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Price: US$4.01 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$6.57 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1925. First Edition. 299 pages. No dust jacket. Fools And Philosophers: A Gallery of Comic Figures from English Literature. Yellow pictorial cloth. Pages are rough cut. Text block is slightly warped. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper, with a few small nicks and creases along text block edge. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Mild cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with mild bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a notable warp. Water ring mark on front board.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$7.70 + shipping
Description: Hardback. 276pp. First edition. An anthology edited by playwright J. B. Priestley. Tan cloth with repeating blue design to border to both front and spine. Blue titles to spine. Small faint stain to front else cloth is clean. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy
Seller: C L Hawley (PBFA), Skipton, YORKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.27 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The English Comic Characters by J.B.Priestley, 1st Edition,1925 Published by The Bodley Head, Printed in Great Britain by T & A Constable Hardback, has fading and some marking to covers, All pages appear present, Pages are yellowing, Pages are hand-cut, On front cover fly-leaf page, Preliminary title page & Main title page there is a purple ink stamp that reads Property of The Christian Science Monitor,
Seller: Codex Books, York, United Kingdom
Priestley, J. B.. The English Comic Characters. Bodley Head, 1925.
Price: US$15.40 + shipping
Description: Hardback. 276pp. First edition. Analysis of comic characters including Bottom from A Midsummer's Night's Dream, Falstaff,Touchstone from As You Like It, the Illyrians from Twelfth Night including Malvolio and Sir Toby Belch, Parson Andrews from Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews, the brothers Shandy from Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Mr Collins, Prince Seithenyn from The Misfortunes of Elphin by Thomas Love Peacock, Mr Micawber from David Copperfield, Sam Weller from Pickwick Papers. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine is tanned to spine but otherwise clean. Rubbed to corners and somewhat softened and worn to spine ends. Good+, sound copy
Seller: C L Hawley (PBFA), Skipton, YORKS, United Kingdom
J B Priestley. The English Comic Characters. John Lane / The Bodley Head, London, 1925.
Price: US$16.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: THE ENGLISH COMIC CHARACTERS J B Priestley. John Lane / The Bodley Head, London 1925 First edition.276pp + 8pp Adverts Hardback. This copy is bound in original blue linen covered boards with gilt titling to the spine. There is some offsetting to the endpapers otherwise the text block is tight and bright and unmarked. The outer page edges are uncut. A dustwrapper is not present. In his introduction to this edition, Priestley maintains that this book was written in a very short period of time, and relied for the most part on his memory of the works and characters cited, so that not a lot of time was needed for research. Plus, he needed the money at the time; his then current wife was dying of cancer. In this book, he puts together an arbitrary list of comic characters from, typically, well-known works by well-known authors. In his book book he examines the following characters: Bully Bottom, from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”, Touchstone, from Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.”, Falstaff and his circle, from Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Pts. 1 & 2.”, Parson Adams, from Fielding’s “Joseph Andrews.”, The Brothers Shandy, from Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy.”, Mr. Collins, from Austen’s “Persuasion.”, Prince Seithenyn from Thomas Love Peacock’s “The Misfortunes of Elphin.”, The Two Wellers, from Dickens’ “Pickwick Papers.”, Dick Swiveller, from Dickens’ “The Old Curiosity Shop,” and Mr. Micawber, from Dickens’ “David Copperfield.” John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984) Author, novelist,playwright, essayist, broadcaster, scriptwriter, social commentator and man of letters, whose career straddled the 20th Century. J.B.Priestley was born John Priestley on September 13th 1894 in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of a schoolmaster. His mother died when he was very young, and he was brought up by his stepmother.After leaving Belle Vue School when he was 16, he worked in a wool office. But, already determined to become a writer, he spent his hard earned money on buying books, and used his spare time trying different kinds of writing, including a regular unpaid column in a local periodical, the Bradford Pioneer. Samples of his early writing are kept in the Archive at the Special Collections of the J.B.Priestley Library at the University of Bradford. His first piece of professional writing was an article "Secrets of the Rag-Time King" which appeared in London Opinion on Dec 14th 1912. Writer, broadcaster and critic J.B. Priestley may be best known for his "time plays", such as "An Inspector Calls", for enduringly popular novels like "The Good Companions" and "Angel Pavement" and for his wartime broadcasts, the "Postscripts". However, he also wrote essays, autobiography, social history and time theory. Priestley was active in politics, although never a member of any party, expressing his concerns (for instance about the nuclear arms race) through commentary and campaigning. Born and brought up in Bradford, Priestley used his Yorkshire background in some of his finest works, such as "Bright Day" and "When we are married". His connections with the city were later marked by the statue near Central Library and the naming of the J.B. Priestley Library at the University of Bradford, which he officially opened in 1975. The University awarded him the title of honorary Doctor of Letters in 1970, and he was awarded the freedom of the City of Bradford in 1973 and the Order of Merit in 1977. This is just one of a number of books by or about J B Priestley that I am selling on this site. Ref DDD5
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
J. B. Priestley. The English Comic Characters. John Lane/The Bodley Head, 1925.
Price: US$17.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dust jacket and edges shows wear. Dust jacket is covered in brodart plastic. Writing on front page. Pages are clean and intact.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. 299pp. A Fine copy in tan cloth, lacking a dustwrapper. Q06259
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1925. John Lane, The Bodley Head. First. Hard Cover. Book- VG, blue titles on spine, blue decoration on front board, brown boards. 7x4.5. 299pp.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Several leaves roughly opened resulting in shallow chips to margins otherwise very good to near fine. In good to very good dust jacket with light soiling, spine somewhat tanned, touch of damp staining near head of spine, corners nicked and scant quarter-inch loss at head of spine not affecting any lettering.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed Limited Edition, # 44 of 70 copies, pages deckle cut with top edge gilt. Light board edgewear, paperclip markings on front pastedown ffep & fep, due to the artistic binding the boards are mildly bowed, else interior wonderfully clean and unmarked, a great copy, 276p. ; Always Delivery Confirmation. 35 Years Fast Excellent Service. We Know How To Pack Books.
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.