Louis Herrman (42 results)

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935. First edition, Hardcover, Good in Poor dust jacket, 226 pp. An ex-library copy with library rummer stamping to front free endpaper and rear paste-down. Modest spine skew and with tattered dust jacket glued to front paste-down on verso of front flap. First edition, Hardcover, Good in Poor dust jacket.…

Condition: Good. 1962. First Edition. 252 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth covered boards. In English and Afrikaans. 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 corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First U.S. Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. the jacket is shelf rubbed and a little creased and marked. there are old tape residue marks beneath the jacket. this is invisible when the jacket is on. the spine is a little sunned but the book still presents well in cellophane. the book has no inscriptions but there is foxing mainly on the early and later pages. this also affects the flaps of the jacket. the binding is excellent if a touch cocked. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. A small repair has been made to the top of the spine. The boards are edge rubbed with scuffing and fading along the edges. The binding is secure. Ink inscription from a previous owner on the front end page. The pages are browned due to age. There are no other ink inscriptions or annotations. r*04/09/2025 JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. VG P/b. Undated c. 1940-50's. Children's Education. A series that questions - everything; engaging the child to think things through to reach their conclusions. 77pp. [Book- clean throughout, no name or insc; tight binding though staples starting to rust, mottled background to illus. outer card] Other Titles held. 175x120mm. Please see our images of the actual item offered for sale for Further Details and condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A good copy with considerable foxing to edges and some foxing to text in fair worn and torn dust jacket. Pp. 288. A HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN SOUTH AFRICA from the earliest times to 1895. Revised South African edition. A pioneering scholarly history of Jewish presence and contributions in South Africa up to the late 19th century.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 1st printing; green c w/gilt titles, lite wear at extremities; 226 clean, unmarked pages. Map (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. 1930. 8vo.Good /Very good copy in original worn dustwrapper. Text stained.Victor Gollancz was a teacher,publisher author and public campaigner who spen his life t passionately trying to make people see the truth as he saw it. In many ways he epitomised the social conscience of the mid twientienth century. He founded The Left Book Club, Save Europe Now and the Campaign against Capital Punishment.Publishers. . . . .…

Octavo, pp. [1-15] 16-226 [227: printer's imprint] [228: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], four inserted plates with illustrations by H. V. Meyerowitz, frontispiece map, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red, top edge stained red. First U.S. edition. The Appleton-Century edition is made up from the sheets of the UK Williams & Norgate edition. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 44. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 413. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 112. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 560. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 99. Reginald 07145. A bright, nearly fine copy in good price-clipped worn and chipped pictorial dust jacket. (#173230).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Boards undamaged but spine somewhat faded. 288pp. unmarked. Binding tight. Many b/w plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Boards shelfrubbed. 288pp. with some spotting to endpapers and some light pencilled annotation and marking to contents. Prev owner's name to front pastedown and a rubber stamp to ffep. Many b/w plates. Binding good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Spine a bit faded and spine top lightly crushed. 288pp + many b/w plates. Light foxing to endpapers at back. Small nick to lower board outer edge. Binding good. Nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. English and Afrikaans text.Jacket is worn and sunned.Small tears.tanning.Foxing.one inscription.Well bound.Good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

THIS VOL ONLY, octavo, beige buckram boards, blue lettering to spine, blue illus to front board, xxxiv + 291pp, illus, VG- (heavy cracking & chipping/fraying to spine, minor bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, tidy gift inscription in ink to ffep, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, moderate cracking to gutters at prelims).…

288 Seiten u. mehrere Bildtafeln. Original-Leinwand-Einband (Einband teils fleckig u. etwas bestossen. Papier durchgehend meist an den Rändern stockfleckig) 22x15 cm Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 890.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. edge wear on the boards. foxing and markings, a few inscriptions. text remains clear nd legible. rather fair condition. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Name of the precious owner on the front free end page. Frontispiece. The boards are a touch edge worn; they remain in good condition. Spine replaced. There is foxing around the block of the book and on the first and last few pages. Internally the remaining pages are neat and complete. The binding is secure. R*2026/09/12 GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Condition: Very Good. 1930. 8vo.Good /Very good copy in original worn dustwrapper. Text stained.Victor Gollancz was a teacher,publisher author and public campaigner who spen his life t passionately trying to make people see the truth as he saw it. In many ways he epitomised the social conscience of the mid twientienth century. He founded The Left Book Club, Save Europe Now and the Campaign against Capital Punishment.Publishers. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Small octavo. B&W illustrations & map. Condition: DJ nicked & chipped with small edge-tears; upper corners lightly bumped; small spots to cloth binding; else very good in good DJ. 226 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. London: Williams & Norgate Ltd 1935. First Edition. First [UK] edition. Lost race novel and purportedly one of Gulliver's travels. Locke [A Spectrum of Fantasy, page 112, "Science fiction novel of a hitherto unrecorded discovery by Lemuel Gulliver of a race of people in a large cave, allegedly put together from Gulliver's notes by a modern man"]. Bleiler [1978 checklist, page 99]. Reginald 07145. Green cloth with gold gilt lettering/rule, 226 pages, illustrated. Library Book Club labels else VG copy in heavily chipped [especially the rear panel] Dust Wrapper. .LR5/6E. Lino cuts by H. V. Meyerowitz (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is rubbed and marked.Pencil inscriptions.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Good. Cape Town 1941. Introduction by C, Graham Botha. Hardcover. 12mo., 146pp., photo illustrations, green cloth. Owner signed. Good plus, no DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Befriedigend. Ohne Schutzumschlag. Facsimile Reprint of the original: "Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa, Descriptive of the Zoolus, their Manners, Customs etc. with A Sketch of Natal" 1836.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Jacket is worn, torn, chipped and marked. Boards are edge worn, cocked and marked. Tanning. Minor marks. Aside from this, it is in good condition, excellent binding. Text remains clear and legible. MK. [R*18-09-2021]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hard. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 3rd. Prev owner sticker to f-fep and light markings where tape has been on d/j which is no longer present, top closed edges very lightly browned, else an excellent copy, clean and tidy Size: 8vo 0.0.

First edition hardback. G+, bumped. (slight toning to pages, edges dusty,light foxing to endpapers, covers toned lighter possible due to slight damp at some time) otherwise clean and bright in G dustwrapper (some overall wear,rubbing, small chips, creasing, tears and minor discolouration back panel) which is housed in protective removable sleeve. Still a pleasing example of this uncommon monograph in dustwrapper. 7415. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s)Janus is an attractive selection from the works of well-known English and Afrikaans authors, with equally atractive translations from each language into the other, made by bilingually competant South African scholars and authors. The front end page contains 6 signatures from each of the authors and also a date and place stamp from when the signatures where collected. [TK] internally clean. excellent binding. the jacket is slightly shelf rubbed with some bumping at the edges. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. Internally, lightly tanned pages. Otherwise clean. Tightly bound. r*03/07/2025 [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First Edition. IN THE SEALED CAVE, Appleton Century, 1935, first edition, (American issue), fine in most attractive dust-wrapper with some unnecessary inner tape reinforcement. A new journey of Captain Lemuel Gulliver.