Peter Singleton Gates (41 results)

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, paper age-toned, bookplate of a previous owner to the front pastedown, the body of text is clean and unmarked, the unclipped pictorial dust wrapper is chipped at the head of a darkened spine and strengthened to the verso, b&w plates, 328pp.

Condition: Good. 1963. First Edition. 328 pages. Dust jacket over purple cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with noticeable tanning to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper and rear pastedown. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has backward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine. Light rubbing and marking all over.

Condition: Fair. 1963. First Edition. 328 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white plates. Clean pages and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Hinges are moderately cracked with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, Hardback, d/j now in protective cover, has a lightly bumped spine and corners, o/w v/g, v/g. An unofficial biography.

Condition: Good. 1959. Hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear with some wear and tear to dustjacket. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The book has mild foxing to the prelims and page edges. The jacket has very shallow chipping to the head of the spine and some light scratching and rubbing.

Condition: Good. 1959. Hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear with some wear and tear to dustjacket. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 328 pages. dj ripped and chipped and taped to endpapers. Text edge foxed.

First Edition. A tidy hardback in tight binding; dust jacket worn & chipped at edges, with some ceasing & faded spine Used - Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (tatty); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. d/j edge wear & plastic cover taped to endpapers . name on ffep.

first edition, octavo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good plus. Ex library with some residual marks. A good sound clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Biography. Covers nice, spine ends bumped. Owner name inside the front cover, interior clean and tight, endpapers browned, pages tanned. Dust jacket rubbed, edge wear, chips on the spine panel, in mylar slip.

8vo Cloth. Frontis. Inscribed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. hardcover with dust jacket. scuffing and staring along jacket edges and corners. large tear to bottom of dj spine. page edges are darkened due to exposure.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown cloth covers with titles to spine,covers are mint.Book is clean and tight,2 names on pastedown and prelim,pastedown name crossed out with felt pen.Light foxing on prelims.Book is illustrated with photo plates.Dust wrapper is not price clipped,clean and bright,no wear or rub,protected in plastic cover.Very nice copy in 1st ed. The author served under Freyberg in World War I, has produced an engaging, unofficial biography. During this war Freyberg was more than once wounded but his courage earned him the VC and on the outbreak of the Second World War he was appointed Commander of the New Zealand forces, and made a new and great military reputation in Crete and Italy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 328pp; frontispiece; d/j edgeworn and faded at spine, some tears repaired; black title to spine; illustrated, dedication and signature to fep. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1963 very good hardback, foxing and browning to page edges, in a very good dust wrapper, spine sunned, corners and edges rubbed, small closed tears. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. 328 pages with index. Illustrations.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (ireland, britain, politics) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. 328 pp, illust. in b&w. Bumps to head & tail of spine, paste stains to eps. Owner's inscr. to fpep, bookseller stamp to ffep. Light foxing to prelims. D/w intact but edge & corner wear, tears, creases & sm. losses at head & tail of spine. 1 sm. tear on front cover & 1 on back, red colour on spine faded.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. 1st US edition. Dust jacket price clipped. (Ireland, Erotic Literature, Diaries, Biography).

Gr.-8°, Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. Auflage: Limited. 626 Seiten Nr. 403 einer auf 1500 Exemplare limitierten Sonderausgabe. Einband gut und fest, am Rücken leicht berieben, Schnitte nachgedunkelt. Seiten hell und sauber. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1678.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1959 ('special edition')/ 1959. Tall octavo, 536 pages with numerous illustrations (from photographs) and a map plus an errata slip mounted on the verso of the half-title, and endpaper maps. Cloth slightly bumped at the top corners; edges a little discoloured, with the top edge foxed; a very good copy with the good unclipped dustwrapper a little worn, and moderately sunned on the spine. A small label mounted on the verso of the title page states this is number 711 of a maximum of 2000 copies of a 'special edition' issued by Sidgwick & Jackson. The edition comprises copies of the first US edition (Grove Press, 1959), with a variant dustwrapper and a 'London | Sidgwick & Jackson' label mounted over the original publisher's details at the foot of the title page.

Condition: Buone. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Manca sovracopertina Condizioni dell'interno: Buone.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a larger style hardcover book with 536 pages including many photos. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright page shows 1959 as the published date. This is definitely Not a former library book. The white dust jacket has a photo of Roger Casement. The dust jacket is also in great shape with just a hint of edgewear (No Chips). I have placed the DJ in a fresh mylar jacket and this old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. the dust jacket is slightly worn at the head and tail of the spine and at the corners, wrapped in mylar -- this is copy number 253 of the special edition, the only one to contain Roger Casement's Diary for the year 1911.

rilegato. Condition: Good. 0. Copertina: in piena tela, ingiallita lievemente. Legatura: editoriale. Dorso: con impressioni in oro. Pagine testo: ingiallite, brunite ai margini. Interno in ottime condizioni. Buono (Good) . Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Limited edition of 1,500 numbered copies (this is copy no. 1233). A large book, bound in black hardcovers. Frequent pencil brackets in margins of pages. Mottled patchy browning to fore-edge. Ex-owner's name penned on front prelims 'Paris, 1959'. Endpapers are colour maps. A solid, firmly bound copy with durable archival qualities. *HEAVY BOOK RATE! OVERSEAS SHIPPING EXTRA AT ACTUAL COST!*.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First English language edition. Royal 8vo. 536pp. Black cloth-covered boards with silverstamped title to spine. Bottom corner of upper cover bumped. Cloth rubbed at bottom edges with some board exposed. Textblock edges toned; textblock interior lightly toned. Errata slip pasted-in. Limited, numbered edition: 207/2000. B&W photos throughout. Red/blk dj. edgeworn with chipping to top spine extreme & upper top corner. Dj. covered in protective mylar.