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THE SECRET DREAM - an essay on Britain, America and Russia,.
Priestley, J. B., · 1946
£6.00 (€7.19 | $8.07 | ¥1,275)
Turnstile Press Ltd., London, 1946, 1st edn., paperback original, 38pp, paper wrappers, cream wrappers with lettering and decoration in blue, red and black by 'Scarfe', an essay on the need for shared liberty, equality and fraternity between the three major nations, wrappers ...
THE ARTS UNDER SOCIALISM - being a lecture given to the Fabian Society with a postscript on 'What the Government should do for the Arts Here and Now',.
Priestley, J. B., · 1947
£6.00 (€7.19 | $8.07 | ¥1,275)
Turnstile Press Ltd., London, 1947, 1st edn., paperback original, 32pp, paper wrappers, stapled cream wrappers with lettering and decoration by Brian Robb, wrappers are a heavy matt paper that picks up every grain of dust, lightly rubbed and faintly creased in places, no ser...
THESE DIVERSIONS : Playgoing.
Agate, James (edited by J. B. Priestley), · 1927
£13.00 (€15.57 | $17.49 | ¥2,763)
Jarrolds, London, 1927, 1st. ed., 88pp, tissue guarded coloured frontis port. of James Agate, brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, fore-edge uncut, one of a series of essays edited by J. B. Priestley under the general title of These Divers...
PAPERS FROM LILLIPUT.
Priestley, J. B., · 1922
£20.00 (€23.95 | $26.90 | ¥4,250)
Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge, 1922, 1st edn., 236pp, new rebind in beige cloth backed green cloth covered boards (as original binding), printed spine label, all edges uncut, essays, edges tanned, some faint marks in margins, no dustwrapper, very good,
TIME AND THE CONWAYS.
Priestley, J. B. (intro. and notes by E. R. Wood), · 1973
£6.00 (€7.19 | $8.07 | ¥1,275)
Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1973, 6th imp., [xv], 92pp, decorated coloured lettered boards, Hereford Plays series including stage setting and dramatic instructions, no dustwrapper, fine,
ENGLISH HUMOUR.
Priestley, J. B., · 1931
£10.00 (€11.98 | $13.45 | ¥2,125)
Longmans Green and Co., London, 1931, 4th imp., [xii], 180pp, green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt at spine, decorated in gilt upper board, criticism and comment, lightly rubbed at extrems., upper edge dusty, light browning to endpapers and small bookplate front pastedo...
BRIGHT DAY.
Priestley, J. B., · 1951
£6.00 (€7.19 | $8.07 | ¥1,275)
Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1951, 1st in imprint, paperback, 295pp, #861, standard Penguin orange and white livery, Priestley's own favourite, a novel of a middle aged scriptwriter, lightly rubbed at tips, sl. sunning to spine, edges tanned, very good,
THEY WALK IN THE CITY - The Lovers in the Stone Forest.
Priestley, J. B., · 1936
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1936, 1st edn., [viii], 515pp, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, publishers device blind stamped lower board, a novel, rubbed and bumped at extrems., edges dusty and foxed, 4 line ink inscr. fpd and ink sig. ffep., foxing to prleims. a...
THE GOOD COMPANIONS.
Priestley, J. B., · 1932
£6.00 (€7.19 | $8.07 | ¥1,275)
William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1932, 26th imp., viii, 646pp, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, publishers device blind stamped lower board, top edge col'd, a novel of a travelling theatre company, sl. cocked, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., spine and top edge uppe...
BRIGHT DAY.
Priestley, J. B., · 1946
£6.00 (€7.19 | $8.07 | ¥1,275)
William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1946, 3rd imp., [viii], 368pp, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, publishers device blind stamped lower board, Priestley's own favourite, a novel of a middle aged scriptwriter, sl. cocked, lightly rubbed at tips, gilding rubbed at tail ...
TIME AND THE PRIESTLEYS - The Story of a Friendship.
