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Imprint: LONDON.METHUEN & CO LTD.,1947. UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[True K,HB 1st edn with THIS BOOK IS PRODUCED IN COMPLETE CONFORMITY WITH THE AUTHORIZED ECONOMY STANDARDS advice/notification,and stated 'First published in 1947' to verso of title page.Uncommon example with a dw/dj,in a book of its age and given the period of production,i.e. 1942-1947 - with wartime paper-rationing,and the poor quality of paper generally used,the survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+ printers.Any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and fragility and be prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded,or be reverse printed - possibly coming from an entirely different book/title.] VG/GOOD+.A neat,ink handwritten gift presentation inscrptn,a further,owner's inscrptn: name+address+date (June 27th,1947) to ffe.Lightly grubbed green background with colour pictorial illustration with white lettering to front panel of dw/dj,similar white lettering to spine which is slightly darkened; with minimal shelf-wear and some creasing,chipping, closed tears and minimal loss.External crease folds of dw/dj flaps with minimal rubbing/chipping with closed tears at their corners apart from front, lower corner,which has a closed tear extending upwards for approx 4" of it's 7" height.Both head+foot of spine of dw/dj also chipped,creased with some minimal loss and lettering at foot affected with minimal loss.Rear panel of dw/dj with black text publisher's advert for Blyton's other works/titles withlightl grubbing.Dw/dj 99% present and included for completeness.Bright, clean,publisher's original green cloth boards with blue/black ink printed facsimile signature of author to front lower,right-hand corner of front cover/board,similar lettering to spine/ backstrip and generally clean plain white endpapers with some minimal off-set foxing from dw/dj flps and some minimal,sporadic foxing.Book has a slight lean and some production fault bubbling to both boards.Top edges minimally dust-soiled and with lightest of any ageing and blemishes,fore-edges with hint of ageing - very considerably much less than is usual/normal or encountered - so bright and clean with minimal marks; contents bright,tight,clean - text body bright,generally clean with some inevitable blemishes,no foxing,one dog-ear reading creases to pp29/30 top corner,one illustration (pp65) neatly pencil- crayonned coloured by previous owner.UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vpp+1-150pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,XVIII (18) stories,16 (includes frntis) full-page b/w illustrations by Eileen A. Soper,throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w frntis to its verso,b/w vignette illustrated title page and publisher's advert at rear. The 3rd 'Colour' book in the series."The Blue Story Book" and "The Red Story Book" have already been welcomed by the children,and this one,will stand proudly by its companion volumes. There are stories of all kinds in it,just the sort a young child loves and understands,told with all Enid Blyton's ingenuity and humour - "The Bed That Ran Away","The Tooth Under the Pillow","The Enchanted Wheelbarrow" and many many more are here to make children beg for 'just one more at bedtime. Eileen [Alice] Soper (b. 1905 - d.1990) Daughter of George Soper under whom she studied and was artistically trained.She first exhibited at the Royal Academy at the early age of 15.She derived much of her subject matter from her father's garden,in the house her father built and which along with her sister she lived and inherited,the greater part of her life.She and her sister have maintained and preserved it as a nature sanctuary.A painter of wilflife,children, portraits and miniatures,and engraver.She was a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists,and elected to the RMS (Royal Society of Miniature Painters,Sculptors and Gravers) in 1972. Eileen is most remembered for her collaboration with Enid Blyton,notably for the 'Famous Five' series (1942-1963) - though she also published her own children's books in the 1940s,and then working mainly on her wildlife illustrations from the 1950s onwards,based on the wildlife in her garden. Enid Blyton's books have sold over 500 million copies and have been translated into other languages more often than any other children's author.She wrote over 600 books and hundreds of short stories, including favourites such as 'The Famous Five','The Secret Seven','The Magic Faraway Tree','Malory Towers' and 'Noddy'. Born in London in 1897,Enid lived much of her life in Buckinghamshire and adored dogs, gardening and the countryside.She died in 1968 but remains one of the world's best-loved storytellers. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja714817. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.LATIMER HOUSE,1955. UK,slim 12mo HB,no dw/dj, 1st edn thus. [True 1st edn originally published,London, Blackwell,1947.This copy,1st edn thus,was aslo republished,London,Collins,late 1960's.) NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but Sunday school presentation prize label pasted to ffe,dated Christmas,1955,minus dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, wrap-around colour pictorial artwork illustrated boards and yellow+red letters; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing or bumping to edges and corners.Two small areas of laminate breaking down to spine/ backstrip's front,vertical edge,but still in situ - no loss.Top+fore-edges bright, crisp and clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? An exceptional copy,given its age.UK,slim 12mo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn thus, 11-92pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters,5 full-page,b/w line illustrations by Kathleen Gell; plus [unpaginated] half- title,facsimile signatured title page and contents list/table. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja28328. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.LATIMER HOUSE,1955. UK,slim 12mo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn thus. (True 1st edn originally published, London,Blackwell,1947.This copy,1st edn thus,was aslo republished,London,Collins, late 1960's.) NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but Sunday school presentation prize label pasted to ffe,dated Christmas,1955,minus dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, wrap-around colour pictorial artwork illustrated boards and yellow+red letters; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing or bumping to edges and corners.Two small areas of laminate breaking down to spine/ backstrip's front,vertical edge,but still in situ - no loss.Top+fore-edges bright, crisp and clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? An exceptional copy,given its age.UK,slim 12mo HB,1st edn thus,11-92pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters,5 full-page,b/w line illustrations by Kathleen Gell; plus [unpaginated] half-title,facsimile signatured title page and contents list/ table. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja28327. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN,1946. UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE. Neat,blue ink,familial gift presentation inscrptn+date (Xmas 1946) to top of ffe and no price-clip (5s. NET) to dw/dj. Vibrant,bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap- around coloured pastel pictorial illustrated dw/dj with red+white lettering to front panel and spine; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Top edges with merest hint of ageing and faint dust-soiling spotting,fore-edges similar but still bright and clean; with one blemish and minimal thumbing; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - text body bright and clean - unfoxed - and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean and virtually unblemished,sharp-cornered,publisher's original cloth bds with two-colour (blue+black) decoration to front cover/board and spine with bright, crisp,stamped black and blue ink stamped letters to same,and generally bright and clean plain white eps with minimal foxing. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-192pp [paginated] includes 23 short stories,each with 3-colour block illustrations (either of red,green,blue,orange and b/w) by Eileen Soper,throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] a 3-colour block (black,white+red) decorated illustrated title-page with contents list/table to its recto. Uncommon example with a dw/dj in a book of its age and given the period of production,i.e. 1942-1947 - with wartime paper-rationing, and the poor quality of paper generally used and survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+printers.Any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded,or be reverse printed - possibly coming from an entirely different book/title. A very scarce copy,particularly with an exceptional dw/dj as this. A new Enid Blyton book is always an event and is welcomed eagerly by thousands of children to whom the name of Enid Blyton spells fun and laughter,magic and excitement. Here is another new one 'The Little White Duck',which will be read with delight.This book is full of the kind of stories children like best - stories of children, animals,toys and pixies - told in the well-loved Enid Blyton way. It is well illustrated in colour,and the pictures,by Eileen Soper,interpret each story in exactly the right way. Eileen [Alice] Soper (b. 1905 - d.1990) Daughter of George Soper under whom she studied and was artistically trained.She first exhibited at the Royal Academy at the early age of 15.She derived much of her subject matter from her father's garden,in the house her father built and which along with her sister she lived and inherited,the greater part of her life.She and her sister have maintained and preserved it as a nature sanctuary.A painter of wildlife,children,portraits and miniatures,and engraver.She was a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists, and elected to the RMS (Royal Society of Miniature Painters,Sculptors and Gravers) in 1972. Eileen is most remembered for her collaboration with Enid Blyton,notably for the 'Famous Five' series (1942-1963) - though she also published her own children's books in the 1940s,and then working mainly on her wildlife illustrations from the 1950s onwards,based on the wildlife in her garden. Enid Blyton's books have sold over 500 million copies and have been translated into other languages more often than any other children's author.She wrote over 600 books and hundreds of short stories, including favourites such as 'The Famous Five','The Secret Seven','The Magic Faraway Tree','Malory Towers' and 'Noddy'. Born in London in 1897,Enid lived much of her life in Buckinghamshire and adored dogs,gardening and the countryside.She died in 1968 but remains one of the world's best-loved storytellers. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja716217. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN,1955. UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,reprint.[The 5th of 8 adventures and all were illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.] VG.No owner inscrptn per se but completed prize label pasted to front fep.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp- cornered,publisher's paper-covered original cream cloth bds with colour (blue+black) pictorial decorated front bd+spine with bright,crisp,stamped blue+ black letters to same and clean plain white eps and both pastedowns.Spine/ backstrip slightly darkened and with a few mottled/foxing(?) spots but without any splits,tears or any fraying.Top edges minimally dust-soiled and with lightest of any ageing with faint blemishes,fore-edges with slight hint of ageing - very considerably much less than is usual/ normal or encountered - but with sporadic foxing/spotting.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-viiipp+1 -326pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,contents list/table,30 chapters,with profuse full-page,chapter head+tail pieces and part page b/w illustrations by Stuart Tresilian throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w illus frntis to it's recto,and title-page with b/w vignette illustration. The same much-loved characters are here again - Philip,Dinah,Jack,Lucy-Ann,Bill Smugs - and,of course,Kiki,the telkative, comical parrot.Snowy the white kid is a newcomer,and so is Sally,the slow-worm,a great pet of Philip's,the boy whom all creatures love. They go for a summer holiday in the Welsh mountains - and fall,as usual,headlong into a most extraordinary adventure. What is going on inside the mountain? What causes the rumbling and the earth-shaking - and the curious clouds of crimson smoke? Who lives there and why? Where is the entrance? Thousands of boy and girl readers will be eager to follow Philip and his companions through all the dangers and surprises they have to face before the mystery is solved. An important and welcome addition to the Enid Blyton adventure story canon for all Blyton fiction collectors/officianados. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja715717. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN,1949. UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.[The 5th of 8 adventures and all of them were illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.] FINE/VG++. Neat,blue ink owner inscrptn: name/address+contemporary date to foxed/ spotted ffe but no price-clip (8s. 6d. NET) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, wrap-around colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj,with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Miniscule chipping with reciprocal loss to both head+foot of dw/djs' spine/backstrip - letters unaffected; all corners also minisculely rubbed with reciprocal loss.Top front corner with an approx 1.5" closed tear on crease of front fold of inner flap of dw/dj.Top edges minimally and very faintly dust-soiled and with lightest of any ageing,fore-edges also similarly and very lightly aged - considerably much less than is usual/normal or encountered - so bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - one dog-ear reading crease to pp39/40 top corner, otherwise appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original cream cloth bds with colour (blue+black) pictorial decorated front bd+spine with bright, crisp,stamped blue+black letters to same and plain white eps with minimal,sporadic spotting/foxing to both free endpaperss; but both pastedowns foxing-free.Spine /backstrip with a few mottled/foxing(?) spots and without any splits,tears or any fraying.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,v-viiipp+ 1-326pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,contents list/table,30 chapters, profuse full-page,chapter head+tail pieces and part-page b/w illustrations by Stuart Tresilian throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w illus frntis to it's verso,and title-page with b/w vignette illustration and date,1949. The same much-loved characters are here again - Philip,Dinah,Jack,Lucy-Ann,Bill Smugs - and,of course,Kiki,the telkative, comical parrot.Snowy the white kid is a newcomer,and so is Sally,the slow-worm,a great pet of Philip's,the boy whom all creatures love. They go for a summer holiday in the Welsh mountains - and fall,as usual,headlong into a most extraordinary adventure. What is going on inside the mountain? What causes the rumbling and the earth-shaking - and the curious clouds of crimson smoke? Who lives there and why? Where is the entrance? Thousands of boy and girl readers will be eager to follow Philip and his companions through all the dangers and surprises they have to face before the mystery is solved. An important and welcome addition to the Enid Blyton adventure story canon for all Blyton fiction collectors/officianados. