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By: Aasheim, Ashley
Price: £8.50
Publisher: London, Frederick Muller Ltd: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 112627
Authors First Novel. Black cloth bound boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, which is not price-clipped. There is edge-wear/chipping to the dustjacket extremities and there is a circular stain to the front board. There is light rubbing to the cloth edges and the pages are cream due to the cheap paper. There are NO inscriptions or other marks. 318 pp. Overall, apart from the 'faults', as detailed above, this is a C... View more info
By: Aczel, Tamas
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1982
Edition: 1st UK Edn
Seller ID: 112595
Grey blue cloth bound boards with bright silver gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, which is not price-clipped. There are crease marks running through the surface of the boards and there is very light creasing to the dustjacket corners. There is a scratch mark and a crease line to the rear dustjacket cover, otherwise there are NO inscriptions or other marks. (vii) + 375 pp. Overall, apart from the 'faults', as detailed above, this... View more info
By: ADAMS JANE
Price: £7.00
Publisher: London, MACMILLAN: 1995
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 61200
FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing with the Correct Printers Key. Black boards with bright gilt titling along the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. NOT clipped. A couple of very light foxing spots to the page fore edges - o/w a very clean, tight, bright copy. NO Inscriptions or Marks. The dustjacket is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover. 204 pp. Nr Fine/Nr Fine. 8vo. The AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. "A haunting debut." ... View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: Moscow, Raduga Publisher: 1998
Edition: New Illustrated Edition
Seller ID: 110672
Pictorial green boards. No dustjacket. The covers have slightly bumped corners and smudges which can only be seen if held up to the light. The rear free endpaper has a Russian price sticker. Otherwise No Inscriptions or other Marks. 166 pp. Superbly illustrated in colour by Alexander Kurkin; reminiscent of Dulac, Harry Clarke and Kay Nielson. Endpapers are also beautifully illustrated. Overall, apart from the very minor 'faults', as detailed above, this is an Excellent, ... View more info
By: Akunin, Boris; Andrew Bromfield
Price: £7.50
Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2004
Edition: 1st Edition UK; First Printing
Seller ID: 111598
Dark green boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, which is not price-clipped. There is very light browning to the top page fore-edge, otherwise there are NO Inscriptions or other Marks. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. (6) + 230 pp. Overall, this is an Excellent Very Clean, Tight and Bright Near 'As New' copy. "The Russo-Turkish war is at a critical juncture, and Erast Fandorin, broken-hearted and disillusioned,... View more info
By: Albanesi, Madame ( Aka - Effie Adelaide Maria Rowlands)
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1916
Edition: Unknown (Probably a reprint)
Seller ID: 114689
Very good, blind-stamped, decorated paper-covered boards with clear black titling and decoration to the spine. An impressed Frys Breakfast Cocoa logo on the rear cover. In the original most attractive illustrated period dust jacket, with a delightful illustration by H. C. Marsh Lambert for Frys Cocoa on the rear cover of the d/j. The d/j spine has a 2/- sticker near the foot of the spine and there is a little VERY light edgewear. A small brown spot is obscuring the 'an' ... View more info
Price: £8.50
Publisher: Edinburgh, David Douglas: 1890
Edition: Authors Edn
Seller ID: 107072
Decorative cloth covered boards, bright gilt titling to front cover and to spine, corners and head/tail of spine bumped, inner hinges splitting slightly, surface speckles to rear board, 32pp illustrated catalogue to end of book, Name/writing on half title. 313pp, slight foxing spots mainly to page edges, overall internally CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT. "A tale by Thomas Bailey Aldrich written in correspondence form followed by nine more short stories by the author. Include... View more info
By: Almond, David
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Hodder Children's Books: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 111920
Signed First Edition. Blue boards with bright silver gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, which is not price-clipped. There are very light foxing (brown) spots to the page fore-edges, otherwise there are NO inscriptions or other marks. Signed by the Author on the title page with a dedication: 'To Abigail Happy Reading'. (8) + 202 pp. Overall, this is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright, 'Fine' copy. "Secret Heart is the ... View more info
By: Amis, Kingsley; Conquest, Robert
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1965
Edition: 1st Edition (Uncorrected Proof copy)
Seller ID: 107374
In original publishers Cape 'logo' decorated wraps. Covers dusty, remains of label to front cover (probably giving a provisional publishing date, price etc) , 2 small round stains to rear cover, spine creased, edges lightly creased, NO INSCRIPTIONS, hinges sound, 255pp, internally excellent, CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. "What is the Metropolitan Egyptological Society? Why does it protect itself so vigilantly against inquiring outsiders? What significance of the mysterious... View more info
By: Andersen, H.C.; Lewis, Naomi & Patrick Lynch
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Andersen Press Ltd: 1991
Edition: First Edition Thus; 2nd Impression
Seller ID: 112153
