The Dark Lantern by Henry Williamson (45 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. The first volume in the brilliant series 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'.First reprint. Used, spine creased,crease top right corner of front,page edges browned,contents clean.Cover art ' The Bayswater Omnibus .'.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Paperback. Staining to bottom edge on all pages, text clear. Writing inside front cover by previous owner. Photograph available on request.

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 432 pages. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 432 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

VERY GOOD condition.

GOOD condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 350 pgs. Cover has a coffee stain on spine/back (see photos provided). Clean, crisp and intact. No notations, underlining or highlighting. Prompt shipping which includes tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with faded gilt titles, front board pulled, cloth rubbed at edges, front endpaper excised, remains of number stamp on front pastedown, pages edges tanned. 432 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Revised. Slight wear, unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Green cloth titled in gilt on spine. Wear to spine, very light foxing in edges and prelims.

8vo., First Edition thus; original pictorial wrappers, fore-edges lightly marked else very good, bright copy. First volume of 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'. Published as part of the fourth collected edition and the ONLY COMPLETE SET IN PAPERBACK. The text is a faithful reprint of the first edition though the type is reset with a new 6pp Introduction by Anne Williamson dated 1994; this is mainly biographical and is common to the set. Matthews A37.1994.

8vo. red cloth hardcover. 432pp. very good, some foxing. 1st book in Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight.

Red hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 432pp.

8vo., Second Paperback Edition, small name on front free endpaper; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Second paperback edition of the first volume of 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sinlight'. This is the second appearance of the second text. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Matthews A37.1970.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. ASIDE FROM OWNER NAME AND ADDRESSES ON FRONT ENDPAPER, THIS IS A CLEAN TIGHT COPY OF THE FIRST PRINTING - CLEAN RED CLOTH BOARDS, CORNERS STRAIGHT, BINDING TIGHT, TEXT CLEAN. DUST JACKET IS GOOD+ WITH LARGE SPINE CHIPS, AND RUBBING. COLOR FRONT PANEL WITH DRAWING IS CLEAN AND BRIGHT. ORIGINAL 12s6d PRICE PRESENT.

8vo., First Paperback Edition, page edges mildly browned as usual; original pictorial wrappers, backstrip lightly creased else a very good, clean copy. First paperback edition of the first volume of 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE SECOND TEXT; Matthews notes several important revisions, including two paragraphs added and one rewritten. SCARCE. Matthews, A37.1962.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book leans slightly to the right. Spine slightly faded. Boards and spine worn around edges, corners bumped. Tear in side edge of front board. Edges, endpapers and multiple pages foxed and stained. Pages browned. 20mm tear between back endpapers. Writing in blue ink on front pastedown endpaper. Book is worn, in fair condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. New Edition. New Edition 1984. One of Two of The Williamson Family File Copies Used by Anne Williamson in the Henry Williamson Literary Archives. This would have been given by the publishers to the Williamson family for approval. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. A new publication of the 1st book in the Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight. Book is near fine with bright boards. Small bump to one corner. Contents good. The wrapper is near fine and bright. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 17750. Signed by Author(s).

1951 1ST D/W MINOR LOSS EDGES O/W VG/G++.

Macdonald, 1966. Second impression. A fine copy in unmarked green boards. Bookseller sticker to front pastedown otherwise unmarked.No d/w. Scans available if required.

Cloth. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Broom Lyne (illustrator). First Edition. 1st Edition 1951. Signed presentation from the author to Sir John Heygate. A nice association copy as Heygate appears in Williamsons Chronicle novels as Sir Piers Tofield and the characters father is first introduced in this volume, wooing the mother to be of the central character Philip Maddison. 1st book in the Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight. Book is near very good and quite bright. Spine wording dull and light repair to hinge top. Contents good. Page edges lightly foxed. The wrapper is very good+ and quite bright. . Rear lightly soiled and foxed. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. Small loss to spine top. Price clipped. More images can be taken upon request. Ref10522/15637. Signed by Author(s).

