Search Results: Authors starting with P from Charles Vivian Art & Antiques

Proscenium Press. First thus . Soft cover. Good. 8vo, original fawn cover with brown lettering and decoration, these a little grubby, some mild handling creases, split to front hinge at base, corners bumped, price sticker to back cover and inside front cover, a stain to the top of pages throughout, not affecting text, some incidental foxing amongst the opening and closing pages, otherwise clean, binding sound.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1868. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 8vo, pp. ix, 364, half green calf over marbled boards, much scuffed, label with title to spine is missing but impression still evident, corners bumped, label removed from fep, endpapers and those adjoining foxed, including the frontispiece and title page, the latter with tears to top and bottom at hinge, hinge open between that and the preface, coloured fold-out map with a mark to lower edge, similarly so to the first page of the text, thereafter clean and crisp until the appendix pages (last eight), whereby a damp stain affects top corner at the fore edge. Binding otherwise tight.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1953. Hardcover. Fair/Poor. London: Secker and Warburg, 1953. First UK edition. Fair/poor. D.j. heavily tanned, tears and losses, interior better but some foxing marks, spine leans but binding is sound.

London : Whittaker & Co., etc, 1849. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 16mo, pp.158, plus two pages of reviews of the first edition and 16 pages of advertising to rear, original blind and gilt stamped brick red cloth dirty and rubbed, a paper label to spine with title, cloth lifting to top right corner and frayed to edges, the interior is considerably brighter, there are a few foxing marks and the edges are dust-dulled, the binding is tight. The fold-out map at the front has been deliberately pasted onto itself and the fep as it was obsolete even a year after it was first published, such was the speed of development of the railway. The first edition was published in 1848, indeed there is an erroneous inked addition to the title page to state that this is the same date but the preface to the second edition is printed on the back of the page bearing the preface to the first and this is dated 1849. One assumes that the remainder of the text is the same as the earlier edition. An advertisement for… Read More

Cambridge: Babcock and Wilcox Ltd, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Cambridge: Babcock and Wilcox Ltd , 1939. First edition. Very Good. Possibly a review copy; contains a business card of the General Sales Manager of the publisher. Fading to spine of original red cloth, interior with owner's name to ffep, otherwise clean and crisp.

Dublin: Alex. Thom and Co. (Limited(, 1900. First thus . Soft cover. Fair. 8vo, pp. (22), original blue paper wrappers, toned in patches (which runs throughout to varying degrees), top corner curled, binding sound. A reprint from the Irish Naturalist, Vol IX, pp 187-209. Inscribed 'With the Author's Compts' to front cover.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., 1915. Hardcover. Fair. Frontispiece by J. Gidley Withycombe. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., 1915. First edition. Fair. Frontispiece by J. Gidley Withycombe. 'Mr. Patterson has felt the lure of the ocean, he has sailed the main and knows the life of the fo'c'sle, and has a collection of yarns by an old salt whom he calls Shivers, and who has already become familiar in "Sea Pie." His style is at once luxuriant, discursive and expressive; it has ease and vividness, and it is inspired by a love of the sea, which he knows in all its moods. He can appreciate its vastness and its solitude ; he has convinced himself of the femininity of its ways and moods ; he has felt its exhilaration and he has fallen under the influence of its call. He tells his stories of life afloat with vividness and with the illumination of many sidelights. As a consequence his chapters develop at times into something of a… Read More

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. undated, c.1899, 1899. Hardcover. Good. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., undated, c.1899. Ninth Edition (Tenth thousand). Good. Pictorial boards tanned and a little frayed, corners bumped, internally clean

Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press Limited, 1979. Hardcover. Good +/Good. Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press Limited, 1979. First edition. Good +/good. Unclipped d.j. rubbed and with minor splits top and bottom, interior with ink owner's signature to fep, otherwise crisp and clean, binding tight.

Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son Ltd., 1917. Hardcover. Good. Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son Ltd., 1917. First edition. Good. A surprisingly rare first edition. The book itself does not bear the close scrutiny of literary critics and one has to wonder that if her brothers had not been executed after the Easter Rising, it would not have ever seen the light of day. Gilt lettering faded on spine, interior with some mild foxing, the pages yellowing but otherwise clean, a crack in the binding on page 16, otherwise quite sound.

Sydney: Weldon Publishing, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to, pp.292, unclipped dust jacket bright, interior also clean and bright, very mild foxing to top and fore edges, binding tight.

London: Elliot Stock, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. London: Elliot Stock, 1890. First edition. Very Good. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and device, spine darkened and a little wrinkled, interior with a book plate to fep, end papers toned, a few margin lines in ink, otherwise bright, uncut edges dust-dulled.

Lund: Gleerups, 1969. Paperback. Good +. Lund: Gleerups, 1969. First edition. Good +. Biblioteca Historica Lundensis XXII Small disturbance to top of spine, contents largely clean, a few pages towards rear with mildly creased corners, last page opposite illustration with some tanning.

Norwich: Jarrold & Sons Ltd Undated (c.1920), 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. Norwich: Jarrold & Sons Ltd, Undated (c.1920). First edition. Very Good. Volume I covers 1685 - 1914, Volume II covers 1914 - 1918. Slightly faded spines to red cloth, very mild foxing to opening and closing pages and foredge, more prevalent in Vol II, otherwise clean and with tight binding to both volumes.

Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1845. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good. 4to, pp. xxi, 525, original blind ruled brown cloth by Galwey & Co. of Dublin, gilt lettering to spine, boards marked and rubbed at spine, corners mildly bumped, interior with black end papers, small losses to fore edge of ffep, the reverse of which has an owner's name, 256 illustrations with text, pages largely bright and crisp, some incidental foxing and very occasional marginalia, binding sound.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd Undated (1936), 1936. Hardcover. Good +. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, Undated (1936). First edition. Good +. Dark blue cloth a littel rubbed, corners slightly bumped, minor foxing on prelim pages, otherwise clean and with tight binding, contemporary review pasted into inside front cover.

London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1852. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo, pp. 354, original blind stamped green cloth, dulled gilt decoration and lettering to spine, top and bottom of spine frayed, corners bumped, presentation bookplate to fep, interior with mild foxing throughout, free end papers toned, incidental marks also, 1/4" lower corner of page ix/x missing, all illustrations present, binding sound

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. third impression. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, pp. x, 183, 32 pages of advertisements at rear, original olive green cloth with blind stamp decoration and gilt lettering, spine slightly faded, extremities rubbed, corners mildly bumped, interior with tanned endpapers, pencil owner's signature to fep, foxed throughout although illustrations are largely spared, some uncut pages and those opened done so carelessly, binding firm but with a very slight lean.

Dublin: The Candle Press, 1917. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo, pp. 23, original brown stiff paper wrappers with red printing, a little creased where the cover exceeds the size of the text block, very faintly faded at the extremities, interior crisp, bright and clean, a very faint crease to top corner of first few pages and a single fox mark to the last page. Rarely found in this condition.

London: Routledge, 1990. Paperback. Good. London: Routledge, 1990. First edition. Good. Corners bumped, some highlighting to four pages, ink owner's name to ffep, spine creased