Knowles Vernon (40 results)
Language: English
Published by Canada's Chartered Banks, Ott, 1937
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Alexander Books (ABAC/ILAB), Ancaster, ON, CanadaAlexander Books (ABAC/ILAB)
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8 Pages.
- Softcover
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
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Published by George Newnes, 1111
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Add to basketCondition: Good. No Edition Stated. 126 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner… bumping. Some light marking and tanning.
Published by Mandrake, 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rock Solid Books, jenison, MI, U.S.A.Rock Solid Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Some scuffing to the cover, mostly at corners. The paper with author and title on the spine is partly gone. Overall nice, solid copy. No dust jacket. 100% guarantee. Expert packaging.
Published by George Newnes, London, 1936
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Stephen Dadd, Ashford, United KingdomStephen Dadd
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 126pp. HARDCOVER Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. Some browning to half-title page. Externally, orange cloth has some marks & ding & repaired split to spine. Slightly bowed. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 12mo - over 63/4"…- 73/4" tall. Book.
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Published by George Newnes Limited, 1111
- Hardcover
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United KingdomWorld of Rare Books
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Add to basketCondition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 126 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over orange cloth boards with lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and c…orner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is clear. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Tanning to jacket.
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Published by Book & Magazine Collector, London, 2009
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- Magazine / Periodical
Seller: Cosmo Books, Shropshire., United KingdomCosmo Books
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Add to basketBooklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 9 pages, illustrated. With list of books. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books…: 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.
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Published by George Newnes, London, undated, c.1950,, 1950
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. hardback, 8vo, 126pp, owner's name on endpaper, otherwise clean and sound, orange cloth, Very Good / no dustwrapper.
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Published by George Newnes Limited
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Seller: Neo Books, Sidcup, KENT, United KingdomNeo Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, spine and edges of covers faded, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing.
Language: English
Published by Kessinger Publishing, LLC, London, England, UK, 2010
- Softcover
Seller: Stillwaters Environmental Ctr of the Great Peninsula Conservancy, Kingston, WA, U.S.A.Stillwaters Environmental Ctr of the Great Peninsula Conservancy
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. This book is in near fine condition. There are corner knocks but no stains or tears. This is a "rare reprint" edition. This is a children's book and contains 9 short stories about London. The book was written for the author's young friend who had moved to Australia and was home sick f…or London. The stories include the shop in the off-street, the birds, the painter of trees, the land of ideas, and a set of Chinese boxes. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education. Ralph Keene (illustrator).
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Published by Pioneer Books, Adelaide, Warradale, 1980
- Softcover
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, AustraliaBOOKHOME SYDNEY
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Reprint ed. Paperback trade, very good condition, few black & white text-photos, frontispiece portrait, top corner front cover slightly rubbed, colour patch rear cover little faded, some edgewear, small sticker front flyleaf. 77 pp. This is the story of a sensitive boy who grows up in Adelaide before the first World War. Vernon…Frank Knowles was born at Phyllis Street, Maylands (Adelaide) on 17th April, 1899. He spent most of his adult life overseas and died in London on July 9th, 1968. He published verse, novels and short stories. His tales of fantasy are universal. (Originally published in 1932. The present book is reprinted from part of a book by Paul Depasquale (Pioneer Books): 'The Life and Work of Vernon Knowlesâ, 1979. No date, but 1980).
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Seller: moluna, Greven, Germanymoluna
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Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, GermanyAHA-BUCH GmbH
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Language: English
Published by The Mandrake Press., London., 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United KingdomJames Hine
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 1929. Black and white frontispiece by Eric Bailey. Endpapers browned. Publishers gold decorated paper covered boards with black cloth spine. The dustwrapper has a browned spine and with some marking and dustiness generally. Some light r…ubbing to the edges. generally a very good copy. With a frontispiece by Eric Bailey. (illustrator).
Published by London: The Mandrake Press, 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.Nicholas J. Certo
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Snakeskin paper cover boards with black cloth spine, paper spine label. Endpapers tanned, VG-FINE in dj with darkening to spine, chipped at spine ends.
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Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, GermanyAHA-BUCH GmbH
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this wor…k, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Published by The Mandrake Press, London, 1929
- Hardcover
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United KingdomLONGLAND BOOKS
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Add to basketDecorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Good/Very Good. A bright firm book with a little tanning to the endpapers ; dj sound with some browning. Pics available Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Eric Bailey (illustrator).
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Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, GermanyAHA-BUCH GmbH
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Published by Mandrake Press, London, 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.Bauer Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition. 16mo. 98 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth backed snake skin patterned boards, paper spine label, in dustwrapper, very good. (59757).
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Language: English
- Hardcover
- Print on Demand
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, IndiaS N Books World
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1921 edition.… NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 24 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.
