Ames Thompson (47 results)

Gray Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ernest Townsend (illustrator). Light wear and soiling to covers; foxing to spine edge and back cover, inscription on front pastedown. Fourth title in the series, quite sound, hinges intact.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Oversized.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.

Red Cloth. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Wear to covers, rear hinge paper split, prev owner's name blacked out inside front cover. Four seperate stories: "The Valley of Diamonds", "The River of Emeralds", "The Lagoon of Pearls". and "The Temple of Rubies". Thick volume, extra postage outside the US.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear. Book was inscribed to previous owner.Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Book was donated to Friends of Omaha Public Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. very minor shelf wear to covers, pages clean, binding tight, ship by MediaMail.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. #4 in the series. Very good condition book with foxing to foredge. Unmarked internally. No dustjacket. [1802].

Illustrated Cloth. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Third book in 'The Jewel Series'. 260pp, not illustrated, 6pp publisher's ads at back. Clean interior, pages barely showing any toning. pencil inscription to inside of front cover, otherwise unmarked. Tight, square binding. Cloth boards are only slightly soiled. Sound, attractive copy. We ship Worldwide, use both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges based on our actual costs, without overcharging. This item weighs 334g unpacked. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight, size and distance; Rates to the USA calculated by weight alone as per the USPS. World rates are based on specific destination and weight. Online estimates by the Listing Site may not be correct and either additional, or reduced postage may be required, particularly for Canadian and Overseas shipments, but not usually to the USA. In case of doubt please email. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Condition: GOOD. First edition. The first book in this boys adventure series, also known as The Jewel Series, since each adventure has the boys involved in finding different gemstones. "Malcolm Edwards and his son Ralph are adventurers with ample means for following up their interest in jewel clues. In this book they form a party of five, including Jimmy Stone and Bret Hartson, boys of Ralph's age, and a shrewd level-headed sailor named Stanley Greene, They find a valley of diamonds in the heart of Africa." Probably a first edition - lists only the first 3 titles in the beginning of the book all issued in1927 as a "starter set" as was common with juvenile series at the time. Glossy frontispiece. 211 pp. Good only in beige cloth with navy lettering and illustration on front cover - pencilled gift inscription dated Christmas 1927, some soiling to the covers, front hinge cracking, foxing in the margins of some pages and other wear.

very good red binding, very soiled.

very good , edge fraying/rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. minor shelf wear to covers, top corner of ffep missing, front internal hinge weakening, rear internal hinge split showing netting, pages unmarked, DJ has corner & edge wear with closed tears & folds at bottom front & top of spine, ship by MediaMail.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Edition not indicated. Very Good pictorial cloth. Inserted frontispiece is an amazing fantasy scene of hardhat diver in battle with giant octopus, assisted by a native diver.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 205 pages. 8.50x5.67x0.39 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Four complete books. Very good condition book in Good condition dustjacket. [1702].

Half-Leather. 1st Edition. First Edition. Cood copy. No DJ. Straight binding. Clean inner pages. In grey cloth covers with black lettering and illustration (not rubbed) on front cover and lettering on spine. Previous owner's name on verso of frontispiece. Bumping of head and tail of spine and corners. Light shelf wera. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. No Edition Or Printing Stated. The Book Is Bound In Gray Cloth With Black Lettering On The Front And Spine. Three Young Men Featured On The Front. The Book Has Moderate Soiling. Edge Wear And Through At The Upper Back Corner. A Former Owner's Name Is Printed Near The Upper Edge Of The Front Pastedown.

Gray Cloth. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Ernest Townsend (illustrator). Bumps to corners, inscription on flyleaf: sound copy. Jacket quite edgeworn, creases to front, 1x2" chip at base of spine, titles intact. First volume in the series.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. cover art by Unreadable; Centerfold By Victor C. Andersn; charles Dana Gibson, Otho Cushing, Rodney Thompson, (illustrator). 1st. pp. 335-370 pages; disbound copy; includes: Full Page Ads (Columbia Graphohone, Overland 1914; Anderson Electric Car Company, Good-yesr Tire Co., Scribner's Magazine, Garfield Trucks, , Arthur Guiterman (Rhymed Reviews), Politics, Culture and with the usual facetious jabs at Women, Asians & Blacks plus Much Mor Size: 4 vo. Magazine.

Illustr frontis, 7.75 x 5.25, green pict cloth, 206 pp + ads, edges a bit worn, hinges loose, title page spotted, pp toned else a nice copy in a worn, edge chipped dw.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback bound in gray boards with dark blue illustration on the cover with dark blue titles. Book has light edge wear with lightly age tones pages. Dust jacket has edge wear with chippings (now protected in archival jacket cover). No edition stated, but assumed to be the 1927 FIRST EDITION as titles on the dust jacket are all dated as 1925. All the books in the Adventure Boys series are listed with 1927 copyright date. An adventure story for young boys. Black and white frontis. 210 page plus 2 pages of ads Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

first edition. very good grey binding, some spine darkening,

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Sutchinda Rangsi Thompson (Design); Gold Medallion of Justinian (Cover) (illustrator). 1st Published: 1996 by Routledge. 345 + xiii pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and very light shelf wear.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York 1940. xiii, 393 pp. Publisher's cloth. Good condition.

Ca 1929. [4], 210, [2] pp. 2 pages of publisher adverts at rear. Frontis on coated paper. 12mo. VG (slight lean/some yellowing to paper)/VG (closed tear/stain to upper right of rear panel). Grey cloth binding stamped in dark blue. Full color dust jacket, replicating the front board graphic.

206 pp, followed by publisher's catalogue, edges and end-papers foxed, small piece off top of spine of d/j , else very good copy in good, illustrated d/j.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This VG/G+ book is clean (see photos) and square; it has lightly bumped lower corners and head and heel of the spine, but there are no fabric tears. The interior is free of writing, stray marks, stains and damaged pages. Hinges are strong and the lightly toned pages are very flexible. The jacket has edge wear at the front fold and modest sized chips at head and heel of the spine, which is somewhat faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Possibly a first edition-- the rear of the jacket lists the 1925 "Bob Dexter" books but not the next one, published in 1930. This VG-/G+ book has a slight lean, slight bottom edge wear, bumped head and heel of the spine with no fabric tears; over all light general wear and soiling, with a 1-1/2" x 1/2" dark stain on the rear board. The book is free of writing, stray marks, stains and damaged pages. Pages are toned but still quite flexible and both hinges are strong. The jacket has a very faded spine, minor chips at the corners and at the head and heel of the spine; the backside of the front panel has two parallel streaks of red, as though it had been water damaged, but neither the jacket nor the book have signs of such damage.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Harper & Row. New York. [1940] 1972. 393 pages & index. Book is about fine. Last date on copyright page is 1940, but last page of book has a numberline dictating a 1972 publication, 32nd printing. Book is bright, tight and clean. Binding and hinges are strong and tight. Book is about fine with two gently pushed corner tips, barely. Book is housed in its original attractive DJ with $6.95 price intact on flap. DJ shows shallow chipping at crown and foot, with a couple of tiny chips on fold corners. Author Dr. Arnold Gesell was the first person ever appointed as a school psychologist in the United States. He is also the founder of the Yale Clinic of Child Development; later renamed the Gesell Institute of Child Development, in his honor. Gesell's theories and ideas are commonly known today as Gesell's Maturational Theory of child development. A solid, attractive copy of the child development classic; by legendary child psychologist Dr. Arnold Gessel. Near fine/ VG++.