Alan Garner Charles Keeping (27 results)

Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good/ Fine. 6th Edition By Publisher. 160 pages. >>> "From that chilling moment, Roland was precipitated into the twilight world of Elidor where the powers of evil have all but extinguished the last remaining glimmer of light and hope." >>Backcover surface scratching; edge wear to covers; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Charles Keeping Illustrator. (illustrator). Book. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; Tenth Printing. Minor shelf and edge wear. ; Tenth printing, 1980. Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside. Cover artwork by Stephen Lavis. ; B&W Illustrations; 160 pages; Roland was seeking a lost ball when he was suddenly thrust out of his own world into the twilight Elidor, where all hope and light were nearly gone. Mass Market PB. Illustrated by Keeping, Charles (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. London: Collins/Armada Lions, 1974. Soft cover. 160 p; b & w ills. Good:++: there is foxing round the margins of the inside covers; the page margins are yellowed, but the text is clean and the covers are unmarked and bright and the cover design is impressive. Four Manchester teens are 'precipitated into the twilight world of Elidor, where the powers of evil had all but extinguished the last remaining glimmer of light and hope' and the action switches between Manchester, with humour and family life, and Elidor. An Armada Lion. Charles Keeping (illustrator).…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Good mass market paperback, some wear and creasing. Black and white illustrations. Keeping, Charles (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Repr. Paperback: covers are slightly marked, edges a little rubbed, front cover has a vertical crease, some foxing on the endpapers and foredges, first pages slightly bumped on the lower corner plus a couple of creases, else g. 170pp. Runner up in 1965 for the Carnegie Medal. Four children in Manchester chance on a ruined church where the fabric of time and place is weak enough to allow them entry into the strange world of Elidor which is threatened by the powers of evil. Charles Keeping (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Reprint. Ex-library. Light wear to covers. Pages tanned. Keeping, Charles (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 10th Printing. An uncreased spine with light edge rubbings and corner creases.No store stamp. Signed by owner. Keeping, Charles (illustrator).

Pbk. Condition: Fine. Reprint. As in his other novels this story describes what happens when modern children encounter the ancient powers of myth and legend (this time in Manchester) 170p. Condition : Good. Illus Charles Keeping (illustrator).

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. Originally published in hard covers by Collins in 1965. This is the first printing of the first UK paperback edition. Reading creasing and surface and edge rubbing to the spine. Creasing to bottom corner of front cover. Browning to the back cover. Browning to the page edges. Browning to the reverse sides of the covers. Gift message to the original owner on the inside of the front cover. Browning to the pages with creases to the top corners of five pages. Illustrated by Charles Keeping. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Keeping, Charles (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG+ Former owner's name in ink to front fly page, mild age-toning to pages, otherwise an attractive copy, very clean throughout. Wrap-around cover art by Stephen Lavis.

Paperback. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition first printing as Penguin Puffin 176 pages. Page edges a bit tanned Near Very Good condition No inscriptions. Charles Keeping (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Fine. A virtually As New copy.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Condition: Fair. 1969. 3rd Impression. 159 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Water staining to rear panel. Light tanning and foxing overall.…

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Seventh Impression. VG/VG+. 8vo. original purple boards (neat ex-library with occ. rsm, label and pocket to endpapers only, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper (price-clipped by publisher, a trifle rubbed & nicked, slight fray to rear foldover); pp. 160, with illustrations. A very good copy. Charles Keeping (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Sixth impression. Sixth impression 1973 near fine hardback in a very good dust wrapper, corners and edges rubbed, small closed tears. Protected by clear removable archival covering. Owner's inscription. Collins price sticker of 1.25 GBP at the bottom of front inside flap. 160 pages. Illustrated by Charles Keeping. Charles Keeping (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Four Armada paperback editions of Alan Garner's novels in slipcase. All books dated 1976-1977. Slipcase and covers featuring artwork by Alan Lee (unattributed) and line drawings in Elidor by Charles Keeping. Books in very good condition with no inscriptions but are creased at spines and Weirdstone has neat tear to back cover. Slipcase bright, rubbed at edges but intact. Alan Lee, Charles Keeping (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good_. No Jacket. Reprint. 160pp. 8.5 inches. No dw. Purple buckram, silver titles. Slight forward lean, slightly bumped corners, rubbed spine extremities, faintly foxed edges. Internally, discreet exschool stamp, code no, on endpaper, else contents about as new, a faint mark at corner of a near-back page. Illustrated with powerful drawings by Charles Keeping. Although a story for older children and young adults, it also appeals to any fantasy reader, involving as it does interaction between real and fantasy worlds. (Science fiction, Fantasy, Children) 350g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Charles Keeping (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine - Price Clipped. 1st UK Edition. As in his other novels this story describes what happens when modern children encounter the ancient powers of myth and legend -this time in Manchester. 160p. illus Neat, clean, tight text, library stamps. Rear endpaper missing . Illus Charles Keeping (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First published in 1965, this is a sixth impression of 1973, with the fabulous blue variant jacket. Some edge wear, chipping and short closed tears to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine very slightly browned, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, price clipped, school prize sticker (Kingsmead School, M. Wells, Form 2R), to ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 160pp, illustrated. Part folklore, part adventure, and part fantasy, Alan Garner's Elidor is a modern children's classic. When Roland opens a door in a derelict church, he unleashes the wonders of Elidor and the grave challenges that this troubled world presents. Drawing on Welsh, Irish, and English mythology, the book chronicles the trials and hardships of a group of young teenagers as they attempt to fulfill a prophecy from another world, and fight a terrible evil. Quite scarce in this early impression. Jacket and illustrations by Charles Keeping (illustrator). …

