Seldon George (18 results)

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear, small tears and creasing.

Condition: Good. Good condition. (mice, crickets, juvenile fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. slight wear to cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Williams (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Very good copy in its original dust jacket. 193 pages. Stated first edition. Black and white illustrations throughout. Small scuff mark on the bottom of the dust jacket spine. Garth Williams (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover - Very Good condition. Dust Jacket in brodart - Good condition. PLEASE REVIEW PICTURES. Williams, Garth (illustrator).

Condition: Good. 16th printing. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, tears and loss.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback 1996. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 25:18. Re-Privatising Welfare. After the Lost Century (IEA Readings): No. 45. Edited by Arthur Seldon. Published by Institute of Economic Affairs, London.…

Condition: Near Fine. Hard back binding in publisher's original royal navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and the upper panel. Large folio 13½'' x 11¼''. Contains 551 printed pages of text with over 1000 splendid monochrome illustrations throughout. Lower cloth cover with a little surface marking, without any ownership markings, corner sharp and pointed, spine not faded and in near Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [Civil War].…

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Cassell and Company, , London, UK. 1939. Vii, 279 pgs. First Edition/First Printing (UK). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine is darkened and faded). FFEP is heavily foxed and offset. Ownership stamp present and notes present re: publication in the United States present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The septuagenarian vicar of Twitten has gone and done it. He has married a chorus girl, and he is returning unrepentant but panting to the vicarage. Meanwhile, his daughter, who has something on her mind but it's apparently not her father's unfortunate marriage, disappears. Most unusually, the chorus girl turns out to live up, or down, to the typical chorus-girl reputation. Deaths start occurring. A demented but chuckling villain appears at night. The heroine is brave and bright. The hero is dull and sensible. Inspector Bass drinks too much at the village pub and at the Twitten Manor Home for Inebriates, joining the home's owner, Dr. MacFarlane, who always has a bottle handy, while the murderer remains unapprehended. A thriller-type novel with a twist and some interesting characters. George Selmark is a pseudonym of Seldon Truss. Truss wrote only one novel under this name with a detective that Truss had written about under his own name. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, green and silver revolver, title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 192 printed pages of text. Small dent to the bottom front board, slight age tanning to the closed page edges. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with 15 mm deep piece of paper missing across the top of the spine affecting the title, small chips to the corners, not price clipped, 10/6. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover with no DJ. Bound with blue cloth over boards, gold lettering on the spine (faded to green) and the front cover. Some darker markings (slightly darker than the blue cloth) on the front cover, and light rubbing on the edges of the spine (top and bottom). Pages are clean, but yellowed with age, edges are lightly foxed. No number line. Copyright page is dated 1918. 148 pages. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original banana yellow cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered black back with smoking gun motif. 12mo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 192 pp. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, 10/6. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered black back with smoking gun motif. 12mo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 191 pp. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with rubbed patch to the bottom front cover, not price clipped, 10/6. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION. …

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 12mo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 192 pp. The word 'File' to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, 16/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 12mo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 192 pp. 'File Copy' with stamp and date to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, 15/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION. …

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 12mo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 192 pp. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, 16/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. This collection includes (1) a family photo album depicting Selden circa 1885; (2) a carte-de-visite of Selden circa 1871; (3) three handsome mounted albumen photographs circa 1910, presumably depicting Selden cars; (4) a later photograph of a Selden motor truck; (5) a photostat copy of a legal illustration, "Comparative Scale Drawings of Selden Vehicle"; and (6) a 1920 company pamphlet titled "Yesterday Today Tomorrow." The photo album (1), contains 18 cartes-de-visite, showing men, women, and children, identified by name (in a contemporary hand, in ink); family names include Woodruff, Tomlinson, Sayre, Drake, Rogers and -- of course -- Seldon. The single carte-de-visite of Seldon (2), was taken by O. F. Weaver of Chicago; a handwritten notation on the verso indicates that it was taken in 1871 as the fire of October 8, 1870, "closed his business venture barrel hoop machinery." The mounted albumen photos (3) range in size from 5.75x7.5 to about 7.5x9.5 inches, in excellent condition, on heavy dark grey mounts with wide margins; showing a couple or a group of gents in Selden cars; it is charminging to see onlookers peering from the windows of the building in the background. A single photograph, c. 1915, 6.5x4 inches, shows a Selden motor truck (4), loaded with Brass Goods from Henry Wray and Sons. Photostat copy (5) of a legal illustration (18.5x7.5 inches, with flattened creases from folding, and a little smudging), shows comparative scale drawings of Selden Vehicle, with 2 H. P. Engine of Selden, and of Brayton, Otto, Otto-Langen, and Lenoir; showing single- and 3-cylinder engines, and listing the weight, speed, and horsepower of the engine. The company pamphlet (6) offers of 4 different Selden trucks, plus text. George Baldwin Selden (1846-1922) invented an early lightweight combustion engine intended for use in a four-wheeled vehicle, and applied for a patent in 1879. This gives him some claim to be the inventor of the automobile. The patent went through years of legal challenges before being granted in 1895, and then faced further decades of lawsuits from Henry Ford and others, eventually suffering defeat in 1911. In the meantime, he launched the Selden Motor Vehicle Company in 1905, moving into truck manufacture after his patent defeat. (Selden trucks are shown in the aformentioned pamphlet, "Yesterday Today Tomorrow."). …