Search Results: the journal of edwin carp by haydn richard

BearManor Media, 2016. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Simon and shuster. Very Good. in x in x in. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 8vo. (8) 242 (6) pp, fb&w rontis. stated. First Printing, 1954. 1/4" to 3/8" chipping along bottom edge dj with some additional tiny chips to same, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6" x 8.25". Black quarter-cloth with brown paper-covered boards, blind stamped decorative front board, gilt lettering to front board and spine, and black top text block. Illustrated, Not Price Clipped, dj in acetate protector. "The annals here transcribe Carp's difficulties as a landlord,- with a leaking pipe, with a somnabulistic paying guest, and with a Mrs. Luby whose profession is doubtful- to all save Edwin. A decorous diversion which through the absurdities of a Victorian gentility and a homiletic flow of phrase manages quite some humor, of a special nature.".

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LONDON: HAMISH HAMILTON, 1954 Yellow Boards with brown titles to spine and blocked image to front, 205 x 140 mm approx. 246 pp Frontis , illustrated title and 27 other full page line drawings by Searle in his inimitable style. First Edition 1954. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Good (Book- Mild general shelf wear to boards, dust spotting to top edge of book block, gift book plate to staff of Au Fait Foundation to front paste down, slight browning/foxing to end papers, Dust Jacket - Rubbed, nicked and with some general soiling and light foxing to flap folds but substantially complete and presentable on the shelf in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. Clipped but cover price 12s.6d net remains, promo price removed? No other notable defects to book or jacket).

Hamish Hamilton Ltd. , 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The front free endpaper page is missing. Frontispiece. Publication of 246 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. There is foxing on the early and last pages, little within the body of the book. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

BearManor Media, 2016. Paperback. New. 182 pages. 8.98x5.67x0.47 inches.

Paperback. New.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First USA edition, second printing octavo hardback.248 pp, Frontispiece Very good condition Previous owner's name and date on front end paper. Very scarce as USA edition.

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London : H. Hamilton, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 246p. ; 20cm. Subjects: English wit and humour.

London, UK: Hamish Hamilton, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Searle, Ronald. 246pp. Yellow cloth-covered boards, black design on front, black titles on spine. Bumped spine ends and bottom edge. Corners lightly bumped. Top text block edge dusty. Endpapers tanning and just starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has 2cm closed tear at spine head, red stains to front, shelf wear, chipping to edges, minor loss, mirrors book damage, price clipped. 8vo. Poor Mr. Carp - put upon by everyone, from dear Mother, with her deaf-aid, and The Sorrows of Satan, to the formidable Maude (now in the ninth year of their betrothal) and little Harrison, the malevolent result of her previous and otherwise childless marriage. Illustrated with some of the funniest and most brilliantly observed drawings Searle has ever done.

Hamish Hamilton, 1954. Hardback. First edition, 1954. Yellow cloth with black lettering to spine. VG condition; boards clean and bright, minimal edgewear, bumps to spine and corners, pages clean and tightly bound with Good minus condition price-clipped dust jacket; edgeworn with some chips and small tears and some marks. Embellishments by Ronald Searle. Published: Hamish Hamilton, 1954

London: Hamish Hamilton,, 1954. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 246pp. Very good indeed in a slightly faded, edge torn, chipped and repaired, very good dust jacket.

London : H. Hamilton, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 246p. ; 20cm. Subjects: English wit and humour.

London: Hamish Hamilton,, 1954. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Near fine copy in a very good, slightly used and edge worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Gift inscription to endpaper.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1954. First Edition. Illustrated by Ronald Searle. 246 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Yellow cloth. Fine in fine yellow illustrated dj. First Edition. Illustrated by Ronald Searle. 246 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 242pp. Small stain on the foredge, board edges slightly sunned, else near fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny nicks and tears, and a lightly toned spine with modest soiling on the rear panel. Haydn was a British-American comedic actor who played eccentric characters like Edwin Carp, a poet and fish expert.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1954. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". Ronald Searle. A first edition of Richard Haydn's sole novel, following his sketch show character. Illustrated by Ronald Searle. Edwin Carp, a fish expert and poet, was created by Haydn for 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. This was the only piece of literature to feature the character.Written by Richard Haydn, an English comedy actor known for roles in 'The Sound of Music' and 'Alice in Wonderland'. This was his debut and only novel.Illustrated by Ronald Searle, a renowned satirical cartoonist known for creating St Trinian's School and the character of Nigel Molesworth.Complete with a clipped dust wrapper.A smart first edition of this work. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with a clipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, with just a little edgewear. Dust wrapper is slightly sunned to the spine, with a little chipping to the head, but is otherwise in excellent condition. Prior owner's inscription… Read More

London: Hamish Hamilton,, 1954. First edition, first impression, of the only novel by Richard Haydn (1905-1985), the comedy actor who voiced the Caterpillar in Disney's Alice in Wonderland and played Max in the film adaptation of The Sound of Music. Haydn devised the character of Edwin Carp, a poet and expert on fish, as a sketch show character. As noted by the dust jacket blurb, "he is a creation in the grand tradition of English deadpan comedy". Octavo. Original yellow boards, spine lettered in black, front cover with vignette in black. With dust jacket. Illustrated by Ronald Searle. Foxing to top edge, light foxing to endpapers, a near-fine copy. Dust jacket slightly toned and spotted with slight wear to extremities and minor closed tears, a very good example.