Alder Alex (14 results)

Paperback. 48p., wraps, very good condition. Against British anarchists' support for the Ukrainian Army after Ukraine's invasion by Russia.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket in Pieces. Illustrated By James Alder (illustrator). Second Impression. 124 pages. Colour frontipiece and lovely B&W illustrations. Dustjacket in several pieces and folded. Age-dulled green hardback binding with light wear to boards' corners and spine-ends - black title to spine. Moderate brown o/w pages clean.

Cloth. Condition: Good +. James Alder (illustrator). Orange cloth, with lettering on front and spine, spine has foxing. There are three vertical lines in darker orange along the front cover near spine, corners are rubbed, headcap and tail has some fraying. Illustrated by James Alder. Illustrations and maps throughout. Pastedown endpaper has numeral written in ink on top left corner. 258 pp.

orange cloth. Condition: V.g. No Jacket. James Alder (illustrator). First Edition. 257pp, with15 illustrations and one area map to each chapter, plus maps on end papers. Foreword by A. Kerr Clarkson. Also author of ''The Vagabond''. Spine a trifle sunned.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. James Alder (illustrator). First Edition. Colour frontispiece and 37 black & white illustrations, 12 full-page, by James Alder; Hardback: green cloth lettered in black on spine; Slight signs of use, previous owner's name to front free end-paper, near fine.

