Silver Collar Boy by Constance Wright (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. unmarked.

Condition: Good. 1934. First Edition. 150 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing. Heavy foxing to endpapers. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First Edition. Bound in black cloth with silver titling on spine. Very nicely illustrated in black and white by Whistler. Light wear, some mottling to the covers along the fore-edge 150 pp.

150p, cloth, illustrated by Rex Whistler, very good in soiled and torn dust jacket. First edition. 18th century life in London.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Out of print. Binding is cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition stated 1934. Published by J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. Hardcover in full black cloth with silver lettering on the spine, no DJ. Condition fine, square tight and clean book, covers with slightest cornerwear, corners not bumped, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. Small 8vo, 150 pages, illustrated by Rex Whistler. ASIN B0018IK96I. Rex Whistler (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Signed. A Good copy in edge-worn black cloth lettered in gold of the Dent/London 1934 true first edition. Tanning/foxing at the outer edges and endpapers. No dust jacket. Briefly inscribed and signed by the author at the front endpaper ("Elizabeth Rood Hawes/With affection/Connie Wright"). Accompanying the signed first edition will be a Good copy of the Dutton/New York 1935 1st U.S. edition, Good in purple cloth in an edge-worn Poor dust jacket lacking most of the spine panel. The U.S. edition is not signed. Rex Whistler (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good hardcover. Text clean. Spine faded on burgundy cover. Rubbing to boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Illustrated by Rex Whistler. Tiny hole on spine and a little rubbing on the boards, very good or better in very good dust jacket with age-toning and a small corresponding hole on the spine.

dj. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. No edition stated. $2.00 price to the dust jacket. Owner bookplate, and star decal to lower spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Impression. 150pp. 1934. Second impression. 8vo. sized. A very good, clean, tight hardback copy. Original publisher's black cloth boards silver embossed to the spine. Illustrated by Rex Whistler. No jacket. The faint remains of a pencil name inscription to the front endpaper. Light spotting to the endpapers. Light bumps to the head and tail of the spine. The lower corner of the rear board is a little bumped. A very good, clean tight book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. no DJ. First edition. Light wear and sunning to cloth; top edge and eps slightly discoloured; base corners bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition hardback with dustjacket. DJ is missing half of spine and back. Chipped to edges. Previous owners bookplate insdie front board and foxing to endpapers. No damage to text. Good / fair condition. Dustjacket illustrated by Rex Whistler (illustrator).…

First Edition. Rex Whistler dustjacket art. Fantasy title missed by Bleiler of an aristocratic woman whose African slave returns after his death to haunt the woman's descendants. Near Fine with foxing to page ends and yellowing to endpapers, in Very Good plus dustjacket, only shallow wear to spine ends and flap corners, cm closed tear with crease along top edge.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Stated first edition. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. DJ has heavy edge chipping and fold rubbing/chipping, as well as yellowing/tanning. P/o name and date written inside. DJ has some discoloration from age and possibly the sun, with some general age soiling. TExt seems to be unmarked. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. WRIGHT, Constance [150] pp. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1935 7 3/4" x 5 1/4" Illustrated by Rex Whistler Fantasy title missed by Bleiler of an aristocratic woman whose African slave returns after his death to haunt the woman's descendants.…

Condition: VERY GOOD. Early printing. Wright's first novel, set in 18th-century London, is a fantasy/ghost story about an aristocratic woman and the spirit of her African slave, killed while still a child during a storm, given a lavish funeral, but who, over the years, appears to the woman's descendants as a "banshee" bringing a warning of death within 3 days. Illustrated by Rex Whistler with a frontispiece and 4 full page drawings at the beginning of each section. Fantasy title missed by Bleiler of an aristocratic woman whose African slave returns after his death to haunt the woman's descendants. Kirkus Reviews commented that this is a book that some will find "rather charming and different. The story behind a portrait of a lady of fashion in 18th century London, and the mysterious little black boy at her knee" wearing a silver collar engraved "My name is Pompey, to Belliza, I am slave." An association copy warmly INSCRIBED by Wright to Manhattan architect, Percy W. Darbyshire "in long friendship and with gratitude for encouragement, understanding." Although Wright went on to write one other historical novels and several well-received biographies, books signed by her are very scarce. 150 pp. Very good in a good dust jacket (some wear to the edges of the boards, several small chips and other edgewear to the dj) .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. WRIGHT, Constance [50] pp. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1935 First Edition 7 3/4" x 5 5/8" Illustrated by Rex Whistler Fantasy title missed by Bleiler of an aristocratic woman whose African slave returns after his death to haunt the woman's descendants.…