W H Potts (53 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket No date stated. (Outhouses, Privvies, American Wit).

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition copy lacking jacket. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking otherwise a nice clear book.…

hardcover. A Book of Travel in the Sahara and North Africa. Many photos, 8vo. London, (1956).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition book. 1st edition. Dust jacket lightly worn, with a few small chips around the edges. A previous owner's name on the ffep. A tan to the page edges. Otherwise fine. Blue cloth boards in nice shape, and all contents clear throughout. A lovely copy.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Printing. DJ is tattered along the top edge and has a tear at the bottom right side corner on the front. Missing piece at the bottom of the spine where the publishers name is. Inside bottom front flap is clipped. Corners are bumped and the spine in a couple of small places. Hinges are okay. Pages look white and are unmarked. Many black and white photos to go with the text.…

Condition: Good. Mostly clean content with minor spotting to page ends, heavily toned to title page - a few correction fluid marks to endpapers. DJ has been reinforced with tape to edges and is price clipped.

Condition: Good. Boards have some wear. Content has light age tone. No DJ.

Condition: Good. 1956. First Edition. 187 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm with water stains. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Moderate tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Ink gift inscription and penciled writing on ffep, stamped ffep, usual age toning, else textblock is clean and tight; Faded grey top edge; Sunned spine and less so to the edges, soiled and slightly surface rubbed covers, dent on front bottom edge; Binding protected by clear, five-mil mylar jacket; 244p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. B&W Photographs (illustrator). Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The first half of this travel book is the author's adventures by sea - his voyage on the finnish sailing-ship "Parma", his trip on the steamer"Lutana" and his South Seas experiences in the ketch "Idle Hour". The second half is devoted to his land adventures - gold prospecting in New Guinea and travels in Bali and Tibet and elsewhere. Illustrated with photographs.…

Condition: Good. Reprint. Boards have little wear and some fading. Light toning to pages with some spotting. DJ has tears and loss to edges with some marks. Price clipped.

Condition: Fair. 1940. First Edition. 244 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Signed by the author with dedication to front free endpaper. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Dents to edges. Wear marks overall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 192pp, illustrations, map endpapers. DW has some edge wear with slight loss. Internally, an owner's name, else unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Covered - very good. Hardcover. Minor wear to the covered dust jacket. Little cover wear. Clean unmarked text. Tight binding. ** WE SHIP DAILY (Mon-Fri) ** Free Tracking Information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1948. Blackie & Son, London, 1948. Hard cover. Book Condition : Very good, clean unmarked text. Jacket has shelf wear, bumping. Spine bumped. Printed on Wartime Economy paper. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Bookseller Inventory #011132. N/A (illustrator). N/A.…

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. No Dustjacket. First Edition. 192 pages. Top 4cm of flyleaf (which has a map as at rear) and top 3cm from corner of half-title page CUT-AWAY. Very light green binding with some foxing/blotching marks ti surfaces which have linear light colour fading to both front & rear to hinge & top areas, a slight cup-marks to front, spine is paler with slight brown marks top ends. Light wear/small creases to spine-ends, very small frays to corners, light blanching to lower edges, blotching to opening edges of end-papers which have maps printed to them. Slight foxing to page-edges which just shows to a few margins. Very attractive b/w/sepia toned photos. Text is very clean & sound & in nice condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback: This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that has one small closed tear to the head of spine.Price clipped.This copy has NO previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning to spine.Varied travel book with Author's adventures by sea on the ship Parma,and the steamer Lutana and his south sea ventures to the South Seas,second half is devotes to his land adventures gold prospecting in New Guinea and travels in tibet and Bali,and Muli.8vo 244pp First UK Edition 2nd Impression [1944].…

1949 Potts, WH ROAMING DOWN THE WYE London: Hodder and Stoughton, c1949 192pp illus sepia photos 8vo fine in slightly worn d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1949. Publisher's File Copy (No. 7113). Engaging evocation of the author's walk from the source of the Wye "all the way from Plynlimon to Chepstow and the sea". 192 pages printed and bound on grey cloth boards with green titles to spine. Mapped/illustrated end papers in green. B. & w. sepia-toned photograph to frontispiece, other b. & w. photographs in sepia tones. Minor 'rub' to top and bottom of spine boards and in VGC+ condition throughout, very clean and tidy, a nice copy. With non-clipped, vivid dust wrapper illustrated in colour by 'Foley'. Tiny 'rubs' to top jacket edges and in VGC condition, protected in a clear wrapper. 8vo.…

8vo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very good book in pictorial board covers with picture of a cowboy on horseback to front; brown linen strip to spine; a little corner rubbing. Internally very good and free of inscriptions; well illustrated; binding tight. An attractive copy. No date but c. 1945. H M Brock, Leonard Potts, Gale Lumley et al (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 191pp, illustrated with plates, bound in grey cloth small mark on front cover; Octavo.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. the wraps are a bit chipped and creased. usage marks. all pages are intact and legible. sound binding. may require extra postage. very good copy for its age (1924) [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library from church library with usual library stampings, etc. Large Hardcover, no dj. Light shelfwear to covers. Contents clean and tight. 1200 pages, index. Biographies of 1200 members of the Virginia Methodist Church.

Good grey hardcover. No dustjacket. 191p. Past owners name on endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Blue Cloth, 187 Pages, Illustrated. A Bright And Soundly Bound Book, No Inscriptions, A Little Shelf-Wear Only. Not Ex Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd edition. Signed by the author, W.H. Potts. 3rd edition, 1946. Frontispiece. Publication of 244 pages. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and small chipped pieces. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Glazed boards. 240 x 160 mm. xvi, 422 pp. B&w figures & tables. Proceedings of the symposium held on 22-23 April 1987 at the Open University, Milton Keynes. A few unobtrusive small scuffs at foot of spine. Inscribed 'with compliments' and signed by the four editors on front end-paper. Book.…

Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Dust jacket: Wear and loss to edges. Fading to spine. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Fair. Book: Purple cloth binding. Heavy rubbing to ends of spine and edges of boards. A few small marks to page edges. Very clean text throughout. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Inked number to verso of title page. Overall book condition is Good Plus. Size: 6.25 x 10 inches (16 x 25.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: lxxxviii, 950.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover, First Edition, Second Printing February 1983, Book Condition: Very Good - unread, light soil to text block, Contents: Part I Fundamentals, Gold by T.P. Mohide, The Outlook for Gold 1982-1986 by David Potts, Gold by W.C. Butterman and J.M. Lucas, Part II Forecasting, The Aden View: Gold by Pamela and Mary Anne Aden, Cycles in Silver, Gold in Economics by LCDDR David Williams, USN (Ret.), The Price of Gold: Past and Present by Roger C. Van Tassel, Ph. D., Inflation, Interest Rates and the Outlook on Gold by Tony Henfrey, Gold, Silver, The Stock Market and Inflation in the United States: Historical Comparison and Future Prospects by Anthony F. Herbst, Ph. D., Part III Trading: Commodity Trading Basics by Shirley Klinsky Mott, Golden Leverage by H. Alan Lipscomb, Changcheng Banfa: An Oriental Approach to Trading the Gold and Silver Markets by Donald R. Libey, The Storm Upon Us by Harry Z. Klinger -- end. 430 Pages. Excellent Collection of Articles on Gold circa 1982. …