Search Results: Titles starting with P from Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA

John Lane, The Bodley Head ltd, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG++. First Edition. Oatmeal cloth with brown stamped titles and decoration to the front and a gilt stamped black titles label to the spine. Top edge tan, other edges uncut (xiv)146(2)pp with a pictorial title page, 20 full page colour plates and 32 red line illustrations within the text. With original brown paper dust jacket and 42/- price to the spine. The boards have been well protected by the jacket and are clean and bright with just a hint of dust marking to the edges. The spine tips have been a little pushed and the cloth on the bottom corner edge of the rear board is rubbed. Internally, the book has no name inscription or bookplate but does have some light spotting mainly but not exclusively to the uncut edges. There is also an area of toning to the front free endpaper where something has been laid in the book at some point. The dust jacket, which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown), is remarkably… Read More

Hamish Hamilton, 1970. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. NF/VG++. 1st UK Edition, 1st Printing. 21 x 26.5cm laminated pictorial boards, unpaginated [32]pp with colour illustrations throughout. With original unclipped dust jacket priced at �1.05 and 21s net. A near fine book clean and bright with firm sharp corners. Internally clean and bright and without name inscription or bookplate. The dust jacket which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown) is in lovely condition noting just a little light marking to the edges. A beautiful early Eric Carle book in lovely condition. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Editions du Rocher, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 11.2 x 22 cm grey paper wraps with red decoration and black titles to the front 37 [1]pp with erratum tipped in. The half title contains a red and blue profile portrait drawn by the artist with a personal inscription reading. ' � George/ Wright Hall /cet essai de solitude et de/ porter le poise � la/ hauteur d'une sucrie exacte./ avec l'amitie/ de Jean Cocteau'. The pamphlet also comes with its original mailing envelope written by Cocteau with his return address in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, France. There is a light horizontal mark just up from the end of the "S" of "DIALOGUES" and across onto the spine and a round mark immediately below the bottom triangle (slightly right of centre) on the front cover. Otherwise it is in at least near fine condition. The envelope is addressed by Cocteau to his friend George Wright Hall (1895-1974), who had studied in Edinburgh in the early 1920s and was a member of the 1922 Group. It bears its original stamps and… Read More

Blackie & Son Limited, nd (1908) 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. First Edition. 23.4 x 28.6 cm cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards pictorial endpapers, 98pp with 16 full page colour plates and black and white images throughout. The lightly marked boards have slight rubbing to the corners edges and spine tips which are also a little pushed. Internally, there is a prize label to the front free endpaper dated 1908 and occasional light spotting. A really charming children's illustrated book about different countries of the world. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Hodder & Stoughton , 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st Edition. 13.5 x 21 cm dark and light green boards with gilt stamped titles to the spine. 254pp with original unclipped jacket priced at 24s net. A very good copy with just a light bruise to the top edge of the front board. Internally there is no name, inscription or bookplate and just a hint of uniform toning to the endpapers and edge of the text block which also has some very light spots. The dust jacket, which is now protected in a removable clear cover (not shown), is a little toned with some surface abrasion to the bottom edge of the front panel and to a lesser extent to the top edge. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Whitman Publishing Company, nd (1938) 1938. Softcover. VG. 24.4 x 30.5 cm unpaginated 12 'linen-like' pages with colour illustrations on every page. A very good copy with splits in the spine of 2cm at the head and 1cm at the foot. A little spotting to the cover and a couple of marks to the margins of one page. All in all a charmingly illustrated version of Beatrix Potter's classic tale. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Theodore Presser Co., nd(1946) 1946. Softcover. VG. 28.6 x 23 cm colour pictorial soft covers, stapled bindng, 24pp with 11 black and white illustrations and 9 songs with music. Very good with 8 pages poorly opened along the bottom edge. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Acorn Press, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NF/VG+. 1st Edition 1945 27.7 x 22.2 cm pictorial paper covered boards with alphabet pastedowns. Unpaginated [28] with a page to represent each letter of the alphabet containing woodcut illustrations and a rhyming couplet. In original unclipped jacket priced at 6s. net. A near fine copy clean and bright with a small crease across the spine and to the top corner of the upper board. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate. The dust jacket which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown) is lightly toned with just a tiny chip on the top edge and a 1.5 cm closed tear with associated creasing on the bottom edge. Hellmuth Weissenborn was born in Leipzig in 1898 and moved to England in 1938, He married his wife Lesley Macdonald in 1945 and together they founded the Acorn Press. This is the first book published by the press and is rare. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require… Read More

