Hunt Pringle (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Morgan, C. (illustrator). Smaller sized hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket, in very good condition. Board spine ends are bumped. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

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Card Boards. Condition: Good. Morgan, C (illustrator). 1st Edition. Wartime published light hearted volume of British military slang. Includes several drawings. Thick card boards with paper covering. Boards are lightly soiled. Some toning to pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Original stiff card covers. Illus by Flying-Officer C. Morgan. Foreword by Air-Marshal Sir T.L. Leigh-Mallory. Signed by J.L. Hunt. Previous owner's name (A.N. Bersford) in prelims. Externally rather dull, but a sound copy.

8vo. 72pp. Dustwrapper over plain boards, A very good copy. First edition.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by FLYING OFFICER MORGAN (illustrator). First Edition. with a foreword by Air Marshal Sir T L Leigh Mallory. Paper covered boards, grubby, titling clear, front cover slightly creased at corner, NOT PRICE CLIPPED, NO INSCRIPTIONS, 72pp, postscript, pages browning as is usual with this kind of paper, hinges sound, black and white illustrations, overall very good. "Light-hearted definitions with many amusing drawings" "A dictionary of slang used in the British army, Royal Navy and RAF of the day" including; Body snatcher - man detailed for first aid party; Old Rope - any tobacco which offends the nostrils of those present.; Makee Learn - seaman's slang for beginner.; 107373; 8vo.

1st edition. Illustrated by C. Morgan. Small tear in edge of p45/6. Very small loss at foot of browned spine. Used - Good. Good hardback with integral dust jacket.

Condition: fair. C. Morgan (illustrator). First Printing. 19 cm, 72, wraps, illus., stiff card covers, parts of spine missing, ink name on front endpaper. Foreword by Air Marshal Sir T. L. Leigh-Mallory. A dictionary of slang used in the British Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force of the day.

Half title, illus. Orig. printed paper boards with wraparounds; Spine sl. split at head & tail, a little dulled. 72pp. The sole edition. 'Flying-Officer Hunt has tried to record the full-blooded language of fighting men - men who won the Battle of Britain, are winning many other battles and who will eventually restore peace to the world. It is a book of slang, yet I recommend it to you because it records the language of men of the three services of many countries who, to borrow a phrase from the book, are "flat out" to win.'.

First Edition. First edition, 12mo, pp. 72; illustrations throughout by Flying-Officer C. Morgan; original paper-covered boards lettered in blue; early owner's inscription on front free endpaper dated 1943, occasional pencil notations, uniformly toned, spine ends chipped, extremities a bit darkened, else very good.

Five titles by five different authors bound as one, Cleveland is first edition, imperial octavo, half bound, textured green cloth boards, gilt lettering to black leather spine between five gilt stamped raised bands to spine, marbled page edges, marbled eps, 124pp, xii + 123pp, xvi + 116pp, map + xvi + 128pp, iv + 84pp + iv + 93pp, VG (slight fading & chaffing to spine, some light scuffing to boards, light fraying to board edges, light tanning to page edges, some foxing to prelims & terminals & sporadic light foxing elsewhere).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 65pp. Edges lightly age-toned and bumped, near fine. Contributions by Robert M. Philmus, Margaret Edwards, Ron Loewinsohn, Priscilla Shames, James Reiss, Eric Felderman, Louise Gluck, Daniel Cassidy, Jr., Douglas L. Eichhorn, Paul W. Roewade, Joseph W. Survant, David Landon, Paul Brinkley-Rogers, Peter Welter, Helen Pringle, Anne Cleaves, David E. Cummings, William Pitt Root, Paul Oppenheimer, Shirley Kaufman, Stan Rice, DeWitt Beall, Jane Yolen, Gay Cothran, Kenneth Fields, Benito Cereno, John Peck, David Ransom, Tim Reynolds, L. Wittgenstein, Rodham Tulloss, McLister, Mary Maxwell Davis, Janis Adams, Roger H. Fogelman, Henry Taylor, Richard L. Pevear, Alexander Theroux, James Scay, Coburn Freer, E.G. Leimbacher, Frances McConnel, Susan Mitchell, David F.R. McGeary, Hunt Hawkins, and Patricia C. Smith.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Rockwell, Norman (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Famous Normal Rockwell cover shows fireman sniffing cigar smoke; This is Germany Today - Thomas Kernan's eyewitness report on German morale and how Goebbels cunningly controls the mind of the nation - with photos (first of 2 articles); The Cost of Roosevelt's "Great Design" - Roosevelt is betting that Stalin can be induced to return Russia to the family of nations; Where There's a Yank, There's A Way - photo-illustrated article describes how GIs like Sgt. William J. Le Bleau, of Bend, Oregon, do various jobs to provide goods and services for their fellow troops; They Can Learn to Live Again - therapy for Vets with war neuroses; What You Can Believe About the Helicopter - photo-illustrated article by Col. H.F. Gregory; Life with Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse - color photo-illustrated article; Will There Be Enough Water? - eastern half of the country facing dwindling underground reserves; All the Boys Remember Maisie - Second Lieutenant Nurse Mayhall borrowed and begged for the same of a famous garden at Army General Hospital 105 in Queensland, Australia; Where is "Wrong-Way" Corrigan?; Dental or Mental, I Say It's Spinach. Short Stories: Old Dan Tucker Comes to Town; The Homemade Heart And If I Die; Heaven is a Foxhole; Boomerang (part 1 of 2); Devil on His Trail (part 3 of 8). Four-inch archival-tape repair to table of contents. Three-inch opening along top of coverfold. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this interesting issue.; Cover Art; Folio.