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Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Undated edition, early 20th century. School prize label inside the front cover. Firmly bound, pink cloth boards. Fading on the spine with a little wear at the top edge. No jacket. with about two hundred illustratiions (illustrator).

Zustand: Very good. - A partial sheet of the author's letterhead, approximately 3-1/2 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide with his address printed in raised lettering at the top, is signed in black ink "Warwick Deeping". The letterhead is slightly unevenly cut with remnants of tape on he verso where it has been removed from an album. Very good. Warwick Deeping [1877-1950] was an English novelist and short-story writer whose best-known novel was "Sorrell and Son" [1925]. After serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I, Deeping gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer. His early work was dominated by historical romances. His later novels more often dealt with modern life and were critical of many tendencies of twentieth century civilization. His attitude was generally one of passionate individualism, distrustful of both ruling elites and the lower classes who were often presented as a threat to his embattled middle-class protagonists. He was one of the best-selling authors of the 1920s and 1930s.…

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 124 pages. Spanish language. 9.00x6.00x0.28 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Spine is sunned. ; Book is in excellent condition - exception noted. Tight binding and clean, unmarked text and illustrations. Scarce copy. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 224 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1880. Undated, ca. 1880. Short stories for children with a full page engraving on each right-hand page throughout, plus frontis engraving. Worn copy, pictorial hardcover with red cloth spine, 9.25" tall, unpaginated, about three quarters of an inch thick. Covers worn and scuffed with most of cover design intact, front hinge badly internally cracked but secure, binding loosened but with no detached pages, pages clean, no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, scarlet lettering to spine. 8vo 7½" x 5¼" 250, 1 [pages]. Age darkened page edges, light rubbing to spine tips and corners and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original vermilion cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, illustrated end papers. 8vo. 9'' x 6½''. Contains (xx), 269 pp with 12 full-page paper-guarded captioned colour plates and 16 black and white plates and many text illustrations. Foxing to the text block edges and end papers, spine sun faded, else in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

Zustand: Very Good. Second impression of the illustrated edition of this work hard back binding in publisher's original British racing green cloth covered boards, spine and front cover lettered in gilt and elaborately decorated from a design by Hugh Thomson, all page edges gilt, green end sheets. 12mo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains tissue-guarded frontispiece, [lx], B, 256 pp with 100 monochrome illustrations throughout by Hugh Thomson, including 13 full-page plates. Foxing to the tissue-guard and end papers, else in Very Good bright condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY. …

Original Wraps. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Pp. 133-192. Original pink card wrappers. "Sept 1903" written on spine in pen. Contents: "The Aitutaki Version of the Song of Iro" translated by J. T. Large; "Notes on the Art of War, as conducted by the Maori of New Zealand. Part VII" by Elsdon Best; "The Whence of the Maori. Part IV" by Lieut. -Col. Gudgeon; "Mysterious Relics; The Making and Un-making of Man" by E. Tregear; "Who Discovered Tahiti?" by George Collinridge; "A New Maori Dictionary"; Notes and Queries; Proceedings.; 8vo.…

Original Wraps. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Pp. 127-194. Original pink card wrappers. 1/2" tear in lower edge of front cover and first three leaves. "Sept 1902" written on spine in pen. Minor foxing. Contents: "Notes on the Art of War, as conducted by the Maori of New Zealand. Part III" by Elsdon Best; "Niue Island and its People" by S. Percy Smith; "The Whence of the Maori. Part I" by Lieut. -Col. Gudgeon; Obituary; Notes and Queries; Proceedings.; 8vo.…

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original half burgundy and black and grey cloth covers, gilt stamped title lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 12'' x 9¼''. Contains 215 pp of Spanish text with 107 full-page colour photographs throughout. From the estate of the late Fleur Cowles, renowned journalist, artist, philanthropist with her colour bookplate inside the front cover and SIGNED Fleur Cowles. In November 1955, she married her fourth and last husband, Tom Montague Meyer (CBE), a timber executive, the Meyers lived for a number of years in London and Sussex, as well as Spain. SIGNED by her to the title page 'Fleur Cowles Meyer - Las tours de Bejattos ? Espagne.' In Fine condition, supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPAIN & SPANISH HISTORY.…

Second edition hard back binding in original full brown diced leather covers, gilt title lettering to the spine, all page edges gilt, lemon end papers. 8vo. 8'' x 5''. Contains [x] 40 printed pages of text. Foxing to the paper throughout, neatly hand written and perfectly legible two page appreciation of 'The Fort' to the front paste down and end paper, note opposite the title page by Arthur Mackie?, name to the title page Ambrose Brackett, the title page is starting to pull away from the text block, 30 mm piece of leather missing to the top of the spine. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Margate].…

On one side of a 7.5 x 12.5 cm leaf of pink paper, extracted from an album. In good condition, very lightly aged. Centred on the page, in blue ink, the inscription reads: 'love from | Enid Blyton'. No other writing anywhere on the leaf. As 600 million copies of Blyton's books have been sold worldwide, and as she oversaw the design of her books, and insisted on her distinctive signature being placed on every cover, it is not an exaggeration to state that this is one of the most famous signatures of the twentieth century. See image.…