Gill Melvyn (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. ex-library, usual library markings, moderate usage, otherwise clean and sound.

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.

1st edition hardback with dustwrapper good+ / good+ ex school, their library sheet to front endpaper, seems unused, 126 pages, illustrated, protected dustwrapper, clean, tight copy.

1st edition. 1970 1st edition in tight binding with numerous B&W illustrations; dust jacket not price-clipped with a discoloured back panel and wear and chipping to edges, particularly top edge; page fore-edges and endpapers faintly discoloured; owner's name plate on front paste-down; slight musty odour; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.…

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First UK edition of the first Jacob Asch novel. Originally published in the US by Mason and Lipscomb in 1974. There are two small but heavy dents to the bottom edge of the rear panel but the boards are otherwise clean and unmarked. Dense spotting to tops of the page edges with more scattered spotting to the fore edges and bottom edges. Scattered light spotting to the endpapers and there is some spotting to several pages at the back of the book. Trace of a price in pencil to the top corner of the front pastedown. Pages otherwise unmarked. Price-clipped jacket has a one inch patch of surface damage on the front panel where a label has been removed, a small tear at the bottom left corner of the rear panel which has some browning and there is a crease at the bottom corner of the front flap. Jacket design by Melvyn Gill. First printing. Gill, Melvyn (illustrator).…

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Thriller Book Club edition from 1976. First published in the UK by Harrap in 1975. Originally published in the US by Harper & Row in 1975 under the title Troublemaker. Bumping to the bottom right corner of the front panel and at the base of the spine. Small mark to the rear panel but the boards are otherwise unmarked. Light browning to the page edges with a few small spots. Light browning to the endpapers but the pages are otherwise unmarked. Jacket has a small stain at the top of the rear panel and some browning. Jacket photograph by Bill Glasspool and jacket design by Melvyn Gill. Gill, Melvyn; Glasspool, Bill (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A closed tear on the jacket and marked. Minor damp damage. Internally clean. Well bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A clean and tight copy of this book. 221 pages. The pictorial jacket is also clean and bright and only has the smallest sign of wear to the corner tips. - A gripping story of espionage. Melvyn Gill (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear, short closed tears and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised with small loss, not price clipped (£6.95), small notation in biro to top ffep, internally clean tight and almost square, overall a vg copy. 239pp. A thriller based on the life and murder of Lord Louis Mountbatten, by Scottish poet and author George Mann MacBeth (1932-92). Jacket by Melvyn Gill (illustrator).…

Hardback. 1970. First edition. A very good copy only marked by very light sunfading to the board edges and light age tanning to the edges of the text block. The d/w is also very good with light edge rubbing and minor soiling to the rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Clean and firmly bound illustrated laminated boards with some fading on the spine. Black and white photographic illustrations show various productions of works by John Galsworthy including the BBC production of The Forsyte Saga. Cover design by Melvyn Gill (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: VG+. G+ pc DW. DW is entire but is a bit marked and has edge wear. Brian Keogh, Patricia Gilliland & Linda Nash (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED, DATED LETTER BY THE AUTHOR TIPPED IN, WRITTEN ON HEADED NOTEPAPER OF THE HENRY DOUBLEDAY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION ' 17/4/73. Dearest Rosalin, Have just had 6 'author's copies' of my " L D"! This one comes to you with my fondest love & in deepest gratitude for all your help, done for me so unstintingly. Yours as ever Hilda C.' Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, not price clipped (£2.60), some old tape marks to ffep where letter was stuck in, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 224pp. A scarce and interesting book, almost the 'Silent Spring' of the domestic home by scientist, nutritionist and early member of the Soil Association Hilda Cherry Hills (d. 1989). She was married to Lawrence Donegan Hills (1911-1991), horticulturalist, journalist and writer, founder in 1954, of the Henry Doubleday Research Association near Braintree, Essex. By the time he retired in 1986, HDRA was the largest body of organic gardeners in the world and had moved to Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry. Jacket by Melvyn Gill (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Near Fine large octavo 126pp., text ills., index.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original orange paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 140 printed pages of text with full-page monochrome illustrations throughout. Wear to the spine ends, edges scuffed. Very Good condition book in near Very Good condition dust wrapper with some sun fading to the margins of the rear panel, 40 mm closed tear to the upper front gutter, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0854681973 CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

London, UK: Arthur Barker. Very good condition-DJ chipped at edges/Dust Jacket. (1970). 8vo., 126 pp. . Very good condition-DJ chipped at edges/Dust Jacket. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8¾'' x 5¾''. Contains 393 pp. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small chips to the tips and top corners, not price clipped, £6.95. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. …