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Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Author: Evelyn Whitaker (not credited). Rubbing, staining, and warping to boards. Tanning to pages. No apparent marks throughout this book. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
Published by W. B. Conkey, Chicago, 1900
Seller: Artis Books & Antiques, Calumet, MI, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Circa 1900. Cheap paper but a nice copy in blue cloth with red & black designs.
Published by W. & R. Chambers, 1111
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Blue illustrated cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends and corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.
Published by W. & R. Chambers Ltd., 1903
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1903. No Edition Remarks. 307 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Six black and white illustrated plates through book. Medium cracking to gutters with exposed netting, pages slightly loose. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.
Published by Thomas Y. Crowell, New York
Seller: Abstract Books, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Merrill, Frank T. (illustrator). 48 pages, b/w frontis illustrated by Frank T. Merrill/tissue guard, small 8vo, green cloth, pictorial front cover of white-haired woman in long brown dress looking at a globe with a line of 5 small natives with shields and spears accross the top. Whitaker was an English author who wrote anonymously in the latter part of the 19th century. Very good, cover slightly scuffed but charming, tear in tissue guard, clean.
Published by E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1899
Seller: Frank J. Raucci, Bookseller, Wallingford, CT, U.S.A.
Book
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1899 Edition of 1890 original. Creme colored binding with gold gilt lettering and a multi-colored floral pastedown illustration on the front cover. Scuffing and minor damage to bottom corners of binding, elsewise A CLEAN, TIGHT, COLLECTOR-WORTHY COPY! 101 pages. GFC1.
Published by HENRY ALTEMUS, PHILADELPHIA, 1903
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
HARD BACK GREEN. Condition: GOOD. good cover and spine. slight wear to endpapers. black ink pen writing to front endpage which states "Hope M Gladding Christmas 1903 from "Auntie Fisher". pages are clean. black illustrations to pages 15, 23, 41, 53, 77, 87, 103, 113. DATE PUBLISHED: 1903 EDITION: 117.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. ILLUSTRATED FRONT BOARD, FRONTISPIECE. 128 PAGES. NO DJ, SHELF WEAR AND MARKS ON COVERS , WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, SMALL BOOKSTORE LABEL ON BOTH PASTEDOWNS, FOXING ON EPS AND TEXT BLOCK SIDES, OTHERWISE GOOD. 400 GRAMS.
Published by W. & R. Chambers Ltd, London
Seller: Ripping Yarns, London, United Kingdom
Book
Hardback. Condition: Good. H.A. Bone (illustrator). Brown cloth pictorial boards; gilt title to spine. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard. Decorated chapter headings. Ink inscription dated 1894 to ffep. 128pp. Lacks title page. Browning to end papers & last page of text; slight water-marking to back board; back hinge cracked; bumped at corners, slightly rubbed. Otherwise a good copy.
Published by Ward, Lock, London
Seller: Lazy Letters Books, Market Rasen, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lightly bumped blind-stamped and gilt boards. A little wear to spine ends. No jacket. Undated. Gift annotation from 1913.
Published by W. & R. Chambers, Limited, London UK
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hard Back. Condition: Book Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. 122 pages. Pictorial impressed dark-green decoration to front board & spine. light green boards. Some wear to spine-ends , chip 1.5cm out of middle of spine at back outside junction, light wear to boards' corners. Boards have slight discolouring due to handling. Page-edges lightly grimy. Light foxing to endpapers and adjacent pages/tltie page. Paper pastedown to front board has been partly pulled away revealing the underneath of board. Floral prize sticker to flyleaf dated 1925-this is the only date on book but does look somewhat of earlier date. Light marks/slight foxing to some pages of text which is otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No. First Edition. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890. First edition, 1890. Gray cloth with black lettering and cover decoration, 181 pages, plus publisher's advertisements. The book is in generally good condition with mild foxing to its endpapers and top edge, some edgewear to the extremities, sound text block, good hinges, clean pages with with name penciled in at front free endpaper, no other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
Published by W & R Chambers Ltd, London, 1894
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. 8 b/w Full Page Plates (illustrator). Blue illustrated cloth. Spine & corners slightly rubbed. Upper cover and spine illustrated in gilt, black & white. Sunday school prize label on f. paste down. Tissue guarded frontis. 415 pages 48 illustrated publisher's pages. Decorative chapter head and tail pieces. Clean and tight. Size: 8vo.
Published by W & R Chambers Ltd, London and Edinburgh, 1894
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. 8 b/w Full Page Plates (illustrator). Illustrated red cloth covering bevel edged boards with gilt/yellow/black decoration and titles, in good condition but darkened on spine and round edges, one small tear to cloth at bottom of front board, school prize plate front fixed endpaper, binding firm and pages clean with occasional light thumbprints/dust marks in margins) 12mo 415pp plus 48pp publisher's illustrated list. B/w frontis and 7 b/w plates, decorative chapter head and tail pieces. Size: 8vo.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Bumped spine to red cloth boards with blind-stamped and gilt decoration. Loose frontis. Presentation bookplate. No date.
Hardback. Condition: GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. RED PICTURE BINDING, PLATE DATED 1920.
Published by Published by Limited Editions, London . 1995., 1995
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated glazed boards. Quarto 10'' x 8'' 250 pages. ISBN 0091786975. Archive monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped original selling price being £16.99, unused new book. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL AIR FORCE (RAF).
