Barton Margaret Sitwell Osbert (50 results)

Condition: Good. 1949. 1949 reprint. 294 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped.…

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy, bookplate of a previous owner to the front pastedown, the body of text clean and unmarked. The price clipped dust jacket is worn with loss and strengthening to the verso & now protected in a non-adhesive archival film s…

Condition: Good. 1931. No Edition Stated. 157 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have noticeab…

Condition: Good. 1949. Second Impression. 294 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight r…

Third Impression. Very good copy in the original silver-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Slight suggestions of foxing in prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 1 vol. (373, [1] p.) : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Grande-Bretagne. History. Brighton. Anglete…

Condition: Fair. 1930. First Edition. 280 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations and photographs throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Front hinge cracked thus the board is slack. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Notab…

Third Impression. Very good copy in the original silver-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Slight suggestions of foxing in prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 1 vol. (373, [1] p.) : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Grande-Bretagne. History. Brighton. Anglete…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. For extra pictures of the more valuable books, please press the 'Ask Bookseller A Question' button. In very good condition. Some black and white plates. Dust wrapper in fair condition - a section of front board missing and the spine of the dust wrapper is slightly dull. 2…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original fine-ribbed, gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 157 pages; Description: 157 p. : col. Front. ; 23 cm. Subjects: English literature --19th cen…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A collection of nineteenth century episodes fantastic, grotesque and mysterious. From Burke and Hare to Jack the Ripper, Louis Napoleon's landing at Boulogne to the extermination of the Great Auk and many others. A fascinating miscellany. 235 pages. Corners lightly bumped and spine ends rubbed.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original fine-ribbed, gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 157 pages; Description: 157 p. : col. Front. ; 23 cm. Subjects: English literature --19th cen…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. First edition hard cover, no jacket, in very good condition for its age. Red cloth boards with small pavilion image, title and author detail, picked out in gilt upon a contrasting green section of the spine. Gilt detail to pageblock head. General shelf and handling…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. For extra pictures of the more valuable books, please press the 'Ask Bookseller A Question' button. A first edition in very good condition. Some black and white line illustrations. Clean inside and out. spine slightly faded but still bright. Boards clean and in excellent con…

2nd edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 235 pp.: ill., plates, ports., facsims ; 23 cm. Subjects; Nineteenth century. Jack the Ripper fl 1888 serial killer. Curiosities and wonders. Mysteri…