Elma M Williams (37 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Edge wear. Rubbing and fading to covers. Spine creases. Tiny chips along edges of covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Edge wear. Some rubbing and fading to covers. Spine creases. Former owner's name on front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The book has the previous owner's inscription in pen on the first page. The jacket has some surface wear and scuffing over the top and bottom corner edges as well as the spine.

Condition: Good. 1963. First Edition. 192 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white plates. Signed by the author with dedication to Mollie and Margaret and front free endpaper. Clean pages and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Heavy water staining to top edges textblock. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Heavy tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ex-lib. Usual marks. Author's 2nd novel. Scarce.

Condition: Fair. 1966. First American Edition. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. White marks and scratches to boards. Textblock is shaky. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Woman's Weekly Library No. 584. Light red line and price sticker on front cover.

Condition: Good. 1963. Second Impression. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine. Mild rubbing and marking all over.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fine book in clean fresh blue cloth covers with very bright gilt titles to spine. Internally fine and free of inscriptions. The dust jacket is also fine and not price clipped; price crossed out. A very attractive copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition and printing. In near fine bright red cloth boards, black titles to spine. The boards are very flat, firm and clean, edges are sound. Unmarked end papers with dedication on front free end paper (from friend of the author). Unmarked white end papers. The text block is tight, straight and not tanned, foxed or marked -- near fine condition. Inside very good pictorial dust jacket with colour image of woman by tree and man nearby. The jacket is clean, crease on front tail edge with small piece of jacket missing on that corner. Not price clipped. Rare.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good. Reprint. 192 pages. Dustjacket has 2cm loss to bottom spine-end, wear/chips to top spine-end and top corners. Hardback binding has darkening to bottom spine-end, light wear to top spine-end and boards' corners. Page-edges foxed. Pages are clean and in nice condition. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First of the author's books describing the animal sanctuary she had established on a farm at Pant Glas, Tre'r Ddol near Machynlleth, Wales.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright with no markings, 192pp, B&W photos middle. Good unclipped DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very Good in a Good jacket with 1/2" by 1" chip at top spine. 1st U.S. Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. H/B blue cloth bds, VG, in Good+ d/w, one or two small closed tears at edges, contents crisp and tight, neat name and date on ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Good + dj. First Printed. 192 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good +. 1st Edition. 192pp. HARDCOVER. NOT SIGNED. Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. D/w is present, but with some edgewear & v.slt. loss. D/w will be improved where possible & supplied in protective sleeve. Will appear smart when work completed. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; green cloth covers with gilt title to spine; dust jacket is bright - light wear to corners and spine extremes - price clipped; personal gift inscription on ffep; otherwise minimal wear; This is a book about animals - for how could animal lover Elma Williams write any other kind? But it is also about a boy's thrilling adventures among animals; a boy who did not think he was brave at all. Yet when the moment of deadly danger came, he alone knew what to do. The fine and sympathetic pictures for this unusual story have been drawn by well-known illustrator Albert Whitear. Whitear, Albert (illustrator).…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1963). 1963 1st edition. 8vo (138 x 210mm). B/w photograph plates. Yellow-flecked, salmon pink cloth, gilt titles to red spine-label. Slight use, browning to end-papers and edges, smells slightly musty, good. Cup rings and stains to rubbed dust-wrapper. The numerous photograph plates of the Hodder and Stoughton editions do not appear in the contemporary Book Club edition. "The valley is Pant Glas, an undisturbed corner of mid-Wales overlooking the Dovey Estuary. The animals are a thriving domestic assortment of hens, dogs, cats, cobs, goats, cocks and a sheep. And this is Elma Williams' true account of life with them in one ever increasing, always changing family." . …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The jacket is rubbed and marked.One inscription. Laminated.Light damp marks.Excellent binding.[R.M]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club Edition. Foxing on closed page edges. Tears, creases, scuffing and dust spotting on jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 192pp. HARDCOVER Very clean copy internally. No inscriptions. In protected VG d/w. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1963). (1963) 1963 Book Club edition. 8vo (133 x 203mm). Unillustrated. Yellow cloth, spine titled in black. Slight use but very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. The photographs which appeared in the first edition were omitted from this Book Club edition. That said, the dust-wrapper of this Book Club edition is worth the price by itself. "The valley is Pant Glas, an undisturbed corner of mid-Wales overlooking the Dovey Estuary. The animals are a thriving domestic assortment of hens, dogs, cats, cobs, goats, cocks and a sheep. And this is Elma Williams' true account of life with them in one ever increasing, always changing family." .…

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact (dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but notes cannot obscure the text. A good condition book. No dust jacket. Marks and annotations to the endpapers and pastedowns. A small section of loss to the blurb. Speckling to the red dyed textblock edges. A few light marks throughout but all text remains perfectly legible. Sound for use as a reading copy.…

Hard Back/Hard Covers. Condition: Very Good. Dustjacket Very Good. Second Impression. 192 pages. B&W plates. Dustjacket has light wear to edges and corners, price-clipped. Hardback has slight wear to spine-ends only. Pages clean and tidy, nice condition. Size: 8 1/4" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Paul can't compete with his athletic cousins, but when it comes to animals . dj (unclipped) a little frayed on edges, illustrated by ALBERT WHITEAR, light foredge foxing, else vg. 8vo, 144pp. Albert Whitear (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 144pp, green boards. B + w illustrations. Ex library - remains of label to flyleaf, a couple of stamps, otherwise internally clean. Paul, a boy who loves animals, meets the circus. Albert Whitear (illustrator). Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A hardback mystery story. Uncommon. Spine sunned. Internally, very clean, bright & tight - no marks or inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good dust. First American Edition. The dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable archival sleeve.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8"; 192 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. Good +. First Edition. Clean red bds with black title to spine. bump to spine ends and corners. Lib sticker to fep and bep. bindings tight. Patchy soiling to a few pages. Price clipped dustjacket with rub to corners and small chips to spine ends.