Worsley Barbara (41 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1952 hardcover. Major wear and tear and staining to DJ. Pages are tanned, but quite readable.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Green and white covers, Penguin Crime No. 1321, covers are very good (clear tape on spine), text is very good+ to near fine, complete and unabridged, very light, uniform tanning to the 203 pages. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Used - Good. None. Penguin 1st Edition. Spine, binding and covers all fine though spine is tanning slightly. Contents clean though tanning and no inscription. 203 pages.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 192 pages, a vg hbk in a vg dw. "The book is addressed to those housekeeping on a tight budget: particularly to young wives who have no idea what to do with cheap cuts of meat and fish" (dw).

Condition: New.

Condition: Very Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. Unclipped DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents with no markings, 192pp.

Paperback. Condition: Good. #321, First Printing. 203pp. Light general wear. 65c cover price. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1958 Penguin edition in fair used condition. The Friends of the Bridgeport Public Library use these funds to promote literacy in the community and in the Bridgeport Public Schools.

Condition: Good. 1954. Second Impression. 238 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters. Binding slightly loose. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Book has slight forward lean. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Green banded Penguin. Brown marks on front and back covers but hinges good (B/s Ll).

1st ed. Spine slightly bumped; minor wear to edges of dust jacket. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Unclipped dust wrapper has a little soiling and some chipping to corners and fold of back flap.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 155 pages. Here is the book that so many of us want - a book for the hostess who must entertain entirely alone and without servants. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Condition: Good. 1938. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with gilt lettering. 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 tanning. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First impression of this Penguin paperback edition from 1958 in Vg condition, please see pics.

hardcover. Condition: Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 2nd class tracked post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine 1st edition Penguin 1958.Hardly any wear,probably only read once by owner whose great canal themed bookplate is on the title page.203pp plus catalogue.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

8vo. pp. vii, 118. few b/w illus. index. cloth. dw (dw worn with short tears & chip out of lower spine). First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Octavo, 118 pages, index, illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Worsley-Gough, Barbara. A feather in her cap. First edition. London: Cassell and Company, 1936, Hardback, Fair, no dustjacket. Green cloth, bumped to corners, rubbed around the edges, sunned to spine, with numerous marks and stains. Some damage and fraying to top of spine. Gilt lettering to spine. Binding sound with a little lateral movement. Spine cocked. Light tanning to endpapers. Ownership signature from 1936 to ffep. Decorated title page. 287pp. Light foxing to end pages and edges of page block, otherwise contents clean and bright. Small red ink mark to rear end paper. Boots Book-Lovers Library application form pasted in to rear end paper. SCARCE. "My opinion of A Feather in Her Cap is the same as my opinion of the ice-cream soda : it is all froth and no kick. A few talkative young creatures go to Austria for a holiday, the women are jealous of each other's hair and there seem to be some young men. It is all bright banality and trivial satire" (V. S. Pritchett, Spectator, 12 June 1936). RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Detective novel based around cricket. 8vo. 237pp. 2nd imp. Bookplate to front endpaper. Dustwrapper with a couple of nick, nothling serious. A very good copy. From our large stock of cricket book and publications.

Penguin Books. Harmondsworth. 1958. First edition thus. Green Penguin triband paperback. No. 1321. Extremities slightly worn and pages browned otherwise a lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 285. Original publisher's burgundy cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Thriller with 'pop music' goddess as main character. "Basil Chalk had no taste for television, or for popular music. He would have been none the wiser if he had been told that the goddess on the balcony was Phyllis Flower, the Pop singer known to her innumerable fans as the Spirit of Song. He had only the haziest notion of Pop singers, and of what they sang, and he knew the names of none of them. He had never sat before a screen or a platform or a stage and heard the sighs of rapture and seen the tears brushed from adoring eyes as Phyllis indulged her fans with their favourite 'Only A Babe' and 'I'll Dream It Again'. He had never heard even a recording of the phenomenal Flower voice, with its extraordinary power and compass, the bloodcurdling low notes, and the terrible ease with which it out-soared the range of every other living soprano. This experience was still in store for Basil Chalk"(p17). Label on title page reads, 'Special edition for the Book Club, 121 Charing Cross Road, London'. Very good+ in faintly used, pleasant, about very good dust jacket.…

Penguin. 1958, First Edition in green Penguin Paperback No.1321. Extemities worn, covers are lightly creased and a little rubbed. Pages are browned, otherwise a good, clean copy.

Condition: Good. 1956. First Edition. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block.…