Hubert Bland Nesbit (42 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 123 Pages. Originally by Longmans, Green and Co in 1892 this is a Kessinger Reprint. Kessinger Publishing, established in 1988 this publisher specializes in scarce and hard-to-find books on a huge array of topics and genre. The company uses modern printing and photocopying for their facsimile reprints. Many of their works are long out of print and out of copyright.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 211 Pages. Originally published by Longmans, Green and Co. in 1905 this book of fiction is a Kessinger Reprint. A novel of Chloe and Len, newlyweds adjusting to a new life and a new home they inherited. Kessinger Publishing was established in 1988. This publisher specializes in scarce and hard-to-find books on a huge array of topics and genre. The company uses modern printing and photocopying for their facsimile reprints. Many of their reprints are long out of print and out of copyright.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 394 Pages. Originally published in June 1906 by Doubleday in an illustrated edition. This Kessinger Edition is NOT illustrated. Kessenger Publishing, established in 1988, has built their reputation on publishing scarce and hard-to-find books on a huge array of topics and genre. The company uses modern printing and photocopying for their facsimile reprints. Many of their works are long out of print and out of copyright.

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. 84 Pages. Originally published by Longmans, Green and Co. in 1905 this book of poetry is a Kessinger Reprint. Kessinger Publishing was established in 1988. This publisher specializes in scarce and hard-to-find books on a huge array of topics and genre. The company uses modern printing and photocopying for their facsimile reprints. Many of their reprints are long out of print and out of copyright.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. 74 Pages. Originally published by Archibald, Constable and Co. in 1898 this book of poetry is a Kessinger Reprint. Kessinger Publishing, established in 1988. This publisher specializes in scarce and hard-to-find books on a huge array of topics and genre. The company uses modern printing and photocopying for their facsimile reprints. Many of their works are long out of print and out of copyright.

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Octavo, pictorial cloth. Later edition. An attractive edition of a classic children's book. A fine copy in paper slipcase without dust jacket as issued. (#176805).

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. HBDJ, HC, EX-Library USUAL WEAR ENDPAPERS SCUFFED ETC, No Publ. Date. Looking Glass Library #18. GOOD in VG dj in mylar. AS-IS, Corners & spine ends bumped & frayed. Bottom board edges rubbed. Pages tanned, but PRETTY clean. pages firmly bound , 5 Children come across Old Friend for sale in Pet Shop, Psammead, captured and put up for sale! It Helps them Obtain 1/2 of Amulet which has the Power to Transport Them into the Past, Soon they have Gone Back to Ancient Egypt & Babylon & see Lost Continent of Atlantis.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, 1948, 1st Edition THUS, VG- Condition WITH TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS WEAR gold paper covered boards with title and image on front and spine. SPINE CVR TINY CHIPS WEAR, No jacket. . Many B/W illustrations. Pages are age tanned FOX. Text is free of marks. Page binding is good. A VG- reading copy.LITELY worn at the heel and the crown. The 5 children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb - are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with the ability to grant wishes are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with the ability to grant wishes.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ,HBDJ Book and Dust jacket in VERYGood- condition. DJ shows minor chippings around edges. Strong binding. 319pp VG/VG, AS-IS, Hardcover published circa 1960, NO Date Given by Looking Glass Library. No. 18. Pictorial blue/green boards with orange design on front and back covers. Boards have light soil, corner and spine wear. Unclipped dust jacket with price of $1.95 have moderate shelf wear and soil on front and back covers, edge and corner wear, small tear on front cover top edge. Good clean interior, some age toning. Firm bindng. Not ex-library. approx. 5" x 7.5", 319 pages plus list of Looking Glass Library titles END WITH SPIDER'S PALACE, 5 Children come across Old Friend for sale in Pet Shop, Psammead, captured and put up for sale! It Helps them Obtain 1/2 of Amulet which has the Power to Transport Them into the Past, Soon they have Gone Back to Ancient Egypt & Babylon & see Lost Continent of Atlantis.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1st Edition, EARLY ISSUE, VG/VG, AS-IS, Hardcover published circa 1960, NO Date Given by Looking Glass Library. No. 18. Pictorial blue/green boards with orange design on front and back covers. Boards have light soil, corner and spine wear. Unclipped dust jacket with price of $1.95 have moderate shelf wear and soil on front and back covers, edge and corner wear, small tear on front cover top edge. Good clean interior, some age toning. Firm bindng. Not ex-library. approx. 5" x 7.5", 319 pages plus list of Looking Glass Library titles END WITH SPIDER S PALACE , 5 Children come across Old Friend for sale in Pet Shop, Psammead, captured and put up for sale! It Helps them Obtain 1/2 of Amulet which has the Power to Transport Them into the Past, Soon they have Gone Back to Ancient Egypt & Babylon & see Lost Continent of Atlantis.

Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1] 2-309 [310, blank] [311-312: ads] + a 24-page publisher's catalogue dated Autumn 1908 inserted at rear, twelve inserted plates with illustrations by Spenser Pryse, title page printed in orange and black, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Expansion of short story "The Head" (collected in FEAR [1910]). Published in the U.S. (by Doubleday) as THE HOUSE WITH NO ADDRESS. A macabre story in which a woman becomes a professional dancer in London and hides away from her husband in a secret apartment. She dances Salome's dance one night with a real head in her hands -- that of her husband who she has killed. Previous owner's gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper, foxing throughout, rear hinge cracked, rubbing to covers and spine, a sound, good copy. (#137047).

First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-309 [310, blank] [311-312: ads] 24 page catalog inserted to rear "A Complete Catalog of the Publications of Alston Rivers," frontis and eleven inserted plates by Spenser Pryse, title page printed in orange and black, original red cloth, spine and front cover stamped in gold. Expansion of short story "The Head" (collected in FEAR [1910]). Published in the U.S. (by Doubleday) as THE HOUSE WITH NO ADDRESS. Previous owner's gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper, foxing throughout, rear hinge cracked, rubbing to covers and spine, a good sound copy. Uncommon. (13994).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1948, 1ST EDITION EARLY ISSUE, VG+/VG- Very good. Condition: Very Good-: Very Good+++ picture cover hardback with Very Good- DustJacket WITH TINY CHIPS TO EXTREMITIES, INTERIOR PGS FOXED in new Brodart, YELLOW DECORATED C LOTH MATCHES THE DJ ILLUSTRATION,.253 PGS ,Text is clean and unmarked. Yellow Binding with Blue & black & BrownIllustration on Front cvr is tight. Hinges are tight. Spine is straight. The story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. The five children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb - are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with the ability to grant wishes are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with the ability to grant wishes.

Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-419 [420: blank], original decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain in 1911 as DORMANT. Romantic fantasy of the rejuvenation of a girl who has been in suspended animation for fifty years. "A strange hybrid novel relating to the search for eternal youth by occult and scientific means; closer to Nesbit's children's fantasies than to her normal style of ghost fiction." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 380. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-229. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-267. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1229. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 680. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 84. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 300. Bleiler (1978), p. 147. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). A nice, clean, very good copy. An uncommon book. (#74251).