Published by London: George Newnes Limited
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.Nicholas J. Certo
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. (1935) First edition, pictorial title page by Malcolm Easton. Publishers blue cloth with spine titles in black. Collection of 12 stories most if not all fantasy. Locke SPECTRUM OF FANTASY pg-130. VG in age tanned dust wrapper with short creased tear…to rear panel at upper spine fold, old tape mend to blank side.
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Published by George Newnes, Limited, London, 1935
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.Heartwood Books and Art
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Two and Two Make Five by Vernon Knowles (First Edition) Minor bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends with slight sunning to spine. Previous owner's plate to front pasted end page. Wear to edges and spine ends with 1 inch loss to top of sunn…ed spine. Price-clipped. Not dated. Original blue cloth with gold lettering; 256 pages. "Fabular short stories, taken in part from earlier volumes. Including [a] THE CURIOUS ACTIVITIES OF BASIL THORPENDEN. He is an occult engineer, with a means of travelling through time, and an apparatus for storing emotions. He is also able to enter the Land of Ideas, where he progresses to the Territory of Reality. [b] THE FIRST COMING. Christ manifested himself (before the incarnation in Palestine) to a people who accepted him with love. This upset the Divine Plan, and the scenario had to be transferred" (Bleiler). BOOK.
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Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd., London, 1925
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. An incredibly scarce presentation copy of this volume of poetry, signed by the author to the front endpapers. An incredibly scarce, signed presentation copy of this book of poems from Australian author Vernon Knowles, most known for his 1924 fantasy fiction work 'The Street of Queer Ho…uses'.In smart original half black cloth binding, with original title sticker to spine.At one time owned by a Mrs L. G. Churchman.Signed and inscribed to front free endpaper. Inscription reads 'Mrs L. G. Churchman: Her Book. Written in the House of the Seven Cats (and all delightful, too!) Vernon Knowles October 10, 1024'. Bound in original half black and grey cloth. Externally, smart. The odd marks to boards. Rubbing to extremities and spine. Small marks to spine. Slight chipping and marks to title sticker at spine. Spotting to endpapers. Very light pencil sketch of a church to rear paste down, author's ink inscription and signature to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound, with slight strain. Pages generally bright and clean, with the occasional handling mark. Very Good. None (illustrator). signed by author. book.
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Published by George Newnes undated
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- First Edition
Seller: Chapter House Books (Member of the PBFA), Sherborne, United KingdomChapter House Books (Member of the PBFA)
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Add to basketPresumed 1st Edition. Hardback. Near very good in good, worn, chipped, browned, price clipped and plastic protected, d/w. Spine and corners bumped, pages a bit browned. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts.
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Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1925
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Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United KingdomHALCYON BOOKS
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FO…R MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.
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Published by Robert Holden & Co, London, 1927
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Seller: Hyraxia Books. ABA, ILAB, Hutton Cranswick, United KingdomHyraxia Books. ABA, ILAB
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Good. First. A good copy. Inscribed by the author to painter Albert Rutherston. Seven short stories, mostly fantasy it seems. Lacking the jacket, some staining and marking to the boards, a little bumping to the spine tips, boards a little warped and some foxing internally.
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Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.: London, 1925
- Hardcover
Seller: COLD TONNAGE BOOKS, Colyton, DEVON, United KingdomCOLD TONNAGE BOOKS
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Add to basketHardcover. First British edition (& 1st printing). Collection of fantasy stories: ten full-page illustrations by Helen Binyon. The contents of the British edition differ considerably from those of the 1924 Boullion-Briggs edition and are expanded to include fifteen fantasy stories (only eleven were collected in the U.S. edition)…. ''First published 1925'' on copyright page. Page edges browning, a VG+ copy.
Published by London Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. LTD., 1925
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.Nicholas J. Certo
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Publishers red boards with black cloth shelf-back spine, printed paper spine label, pictorial endpapers. Some dullness to black cloth spine, a VG+ copy in NEW facsimile dust wrapper. Collects 15 stories, most if not all fantasy. Locke SPECTRUM OF FANTASY p…g-130.
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Published by Robert Holden & Co, London, 1926
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- First Edition
Seller: Rare Collections, Brighton East, VIC, AustraliaRare Collections
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: VG-. dj. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. A second collection of fantastic tales, following "The Street of Queer Houses", Bleiler states it to be a considerable improvement on the first volume of stories. VG- book, some light warping of the boards, small bookdealer stam…p on front endpaper and dealer note in pencil on flyleaf. Illustrated by Ralph Keene. Rare original DJ, VG-, front cover seperated along spine, but kept together with archival cover. Chips missing, mostly at top and bottom of the spine. Provenance - From the Gary Munson Collection.
