Shadow Guillotine by George (13 results)

Brown hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and faded. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 160pp.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: VG++, Mild Wear, & Browning. Dust Jacket Condition: VG, Wear, Insect Damage. Edition Not Stated. Historical adventure. In the 'Tabard' series. Expanded condition report/scan on request. Bailey, Ray (illustrator).

Condition: Good. DJ may have small chips and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good +. First Edition. 172 pages. Dustjacket has some darkening to rear, light wear to spine-ends & corners. Book has very light wear to spine-ends, slight wear to corners. Slight usage marks to page-edges. Attractive b/w drawings. Text is very clean & in nice condition. Bailey, Ray (Illustrator) (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 216 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Black and white illustration plates. 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 moderate marking and tanning. …

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 216 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Light mottling to both boards.…

First edition. Hardback. Book and dust jacket are in Very Good condition. No inscriptions. 172pp. Jacket supplied in a new removable clear cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition original dust jacket. Light foxing/tanning to page edges.

HB BROWN CLOTH FOXING VERY GOOD PP172 DW ABOUT VERY GOOD 8V0 Illustrations by Ray Bailey.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp 172 school prize label clean copy. Ray Bailey (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original russet cloth covers, white lettering to the spine and upper panel. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼'' 172 pp. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Very light foxing to page edges. Very Good condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped 10s 6d, spine not faded. Dust wrapper without any tears or chips and supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE. …

Pp. 216, frontispiece and 3 plates; cr. 8vo; beige cloth, spine lettered in black, slightly soiled, fore-corners of boards lightly bruised, the spine foxed; outer leaves and edges foxed; The Popular Library, London, n.d.[1936?]. *Historical novel, first published in 1936.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Shadow of the Guillotine, George E. Rochester, pub. The Popular Library, nd 1936? Thick octavo. 216 pages. Pale green cloth, very, very pale spots of foxing to spine cloth. Very good unclipped jacket with minor edge wear/creasing, sliver of paper loss to top of spine. Jacket now in acetate sleeve for protection [removable].Few spots of foxing to front and rear endpapers. Small area of light paper abrasion to front pastedown, where, perhaps a sticker as removed. A VG copy of a scarce Rochester [1898-1966] title. He was a hugely prolific author of adventure tales for boys, almost always on a flying theme but here he turns his hand to history with a tale of Scarlet Pimpernel type figure rescuing people from the Guillotine.…