Betrayer by Violet Needham (31 results)

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 284 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Colour illustrated frontispiece. 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 sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.

Condition: Good. 1958. Reprinted. 284 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Top textblock edge dyed blue. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Stated. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Colour frontispiece with B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription sticker to front endpaper. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Heavy sunning to spine and board edges.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 284 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. More pronounced to free endpaper and pastedowns. Front free endpaper is missing. Pencil markings to front pastedown. Top textblock edge dyed blue. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear and water marks to boards.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 284 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green laminated cloth. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages remain bright and clear with light tanning and foxing to end pages. Mild tanning and foxing to text block edges. Small liquid stain to top of text block. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Book has a slight forward lean. Mild sunning to spine and edges.

Condition: Good. 1st ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear, tears, areas of loss and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Stamp mark from the previous owner on the front free end paper page. Publication of 284 pages. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is worn. The boards are a touch edge worn and faded on the edges of the spine, remain in good condition. There is foxing around the block of the book, on the first and last few pages. The text remains legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is strong. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Undated Collins Seagull Library edition. Dust jacket price clipped, marked, worn and torn, bookseller's marks.

Joyce Bruce (illustrator). Further adventures of the Stormy Petrel set in civil war America. ?This item is being sold under the Retail Gift Aid scheme to support Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust. Gift Aid enables us to increase the value of donations by 25%. Amnesty International UK Section is acting as an agent selling this item on behalf of one of our Gift Aid Donors.?

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Publisher's Seagull Library. Undated. Tinted top edges, colour frontis and b&w illstns by Joyce Bruce. Very tidy, light wear to spine. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Bruce (illustrator). Reprint. slight wear to cover edges, owners name front endpaper, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Joyce Bruce (illustrator). Reprint. Excellent tight bright wear and fade free hardcover in bright unfaded tear free dj, slightly rubbed at edges, price-clipped. Minor dustiness to text block top edge, prize plate on fly. No date.

Book Club Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Spine uniformly sun-toned. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 285 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Children's stories; Storytelling; Short stories; Histoires pour enfants; Children's stories, English; Literature ; Collections; Children's poetry, English; Fairy tales ; Juvenile fiction. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Bruce, Joyce (illustrator). Second Edition. Collins Seagull Library edition. No publication date given but probably around 1959. First published by Collins in 1950. The boards have quite a heavy bump to the top front corner and a lighter bump to the top rear corner. Light stain to the top edge of the front panel with some associated staining to the top of the front panel of the jacket. Top edges of pages have a little fading. Light spotting around the edges of the endpapers but the pages are clean and unmarked. The jacket has a little rubbing around the edges, a half inch closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel, a tiny surface nick in the edge of the rear flap and a little staining and brown spotting to the reverse. Illustrated by Joyce Bruce.

Book Club Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Spine uniformly sun-toned. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 285 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Children's stories; Storytelling; Short stories; Histoires pour enfants; Children's stories, English; Literature ; Collections; Children's poetry, English; Fairy tales ; Juvenile fiction. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Joyce Bruce (illustrator). 1st Edition. 5 books in similar style various colours of cloth bw illustrations, all first editions except Woods of Windri 2nd impression. dates from 1945 to 1950. All show varying degrees of wear, softened corners, marked cloth, tanned pages some inscriptions, dust wrappers worn torn and tatty. Over 1.6Kg packed will need extra postage outside UK.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Joyce Bruce (illustrator). First Edition. The Betrayer 1950, illustrated by Joyce Bruce, inscribed, spine ends crushed/sunned 2mm, otherwise VG+ in a VG unclipped d/w, chipped at bottom edge of front panel (please see image).

1st edition. 1st edition, 1950; illustrations by Joyce Bruce. Owner's name on front free end paper; text clean; binding tight; emerald green cloth faded on spine, with worn & near-illegible lettering. Dust jacket not price-clipped, but worn at head & foot of spine. DJ protected in removable clear film Used - Good. Good hardback in dust jacket Used - Good. Good hardback in dust jacket.

H/B. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Joyce Bruce (illustrator). Reprint. Seagull library. Vintage childrens. Baron Fauconbois, known to friends at Dick lives in a small European state where there has recently been a revolution. A fresh revolt is being stirred up by an idealist, a hired assassin and a woman out to avenge her brothers execution. Fast moving take of conspiracy. Blue cloth boards, silver seagull logo front, silver titles spine. Colour illustrated DJ not price clipped. Colour frontis B/W illustrations. 284 pages. Condition: Neat owner info o/p dated 1968. Pages slightly discoloured on edges collectively with age. DJ slight edge wear. VGC.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Joyce Bruce (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. 1st edition hbk in d/w; Vg/Vg; light foxing to blocked page foredges; small brown mark on inside flap of d/w; not price clipped; name on fep in pencil; attractive d/w; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, Hardback d/j is a little tatty, small piece missing from top of spine, bumping, scuffing to all edges, some nicks front and back, front cover a little loose to fep, but quite secure, neat previous owners name, internally good. Illustrated by Joyce Bruce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Joyce Bruce (illustrator). First Edition. A very good copy in the original light green cloth. In a good dustwrapper which has some edge wear and tear and minor chipping to spine ends. The surface has been rubbed from a small area (approx. 2cm x 1cm) on the front panel of the wrapper where something like a price label has been removed. A nice clean copy internally with no ownership inscription or foxing. 284 pages. Black and white illustrations. A "Stormy Petrel" story.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Dw complete but with closed tears, now protected with mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. BRUCE, Joyce (illustrator). 1st Edition. An adventure story from the author Violet Needham. 8vo. Pp, 284, [4]. Original cloth covered boards in good to very good dust wrapper.

First edition. Collins, London. 1950. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 285 pages. Contents clean and sound. Wrapper is price clipped and a little worn with a few small closed tears.

Hardcover. No dustjacket. Acceptable. Cover is worn, stained. Libro.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Bruce, Joyce (illustrator). First edition. 1st thus 2007. Nearly fine condition. Complete and unabridged. Pictorial cardwraps. 271 pages. B/w illustrations. Minimal rubbing to corners else a fine copy. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Joyce Bruce (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. 1st edition hbk in d/w; Vg/Vg-; light foxing to blocked page foredges; attractive d/w tha thas a little wear to spine ends, and a little grubbiness to rear; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bruce, Joyce (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1950. Almost very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Light green cloth boards. Gilt title to spine. Black and white illustrations. 285 pages. Spine and corners bumped, cover edges rubbed. Damp staining to cover edges with colour running to edges of pastedowns. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn with damp staining to edges. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Bruce, Joyce (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1950. Good condition in a good dustwrapper. Light green cloth boards. Gilt title to spine. Black and white illustrations. 285 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Fading to spine and cover edges (and some light foxing). Erased pencil writing to front endpaper. Foxing to contents else clean. Dustwrapper is grubby on rear panel, edge worn with slight loss to spine and small piece of loss to lower front corner. A few small tape repairs on verso. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!