[Autobiographical Novel Series] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, First Printings. Fifteen volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 52cm). Publisher's variously coloured cloth with gilt titles to spines. Each with the distinctive dust-jacket illustrated by Broom Lynne, and variously priced between 12/6 and 30s. 'A Test to Destruction' is price clipped; 'Donkey Boy' has 3cm tear to base of jacket spine and toning to flyleaf; 'How Dear is Life' has some light ink staining from the jacket to spine, with some discolouration of cloth at crown and base; 'Love and the Loveless' has toning to jacket spine; 'The Golden Virgin' shows a little sunning to jacket spine, with a 1cm closed tear to the head; 'A Fox Under My Cloak' shows some marks to endpapers and half-title where pasted-in news clippings have been removed, quite heavy spotting to edges, and tape burns to reverse of the jacket, which is toned to the spine and a little worn and chipped to the edges. Overall a clean, bright set with no inscriptions. Some jackets are neither priced, nor clipped, presumably for export. Very good. Henry Williamson was an English writer whose work is often concerned with wildlife, English social history, and rural living. His epic novel series, 'The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight' was published in 15 volumes, and the story follows the fortunes of a family from late Victorian times to the period of the Second World War.

8vo. 15 volumes, set. First editions. Original cloth and hardcovers. The jackets of the first seven volumes were designed by Broom Lynne. About half the volumes (mostly the early ones) have some foxing to the edges of the text block. From volume 4 onwards, there are tape residue marks on the free endpapers. The jacket of volume 1 has been repaired with brown paper on the verso of the spine tail. Short closed tear to the top edge of the front panel. 3, 4, 5 & 13 have tape repairs to the verso of the jackets. 3, 4 & 9 have ink ownerships on the front endpapers. Small loss to the spine ends of volumes 5 & 7 which are also slightly faded. All jackets unclipped. Ranging from fine in fine jacket to very good - in good + jacket. A nice set of first editions of Henry Williamson's magnum opus covering the period from late Victorian to the first years of the Second World War and concentrating on Phillip Maddison.

1st Edition. Galley Proofs, extensively corrected and annotated by Henry Williamson. A unique opportunity to acquire the only typescripts, galley proofs and book proofs still in private hands. All other ms. copies, typescripts, galley and page proofs of his major writings were deposited at the University of Exeter: the first batch in 1961 by Henry Williamson; the second batch by his estate in 1981 in lieu of inheritance tax; and the final batch following the death of his son Richard in 2022. Williamson was in the habit of making numerous manuscript and typescript versions of his books, heavily editing at every stage; even by the galley and proof stage there were often frequent corrections, deletions and other alterations. These all show the heavy use of his pen and pencil and hence a glance into the writer's mind as he created his work. None of these have been compared with the final published versions but all are likely to show differences, in some cases with major re-writings. This is one of a number of typescripts, galley and page proofs of Williamson's works which we have available, acquired from the Williamson estate. Please enquire for details.

First edition, first printings with the exception of The Golden Virgin which is a second impression. 17 volumes, three of which are inscribed presentation copies from the author to his proof reader. Comprising the full set of fifteen first editions in publisher's original cloth and James Broom-Lynne illustrated dustwrappers, a marked up proof copy of The Phoenix Generation and a revised edition of The Innocent Moon. The first editions are all in excellent better than very good condition, the bindings square and firm. The contents are generally clean and bright throughout. "A Fox Under My Coat" has a small paperclip mark resulting in minor rust spots to the top edge of a couple of pages, "Test To Destruction" has two tape marks to the corners of the rear endpaper in addition to penciled notes on the same page, both "The Innocent Moon" and "The Power of the Dead" have light proof reader's notes in pencil to the margins and rear endpaper, and there is a tiny ink inscription to the top left corner of the reverse of the front endpaper of "The Dark Lantern". The closed top edge of several text blocks are a little dusty and spotted. All retain the original dustwrappers which show only minor wear at the extremities and uniform light toning to the spine. Donkey Boy has a small chip with loss to the top left corner of the spine. None of the dustwrappers are price-clipped. A very attractive set of the author's magnum opus. The Power of the Dead is inscribed by the author in black ink on the front endpaper "Arthur Oakey / in gratitude from Henry Williamson / 22 October 1963". Together with a proof copy of The Phoenix Generation, very good or better in the original publisher's green card covers printed in black. Corrections in red ink to the margins throughout, all of which appear to have been carried through to the first printing. Inscribed by the author on the title page "Arthur Oakey / Sept 1965 / from HW". Together with the first revised edition of The Innocent Man, a very good paperback published by Panther Books in 1965, with a Macdonald Publishers "compliments of the author" slip laid in, and inscribed by Henry Williamson in blue ink on the half title "with every good / wish to a / fellow author / from HW / 1965". Provenance: From the collection of Arthur Oakey; thence by descent. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.