Pamela Whitlock (77 results)

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Stains to cover, page edges, and/or pages inside. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. 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.…

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. 321 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning.…

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. 321 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Some illustrations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor inscriptions to front endpapers. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has moderate edge wear with some small tears, chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned.…

Condition: Fair. Hardcover. 313 pages. Red cloth over boards. Dust jacket torn with sections missing, now preserved in new mylar wrap. Tear at bottom of front cover board. Text clean, unmarked until final page, where we find previous owner's impressions of the story in pencil.

Condition: Good. 1971. Reprint. 220 pages. Red paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition fifth printing octavo hardback 351 pages illustrated including coloured endpaper maps. Very Good condition. Previous owner's lengthy inscription on half title page and Gift inscription on blank page oppoisite. Pamela Whitlock (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. reissue. Reissue first printing octavo hardback 351 pages illustrated including endpaper maps. Near Fine condition in Very Good dust jacket . No inscriptions. Pamela Whitlock (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 4th Impression. slight wear to covers and cover edges, usual library marks mainly endpapers, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: some edge wear Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex Library.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair yellow hardback stated: This edition 1940, NAP. Color endpapers. Cover edgewear, cocked, spine lettering almost unreadable. 312 pages, otherwise unmarked. ; DPEC CHIL SHLF; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Good. With dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reissued. Hbk In d/w; vg/vg; 1978 reissue in very nice condition; there is however a small neat name inside cover (not author) ; d/w is price clipped; no other noticeable faults. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Illustrated by Pamela Whitlock (illustrator).…

1st edn 8th imp. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (casing with slight lean and light wear at head of spine - in protective cover), no dustwrapper. Pp. 350, illus with coloured endpapers and b&w illus in text (previous owners' neat inscriptions front paste-down and front prelims).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint . Slightly abridged. Reprint 1960. Publication of 288 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, tears and chipped pieces. The boards are slightly marked, remain in good condition. There are marks around the block of the book and old tape residue on the first and last few pages, as well as on the jacket. Internally the remaining pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Condition: Good. 1960. New Edition. 288 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with purple lettering over blue cloth. Illustrated by Pamela Whitlock. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Presentation plate opposite title page. Pages have a distinct odour. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and soiling to boards. Clipped dust jacket. Mild wear and tear to edges and corners. Minor foxing, tanning and soiling to DJ. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reissue. 288pp, with line drawings illustrating the text by Pamela Whitlock. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine. Three colour maps on endpapers. 8vo. Cloth is a little worn, gently rounded at corners and spine ends. Hint of shadows on text block edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper. chipped and chapped around edges with some minor crumbling and loss at the spine head and a couple of short, closed tears from edges. Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. First published in 1937, The Far-distant Oxus was written by two young girls, still at school, inspired by Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons. They sent their manuscript to Ransome who declared it the best children's book of the year and persuaded his own publisher to take it on. Ransome also provided an introduction for the first edition. The plot follows siblings Bridget, Anthony and Frances spending their summer holiday on Exmoor, where they meet the mysterious, nomadic Maurice and his pony, Dragonfly. Whitlock. Pamela (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reissue.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good. Seventh Impression. 313 pages. B&W illustrations by Pamela Whitlock. 313 pages. B&W illustrations by Pamela Whitlock. Rather browned cream spine of dustjacket which has some wear with snags to edges and corners, price-clipped. Spine is cream but lightly browned and snagged/frayed at spine-ends. Very clean reddish/orange hardback binding with light wear to spine-ends. Moderate browning to page-edges o/w pages clean and tidy. Illustrated by Pamela Whitlock (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Assumed first edition. No jacket. Covers faded, edges worn and corners bumped. Otherwise in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The second book in the Oxus series. Fifth printing of the first edition,1946. Inspired by the young authors' love of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons. Cloth faded and sun imprinted with jacket design but contents in lovely condition with no inscriptions. In a bright complete dust jacket, not price-clipped (7s.6d.net). Other titles in this series available. Pamela Whitlock (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. F-. Reissue. F-/F-. 8vo. original burgundy boards gilt (a trifle rubbed, slight marking to top edge)in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed); pp. 352, with illustrations & endpaper maps. A near fine copy. A reprint issued in the same format as the 1937 first edition, unabridged. Pamela Whitlock (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Collins Armada Lions 1971 First thus paperback. A tiny scuff to very bottom rear spine edge otherwise covers and inside in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. The pages are bright, unmarked and virtually like new. No creasing on the spine. Short crease at the lower corner of the front cover of this otherwise lightly read book. Mailed the same or next working day in a cardboard book box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Jacket is lightly chipped at head of spine with closed tear at top corner, otherwise tidy. Copy has illustrated endpapers and clean contents.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The third book in the Oxus series, a return to Exmoor. Eighth impression, 1960. Inspired by the young authors' love of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons. Slight foxing to page edges otherwise in lovely condition with no inscriptions. In a bright dust jacket, price-clipped and chipped at corners with one mended tear to top back edge of spine. Pamela Whitlock (illustrator).…

Soft cover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Publisher's mustard covers with brown and red lettering. Hand-set in 14 point Lutetia and printed for his friends by John Bell in an edition of fifty copies of which this is number 21. Hand numbered, with a small inscription by the author; "For Ena, who also looked sceptically at North Oxford. John". Very good indeed, with small crease at corner of rear cover and light shelfwear.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good+ hardcover, no DJ. Rose pink calico-grain cloth over boards, red titles on spine; map end papers. Lightly scuffed/soiled covers and spine; tightly bound; small remains of bookplate on front paste down; light, clean interior. 8vo, 351 pp. With illustrations by co-author, Whitlock. See, OCLC #271447564.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition Thus. Fine 1978 reissue in maroon cloth and Very Good + dust jacket with a half-inch tear at the bottom of the front fold. The lower corner of the front flap is clipped with sticker remnants. 351 pages, unmarked ; DPEC CHIL SHLF; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 351 pages.…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing of the abridged edition, stated on the copyright page. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Light rubbing and scattered marks to boards. Lacking dust jacket. Pages clean and unmarked. A children's adventure novel inspired by Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons books. This abridged edition includes an afterword by Ransome.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Abridged. The cover has dark blue cloth. Abridged edition. 23 chapters. The story has five children and has horses. The text block has two faint stains on the top end, a remainder dot on the bottom end, and two tanned lines (a variation in paper from the rest of the pages). The pages have a mild, cigarette odor. Dust jacket: Five closed tears are 1/8 in. to 5/8 in. Four water stains are 3/8 in. to a large one on a third of the back panel. Not all of the stains show through to the print side. Scans e-mailed upon request. Only priority shipping is available for an international order. Karl W Stueklen (illustrator).…