Green board cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G: in good condition without dust jacket as issued. 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). 32pp. p.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. James Alder (illustrator). First Edition. First printing of the true first edition. No printed publication date but circa 1946. Illustrated with sixteen black and white full-page plates including frontispiece showing: Old Border Bridge, Berwick-on-Tweed', twenty area black and white maps to each chapter, and four maps to the front and rear free endpapers (all plates, maps and plans present as called for). With a two-page foreword by A. Kerr Clarkson. ***Very good in orange cloth-covered boards with black titles to the spine and front board. The boards show some patches of fading at the top and tail of the spine and top of front board near the spine but are quite clean, having been protected by the dustwrapper. Edges of boards slightly rubbed but no bumps or creases, except for light creasing to the top and tail of the spine. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. There is some rippling to the cloth over the back board where the book must have been affected by water at some stage (also affecting the dustwrapper lightly). Page block edges clean with none of the usual foxing. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Black and white map illustrated front and rear free endpapers showing: Celtic Northumberland, Roman Northumberland, Saxon Northumberland and Norman Northumberland respectively. Pages clean with no foxing - printed on thick paper. ***In a good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 15/-. Whilst largely complete, there are some areas of loss at the top and tail of the spine, and a closed tear at the top edge of the front panel with associated creasing. Edges of dustwrapper creased, nicked and rubbed. Very small loss and small tears to the corner tips of the dustwrapper. There is a long closed tear to the fore-edge of the front flap foldover. There is also some rippling to the back panel of the dustwrapper where the book must have been affected by water at some stage. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed and discoloured (being a plain white background). ***218mm x 162mm. 242 numbered pages, plus a one-page Epilogue, an Index and a two-page selection from the Castles, Bastles and Pele Towers which formed the English Gate at the back of the book. ***Chapters: 1. Tyne and Derwent Dales; 2. The Dales of Allen; 3. Gilsland and South Tyne; 4. North Tyne; 5. In Heartbreak Valley; 6. Along Dere Street; 7. Roman Redesdale; 8. The Cheviots; 9. Around a Celtic City; 10. Tiptoe Through Till Valley; 11. The Silvery Tweed; 12. Berwick to Holy Island; 13. The Smuggleries; 14. The Vale of Aln; 15. The Valley of the In Yore Folk; 16. Upper Coquetdale; 17. Lower Coquetdale; 18. Vales of Wansbeck and Pont; 19. Saxon Shore; 20. Great North Road. ***'This is a book packed with facts, which are always interesting, and opinions advanced as facts, which are often exciting. The Vagabond has great literary courage. He assails the experts on such subjects as the Wall, and the Roman civilisation in Britain, with cheerful certainty and a knobbly verbal cudgel'. ---***---'The James Alder illustrations bring an obviously skilful artist's illuminating pen to the decoration of the pages'. - Newcastle Journal and North Mail (Quote and review quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First printing of the true first edition, with all maps and plates present as called for, especially hard to find in its original fragile 1940s thin dustwrapper in largely complete condition. Only five copies listed on Copac, three copies listed on WorldCat. Of interest to the local North Country / Northumberland historian. Uncommon, especially in the fragile post-war dustwrapper. ***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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. James Alder (illustrator). First Edition. First printing of the true first edition. No printed publication date but circa 1946. Illustrated with sixteen black and white full-page plates including frontispiece showing: Old Border Bridge, Berwick-on-Tweed', twenty area black and white maps to each chapter, and four maps to the front and rear free endpapers (all plates, maps and plans present as called for). With a two-page foreword by A. Kerr Clarkson. ***Very good in orange cloth-covered boards with black titles to the spine and front board. The boards show some fading at the edges but are remarkably clean - having been protected by the dustwrapper. Edges of boards slightly rubbed but no bumps or creases, except for light creasing to the top of the spine. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges slightly foxed. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Black and white map illustrated front and rear free endpapers showing: Celtic Northumberland, Roman Northumberland, Saxon Northumberland and Norman Northumberland respectively. Pages clean with no foxing - printed on thick paper. ***In a good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 15/-. Whilst largely complete, there are some areas of loss at the top and tail of the spine - a small hole in the spine, and a chip to the top edge of the back panel. Edges of dustwrapper creased, nicked and rubbed. Very small loss and small tears to the corner tips of the dustwrapper. There is a long closed tear to the fore-edge of the front flap foldover. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed and discoloured (being a plain white background). ***218mm x 162mm. 242 numbered pages, plus a one-page Epilogue, an Index and a two-page selection from the Castles, Bastles and Pele Towers which formed the English Gate at the back of the book. ***Chapters: 1. Tyne and Derwent Dales; 2. The Dales of Allen; 3. Gilsland and South Tyne; 4. North Tyne; 5. In Heartbreak Valley; 6. Along Dere Street; 7. Roman Redesdale; 8. The Cheviots; 9. Around a Celtic City; 10. Tiptoe Through Till Valley; 11. The Silvery Tweed; 12. Berwick to Holy Island; 13. The Smuggleries; 14. The Vale of Aln; 15. The Valley of the In Yore Folk; 16. Upper Coquetdale; 17. Lower Coquetdale; 18. Vales of Wansbeck and Pont; 19. Saxon Shore; 20. Great North Road. ***'This is a book packed with facts, which are always interesting, and opinions advanced as facts, which are often exciting. The Vagabond has great literary courage. He assails the experts on such subjects as the Wall, and the Roman civilisation in Britain, with cheerful certainty and a knobbly verbal cudgel'. ---***---'The James Alder illustrations bring an obviously skilful artist's illuminating pen to the decoration of the pages'. - Newcastle Journal and North Mail (Quote and review quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First printing of the true first edition, with all maps and plates present as called for, especially hard to find in its original fragile 1940s thin dustwrapper in largely complete condition. Only five copies listed on Copac, three copies listed on WorldCat. Of interest to the local North Country / Northumberland historian. Uncommon, especially in the fragile post-war dustwrapper. ***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.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covers, black lettering to the spine and the upper panel. 8vo 9½'' x 7'' 243, 12 [pp]. End paper maps, 16 single-sided monochrome illustrations throughout. In Very Good clean and bright condition, spine not faded, no foxing, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. NORTHUMBERLAND.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Alder, James (illustrator). Faded orange boards, black title to spine, edgeworn spine-ends and corners, illustrated, maps, foxing to top and fore-edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Boxset-In-A Book & Six-Novelette Series DescriptionForbidding buildups fearing letdowns, knocking back waggish chasers, this horror-noterror-bull repast, the Rogue Mechamoon unzips the exosphere, 'keeping on' 'holding by-the-side-of, gourmandizing a probable turpitude, then watching bodiless without, figuring within just whowhat is-isnot striving to reasonwork withagainst the Ghosat's former inhabitants.After a banquet's lastcourse comes a fatigue before a realoctime snap, lulled into Megaship Exopath Possibility Theories (Mepots), a dream reveals a seemingly endless final mission's true purpose gleaned from waking buildups extrapolated from recollections of chitchat-refines and scheme-assumptions or simply there's an impending lunacy perchance usherbeckoning: 1) a nosurcease from the in-ones-face stories of the bellyaching natural, Varett Fhirlov Jasirg - naturalfather to weird SA Varett Jasirg (simulant liform) - designer of the patented Automated Denizens Regulating Dwelling (Adred), built far from his bustling Plant Animal Relic Combustible Oil Coal Natural Gas Based City Of Ilgnes (Parcocnagbacoi, aka his town of Tiligne Tum); 2) the tales of Tiligne Tum's fruition rendered in minutes by the arrival of the very first, just one - of thousands of Planet Surface And Air To Air Projectiles (Plasanataps) - on its way since childhood's ruin in the coming-radioactive-blast-zone which begged to be homed in on by the Third Enuvorsin (Ghosat) Conflict (SCIII) followed shortly by the Second Domestic (DCII); and 3) the interpretations of Varett's 'outrageously tragic', yet somehow 'ironically (the transportation industry being key) comic' accident, involving 'conventional transit' and - hit suddenly, 'deeply affected' being his claim, though objectively left a lesser version by something of unknown origin, but by which he, after many orbits of torment, had come to settled reckoning, best guess scenario of 'Hauleray misuse and backstabbing' - a treacherous avantgarde transfer annihilation and reassembly procedure of the living molecules of a humanoid test subject returned not in routine working order, defaulting not to realoctime, this system's intent upon the victim's arrival being in fine point: a) in the wrong time; and b) minus the vassal's intangibles of: i) possibly self-cognizance; ii) oh, I don't know, the essence, spirt, consciousness; andor iii) the.soul.if you will.Subsequently the backwash to realoctime, thoughts turn to what becomes of the satellite, whatever ails Varett, whether a final putbacktogether in whole or pieces - with a little help by Simulated Acumen, Natural Humanoid, whatever - there must be a way to reconvene the basis, find a new one, andor lay the Ghosat to rest. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.