Laminated pictorial boards. No dustjacket, presumed as issued. There are NO inscriptions or marks. Unpaginated. Illustrated with striking colour plates by P. J. Lynch. Overall, this is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright, 'As New' copy. "This is the classic and powerful tale by Hans Christian Andersen of a one-legged tin soldier who falls in love with a little paper dancer. P. J. Lynch's stunning illustrations perfectly complement Naomi Lewis's haunting transl... View more info
By: Anderson, Linda
Price: £9.00
Publisher: London, The Bodley Head Ltd: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 114699
Light Tan boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. Front bottom corner bumped. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, which is NOT price-clipped. Dust-jacket by Les Wies. There are very light smudge marks to the dustjacket covers, which can only be seen if held up to the light. The d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks FINE. The pages are lightly tanned due to the cheap paper used, otherwise there are NO inscr... View more info
By: Anderson, Vicki
Price: £5.50
Publisher: London, McFarland & Co Inc: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 47781
In the original publisher's glossy lettered card covers. No dustjacket as issued. Ex- Reference Library with minimal library markings. Protected in the usual clear plastic library jacket. (vii) + 150 pp. Overall despite its status as an Ex-Lib copy this is an Excellent Very Clean, Tight and Bright copy. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
By: Angadi, Patricia
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 112590
Burgundy cloth bound boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, which is not price-clipped. There is light fading to the bottom edge of the cloth. There is also light creasing to the edges of the dustjacket, otherwise there are NO inscriptions or other marks. 181 pp. Overall, this is a Clean, Tight and Bright, Near 'Fine' copy. "Eleanor Lane-Baker hires Mabel Herring to be a governess to her six children in 1918, b... View more info
By: Anon
Price: £24.04
Publisher: London, BLACKIE & SON:
Seller ID: 60067
Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. 1st ND. 12¾" - 10" Tall. ORIGINAL DUSTWRAP. 1945?; 60067 View more info
By: Anon
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Alexander Moring Limited ( At the De La More Press ): (1922)
Edition: 1st Thus (Publisher)
Seller ID: 111293
No Date, but Copac (National, Academic, and Specialist Library Catalogue) gives the date as 1922. Light brown paper covered boards with a pictorial paper label/onlay on the front cover with titling and a picture of the Willow Pattern Plate - all in blue/white - as is the Plate of course - and a circular onlay illustration of the plate on the rear cover. No dustjacket. The boards show slight signs of wear (a little tiny chipping to the head of the spine and a bump/indent ... View more info
By: Anon
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, Ariel Productions Ltd: (1975)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 111879
Laminated pictorial boards. No dustjacket, presumed as issued. Ideal Gift Copy. There are NO inscriptions or marks. Unpaginated. Illustrated with delightful colour drawings. Overall, this is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright, Near 'As New' copy. "This is an ideal children's illustrated book about the adventure's of Sooty and Sweep." ; 4to 11" - 13" tall View more info
By: Anon ( Maitland, James A. )
Price: £22.00
Publisher: Florida, Mnemosyne: 1969
Edition: Reprint (1st Mnemosyne)
Seller ID: 108885
Dark Grey cloth bound boards. With Bright Silver titling/decoration. Overall near 'As New'. An Excellent Clean, Tight and Bright copy. 1st Thus. 8vo Thick. FACSIMILE Reprint. Reprinted from a copy in the Fisk University Library Negro Collection, originally printed in 1854. 438 pp. Illustrated in Black and White. Author was James A. Maitland, ("by the author of "Pirate Doctor", "The Lawyer's Story", "The Old Doctor", "The Old Doctor", &... View more info
By: Anon (D. C. Thomson & Co. , )
Price: £28.00
Publisher: London, D. C. Thomson & Co. , Ltd.: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 114172
Cartoon illustrated boards with a Christmas illustration of Korky the cat mischievously about to eat a christmas pudding. The laminate at the spine edges is lifting slightly but otherwise the covers are fine. No dustjacket, presumed as issued? The 'This Book Belongs To' box has not been completed which makes the book ideal for purchase. The crossword has been completed in pencil, ( but this may be able to be removed? ) , otherwise No Inscriptions or other Marks. 141 pp. ... View more info
By: ANON (Illustrated by CRUIKSHANK) Probably by Isaac Robert Cruikshank.
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, James Blackwood & Co:
Edition: Presumed Reissue?
Seller ID: 60062
No Date but this is probably the 1877 reissue. (4) + 319 pp. With 8 full-page & various vignette b/w illustrations by Robert Cruikshank. In the original Burgundy pictorial cloth blocked in black and gold, a little rubbed, very sl. faded to the spine, and a small 'nibble' to the bottom of the rear board but overall a VG sound copy. This appears to be a reissue of the First Series of 'Cruikshank at Home' by Isaac Robert Cruikshank (and possibly with Robert Seymour and ... View more info
By: Ap Roberts, Ruth
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 47226
Brown boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's decorated dustjacket. The library have cut off the front flap, but bound it in the back. So it is still present - I find this often in Ex lib books of this period but have yet to discover why? . 203pp. Ex Reference Library -usual stamps marks, but minimal. Overall a Very Clean, Tight and Bright copy. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
