british book centre inc new york (21 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Third Impression. Jacket rubbed and very chipped. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Cloth. First Edition. Cloth. First Edition. Very good condition with very good minus dust jacket (slightly sunned).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Review slip laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Light wear to DJ; No fewer than four hundred eighty different lesser known landmarks of Great Britain are here described and located for the intrepid traveller; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 196 pages.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: VG/G. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). First American Edition. New York, NY: British Book Centre, Inc. VG/G. (1954). First American Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 282 pp., Dj rubbed .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. Octavo. 282pp. Illustrated from photographs. A bit of underlining early on in blue pen, owner stamp on topedge, front pastedown and front blank, else a near fine copy in a dustwrapper that has an owner stamp on the front flap and small pen number on spine, but is otherwise near fine. Stamped by a proud owner, but still a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Niels Larsen Stevns (illustrator). Wear to book cover, spine discoloration, spotting to upper page edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus. 350 pages. Illustrations in color by Niels Larsen Stevns. Rubbing to edges. Small 1/4" scrape at bottom of front cover. Else, very good condition. A tight and bright copy. (K1).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, American issue from British sheets. Fine in spine-tonmed, else very good or better dustwrapper with a little wear at the crown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First USA Edition, First Printing. Eight picture illustrations. This book is from the estate of Twin Cities collector, Grace Reiter; it is unmarked except for her signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. M. Bracquemond, Turner, Mr Cooper, +++ (illustrator). HB DJ new edition, illustrated. First published by Macmillan in 1876. DJ not clipped. Red cloth boards, gilt titles spine. 22.5 x 14.7cm. 459 pages. b/w Rembrandt frontis. b/w illusts. Condition: DJ scuffed along top edge. Age discoloured. Boards VGC. Internally clean, tight binding, little wear, good colour, VGC.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover with dustjacket. Reprint of 1880 edition. Red boards, pristine. Protected, unclipped, dustjacket is bright and crisp, mild general toning. Book is firm in binding, crisp interior. Six b&w illustrations by John MacFarlane. Poems were collected by Sir Walter Scott; Alfred Noyes is the editor. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 170 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good small spots. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Ink fep. DJ spine & edges yellowed, 4; A survey of the "Angry Young Men" in British literature of the '50s. ; 212 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. DJ shows some shelf wear with short tears, creasing and chipping. Price-clipped with previous owner's name on FFEP. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, cloth covered book, hinges intact. No additional printings listed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 153 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition. VG, no DJ. Appears to be first (1st) edition - says 'First Published in 1952' on copyright page, with no other printings listed. Light signs of wear to exterior, binding solid and straight, interior clean and unmarked. Lightly read, but a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition Thus. 8vo; 256 pages; Minor rubbing to the dust jacket.

First US edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy blue cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, blue to the upper edges. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 276 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout. Gilt title oxidised, a little mottling and bubbling of the cloth to the upper, lower and fore edges, spine ends and corners turned in and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. DJ shows some shelf wear with short tears, creasing and chipping. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped, cloth covered book, hinges intact. No additional printings listed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 153 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 344 pp. Original red covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Spine ends and bottom corners a bit bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Previous owner's blindstamp on title page. DJ has light edge wear; price clipped. Contents nice.

Octavo. 226pp. Illustrated with photographic images, maps, chronology, bibliography, Index. A vividly told story of the coninent's strange geologial history of its pland and animal life, its mineral wealth, both known and speculated, and its imprtnace in weather research. The author gives the relevant economic and political easons why these bleak areas ae today so avidly coveted. B0und in light orange cloth, spine lettered and ruled in black, n uclipped dust jacket with some shipping to head nd upper corner, previous owner's bookplate, rear flap with pice torn away at upper corner but present, small sticker to rear pastedown.

8vo, pp. [6], 7-226; photograpic plates throughout; original orange cloth; dust jacket, unclipped, slightly worn around the edges; otherwise very good. Spence 1036.