Julia MacRae Books, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NF. 1st Edition. 22 x 25.7 cm laminated pictorial boards with a �5.95 price on the rear board, grey endpapers, unpaginated, (32)pp with illustrations throughout. Signed by the author to the verso of the endpaper. A near fine 1st Edition book with fabulous illustrations and an excellent signature. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

William Heinemann, 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. 1st Edition. 13 x 18.3 cm grey cloth with black and pink stamped decoration to the front and black titles to the front and spine xii 146 [2] with decorative title page 6 black and white full page woodcut illustrations and black and white headers to each Act. A lovely copy with some beautiful illustrations. There is a touch of rubbing to the spine tips, edges and corners. Internally, there is no name inscription or bookplate and just a little uniform toning to the free endpapers and one or two very light finger marks. The play was first produced at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1908 when it stared Ellen Terry. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Putnam, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG. 1st Edition. 12.8 x 20 cm black boards with gilt stamped titles to the spine. Top edge yellow, 255[1]pp, with original unclipped dust jacket designed by John Minton and priced at 15s. net. Clean boards with just a hint of toning to the titles on the spine. Firm corners and just a hint of pushing to the foot of the spine. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate and just a touch of toning and spotting to the fore edge of the text block. The dust jacket, which is now protected in a removable clear cover (not shown), and presents well. It is a little toned and marked in the white areas particularly on the rear panel. The spine tips and corners are a little rubbed with minimal loss and a couple of closed tears with associated light creasing. All in all a very good looking 1st Edition copy of this influential novel that focussed on homosexuality at a time when is was still illegal in the UK. Goff was later influential as administrator… Read More

William Pickering, 1825. 1st Thus. Full Leather. VG++. 1st Edition Thus. 5 x 18.5 cm [1.2" x 3.4"] in full red morocco binding by Zaehnsdorf with 5 raised bands and gilt titles to the spine and highly decorative dentelles. All edges gilt, Marble endpapers, Zaehnsdorf binding printed to the bottom corner of the verso of the front free endpaper. Volume 1 - Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night [x] 306pp Volume 2 - Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Loves Labours Lost, The Merchant of Venice [vi] 279[3]pp Volume 3 - As You Like It, Alls Well that Ends Well, The Taming of the Shrew, A Winter's Tale [vi] 294[2]pp Volume 4 - A Comedy or Errors, Macbeth, King John, Richard II, Henry IV pt 1 [vi] 396[2] pp Volume 5 - Henry IV Pt II, Kenry V, Henry VI Pt1 & Pt II [vi] 321[3]pp Volume 6 - Henry VI Pt III, Richard III, Henry VIII, Troilus and Cressida [vi] 348[2]pp Volume 7 - Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra [vi]… Read More

George Bell, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG. HEATH ROBINSON, W.. 1st Thus. 13.5 x 20.9 cm khaki cloth with green and gilt decoration and titles to the front and spine with the publisher's divice to the spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut, pictorial endpapers, xxxv [iii] 225 [3]pp with black line illustrations including tissue guarded frontispiece by William Heath-Robinson. A touch of toning to the spine and a little rubbing to the spine tips and corners with small splits in the cloth in the lower joint at the head of the spine and along the foot of the spine. Internally there is some splitting to the endpapers with the the loose paper glued down and the binding remains firm. There is a gift inscription dated in the year of publication on the blank following the front free endpapers and two 'from the the publisher' stamps on the title page. Internally there is a little spotting, mainly to the prelims and last couple of pages and the edge of the text block. All in all a beautifully… Read More

George Bell, 1900. 1st Thus. Hardcover. VG+. HEATH ROBINSON, W.. 1st Thus. 13.5 x 20.9 cm khaki cloth with green and gilt decoration and titles to the front and spine with the publisher's divice to the spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut, pictorial endpapers, xxxv [iii] 225 [3]pp with black line illustrations including tissue guarded frontispiece by William Heath-Robinson. There is some toning to the spine, a little rubbing to the spine tips with a hint of fraying at the head of the spine and a touch of bruising to the corners, more so to the top two. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate and with just a touch of toning to the uncut edges. All in all a very good looking 1st Edition of the Heath-Robinson illustrated Poems of Edgar Allen Poe with beautiful Art Nouveau illustrations. A difficult to find book. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