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja715217. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.METHUEN & CO. LTD.,1944. UK,slim 12mo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.[True UK first edn with the 'BOOK PRODUCTION WAR ECONOMY STANDARD' advice/notification,and stated 'First published in 1944'.Uncommon example in a book of its age and given the period of production,i.e. 1942-1947 - with wartime paper-rationing,the quality of paper generally used and survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+printers.Any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and fragility and be prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded,or be reverse printed - possibly coming from an entirely different book/ title.) VG+.Inked donor's gift presentation inscrptn to top of front free endpaper and minus issued dw/dj.Bright and clean,publisher's original pale green cloth bds with minimally bumped corners and with crisp white ink printed lettering and a magnifying glass and fingerprint illustration to front lower corner on front cover; with negligible shelf-wear or bumping and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Spine/backstrip ubiquitously sunned/ faded and virtually bleached and free of colour - absence of protective dw/dj - with white lettering still discernible though,and clean white endpapers with minimal and faint,sporadic foxing/spotting.Top+fore-edges aged/toned with sporadic foxing spots; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - minimal foxing - and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation. UK,slim 12mo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn,vpp+1170pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,22 chapters,8 full-page b/w line illustrations by Joseph Abbey,throughout the text and the book, plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w line illustrated frntis to it's reverse and title page. A highly collected and prolific children's book author/illustrator,and an unusual item/ephemera in Blyton's bold style and will be an important and welcome addition to the canon.Wartime issues /editions are notoriously and particularly scarce and as such,are highly sought after. The 2nd of 15 'Mystery' stories from this series.An adventure of the Five Find- Outers and dog.Bets,Pip,Daisy,Larry and Fatty with his black Scottie dog Buster,solve another mystery. Lady Candling is a collector of Siamese cats and it's her prize cat Dark Queen that goes missing - twice. (Joseph van Abbe,born 1898 in Amsterdam, Holland,worked as J Abbey.) Joseph Abbey lived in England from the age of three.Brother of Salomon Van Abbe.Joseph Abbey worked,mainly in black and white,for newspapers,magazines, children's books and annuals.His most successful subjects were animals,birds and plants.He was editor of Chums' during the 1930s and exhibited flower paintings at several London galleries, including the Royal Academy.He illustrated two other Blyton titles from this series - the first book of the series 'The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage' (1943) and 'The Mystery of the Hidden House' the 6th. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinaions can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja660017. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.METHUEN & CO. LTD.,1957. UK,slim 12mo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG+. Two sets of previous owner's inked inscrptns+date - one to each of the front pastedown and front free endpaper,which is also sporadically and faintly foxed/ spotted,and no issued dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,generally sharp-cornered,publisher's original grey/taupe cloth boards,with crisp white ink printed lettering and a magnifying glass and fingerprint illustration to front lower corner on front cover; with negligible shelf-wear or bumping and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Spine/ backstrip imperceptibly sunned/faded and with a few tiny blemishes around author's letters but with reddish brown lettering lightly dulled but still discernible though,and aforementioned white endpapers. Top edges slightly aged/toned,fore-edges less so,and brighter and slightly cleaner with some minimal sporadic foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight and generally clean - minimal,sporadic foxing/ spotting throughout,some minor blemishes scattered in pp47-52,otherwise solid and sound - a couple of dog-ear reading creases to top corners of pages 99/100 and 101/2.UK,slim 12mo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn, 1-186pp [paginated] includes 22 chapters,8 full-page b/w line illustrations by Lilian Buchanan,throughout the text and the book, plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w line illustrated frntis to it's reverse,title page,and author's foreword. The penultimate and 14th of 15 'Mystery' stories from this series.An adventure of the Five Find-Outers and dog.Bets,Pip, Daisy,Larry and Fatty with his black Scottie dog Buster,solve another mystery. Lilian L. Buchanan (born 1914 died 2005 - active from c1954 and very prolific.) Worked as Lilian Buchanan,an illustrator of children's books and gift books; was the principal illustrator of H.E. Todd's 'Bobby Brewster' series.She also illustrated two other Blyton titles from this series: 'The Mystery of the Missing Man (1956) and 'The Mystery of Banshee Towers' (1966). Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja660217. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.METHUEN & CO. LTD.,1950. UK,slim 12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG+. Inked owner name and donor's gift presentation inscrptn to front free endpaper,which has some off-set foxing from front pastedown and rear endpaper similarly affected,and no issued dw/dj. Bright,crisp,generally clean - some minor grubbing,sharp-cornered,publisher's original red cloth boards,with crisp black ink printed lettering and a magnifying glass and fingerprint illustration to front lower corner on front cover; with negligible shelf-wear or bumping and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.All corners minimally bumped with some miniscule fraying.Spine/backstrip imperceptibly sunned/faded - absence of protective dw/dj - lettering very lightly dulled but still discernible though,and aforementioned foxed/spotted white endpapers.Top edges lightly aged/toned with minimal foxing/spotting,fore-edges less aged/toned and so slightly brighter and cleaner but with more sporadic foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight and generally clean - minimal,sporadic foxing/ spotting throughout,a small splash/stain to bottom corner of pp3,otherwise solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,12mo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn,viipp+1-173pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,23 (XXIII) chapters,8 full-page b/w line illustrations by Treyer Evans,throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w line illustrated frntis to it's reverse,title page,and author's foreword,publisher's advert for author's other works/titles reverse of last paginated page,followed by 2pp blanks at the rear. The 8th story of the 15 'Mystery' stories from this series.An adventure of the Five Find-Outers and dog.Bets,Pip,Daisy,Larry and Fatty with his black Scottie dog Buster,are busy solving another mystery. Mr Goon is on the job too,but although he is cleverer than usual,the village policeman doesn't quite keep up with Fatty and the others! Treyer Meredith Evans (born 1889, Chichester.) Son of a dentist,worked as Treyer Evans.An advertising and press illustrator employed by C. Arthur Pearson (1909) and Edward Hulton (1910).He was a bright,stylish illustrator who worked in pen and ink or pencil,often with broad expanses of shading.However his style varied according to his subject - for example, in 'Will You Come As Well' (Milne-like verses about children),he adopted a technique similar to that of E.H. Shepard.He also illustrated a further four other Blyton titles from this series: 'The Mystery of the Vanished Prince' (1951), 'The Mystery of the Strange Bundle' (1952), 'The Mystery of Holly Lane' (1953) and 'The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage' (1954). Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja660317. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.METHUEN & CO. LTD.,1947. UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[True UK first edn with the 'THIS BOOK IS PRODUCED IN COMPLETE CONFORMITY WITH THE AUTHORIZED ECONOMY STANDARDS' advice/notification,and stated 'First published in 1947' to verso of title page.An uncommon example with a dw/dj,in a book of its age and given the period of production,i.e. 1942-1947 - with wartime paper-rationing,and the poor quality of paper generally used and survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+printers. Any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and fragility and be prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded,or be reverse printed - possibly coming from an entirely different book/title.] NFINE/POOR.A neat, ink handwritten familial gift presentation inscrptn and date (Xmas 1947) and a further owner's inscrptn: name+address to ffe and no price-clip (5s. net) to dw/dj.Wrap-around matt,colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj with red lettering to front cover and black+red lettering to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf- wear and heavy creasing with chipping, nicks and closed tears to edges and corners.Aged sellotape repairs/strengthening internally,to both inner flaps' folds/creases and head of spine and top,rear edge of dw/dj,which in turn has bled through leaving a concomitant 'ghosting' indication externally.An approx 1/5" x 1" chunk/tear loss to top,front corner of dw/dj and some minor loss to front,lower corner too.Foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj heavily creased with an approx 1.5" closed tear at rear gutter's edge and small loss at foot,minimally affecting black lettering.Rear panel of dw/dj also heavily creased and wrinkled to it's body. 97% of dw/dj complete and only described and added for completeness.Top edges minimally dust-soiled and with lightest of any ageing and a few blemishes,fore-edges with hint of ageing - very considerably much less than is usual/normal or encountered - so bright and clean with minimal foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - near pristine - text body bright,generally clean with some odd blemishes, no foxing and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original pale grey cloth bds with bright,crisp,blocked brown ink printed letters and magnifying glass+illustrated thumbprint to front cover/board and similar lettering to spine/backstrip and generally clean eps apart from some slight off-set foxing from internal backstrip and inscrptn.Rear free endpaper missing? UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, vipp+1-167pp [paginated] includes XXI (21) chapters,7 full-page b/w line illus by J. Abbey throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w line illus frntis to its verso,title page,author's foreword and publisher's advert to verso of last page. Here is the 5th book of the popular Mystery series,in which Fatty,Larry,Daisy,Pip,Bets - and Buster the Dog,of coursee - all play their parts as Finder-Outers. There are a great many clever burglaries going on,and it is suspected that member of the gang have their meeting place somewhere in Peterswood,where the Finder-Outers live.So the children,of course,determine to solve the mystery,and they tumble into other mysteries too.Who is the old man on the seat? Who is Number Three? Where is the missing necklace? Fatty of course,enjoys himself in various disguises,and poor Mr Goon,the policeman,is always being taken in.But Old Clear-Orf,as the children call him,defeats Fatty one strange night at the Waxworks Hall,and rejoices! It all ends up most amusingly and unexpectedly,and,as usual,there are thrills and laughs in every chapter. An important and welcome addition to the Blyton adventure/mystery story canon for all Blyton fiction collectors/ officianados. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja714317. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.METHUEN & CO. LTD.,1946. UK,slim 12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.[True UK first edn with the 'THIS BOOK IS PRODUCED IN COMPLETE CONFORMITY WITH THE AUTHORIZED ECONOMY STANDARDS' advice/ notification,and stated 'First published in 1946' to verso of title page.Uncommon example in a book of its age and given the period of production,i.e. 1942-1947 - with wartime paper-rationing,and the poor quality of paper generally used and survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+ printers.Any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and fragility and be prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded,or be reverse printed - possibly coming from an entirely different book/title.] VG-.A neat,ink handwritten familial gift presentation inscrptn and date (Xmas 1946) to top edge of front free endpaper.Publisher's original green cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped brown ink printed letters and magnifying glass+ illustrated thumbprint to front cover/ board and similar lettering to spine/ backstrip and generally clean eps apart from some slight marks; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears,splits or fraying present.Book has slight lean,all corners minimally bumped and fore-edge of front bd with a narrow margin of bleaching of it's original colour to it's length - water damage? Two production wrinkles - one each to top+bottom edges of the front cover/board.Top edges minimally dust- soiled and with lightest of any ageing and a few blemishes,fore-edges with hint of ageing - very considerably much less than is usual/normal or encountered - so bright and clean with minimal foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - near pristine - text body bright, generally clean with some odd blemishes,no foxing and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim 12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,vvipp+1-166pp [paginated] includes author's foreword, XXI (21) chapters,8 full-page b/w line illus by J. Abbey throughout the text and the book, plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w line illus frntis to its verso, title page,and publisher's advert to recto of rear free endpaper. 4th adventure in the series following on from The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage,The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat and The Mystery of the Secret Room.A very uncommon title from this series. An important and welcome addition to the Blyton adventure/mystery story canon for all Blyton fiction collectors/ officianados. