Rare First Edition Jacket (14 results)

dj. First Edition with 1946 copyright date. A splendid copy bound in pictorial boards. Small bump to the top of the spine and wear to the corners. Name and date in ink on the front endpaper. Otherwise, clean and tight with wonderful color plates. In a lovely dust jacket with some wear along the spine folds and at the top and bottom of the spine ends. With the price of $1.00. A charming and inspirational story. Charles Tazewell The Littlest Angel Childre, 1946. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket.First Edition $1.00 On Front Flap. The Great Christmas Classic.Rare In this Condition.Beautifu (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Undated but could be a first printing of the first hardcover edition. The jacket is worn and it has some abrasions and chippings and a couple of tears, but this is a near complete - and now protected - example. The red cloth has an elaborate embossed and attractive design, and it has been protected all these years well enough to be clean and unfaded. The text block is foxed on the edges and less so inside. Collectable example of this clever writer's work. No former owner marks, not an ex library copy. Clean and tight binding. Language: eng.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very rare jacket! It is well used but now protected. The binding is firm, no bashed corners. One neat owner name to FEP. A great collectable example of a well made 1950s novel. Hilda Lewis is becoming a highly collectable writer again.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Undated but could be a first printing of the first hardcover edition. The jacket is worn and it has some abrasions and chip and a couple of tears, but this is a near complete - and now protected - example. The red cloth has an elaborate embossed and attractive design, and it has been protected all these years well enough to be clean and unfaded. Collectable example of this clever writer's work. No former owner marks, not an ex library copy. Clean and tight binding. Language: eng.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. RARE to find this book with a jacket. It is a damaged jacket, but it is just about there. The front panel has areas at the top edge that are missing, but nothing 'live' is lost. There are a few chips to the bottom edge as well. The front flap has the price, and is complete, as is the rear flap. The rear panel is not as damaged as the front, and the spine has the title word 'Peter' missing and at the bottom there is another section lost. But the jacket is more than a mere ghost, and although it is tatty it has protected the pale blue cloth board binding, which means the gilt titling is still bright. The text block is firm and clean, no markings or underlinings. This is not an ex-library copy. It does have a former owner's blind stamp on the half title, but this is rather attractive. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Taking the war economy production standards into account this 1944 issue is in exceptional condition. It is fully jacketed, with the price intact, and on the rear flap is an interesting statement about wartime broadcasting from London. The two colour jacket is now protected in a mylar sleeve. The binding is solid and the endpapers are not damaged. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. VERY RARE in this condition, and utterly collectable - this classic novel has a breadth of conception and an outstanding imagination; it is a cult classic, an astonishing piece of work that delights and entertains. This copy is the best one I have ever seen. The unclipped jacket close to perfect, especially considering its age. A work of rare achievement, and written with a poet's sensitivity. It has immense originality and it is hugely entertaining. Mrs Bratbe's August Picnic, published in 1965, reflected that. Anthony Burgess, one of several appreciative reviewers, wrote: 'Mrs Wheldon's Mrs Bratbe is as outrageous a prodigy as we have had this side of the war.'She then began work on a novel entitled Daughters of the Flood. During the next 15 years this spread to nine volumes and upwards of two million words. Those who have read parts of it, including James Hale, her editor, and Richard Simon, her agent, are emphatic about its force and originality. Hale pleaded with her to let him bring it out one volume at a time, but she was consumed with the idea of its wholeness and would not let it go. It obsessed her during those years, but after the death of her mother she lost interest in publishing it.From then on she was either content or self-condemned to write for writing's sake. The family moved to a magnificent house on Richmond Hill. The hospitality continued but Jay withdrew a little, sadly driven to this by an increasing deafness. For one as brilliant in conversation as she was, it was a cruel affliction. She wrote plays - one of which the Royal Court wanted to do but she preferred not to make the changes they suggested - poems, critical essays and long, Hertzogian letters. In the early 1980s her friends Norman and Midge Podhoretz asked her to become the UK executive director of the Committee for the Free World, briefly the intellectual opposition to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Its members were few, about 150, but distinguished: Bellow in the US, Stoppard in the UK. By that time her thinking was more Oakeshott than Laski.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This was a ground breaking issue in 1967. First printing of a large format hardback in landscape format, beautifully produced by Nostalgia Press, with special care to reproduce the stunning line work of Alex Raymond. The cloth cover is beautifully gilt stamped with Alex Raymond's signature and the title. The endpapers are gorgeous. Taking the age into consideration this has few flaws; a former owner's signature, which is neat and dated '1967' is on the half title, and which dates this rather neatly; there are some slight foxing spots; the cover is complete but it has some fairly insignificant losses, chips and creases, but it is essentially complete and now protected. A super collectable of a true classic. Large format, very heavy, this might need extra postage charges depending on destination. Language: eng.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. RARE and collectable first edition hardback of this Roger Brook story. The cover is not price-clipped but it does have chips and torn off sections. It is now protected. There is a neat inscription to the rear of the front endpaper. The endpapers feature a useful map. See photos.…

