Parrish J M Edited By (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. A vintage edition of The Fifty Most Amazing Crimes of the last 100 years, edited by J. M. Parrish and John R. Crossland. Published by Odhams press in 1936. This bold and black book will look great on any bookshelf and is a great read for any fan of non-fiction crime books. Title: The Fifty Most…

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Add this vintage edition of The Great Book of Horror edited by J. M. Parrish and John Crossland to your Halloween reading list! If you love crime, mystery, horror or the supernatural, this book is for you. These tales of horror are in the true gothic tradition, full of hinted terrors, unholy ste…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Decorated embossed red cloth boards. Peeling, fading scuffing and marks mainly on the spine. Front inner hinge cracked. Frontispiece is nearly detached. Page 761 is detached. No jacket. A reading copy only with chipping at the top and base of the spine and a fraying split on the lower half…

Hardcover. 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 bumped and worn, small rip at top of spine 1cm, surface of covers grubby and a little worn internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but browning, also some foxing t…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Loosely bound faded crimson cloth binding with gilt titles and colour illustration inset. Some handling wear and marks to boards. Cracked internal spine hinges with front board and spine beginning to give way. Clean inside with some foxing to page edges. Some coloring to black…

Burgundy Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Drawing illustrations on free endpaper. Repaired tear on page 243. Browned fore'edges. Very mild foxing to pages in the book in places. Sunned outer cover spine. Rubbed to the outer cover binding edges and corners. The odd small stain mark to the outer cover binding in…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Undated. Green decoarted boards with gilt titles on spine; No date found but late 1930's (pre-war); Overall sound clean copy, slight agetoning and discolouration on coloured free end pages; A book for older children featuring all manner of interesting articles, photos & stories; This c…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red Cloth, Gilt Title, Patterned Endpapers, Frontis, 768 Pages, Illustrated. A Bright And Soundly Bound Book (Possibly A Re-Bind, But Nicely Done, Internally Unmarked Except For Foxing To The Endpapers, Externally A Little Shelf-Worn. Not Ex Library. Overall Near "Vg". Heavy B…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Size 10.00 x 1.6.75 inches approx. Original dark red boards with gilt titles to the front board and blind stamped titles and decoration to the spine, coloured picture of a biplane flying over a desert camp is pasted to the front board, bright and clean, corners slightly bowed but t…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. THE DUST JACKET HAS SIGNS OF WEAR AT THE EDGES & SOME FOXING AT THE BACK & INSIDE FLAPS BUT IT IS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR. THE BOARDS & SPINE ARE SLIGHTLY BUMPED & RUBBED BUT THE GILT LETTERING & DESIGN ARE BRIGHT & CLEAR. THE PAGES HAVE FOXING & DISCOLOURATION A…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Small publication and 30 000 words. Name of previous owner. Purple page edges. Publication of 640 pages. The wraps are a touch edge worn. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK (OG passage cupboard). Our orders are shipped usi…

Condition: Used; Good. If you love an excellent thriller, this brilliant anthology from Odhams publishing is the perfect book for you! Featuring over 50 short stories by some of the greatest authors with the likes of Bram Stoker, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, W. Somerset Maugham all represented here, this boo…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is 'The Wonder Encyclopedia for Children. Volume 1' edited by John R. Crossland and J.M Parrish - published by Odhams Press Ltd in 1936.It is a hardcover book in a red shade with an embossed exterior and titling to spine. There is bumping to corners and more evident to spi…

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dark and Mysterious, this stylish book from publisher Odhams, can take pride of place within any gothic library! It is a collection of short stories written by some of the greats. You can find Agatha Christie, R. L. Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker and many more! - MISERY is manifold. The wre…

Decorative Paperback. Condition: Fair/good. 128 pages. 28 maps on 14 cards, paperback front cover & card rear cover fair, separate. 28 maps on 14 cards in very good condition, Paperback index to sections (maps) covers good, small tear base, Contents very good, clean & tight. First edition seems to be 1938 to about 1940. There wa…

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No dj. First Edition. Tight clean red cloth hardcover, no date but circa mid 30's with art deco feel to binding and illus. Bright gilt aeroplane/sun motif on front panel with couple atop wings. Gilt clear to evenly faded spine panel. Little wear, corners crisp, no DJ. 12 full page colour plates,…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. This book is bound in bright blue embossed boards with bright gilt letters on the spine. There is very light wear on the spine tips & cover corners. The front endpaper is lightly browned where the dust jacket ends. The contents are clean, bright & unmarke…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. THE WONDER GIFT BOOK FOR CHILDREN, EDITED BY JOHN R. CROSSLAND & J.M. PARRISH. WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY DICKENS, THACKERY, R.L. STEVENSON, MARK TWAIN, RUDYARD KIPLING, ALFRED NOYES, JOHN MASEFIELD, G.K. CHESTERTON. THOMAS HARDY, STEPHEN, SOUTHWOLD, JOHN DRINKWATER, LEWIS CARROL, EDWARD LEAR,…