Samuel Jeans (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. possible 1st edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1950s Edition. Has a Christmas 1959 Inscription on ffep. Tight hardcover in good condition. 4to. 125pp. with table of contents. Stories in book: Michael and the Sow by Philip M. Pethick; The Emperor's Eye by Edgar Garrett; Herewith One Gauntlet by Samuel Jeans; Guy Bridges the Gap by Arthur Waterhouse; Old Man Trouble by Edgar Garrett; The Green Light by Geoffrey Morton; Search in the Storm by Hector Barrie; Double Ambush by Arthur Waterhouse; & Proof Positive by Samuel Jeans. Glossy pictorial boards (color illustration of two boys on a Vespa scooter) and backstrip. Color plate frontispiece printed on coated stock. Black & white illustrations. Book is very tight. Boards and backstrip have light soiling and some edgewear with bumped corners The table of contents page has a spot of soiling. Leaves are in very good condition with no markings. Ships within 24 hours. Scanned photos available upon request. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date. Circa 1947/1948. Depicts Bobby Bear and friends at the seaside in the water playing. Blue linen spine faded otherwise boards are in good condition. Lovely colour frontis. The first story is "The Flower Show". A children's annual with lots of stories, poems games and puzzles.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Undated. 140pp, 2pp of period advertisements, a few colour plate illustrations (inc. frontispiece). Quarter-bound with orange cloth-covered spine over pictorial paper-covered front board; some black and white illustrations. 4to. Boards worn and rear board lightly soiled. Spine foxed, heaviest towards head, spine ends moderately rubbed with cloth starting to wear through at heel. Heavy shelf wear to edges with corners heavily rubbed and rounded; paper loss. Heavy tanning and foxing on text block edges. Quite cocked. Previous owner's name filled into 'This book belongs to' on front free endpaper. Heavy tanning and foxing throughout, heaviest towards beginning and end of volume. Internally, neat, clean and tight. Collection of children's stories.…

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Not dated. Size 10.25" x 7.25", 188 pages. Pictorial hard cover with red titles and an illustration of a Canadian Mountie and men beside a lake, blue cloth spine. Condition very good, corners and edges rubbed, contents clean. With colour frontispiece illustration and further black and white illustrations throughout. Compendium of Stories and articles.…