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [4], 265pp. Brown cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Black topstain. Stated "Published October, 1934" on copyright page. Solid text block, small bumps along edges, a near fine copy. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, some shelf wear, notably on folds. Chipped corners and spine, a very good example. Jacket design by Grant Wood. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper: "With the best wishes of Sterling North." Grant Wood (1891-1942) was an American painter best known for his iconic work American Gothic (1930). A leading figure in the Regionalist art movement, Wood celebrated rural American life and landscapes during the Great Depression, emphasizing simplicity, tradition, and Midwestern values. Signed first edition of Plowing on Sunday by Sterling North, in the rare dust jacket. (illustrator). Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. It is an unacceptable book if you apply today's values to it. BUT in its day it was an amusing account of geographic exploration. The author's exploration on the Amazon, Rio Negro, and overland to the Orinoco is related with zest and humour. It is redolent of its time, and to criticise it because it does not follow todays restrictions in attitudes is quite the wrong way to look at it. Think of it as another kind of Travels Of Marco Polo if you like. You do not read it because of its facts; it is mostly an enjoyable romp reflecting its time. Holdridge was attached to the Brooklyn Museum's Department of Ethnology and he wrote several books of fiction & non-fiction set on and around the Amazon. Book is graded Near Fine but that allows for its age. The protected jacket is complete despite minor chips and usage. There is a splendid Ex Libris pasted onto the rear of the front endpaper. The end papers, front and back, are a splendid map of the travels covered in the book, and an owner name is neatly incorporated in the front. There are two small numbers written on the base of the title page.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Super scarce. This is a rare hardback first edition made even scarcer by a complete unclipped jacket. I rate it Near Fine because I am taking the age into account. It might even be unread. The protected jacket is usually damaged or missing, and the book is rarely found without sun damage, or with turned over corners. No owner names, not ex-library. A real pulp collectable.…

dj. First Edition. Handsomely bound in finely woven black cloth, stamped brightly in silver on the front boards and on the spinel Very clean and tight throughout. With a touch of a spine slant. In a very good dust jacket with light chipping and wear to the top and bottom of the spine ends. Wear at the corners. A very attractive dust jacket, but not priced on the inside front flap. The book is near fine; the jacket is very good plus. R.A. Dick The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Ziff-Davis, 1945. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket Without Wear. $2.00 on Flap.First Edition (1945) Very Rare Copy. Excellent T.V. Series. Terrifi (illustrator).…

Splendidly bound in crisp clean turquoise cloth stamped in red. A sharp copy with lovely endpapers. Very clean and tight throughout. In a handsome dust jacket with some light chipping to the top and bottom of the spine ends.The price of $2.50 is present on the front inside flap, though the top corner has been clipped. A collector's copy. First US edition. The MacMillan Company, 1935. With published 1935 on the copyright page. Rare in jacket First edition of the author's influential fantasy novel. "Long before Harry Potter, The Box of Delights remade children's fantasy). In The Telegraph in 2020 a headline stated "You'd never have J. K. Rowling without John Masefield." (illustrator).…