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75 books by A Book for all Reasons, ibooknet & PBFA
PLAYS (Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, Salome).
Wilde, Oscar, · 1975
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1975, paperback, 148pp, [ii] ads., coloured lettered wrappers, a collection of Oscar Wilde's five wittiest and best known plays, light vertical crease and some sunning to spine, a little rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,
MAJOR BARBARA.
Shaw, George Bernard, · 1949
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1949, paperback, 169pp, paper wrappers in Penguin livery, screenplay version of the Gabriel Pascal feature film production of 1940, lightly rubbed at tips, spine sunned, light foxing to wrappers, edges tanned, good plus,
THE SYMPOSIUM.
Plato (trans. W Hamilton, ed. E. V. Rieu), · 1959
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, 1959, reprint, paperback, 122pp, paper wrappers in the standard Penguin Classics livery, the dramatic dialogue with unattributed introduction and notes on the text, lightly rubbed at tips, wrappers lightly soiled, edges tanned, ome cnrs. turne...
A BOOK OF ENGLISH POETRY.
Harrison, G. B. (collector), · 1961
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1961, reprint, paperback, 416pp, an anthology of Englis poetry from Chaucer to Rosetti, includes Browning, Byron, Coleridge, Cowper, Donne, Dryden, Goldsmith, Gray, etc, etc, with index of first lines, roll to spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanne...
Augustan Poetry No. 18,.
Drinkwater, John, · 1936
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Benn, 1936, 7th imp., 32pp, paperback, slim sewn paperback, title label upper wrapper, one of 116 titles in the series 'Benn's Augustan Books of Poetry', a selection of the works of John Drinkwater, small chips to spine, rubbed at extrems., ink inscr. on title, good plus,
PLATO AND HIS DIALOGUES.
Dickinson, G. Lowes, · 1947
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1947, paperback, 159pp, paper wrappers in standard Pelican livery, '..no more delightful introduction to the study of Plato could be desired...', includes The Republic and The Laws, lightly rubbed at tips, edges well tanned, very good,
Augustan Poetry No. 16.
Davies, W. H., · 1935
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Benn, 1935, 32pp, paperback, slim sewn paperback, title label upper wrapper, one of 116 titles in the series 'Benn's Augustan Books of Poetry', a selection of the works of William Henry Davies, short tear tail of spine, rubbed at extrems., edges nicked, wrappers a little crea...
PLEASE EXPLAIN.
Asimov, Isaac, · 1978
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Coronet, London, 1978, 1st thus, paperback, 191pp, decorated upper wrapper (unattrib.), a selection of 100 factual essays answering scientific questions from 'how did life begin' to 'how will the earth end', 'what happens to all the energy emitted by the stars' and 'what is t...
POETRY OF THE WORLD WARS.
Foss, Michael, · 1990
£7.00 (€8.38 | $9.42 | ¥1,488)
Michael O'Mara Books, London, 1990, 1st edn., 192pp, line drawings and half tone ills. in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a selection of a wide range of poetry, from WW1 depicting grief and pity, bitter satirical disgust and a visi...
WITH THESE HANDS - A Collection of Work.
Ayres, Pam, · 2011
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, ND (circa 2011), 5th imp. of new (2008) edition, [viii], 119pp, in text line drawings, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, autobiographical scenes from Pam Ayres life in prose and poetry, edges tanned, dustwrap...
WALT WHITMAN.
Whitman, Walt ( ed. and intro. by Ellma Crasnow), · 1996
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Everyman / Dent, London, ND (copyright 1996), trade paperback, xx, 101pp [i] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper by Diana Ong, lightly rubbed at tips, tiny gouge upper wrapper, edges tanned, very good plus,
R. S. THOMAS.
Thomas, R. S. (selected and ed. by Anthony Thwaite), · 1996
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Everyman / Dent, London, ND (copyright 1996), trade paperback, xii, 116pp, coloured pictorial upper wrapper by Paul Powis, lightly rubbed at tips, scratch and crease lower wrapper, edges tanned, very good,
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI.
Rossetti, Christina (selected and edited by Jan Marsh), · 1996
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Everyman / J. M. Dent, London, ND (copyright 1996), trade paperback, xx, 108pp, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, lightly rubbed at tips, snag top edge and several impressed marks upper wrapper, light crease upper hinge, edges tanned, ink name and number top edge title, good ...
COUNTRY COMETS.
Lewis, Cecil Day, · 1928
£6.00 (€7.19 | $8.07 | ¥1,275)
Martin Hopkinson, London, 1928, 1st edn., x, 35pp, light green paper covered boards with white title panel lettered and decorated in black upper board, spine sunned, edges tanned and foxed, light foxing to title label and endpapers, no dustwrapper, very good,
COUNTRY COMETS.
Lewis, Cecil Day, · 1928
£6.00 (€7.19 | $8.07 | ¥1,275)
Martin Hopkinson, London, 1928, 1st edn., x, 35pp, light green paper covered boards with white title panel lettered and decorated in black upper board, spine sunned, edges tanned and foxed, light foxing to title label and endpapers, no dustwrapper, very good,
LIFE IS A PLATFORM.
Levi, Peter, · 1971
£7.00 (€8.38 | $9.42 | ¥1,488)
Anvil Press Poetry, London, ND (copyright 1971), 52pp, magenta endpapers, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed at extrems., upper edge tanned, faint foxing fore-edge, dustwrapper: a little sunned at spine, very good plus in a near fine d...
DEATH IS A PULPIT.
Levi, Peter, · 1971
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Anvil Press Poetry, London, ND (copyright 1971), 38pp, dark olive endpapers, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed at extrems., upper edge tanned, small mark front pastedown, dustwrapper: a little sunned at spine, very good plus in a near...
ALWAYS ADAM.
Jennett, Seán, · 1943
£6.00 (€7.19 | $8.07 | ¥1,275)
Faber and Faber, London, 1943, 1st edn., 64pp, orange cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, fore- and lower edges uncut, paper unspecified but appears to be handmade laid, edges a liitle dusty and tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fin...
THE BEST OF BETJEMAN.
Betjeman, John (selected by John Guest), · 0
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Penguin, Harmondsworth, ND, reprint, trade paperback, 236pp, [iii] ads., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, a selection of the best of John Betjeman's poetry but also of his prose revealing him as an architectural critic, a social historian, a conservationist, railway e...
COLLECTED POEMS.
Allott, Kenneth (foreword by Roy Fuller), · 1975
£7.00 (€8.38 | $9.42 | ¥1,488)
Secker and Warburg, London, 1975, 1st edn., 110pp, pink cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, a reissue of the port's two ealier collections: "Poems", first published 1938 and "The Vetriloquist's Doll" in 1943, with a selection of a further sixteen l...