Search Results: Literary Criticism from Mike Park Ltd

London: Peter Davies Limited, 1926. Small octavo, pp xvi, 335, edges untrimmed, a very slight suggestion of foxing here and there, but otherwise clean internally, cloth-backed boards, the cornes slightly bruised, the spine a little worn and wrinkled, a little frayed at the spine head. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his signature on the front endpaper and some pencil notes on the rear endpapers.]. Cloth-backed boards. Good.

Oxford University Press, 1973. Illustrated with 9 portraits, large octavo, pp xxiv, 318, very clean internally, grey cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped, otherwise this is a very good copy indeed. . First Edition. Cloth. As New/Very Good.

London: Museum of London & Philip Wilson Publishers, 2006. Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 228, paperback, a very brught clean copy throughout, virtually as new. [Includes illustrations from the collection of satirical and caricature images in the Museum of London, it encompasses research and uses historical and literary sources to place the satire of London in the context of English satire as a whole. Catalogue of an exhibition, Satirical London, held at the Museum of London, April-September 2006.]. First Edition. Paperback. As New.

London: Longmans Green & Co., 1949. Portrait frontispiece, octavo, pp (2), 237, fore-edge foxed, slightly affecting the page margins also, endpapers foxed, otherwise very clean internally, blue cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped and a little torn and chipped, with slight loss.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn and torn.

London & Melbourne: Vermilion, 1983. Illustrated, slim 8vo, pp 112, paperback, covers age-toned, otherwise a very good copy.. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn and marked.

New York: St Martins Press, 1983. Illustrated, slim 8vo, pp 112, lower corner slightly damp-wrinkled, long inscription on front endpaper, black cloth slightly marked, in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped but which is slightly worn and marked.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn and marked.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1933. Introduction by Hyder E. Rollins, small slim 8vo, pp xx, 65, an ex-public library copy, with bookplate on the front endpaper, two plates on the rear endpapers, an inked number and withdrawn stamp on the verso of the title page (the ink shows through to the recto slightly), brown cloth with shelf number at the base, in a dustwrapper which is rather worn browned and frayed and which has a number and a cross on the spine. The book is otherwise sound, with only lsight wear internally and to the cloth. EXTREMELY SCARCE.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/Poor.

1994. The 25th year of production. Slender 12mo, pp [24], very clean internally, paperback, the covers with the slightest suggestion of fading. [Postage will be reduced].. First Edition thus. Paperback. Very Good.

London & Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. Not illustrated, octavo, pp xviii, 452, top edge a little foxed, the endpapers and the foldover flaps of the dustwrapper are slightly foxed, otherwise exceptionally clean internally, blue cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped. [From the library of the naturalist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.] . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1970. Not ilustrated, pp xiv, 660, a very good copy in a dustwrapper which is slightly worn. and rather browned on its inner surface.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good.

London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1974. Two volumes, large 8vo, pp xxviii, 329; xii, 263, bindings leaning very slightly, otherwise very good copies in dustwrappers which are showing only very faint signs of use.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

London: B.T. Batsford, 1913. First edition. Small octavo, pp 60, top edge gilt, very clean internally, blue cloth with gilt decoration, the lower cover very lightly spotted, the upper cover with two small white marks, the spine very slighly faded. [With the signature of Philip Langton-Lockton on front endpaper.] . First Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1984. Illustrated, octavo, pp xviii, 137, green cloth, a very good copy without dustwrapper.. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good.

Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies & Oak Knoll Press, 1996. Illustrated, pp xx, 187, blue cloth with the very faintest wear. (John Phillimore's typed review loosely inserted.).

Cambridge at the University Press, 1949. Illustrated with ten plates, octavo, pp xviii, 455, clean internally, black cloth slightly worn and bumped, binding leaning slightly, a small tear in the moddle of the spine. [From the library of the botanist Desmond Clarke, with his signature on the front endpaper.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1857. Thick 12mo, pp xl, 352, a little staining and spotting throughout, a signature on the front endpaper, original embossed cloth, rubbed and slightly worn, head and tail of spine worn, slight splitting to the joints. [The scarce first edition]. First Edition. Cloth. Fair.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1942. Frontispiece, octavo, pp 153, slightly age-toned and very slight occasional fox mark, grey cloth, age-toned, faded and slightly worn.. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. Octavo, pp xii, 204, extremely clean internally, dark blue cloth, a bit faded but otherwise good, no dustwrapper. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Paris: Les Presses Francaises, 1923. Octavo, pp xii, 120, uncut and unopened, some foxing throughout, paperback, covers a little worn and browned. SCARCE. Presentation copy from the author to Professor W.L. Renwick. [In English. A Doctorate of Letters thesis for the University of Paris].. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. Undated, third impression, illustrated with 32 tipped-in photographic portraits of authors being written about, 8vo, pp.viii, 327, charcoal cloth slightly worn, lacking top strip of spine, fore and bottom edges uncut and a little browned, one page roughly opened, a few internal hinges starting to crack, half-title and one blank page at end of book heavily browned but the remainder remarkably clean, bears bookplate on front pastedown endpaper.. Cloth. Good. Illus. by Hoppe, E.O..