Burgess E M R (52 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket (as published). 140 pages. Not dated but believed to be late 1940s A collection of stories intended for the younger reader in an annual style publication. The first story is Diana's Dilemma. Some wear to the edges of the boards but still a clean and sound book. Evidence of previous ownership…

hardcover. Condition: Very good. Quarto (approx. 7 3/8" wide by 9 5/8" tall), 188 pages. Color frontispiece, and black and white illustrations in the text. Fifteen stories. Red cloth spine over full color paper pictorial boards on top cover, plain boards on rear cover. Gift inscription on card glued onto front paste-down endpape…

Condition: Fair. 1948. Reprinted. 246 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hard cover blue cloth bds, girl guide in black to upper bd, titles to upper bd and spine in black, VG+, very slight rubbing to spine tips and corners, unclipped dust jacket, very small tear to rear lower corner otherwise VG, b/w frontis. and further b/w illustra…

Paperback. Condition: Good. carved wooden head of Elizabeth I by M R Holmes; ' A Habergeon of Westwale' by W Reid & E Martin Burgess; 'Petuaria - New Evidence from the Roman Town and its Earlier Fort' by John S Wacher. 124 pages. Chipped/snagged and lightly browned edges to grey-beigeish soft covers which are lightly browned. B&…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Unknown. Blue cloth boards illust.price clipped jacket; Overall book is sound clean & unmarked agetoned pages, light foxing on page edges and front end page; A story with Girl Guide interest for older girls, no pub.date but circa 1940's; Jacket has 2 tears on back wit…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Grey paper covers, sound binding, clean pages. Many black and white illustrations including fold-out plans and diagrams. Contents include: Excavations at Verulamium 1959, Fifth Interim Report by S S Frere; A carved marble fragment at Riom (Puy-de-Dome) and the chron…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. H/B red boards with d/w in v good cond., b/w frontis, d/w torn at top and btm of spine, shallow crease on btm front, pp207, inscript. on front fep. Hilary Peridew's personality has to help her live up to the reputation of her three sisters', when she starts school at…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Probably circa 1930. Green cloth spine and paper covered boards with a coloured illustration of a smiling girl to the front board. 140 pp, the paper browning a little with age, 4 colour plates and b + w illustrations. Gift inscription to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. 12 adv…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good condition, a little creasing to lower front corner. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT…

Hardcover. Condition: G+. First Edition. 4to. A very good copy for its age with blue illus cover, young girl in red dress with yellow spots pushing a perambulator with a teddy bear dressed as a doll and holding another in her arms. nd but ca 1920-30. Minor denting to fore edge of front cover an bumps/scuffs to corners. Lighter b…