocco spine,lettered in gilt.Top edge gilt.Some rubbing and marking to boards and spine but overall a near very good copy.:

Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London. 1906. Reprint of the 1889, fifth Fitzgerald edition. 8vo. (8 x 5.6 inches). iv, 112pp. Contains the fifth and first edition texts, plus notes on Omar Khayyam and the poem, and comparisons between the first four editions. Finely bound, for Hatchards, in early full dark purple morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments lettered and decorated in gilt. Front board with elaborate decorative floral design in gilt, embellished with red morocco inlay dots. Rear board with double gilt ruled border with red inlay dots to the corners of the inner border. Board edges with single gilt rule. Inner board edges with tripe ruled line borders and dotted corners. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Some very light rubbing to extremities and the colouring is faintly darker to the outer boards but overall a lovely copy in a highly decorative early twentieth century fine leather binding.

W. Satchell & co. London. 1882. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Portrait and seven plates. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED With 11 mono and 3 hand coloured plates. A very good clean copy, finely bound in Nineteenth century full red calf binding. Spine with raised bands, brown title label, the compartments fully decorated in gilt. Three line gilt border on boards. Gilt inner dentelles. Top edge gilt. Previous owners bookplate on front paste down. Some staining to the boards (which doesn't extend inside the book) and a little rubbing to edges but still overall an attractive and finely bound book with original paper wrappers bound in at end.