Ann shead (22 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1966. First Edition. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Water staining to edges. Paper worn away to front cover. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.…

Zustand: Good. DJ may have toning, marks, chips and tears. Cover may have general wear and a lean. Pages may be tanned. May contain inscriptions.

Zustand: Good. General wear to boards with toning, marks and splits to top spine. Hinges are a bit cracked with webbing visible. Content has toned pages with some foxing. No DJ.

Zustand: Good. Boards have some toning, remains of label front. Content has light toning to endpapers, redacted name/address fep, 208pp with some B&W illustrations. No DJ.

Zustand: Good. General wear to boards with gift message to front paste down. Light toning to pages with some pages. DJ has edge wear.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. (detective fiction, mystery stories ) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Zustand: Good. 1966. First Edition. 192 pages. Pictorial jacket over cloth. 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 edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Zustand: Good. No Edition Stated. 48 pages. Green pictorial boards and jacket. Colour illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. Prominent forward lean to text block. Boards are noticeably bowed. Light wear to clipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Zustand: Good. 1937. No edition remarks. 127 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning, particularly to spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.…

208pp. small 8vo. original cloth in dustwrapper. B&W line drawings. Writing on frontispiece and bookplate. A very good copy. First edition.

hardbound. Zustand: Good. Mystery fiction for young readers (Muir 771); b&w frontispiece plate; no publishing date, but Trove dates 1940 (I'm assuming this is the 1940 1st Edition); gift-inscription to front pastedown, medium-heavy foxing to endpapers and prelims, heavy tanning to text block, lighter tanning to edges of pages, o.w. Good; boards a little rubbed and scuffed. no dustwrapper. 208pp. 8vo. Good. b&w frontispiece plate (illustrator). …

8vo. 223pp. B/w. frontispiece and illustrations. Prelims. and edges of pages slightly foxed, owner's inscription to front f.e.p., original maroon cloth, in rubbed and slightly chipped d/w. US$10.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. Unmarked. Dust jacket is intact and bright.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. No inscriptions or other markings. DJ is not price clipped. Light signs of wear and usage. Edges dusty and with a little foxing. Spine sunned.

1st ed. Binding tight; blue cloth a little browned on boards, & faded on spine, with small area of loss. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 256. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering at spine. Ann Shead of Australian origin - came to Britain before WWII and was a producer on BBC radio. She read some of her children's novels on Children's Hour. Inscribed to Victor Sassie, owner of the Gay Hussar restaurant in London: "Dear Victor, with love from, Ann (Shead). 1969." Pages lightly toned, marks at page lower edge, else solid. Good in chipped at front, toned, edgeworn, good dust jacket. …

unknown_binding. Zustand: Acceptable. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. Some foxing and tanning to pages. Message to previous owner on front end papers. Wear and tear to dust jacket.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covers, yellow lettering to spine. 8vo 8½" x 5¼" 192 pp. Sinister mystery set on a Cornish farm. Fine in Very Good period artwork dust wrapper by Margaret Wolpe, with small surface mark to spine tip and shallow graze across top of upper panel, not price clipped 16s, dust wrapper without any tears or chips, spine not faded. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 192. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's blue cloth with yellow lettering at spine. Ann Shead was a producer at the BBC and made some of her stories on Children's Hour in the 1950s. Inscribed by the author at front flyleaf: "For Victor, with affection, Ann Shead. 24.3.66." Victor was Victor Sassie of the Gay Hussar restaurant in London. Includes loosely inserted autographed letter. Pages lightly toned, else clean. Very good in slightly edgeworn, lightly toned, very good dust jacket. …

Zustand: Poor. Spine board missing. Heavy scuffs and splits at extremities, particularly at corners. Small gift inscription on back of first plate. Light tanning/foxing throughout. Text all clear.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. A novel by Ann Shead. The first edition of this work. With original unclipped dustwrapper. This novel follows Mark Jago who brought his children Harriet and Richard to England to find the Cornish farm his ancestor lived. The locals had not heard of said farm and it did not appear on any map. It transpires that there is a sinister mystery attached to the farm and Jago finds himself wrapped up in the centre. In a full cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, excellent with very light shelfwear to the extremities. Dustwrapper, is excellent with minor bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Light rubbing to the joints. Light browning internally to the extremities and joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean throughout Fine. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Brown cloth with yellow jacket, somewhat sunned to spine.