Harold blindloss (3 Ergebnisse)

1916, 1st American Edition. (hardcover) Good, no dust jacket. [2], 346pp. 12mo. Green cloth boards, printed in black. Cloth notably soiled, foxed; spine dust-darkened. Lacking dust jacket, as common. Top edge foxed. Previous owner's signature to ffep. Textblock age-toned, as expected. Else internally clean. Colour frontispiece. Lacking rfep. Published in England under the title "His One Talent.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 8 x 5.25", gilt-dec blue cloth, 346pp, extremities lightly worn, spine ends bumped, spine a little cocked, pp toned, inkstamps from "Coe Brothers Circulating Library" on endpapers else a decent copy in a rubbed, spine-sunned, darkened, edge-worn but still vibrant dustjacket with a few little spots on the spine. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. The British title was "The Loser Pays.".…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First edition. The scarce first edition of this charming collection of short stories, illustrated throughout by W.H.C. Groome. The first edition. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. A collection of short stories by a variety of authors, including G.A. Henty, G. Manville Fenn, David Ker, Headon Hill, W.H.G. Kingston, Reginald Horlsey, and Harold Blindloss. Illustrated with a frntispiece and six plates by W.H.C. Groome, one of the most prolific children"s book illustrators of his era. Collated, lacking the plate to p.303. Including stories such as 'On the Spanish Main', 'The Guerrilla', 'West African Yarns', and more. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, fading to spine, with bumping to the head and tail. Rubbing to joints. