Pumphrey George (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Small octavo. With sixteen pages in half-tone and a map. Jacket now in archival sleeve.

hardcover. Condition: Good. some wear. edgewear. name inside cover. store plate inside back cover. in a fair jacket. Very readable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st edition hardcover, no jacket. Light color loss at lightly bumped tips, slight discoloration on lower edges of boards with faded back strip. Former owners name on fep, else tight and bright. 171 p. An illustrated biography of the Labrador doctor for young people. When the 23-year-old British doctor Wilfred Grenfell first set foot in Newfoundland in 1892, bent upon serving migrant fishermen, he had no clear idea who his patients were or how they lived. But his first few weeks on the Labrador coast changed all that. Moved by the natural beauty and the lack of the most elementary comforts, he was seized by a desire for reform and devoted the rest of his life to the task. At first an evangelical missionary of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, Grenfell would become the instrument of philanthropic movements on both sides of the Atlantic and a beloved symbol of unselfish service.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. (1st ptg.) Slightly smaller book, blue cloth, light wear to bottom front tip, bright silver lettering on spine, browned at left of end papers, 158 lightly browned heavy pages. DJ price-clipped, blue and green background like waves, white gulls at top back. DJ has tiny tears and slight wear to edges and tips. Fair DJ/Near Very Good book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rubbing and scuffing to edges, slight wear to spine. Faint school stamp at top of fep. Contents clean but edges worn through use. An adventure story with illustrations intended to get children interested in reading. 96pps. Cable, W Lindsay (illustrator).

Condition: Good. 1940. No Edition Remarks. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Gilt lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to boards. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A good hardcover in a fair unclipped dustwrapper. The book is in clean blue boards with sharp corners and bumped spine ends, a prize plate affixed to the front endpaper, unmarked toned pages tanned and heavily foxed to the text-block edges. The dustwrapper is very creased to the edges with several closed and open tears to the edges with small losses to back panel, spine ends and corners - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. …

158pp. 8vo. Original boards in rubbed dustwrapper. Black and white photographic illustrations. A very good copy. First edition.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good condition. Light wear. Binding tight, ex-library with usual stamps and marks. Dust jacket in good condition. Pictures available upon request.? AP.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 141 pp with 17 plates in half-tone and a map. Dj chipped, torn, tape-repaired. Boards have a few light spots, edgewear. Front free endpaper neatly cut away. Previous owner's small pastedown to title page. Interior o/w unmarked and solid.

Mit einigen Abbildungen. 256 S. Kl.-8°, Tb. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren, kleiner Namensstempel auf dem hinteren Vorsatz, sonst gut erhalten. Nachhaltige Buchlieferung - Stabile, plastikfreie Verpackung.

8vo, (228mm), xiv,217p.illustrations. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered on the backstrip which is slightly faded, previous owner's signature on the front free endleaf.

8° , Broschur. 256 Seiten, Ungelesen. Papier ist nachgedunkelt. Einband leicht berieben. Ecken leicht bestoßen. Das Buch ist sonst in einem guten Zustand. Abgleich des Titelbildes bitte bei nika-books. 9783760906775 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

An extremely attractive memento, no other copy of which has been traced, either on OCLC WorldCat or COPAC. Lithographic printing in black on 57 x 44.5 cm piece of wove paper. In good condition, lightly aged and worn, with slight creasing to margin at one edge, and the merest of spotting. Folded four times. A tasteful production, with superior engravings and design, comprising an excellent central portrait of Stephenson, above a facsimile of his signature, within a substantial decorative border containing seven other engravings: 'Birthplace of George Stephenson at Wylam, Northumberland', 'George Stephenson's Cottage at West Moor', 'First Engine now at Darlington', 'High Level Bridge, Newcastle, designed by Robert Stephenson', 'The Killingworth Engine', 'The Rocket Engine' and 'Stephenson's Monument, Newcastle on Tyne'. The border contains the title 'THE STEPHENSON CENTENARY 1881'. Outside the border, at the foot of the page, in a selection of types and font sizes: 'Presented as a memento of the Centennial Commemoration, by | Thomas Pumphrey, | Grocer, | 48, Cloth Market, Newcastle-on-Tyne.' In small type, beneath the above: '9th JUNE, 1881.' Pumphrey (1833-1911) was a Quaker and teetotaller, whose premises included a coffee shop in which the beans were roasted on the premises.…