Beith janet (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean and bright contents, pen name title page, 432pp with B&W illustrations.

Zustand: Fair. 1936. First Printed. 432 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription and sticker to endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining overall.…

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. DJ with some edge wear and creasing. Owner name to end paper. Has a slight lean.

Black Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 432 pages, 3cm tear and wear at top of dust wrapper. Keith Henderson (illustrator).

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Acceptable. New York, 1933; green cloth covered boards; corner and spine edge wear; illustrated jacket in poor condition with heavy edge and corner wear and top corner of front flap clipped; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 304 pages.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. The jacket is a bit sunned, rubbed and worn. Internally clean and tightly bound. One gift inscription. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

1933 reprint with B&W illustrations by Keith Henderson in black, lightly marked cover; wear to corners and small tears to top of spine; a little discolouration and foxing to page fore-edges; library book plate on front paste-down; endpapers yellowed; a little foxing scattered throughout, but mainly to outer pages; otherwise, a readable copy in tight binding. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket).…

hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1933 first edition on orange cloth.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo. Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper with shallow surface rubs to spine tips and corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

1st edition. "Like the "twa corbies" of the old ballad, Alexander and John McGregor dwelt together in the little town of Kilbracken, whence they planned the lives of all their relatives. They were respected members of the kirk in their sanctimonious Victorian society, but the power with which they controlled the lives of others had far-reaching effects which were certainly not what the brothers had expected and were not always good". Pp.286. Green cloth, dustwrapper has small edge chips and is darkened to spine. VG/G+. ** Janet Beith, a niece of Ian Hay, was a Scot. In 1933 she won the World Prize Novel Competition (£4000) organized conjointly by Hodder and Stoughton and Frederick A.Stokes of New York, with her novel "No Second Spring". The book was the unanimous choice on both sides of the Atlantic and went into six editions in the first year. Her second book, Sandcastle, was the Daily Mail book of the month. In 1935 she married Roger Melland, a Manchester solicitor and had two children. Twenty year later this, her third novel, was published.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in attractive, price-clipped dustwrapper with some short tears and a tiny nick. Charming girl from the Scottish Highlands falls for brothers. A nice copy.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, copper title and author lettering to the spine and front cover. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [x] 432 [i] printed pages of text with monochrome woodcut engravings throughout. From the private estate of author George Clapperton and SIGNED by him to the front free end paper. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'Janet Beith'. A little brown ghosting to the end papers. Very Good condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with only a little tanning of the cream paper to the edges. Complete with original red and white wrap around band chosen by the Daily Mail as the Book of the Month for December. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945.…