Hardback with dust jacket. First edition. Original orange / pink boards are faded at the spine ends (corresponding with loss to the dust jacket), bumped at the spine ends and top corners. The binding is firm and inner hinges are very good. Blue endpapers. No foxing but there are minor grubby marks in the margins of a few pages. The dust jacket is worn and torn at the edges, with rubs, chips, creasing, and loss to the spine ends and tips of the corners. Front flap of the dust jacket is price clipped. pp. 142. 22.2cm. The dust jacket is supplied by us in a loose protective clear archival film sl... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. First edition. Publisher's original red boards, slightly bruised at the spine ends. The binding is firm. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. pp. xi, 495, [2 plates - frontispiece and one other]. 22cm tall. The dust jacket is darkened at the spine, has light greyish marks, minor rubs to the edges. Front flap not price clipped. The dust jacket is supplied by us in a loose protective clear archival film sleeve. This does not adhere to the book or jacket in any way and it protects the jacket against wear. (Photographed without the film sleeve, to minimise reflecti... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. First impression. In very good condition. Inscribed by the author on the title page - the book came from the collection of the late film producer Hercules Bellville - and this book is inscribed to Hercules in green felt pen, signed and dated with love from Elaine. Loosely enclosed are a promotional sheet about the book from Virago and an invitation card to the launch party at Hatchards. The binding is firm. The book is in very good condition though pages have browned, quite significantly at the edges in particular. The dust jacket has faded at the spine and has some ... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. New edition. It was first published in 1981 and 1985 as By Jove, Biggles! The Life of Captain W. E. Johns. In very good, clean condition. There is a little foxing to the closed textblock page edges and there are some small rubs and a short nick to the edges of the dust jacket. The binding is firm and pages are clean. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. Dust jacket not price clipped. pp. 320. 22.1cm tall. A very slight lean to the spine. View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. Both the book and dust jacket are in excellent, clean and bright, fine condition. The binding is firm. No previous owner's names, inscriptions or other marks. Dust jacket not price clipped. A super copy. pp. xvi, 372. 24cm tall. The dust jacket is supplied by us in a loose protective clear archival film sleeve. This does not adhere to the book or jacket in any way and it protects the jacket against wear. (Photographed without the film sleeve, to minimise reflection). View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. In excellent, fine, as new condition. Clean, tight and unmarked. Appears unread / barely read. Fourth printing. A life recording hits with the Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Eric Clapton, the Faces, and more. pp. xvii, 314. 23.5cm tall. View More...
Hardback. No dust jacket. No slipcase. Pictorial cloth, printed and blocked with a design by David Eccles at Cambridge University Press. In excellent fine condition. Clean, tight and unmarked; a super copy. pp. l, 584, plates and maps. 25cm tall. View More...
Soft back. In very good, clean condition. The binding is firm. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. Pages clean. Contents and cover free from creasing. There is a small bump to the bottom corner of the front cover. Spine has faded. The book has been printed using two different quality paper stocks - the result of this is that most of the pages are a bright white but two small sections of pages are a creamy off-white colour. pp. 310. 20cm tall. View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. First edition, 1970. In very good condition overall. The binding is firm and square. Inner hinges are very good. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. Original red boards - a small bump at the base of the spine. Top edge tinted red. Contents nice and clean. The dust jacket is a little rubbed at the edges, has a short tear at the top of the spine and is slightly discoloured overal, particularly at edges (see photos). Front flap not price clipped. pp. xiv, 424. 24cm tall. The dust jacket is supplied by us in a loose protective clear archival film sleeve. This does... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. First edition, 1961. In good condition. Publisher's original black boards. Slightly bumped at spine ends. The binding is firm. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. Significant foxing to the outer closed textblock page edges, and foxing to first and last few pages, endpapers etc. plus a few spots to pages throughout. The dust jacket is faded at the spine, has a few tears and rubs to the edges. Front flap not price clipped. pp. 239. 22cm tall. The dust jacket is supplied by us in a loose protective clear archival film sleeve. This does not adhere to the book or j... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. American edition; first published in the UK by Bell and Hyman Limited. Both the book and dust jacket are in excellent, clean and tight, near fine condition. The binding is firm and inner hinges very good. No previous owner's names, inscriptions or other marks. There is the slightest lean to the spine. A super copy. Volume X only. pp. xiii, [3], 626, tables. 22cm tall. View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. American edition; was first published in the UK by Bell and Hyman. Original green boards. There is a very slight lean to the spine. In otherwise excellent, clean and tight condition. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. The dust jacket has a couple of wrinkles to the publisher applied laminated film. pp. xiv, [4], 344. 22cm tall. View More...
Hardback with dust jacket, in excellent fine condition. First edition. Biography of Effie Gray, her marriage to John Ruskin, and how she learned to deal with it. Publisher's original brown boards. Clean, tight, unmarked, firm binding. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. Dust jacket not price clipped. pp. xiv, 291. 24cm tall. View More...
Second hand paperback. Pages have browned, particularly at edges, with some light foxing to page edges, first and last few pages and just inside the covers. The binding is tight. No previous owner's names or inscriptions but there is a very small barcode sticker at the very top edge of the half-title page. Text clean. Mild discolouration to the covers. A good, clean reading copy. A part-autobiographical part-fictional account of Ransome's exploration of bohemian London at the turn of the century, published when he was just 23 years old. pp. xvi, 284. 19.5cm. View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. First impression, 2011. Signed by Lord Sugar on the title page (no inscription / dedication). In excellent, fine condition. Nearly as new but with very slight discolouration / darkening to the page edges - not as bright as they would have been when new. Dust jacket not price clipped. pp. xvii, 332. 24cm tall. View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. First edition, 1949. Publisher's original blue boards. A slight forwards lean to the spine. The binding is firm and inner hinges are very good. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. Pages nice and clean, free from foxing. The dust jacket is faded at the spine, has some rubs, small chips and short tears to the edges, repaired to the underside by a previous owner with an acid-free near invisible tissue repair paper. Front flap not price clipped. pp. 268. 20.8cm tall. Further autobiography by Joseph Wechsberg, who wrote Looking For a Bluebird. The dust jacket is su... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. Second impression. Inscribed and signed by the author, Alan Whicker, on the title page. The inscription is dated 1989, Hong Kong. Original grey boards. In very good, clean condition. The dust jacket is price clipped. pp. ix, 390. The dust jacket is supplied by us in a loose protective clear archival film sleeve. This does not adhere to the book or jacket in any way and it protects the jacket against wear. (Photographed without the film sleeve, to minimise reflection). View More...
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