Rockets Galore by Compton Mackenzie (43 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Name On Front Endpaper; Otherwise Unmarked. The Dj Is Unclipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 3rd printing (1969); red c w/gilt titles; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar. Clarke Hutton Dust Jacket Art (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Firmly bound, pink cloth boards. Fading on part of the spine at the top and base. Browning on the end papers.Tears with paper loss from the top and base of the spine, scuffing and dust spotting on jacket which is in very poor condition. Jacket design by Clarke Hutton (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is a bit rubbed, marked and edgeworn. Internally clean and tightly bound. The fep are a bit marked. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Worn - Water Damage. Dust Jacket Condition: Torn. First Book Club Edition. Various Photographers (illustrator).

Condition: Good. 1957. First Published. 246 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Subtle foxing and minor tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and creasing to gutters; some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning with minor tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. …

Condition: Good. 1957. No edition remarks. 216 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white photographs. 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 mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing.…

No Jacket. ex-library, hardback (VG) lacks d/w; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. 252 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. the jacket is worn and chipped. foxing and markings throughout. one inscription. soundly bound. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 216pp. HARDCOVER Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. D/w is present, but has some edgewear top/bottom, closed tears & minor loss to base of spine. D/w will be improved where possible & supplied in protective sleeve. Will appear smart when work completed. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. Book.…

first edition 246pp VG+ (minor bumps to extrems.,paste action to eps w.edges sl.foxed) in VG d/w sl.rubbed and soiled,mod.foxed,sl.sunned spine,wear and sl.chipping to extrems.w.some minor closed tears) the author of 'monarch of the glen'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 1st edition; Hbk no d/w; black cloth cover; contents clean; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; 246 pages ; 19 cm. Subjects; Scottish fiction 20th century. Scottish fiction. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; 246 pages ; 19 cm. Subjects; Scottish fiction 20th century. Scottish fiction. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.…

Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards for the 1958 UK film. Based on the 1957 Compton MacKenzie novel, and filmed on the island of Barra (Hebrides), a British comedy about a quaint island that becomes a testing zone for rockets. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with corner creases, and faint creases overall.…

1st edition. Pink cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under illustrated, priceclipped dustwrapper. 7.5ins x 5ins, 246pp including a sketch map. Sequel to Whisky Galore. Brown strip to free endpapers. Previous owners name and address to front pastedown.Dustwrapper (by Clarke Hutton) chipped with small amount of loss to top & bottom of spine. G / G.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. A firm straight book, internally spotless.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy small octavo 246pp., Nice copy in like bright price-clipped dust jacket.

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Cloth. Condition: Good/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A bright and firm book with some tanning to the endpapers ; the dj (protected/unclipped) has moderate wear and some browning to the back panel. Pics available. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Rockets Galore, Compton Mackenzie, Chatto & Windus, 1957, First Edition, First Impression The sequel to Whisky Galore. The story sees the inhabitants of a remote Scottish island resist a government plan to build a missile base on their home. In near fine condition, the binding is straight and tight, the boards clean and the lettering on the spine bright. The toned and foxed end papers and pages are free from tears and inscriptions. There are very faint pencil marks to the front end paper. The unclipped dust jacket is in good condition with wear to all the corners, nibbling to the top edge of the front cover, two small nicks and nibbling to the top edge of the spine, a small tear to the bottom edge of the back cover and marks to the back cover. Will be dispatched carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and a cardboard box.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 252 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Readers Book Club, UK, 1959. Book Club Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Covers have slight soiling. Dust jacket has superficial rubbing. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear and minor chipping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Edges of pages are slightly soiled. Pages are lightly tanned. There is a stain at the top of the book which affects the dust jacket, front board and first 35 pages. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Includes black and white photos from the movie. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; Inventory No: 13110432. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp. 243 / dust jacket damaged / stofwikkel beschadigd English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. 1957 Popular Book Club Hardcover 1st Impression in this Edition. Very good clean tight binding in very good unclipped dustjacket. Wonderful jacket design & illustration (Stills from the Film) as shown.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 1st Edition 1957. Made into a successful film. The book is very good++ with bright boards. Tape ghosting mark to endpaper. The wrapper is very good+ and quite bright. Small loss to wrapper spine tips. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 14860.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 253 grams.

1st edition. Comedy novel and a sequel to the author's 1947 novel Whisky Galore. The inhabitants of a remote Scottish island resist a government plan to build a missile base on their home. The author refers to it, in a Author's Note, as a 'bitter farce', as opposed to a 'genial farce' that Whisky Galore was. Pp.246, toned strips to endpapers. Dark pink cloth, dustwrapper (design by Clarke Hutton) has edge tears to top edges and top of spine and small loss to top rear corner tip. VG/G+.** It was filmed in 1958 (with some changes) as "Rockets Galore!" directed by Michael Relph and starring Jeannie Carson, Donald Sinden and Roland Culver.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING. SEQUEL TO WHISKY GALORE, HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH ORIGINAL PRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES. COUPLE OF VERY MINOR CHIPS TO EDGES OF JACKET, FEW MINOR MARKS TO REAR OF JACKET, ENDPAPERS BROWNED. OVERALL A LOVELY COPY IN VERY GOOD PLUS CONDITION WITH MINIMAL LOSS TO JACKET & PAGES FREE OF FOXING. PLEASE NOTE: DUST JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVER THAT MAY SHOW REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.…