H Darkin Williams (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. A hardcover collection of children's fiction in fair condition. Contains black and white photos. Notable foxing to the edges, starting pages, and occasionally to area of pages near the edges. Pages are generally bright and well-bound. The cover is sound, with some spotting/discolouration on the front but no significant wear.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A guide to post-war London, most interesting for Stone's photographs which combine the usual sights with some less familiar views. Some light spotting to block edge, but all in VG clean and bright internal order. Pictorial card covers a little worn to edges and spine. 8vo. 76pp.…

Condition: Fair. 1927. First Published. 148 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Prize plate to front free endpaper. Light foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking and minor staining to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.…

Condition: Good. 1927. First Edition. 148 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Plates are bright and clear. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate crushing to spine ends, with splitting, fraying to the head, tail.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good tight condition, c1920's, light age spotting to page edges, illustrated, prize label on end page, owners name cut out.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. A very good plus oversized picturecover hardcover with paste-on picture to cover. Cover: Boy's Cricket team celebrating a victory. Hand dated 1934. 1st story: Spanish Gold by W H Morris.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+/VG/ND. y First Edition Thus . HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. thus?* Date of Publication: 1932?* Publisher: The Amalgamated Press (Fleetway Press).* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustration tipped onto royal blue cloth covers showing a group of cricketers, black title to spine & face. No bumps or rubs, minor shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a "Gyro" plane, red, yellow and blue titles to face and blue & red titles to a somewhat faded spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine & in a clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to top & fore-edge and some very slight spotting to prelims, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: A number of b/w photos and illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 200 pp. text.* Description: A collection of juvenile stories featuring "Sleuths of the air" a long story by Percy Westerman. Other stories are by Sercombe Griffin, Henry Morris, Rex Eldon and many others. In addition there are articles about "The Railways of the Future," "The ABC of Cricket," "Northward with the Arctic Mail," and some useful tips for "Cross Country Runners."* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st thus? with some minor faults in a VG protected dust jacket.* 1932-01-01.…

1st. thus. Large 8vo. (23cm. tall x 16cm.). 200pp. With 4 colour and 9 black & white plates. Numerous text illustrations from photographs and in line. In the original red cloth with gilt lettered and blind decorated spine and front board. Colour pictorial onlay of rugger match to front board. First story "Thanks to the Pup." by John Brearley. Light foxing of title page, else a very good hardback copy. No wrapper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Larger format hardback bound in pictorial paper on boards with blue cloth spine, worn at the corners, front endpaper excised, crossed-out inscriptions on front pastedown and title page verso. 478 pages, colour plates and b/w illustrations in the text, index. Includes 'The missing link' by E. J. Oxenham.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. circa 1920, no publication date printed; there is water damage on the spine, cover and inner pages; the bottom edge of the spine is missing; the binding of the book is loose.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 200 p. 24 cm. 3 colour plates and numerous b&w line drawings or photos. Red cloth with pressed-on illustration to front (repeat of plate 3). Tear in spine head and cracks in spine below. Worn corners, moderate wear to hinges and edges, rubbed boards. Saskatoon Public Library prize plate on front free endpaper awarded to W. Cameron Henry Mar. 1930 for writing stories. Long story called Up To Scratch. A Thrilling School Mystery, by A. Harcourt Burrage, illus. by C. P. Shilton. Also includes The Mascot: A Story of Football, by Gunby Hadath. One story illustrated by Savile Lumley, prolific English book illustrator.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good tight condition, rough cut pages, c1930's, foxing on fore edge, illustrated, prize label dated 1932 on end page, end page cut with slight loss, blue decorative boards, corners bumped, wear to spine.

First Edition. Condition: vg+. vg+ solid clean no dw 1st Amalgamated Press hardcover 1932 1st Story Apple Pie Bed , red boards tipped on picture , complete ex Tatham Early Childrens Collection Wiltshire Library In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

First Edition. Condition: vg+. vg+ solid clean no dw 1st Amalgamated Press hardcover 1930 , Elizabeth story red boards tipped on picture , complete ex Tatham Early Childrens Collection Wiltshire Library In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. SPINE STRIP IS MISSING. Clean & tight. Undated except for the inscription on the front end paper which is dated December 1930. Colour frontispiece is of a girls doubles tennis match. First story "Elizabeth" by John Mowbray. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref q47.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated Amalgamated press edition on illutrated red but slightly faded covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Little Folks (Illus.) Harry Rountree, et al The Magazine for Boys and Girls Vol 96 A firm square copy with shelfwear to the covers. Hundreds of color and black and white illustrations. Cloth spine, pictorial paper-covered boards. Herbert D. Williams(Editor) Harry Rountree(Illustrator) (illustrator). BOOK. …

Paperback. Condition: VG-. 1st Edition. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Volume 108. Cloth spine, pictorial front board showing boy and girl on horseback. 6 colour plates. B/w illustrations to text. 508pp pages. VG condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Volume 110. Cloth spine, pictorial front board showing three pug puppies observing a snail. 6 colour plates. B/w illustrations to text. 510pp. VG condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Thus. Hardcover with printed boards, no jacket. 1929. Volume 110 of 'Little Folks', 1929. Thick card boards with illustration on top board, advertisement for Birds' custard on rear; card worn/frayed at edges. Blue cloth spine with title and illustration, bumped at head and tail, slightly worn at edges. Adverts on endpapers, which are slightly foxed; contents clean and sound throughout. With many halftone line-drawings in the text and occasional colour plates. TPW. Used.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Slightly narrow hardback 4to; blue cloth spine; illustrated board covers; generally in nice condition, except that the front hinge has crackesd, exposing the netting; otherwise a good clean copy. Contains amongs other things, the scarce story The silence of dorothy Cheyne, which was taken from the scarce Oxenham book Dorothy's Dilemma. ; Little Folks Magazine; Vol. 108; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Illustrated by Stanley Lloyd; H M Brock; J Dewar Mills; Harry Rountree;Thomas Henry (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Blue cloth pictorial cover is sunned at spine and lightly scuffed, caps are crushed, corners are lightly worn but cover is in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly toned but clean and in very good condition. Color illustrated frontispiece, color illustrated plates, and B&W illustrations.…

Hardback. Condition: Good+. Diamond Jubilee Volume. Large 8vo /Narrow 4to Hardback; Decorated navy cloth spine; illustrated boards rubbed/a little bumped at edges; internally almost vg; contains a long serial story by Elsie J Oxenham - Peggy-Perfect goes to School, amongst many other stories and articles; 506pp G++; ; Vol. 114; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 506 pages. Illustrated by Florence May Anderson; (illustrator).…

Condition: Used: Acceptable. Libro proveniente da collezione privata. Pagine ingiallite. La copertina riporta usuali segni del tempo, logorata. Rilegatura cedevole. Consegna 24/48 ore 51 n6.