Sercombe Griffin (29 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Edge and corner wear; no interior markings. This issue contains: Not a Trace by Sercombe Griffin; Australian Adventures by The Chief Scout; The Phantom Battleship by Rupert Chesterton; Let's Make a Camp Horn by Gilcraft; Good Times for Wheelers by Ray Dee; The Voice of Turtle Doves by Marcus Woodward; Camping Stunts - removable booklet by D. G. Turner; White Man's Ju-Ju by Christopher Beck; and The Story of the Jungle Brothers. Size: 4to. Kenneth Brookes; (illustrator). Book.…

Condition: Good. 1943. First Edition. 206 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Black and white illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Book produced to War Economy Standards. 206. [ii]pp, with map frontispiece and occasional line drawings in text. Orange cloth-covered boards with black lettering on spine. 12mo. Cloth a little rounded at corners and spine ends, a few small and mild marks. Gift inscription, dated 1943, inked on the front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, rubbed all round edges, price clipped, a little toned and shelf worn. Father and son flee the Axis powers in Burma during the second world war, along the Burma Road: the father, Rochester Wrekin was engineer responsible for the construction of a great part of the Burma Road and was therefore a valuable man to the China as guardian of their life line; and equally Axis powers continually watch for an opportunity to kill him. Matthew, Jack (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 320 pp 185 illustrations in colour and black and white, colour maps to endpapers, bound in red cloth gilt to spine. Back strip a little faded, top edges a little dust marked otherwise a sound copy. J. Mills, R.H.Evans, Ogle, S.Drigin (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Decorated blue cloth boards. Rubbing, hole and fading on the spine, scuffing and fading on cover. No jacket. Reading copy only with quite heavy general handling wear. Ellis Silas (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 244pp. With many photographs, grey cloth cover, rather tatty, and rather stained,but lovely and clean inside , tight and firm.No date of publication, but feels early 1960. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. Reprint. 256 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Minor delamination of boards. Foxed edges else minimal internal wear. Colour frontis. Ellis Silas (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Vg clean firm interior for the age just light shadow lines to e/papers, faint foxing/nick to edge of title page; nice colour f/p and 4 full-page b&w illustrations; presentation bookplate to front e/paper; Boards of vg bright fresh-appearance with clear lettering and decoration just very faint colour-fade to top front; d/j has loss to top of spine and chipping to edge of front as shown, standard edgewear but of decent appearance overall and covered with a new removable sleeve-proptector./.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 'The Treasure of Gems' by Sercombe Griffin. George G. Harrap 1934 first edition. Very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 'Within the Golden Globe' by Sercombe Griffin. George G. Harrap 1934 first edition. Very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No date. Sunned spine and top part of boards else minimal wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Edge-rubbed boards else minor wer. Gift annotation dated 1930. Undated. Four colour plates.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 244 pages; Physical desc. : xi, 244 p : front. , plates ; 20 cm. Subject: Palestine -- Description and travel. Jerusalem -- Description and travel. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Cloth, xi, 244pp. With illustrations. Fine. Travels, mostly in Jerusalem.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 244 pages; Physical desc. : xi, 244 p : front. , plates ; 20 cm. Subject: Palestine -- Description and travel. Jerusalem -- Description and travel. 1 Kg. …

Condition: Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Very bright illustrated boards. Repaired nick to bottom of spine. No date circa 1927. Owner Inscription on ffep. Size: 7" By 8.75" Tall. 4 Coloured Full Plates & Drawings (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Undated. Dustwrapper has some taped repairs and two pieces missing.

Green Pictorial Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. First Edition of This Edition. Front cover illustrations is a red indian on horseback.Colour Frontis is "The Buckjumper" by the late Stanley L. Wood. Title page missing.NO EXTRA POSTAGE ABOVE OUR STANDARD RATE.Please email for further details Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Thick. Stanley L. Wood & Others (illustrator). Not Inscribed or Signed.…

Hardback. Condition: VG. G++ DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. BUT small stain top right of front cover. Dw has inch chip at top of front cover. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is price clipped. and overstamped 2/- net. In a loose polythene protector.…

Illustrated Cloth. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. First Edition. 256pp. A story of adventure on the high seas. A battered copy of a very hard to find book. Black and white illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ellis Silas (illustrator). Book.

