Leslie Morley (72 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. ----------pulp magazine, standard pulp size. Cover creases and small tears, chip to spine bottom, inside fore-edge of back cover gently reinforced by clear tape, a little dusty, the usual small edge tears, former owner name inside, a VG copy. Back cover advertisement is for Theo. Audel & Co. Hannes Bok (front cover) (illustrator).…

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 232 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm, text is legible. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.…

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 264 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards. 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 sunning. Book has strong forward lean.…

Condition: Fair. 1952. First Published. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining overall.…

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with even toning. Some spotting to page ends. DJ with some edge wear, small tears, toning and creasing. Unknown publication date, circa 1953.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1894. Hardcover, 214 pp. Portrait Edition. Originally published in 13 volumes, this is Volume VI ONLY. Includes: Bunyan by James Anthony Froude, Johnson by Leslie Stephen and Bacon by R. W. Church, Dean of St. Pauls. Each biography includes a black and with portrait illustration of the writer. In good condition / NO dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with cream label on spine. Light bumping to edges of covers and light overall scuffing and soiling. Thin crack at half-title page but binding is still tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Publication date is estimated, based on the editorship of John Morley. Pages are a bit stiff and slightly tanned. Front cover is showing very early signs of separation after the front end paper, but is still holding together. Green cloth boards in good shape; black lettering clear on cover and spine. One volume in the English Men of Letters series.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 5 3/4 x 8 inches. Condition is Very Good; exterior excellent, fore edge of text block lightly foxed, text and illustrations are very clean, binding is tight. STK.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: Fair. 1951. First Edition. 184 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper and rear pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Large water stains to front board. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Heavy foxing. Moderate water staining to front panel. Notable rubbing and marking all over. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book has a slight lean with little wear to boards. Pages tanned with some spotting. DJ has tears and loss to edges with light toning.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Fine. Original publisher's black cloth binding with red lettering on covers and spine. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 209 pages, complete. Six additional pages of advertisements in the back. Small square sticker on front pastedown with a library call number. A few numbers are written in black ink on the blank flyleaf preceding the half-title. There is one pink stamp each on the title page and Page 209 that reads, "Library, State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind, Berkeley, Cal." The stamps do not affect text. Tipped-in pocket label on the back pastedown lists the terms of checking out books from the library and instructs patrons to place their cards in the pocket when the book in on loan. A card is included in this pocket. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Some dust on the top edge of the text block not affecting pages internally. No external markings, except for slight rubbing to the covers. A Fine copy. This book is part of a thirty-six-volume biographical series titled, English Men of Letters, which was edited by John Morley and written by different authors. This book is no. 33 of 36 in the series. One ad in the back lists other books in the series that had been released to date. Biography of Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a prominent English poet, including an overview of some of his works.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled, sun-toned, and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 264 p. ; 19 cm. Notes; Sequel to Blade of the rapier. Subjects; English fiction 20th century. Adventure stories, English. Historical fiction, English. Monmouth's Rebellion, 1685 Fiction. Great Britain History James II, 1685-1688 Fiction. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled, sun-toned, and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 264 p. ; 19 cm. Notes; Sequel to Blade of the rapier. Subjects; English fiction 20th century. Adventure stories, English. Historical fiction, English. Monmouth's Rebellion, 1685 Fiction. Great Britain History James II, 1685-1688 Fiction. 1 Kg. …

Square super hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1958 UK film. Based on the 1911 play by George Bernard Shaw, starring Leslie Caron as the wife of an artist (Dirk Bogarde) who is dying of tuberculosis. She enlists the help of a very busy doctor who, upon learning the artist is really a con-man with greedy tendencies, in faced with a dilemma: help the desperate wife by curing the artist, or tend to other patients in need? 8 x 10 inches. Light rubbing, else Near Fine.…

1st ed. 1st edition. Gift inscription dated 1950 on front free end paper; a few scattered spots of foxing; some loss of colour to brown cloth on boards & spine. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Condition: Very Good. unknown publishing date; black cloth covered boards with red titles; worn at edges and corners; Previous owner's name on ffep; Interior clean and unmarked; 12mo, 6 3/4" - 7 3/4" Tall; 209 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 97 Pages Illus.

First edition. Hardback. A Very Good book in a Good unclipped dust jacket. Gift inscription on title page dated 1950. Jacket has shelf wear to the edges and spine is colour faded. Jacket supplied in a new removable clear cover.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Presumed First Edition. No stated date c1950. Presumed first edition. 224pp., a colour frontispiece and many black and white illustrations in the text. Set in the Elizabethan Age, this is a tale of a young man's courage and his struggle to wrest his brother from the clutches of the dreaded Inquisition. The book is bound in the original red boards with black titling on the spine and the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with bumping to the spine ends and slight cocking to the spine. The contents are tight and clean with foxing to the free endpapers, the half-title page and last page of the book. There is also foxing on the top edge of the text block and on some pages this has seeped a little way into the top margin. There is no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with some light soiling and the spine is slightly faded. The spine ends are bumped with some nicks at the top of the spine. F.A. Philpotts (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. In a blue cloth hardcover with black titles to spine and front. With an unclipped dust jacket with red, black and yellow titles and colour illustrations to spine and front. 192 pp. The book is in good + condition with just a trace of shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover. The binding is tight. There is light foxing to the front matter and the edges of the first 10 pages, and to the corresponding pages at the end, and to the edges. The dust jacket is good + with generally minor shelf-wear to the extremities, a .7" tear to the top front corner and light marking of the back.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. colour frontis. 'Boots' sticker to front bd. no inscrip. nd. circa 1950. p9-12 detached, 216pp. bds soiled. Anon (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprints. Dark-blue buckram with gold titles. 143 x 194 x 38mm. 587pp in total. Minor pale marks to front and rear boards, with light rubbing at spine-ends; extensive ink inscription to fly-leaf (1899); internal text clean and crisp throughout. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Black titles and decorations to spine and red board covers. Spine faded with wear to spine ends. A little soiling and wear to covers. Dusting to upper page edges. Owner's name on page preceding half title, otherwise no inscriptions. Interior is clean and tight.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardback. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good [Price-Clipped] Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. DJ is chipped at spine ends with two closed tears to rear panel. 232 pages. A nautical adventure set in the Caribbean.