Collins, Diana (foreword by Iris Murdoch), (J. B. Priestley interest), · 1994
£10.00 (€11.98 | $13.45 | ¥2,125)
Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1994, 1st edn. UK, xiv, 256pp, numerous in text half tone photo ills.,dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, biography of J. B. Priestley and his wife Jacquetta Hawkes by their friend since 1957, Diana Collins, wife of Ca...
THREE MEN IN NEW SUITS.
Priestley, J. B., · 1945
£7.00 (€8.38 | $9.42 | ¥1,488)
William Heinemenn Ltd., London, 1945, 1st edn., [vi], 170pp, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, publishers device blind stamped lower board, plain lettered dustwrapper (unattrib.), a short novel about three de-mobbed servicemen, cocked, a little rubbed and bumped at e...
THEY WALK IN THE CITY - The Lovers in the Stone Forest.
Priestley, J. B., · 1936
£7.00 (€8.38 | $9.42 | ¥1,488)
William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1936, 1st edn., [x], 515pp, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, publishers device blind stamped lower board, a novel, light bumps top cnr. upper bd. and lower cnr. lower bd., a little rubbed at spine ends and tips, two small marks upper ...
PARTICULAR PLEASURES - being a personal record of some varied arts and many different artists,.
Priestley, J. B., · 1975
£10.00 (€11.98 | $13.45 | ¥2,125)
William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1975, 1st edn., 192pp, half tone frontis port. by Michael Noakes, numerous in text line drawings, col'd and half tone ills., crimson cloth type paper covered boards lettered in gilt at spine, decorative headband, col'd monatge dustwrapper by G...
MIDNIGHT ON THE DESERT - A Chapter of Autobiography.
Priestley, J. B., · 1937
£9.00 (€10.78 | $12.11 | ¥1,913)
William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1937, 1st edn., [x], 312pp, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, publishers device blind stamped lower board, a little rubbed at extrems., light foxing to edges, eps. a little browned, foxing to prelims and light mainly marginal foxing th...
JOURNEY DOWN A RAINBOW.
Priestley, J. B. and Hawkes, Jacquetta, · 1955
£10.00 (€11.98 | $13.45 | ¥2,125)
William Heinemann Ltd. / The Cresset Press, London, 1955, 1st edn., xii, 289pp, green cloth with black title panel lettered in gilt at spine, top edge col'd, col'd decorated lettered dustwrapper by 'Sag', travel, lightly bumped at head of spine and lower cnrs., gilding a lit...
JENNY VILLIERS.
Priestley, J. B., · 1947
£11.00 (€13.18 | $14.80 | ¥2,338)
William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1947, 1st edn., [viii], 190pp, head and tail pieces by M. Elaine Hancock, dark blue cloth with variant decoration, lettered at spine and decorated upper board in gilt rather than silver, blind stamped lower board, col'd decorated lettered dust...
DAYLIGHT ON SATURDAY.
Priestley, J. B., · 1943
£7.00 (€8.38 | $9.42 | ¥1,488)
William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1943, 1st edn., [viii], 306pp, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, publishers device blind stamped lower board, a novel of the workers in an aircraft factory during WW2 Britain, sl. cocked, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., gilding...
ALBERT GOES THROUGH.
Priestley, J. B., · 1933
£13.00 (€15.57 | $17.49 | ¥2,763)
William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1933, 1st edn., 75pp, full page and in text ills. by Edmund Blampied, dark blue cloth lettered in red at spine, lettered and decorated in red upper board, a short story, a little rubbed at extrems., a few faint marks to cloth, edges browned, r...
FESTIVAL AT FARBRIDGE.
Priestley, J. B., · 1951
£10.00 (€11.98 | $13.45 | ¥2,125)
William Heinemenn Ltd., London, 1951, 1st edn., 593pp, dark brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, top edge coloured, yellow silk marker, a novel of the Festival of Britain, light spot fore-edge, recased in new binding, near fine, no dustwrappe...