Alan drury (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Jointly sponsored by Methuen and the BBC, the Giles Cooper Awards are offered to the authors of the best radio plays broadcast on BBC radio in a given year. This volume contains the winners for 1990, chosen by a panel of judges from almost 500 plays broadcast by the BBC over the previous 12 months. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Leather Bound. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: Good. 4to. Unpaged. Single fold-out sheet. Very Good, slight sunning, very slight creasing, very minor markings on cover. Color prints throughout. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz (1919-2019).

Leather_bound. First editions thus. A lot of 7 volumes. All are attractively bound in elaborately gilt decorated leather of various hues with all edges gilt. Each volume is signed by the author on preliminary leaf with a tissue guard. The 7 volumes are in very good + to near fine condition, with 4 showing some faint water spotting on the gilt at the top edge of the text block, and one (the Stegner) with a few pages slightly bumped and a tiny paint spot at the head of the spine, and one (the Catton) with a white paint stain at the top of the gilt edge and another (the Roth) with a faint tide mark at the top fore-corner of some early and late leaves. Very good+ to near fine condition.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 52 pages. Cute cover illustration of black and white dog crying due to onions. Features: Me - Athlete? - a doctor argues in support of sports; Have We a Canadian Dreyfus? - former Ontario Premier E.C. Drury recalls the 1924 conspiracy charge against Aemilius Jarvis; The War Problem? - debating international munitions traffic; Cattle Kings - Photo-illustrated article by Guy Weadick, founder of the Calgary Stampede in 1912; Solid for Saint John; House of Hate - tales from a prison librarian. Fiction: Mate of the Wild Goose; The Equivalent; Pour L'Amour; An Affair of Horses; Single to Sicily (serial). One-page photo-illustrated Swift's bacon ad features Chef Maurice Vane of the Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg; Chipso ad features charming colour photo of Mrs. George J. O'Brien and her three girls; Nice one-page illustrated Waterman's pens ad; Very nostalgic illustrated Dentyne gum ad; Gorgeous one-page colour-illustrated Palmolive soap ad features lady with beautiful 'Schoolgirl Complexion'. Please note: pages 3-4 missing. It appears to have contained ads. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, September (Sept.) 15, 1933, Vol. 46, No. 18 Canadian Dreyfus? - former Ontario Premier E.C. Drury recalls the 1924 conspiracy charge against Aemilius Jarvis; The War Problem? - debating international munitions traff. Illustrated by Thorne, Diana; Summers, Dudley, Gloyne; Simpson, Charles W., R.C.A.; Turner, Stanley; Vaughan, C.; Shreve, Carl; (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Please note: This copy lacking its covers. First and last pages loose but present. Features: Canada in the Great War (Part 2) - The stirring record of 'the men behind the guns' - and of our wemen, too - photo illustrated article; The Crushing Horde - fiction from the north; Doctor to the Poor Fish - a free clinic for ailing aquarium pets; Canadian Sprinter Percy Williams (Peerless Percy) - Winner of the 100 and 200 metre Olympic sprints; Down Three Steps (short story); She Lika da Jazz (short story); Did They 'Get' Bulldog Kelly? - a tale of the North West Mounted; Prosperity's Leap From the Bush - The successful Canadian pulp and paper industry - photo-illustrated article; The Winking Satyr (short story); Our Population Problem (Part 4) - a suggestion that our need for people be solved by transplanting British industries; A Little Way Ahead (part 6); Beautiful one-page colour ad for Waterman's pens features waterfall and rainbow; Daily Newspapers Under Fire; Gorgeous one-page colour-illustrated ad for Quaker Puffed Rice features boy and girl at table; Nice one-page colour ad for Canadian National Steamships features their cruises to the Caribbean; Lovely one-page colour ad for Wahl-Eversharp Gold Seal Pens; Teaching Etiquette to Children; Crossword on page 78 has been completed; Jacobean Embroidery. A worthy reference copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's Magazine, October 15 1928, Vol. XLI No. 20, Canada in the Great War, Percy Williams, Fastest Human, Peerless Percy, Canada in the Great War (Part 2) - The stirring record of 'the men behind the guns' - and of our wemen, too - photo illustrated. Illustrated by Amick, Robert; HAllam, J.S.; Valentine, A.C.; Jefferys,C.W.; Taylor, H. Weston; Gloyne Summers, Dudley (illustrator).…