Maurice Brett (37 results)

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail. Brett Lloyd (illustrator).…

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail. Brett Lloyd (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Paperback. 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.

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/G. 192pp, b/w illustrations, edges worn dustjacket a little yellowed & scuffed, boards a little rubbed. An account of midshipman Maurice Hewson's timefighting the French & his capture in September 1803. He spent 5 years in the Fortress at Verdun before escaping, only to be re-captured & sent to the dreaded Citadelle de Bitche from where he escaped in 1808. 825 grams.…

First Edition. Light foxing on page edges and endpapers; faint musty odour; otherwise a bright, tidy copy in tight binding. Dust jacket faded a bit on spine; short tear at spine head. Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. 77, No. 3, Whole No. 450. Edited by Eleanor Sullivan. "40th Anniversary". Includes "The Violence Peddlers" by Michael Gilbert; "The Clay-McBride Feud" by Jay Murphy; "Metaphor for Murder" by Simon Brett; "The Black Enigma" by Maurice Imhoof; "The Miracle Day" by Ernest Savage; "Cliffhanger" by Georgiana Eidukas; "The Boy Who Collected Poisons" by Ruth Rendell; "The Only One of Its Kind" by James Holding; "The Theft of the Lopsided Cobweb" by Edward D. Hoch); "Mystery Newsletter"; R. E. Porter & Chris Steinbrunner; "The Jury Box" by Jon L. Breen. Minro creasing and wear; tanning; ink smudging on upper rear cover edge and ink on top end. Book.…

Condition: Fair. 1934. First Edition. 476 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Volume 2. Boots ex-library rebind with associated stickers and markings to pages and boards. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers, pastedowns, half title page and last page textblock. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed gilt. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in original wrappers.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. 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 FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

paperback, 8vo, 280pp, illustrated, clean and sound, no inscriptions, spine lightly creased, Good condition. ISBN: 1902807057.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Book in Fair condition.

Condition: Good. 1934. First Edition. 430 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Pencil markings to endpapers and pastedowns. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Marked sunning to spine. Gilt lettering is dulled.…

Softcover. 256 pp. Softcover. LCC: 831533 Good condition; touches of wear on covers; very light yellowing on perimeters of pages.

Softcover. 713-913 pp. Volume 73, Number Four (December 2004). Softcover. Very good condition; on covers, touches of wear and light fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hewson (1786-1869) was born in Ennismore, Co. Kerry, the youngest of seven sons of the Archdeacon of Aghadoe. He died in Rathgar, Dublin. He was captured in September, 1803, while on an intelligence-gathering operation at Brest, France. His second escape effort was successful. The remarkable story is enhanced by the editor's introduction and footnotes and the generous selection of illustrations, many reproduced in a full page format. Clean, unmarked copy.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Illustrations, photographs 200 pages clean and tight. A British midshipman recounts his capture by the French, an unsuccessful escape attempt from one of Napoleon's prison camps, a second, successful escape, and a journey to freedom in Austria.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 280 pp. Colour photo on front & rear cover and spine, (Chimney Rock, Nebraska), and title printed in red. Info. on the author on rear. Dedication. Contents. Foreword. Map (w. small 'plane drg). Introduction. Prologue. Illus. throughout w. b&w photos. Maps. Bibliography. Appendices 1, 2, 3. List of figures. Index. Very nice, clean copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. This is the Madge Bellamy Edition. You can see the covers in the photographs provided. The front cover looks terrific. The color in the lettering on the spine has faded away. You can read the underlying lettering. The rear cover looks very good as well. There is a bit of light soiling. There is very little wear on the covers. Remarkably, there's no rubbing on the corners, no wear on the edges. There is a little crease below the top rear corner. Perhaps even more importantly, this thick 351 page book is square, straight, and very solidly bound (I saw only one very thin space between two facing pages, each securely bound). I turned over all the pages in the book making sure that all the illustrations (23 of them) were present. They are. And they are in excellent condition. The text pages are also in excellent condition. You'll find only an occasional spot of soiling. There are also probably close to ten pages with a fingerprint off the edge. The title page has a tiny spot under the 'e' in Scenes. There is a light scratch/scuff on the middle page edge. It created a nick on the edge of about 30 pages (no tears). I did notice that they were two small thin tears coming up off the bottom edge of two pages, neither reaching the print. I also noticed that there were around 20 consecutive pages with a light impression/crease in the same spot, where something might have pressed against the pages. It's quite minor, more an impression than a crease. My overall impression of the 351 pages is that they are in Very Good condition, the great majority of them look perfect. They are also, surprisingly, fairly bright. There are no markings in this book. No attachments. A previous owner penned her name near the bottom right-hand corner of the first front end paper, a page which, with the front inside cover, forms a large illustration. There is absolutely no other writing to be found anywhere in the book. Richard Doddridge Blackmore, known as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. Lorna Doone was originally published in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly around the East Lyn Valley area of Exmoor. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Illustrated in Color by Harold Brett, And Duo-Tone Prints of Scenes from the Photo-Play Produced by Maurice Tournier (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback), volume 1 only. 8vo (23cm by 16cm), xx, 430pp. Colour frontispiece, 6 b&w plates. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt design to the front board, top edge gilt, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in fair condition only (chipped and torn with some loss). but it is a rare survivor. The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it. Please note that this is volume 1 only.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 280pp with b/w photos - light wear to cover edges.

