blackie son ltd glasgow (409 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. ex library. sticker to spine and inside cover. stamps on first few pages, inside rear cover and on the bottom of several pages containing text. lending history sheet removed from FET. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son Ltd., 1948. First Edition. Acceptable hardcover; gilt lettered on spine; clean covers; pencilled notes on endpapers and briefly, mainly marginal, in text; few underlines; exercises, some answers, index, 264 pages. Mathematics Textbook.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. GOOD CONDITION; NO MARKING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. E. W. Haslehust (illustrator). Nd, circa 1940. Illustrated with full-page color plates. Very good in good+ jacket. Owner's bookplate on inside front paste-down, glue smears on front end papers. Jacket has 1/4" piece missing at spine head and one edge tear on back top.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. E. W. Haslehust (illustrator). Nd, circa 1940. Illustrated with full-page color plates. Very good in good jacket. Slight foxing to closed page edges and end papers, owner's bookplate on inside front paste-down. Jacket has three small edge tears, a little rubbing to back edge of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Jack Merriott, R.I. (illustrator). Green paper covered boards, lettered/illus. in burgundy. Mild shelf wear, spine panel somewhat tanned, front board slightly bowed toward top edge. Firm binding. 64 pp., illus. w/ endpaper maps (somewhat toned), 8 color plates. Former owner's signature along top edge of front flyleaf and note as to purchase on succeeding front blank. Front panel of dust jacket has been mounted on blank verso of front flyleaf, and text portion of dust jacket (rear panel) mounted on blank verso of contents page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. E. W. Haslehust (illustrator). Gray paper-covered boards, lettered in dark green, front cover color pastedown illus. Slight shelf wear. 56 pp., illus. w/ 12 color plates. A very well preserved copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. E. W. Haslehust (illustrator). Tan paper-covered boards, lettered in dark green. Spine panel and joints have been very neatly reinforced with clear binding tape, otherwise only slight shelf wear. 63 pp., illus. w/ 12 color plates. A few light foxing spots to interior. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. W. Douglas MacLeod (illustrator). First Edition. light sunning of tips and edges, else NF; jacket is sunned at spine, light edge wear. No date, jacket is priced and intact, 5/- net. A beautiful copy in Our Beautiful Homeland series 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Barker, Cicely M. (illustrator). British Edition. Lovely full-color illustrations by the author throughout the 52 pages. A British Edition from c. 1960s (no date in book, sticker from Foyles of Charing Cross Road inside front cover), this slim hardcover book has decorative glossy paper over boards with a fairy design that is replicated on the accompanying DJ. Condition is VG+, marred only by a few small rubbed spots to edges & light foxing to endpapers & all outside page edges; interior is completely clean. Pages slightly off-white but completely unmarked, binding tight & square. The unclipped DJ is Near Fine: bright & colorful but starting to peel along spine-front cover interface.Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. 0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Barker, Cicely M. (illustrator). British Edition. Lovely full-color illustrations by the author throughout the 51 pages.A British Edition from c. 1960s (no date in book, sticker from Foyles of Charing Cross Road inside front cover), this slim hardcover book has decorative glossy paper over boards with a fairy design that is replicated on the accompanying DJ. Condition is VG+, marred only by a few small rubbed spots to edges & light foxing to endpapers & all outside page edges; interior is completely clean. Pages slightly off-white but completely unmarked, binding tight & square. The unclipped DJ is Fine: bright & colorful with NO fading or wear! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time) ship same day; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. 0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Barker, Cicely M. (illustrator). British Edition. Lovely full-color illustrations by the author throughout the 51 pages. A British Edition from c. 1960s (no date in book, sticker from Foyles of Charing Cross Road inside front cover), this slim hardcover book has decorative glossy paper over boards with a fairy design that is replicated on the accompanying DJ. Condition is VG+, marred only by a few small rubbed spots to edges & light foxing to endpapers & all outside page edges; interior is completely clean. Pages slightly off-white but unmarked, binding tight & square. The unclipped DJ is Fine: bright & colorful with NO fading or wear! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time) ship same day; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. 0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Painted by E. W. Haslehurst. (illustrator). Small souvenir volume with reproductions of 12 watercolor paintings and accompanying text highlighting the history and architecture of the Medieval English city. 64 pages. Gray boards, slight darkening to edges, previous owner's information on first leaf, 'Bought in York Minster' dated 1948.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Clean and tight. A little scuffing along the spine. Two pieces of clear tape from a home library spine label. Name on the inside of the front cover. Dark pink covers with darker pink lettering. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. History, Literature.