Pictorial Boards Cloth Spine. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Undated Circa 1951. The Illustration on the Front is a Mountie talking to a Lumberjack.Please Email for further details.NO EXTRA POSTAGE BEYOND OUR STANDARD RATES! Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Line Drawings + Colour Frontispiece (illustrator). Signed "Roger Xmas 1951 Uncle.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 86 p : front., plates (part col.) ports ; 20 cm. Series: Peeps at great men. Notes: "Chief works of Charles Dickens": p. 85. Subjects: Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 ; Biography; Dickens, Charles 1812-1870. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked, decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: vii, 88 pages ; 20 cm. Series: Peeps at great men. Subjects: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Biography; Shakespeare; Notable men. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 240 pp. Blue cloth with a black and white pictorial on the front panel and spine; lettered in black on the front panel and spine. Light wear at the corners with some fading on the spine; chipped at the head of the spine and worn along the edge of the spine; no dustjacket; no interior markings; hinges tight, gutters intact. Illustrated with line drawings, black and white plates and two colour plates - all plates present and accounted for. King Edward VIII - Sportsman by Arthur Nettleton; The Atlantic Air Service in Sight by Charles Dixon; Robinson's Raven - A Boy a Bird and a Burglar by Samuel Jeans; Stratosphere Speed Secrets Are Waiting to be Solved by R. Barnard Way; Mark's Target Practice - A Rhodesian Adventure by Stephanie Yates; Men of the Fishing Fleet by D. B. Burton; Along an African River - Marvel and Mystery of the Tropics by W. Lavallin Puxley; The Wild Hogs - A Story of the Virginia Forests by W. H. Morris; His Enemey's Assegai - A Cattle-Raiding Adventure by Jay Watts; Looking After Cycle Lamps - Little Tips That Save Trouble by Arthur Gaunt; Collision in a Tunnel - Adventure on a Runaway Train by John G. Rowe; A Jungle Christmas - Santa Claus Season in Tiger Country by Stephanie Yates; The Greater Honour by Davis Watson; Modern Fire Fighters by Ian MacDonald; The Mails Go Through by S. T. James; A Man a Dog and a Lantern by M. Charnwood; Be Your Own Detective - Easy Tricks in Training Eyes Ears and Wits by M. Hanna; The Game He Won - A School Rugger Idea that Worked by John Sweet; Tiger Yarns - Some True Anecdotes from the Indian Jungle by Davis Watson; The Clue of the Silent Dog - A Bit of Boy Detective Work by F. M. Chell; Dog Heroes of the Arctic - A Good Word for the Huskies by W. J. Banks; Prey of the Press - A Seaport Story of Old England by F. W. Gumley; Hedgehog at Dusk - The Prickly Little Prowler Is Purposeful by P. Kelway; Trapping the Trapper - A Tale of the North West by F. W. Gumley; Terriers All by Eric Hardy; Fighting the Gale - A Seaplane Story by W. H. Norris; Lucky Anson's Holiday - A Boy Scout's Endurance by John Horrocks; Write Posters for a Pastime by Charles H. Lea; Today's Time and Toil Savers - Modern Industrial Marvels by Leslie Dare; The Conjurer's Hat Trick by Davis Watson; Strange Cattle of the North - Canada's Muskoxen Grown Scarce by W. J. Banks; At Indian Ghost Falls - Perilous Adventure in British Columbia by Norman Scott; Sport at a Western Rodeo by Donald Harmston; When the Navy Dresses Ship by Roy Erskine; Queer Flying Accidents by Charles Dixon; Friends at Last - The Comical Adventures of a Cat and a Monkey by L. G. Fitzpatrick; Beset by Pirates by Sercombe Griffin; Skiing in Norway - The Great Norwegian Ski Derby by John E. Gasman; The Cruise of the Colleen Bawn by F. M. G. Richardson; Salvage Craft for Boys - Useful Articles from Waste Material by Henry Bramford; Behind the Scrum - A Chat on Half-Back Play by An Old Colour; Piebald for Luck by L. G. Fitzpatrick; Road Speed Today Where Marched the Roman Legions by Alfred Tresidder Sheppard; The Aeroplane Advances - Far-Reaching Developments in the RAF by E. Sinclair Puckett; Marvels of Migration by Mallory Goulding; Sugaring Night by E. M. Ingall; Sketching Sailing Boats by G. G. Jackson; Whale Hunting Up-to-Date - Science Wins Today in the Antarctic by J. C. Campbell; An Australian Mystery - The Moha Moha of the Great Barrier Reef by W. Lavallin Puxley; The Story of the Motor Bicycle by C. Bullen-Brown; The Other Man's Chance - A School Story by John Sweet; Adventurous Voyages Ahead - Across the Pacific in a Fifty-foot Yacht by W. E. Mack; How to be Sure with a Camera - Three Things to Know when Aiming at a Good Photograph by Ken G. Bilbe; Britain's Rarest Wild Birds by Eric Hardy; A Carver of Dreams by J. De M. Goutiere; Bird's Egg Variations - High Values Set on Curious Specimens by A. R. Horwood; An Automatic Gas-light Printer by J. Howard Clarke; On the Doorstep to Everest - Camping in Thibet by L. L. Ferard; The Ri Siz. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: GD+/GD/ND. y First Edition Thus . HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: (1930?s)?* Publisher: Dean & Sons.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated colour paper covered boards showing two boys on one bicycle with rods and a jam jar, blue and yellow title to face. Red cloth spine without title. Considerable bumps and minor rubs to edges and corners, some shelf wear to face. Back cover in grey board only ith some marks. GD* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Ffep removed. Clean, crisp and tight with only light reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning to interior. Some age to page margins and edges. GD+.* Illustrations: Full colour plate to frontis. A few b/w line drawings within text* Pages: 140 pp. text.* Description: Eleven adventure stories ancient and modern by different authors. First story is Margin for Error by Samual Jeans. Contributions by : F. W. Gumley, Edmund Burton, E. B. Childs and more. There are no non-fiction items and no games or quizzes.* A NEAR GD+ copy with some age & wear but no dust jacket.*.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 86 p : front., plates (part col.) ports ; 20 cm. Series: Peeps at great men. Notes: "Chief works of Charles Dickens": p. 85. Subjects: Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 ; Biography; Dickens, Charles 1812-1870. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked, decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: vii, 88 pages ; 20 cm. Series: Peeps at great men. Subjects: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Biography; Shakespeare; Notable men. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Volume 4 only. Undated. 222pp, with several black and white photographic plates (inc. frontispiece) and line drawn diagrams. Brick red cloth-covered boards, embossed decorations on front and spine, gilt titles on front and spine. 4to. . Mottling and soiling to boards. Spine slightly sun-faded, lightly soiled, spine ends rubbed with some minor splits in cloth. Corners rubbed and rounded with cloth worn through. Text block edges tanned. Tanning on free endpapers. Pencil scribbles on front endpapers, half-title and title page. Gutters stretched occasionally throughout volume. Light foxing throughout, heaviest towards prelims. On house and cottage construction with chapters on subjects like setting up in business, the builder and the architect, excavation, drain laying and paving etc. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. GD+ original illustrated glazed boards, red linen spine, plain rear cover, moderate shelf wear, a little mild foxing to prelims, former owner's name in ink to half-title, cover illustration of US cavalryman pursued by Indians from the story "Apaches on the Warpath", illustrated with colour plates. Contains Flood Night Rescue; The Case of Peverill Fox; Rescue from the Air; A Term Berth; The Price of a Pony; Wolves on the Trail; The Haunted Hartebeest; You've Got Yourself a Job, Sonny; The Ostle r's Stepson; Apaches on the Warpath. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Short stories for Boys (ripping yarns), good condition, quarto, quarter red cloth spine unprinted, printed board front and plain board rear, foxing to edges and moderately internally, gift inscription dated 1944 on front free end paper, coloured frontis piece and line drawings accompanying text, 188 pages. [QP].…

