Timothy Shy (53 results)

Condition: Good. 1952. First Edition. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 128pp with b/w illustrations by Searle - black cloth - endpapers and content edges lightly foxed - dustwrapper is slightly rubbed and soiled - wear and chipping to edges - spine moderately faded - price-clipped. Ronald Searle (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 7th printing. 128pp, with line drawings throughout by Ronald Searle. In black cloth boards with gilt decoration and lettering to spine (boards a little worn, rubbed and rounded at spine tips). Previous owner's name on front free endpapers; endpapers a little tanned. 8vo. In its original dust jacket (lightly bumped and rubbed on edges, bruised at spine tips, price clipped and perhaps a tad faded). Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape of adhesive. Searle, Ronald (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 3rd impression . 3rd impression, 1952. Publication of 128 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, chipped pieces, minor marks and small closed tears along the edges. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. (Education, Boarding Schools, Humor) 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.

Condition: Fair. 1954. 7th Impression. 128 pages. Pink pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Prominent forward lean to text block. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.…

Condition: Good. 1952. 2nd Impression. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. 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.…

Condition: Fair. 1952. 4th Impression. 128 pages. Pink pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.…

Condition: Good. 1952. Third impression. 128 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Extensive tape repairs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 128pp, various in-text black and white illustrations. Black cloth-covered boards; gilt design on front, green titles on spine. 8vo. Rubbed spine ends. Text block edges tanning. Endpapers tanning; previous owner's name on front free endpaper, pages tanning. Gutters cracked and strained, volume a little loose. Otherwise internally neat and clean. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, has shelf wear, some loss, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First. Yellow Penguin, No. 341. Pieces reprinted from News Chronicle. Wartime paper, edges brown, cover very fragile, frayed at edges, good deal of spine gone, and some spotting & staining.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (juvenile, fiction, school) 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.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. AS NEW book and near fine dust jacket.Bright clean tight square.Stated "First Published 1952 Second Impression" Shelf 1117.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Dustjacket. 1st Penguin Edition. No dustjacket. 156 pages + 4 pages of adverts. Pears advert to back cover. Griming to yellow and cream banded covers. Wear to corners and spine-ends of covers. Browning to page-edges , ink name and date '43 to half title page, pencil writing to dedication page o/w pages clean.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Some light wear, but contents are tight and clean, with no inscriptions and no foxing to text. 156p. (11x18cm). Please contact us for any more information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+/VG-. Jacket is price clipped and has edge tears and age toning especially to the spine. Jacket is in a new protective sleeve.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (juvenile, humor, boarding school, all girls) 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. First published by Max Parrish in 1952, this is a second edition of 1976. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, very small closed tear to top front jacket, small tear to top back corner, not price clipped (£2.50), previous owner's inscription to front pastedown, internally clean tight and square, jacket still bright lime green and unsunned, overall a vg++ copy. 128pp. Ronald Searle and Dominic Wyndham Lewis take us back to the world of the Gothic Public School in The Terror of St Trinian's. In this gloriously anarchic academy for young ladies we witness shootings, knifings, torture and witchcraft, as well as many maidenly arts. The subject of many evergreen films, St Trinian's is synonymous with the sort of outrageous behaviour that would make a convict blench. Quite a scarce book. Ronald Searle (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Second impression. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Cloth with dust jacket. Original edition, ninth impression (1955), first published 1952. Very good copy in good dust jacket with short tears at the corners of the spine panel. "For the first time the full sordid story." Hilarity ensues. Wonderfully mad illustrations by Ronald Searle.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. the jacket is worn and torn. much foxing and usage markings. pages are intact and legible. rather fair copy. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. This copy is in near fine unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and gilt arms of St Trinians to the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. A dustwrapper is not present. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. St Trinian's is a British gag cartoon comic strip series, created and drawn by Ronald Searle from 1946 until 1952. The cartoons all centre on a boarding school for girls, where the teachers are sadists and the girls are juvenile delinquents. The series was Searle's most famous work and inspired a popular series of comedy films. Timothy Shy was a nom-de-plume for D. B. Wyndham-Lewis. Ref NNN 2. Ronald Searle (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 200x130x20mm+197g . . Max Parrish. London. 1955. First Edition. 9th Printing. . : Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK: Book and or Jacket may have names. dedications. marks. tears. foxing. browned pages. creasing and losses unless otherwise noted. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.60. SEARLE, RONALD (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Sixth impression. Very good in a very good (minor shelf wear and age toning), price clipped dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1952 First edition on black cloth.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 200x135x15mm+263g . . Max Parrish. . 1955. First Edition. 9th Printing. . Pp128. Hard black boards with gold embellishment to front board and gold - faded- lettering to spine; in original dust jacket; clipped. Slight foxing to endpapers; jacket has minor edge wear. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.60. SEARLE, RONALD (illustrator).…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 128p. : ill. ; 19cm. Subjects: Education in boarding schools ; Juvenile fiction. 1 Kg.…

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Matt paper dust wrapper has insignificant edgewear and is a touch faded with loss to the spine ends. Previous owners' name to the first blank. The contents lightly toned with age; Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8" x 5½" (0.7 kg); pp 128; 3rd impression, (1952). Includes: Black & white drawings (some full page). || The book is on the shelf and ready to post from Bath by a real bookseller, packed properly, despatched promptly and personally guaranteed (in addition to your normal rights). My Book #207837 ||.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First published in 1952, this is a seventh impression of 1954, a tribute to the popularity of St. Trinian's. Some slight edge to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly rubbed, spine very slightly faded, some overall fading and time staining, some slight yellowing to page block. Price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 128pp, illustrated. Ronald Searle takes us back to the world of the Gothic Public School in 'The Terror of St Trinian's'. In this gloriously anarchic academy for young ladies we witness shootings, knifings, torture and witchcraft, as well as more maidenly arts. Ronald Searle's (1920-2011), early St. Trinian's cartoons, executed just a few years after his liberation as a prisoner of war on the Burma Siam Death Railway and his subsequent work as a war artist at the Nuremberg Trials. Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis (1891-1969), was a British journalist, author and biographer, known for his humorous newspaper articles. Jacket and illustrations by Ronald Searle (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 200x135x15mm+247g . . Max Parrish. . 1954. First Edition. 8th Printing. . Pp128. Hard black boards with gold embellishment to front board and gold lettering to spine; in original dust jacket; clipped. Slight foxing to endpapers; jacket has losses and edge wear. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.60. SEARLE, RONALD (illustrator).…