Day of the Tortoise by Bates (52 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. PETER FARMER (illustrator). THE DUST JACKET IS RUBBED AND FADED. THERE IS A SMALL TEAR TO THE TOP OF THE FRONT AND REAR JACKET. THE CORNERS ARE BUMPED. THE SPINE IS RUBBED AND BOTH ENDS ARE BUMPED. THE PRICE IS UNCLIPPED. THERE IS A SMALL PENNED MARK TO THE FFEP. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Peter Farmer (illustrator). Third Impression. Dustwrapper is protected by a layer of clear, non adhesive plastic.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Farmer, Peter (illustrator). 1st Edition. True first British printing. With original unclipped jacket (7s 6d). Illustrated by Peter Farmer. Jacket has patchy edge/shelf wear, a little patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine and to corners), few small (approx. 5mms) tears, little browning to spine, the odd small mark, little creasing/rubbing to edges and is in only fair condition. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with a hint of pushing to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Little spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages are a bit tanned. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Condition: Good. 1961. First Edition. 94 pages. Green dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Good for year, hardcover. Generally clean, bright and tight. Some marks and age tanning but otherwise in good condition. Ex-library copy with usual markings . Dustjacket fair.

Condition: Good. 1961. Third Impression. 94 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Minor foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, lighter to pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Light cracking and creasing to gutters but binding remains firm. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning with subtle sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has similar sunning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Some minor tanning, creasing and scuffing overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Farmer, Peter (illustrator). 1st Edition. D/W slight wear and snags to edges, spine browned and ends worn, slight ageing to edges and a few handling marks. Front design repeated on rear. Green boards with title/author on front in gold, rubbed spine ends, slightly warped and a small dirt mark at front base . Internally vg, with no insc. 96pps, inc 24 b/w illus, many full page. . Please read notes on shipping.

First Edition. 1961 1st edition with B&W illustrations by Peter Farmer; attractive binding; dust jacket not price-clipped with discolouration to spine and edges and light wear and tear to top edge; page fore-edge lightly foxed; short gift inscription on front free endpaper; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 96pp. Illustrated by Peter Farmer, Ist edition and in near fine condition. Price clipped very good dj in protector. UK post and packing will be less than quoted by abe at £3.95 Language: eng Language: eng 0.0.

Condition: Good. 1st Ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Complete DJ with some edge wear and some tone marks - minor stain mark to spine.

Cloth Bound. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Peter Farmer (illustrator). 1st Edition. Binding and text in fine, tight, clean condition. Dust jacket in very good condition, price-clipped, with very slight wear to top of spine and faded on spine. Charming illustrations. First edition, first issue. 96 pages. See photographs attached.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Peter Farmer (illustrator). Some fox spots to endpapers. Binding tight. Dustwrapper price-clopped but smart in new Brodart plastic overwrapper.

1st edition. Light foxing on page edges and endpapers. Binding tight. Dust jacket price-clipped; spine a bit yellowed; small, faint stains near spine; protected in removable clear film. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Nice little first edition in its dust- wrapper (drawing by Peter farmer, who did the other drawings in the book) More of a short story - 94 pages in all. Tiny marks to first front and last page of text. Green binding fine. Very nice little copy with very small mark to front of dust wrapper. 7 1/4" X 5".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A small publication of 96 pages. There is gilt on the spine and the front of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages are immaculately clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. the jacket is torn and worn. chipped on the spine. sunned. marked. foxing. tightly bound. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First edition in publisher's original colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Includes short stories by H. E. Bates 'The Day of the Tortoise'; V. S. Pritchett 'Stage Fall'; Joan Aiken 'Honeymaroon'; Edmund Gilligan 'Sea Bride'; Youngman Carter 'Dead Ringer'; Ray Bradbury 'Drummer Boy of Shiloh'. Minor rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

First edition in publisher's original colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Includes short stories by H. E. Bates 'The Day of the Tortoise'; V. S. Pritchett 'Stage Fall'; Joan Aiken 'Honeymaroon'; Edmund Gilligan 'Sea Bride'; Youngman Carter 'Dead Ringer'; Ray Bradbury 'Drummer Boy of Shiloh'. Minor rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

First edition in publisher's original colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Includes short stories by H. E. Bates 'The Day of the Tortoise'; V. S. Pritchett 'Stage Fall'; Joan Aiken 'Honeymaroon'; Edmund Gilligan 'Sea Bride'; Youngman Carter 'Dead Ringer'; Ray Bradbury 'Drummer Boy of Shiloh'. Minor rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

First edition in publisher's original colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Includes short stories by H. E. Bates 'The Day of the Tortoise'; V. S. Pritchett 'Stage Fall'; Joan Aiken 'Honeymaroon'; Edmund Gilligan 'Sea Bride'; Youngman Carter 'Dead Ringer'; Ray Bradbury 'Drummer Boy of Shiloh'. Minor rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. The jacket is rubbed, edgeworn and a bit soiled but has not suffered much paper loss. Internally clean and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First Edition. Previous owner's inscription. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 93p. : ill. ; 19cm. Subjects: English fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Previous owner's inscription. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 93p. : ill. ; 19cm. Subjects: English fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 93p. : ill. ; 19cm. Subjects: English fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 93 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Subjects; H. E. Bates. Fiction. Genre; Novels - England - 20th century. 1 Kg.

98 pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper, B/w illustrations. a very good copy. Second impression.

Third Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his personalized bookplate to front pastedown. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 93 pages; Physical description.: 93 p : ill ; 20 cm. Subject: Fiction -- Fictional Characters -- Texts. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 93p. : ill. ; 19cm. Subjects: English fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 93 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Subjects; H. E. Bates. Fiction. Genre; Novels - England - 20th century. 1 Kg.

Third Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his personalized bookplate to front pastedown. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 93 pages; Physical description.: 93 p : ill ; 20 cm. Subject: Fiction -- Fictional Characters -- Texts. 1 Kg.