Coppard George (43 results)

Condition: Acceptable. paperback 100% of proceeds go to charity! Acceptable reading copy with obvious signs of use, wear, and/or cosmetic issues. Item is complete and remains readable despite notable condition issues.

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. As a First World War memoir this is almost unique, in that it was written by a private soldier Continuing interest in the First World War. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

paperback. Condition: Good. Softbound edition published 1969. Spine creased. Bookstore notation on first page, else unmarked.

Condition: Good. 1969. First Edition. 135 pages. No dust jacket. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white photographs. 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 mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. …

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 240 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Preface; Introduction; The Castle: A Parable by George MacDonald; Et in Sempiternum Pereant by Charles Williams; Jachid and Jechidah by Isaac Bashevis Singer; The Bell of Saint Euschemon by Richard Garnett; The Fisherman and His Soul by Oscar Wilde; In the Temple by Selma Lagerlof; St. Erik and the Abducted Maiden by Verner von Heidenstam; The Giant by Walter de la Mare; Dr Faust's Last Day by Maurice Baring; The Rime of True Thomas by John Buchan; Simple Simon by A. E. Coppard; The Night of Al Kadr by Kenneth Morris; The Lift That Went Down to Hell by Par Lagerkvist; Amigo Heliotropo by Felix Marti-Ibanez; The Greatest Feat by John Aurelio; and With a Long Spoon by Vera Chapman. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Soft cover. Pocket paper back. Light edge/shelf wear. Corner bumped, lightly. Pages toned with age. 2nd printing [stated/no number line]. Cover art [uncredited]. M1353. Original cover price 95 cents. Sixteen chilling tales of the macabre. Scarce/rare/hard to find/out of print.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. very good book & unclipped dustjacket , previous owner's name on front endpaper.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. our photos, binding is solid, light wear on covers, text is free of markings, no previous owner name, we ship quickly with tracking.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; store stamped. This anthology contains: Two Bottles of Relish by Lord Dunsany; The Old Chevalier by Isak Dinesen; The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen; The Lady on the Grey by John Collier; The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce; The Cigarette Case by Oliver Onions; The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs; Morella by Edgar Allan Poe; Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlottle Perkins Gilman; The Open Window by Saki; The Face by Lennox Robinson; The Conjuror by St. John Ervine; The Tiger by A. E. Coppard; Desire by James Stephens; Mr Arcularis by Conrad Aiken; The Catbird Seat by James Thurber; Ancient Dominions by Dermot O'Byrne; and The Vermilion Headed Man by George Brandon Saul. Book. …

paperback, 8vo, 186pp, illustrated, edges and endpaper browning, text clean and sound, spine faded, Good condition. ISBN: 0333416872.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Scuffing and creases on cover and spine, internally good and firmly bound.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Entire book is very clean, square at the edges, and tight with a flexible binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good tight copy in dust wrapper, some fading to the spine on the wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First published by HMSO as a paperback in 1969. This edition has been substantially revised and enlarged and includes an epilogue of the author's account of a return to the battlefields sixty years later.George Coppard describes himself as a 'common private of the uneducated classes. He went to France as a very young volunteer and served as a machine gunner until 1917 when he was badly wounded. This is a vivid account of his experiences on the Western Front and is a social document of considerable importance.He is a sympathetic and sensitive observer and his description of the battlefield after the first day of the Somme has real emotional intensity. What emerges most strikingly is the helplessness of the private soldier in the face of a military system which demanded of him total and unquestioning obedience to the orders of his superiors.Well illustrated with photos and line drawings. 208pp inc letters received by the author. 22cm x 14cm Very Good in Very Good pictorial dustwrapper.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood mass market; 135 pages; Tips bumped; Some foxing; Nicks on top and bottom of front and back cover edges; Prompt shipping with tracking.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 13 # 63 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 1949. Contains a novelette by Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler & Richard Wilson Webb - The Jack of Diamonds) and stories by Philip Macdonald (Two Exploits of Harry the Hat), Quentin Reynolds (Never Trust a Murderer), Eric Ambler (Case of the Landlady's Brother), , Jacques Futrelle (The Leak), Thomas Walsh (The Good Prospect), Raoul Whitfield, (The Rainbow Murders Begin), A E Coppard (A Broadsheet Ballad), Barry Perowne (Up the Garden Path), Joseph Harrington (Painted Faces) and others. Light wear at the edges. Ink scribble at the top center of the front cover and "A1-18" written in black grease pencil at the top center of the back cover. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). …

Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-287 [288], cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. A collection of personal reminiscences and memoirs compiled and introduced by Coppard and Crick. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some scuffing to black ink background, mainly rear panel. (#42558).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. 173 pp. The original was only published in 1979, so permission was given for the I.W.M. to run this reprint. The author's life story is briefly told in the dust jacket. This has never been read, but stored in dry and warm conditions, so is in perfect condition. The only reason it is not listed 'as new' is because the first owner embossed their name on the title and contents page, though this is barely noticeable and does not cover any text. (See scans). He joined the Queens Own Royal West Surrey Regiment before transferring the the Machine Gun Corps. he enlisted in 1914 at the age of 16 having told his real age and being told by the recruiting sergeant to "go home and come back tomorrow when you're 19". He served a full four and a half years. All my books are scanned or photographed so you can see what you are buying, also, my pricing includes UK postage, packing and tracking cost. Additional cost for overseas postage.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st (thus). New. In remarkable condition. Plates and a diagram of a Vickers 303 Machine gun (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First hardback printing. "original paperback edition of 'With a Machine Gun to Cambrai' was published by HMSO for the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum in 1969" stated in "Preface to the Hardback edition". No subsequent dates, editions or printings identified. Fine hardback in fine dust jacket. (£5.95net in UK only). Minor sun fading primarily to red title lettering on spine. Virtually no signs of previous use.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Near Fine With An Owners Name To The Fep Pp 174 Endpaper Diagrams Of A Vickers Machine Gun 13 Pages Of Testimonials At The Rear Illustrations And Maps . A Classic World War I Memoir Written By George Coppard, A British Private Soldier In The Machine Gun Corps. The Book Was First Published In 1969 And Provides A Rare, Unvarnished Account Of Trench Warfare From The Perspective Of A Non-Commissioned Soldier.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.