Stables Gordon M D C M (15 results)

Hardback, 193mm x 126mm green cloth boards, gilt titles, , viii prelims, 316+pp. Colour illustrations. Illustrations by Henry Austin. Good/NoWrapper. Book has some tanning and a little foxing to block edges but clean and tight overall. Inscribed prize sticker on inner front board with differential fading to endpapers. Undated but with a 1920 inscription, this is an imperial-age adventure tale with many a chill along the way. Catalogue: Classic Literature. Keywords: Bumbleby, Siberia, grizzly, Canada.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 1904 Edition (First was 1901). 322 pages + 32 page publishers catalogue. Illustrated by Henry Austin. Covers are complete. Lightly soiled. Bumping to top/bottom of spine. Book is tight and well bound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Light browning to edges. Gilt text block edges. Owner name and date (Christmas 1904) on front endpaper. William Gordon Stables (1840-1910) was a Scottish-born medical doctor in the Royal Navy and a prolific author of adventure fiction, primarily for boys. He wrote over 130 books.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 328pp. Decorated green cloth lightly worn at the extremities. Decorated eps with remains of book-plate to fep and ink scribble to ffep. Both sets eps lightly tanned around the edges. Half-title tanned. Frontispiece, gilt edges, binding still tight, a good solid copy.

Hardback, 194mm x 128mm green decorated boards, white titles, , viii prelims, 350+pp. Colour illustrations.Fair/NoWrapper. Exterior basically clean and binding tight, pages also unmarked but book has been badly affected by foxing to all edges and perhaps a majority of pages also, some chipping to spine decoration. Undated but surely an early 20th century global adventure for boys. Catalogue: Childrens. Keywords: adventure, polar, shark, native.

Hard Back. Condition: Good+. Pearce , A (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1896. 375pp incl.2 pp adverts. Boy's adventure story of the Crimean war by Gordon Stables R.N. illustrated by artist A Pearce with 6 B/w full-page plates+ 4 Maps. In 2 parts - In Piping Times of peace / For Honour & Glory.(Victorian navy decorated cloth boards with gilt to spine).Good + Boards -colour rubbing to extremities - no notable soiling. Book Block - slightly cocked. No cracks to end papers, previous owner name and date in ink to front paste down. Glue failing to some signatures but mull and sewing holding and binding sound). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Grayed green decorative cover, edge worn, with age browned endpapers, weak hinges, but text block is solid and hinges have not separated. Former owner's name inside front. A volume in the St. Nicholas Series for Boys and Girls. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 388 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This book is bound in brown pictorial boards with soldiers + gild letters on the front cover with a soldier & green letters on the spine. The book is very lightly cocked. There is light wear on the spine tips, cover corners & along the edges. There is a previous owner's bookplate inside the front cover. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. 6 of 6 full-page illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Eighth Edition. Attractive undated, turn-of-century hardcover in illustrated red cloth covered boards with white climbing roses and a charming home on stilts in the background, while black title font is surrounded in gilt, repeated on spine in gold with adorable johnny-jump ups or pansies on the backstrip. Small circle on lower fore edge, a line drawing side head view of Shireen. Fep removed, tidy prize message written in cursive to a young 'Margie Ruddock, First Prize II Class Girls, Hilton Baptist Sunday School Sept 22nd 1907'. There is some finger soil in the text and spine is partially cracked at page 30/31, see image, some small imperfections, a now unfolded corner, etc. but still displays well and is not falling apart. I do see there is a full page glossy frontispiece (no tissue), and one other just like it in the 240pp text. I see one drawing within the off white heavy rag stock. I see no other illustrations save for the first letter of each chapter is embellished (but not colored). No weird smells, not musty, fresh and although lower tips of boards are exposed, it is still attractive enough for gift giving. 14 add'l pages of publisher's adverts in rear. Hinge papers good, antique bookstore sticker on rear pastedown 'Hydes Bible Hall and Book Depot 79 Rundle St., Adelaide'. Two spots of cloth bleed on opposing pages on rear endpps. Charming and I take it, factual account of the li(ves) and times of a Captain's cat and the other pet 'mates' she had on board.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, Octavo, original decorated blue cloth over boards, gilt, blue, and black stamped lettering and design, gilt stamped top edge, beveled edges. Includes 12 black and white illustrated plates, from William Gordon Stable, Scottish doctor and author of adventure fiction. Very good, light shelf wear, cracked hinge reglued.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by W. H. Overend (illustrator). Later Printing. Ex-library (church library) with library stamps and markings, card pocket glued to FFEP, BFEP is detached but present. Front hinge started. Brown cloth boards have medium shelf wear, with corner bumps. Library book plate glued to inside of front board. Full leather on spine is worn. ; Brown cloth covered boards are blind-stamped, gilt stamped design and titles on brown leather spine.; Ex-Library; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 224 pages; A novel of exploration.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardbound, illustrated, first few leaves slightly worn still GOOD.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. This book is bound in bright black boards with bright gilt letters on the spine. There is very, very light wear on the edges. The contents are clean, bright & unmarked, the binding is tight States: "Second Edition". Very nice clean & bright copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This book is bound in bright green boards with bright gilt letters on the spine. There is light wear on the spine tips & cover corners. There is a previous owner's bookplate inside the front cover. Yellow advertising endpapers. 14 of 14 illustrations. 5 pages of ads at the rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. * (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth decorated in brown, green and white, pictorial paper label affixed to front panel, titles in gilt. Dark blue coated endpapers. 316 pp + [4] pp publisher's ads at rear. Colour frontispiece and 4 additional full-page colour plates inserted within the text, all by Austin. Neat bookplate on inner front cover, a fine bright copy. Boy's adventure novel which one might assume was set in the Arctic; but in fact the is set in the Pacific Northwest, Russia, The Swiss Alps, India, The Himalayas and anywhere else that the author cared to send his characters for a chapter or two. There appears to be some scuttlebut about the existence of an earlier edition published by Ward, Lock and dated 1900, but we have deemed this edition to be a phantom. The British Museum deposit copy is dated 1904, as is ours, and Ward Lock dated their first editions while dropping the dates on reprints, and we stand firm on this being the correct first printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bumping to top and bottom of spine and corners. Some wear and staining to front and back boards. Some internal foxing and toning. Toning to edges. Book slightly cocked.