Hardcover. Condition: NF. 1st Edition. First Edition bound in black boards. A near fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Soiling to the edges of the book's upper pa ge block. Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexandre Dumas, Paul Bri ckhill and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by MacLeod, W. Douglas (illustrator). DJ has some small missing edge pieces, small creased edge tears, and light edge creasing. DJ has slight smudging to the rear and is now in a mylar cover. Owner's inscription on a front blank. ; Our Beautiful Homeland.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Illustrated in Colour and Black & White. The glazed boards are worn at the edges and the corners are badly worn. There arev damp spots and ink on the rear cover.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. No date and edition stated. Spine chipped away; heavy wear to cover edges; gift-note on FEP; age spotting to FEP, BEP, title page and page block. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Blackie's "Technique" series. pp.ix 77, illustrated with 8 plates and a frontis photo showing a scene from a BBC tv studio plus a folding map showing strength of signal received from Alexandra Palace together with diagrams in the text. Black cloth with silver title on spine. New endpapers. Library class numbers at top corner of front board and on spine but no internal library stamps. White ink mark on spine and a small ink mark on page 5. A good clean tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Squirrell, Leonard (illustrator). DJ has a thin diagonal white streak on the front, a chip to the bottom end, light edge wear, and is now in a mylar cover. ; Our Beautiful Homeland.

Black Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. silver titles spine; illustrated by b/w. drawings; "The delights and terrors of the sporting life are celebrated in a collection of memorable stories: motor races, yacht races, horse races, skydiving, mountain climbing, show-jumping, team sports such as cricket and rugby, the ancient recreations of falconry and jousting, and many other games and tests of skill. Fiction by such masters as Dickens, Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells accompanies personal reminiscences by record-smashing racing driver Malcolm Camp bell, horsewoman Pat Smythe, and other great athletes of our time. Homer records the great Funeral Games held by Achilles. Leo Tolstoy leads a bear hunt through the snow-covered Russian forest. Damon Runyon tells the sentimental tale of Baseball Hattie, the toughest fan the New York Giants ever had. Ernest Hemingway describes the bloodthirsty rituals of the bullring, while William Hazlitt offers the more 'gentlemanly' violence of the prizefight. Humourist P. G. Wodehouse supplies a whimsical account of the beginnings of the noble game of 'gowf'. Heroes, losers, devotees and gamblers come to life in this anthology of the world's great sports as presented by the world's great writers." previous owner's name & gift dedication written onfep. but otherwise a neat copy; 299 pages plus publisher's adverts. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Sports & Pastimes. ISBN: 0216897890. ISBN/EAN: 9780216897892. Inventory No: SPT00011.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp. x 148, illustrated with photographs, drawings, graphs and tables. Blue cloth. endpapers yellowed, owner's name on front endpaper, otherwise fine in very good protected dustjacket with small front top edge tear and some spotting at the back.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light bumping and light rubbing to spine extremities. Else binding clean. Previous owner's sticker on front flyleaf. Else pages clean. DJ spine very slightly sunned. Light rubbing to DJ spine extremities and corners. Else DJ clean. ; B&W Illustrations; MEH11B; 254 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. William Littlewood: Frontispiece & wrapper (illustrator). This book is straight and tight with no marks noted. Red upper edging, minor edgewear. The jacket is chipped at lower spine extending to front cover, frayed in places and has tears esp. on back cover, and is now in protective cover. Wrapper design and frontispiece by William Littlewood. Inside pages are clean. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Lesley Smith (illustrator). First Edition. 96 p. 20 cm. Sound and square binding. Edges have some fading. Corners lightly bumped. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dust jacket has edge and corner wear (a few tiny tears) and is curling along edges. Some soiling and scratches. Not price-clipped. The second book in the Gumby Gang adventure series, featuring Steve, Debbie and Howie. In text pen and ink drawings.

hardback. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Slight chipping along spine,1" chip off top edge spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tan cloth, lettered in dark green, dark green topstain. Minor shelf wear, text block edges mildly tanned. Firm binding, clean interior. 224 pp. Undated but shows short Christmas 1944 gift inscription on upper front flyleaf. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. E. W. Haslehurst, R.B.A. (illustrator). Tan-gray cloth, lettered in dark green. Minor shelf wear, covers a bit tanned along fore-edges and spine panel, small area of red discoloration on lower back cover. 64 pp., 12 tipped-in color plates. Scattered internal foxing, generally minor. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Leonard Squirrell (illustrator). Green paper covered boards, lettered/illus. in brown. Slightly tanned along edges, text block edges also typically a bit tanned. 61 pp., 8 color plates, endpaper maps, other illus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. New Edition. Foxing to back side of frontis and to the blank page facing. Discolored patch on bottom edge of rear cover, shows faintly on last few pages. Widely scattered slight foxing. Two slight scrapes on spine. Tiny brown streaks on rear cover. Owner's name written on the front free fly leaf. ; Color frontis.