Paperback. Condition: As New. A very clean and tidy copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Emblem to front board. Top edge gilt. Boards are generally in good order, just a little grubby. Slight bumping to corners. Spine is faded with bumping to ends. Mild foxing to the page edges. Age discolouration to endpages. Colour frontispiece with tissue protection intact. Textblock has one or two grubby marks but is generally clean. 430 pp. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 1215g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 031773:6a) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall Language: ENG 1215 G. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Emblem to front board. Top edges gilt. Boards are generally in good order, just a little grubby. Slight bumping to corners. Spine is faded with bumping to ends. Mild foxing to the page edges. Age discolouration to endpages. B/w frontispiece. Foxing to the endpages and occasionally to the textblock mainly affecting the early/late pages. 476 pp. Previous owner's mark to ffep, ghosted to next. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 1147g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 031774:6a) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall Language: ENG 1147 G. Book. …

Hard Case. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. RU Edition Hardback. 239 pp., map + 21 illus. 8vo hb in dj, This book traces the myths & legends of Arabia over their historical growth to the reality of today, Excellent copy virtually as new Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1981 Oxford University Press hardcover edition. Ex library copy with stamps and labels else good condition. From the dustjacket: Sir Richard Southern was a fellow and tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, from 1937 to 1961, Chichele Professor of Modern History from 1961 to 1969, and since 1969 has been President of St. John's College, Oxford. In this book will be found seventeen essays by his old pupils on various aspects of a subject which he made particularly his own, The Writing of History in the Middle Ages. Ranging from the eighth century to the fifteenth, and from Scotland to Byzantium, the essays illustrate both the unity and the breadth of Sir Richard's teaching. Norman and Anglo-Norman historians (from Worcester to Bec-Hellouin, and Bec-Hellouin to Salerno) receive special attention, but there are also studies of confession and sermons as historical sources; of legal history and chivalrous history; of German town chroniclers; and of the biographer of King Henry VI. All these essays are original contributions to their subject, containing new material, and in several cases preparing the ground for new editions. In some measure they illustrate the combination of profound scholarship, sympathetic understanding, and literary form which are the hallmarks of Sir Richard's own work. Contents: List of plates List of abbreviations Bede, Iona, and the Picts by Archibald A. M. Duncan History in the mind of Archbishop Hincmar by J. M. Wallace-Hadrill William of Poitiers and his History of William the Conqueror by R. H. C. Davis John of Worcester and his contemporaries by Martin Brett The historical content of William of Malmesbury's Miracles of the Virgin Mary by Peter Carter History at Bec in the twelfth century by Margaret Gibson St. Anselm and sacred history by Gillian Evans World history in the early twelfth century: the Imago Mundi of Honorius Augustodunensis by Valerie Flint The Chronicle of Romuald of Salerno by D. J. A. Matthew Confession as a historical source in the thirteenth century by A. Murray English chroniclers and the affairs of Scotland, 1286-1296 by Lionel Stones History and action in the sermons of a medieval archbishop by The Bishop of Chichester (E. W. Kemp) Andrew Horn: law and history in fourteenth-century England by Jeremy Catto Chivalry, heralds, and history by Maurice Keen John Blacman: biographer of Henry VI by Roger Lovatt The German town chroniclers by F. R. H. Du Boulay Greek historians on the Turks: the case of the first Byzantine-Ottoman marriage by Anthony Bryer List of the published writings of Richard William Southern.…

paperback. Condition: new.