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja714517. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON and REDHILL.LUTTERWORTH PRESS,1946. UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[True UK,HB 1st edn with the 'THIS BOOK IS PRODUCED IN COMPLETE CONFORMITY WITH THE AUTHORIZED ECONOMY STANDARDS' advice/notification, and stated 'First published in 1946' to verso of title-page.Uncommon example with a dw/dj in a book of its age and given the period of production,i.e. 1942-1947 - with wartime paper-rationing, and the poor quality of paper generally used and survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+printers.Any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and fragility and be prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded,or be reverse printed - possibly coming from an entirely different book/title.] NFINE/GOOD.A neat, ink handwritten familial gift presentation inscrptn and date (1946) to top edge of front pastedown and a further owner's inscrptn: name+address to ffe and no price -clip (6s. net) to dw/dj.Bright,clean,matt, wrap-around colour pictorial artwork with red+yellow edged lettering to front bd and similar and separate yellow lettering to spine/ backstrip illustrated dw/dj; with some shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - with nicks and some minor losses and closed tears present on both top+ bottom edges.Small loss at foot of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj affecting lettering (the word PRESS missing),with adhesive brown paper repairs/strengthening internally only,to front fold/crease of dw/dj inner flap,to closed tears along top front edge and similarly to head of spine/backstrip too. 99% of dw/dj complete and only described and added for completeness.Top edges minimally and very faintly dust-soiled and with lightest of any ageing,fore-edges with lightest hint of ageing - very considerably much less than is usual/normal or encountered - so bright and clean without any ubiquitous foxing/spotting just the usual thumbing marks; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - text body bright and clean with minimal blemishes - no foxing and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Remarkably bright,crisp, clean,generally sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain beige cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped green ink printed lettering; author's facsimile signature to lower,right-hand corner of front cover/ board and similar lettering to spine and clean plain white eps,inscrptns excepted and without foxing/spotting or any off-set foxing shadows from dw/dj flaps.UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-167pp [paginated] includes 24 chapters,b/w line illus by Elisabeth Wall,throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title,colour frntis by Elisabeth Wall,title page and contents list/table. Another story about a group of children who form a band and call themselves The Put-Em-Rights.It was the Tramping Preacher who first gave them the idea,when he stirred their hearts and imaginations by saying that they could help the world along by trying to help put the wrong things right.It was not long before the band found their first task,and it fell to Micky to tackle the gardener about his unkindness to his dog.Then the tasks come rolling along,and soon each member of the little band has a particular person to help or problem to solve.The tasks they set themselves are ambitious,and their resolves do not always turn out as expected.In spite of valiant efforts, things get rather out of hand and almost too involved for them to manage; but The Put-Em-Rights,although sometimes despondent,are never really dismayed and they go on trying. How they emerge from the difficulties which beset them comes at the end of the story,of course.It is full of fun and excitement,and the children in it are so real that they might easily be you and your own friends. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja714417. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.COLLINS,1950. UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.[The 2nd of 8 adventures and all of them were illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.] VG-. Neat,blue inked familial gift presentation inscrptn and date (13th April, 1946) to front free endpaper and further owner (recipient) childish handwritten name/address to top of half-title page.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and generally clean with the usual minimal soiling/grubbing seen when lacking a dw/dj for protection,publisher's original cream cloth boards with colour (black+green) pictorial decorated front+spine with bright,crisp,blocked black+green letters to same,all corners minimally bumped,rubbed and with some fraying and plain,generally clean,white endpapers - inscrptn excepted.Top edges minimally dust-soiled and minimally speckled with blemishes, fore-edges with lightest hint of ageing - very considerably much less than is usual/normal or encountered - so bright and clean with no foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - minimal foxing/blemisheing to text body and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn, v-viiipp+1-318pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,31 chapters,profuse part-page and full-page b/w line illustrations by Stuart Tresilian throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w line illustrated frntis to its verso and b/w vignette illustrated title page - both pages minimally foxed/spotted. Author's 2nd title in this series of 8 adventures and quite scarce as a true UK,HB 1st edn - particularly with a dw/dj. Uncommon example with a dw/dj in a book of its age and given the period of production,i.e. 1942-1947 - with wartime paper-rationing,and the poor quality of paper generally used and survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+printers. Any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and fragility and be prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded,or be reverse printed - possibly coming from an entirely different book/title. An important and welcome addition to the Enid Blyton adventure story canon for all Blyton fiction collectors/officianados. Pease contact seller,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja716117. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN,1948. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[The 4th of 8 adventures and all them were illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.] FINE/NFINE.Neat owner inscrptn and no price-clip (8s. 6d. NET) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, wrap-around colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj,with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Miniscule chipping with reciprocal loss to both head+foot of dw/djs' spine/backstrip letters unaffected; all corners also minisculely rubbed with reciprocal loss.Top edges minimally and very faintly dust-soiled and with lightest of any ageing,fore-edges also similarly aged - considerably much less than is usual/normal or encountered - so bright and clean without foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornered,publisher's original cream cloth bds with colour (blue +black) pictorial decorated front bd+spine with bright,crisp,stamped blue+black letters to same and plain white eps with minimal spotting/foxing to ffe; but both pastedowns foxing-free.Boards/covers and spine/backstrip without any nicks,splits or tears.UK,8vo HB+dw/ dj,1st edn,v-xpp+1- 320pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,contents list/table,31 chapters, profuse full-page,chapter head+tail pieces and part page b/w illustrations by Stuart Tresilian throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w illus frntis to it's verso,title page with b/w vignette illustration and date,1948. 'The Sea of Adventure' tells how Jack, Lucy-Ann,Dinah (and Kiki the parrot,of course) go off for a holiday together,with their old friend Bill Smugs. Bill is in danger from his enemies.He must "disappear" for a while,so what could be better than to visit the lonely bird- islands on the far-off northern sea,in company with the four children and Kiki? And then,of course,they sail straight into Adventure! What is going on among these lonely islands? Bill can guess - and pays for for his guessing - and then the four children are left all alone on Puffin Island,expecting the enemy to come and capture them.Thrills and alarms,excitement and shocks come one after the other,until even the reader's heart begins to beat as fast as Lucy-Ann's.Kiki makes friends with Huffin and Puffin,the two tame puffins,and has as big a share in the adventure as anyone. An important and welcome addition to the Enid Blyton adventure canon for all Blyton fiction collectors/officianados. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja715117. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.METHUEN & CO. LTD.,1944. UK,slim 12mo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.[True UK first edn with the 'BOOK PRODUCTION WAR ECONOMY STANDARD' advice/notification,and stated 'First published in 1944'.Uncommon example in a book of its age and given the period of production,i.e. 1942-1947 - with wartime paper-rationing,the quality of paper generally used and survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+printers.Any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and fragility and be prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded,or be reverse printed - possibly coming from an entirely different book/ title.) VG++.Neat,handwritten inked familial gift presentation inscrptn and date to front free endpaper.Remarkably bright,crisp and clean,sharp- cornered, publisher's original vibrant pinkish/red cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped black ink printed lettering to front bd with stamped,printed ink vignette illustration (two schoolgirls sitting atop a travelling trunk) to front bd;black ink lettering to spine/backstrip and plain white eps with some inevitable but minimal foxing/ spotting.Rear bd has minimal grubbing and a faint residual liquid stain towards top corner.Top edges aged/toned and darkened, fore-edges also aged/toned but to a lesser degree,so therefore slightly brighter with one foxing spot; contents bright,tight and clean - apart from a slight discoloured smudge to bottom border edge of pp51 - and solid and sound.UK,slim 12mo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn,vpp+1-157pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,20 (XX) chapters,8 full-page b/w line illustrations by W. Lindsay Cable interspersed throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w line illustrated frntis to it's reverse,and title page. Described hard but fairly and honestly - an exceptional example - nowhere as detracting as it reads or sounds! See my book ID's rja714017,rja714117 and rja847919 for other titles from this school's series. The 5th of the 6 published 'St.Clare School' books/series (1941-45).Wartime issues/editions are notoriously and particularly scarce and as such,this makes an important and welcome addition to the Blyton/St. Clare's School canon for all Blyton/Schoolgirl fiction collectors. W. Lindsay Cable (active 1927-51). Illustrator,mainly of girls' school stories,in pen and ink,brush and ink,and pencil.Initially,her work was rather reminiscent of fashion plates,but by the late 1940s it had become more independent in style,employing a good range of textures and shading. Enid Blyton's books have sold over 500 million copies and have been translated into other languages more often than any other children's author.She wrote over 600 books and hundreds of short stories, including favourites such as 'The Famous Five','The Secret Seven','The Magic Faraway Tree','Malory Towers' and 'Noddy'. Born in London in 1897,Enid lived much of her life in Buckinghamshire and adored dogs,gardening and the countryside.She died in 1968 but remains one of the world's best-loved storytellers. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja659517. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.METHUEN & CO. LTD.,1947. UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,3rd edn.[Originally and true 1st edn March 23rd,1944.A 2nd edn Sept,1945 and then this 3rd edn 1947.] FINE/FINE.Owner name+address but no price-clip (5s.) to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork front panel,by W. Lindsay Cable,illustrated dw/dj,with red+white lettering,rear panel with publisher's advert - black text to white background and white spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Two tiniest of closed tears/snicks to bottom edges of dw/dj - one each to the front and rear edges. Top edges minimally dust-soiled and with lightest of any ageing with one blemish,fore-edges with hint of ageing - very considerably much less than is usual/normal or encountered - so bright and clean with minimal foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no foxing to text body and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Exceptionally bright,crisp,clean,sharp -cornered,publisher's original plain orange(?) cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked black ink printed letters and vignette to upper board and similar lettering to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers with light off-setting - from dw/dj's inner flaps - to free endpapers.UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,3rd edn,vpp+1-157pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,XX (20) chapters,8 full-page b/w line illus by W.Lindsay Cable throughout the text and the book and a b/w line illus vignetted design frntis,repeated from front board; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages. Uncommon example with a dw/dj in a book of its age and given the period of production,i.e. 1942-1947 - with wartime paper-rationing, and the poor quality of paper generally used and survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+printers. Any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and fragility and be prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded,or be reverse printed - possibly coming from an entirely different book/title. See my book ID's rja659517,rja714117 and rja847919 for other titles from this school's series. This is the 4th book of the popular St. Clare's series by Enid Blyton.These exciting school stories are unusul in their aliveness and humour.The girls are real characters,bad and good,kind and unkind,happy and unhappy.In this book we follow especially the fortunes of the two head-girls of the second form,Lazy Anna and Spiteful Elsie,and of two new girls,Mirabel, tiresome and silly,and Gladys,the little Misery-Girl.All the familiar characters from the first form are here too,the O'Sullivan twins,Don't- Care-Bobby (with a mischievious trick for Mam'zelle!),Carlotta the circus-girl,feather-headed Alison,and serious Hilary,once head-girl of the first form. Lessons and games,feasts and matches,tricks and concerts,rewards and punishments - all the stuff of school-life is here,readable,amusing, instructive and amazingly entertaining. An important and welcome addition to the Blyton schoolgirls story canon for all Blyton/ schoolgirls fiction collectors/ officianados. W. Lindsay Cable (active 1927-51). Illustrator,mainly of girls' school stories,in pen and ink,brush and ink,and pencil. Initially,her work was rather reminiscent of fashion plates,but by the late 1940s it had become more independent in style,employing a good range of textures and shading. Enid Blyton's books have sold over 500 million copies and have been translated into other languages more often than any other children's author.She wrote over 600 books and hundreds of short stories, including favourites such as 'The Famous Five','The Secret Seven','The Magic Faraway Tree','Malory Towers' and 'Noddy'. Born in London in 1897,Enid lived much of her life in Buckinghamshire and adored dogs, gardening and the countryside.She died in 1968 but remains one of the world's best-loved storytellers. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja714017. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.SAMPSON LOW,MARSTON & CO.,LTD.,[nd.] UK,Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st.VG+.No owner inscrptn.Bright,crisp,clean,publisher's original pale green cloth boards with dark green cloth blind spine with bright,crisp,blocked gilt decoration (3 children in beach attire and a dog,running at the seaside) and gilt letters to front cover, similar but slight,partial oxidising of a few gilt letters to spine/ backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners.Front cover with mottling sunning/fading,rear cover with sunning strips (horizontal+vertical) due to smaller sized book being stored alongside,pictorial red+white illustrations by Hilda Boswell illustrated endpapers.Corners bumped with inevitable but miniscule rubbing and wear.Top+ fore-edges toned and with minimal sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean and solid - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.Page 95/6 bottom edges with small tear and loss and pp115/6 with a similar small tear and loss to top corner,probably from opening uncut pages at the respective edges+ corners,some other pages with folds/crease (production faults?).UK,Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st, 5-192pp [paginated] includes 30 short stories and 9 interactive activities (puzzles,things to make or do),profuse 3-colour block (b/w+colour - one from either green,orange,lilac,yellow,red,or blue) illustrations throughout the text,2 back-to-back full-page,full colour illustrations by Grace Lodge and 2 similar back-to-back nature illustrations by Noel Hopking - 4 each in total for each artist - interspersed within the text. Some illustrations uncredited with no initials, some just initialled but deciphered and identified,others include named: Mary K. Lee (M.K.L),Betty Ladler (B.L.),Narroway [W.E.], Sylvia I Venus (S.I.V),Eileen Soper (EAS),Hilda McGavin, R. Brown,Grace Lodge and Hilda Boswell. Plus [unpaginated] half-title and b/w vignette illustrated title page. A highly collected and prolific children's book author/illustrator,and a collectable item in Blyton's usual style and will be an important and welcome addition to the Blyton canon. Believed published for the Christmas market,to be given as gifts. Please contact seller,because of either the weight or the value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja874820. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.SAMPSON LOW,MARSTON & CO.,LTD.,[nd. circa 1949.] UK,Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st.[Variant binding?] VG+.Owner name in childish handwriting to ffe and also a handwritten,blue ink,familial (Grandma+Grandpa Xmas 1949) Christmas gift presentation inscrptn+date to top right-hand corner of half-title page.Bright,crisp,clean, publisher's original navy blue cloth boards with dark blue cloth blind spine with bright,crisp, blocked gilt decoration (3 children in beach attire and a dog,running at the seaside) and gilt letters to front cover,the original gilt letters to spine/backstrip oxidised leaving letters' blocked impression,spine also dulled; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears or splits present.Slight,minimal sporadic foxing/ spotting to pictorial red+white illustrations by Hilda Boswell,illustrated endpapers.All corners bumped with inevitable but miniscule rubbing and wear.Top+fore-edges aged/toned - as usual/normal - cheap paper stock - but without foxing/ spotting; contents particularly bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.UK,Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st,5-192pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,30 short stories and 9 interactive activities (puzzles,things to make or do),profuse 3-colour block (b/w+colour - one from either green,orange,lilac,yellow,red,or blue) illustrations throughout the text,4pp of back-to-back full-page,full colour illustrations by Grace Lodge and similarly,4pp back-to-back nature illustrations by Noel Hopking - 4 each in total for each artist - interspersed within the text.Some illustrations uncredited with no initials,some just initialled but deciphered and identified,others include named: Mary K. Lee (M.K.L), Betty Ladler (B.L.),Narroway [W.E.], Sylvia I Venus (S.I.V),Eileen Soper (EAS),Hilda McGavin,R. Brown,Grace Lodge and Hilda Boswell. Plus [unpaginated] half-title and b/w vignette illustrated title page. A highly collected and prolific children's book author/illustrator,and a collectable item in Blyton's usual style and will be an important and welcome addition to the Blyton canon. Believed published for the Christmas market,to be given as gifts. Please contact seller,because of either the weight or the value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja874920. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: UK.LEICESTER.THE BROCKHAMPTON PRESS,1949. UK,12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG.No owner inscrptn and minus issued dw/dj. Publisher's original,cream cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped red ink lettering to front bd and to spine/backstrip and plain white eps with some ubiquitous but inevitable foxing/spotting.Bds are lighlty discoloured with the spine /backstrip slightly darkened,all corners minimally bumped but negligible shelf-wear to edges. A small dent to front bd's lower edge.Top edges slightly dust-soiled with slight ageing and some foxing/spotting,fore-edges similar but slightly brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight,solid and sound with some intermittent foxing/spotting - due to quality of rag-paper used - throughout the text and the book.UK,slim 12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,5-96pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,12 chapters,profuse part-page b/w line illustrations by George Brook,plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w Secret Seven illustration, circular colour vignetted frntis (design taken from dw/dj illustration),and a b/w vignetted illustrated title page. The first and scarcest title in the Secret Seven series of 15 titles. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and value of this item for correct,insured shipping/ P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja659417. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: OXFORD.BASIL BLACKWELL,1941. UK,slim 8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn. [Published and first printed September, 1941.The 3rd story of the strange adventures of the Secret Island children.] VG+.Owner's handwritten,neat,ink inscrptn: name and part address.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original light green cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped black ink printed lettering to spine/ backstrip which is sunned/faded,and clean plain white eps with negligible spotting. Rear board/cover with sunning/fading to top edge and gutter's edge,rest of cover unaffected - due to presence of smaller book when stored on shelf.Book with a slight lean; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no splits, nicks,tears or fraying present.Top edges minimally dust-soiled and with lightest of any ageing - no blemishes,fore-edges with slight hint of ageing - very considerably much less than is usual/normal or encountered - so bright and clean with no foxing/spotting or blemishes; contents bright,tight,remarkably clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - text body bright and clean and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK, slim 8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,v-xpp+11- 192pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table,illustrations list/table,XXII (22) chapters,profuse b/w illustrations by Harry Rountree,throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title page, Harry Rountree colour illustrated frntis and title page. An important and welcome addition to the Enid Blyton adventure story canon for all Blyton fiction collectors/officianados. Harry Rountree (1878-1950) Born Auckland, New Zealand,son of a banker.Worked as a lithographer in a commercial studio. Attracted by British illustration,he moved to London in 1910,where his work was noticed by S. H. Hamer,the editor of Little Folks (a British periodical). Working for books as well as magazines,he became known for his drawings of animals, which he drew with a keen eye for humorous detail.His distinctive style has a faintly fin-de-siecle flavour,with densely worked areas of deep shadow contrasting with 'bleached out' areas of light,creating an insistent surface pattern.He was a member of the London Sketch Club,and a friend of Harold Earnshaw,with whom he played golf. [Earnshaw studied art in London and also was a member of the Sketch Club and the Chelsea Arts Club.He lost his arm in WW1, but taught himself to draw left-handed.His work appeared regularly in children's annuals and anthologies,where his drawings and colour plates can be seen to echo the work of John Hassall in their humour and bold conception.He married Mabel Lucie Attwell**,and is thought to have been responsible for some of the more naturalistic parts of her drawings,such as the animals.Died as a result of his war injuries,in 1937.] Harry Rountree seemed to have outlived his popularity as an illustrator - one of his last commissions was Winifred Humphries' 'Wog and Wig.'(1947) - dying in relative poverty at St. Ives,Cornwall, where he is commemorated by a plaque on the harbour jetty. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja715517. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: UK.LEICESTER.BROCKHAMPTON PRESS,1965-7. UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,assorted later imp edns (6th - 13th).NFINE/NFINE.Owner inscrptns and no price-clips to dws/djs. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean - some volumes with light,sporadic foxing/ spotting to same; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,paper-covered bds with bright, crisp,stamped letters to spine/backstrip and illustrated eps - some with neat colour pencilling-in. Titles include:THE SECRET SEVEN, SECRET SEVEN ADVENTURE, WELL DONE SECRET SEVEN, SECRET SEVEN ON THE TRAIL, GO AHEAD SECRET SEVEN, GOOD WORK,SECRET SEVEN! and SECRET SEVEN WIN THROUGH. An important and welcome addition to the Enid Blyton adventure story canon for all Blyton fiction collectors/officianados. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja716317. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: UK.OXFORD,OXON.BASIL BLACKWELL,1943. UK,slim 8vo HB minus dw/dj,3rd reprint edn. [Published and first printed September,1938. Reprinted in January 1940,again a year later in January 1941,and reprinted again in July,1943 - this edn.Blyton's first full-length adventure novel and the first title in the series of adventures of the Secret Island children.] VG+. No owner inscrptn and minus issued dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original lair-force blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked black ink printed lettering to spine/ backstrip which is sunned/faded,and with some minimal and light,sporadic foxing/spotting to both the plain white,front+rear pastedowns and both he free endpapers too; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and the ubiquitous bumping and minimal rubbing to all corners,but no nicks,tears,splits or any other fraying present. Front board with a faded narrow border at its top+bottom edges and also to spine's gutter's crease - due to proximity of a slightly smaller book's presence - as stored on a shelf.Rear board with sunning/fading just to the spine's gutter's crease too,again,due to presence of a less wide and smaller book,when stored on shelf - rest of cover unaffected.Top edges minimally dust-soiled and with lightest of any ageing - no blemishes,fore-edges with slight hint of ageing - very considerably much less than is usual/ normal or encountered - so bright and clean,also with no foxing/spotting or blemishes; contents bright,tight,remarkably clean,solid and sound - text body clean and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim 8vo HB minus dw/dj,3rd rpt,v-ixpp+11-190pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illus lists/tables, XXI (21) chapters,profuse (61) part -page,b/w line illustrations by E. H. Davies,throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,E. H. Davies colour illustrated frntis - designed repeated from the original but missing dw/dj,a b/w vignette illustrated title page and o the rear,2pp blanks. A highly collected and prolific children's book author/illustrator,and an unusual item/ephemera in Blyton's bold style and will be an important and welcome addition to the canon.Wartime issues/editions are notoriously and particularly scarce and as such,are highly sought after. As an extremely scarce UK,1st edn,this is the earliest reprint edn noted or listed elsewhere and equally as such,an important and welcome addition to the Enid Blyton adventure story canon for all Blyton collectors/officianados. Uncommon example with a dw/dj in a book of its age and given the period of production,i.e. 1942-1947 - with wartime paper-rationing,and the poor quality of paper generally used and survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+printers. Any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded,or be reverse printed - possibly coming from an entirely different book/title. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja848319. ISBN: No iSBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.SAMPSON LOW,MARSTON & CO.,LTD.,[nd. circa 1951] UK,Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st.