Hardback. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. 6/- on corner of DW flap. Illustrated. Some spotting to edges.

Condition: Poor. Undated, inscription dated 1936. Jacket torn in half with dark stains/marks/creases/tears. Dark stains/wear/bumps to cover & spine faded. Tanning/foxing/dark marks/nicks to textblock edges. Tanning/foxing to endpapers. Some foxing to pages. Text good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 244 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Sampson Low, Marston, London, No Date. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Edges of boards have moderate wear. Spine has mild fading. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are reasonably tanned. Foxing on end pages and preliminary pages. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Travel & Places; Inventory No: 25080076.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated hardback edition, presumed first?, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards rubbed to edges and slightly faded to spine. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; tanning to page-ends but text and illustrated frontis bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.…

Hard cover, wear to spine and edge boards. 191p. aged.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 100 pages. Short Stories: The Marriage Wrecker; Reckless Voyage; Bait for a Bachelor; The Message. Articles: What Negroes Can Learn From Gandhi; Fury on Ice - The Richard brothers of the Montreal Canadiens, Maurice (The Rocket) and Henri (The Pocket Rocket); We Motored to Moscow - fascinating photo-illustrated article about a drive behind the iron curtain; On My Own - part 4 of 'my round-the-world adventures'; We Hunted Sharks and Sunken Gold - color-photo-illustrated article on treasure hunting in the Caribbean; The Navy vs. "Going Steady" - the Naval Academy's new experiment in forced-feeding social life. Serials: Hornblower and the Pirate Plot (conclusion); The Case of the Footloose Doll (part 5 of 8). Ads: Great color-photo Camel ad inside front cover features power lineman at work; *Sensational* De Soto two-page color photo features white car surrounded by nine sailors in white uniforms; Maytag dryers; Simmons mattresses; Oldsmobile with trans-portable radio; Campbell's Vegetable Soup; Pontiac - with photo of futuristic monorail 'Trailblazer' in background; Cushman 'Eagle' (minibike); Lucky Strike Cigarettes (at basketball game); Thorexin; Arrow Shirts; Fisher Body; Butterscotch Lifesavers; Renault La Dauphine car; Sealtest Black Raspberry Ice Cream; GMAC; Canada Tourism; Westinghouse TVs; Oasis cigarettes - on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Hughes, George (cover); Griffin, Arthur; Whitmore, Coby; Davies, Ken; Bomberger, Bruce; (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A smart first edition of this novel from Sercombe Griffin's Books for Boys collection, in the original dust wrapper. A smart, first edition of the work, in the original publisher's cloth binding with a decorative sea motif to the front board and the original dust wrapper.Sercombe Griffin was a British chemist and author from Bath, who wrote young adult adventures for boys. In particular, he wrote a series entitled Books for Boys, of which this novel is a part of. Griffin travelled and worked in many places, including San Remo, while working as a locum pharmacist. In 'The Treasure of Gems', protagonist Ralph Coombe sails from Bristol to Martavan, beyond the Ocean of the Indies, after being summoned by his Uncle Roger, a rich trader. The story follows their search for treasure and the many dangerous encounters they have along the way. With five illustrative plates, by British artist and draughtsman Ellis Silas. This includes a colour frontispiece. Collated, complete.With Books for Boys advertisements to the rear of the dust wrapper. In original publisher's blue cloth binding, with the original, clipped, dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the extremities, with a patch of fading to the spine. Offsetting to front endpapers. Dust wrapper in good condition with chipping and the odd tear to the extremities. Tear to the wrap at the middle of the spine. Slight sunning to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Ellis Silas (illustrator). book.…