St John Pearce (53 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. No date. Circa 1940. Title list to #54 on back panel of jacket. Blue cloth. Chipping to spine ends of jacket. Owner inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Dust jacket shows two schoolboys in red blazers in pig sty.Minimal wear to hard back book.Dust jacket still has price corner and light wear at spine head. 86 pages. Pages are clean,tanned and tight.Prize label on f.e.p. dated 1956. No other name or inscription.Circa 1950s.…

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 320 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth covered boards. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Front free end paper excised. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout however binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Clipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing. Moderate sunning to spine.…

Condition: Fair. 1923. No Edition Stated. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Beige pictorial cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate 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. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. …

Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. 314 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with black lettering. Colour frontispiece. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.…

Condition: Fair. No Edition Stated. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering. B&W frontispiece. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Coloured crayon scribbles to end pages and title pages. Some gutter cracking. Presentation plate to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Notable sunning to spine, with scuffing and soiling to boards.…

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Missing the ffep. Light wear to boards. Hinges are a bit cracked. Content mainly clean with even toning. No DJ.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is aged toned. Previous owner name to ffep. 256pp.

Condition: Good. Boards have some wear. Content has light toning, foxing to front pages. No DJ.

Condition: Good. 85 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over green pictorial boards. 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. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to clipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Blue boards with black Mayflower vignette and black title to front and spine. Boards are in good cond. School library label has been removed from the endpaper and pastedown with some reside remaining. Date stamps to verso endpaper. Nice colour frontis. Contents are good but with brown tinging. Although d/w is unclipped ( 3/- net) about one quarter of the front is missing. Rear d/w depicts bold colour picture of the Mayflower after which this edition is named. Boy's story. 1 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ward Locke & Co, London, (N.D.). Crown 8vo. 320pp. Original pictorial cloth very slightly bubbled with one or two. Corners bumped and some shelf wear. A public school story of an unlikely boy becoming a cricketing hero! Extra shipping needed outside the UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. On the last page of the book is a prize plate, presented to the previous owner. No edition or date stated. Publication of 320 pages. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There is little foxing around the block and on the early and end pages of the book. The text remains bright and clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. PICTORIAL BOARDS. GENERALLY NEAR FINE BAR CRIMPING TO CROWN AND FOOT OF SPINE, SMALL SPLIT CROWN OF SPINE. MILD FOXING TO FORE EDGES AND OCCASIONAL FOXING. MINOR SIGNS OF AGE AND USAGE. SOUND BINDING. NO INSCRIPTIONS.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light blue boards with titles in black on spine and front board, vignette of sailing ship on front board, in the publisher's Mayflower series. No date, colour frontis and illstd endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped, rubbed at edges, tiny corner tears. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 85 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over orange paper covered boards. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Binding remains firm. Stamp to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Clipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This is the edition with the black and orange pictures Presentation sticker on inside front cover dated 1933.

Previous owner's inscription dated 1926 on ffep. 320 pp. Frontispiece & 11 other plates in text. A story for boys set in an English public school with a strong cricket theme. Text clean. Green cloth boards. Vignette of boy playing cricket on front board. Top and bottom of spine and corners lightly rubbed. Front board lightly faded in one patch. Overall condition VG. No dust wrapper.…

Condition: Good. 1933. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustration plates. Black and white frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces. Book has pronounced forward lean. Tear in spine cloth.…

256pp [b/w frontis.] VERY GOOD- (red cloth w.black dec.stamp to top board,mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,lacks ffep,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Blue boards with black titles and illustration to front, titles to spine. Edge wear and some fading. Inside, foxing/tanning in places, o/w clean and tight. B&w frontis illustration.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. THE BOARDS ARE RUBBED AND THERE ARE SOME MARKS TO BOTH SIDES. THE CORNERS ARE HEAVILY BUMPED. THERE IS FOXING TO THE PAGE EDGES. THE FFEP HAS A PRESENTATION STICKER. THERE IS SOME FOXING AND PENNED MARKS INSIDE. A SMALL NUMBER OF PAGES HAVE A SCUFFED TEAR TO THEM. THE BINDING HAS LOOSENED BUT THE PAGES ARE ATTACHED. THERE ARE SOME SLIGHT SPLITS TO THE BINDING AND THE REAR INSIDE HINGE. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.…

Condition: Fair. First Edition. Worn condition. Cover rubbed and marked with edge-wear. Page edges browning. 310mm x 230mm (12" x 9"). 348pp. 4 colour plates + b/w illustrations. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. Red illustrated hardback cloth cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. the boards are shelf rubbed. mild foxing and inscriptions. book is partly damp stained. all pages intact and legible. fair copy. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The boards are a bit shelf rubbed.Some library markings.Some stains to back end page.Well bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. No Date. This is probably the 1955 reissue. Colour frontispiece, dj (price clipped) has a few short edge tears, mid green patterned boards, black vignette & titles, paper browning, a few light internal marks, vg. 8vo, 86pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date but prize plate is dated 1940. Octavo, 314 pages, frontispeice. Foxed otherwise VG in G dustwrapper.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Previous owners name in pen on half title page. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. Rubbing to corners and edges of spine. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING. …

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. No dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: Good. With dust jacket. Undated. Presentation book plate on front end paper.