[Undated,circa 1951.] VG+.No owner inscrptn but front free endpaper removed leaving residual torn strip.Bright, crisp,clean,publisher's original red paper-covered boards with dulled and spotted faded light blue cloth blind spine with partial oxidisation to majority of stamped letters,a bright,crisp,blocked gilt decoration (ice-cream stall and the seller handing an ice cream cone to a little girl) and gilt letters to front cover; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks, tears or splits present,pictorial colour illustrations by Cicely Steed endpapers.Missing dw/dj,but 6 double-sided,full-page,full colour illustrations by Robert MacGillivary.Top+fore-edges aged/toned; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.UK,Qrto HB minus dw/dj, 1st edn,5-192pp [paginated] includes 28 illustrated short stories and 5 interactive activities (riddles,a puzzle,a trick,and to make),profuse multi-colour (4-5) block illustrations throughout the text,6 in 3 double-sided,full-page,full colour nature illustrations by Robert MacGillivary - interspersed within the text.Illustrators include: Lillian Chivers, Robert MacGillivary,Dorothy Hall,Cicely Steed, Grace Lodge,Hilda McGavin,Vera Rice-Jay and Mary Brooks et al.Plus [unpaginated] half-title,and a colour vignette illustrated title page. A highly collected and prolific children's book author/illustrator,and a collectable item in Blyton's usual style and will be an important and welcome addition to the Blyton canon. Believed published for the Christmas market,to be given as gifts. Please contact seller,because of either the weight or the value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US?canda customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja875320. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.SAMPSON LOW,MARSTON & CO.,LTD.,[nd.Ccirca 1951.] UK,Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.[Undated,circa 1951.] VG+.No owner inscrptn.Bright,crisp,clean, publisher's original red paper-covered boards with sunned/faded and minimally spotted,light blue cloth blind spine with partial oxidisation but still visible,to majority of blocked letters,a bright,crisp,blocked gilt decoration (ice-cream stall and the seller handing an ice cream cone to a little girl) and gilt letters to front cover,top front corner and towards foot of blind spine's edge and rear top corner and part of board's vertical edge - all with minor abrasions removing a portion of the red paper; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears or splits present,pictorial colour illustrations by Cicely Steed endpapers.Missing dw/dj but 6 double-sided,full-page,full colour illustrations by Robert MacGillivary.Top+fore-edges aged/ toned; contents bright,tight,clean and solid - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.UK,Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,5-192pp [paginated] includes 28 illustrated short stories and 5 interactive activities (riddles,a puzzle,a trick,and to make),profuse multi-colour (4-5) block illustrations throughout the text,6 in 3 double-sided,full-page,full colour nature illustrations by Robert MacGillivary - interspersed within the text.Illustrators include: Lillian Chivers,Robert MacGillivary, Dorothy Hall,Cicely Steed,Grace Lodge,Hilda McGavin,Vera Rice-Jay and Mary Brooks et al.Plus [unpaginated] half-title,and a colour vignette illustrated title page. A highly collected and prolific children's book author/illustrator,and a collectable item in Blyton's usual style and will be an important and welcome addition to the Blyton canon. Believed published for the Christmas market,to be given as gifts. Please contact seller,because of either the weight or the value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja875420. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.SAMPSON LOW,MARSTON & CO.,LTD.,[nd. cira 1948.] UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG-.No owner inscrptn but handwritten,blue ink familial gift presentation inscrptn+date (Grandma+ Grandpa Xmas 1951.) to top edge of ffe and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Hilda Boswell, illustrated dw/dj with edge worn and creases, rubbing,chipping with some minimal loss,several small closed tears along top+bottom edges, some splits along folds - i.e all corners,some further small loss to foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj - approx 98% present.Publisher's original tan/orange(?) paper-covered boards with light green cloth blind spine with original gilt letters oxidised - leaving blocked letter impressions,a bright,crisp,blocked gilt decoration (3 children running,presumably,to catch a train to go on holiday) and bright, crisp,blocked gilt lettering to front board/ cover and immaculate and clean,red+white illustrations to green background,illustrated endpapers.Colour plates - four double-sided full-page,full colour plates,the dust-wrapper and endpapers - all beautifully illustrated by Hilda Boswell.Top edges lightly toned but minus any foxing/spotting,fore-edge similar but brighter and cleaner and also minus foxing/ spotting - remarkable for book's age; contents bright,tight,exceptionally clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-192pp [paginated] includes contents list/table - each story or activity with a credited illustrator,29 illustrated short stories and 8 interactive activities (puzzles+things to do or make), profuse 3-colour block (b/w+colour - one from either green,orange,lilac,yellow,pink,red,or blue) illustrations throughout the text,plus aforementioned Hilda Boswell colour plates.B/w+ colour illustrations by Helen Jacobs,Eileen Soper,Grace Lodge,Sylvia Venus,Lola Onslow and more. A highly collected and prolific children's book author/illustrator,and a collectable item in Blyton's usual style and will be an important and welcome addition to the Blyton canon. Believed published for the Christmas market,to be given as gifts. Please contact seller for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja875020. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.SAMPSON LOW,MARSTON & CO.,LTD.,[nd.] UK,Qrto HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG+.Owner black ink block printed name reverse of front free endpaper and minus half-title page - residual torn edge strip where removed.Minimally bumped corners,but bright,crisp and clean,publisher's original tan/orange(?) paper-covered boards with a dark green cloth blind spine with original(?) gilt letters dulled and part-oxidised,and a bright,crisp,blocked gilt decoration (3 children running, presumably,to catch a train to go on holiday) and bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to front board/cover and immaculate and clean,red+white illustrations to green background, illustrated endpapers.Colour plates - four double-sided full-page,full colour plates, the (missing) dust-wrapper,endpapers - all beautifully illustrated by Hilda Boswell. Top+fore-edges toned but without any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean and solid - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK, Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-192pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table - each story or activity with a credited illustrator,29 illustrated short stories and 8 interactive activities (puzzles+things to do or make),profuse 3-colour block (b/w+ colour - one from either green,orange, lilac,yellow,pink,red,or blue) illustrations throughout the text; plus aforementioned Hilda Boswell colour plates.B/w+colour illustrations by Helen Jacobs,Eileen Soper,Grace Lodge,Sylvia Venus,Lola Onslow and more. A highly collected and prolific children's book author/illustrator,and a collectable item in Blyton's usual style and will be an important and welcome addition to the Blyton canon. Believed published for the Christmas market,to be given as gifts. Please contact seller,because of either the weight or the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja875120. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN,1965. UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,reprint.[The 3rd of 8 adventures and all of them were illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.] VG+.No owner inscrptn. Generally bright,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's paper-covered brown+green pictorial decorated cream boards (front cover+spine) with bright,crisp,blocked green+black letters to same and clean plain white free endpapers and pastedowns - all with minimal spotting/foxing to same.Boards/covers and spine/backstrip with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners and without any nicks,splits or tears present to same.Top edges with slightest of any ageing, minimal and light sporadic dust-soiling speckling,fore-edges also similarly and very lightly aged and also with minimal,sporadic foxing/spotting - considerably much less than is usual/normal or encountered; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - text body clean,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj, reprint,includes v-xpp+1-340pp [paginated] includes,author's foreword,contents list/ table, 31 chapters,profuse full-page,and chapter head+ tail pieces and part page b/w illustrations by Stuart Tresilian throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w illus frntis to it's verso,title page with b/w vignette illustration and date,1965. Once again we meet the characters we all know so well - Jack and Lucy-Ann,Philip,Dinah,and Bill Smugs,always ready to help in time of trouble; and of course,Kiki,the parrot,who,with her ridiculous chatter,is an essential part of the story. This time the children literally drop from the skies into a strange and thrilling adventure.A lonely and deserted valley - half-ruined houses - towering mountains - caves and underground passages - treasure! But what treasure? and where is it hidden? Who is after it? This is the riddle the children set themselves to solve,and in the solving they have many hair-raising adventures, and narrow escapes. An important and welcome addition to the Enid Blyton adventure story canon for all Blyton fiction collectors/officianados. Please contact seller for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja715617. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN,1947. UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.[The 3rd of 8 adventures and all of them were illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.] FINE/GOOD.Neat inked owner inscrptn: name/ address+contemporary date (April 1947) to sporadically foxed/spotted to both sides of front free endpaper and no price-clip (7s. 6d. net) to dw/dj.Matt,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj panels+spine/backstrip,with black lettering; with some minimal shelf-wear, nicks and creasing to edges and corners.Front inner flap of dw/dj with browned+aged sellotape repair/strengthening its whole length both internally+externally which seems to have caused the front panel to contract and wrinkle and an approx 2.5" 'ghost' residue sellotape repair to top,rear spine/backstrip's gutter's edge.A 1.5" loss to dw/dj's foot of spine/ backstrip,head of same with chipping and minimal loss,top rear corner with rubbing/ chipping and small tear, along with closed tears+nicks on top edges,rear lower corner also with minimal loss.Dw/dj approx 90% present but with listed faults.Top edges minimally and very faintly dust-soiled and with lightest of any ageing,fore-edges with lightest hint of ageing - very considerably much less than is usual/normal or encountered - so bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - text body bright and clean and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Really remarkably bright,crisp,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornered,publisher's original brown+green pictorial decorated cream cloth boards (front cover+spine) with bright,crisp,blocked green+black letters to same and plain white endpapers with minimal spotting/ foxing to same and to both pastedowns.Boards/ covers and spine/backstrip without any nicks, splits or tears.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xpp+1- 340pp [paginated] includes author's foreword, contents list/ table,31 chapters,profuse full-page,chapter head+ tail pieces and part page b/w illustrations by Stuart Tresilian throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w illus frntis to it's recto,title page with b/w vignette illustration and date,1947. Uncommon example with a dw/dj in a book of its age and given the period of production,i.e. 1942-1947 - with wartime paper-rationing,and the poor quality of paper generally used and survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+printers. Any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and fragility and be prone to subsequent disintegration - as this example can testify - and usually discarded,or be reverse printed - possibly coming from an entirely different book/ title. Once again we meet the characters we all know so well - Jack and Lucy-Ann,Philip,Dinah,and Bill Smugs,always ready to help in time of trouble; and of course,Kiki,the parrot,who,with her ridiculous chatter,is an essential part of the story. This time the children literally drop from the skies into a strange and thrilling adventure.A lonely and deserted valley - half-ruined houses - towering mountains - caves and underground passages - treasure! But what treasure? and where is it hidden? Who is after it? This is the riddle the children set themselves to solve,and in the solving they have many hair-raising adventures,and narrow escapes. An important and welcome addition to the Enid Blyton adventure story canon for all Blyton fiction collectors/officianados. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja715017. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON,METHUEN & CO. LTD.,1949. UK,12mo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally and first published October 21,1948,and a 2nd edn in 1949.] VG++/GOOD-.Handwritten,inked familial donor's gift presentation inscrptn and date to top edge of recto of ffe+owner's address but no price-clip (5s,) to dw/dj.Wrap-around colour pictorial artwork with red lettering to front panel and yellow+ red lettering to spine/ backstrip, illustrated dw/dj with minor loss to head+ foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj.Rubbing+ chipping with minor loss to folds/creases of dw/dj's inner flaps externally with further aged sellotape repairs/strengthening internally to same along with head+body of spine/backstrip and to front+rear lower edges too.Non-repaired edges of dw/dj heavly creased with chipping and reciprocal loss to minor nicks - overall barely good - but still approx 97% complete.Remarkably bright,crisp,clean,publisher's original cream cloth bds with bright,crisp,blocked black ink printed vignette illustrated front cover with author's facsimile signature and lettering and similar lettering to spine/backstrip and light blue+black ink printed illustration by Richard Cribb,to feps+pastedowns - map to pastedowns and scenic view of Malory Towers to free endpapers; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no splits,nicks,tears or fraying.Top edges minimally and very faintly dust-soiled and with lightest of any ageing,fore-edges with lightest hint of ageing - very considerably much less than is usual/normal or encountered - so bright and clean without ubiquitous foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - text body bright and clean,no foxing and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, v-viipp+1-159pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,contents list/table,23 (XXIII) chapters,8 full-page b/w illustrations all by Stanley Lloyd,throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,with b/w illustrated frntis to it's verso,title page and to rear,publisher's advert for author's other works/titles to verso of last page. The 3rd book of 6 in the 'Malory Towers' series.A stand alone novel but still about the same girls in the other titles in the series.The stories have followed Darrell and the other girls from her very first day, when she was 12 years old,through all the forms of the school, one in each book,until she becomes head-girl of the school and leaves. We meet again most of the girls we met in the first 2 Malory Towers books,and a few more. Darrell is here again,of course.Alicia and her tricks,Irene and Belinda the madcaps,stolid Jean,loyal Sally. We meet Zerelda too,the American girl with her "wunnerful" ways; Bill,short for Wilhelmina,mad on horses; Mavis,who has a remarkable voice and is sure she is going to be an opera singer.How do they settle down with the other girls? And what about the two Mam'zelles,and Matron,and Miss Potts, the house-mistress? They are all here again,lively,real,part of Malory Towers.The whole school comes to life with its work and games,its fun and laughter,its ups and downs and never-failing interest.One of the best Malory Towers books to date (then 1949). An exceptional example in exceptional condition notwithstanding dw/dj's presence - an important and welcome addition to the Blyton/Malory Towers canon for all Blyton/ schoolgirls fiction collectors/officianados. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja713617. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.T. V. BOARDMAN & CO. LTD.,Spring 1959. UK,Carded,bookmark style,Library List of latest US & UK BLOODHOUND MYSTERIES,Spring,1959 published by T.V. Boardman & Co Ltd. [A List of titles from No.252 to No. 272 inclusive.] FINE. Bright,crisp,clean and unblemished,no nicks, tears or splits present,sharp-cornered,original pink,stiff card (6"" tall x 2.5" wide) card ephemera includes list of 30 authors and their titles and books' sequential numeration.Starting with 'DISHONOUR AMONG THIEVES' by Spencer Dean (No. 242.) and ending with 'THE BLACK BERET' by Pete Fry (No. 272.) Interetingly,Ed McBain has a title - 'THE MUGGER' (No.254.). An uncommon and unusual item to have survived given its 60+ year-old age and its nature as a piece of carded ephemera,particularly in as great a state and condition as it is right now. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1085023. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1995. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.(Omnibus, comprising of Savage Arena and Everest the Cruel Way - Joe Tasker and The Shining Mountain,and Sacred Summits - Peter Boardman.)NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, but previous owner's,small name+address label stuck to top right-hand corner of ffe,dw/dj unclipped.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated colour scenic (Changabang West Wall) photographic upper wrap by Peter Boardman,and author's colour portrait photographic rear wrap by Chris Bonington (design repeated to glossy,l aminated bds);with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no serious nicks or tears present.Head of spine/ backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing,foot of same minisculely affected.Top, right-hand corner of upper board minisculely bumped,other corners unaffected.Top+fore-edges slightly aged - as usual/normal,but clean,contents bright, tight and clean and near immaculate,plain white eps.8vo,8-166pp includes half-title+ title pages,illustrations list,foreword by Chris Bonington,contents list,7 chapters + postscript,chronology and an index,8 b/w maps,6 b/w diagrams (all drawn from author's roughs by Neil Hyslop),16pp contemporary b/w photographs - 8pp each,between pp20/1 and pp120/1 respectively. Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker forged their internationally famous Himalayan climbing partnership during the second half of the 1970's and when they died together on the North-East Ridge of Everest in 1982 they left behind a track record of totally committing lightweight first ascents which was to be the inspiration of a whole new generation of alpine-syle expeditions.They each wrote two accomplished books which, deservedly, soon acquired classic status and became required reading for all venturing to high altitude.It is fitting that the memorial to these two exceptional climbers and writers should take the form of the annual Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.As for their own four books, these are now reprinted for the first time in one volume.[Publisher's blurb.] Savage Arena was published posthumously in 1982,but covers a span of Tasker's remarkable climbing career from the first British winter ascent of the Eigerwand,via Dunagiri South Face with Dick Renshaw (1975), Changabang West Wall with Peter Boardman(1976), Kangchenjunga North Ridge with Boardman, Scott and Bettembourg (1979),and two thwarted attempts on the West and the Abruzzi Ridges of K2 in 1978 and 1980. Everest the Cruel Way,is Tasker's account of the 1980 British eight-man attempt to climb Everest in winter,by the notorious West Ridge with Alan Rouse,John Porter, Brian Hall, Pete Thexton, Paul Nunn and Al and Aid Burgess. The Shining Mountain was published in 1978,three years after Boardman had reached the summit of Everest on Chris Bonington's large-scale South-West Face expedition (which Boardman irreverently described as 'the last great colonial experience').The two-man ascent of Changabang, with Tasker, could not have been a more different undertaking,and was rated the hardest climb achieved in the Himalaya to that date.The book went on to win the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize in 1979. Sacred Summits was already in proof when Boardman went off to Everest for the last time in 1982.It covers three very different expeditions - to the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea with his future wife in 1978-9,the impressive four-man first ascent of Kangchenjunga North Ridge(1979), and later that year the first ascent of the South Summit of Gauri Sankar by its gruelling West Ridge in a team of five.As they interweave their stories,these four books convey the addictive exhilaration, the frustrations and the tragedies of high-altitude climbing, and the single-minded committment involved in getting to the top for two men who were both friends and rivals and blessed with the eloquence to decribe their passion thoughtfully, honestly and with a wry humour. Please contact seller, because of the value of this item, for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja2202. ISBN: 0340635010.
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Imprint: LONDON.HUMPHREY MILFORD.OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,1944. UK,slim,small 8vo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn. [Wartime conditions per se,and paper-rationing meant publication of the volumes being published biennially.The Year's Work in English Studies (1928) of which he was co-editor,published annually 1930–1950 - war years excepted - returning annually with the 1947 edn/issue after paper-rationing ending that year.The XIX (19th) Volume,1938 was one of the first volumes in paper-covered card boards in 1940,as the rationing kicked in.Therefore,wartime issues are quite uncommon,given the period of their production,with the paper-rationing,their ephemeral nature and their survival rate from air-raids of domestic and commercial properties, i.e printers and publisher's.] VG+. No owner inscrptn,and no printed price.Bright,crisp, reasonably clean and almost blemish free, publisher's original khaki paper-covered card boards with black lettering within a single line decorative border-edging,similarly colour lettered spine/backstrip,rear board plain and undecorated, without any lettering and clean, plain white endpapers without any off-setting or hinge cracking.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - corner tips gently and minimally curled - no nicks tears or splits present.Top edges very lightly aged/toned and without foxing/spotting,fore-edges slightly brighter and crisper; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread other than my own collation.UK, slim,small 8vo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,6- 246pp [paginated] includes verso of contents list/table,XV (15) sections/essays concerning early English dram and dramatists,Old & middle English,The Renaissance (by F.S. Boas), Elizabethan Drama,The Restoration,18th & 19thC and after and Bibliographica,indices: I+II, authors+Titles,and Selected subjects respectively; plus [unpaginated] title page,a preface by F.S. B with an abbreviations list/ table to its verso,recto of contents list/table, and to the rear,as last 2pp,Bookseller advert (Francis Edwards,Ltd.,London) and to its verso, a Cambridge University Press advert for already published titles. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book's age and period,and even internally, the book is also in an exceptional condition/ state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minimal exterior faults described that prevent a higher grading.Despite them,it really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness. The English Association was founded in 1906 by a small group of English teachers and scholars, including F.S. Boas, A.C. Bradley and Sir Israel Gollancz.It took a leading part in the movement to develop English studies in schools,while encouraging advanced studies in further education.Past Presidents of the Association have included John Galsworthy, Harley Granville-Barker, Sir Kenneth Clark and George Steiner amongst others. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1017422. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING,PLC,2000. UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around,colour pictorial artwork,by Jonny Boatfield, illustrated dw/dj with black+grey lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.A few, faint,superficial indents to front panel of dw/dj with concomitant indents beneath to front glazed board.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's glazed boards with dw/dj's repeated design with colour pictorial artwork by author,illustrated endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,28pp [unpaginated] includes full-page pictorial illustrated contents,title page, double-page introductions,the story - mostly with double-page illustration and accompanying text. Read on and enjoy this very interactive, inventive picture book.It is more than a story about a boy trying to rescue a little girl.It is also a game of search and find.A taxing, challenging adventure sure to give you hours and hours of fun. Watch the trail of the cruel ape,collect the pirate's 12 lost doubloons,follow the clockwork chicken - look out for her 12 eggs,the amateur naturalist - discover his lost 16 specimens,a baby dragon who's lost his mum and 21 banana skins of the ape,follow the little girl's trail of pages,but keep your eye on the clock - you only have an hour to find everything and finish the book.Keep your eyes open and wits about you for all the wonderful things to read and see.But be warned,nothing is as easy as it could be,nor is it all as it seems! A beautiful picture book,an inventive chase and a wonderful game.Little Tom and his dog,Trash are in hot pursuit of the girl kidnapped by the cruel ape,he has an hour to save her.The clock is ticking. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja840119. ISBN: 0747544700.
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Imprint: LONDON.NAVARRE SOCIETY,nd. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,limited but un-numbered, undated,1st edn; privately printed. VG++/VG-.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj.Pictorial illustrated dw/dj with chipping,nicks with some minimal loss and closed tears to top+bottom edges. Minor loss to both head+foot of spine/ backstrip,closed tears to upper right and bottom rear corners with some minor loss to upper front's bottom right corner.Rear panel,top edge some minor loss approx 1.75" x 4/5".Top+fore-edges slightly aged as usual/normal but clean; contents tight and clean with page-edges browned. Publisher's original red cloth with stamped gilt letters,slightly oxidised. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,ltd.,1st edn,lipp+1-356pp includes title+half-title pages,intro,a dedication,and author prologue.Modernised from the only English translation,made by Bartholomew Yong and printed by John Charlwood in 1587,of which only four copies are known to exist,revised with an introduction by Edward Hutton. Privately printed by The Navarre Society Limited,a private press publishing classical literature and erotica.An uncommon title from this press. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1805.
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Imprint: LONDON.FOURTH ESTATE LIMITED,1998. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, subject's b/w portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Minimal,superficial scoring towards top edge of front panel of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds (boards) with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,purple headband and immaculate plain purple eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 1-278pp [paginated] includes author's intro,15 chapters+epilogue,16pp subject biographical-related contemporary b/w photographs,in 1 block between pp118-9,an appendix (P. Smith's first interview),a discography,a biblio,source notes, acknowledgements and an index. Poet,visionary,iconoclast,feminist icon,and High Priestess of Punk,Patti Smith is widely recognised as one of the most influential musicians of her time and a pivotal figure in popular culture. Patti Smith was born in Chicago and raised in the swamps of New Jersey. Pregnant at sixteen,she escaped small-town life in 1967 to find fame in New York City.As flatmate and muse to Robert Mapplethorpe and lover of junkie poet Jim Carroll and playwright Sam Shepard,she developed her skills as a poet,actress and rock writer.Later,during affairs with musicians Todd Rundgren,Tom Verlaine and Allen Lanier,she prepared herself for rock and roll fame.In 1972 Patti published her first book of poetry,'Seventh Heaven'. Slowly her ground-breaking poetry performances began to include musicians: Lenny Kaye on guitar and later drums,bass and keyboard.She recorded her first single 'Piss Factory',in 1974 and in 1975 found recognition with the release of her first album,the seminal Horses.Over the next years she changed the face of rock and roll and became the first international punk star. Suddenly,however,at the pinnacle of her success in 1979,the 'Field Marshall of Rock and Roll' moved from Manhattan to suburban Detroit to live with her husband, the legendary Fred 'Sonic' Smith, guitarist for the MC5s.For fifteen years, she lived far away from the rock world, raising her two children and working with her husband whose long-term illness, exacerbated by alcohol,led to his death in 1994. Since then she has staged one of the most remarkable comebacks in rock history. This vivid and authoritative biography celebrates the life of a punk survivor, poet and icon who defines her times,a biography that places her at the centre of the New York underground that included Andy Warhol,Lou Reed,Bob Dylan,Blondie and William Burroughs. Not to be confused with an unauthorised biography by the same author and with Roberta Bayley; ISBN 0684823632. Please contact seller,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja505014. ISBN: 1857024788.