Published by W and R Chambers, 1900
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. 1st Edition. 1900. W and R Chambers. Hardcover. GOOD First edition. Gilt titles, cream boards. Bevelled edges. Illustrated front board and spine and beautiful black and white illustrations throughout. Boards are marked and spine is cracking. Some foxing to pages and paper edges. 8x6.
Published by W & R Chambers Ltd, London, 1894
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. R Barnes (illustrator). First Edition. Very good book in pictorial blue buckram covers with titles on yellow panels to front and spine; picture of a woman and a girl reading a book in a rural landscape to front. Internally very good; dedication to flyleaf; illustrated with b/w plates, decorations at chapter headings and tail pieces and first letter; binding tight; virtually free of foxing; 415pp.
Published by Chambers, 1891
Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. Romantic novel with a countryside/ farming setting. Published anonymously, by the English children's writer. Private circulating library label to front cover otherwise a Good+ copy of a scarce little work.
Published by London, Walter Smith (late Mozley), ., 1883
Seller: Little Owl Books, Norwich, NORFO, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Tenth thousand, very early edition, slim volume, green H/B with gold lettering on front bd, sl. rubbing to spine tip/base and corners, otherwise nr fine, inscript. on prelim. dated 'Xmas 1883', b/w illust. frontis., pges sl. yellowed in accordance with age, pp 85.
Published by E.P.Dutton & Co.
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.
Published by W. & R. Chambers, Ltd, London, 1913
Seller: Stirling Books, Stirling, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. G. Nicolet (illustrator). The Pages Are Tanned. School Prize Sticker, Dated From 1913, Stuck On The Fly Leaf. Some Minor Markings And Foxing Throughout. The Hard Cover Has Some Stains And Scruff Marks. There Are Signs Of Beginning Fraying Around The Edges And Slight Discoloration On The Spine.
Published by W.& R.Chambers, Limited, London
Seller: Makovski Books, Southampton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Wilson, Jessie (illustrator). First Thus Edition. Illustrated red/black/olive cloth hardback - wearing/blemished/fading spine/bumped. 123pp. with additional b/w frontispiece. Inside front cover significantly damaged with loss of much of its paper covering. A few page edge tears. Browning, especially to inside covers/eps. Significant strain on hinge. Good content. Technically Poor.
Published by Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 17-21 Conway Street, London First Edition . 1985., 1985
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition Signed
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original chalk blue paper covered boards, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 317 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Cheap paper browning to the page edges. Near Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. From the private library of Judge Alan Coulthard, SIGNED by him to the front free end paper 'Alan Coulthard - November 1985'. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'My Dear Judge, With my thanks for splendid contribution - Sincerely Laddie Lucas, 24. x. 85.' Alan Coulthard in index pp 175-176. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 009162410X ROYAL AIR FORCE (RAF).
Published by Published by Stanley Paul and Co. Ltd., An imprint of Century Hutchinson, Brookmount House, 62-65 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London First Edition . 1989., 1989
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition Signed
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original sky blue cloth covers, silver lettering to the spine. 8vo 9½'' x 6¼'' 450 pp with archive monochrome illustrations throughout. Light age tanning to the page edges. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. SIGNED label by the author to the title page 'For the three generations of Pearces - aviation enthusiasts all - Warm regards Laddie Lucas | 22nd February 1993'. The recipient of this signed inscription, Robert Pearce, has a smart bookplate 'Robert & Dulcie Pearce' to the front free end paper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).
Published by Little Brown, 1899
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1899 very rare 1st edition by Evelyn Whitaker nice frontis with tissue other than a slight discolor on front edge book solid and tight.
Published by Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1 Tavistock Chambers, London First Edition . 1978., 1978
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9'' x 5½''. The five lives in the title are the five main phases of the author's life. Contains 272 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Lengthy ink message by the author over two pages concerning Pilot Officer O. W. H. Berkeley-Hill: missing believed killed; Spitfire BR 324, 249 Squadron, aircraft failed to return from an operational interception flight from Ta Kali, Malta, 12 July 1942 (reported to be Messerschmitts) the 22 year-old was shot down into the sea off Malta. 'For Rosaland - I hope so much that, between pages 40 and 41, you and your family will recognise the ethos in which Owen, and his Squadron, 249, lived in the rough Malta days of 1942. I trust also that you will believe that, in making the supreme sacrifice, he contributed to our victory in a manner in which those of us who fought with him will never forget. He was a true officer and a resolute pilot who always did his best. We were all so fond of him - Laddie Lucas, 30. vii. 84.' Copied black and white photograph of Owen loosely inserted. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).
Published by Wells, Gardner, Darton, & Co., London
Seller: Makovski Books, Southampton, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: Fair/Poor. No Jacket. Miles, M.J.A. (illustrator). Fourth Edition. Illustrated red/green/black/gilt cloth hardback - wearing/chipped/bumped/blemished/fading. 304+pp., including b/w illustrations. Light foxing/browning; a few pencil marks (many erased). Stain at top of inside front cover. Strain on hinges. Good content. Fair/Poor.
Published by Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 17-21 Conway Street, London First Edition . 1981., 1981
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition Signed
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original moss green paper covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 303 pp with monochrome archive photographs to the centre pages. Paper clip mark to the top of the title page and front free end papers where the letter has been clipped. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Full-page hand written letter dated 5th October 1981 from his private Onslow Square, London residence 'Dear Leslie, Here is the finished product. Douglas and I am so grateful for your help and interest' etc. SIGNED 'Laddie Lucas'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATTLE OF BRITAIN.