David Bryce, nd(c1920) 1920. Hardcover. VG+. 6 x 9 cm green cloth with gilt stamped titles and decoration to the front and spine red edges brown and white floral endpapers. 530 (14)pp including frontispiece. A very good copy with just a hint or rubbing to the spine tips and corners. Internally the book is clean and bright and without name inscription or bookplate Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Arthur Barker Ltd, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. F/NF. SHEPARD, Ernest H.. 1st impression. 13.5 x 20.4 cm red boards with gilt stamped titles to the spine, 150pp with black and white illustrations by Ernest H Shepard. In original unclipped jacket priced at 18s net. A fine, clean, bright book without name, inscription or bookplate, in a dust jacket which is in at least near fine condition, with just a hint of rubbing. A collection of 12 humorous essays looking for the hidden meaning in the Pooh books and representing different schools of criticism. An excellent 1st Edition that appears unread. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Chatto & Windus, 1925. Hardcover. VG+/VG-. RACKHAM, Arthur. 1st Edition. 4to., 19.1 x 25.2cm, xi 175pp plus 7 coloured plates by Arthur Rackham as called for. Orange cloth covered boards with red stamped illustration and titles to the front and spine. The book has its original unclipped jacket with a 7s 6d price. The boards are clean and bright with no fading and only a hint of rubbing to the corners and spine tips. Internally, the book has no name, inscription or bookplate and is very clean with only slight toning to the free endpapers and a very few light spots to the fore edge. The somewhat dust stained dust jacket has a large chip measuring 6.5 x 5 cm at the top of the rear panel and one of 3 x 2.5cm from the head of the spine and minor chipping from the foot of up to 0.5cm. There is also minimal loss at the corners. There are a number of small tears of less than 5mm to the edges and four larger closed tears of 2-4 cm. Despite the damage to the scarce dust jacket this is a very good… Read More

Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NF/VG. STEADMAN, Ralph. 1st English Language trade edition, 16 x 24cm brown boards with gilt stamped tables to the spine, map endpapers 1287pp with black and white illustrations by Ralph Steadman and original unclipped jacket priced at �2.75 net. The boards have been well protected by the jacket and are clean and bright with just a hint of rubbing to the bottom edge. Internally clean unmarked pages noting just a book plate for historian Hugh Brogan on the verso of the front free endpaper. The jacket has a little fading to the spine which extend onto the rear panel for a couple of centimetres and for a little on the top edge. There is a little light creasing along the top edge and a ding on the front panel near t`he spine. All in all a very collectable copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Thames and Hudson, 1966. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. VG++/VG-. 1st UK Edition. 14.8 x 21.5 cm orange cloth with gilt stamped publisher's device to the front and titles to the spine, 216pp with 18 colour and 175 black and white illustrations. The book is in its original unclipped dust jacket priced at 35s. Clean boards with a little shelf wear and rubbing to the spine tips, corners, and most noticeably the bottom edges. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate. There is rubbing and corner creasing to one page - the result of a production fault that means that it sticks out. The dust jacket, which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown), has a little rubbing to the edges with a touch of surface abrasion, most noticeably on the rear joint where there are a couple of 0.5cm patches where the laminated surface has lifted. All in all a good looking copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or… Read More

B T Batsford Ltd., 1948. 1st Thus. Hardcover. VG++/VG++. 1st Edition Thus. 14.7 x 22.5 cm grey cloth with red titles to the spine. Top edge tinted red, 135[1] pp with 61 pages of photographic illustrations including frontispiece. In original unclipped jacket priced at 16s Net. Clean boards with firm sharp corners. Internally without name, inscription or bookplate but with some light spotting mainly to the endpapers and the edge of the text block. There is a vertical crease on p61. The dust jacket, which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown), presents very well but has a touch of spotting and tape reinforcement to spine tips and corners of the front flaps on the verso. All in all a very good plus copy of this collection of impressions of New York, a revision of his 1938 book, Cecil Beaton's New York, with new post war illustrations. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All… Read More