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Imprint: LONDON.CASSELL & CO,1971. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG++.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj,laid in is publisher's 4 sided b/w,HRH Prince Philip b/w portrait photograph illustrated advertising/ order pamphlet,regarding the forthcoming publication of the book,10 JUne,1971 - HRH's birthday - in FINE condition.Crisp,clean,glossy laminated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no major nicks or tears present - minisculely rubbed corners and top edges,head+foot of lightly sunned/ faded spine/backstrip similar,but with miniscule loss.Top edge coloured,fore-edgebright and clean; contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Publisher's unblemished,original,navy blue cloth boards with bright,blocked gilt crown to upper wrap and bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,headband,and immaculate unmarked plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-285pp [paginated],304pp total including [unpaginated] includes half-title+title pages,contents list/table,HRH Prince of Wales foreword,editor's introduction,58 contributions/contributors,18 b/w drawings/cartoons by various illustrators, some credited,4 colour plates (by Edward Seago, Ronald Searle,GILES and David Shepherd respectively). The Twelfth Man,in cricketing parlance,is the player who acts as a fielding substitute when a member of his side is ill or injured;more important,perhaps,it is the Twelfth Man who brings out the trays of drinks to sustain players wilting in the hot sun of an Australian, West Indian,South African,New Zealand,or even an English summer's afternoon.The Twelfth Man of the Lord's Taverners,that remarkable Commonwealth-wide organisation of "good fellows" from the worlds of sport and the arts,dedicated to the task of raising money for charity,has made for himself a very special place in the Commonwealth - and indeed the World - side.The sustenance he has given wilting players over the years has varied considerably in its content; sometimes it has soothed,sometimes it has inspired,sometimes it has been in the shape of a hearty kick on the backside,but never has it been placed with less than painstaking accuracy. On 10 June 1971,the Twelfth Man,HRH the Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburgh,reaches his half century,his fiftieth birthday.There will be much made in celebration, but it is doubtful if any present will give him greater pleasure than this book, a gift given to him as a mark of loyalty and devotion by his fellow Lord's Taverners. Their happy idea was to ask the writers,artists, sportsmen and show business personalties listed on the back of the dw/dj to give an original piece of work of their own choice as a birthday present to Prince Philip.These have been combined by a founder-member of the Lord's Taverners,Martin Boddey,in a book printed and specially bound for presentation to HRH.Further to celebrate the occasion,an edition of the book for the general public has been printed from the same type,and the royalties from its sale will be put to a fund to be administered by Prince Philip. The Twelfth Man is that book,an incomparable anthology and permanent bedside book of essays, stories,paintings and drawings by an incomparable list of contributors,who could only have been brought together in such a good cause. No happier way of presenting one's own good wishes to HRH on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday could be made than by purchasing a copy of this book and thereby contributing to a cause which is dear to his own heart and interests. The Lord's Taverners,since their foundation in 1950 by a small group of actors and their friends in the world of art and entertainment, have raised a fund of £200,000 (then 1971).The fund is administered by The National Playing Fields Association for the provision of cricket pitches and playing facilities of all kinds for boys' clubs,village teams and such-like who might otherwise be denied the means of playing the noble game.Their beneficiaries now number well over 1,500 clubs and youth organisations throughout the country,(again,then 1971) and special grants have been made to help representative schoolboy teams to tour in the Commonwealth.See below,for complete list of contributors: Annigoni (Mini-car designer), John Arlott, Douglas Bader, Roger Bannister, Raymond Baxter, Nicholas Bentley, Patrick Beresford, John Betjeman, Basil Boothroyd, Jack Broome, Patrick Campbell, Neville Cardus, Dennis Castle, John Chamier, Daphne du Maurier, Gerald Durrell, Hugh Falkus, James Fisher, Clement Freud, Paul Gallico, GILES, GILROY, Robert Gittings, James Gleeson, Seton Gordon, C.Gordon Glover, Nathaniel Gubbins and HARGREAVES (cartoonist). Further contibutors are: Mary Hayley Bell, E.F. Haylock, Graham Hill, JAK, JON (both cartoonists), Robin Knox-Johnston, Jim Laker, David Langdon (cartoonist), Garry Marsh, Nicholas Monsarrat, Denis Morris, G.O. Nickalls, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Mary Renault, Peter Scott, Edward Seago, Ronald Searle, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, David Shepherd, John Snagge, Mary Stewart, E.W. Swanton, Henry Williamson, Colin Willock, John Winton and finally HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Please contact seller,because of the weight - nearly 1Kg unpackaged - and the value of this item, for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja26627. ISBN: 0304937525.
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Imprint: LONDON.VIKING,1994. UK,8vo paperback,Uncorrected Advance Proof,1st edn. [Publication date September,1994. Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Often of limited availability,the text of a forthcoming book,is printed and bound in softcovers for use by the author,editors,proofreaders and some favoured reviewers.For undecorated printed wraps,with minimal publication data imprinted - the produced/released number of copies would almost certainly be less than 500,and most probably would tend to be around 200 copies.For glossy pictorial illustrated wrappers,produced numbers are often higher than 200,but either have a scarcity to them.Often errors or earlier versions of text appear in these proofs.Versions where the text has changed considerably are obviously considered more desirable by their nature.] FINE. Wrapped+protected and stored from day of distribution,so NO owner inscrptn and NO reading creases to spine or to any pages' corners - but unusually,Proof reader marks and symbols throughout the text and the book - though unsure as to whether an already printed Proof or an actual,newly Proofread copy.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,wrap-around,matt white background with publisher's grey colophon design illustration across the whole covers with an upright,black double-lined bordered rectangle to front cover with capitalised,black-lettered title and author name within along with capitalised,black lettered UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF legend and disclaimers at it's top edge, and book's black-lettered information of size, pagination,publication date,provisional price, ISBN and publisher's name to to lower edge of front's panel.A flat,reading crease-free spine with similarly coloured+lettered title+author name as the front's and capitalised,black-lettered PROOF to foot of same,rear cover with black,double-line bordered horizontal rectangle with black-lettered synopsis and publisher's blurb on the author and his other titles. [A Penguin edition of 'A Short Walk from Harrods' is to be published simultaneously with the publication of this title - A Period of Adjustment.] Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without ageing/toning,foxing/spotting or other blemish; contents bright and tight - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK,8vo paperback, Uncorrected Advance Proof,1st edn,1-280pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and Author's Note. Want other PROOF copies? Please search my MODERN FIRSTS, MODERN FIRSTS2, CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED, BIOGRAPHY, SIGNED, NAVAL/MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY catalogues for examples. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 30 year-old age and nature, i.e an ephemeral paperback Proof. It really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and the lack of book's physical detracting faults commonly found in a decades old paperback.See also my book ID rja1211 for UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn of author's 'Voices in the Garden' novel. There are no such places as Bargemon-sur-Yves, Saint-Basile or any of the other villages. They come strictly from my imagination and are,in some cases, composites of places which once I knew well in the late eighties,which is when this story is set - before a number of rules and regulations were altered in France,before the European Community existed,and when AIDS had only just started to wreak havoc among the young of both sexes. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1149124. ISBN: 0670855596.
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Imprint: LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1981. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NMINT/NMINT. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1211. ISBN: 0701125721.
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Imprint: UK.SHREWSBURY.AIRLIFE PUBLISHING LTD.,1988. UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn. [Original French language edn published under the title 'Encyclopedie Des Maquettes 1/72' by Arnaud.This edn is the first English language edn.] NMINT.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued. Bright,crisp,clean,glazed,sharp-cornered, colour photographic illustrated bds,with immaculate plain white eps; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean and near pristine - apart from two light pencilled notes to first Notes page at rear.UK,Qrto HB,1st edn,6-204pp [paginated] includes intro,14 sections/chapters,profuse colour photographs of models and their kit boxes and 3pp Notes blanks at rear. This book,which makes use of computerized data,is the most thorough study of 1/72 scale models in the world presently available (then 1988).It lists all the models that have been produced in all the countires of the world since the inception of kits.It constitutes a truly encyclopaedic guide encompassing nearly 5,900 different mouldings and should prove useful to several categories of readers. Modellers will be able to use it as a reliable reference to obtain the kits they are interested in.They will also find over 60 colour photographs of models assembled by experts - food for thought and maybe self-criticism to assess their own modelling skills or set exacting standards before tackling a new model. Collectors are sure to find at least a few specimens hitherto unknown to them among the 500 colour photographs of boxtops spanning the period from 1935 to the present.The addresses provided in the book should also help them find the models they are looking for. The scale model is the ideal medium to portray the amazing variety of aircraft produced from the early days to the present times.But 'Encyclopaedia of Military Models' deals not only with 1/72 scale aircraft but also with missiles, science-fiction,vehicles,artillery, dioramas and various accessories including figures and even ships. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured Shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja479414. ISBN: 1853100196.
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Imprint: LONDON.HUTCHINSON & CO. (Publishers) LTD.,1959. UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Two stories originally in French,both in 1956, Hutchinson's two translators: Geoffrey Sainsbury - 'Le Mauvais Oiel' as 'The Evil Eye' and James Kirkup - 'Au Bois Dormant' as 'Sleeping Beauty' in 1959.Only a handful of the Boileau-Narcejac works have been translated into English,and most of these translations are out of print. ] FINE/VG++.No owner inscrpn and no price- clip (12s 6d net)to dw/dj.Contemporary, striking black background with red+grey design artwork by Harry Toothill, illustrated front panel and lightly dulled lettering and spine/backstrip of dw/dj with bright,white lettering to front,rear panel with lightly grubbed white background with red+black lettered critics' reviews - the discolouration and other imperfections commensurate with book's age and therefore with some minimal foxing/spotting.Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - 3 corner tips with miniscule rubbing and reciprocal loss,top rear corner with a tiny closed tear.At head of spine/ backstrip both gutters with a small closed tear each but no major loss,front lower foot of same,with a small triangular portion missing but not affecting any letters of publisher's name - no other major nicks,tears,splits or loss present. Top edges lightly toned from slight dust-soiling but without foxing/spotting, fore-edges slightly brighter with merest hint of foxing,if any; contents bright, tight,exceptionally clean - text body virtually foxing-free,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards/ covers with bright,crisp, stamped white ink letters and repeated red artwork design to spine/backstrip,and faint off-set shadowing to respective verso+recto of free endpapers from dw/dj's respective inner flaps,both hinges solid and sound without any tears,splits or cracking.UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7- 206pp [paginated] includes the two stories with 8 and 3 chapters respectively,plus [unpaginated] half-title with story history/precis,title page and individual story's title separator pages. First UK and first English language edition of this collection of two suspense novellas - The Evil Eye and The Sleeping Beauty. French authors credited with having established an authentically French sub-genre of crime fiction with its emphasis on mounting psychological suspense and ingenious plotting. This successful collaboration produced 43 novels,100 short stories and 4 plays.Their works were adapted into numerous films,but most notably Les Diaboliques (1955), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot,and Vertigo (1958),directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Whilst not a huge output,nevertheless,a highly sought after and collected authored-genre of crime fiction in their typical style and format and will be an important and welcome addition to the Boileau & Narcejac canon.With only a handful of English translations and with most out-of-print,all English 1st edns can be regarded as uncommon,especially in collectable states,some being rare and valued/priced accordingly. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja894020. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: UK.WEMBURY,PLYMOUTH,DEVON.[n.d.] UK,slim 8vo wraps,1st edn.[Privately published by authoress,daughter of marriage of her mother to a German prisoner-of-war and of his naturalisation and citizenship and life in Wembury and Devon post-war.] No owner inscrptn and no price listed.[They were available however,from shops and the Post Office in and around Wembury.] Pink card covers with subject's b/w portrait photograph to front cover,with black letters,rear cover with montage of contemporary b/w portrait photographs (subject + wife) and b/w drawings/illustrations and black- lettered synopsis. Alfred Bojamitz,5ft. tall,affectionately referred to as "Alfred the Great" was born in Germany of Jugoslav/Serbian immigrant parentage. Conscripted into the "Wehrmacht" in 1940,he was captured and sent to Scotland and thence to Kitley Prisoner of War Camp in South Devon. By the end of the war,he and several of his compatriots who had no particular desire to return to Germany,decided to apply for permission to stay.Alfred had already met and fallen in love with a local girl,Edna Sly,while orking as a prisoner at Old Barton Farm,Wembury. Alfred and Edna's daughter,Maria tells the story of those who came unwillingly but ended up making their lives here,and the local people who shared those lives. Includes loose enveloped photocopy of newspaper cutting - Evening Herald,Tuesday,January 13,2004.relating to the book's story. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included or FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja948321. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.PICADOR,1997. UK,8vo paperback original,p/back 1st edn. [Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title. Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn, but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.] NFINE.No owner inscrptn.A read copy,but still clean with slight cocking. During the course of one night Finbar's Hotel is about to be visited by a bewildering array of guests.Edited and conceived by Dermot Bolger and written by seven of Ireland's leading novelists, Finbar's Hotel builds into an extraordinary interwoven work of fiction, pulsating with humour,vitality and suspense - not least the unsolved puzzle of which author actually wrote each chapter.Although listed alphabetically they are not written in the order they appear - that is left to the discerning reader to identify them.Authors are Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Hugo Hamilton, Jennifer Johnston, Joseph O'Connor and Colm Toibin. Please contact seller,because of the light weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1311. ISBN: 0330368788.