Hard Cover. Eleventh Impression. F/F. 8vo. original blue boards in dustwrapper; pp. 160, with illustrations. A fine copy. Charles Keeping (illustrator).

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A scarce uncorrected advance reading proof copy that, precedes the publication of the true first edition - rare to find complete in the original publisher's colour-illustrated dustwrapper (trimmed by the publisher to fit the proof copy - which is a smaller size than the hardback first edition). The author's third book. Colour dustwrapper illustration by Charles Keeping. Black and white illustrations in the text also by Charles Keeping. ***Very good in pale blue 'cloudy sky' marbled thin card wrappers. No inscriptions. Light foxing to the fore-edge and outer margin adjoining fore-edge of text-block. Hint of unobtrusive sporadic foxing to prelims and to wrappers. No tears. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 13s. 6d. net. Extremities and corners of dustwrapper slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased. Rear panel of dustwrapper foxed to outer edge and top edge. No tears. No fading. Spine and front panel of dustwrapper bright. 210mm x 144mm. 160 pages. ***'With his first two books, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath, Alan Garner's vivid imagination and powerful writing won from the critics praise rare for a new writer of children's fiction. --- This is Alan Garner's strength: his ability to treat magic in a contemporary setting without any of the whimsy usually associated with this subject. In this, his newest book, the contemporary nature of the story is even greater than in the first two. Four ordinary children living in Manchester are suddenly and seemingly inexplicably thrown up against forces far stronger than any ever conceived by a writer of science fiction. ***The originality of the story and the power of its telling sweep the reader along from the first page to the last, and Charles Keeping's drawings perfectly complement the narrative. ***It is a book that to describe would give away its secrets. It demands to be read.' (Quote from inside dustwrapper blurb). ***Preceding the publication of the true first edition, this is a rare advanced reading proof copy of Alan Garner's third novel. Extremely hard to find, especially complete in the attractive colour-illustrated proof dustwrapper. A scarce item as only a handful of these proof copies are likely to have survived, and not many of these would retain their dustwrappers. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Charles Keeping (Colour dustwrapper and interior black and white illustrations) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Blue boards with silver titles to spine in a red illustrated dustjacket. 1st edition 1965. 160pp. Illustrations by Charles Keeping. Previous owner's bookplate and slight foxing to edges, not visible when book is open. Some loss to front edges of dustjacket but otherwise a very good copy. Keeping, Charles (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original blue boards (inscrip. to FFE, top edge a little dustmarked & speckled) in dustwrapper (stain to rear panel); pp. 160, with illustrations. A very good copy. Charles Keeping (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A lovely eleventh impression of this children's fantasy novel by Alan Garner signed by the author. Complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. The eleventh impression of this children's fantasy novel, following four English children who access a fantasy world, fulfil a quest and return to modern Manchester to find the evil enemy has followed them into the real world. A successful novel, it was translated into nine languages and was adapted for television and radio. By Alan Garner. An excellent copy signed by the author, complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Signed by the author to the title page. The dust wrapper is excellent and unclipped. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are clean with only a touch of age toning, as usual. Near Fine. Charles Keeping (illustrator). signed by author. book.…