Search Results: Authors starting with L from Dodman Books

Nottingham: University Of Nottingham, 1968. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Booklet produced to accompany a series of 10 BBC radio broadcasts focusing on novels with a strong connection to Nottingham. Much focus on Adam Bede and D H Lawrence, but also encompassing Alan Sillitoe and Michael Standen. Useful list of Notts novels included. Scarce. All in VG internal order. Grey card covers faded and toned to edges. 8vo. 12pp

London: The London Book Co, 1928. Hardcover. Good/Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. ND. 1928 - WorldCat. Cheap edition in The Novel Library series. Stock toned, but otherwise all in VG internal order. Light wear to plum boards with gilt tilting to front, dulled to spine. Scarce in good unclipped d/j, this showing wear to edges with small loss and now in removable protective sleeve. 16mo. 314pp + publisher's ads.

New York: Turtle Point Press, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bar small mark to edge of block, in crisp, clean and bright order throughout. Light wear only to pictorial card covers. 8vo. xxii, 193pp

London: Horace Marshall & Son. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Helen Stratton. ND. Spenser adapted. General good order throughout, though feels like a rather cheap production. Scarce nevertheless. Decorated blue boards rather grubby. 12mo. 181pp. This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends of Morston Church (reg.1099831).

London: Victor Gollancz, 1950. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Tenth printing and, bar toning to stock, all in VG internal order. Red boards lightly marked to rear and faded to edges and spine. 12mo. 191pp

Leominster: Gracewing, 1995. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Second printing of Mascall's autobiography, with much on Cambridge, Oxford and life as leading Anglo-Catholic priest. All in VG+ clean and bright internal order. Former owner's name neatly to fep. Very light wear only to smart green boards with bright gilt titling to spine. VG unclipped d/j a little toned and lightly worn with some small closed tears, repaired internally. This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. x, 392pp

Boston: D C Heath And Company, 1951. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A little toning to endpapers and light foxing to early and late pages, but in general all in VG clean and bright order. Former owner's name neatly to front pastedown. Green cloth worn to edges and dulled to spine. 8vo. 274pp

London: George Allen & Company, 1912. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Well illustrated with photographs. Stock lightly toned and occasional foxing (moreso to endpapers) but in general all in good internal order. Rear endpapers split but all holding firm. Blue boards with gilt tilting, rather worn to front and dulled to spine. 8vo. 353pp + publisher's ads

Bombay: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1944. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The 25th pamphlet in this wide-ranging series looking at matters concerning India and the subcontinent. All in VG internal order on low grade stock. Light wear only to purple-printed card covers. 12mo. 32pp

New York: D Appleton And Company, 1904. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. In general good order throughout. Toning and occasional marking, one page shows former creases, but for the most part clean and bright. No inscriptions. Attractive cream boards with green, blue and gilt decoration and titling, dulled to spine. Wear to edges and some light marking, moreso to rear. 12mo. viii, 140pp

Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co, 1900. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. W H Gallaway. First edition of Stanton's fourth verse collection, embellished with attractive full page plates from Gallaway. Light toning to stock, but otherwise all in VG clean and bright internal order. Gilt to top of block. Former owner's signature neatly to fep. Mid-blue cloth with heavily embossed and bright gilt titling and decoration, only lightly marked and worn but a little dulled to spine. A nice copy. 12mo. xvi, 239pp

London: Archibald Constable And Company, 1894. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First UK edition of Stanton's breakthrough collection whose poetry had been "seized upon" according to Joel Chandler Harris in his preface, by the English literary weeklies "as something new and striking. The result of this is that the phenomenal popularity of Mr Stanton' verses in this country [US] finds a hearty echo in Great Britain." Light toning to stock and minor spotting to endpapers but in general VG internal order throughout. Attractive bookplate of John Fairweather to front pastedown and his signature neatly to fep. Tight binding with gilt to top edge of block. Smart red cloth with bright gilt titling, only lightly worn and a little faded to spine. 12mo. xiv, 237pp + (incongruously) US publisher's catalogue to rear.

New York: John B Alden, 1892. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Stanton's first published collection including the remarkable anti-lynching poems 'Lynched' and 'Hunt Him Down'. Pages lightly toned, with occasional minor marking, a little moreso to endpapers and title. Fep removed and binding opening a little between gatherings, but all holding firm. Former owner's name in pencil to front pastedown. Rubbing to surface of dark green cloth, with dulled gilt titling and wear to edges. Scarce. 12mo. vi, 108pp

New York: D Appleton And Company, 1894. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First edition. Stock lightly toned to page edges, but otherwise all in VG internal order. Two pages have been roughly opened, with loss to margin but not impinging on text. No inscriptions. Front pastedown marled as if bookplate removed. Gilt to top edge of block. Decorated green boards with bright gilt titling to front, a little dulled to spine and worn to edges and corners.12mo. xiv, 217pp + publisher's list.

New York: D Appleton And Company, 1894. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First edition, signed in pencil by Stanton to first blank thus: "Very sincerely, your friend, Frank L. Stanton. Cooley's Rift, July 24th 1895". Stock lightly toned, but otherwise all in VG internal order. Gilt to top edge of block. Variant binding with olive green boards decorated in two shades of gilt. Worn to edges, dulled to spine and bumped to corners. 12mo. xiv, 217pp + publisher's list.

Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co, 1899. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First edition of Stanton's third verse collection. Toning to rough cut page edges, but otherwise in VG internal order. Frontispiece portrait. Gilt to top of block. Neat gift inscription to first blank. Pale blue cloth with bright gilt and cream titling and decoration, only lightly marked and worn but a little dulled to spine. A nice copy. 12mo. xv, 200pp

New York: D Appleton And Company, 1902. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Collection of verse from Georgia's future poet laureate in VG internal order, bar light toning to stock. Red and black printed title page. Binding tight with gilt to top edge and blue silk bookmark in situ. Grey/purple boards a little faded and lightly worn to edges/corners, but otherwise smart with green and gilt titling and decoration. 12mo. viii, 177pp

London: Macmillan & Co, 1876. Hardcover. Poor/no d/j. 8vo. Reading copy of vol 2 of this scarce work. Ex W H Smith library, lacking prelims and map, but otherwise intact. Much wear to boards with splitting and loss to spine. This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 393pp

Potters Bar: Radio Society of Great Britain, 1984. 2nd Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Not much gets published in Potters Bar, so all credit to the Radio Society for knocking this out. Authoritative technical guide, in VG clean and bright internal order. Light wear and a little marking to laminated boards. 4to. Unpaginated.

London: Edward Arnold, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All in VG order, complete with large folded steam diagram in rear pocket as called for. Dark green cloth with gilt titling to spine. 8vo. 40pp + 8pp publisher's catalogue.