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Imprint: LONDON.PICADOR,2000. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Originally a p/back original,published in 1997,this is the first UK,HB edn.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, dw/dj unclipped - lack of publisher's price. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj artwork by various artists; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Publisher's bright, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-273pp [paginated] includes 7 novellas by various assorted,modern Irish writers,all born in Dublin; plus [unpaginated] blank,half-title +title pages,a dedication,and 2pp blanks at rear. During the course of one night Finbar's Hotel is about to be visited by a bewildering array of guests.Edited and conceived by Dermot Bolger and written by seven of Ireland's leading novelists, 'Finbar's Hotel' builds into an extraordinary interwoven work of fiction,pulsating with humour,vitality and suspense - not least the unsolved puzzle of which author actually wrote each chapter. Although listed alphabetically they are not written in the order they appear - that is left to the discerning reader to identify them Authors are Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Hugo Hamilton, Jennifer Johnston, Joseph O'Connor and Colm Toibin. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja410312. ISBN: 0330397621.
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Imprint: LONDON.PICADOR,1997. UK,8vo paperback original,p/back 1st edn. [Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title. Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn, but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn,no price removal to cover.Bright,crisp,clean and sharp-cornered,matt,7 different colour pictorial artwork illustrations to front+rear covers and spine/backstrip,7 different,credited artists with brown,black and blue lettering,authors' b/w portrait photograph to rear cover; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean but inevitably aged/toned but without foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners ,appears unread - apart from my own collation. UK,8vo wraps,p/back original,1st edn,3-273pp [paginated] includes 7 chapters - each written by a different Irish,Dublin born author,plus [unpaginated] blank,half title page,authors' potted biogs,title page,a dedication,a contents list/table,individual chapter separator pages and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book.The scarcer New Island edition with french flap covers,and price in Irish £. During the course of one night Finbar's Hotel is about to be visited by a bewildering array of guests.Edited and conceived by Dermot Bolger and written by seven of Ireland's leading novelists, Finbar's Hotel builds into an extraordinary interwoven work of fiction,pulsating with humour,vitality and suspense - not least the unsolved puzzle of which author actually wrote each chapter.Although listed alphabetically they are not written in the order they appear - that is left to the discerning reader to identify them.Authors are Dermot Bolger,Roddy Doyle,Anne Enright,Hugo Hamilton,Jennifer Johnston,Joseph O'Connor and Colm Toibin. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja726117. ISBN: 1874597634.
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Imprint: LONDON.PICADOR,2000. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Originally a p/back original,published in 1997,this is the first UK,HB edn.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, dw/dj unclipped - lack of publisher's price. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj artwork by various artists; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Publisher's bright, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,3-273pp [paginated] includes 7 chapters by various assorted,modern Irish writers,all born in Dublin; plus [unpaginated],blank,half-title+ title pages,a dedication,and 2pp blanks at rear. During the course of one night 'Finbar's Hotel' is about to be visited by a bewildering array of guests. Edited and conceived by Dermot Bolger and written by seven of Ireland's leading novelists,'Finbar's Hotel' builds into an extraordinary interwoven work of fiction, pulsating with humour,vitality and suspense - not least the unsolved puzzle of which author actually wrote each chapter.Although listed alphabetically they are not written in the order they appear - that is left to the discerning reader to identify them Authors are Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Hugo Hamilton, Jennifer Johnston, Joseph O'Connor and Colm Toibin. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja772218. ISBN: 0330397621.
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Imprint: LONDON.PICADOR,2000. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no clip to dw/dj - no publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/backstrip mininsculely bumped with reciprocal creasing; sharp corners though.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Unblemished,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine /backstrip and immaculate plain white eps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-257pp [paginated] includes 7 short chapters forming a collaborative novel by 7 assorted female Irish authors,plus [unpaginated] half-title page,verso of which has list of writers and potted biogs,title page,and contents list/table. Authors include Maeve Binchy (see rja361810),Clare Boylan, Emma Donoghue, Anne Haverty, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Kate O'Riordan, and Deirdre Pucell.Although the author's are listed alphabetically,the reader is left to decide which author wrote which chapter.Devised and edited by Dermot Bolger; he also devised,edited and co-wrote the best-selling collaborative novel 'Finbar's Hotel' - see my book ID rja1311. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja362710. ISBN: 033039763X.
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Imprint: LONDON.PICADOR,2000. UK.8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no clip to dw/dj - no publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head+ foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing; sharp corners though.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Unblemished, publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-257pp [paginated] includes 7 short chapters forming a collaborative novel by 7 assorted female Irish authors; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,verso of which has list of writers and potted biogs,title page,and contents list/table. Authors include Maeve Binch (see rja361810),Clare Boylan, Emma Donoghue, Anne Haverty, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Kate O'Riordan, and Deirdre Pucell.Although the author's are listed alphabetically,the reader is left to decide which author wrote which chapter.Devised and edited by Dermot Bolger; he also devised,edited and co-wrote the best-selling collaborative novel 'Finbar's Hotel' - see my book ID rja1311. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja765018. ISBN: 033039763X.
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Imprint: UK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,1980. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no clip to dw/dj.Sepia, photographic illustrated upper panel with 4 b/w railway lines livery logos to a white background dw/dj; with minimal shelf -wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents pristine. Unblemished,plain black paper-covered bds (boards)with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps (endpapers).UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,4-223pp includes title+ contents pages,author preface,16 chapters, 16pp contemporary b/w photographs,a b/w double-page map,appendices(4) includes bibliography,and an index. The four great railways of the between the wars period,the LMS, LNER, GWR and SR,have been the subject of numerous books in past years,mostly written in the form of company histories and dealing primarily with mechanical engineering and train performance.This book fills a gap between these previously published works and the more erudite studies of transport economists,with a fresh appraisal of the railways as a whole,and how each company tackled the problems,both of its own making and those forced on it by outside influences.The author served the former LNER and subsequently held high office in various parts of the British Rail network concerned with modernisation,planning, training and education,retiring as director of the Channel Tunnel scheme.He is thus eminently qualified to write about the four great railways from the inside. The book discusses the need for the 1923 grouping and how it came about;there are character sketches of each of the four main line companies,and chapters dealing with mechanical engineering,civil engineering,train services,road competiton,the railway-men themselves,and the many other facets,including shipping and hotels,allied to each company.But this is much more than a mere historical record,for the author examines closely many of the policy decisions of the twenties and thirties and discusses why some brought benefits while others went disastrously wrong.This is a valuable new study of the heyday of the traditional steam railway in Britain,concluding with the run-up to nationalisation in which the author was personally involved.A superb copy of an out-of-print 1st edition,as the publisher ceased trading in the late 1980's. Please contact seller,due to the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/ P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1947. ISBN: 0715378422.
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Imprint: LONDON.HarperCollins Children's Books,2013. UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus. [Originally published 1958 by Collins (UK) 8v HB+dw/dj. Collins then published a new HB edn in 2002 and a p/b edn in 2003.A colour illustrated edn was published by HarperCollins Children's Books in 2008.This Deluxe edn with coloured illustrations,in 2013.Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Mark Burgess from Peggy Fortnum original b/w illustrations,illustrated dw/dj panels with white,red and blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top +fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered - tiniest of dents to front,lower corner - original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked black ink printed Paddington Bear silhouette and lettering to front board and spine/backstrip,a pale blue headband a sewn-in red silk bookmark ribbon and immaculate plain pale blue pastedowns and pale blue Paddington Bear silhouettes illustrated front+rear free endpapers.UK,slim,small 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn thus,9-142pp [paginated] includes an introduction by Michael Bond,8 chapters, profuse colour vignettes by Mark Burgess after Fortnum's original drawings throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] colour vignette illustrated half-title+tile pages,colour vignetted recto of first page of double-page contents list/table which is also colour vignettes illustrated and last page also unpaginated. "A bear? On Paddington Station?" Mrs Brown looked at her husband in amazement. "Don't be silly, Henry.There can't be!" Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington station.Since then their lives have never been quite the same. . . for ordinary things become quite extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is involved. Unabridged and illustrated in glorious full-colour throughout,this exquisite gift edition of the original story is truly to be treasured! It was Christmas Eve,1956,when BBC Television cameraman and freelance writer Michael Bond came across a toy bear sitting all by itself on a shelf in a London department store.He couldn't resist buying it for a stocking filler for his wife,and they named it 'Paddington' after the railway station near their flat.Had it been any other kind of toy the story might have ended there.But with bears one thing often leads to another,so when Michael wondered what might have happened had a real bear found itself alone on a big train terminus,the muse struck and 'A Bear Called Paddington' was born. Fifty years and many millions of books later, Paddington continues to touch the hearts of adults and children worldwide with his earnest good intentions and humorous misadventures. Michael Bond was awarded the OBE for services to children's literature in 1997,and in 2007 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from Reading University.Born in Newbury and raised in Reading he lives in London with his wife, Sue,and two guinea pigs named Olga da Polga and Vladimir. Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item for correct,insured shipping/ P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja738717. ISBN: 9780007528622.
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Imprint: LONDON.WILLIAM COLLINS SONS and COMPANY LTD.,1977. UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,illustrated, 1st edn.No owner inscrptn,but residual evidence of removal of a label which has lifted two small areas of coloured paper from the colour illustrated front free endpaper,no dw/dj - if issued and - and absence of a published price. Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around,glossy,yellow background with repeated colour pictorial illustrations by Ivor Wood to each board,with capitalised,black-lettered part-title and other red-lettered sub-title [Paddington] with black-lettered author+illustrator name credits; yellow spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered title as front's but with slight fade to red lettering and publisher's black-lettered name to foot of same,rear panel with repeated illustration as front and red-lettered synopsis of contents.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corner tips - top corners bumped with some rubbing – but no other major nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges inevitably aged/toned but without foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation,coloured illustrated endpapers with aforemention fault.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj if issued,illustrated 1st edn,8-60pp [paginated] includes catoon strip,story and activities; plus [unpaginated] colour illustarted title page,with colour illustrate Paddington letter to its verso,a Contents list/table with childish-hand black ink horizontal lines beside each page number of the extending to the pages' fore-edge - no other scribbles etc noted,a double-page colour world map,and b/w+colour illustrations by Ivor Wood interspersed throuhout the book. Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable and even particularly internally,is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation but for the Contents page,and for a book of its near 50 year-old age and nature, i.e. a children's ephemeral,interactive book.It is only the faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading overall.Despite the described faults it is still an acceptable example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of other detracting faults. Games,puzzles,activity features,jokes and quizzes; play Paddington's Great Train Race,make a puppet show,learn to tell fortunes,and make gingerbread bears.A brand new story and lots of exciting features and Paddington invites all his friends into his world of fun and games. Ivor Sydney Wood (b. 4th May,1932 – d. 13th October,2004) was a prolific Anglo-French animator, director,producer and writer,and known for his work on children's television series. Born in Leeds to an English father and a French mother,his family moved to the mountains near Lyon,France,after WW2,where he was educated.He studied fine art in Paris,and later worked in an advertising agency in Paris,where he was to meet Serge Danot.Together they made the acclaimed French series 'Le Manege enchante' known in English as 'The Magic Roundabout', with Wood as the animator.Following the success of The Magic Roundabout in the UK,Wood partnered with the London-based animation company FilmFair.Wood became both animator and director for a number of FilmFair's animated children's programmes, starting with 'The Herbs' in 1968.During the 1970s,he animated and directed Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings,Hattytown Tales,The Adventures of Parsely,the Wombles and lastly Paddington. Woodland Animations was founded by Ivor Wood and his wife Josiane,specifically to produce stop-motion animated series for the BBC.The company produced a number of programmes,the earliest and most popular of which was Postman Pat (1981- 1996),other series included: Gran (1983), Bertha (1985-86) and Charlie Chalk (1988-89). Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1120424. ISBN: 0001380451.
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