Cloth Spine and Boards. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Book of Illustrated Children's Stories. Undated Edition, 1940s. First story is "Starvations Ranch" by Samuel Jeans. Frontispiece has a dramatic full page full colour illustration of a diver saving another swimmer from an octopus. Red cloth spine. Front board Illustrated with a Boys and Girls watching Fishing Boats in a Harbour. 10 1/4" Tall, 560g. Some edgewear. Hinges sound. No inscriptions. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good original illustrated boards, general wear, gift inscription on ffep, illustrated with colour plates.

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No date. Minimal wear. Pictorial board featuring girl skiing cross-country. First story is Riding the Rosinbacks.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. HARDBACK. Undated: circa 1944. 108 pages. 1st story: "The Colonel's Coin Chest". Colour frontispiece: Bobby's Circus. Spine is intact. Flat pages. Pencil inscription on the front paste-down. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref p50.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. HARDBACK. 108 pages. 1st story: "The Campers". Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref p207.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. HARDBACK. Undated: circa 1935. 156 pages. Colour frontispiece illustration by M. Sullivan is for the first story: "Mystery on the Downs" Clean & very tight. No inscriptions. Slight stain does not extend beyond spine. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref b68. Champion Book for Boys.…

Hardback. Condition: VG-. No DW. Not dated but Inscription of owner at start of book dated 1935. Three children playing instrumewnts on cover. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated front cover, blue cloth spine. Quarto 10½'' x 8¼''. Contains 189 printed pages of text with colour frontispiece and monochrome illustrations throughout. Light rubs to the edges and corners, small ownership name inside and in Very Good clean condition, no foxing, hinges firm and tight, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ANNUALS & YEARBOOKS.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Several contributors, as follows: H.Cross, P. Dent, Edmund Burton, A.C. Booth, Reginald Brown, David Morris, Arthur Groom, & Samuel Jeans. Burton contributes two stories. Contains short stories for children. Illustrated in b&w. No date (circa 1950s). Printed in Great Britain. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered colour pictorial boards, backed by red cloth unlettered spine. No dustjacket. Slight handling wear, mild foxing, otherwise a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 124pp. SB-7. …

Condition: Poor. some shelf wear jacket has tears,fading,scuffs,scratches,dirt content is good.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 128. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1929 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 128.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . Twenty Volume Hardback set. No Dust jackets. 1926 to 1930 dates for all tttwenty volumes. First Printing. Bound in green cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine. Good to Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with with dust soiling to top edge, minor brown stains and spots sprinkled through out the twenty volumes, minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. Nice complete set otherwise. Section 1, Shelf 5. No Signature.…