Stanmore Press (51 results)

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. First edition. Ex Library Book with usual stamps and stickers. A slight tan to the page edges. A good copy.…

Condition: Good. 1964. 1st Edition Thus. 103 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue paper covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to boards edges. Minor crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Visible tanning to panels, spine and flaps. Laminate is visibly coming away along spine long egdes.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First. 12mo. Light marks to boards. Soiling to side pegs. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First. 8vo. Ex library copy. Green boards black titles. Spotting to spine. Wear to extremities. Ffep missing. Tape mark to rpd. Some spotting to prelims. Book.

Condition: Good. 1962. 2nd Impression. 280 pages. No dust jacket. Blue 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.…

Condition: Good. 1948. Unstated. 280 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper, redacted. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good. First Edition. 188 pages. Dustjacket has upper-edge creasing, wear with rubs to spine-ends and corners, uncllipped. Hardback binding has wear/small creases to spine-ends, light wear to boards' corners, foxing to page-edges and prelims. Pages clean and sound.…

Condition: Good. 1949. First Edition. 220 pages. No dust jacket. Red 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.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Author's dedication on front end paper. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. * PUBLISHER : STANMORE PRESS * YEAR : 1948 * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : 280 * CONDITION : USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE COVER IS RUBBED WITH SMALL MARKINGS TO BOTH SIDES. TOP CORNERS HEAVILY BUMPED. MILD WEAR AND BUMPING AROUND EDGES AND BOTH ENDS OF SPINE. TITLE WRITTEN CLEARLY TO SPIEN. CRACK TO INSIDE COVER HINGE. NOTES WRITTEN IN PEN TO FFEP. TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS CLEAR THROUGHOUT. BINDING FIRM. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE WITH MILD TANNING. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Authentic Reports. 1st printing (1970). 182pp. VG copy, slight creasing to spine. Ink stamp on front cover verso of The Phiroz Mehta Trust.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 130 pages. Very light wear to extremities and surface rubbing to covers. Size: 295mm Tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. A good paperback in slightly aged/edge-worn stapled card covers, no writing or stamps, clean pages. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. A Very Good softcover with light reading wear and marks to back cover. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.

1st ed. Dust jacket a little worn, with short tears, & fraying at head of spine Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Stanmore Press, 1968. Oversize paperback. Creasing & marking to spine & covers, heavy spotting & shelfwear to edges, some spotting & light tanning to pages. Fair reference copy. book.

Condition: Good. 1965. First Edition. 159 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very light wear. ; Wrappers. See second image for synopsis of the texts. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 195; 132 pages.

THIS VOL ONLY, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition thus, "Full Case edition." Octavo. viii, 200pp. Pictorial cloth reproducing drawings by Jean Cocteau. Top edge is lightly foxed, distributor Stanmore Press label affixed to the title page, a near fine copy in a very good lightly rubbed dust jacket with occasional foxing. A publisher's "Freak Copy" including 8 blank leaves in place of publisher's printed text due to printer's error (text otherwise complete.) Originally published in 1965, as an issue of the periodical *Adam*. Contains "Daniel Defoe" by James Joyce, "A Fairy Tale (as told to Bernard Shaw)" by Oscar Wilde, "Love's Preference" by Jorge Luis Borges; also prints the text of 46 letters by Katherine Mansfield [see Kirkpatrick I24]; and contributions by Anne Sexton, H. G. Wells, W. H. Auden, Robert Graves, and more.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine to Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Excellent fine interior and boards, no inscriptions just a tiny foxing speck to side closed edge of pages - d/j has two small edge-tears to top front as shown and shelfwear surface rubs to rear but decent appearance overall for the age with no large tears or loss, not price-clipped./.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Paperback, 130pp. Illus. Top corner and tail of spine slightly scuffed. Firm binding. A decent clean copy. (bs15).

Condition: Fair. 1957. First Edition. 78 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Pencil markings to pastedowns, free endpapers and some pages of textblock. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Stanmore Press, 1965. Fair 1st edition hardback with fair to poor dustjacket. 159pp. Wear, large tears & small missing pieces to dustjacket. Shelfwear to edges, tanning to pages. Fair. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 1st edition; hbk; no d/w; dark red cloth cover; gold gilt lettering to spine; colour frontis; vg; 1st edition is scarce; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Illustrated by Leslie Atkinson (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Pl;us. First. 103p Illustrated. Interesting canine dog literature/reference. First ed. A very good copy in like d/w. PARROTT BOOKS - established for over 20 years offering a prompt friendly and efficient service Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. …

Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. No publication date given, appears to be circa 1970s. There is minor wear on the dust jacket and the page edges have a light tan. 252 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size D: 7"-8" Tall (177-203mm).…

HB BLUE BOARDS VERY GOOD PP263 DW VERY GOOD 8V0 Inside the sea cadet movement.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. RARE SIGNED 1st edition hardback with dustjacket, published by Stanmore Press, 1965. 159pp. Signed by Bronwen Rees, with personal inscription to inside cover. Some creasing & small tears to dustjacket, tanning to pages. Good rare signed copy. Signed by Author(s). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 74, [4 - publisher's ads]pp, with colour plate frontispiece, further colour plate and full-page monochrome illustrations. 8vo. Blue cloth-covered boards, yellow lettering front and spine. 8vo. Cloth is marked and indented, a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Front hinge partially cracked. A little faint spotting on first and last few leaves else internally neat, bright and clean. Original illustrated dust wrapper, worn, torn and rubbed, with clumsy tape repairs and some shelf wear, price clipped. Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. A readable copy, with bright and enchanting illustrations of this unusual children's take of a lamp-post who not only lights the High Street but also foils crimes. Very hard to find title. Palmer, Ruth (illustrator). …