Beasts Royal by Russ Patrick (11 results)
Published by Putnam, 1934
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United KingdomWorld of Rare Books
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Condition: Fair. 1934. First Edition. 84 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. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Pencil markings to front free endpaper and…back pastedown. Top textblock edge dyed blue. 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. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Boards are bowed. Visible wear marks to boards.
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Published by Putnam, London, 1934
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.Cat's Curiosities
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. States "First published September 1934." Second book, published when he was 19 (his first, "Caesar: The Story of a Panda Leopard," was published when he was 16) by the author who would later change his name to Patrick O'Brian, best-known for his Aubrey-Ma…turin novels of Nelson's navy. Color frontispiece and eight B&W internal (matte) illustrations are all firmly in place. "Good plus" original dust jacket is price-clipped, and is missing a narrow, 3-1/2 X 3/8- inch strip from bottom of rear panel, affecting no text. Previous owner's name, "Ivor G.M.G. Dorward," stamped to bottom of FFE and also to bottom page edges. Ivor Gardiner Menzies Gordon Dorward (1927-1983) grew up to become a prominent architect in Glasgow. The first two "Richard Russ" books are sought-after by O'Brian collectors. We also offer illustrator Tunnicliffe's "Sketches of Bird Life," separately. 84 pp. This volume now reduced from $350. As with all our items priced higher than $90, this item will be shipped "signature required.". Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Putnam, London, 1934
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United KingdomBeach Hut Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Former owner's name on front endpaper. Frontispiece is sadly missing. The black & white illustrations are all present. C.F.Tunnicliffe (illustrator).
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Published by London Putnam, 1934
- Hardcover
Seller: Yarra Cottage Books, Warrandyte, VIC, AustraliaYarra Cottage Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good First Edition. Hardback. No d/j. Spine and right edge of rear board sunned. Left edge of front board a little sunned. Light fish work to left edge of rear board. Board cnrs and head/tail of spine bumped and rubbed. Foxing to prelims. and last few pages as well as edges of textblock. Book is clean…, square and tight. Illustrated by C. F. Tunnicliffe. Overall a nice copy of a scarce early Patrick O'Brien.
More imagesPublished by Putnam, London, 1934
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Peter Sheridan Books Bought and Sold, West Molesey, Surrey, United KingdomPeter Sheridan Books Bought and Sold
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. London: Putnam, 1934. First edition of this book with coloured frontispiece and 8 B/w illustrations by C F Tunnicliffe. Book is overall bright and clean with just a few occasional very light foxing spots, very few and very light. front endpaper has been removed Outer boards a…re very lightly worn on edges and slightly faded on spine , still a sound copy of a collectable book SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition. Boards. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by C F Tunnicliffe. 8 ¼ x 6¼ Inches. Hardcover. C F Tunnicliffe (illustrator).
Published by Putnam. First English edition., London, 1934
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, AustraliaBadger Books
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Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Patrick O'Brian's second book, published under his own name. Animal stories and four wonderful Indian stories featuring Hussein, ex Mahout, snake charmer, and possessed of the uncanny knack of discovering cobras and other venomous creatures in…Englishmen's bungalows. Illustrations by the prolific Charles Tunnicliffe two years after his great success with Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson. Gift inscription. Edgewear, foxing to prelims, extremities and scattered throughout. Good in very good dustwrapper. book.
More imagesPublished by Putnam's, London, 1934
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.COLLINS BOOKS
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HARDCOVER. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First edition. 84pp color frontispiece, b/w illustrations octavo cloth. authors second book under pseudonym. bookplate, slight foxing, fading, very good in worn dustwrapper in mylar cover. c.f. tunnicliffe (illustrator).
Published by Putnam, 1934
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Lion Books PBFA, Kidderminster, WORCS, United KingdomLion Books PBFA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. inner endpaper is slightly nicked against the binding, price clipped, slight darkening to spine with rubbing along spine edges and a little wear to the corners of the folds, ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 84 pages. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe (illustrat…or).
More imagesBeasts Royal. With illustrations by C. F. Tunnicliffe.
PATRICK O'BRIAN (writing under his birth-name Patrick Russ). C. F. Tunnicliffe.
Published by Putnam, London, 1934
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United KingdomClearwater Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's second book, written when he was nineteen years old ("[and] show[ing] a great advance" blurb). 8vo. 84pp. Blue cloth lettered in white at the spine and upper board. With a colour frontispiece and eight b…lack and white plates by Tunnicliffe just his second bookform illustrations. Cloth lightly faded at the backstrip and at the extreme upper and lower edges of the boards. Binding a little tender at one gathering and with some glue residue markings and spotting to those leaves (only). A lengthy vertical crease to the rear endpaper. Faint ghost of erased pencil markings to the front free endpaper and to the title page. Very good in price-clipped dust wrapper with a reproduction of the colour frontispiece mounted on the front panel. The wrapper a little tanned, lightly chafed at the natural folds and with several tiny silvers of loss from the spine panel ends. Twelve stories of twelve royal beasts. Not noted by Cunningham.
Published by London: Putnam, 1934
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB., Cromford, United KingdomScarthin Books ABA, ILAB.
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Book Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Putnam, 1934. 1st Edition . Very Good. pp84. Blue cloth binding with silver lettering. Spine has faded to grey and top of front faded as if stood too long next to smaller book. Foxing to edge of pages. Inscription inside front cover. Colour frontispiece, BW plates. Patri…ck Russ was the real name of Patrick O'Brian of Aubrey and Maturin fame. In this his second book, while still using his real name, Russ/O'Brian deals with animals and a realistic mode: Tunnicliffe's superb illustration of an elephant opposite p74, e.g. is captioned "paring away the Government number from the nail of his right fore-foot".
More imagesPublished by Putnam, 1934
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United KingdomStella & Rose's Books, PBFA
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Condition: Used - Fine
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Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1934. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Blue cloth, white titles. Colour frontis. 8 b/w plates. Written when Russ was 19 years old, he later wrote under the pseudonym of Patrick O'Brian. Superb Tunnicliffe illustrations. REDUCED PRI…CE. Top and tail of spine slightly faded. Spine slightly bumped. Last few pages lightly foxed else contents fine. Original brown wrapper with pictorial onlay is price-cut and very slightly nicked at top and tail of spine. A lovely copy of this rare title. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Tunnicliffe, C.F. (illustrator).
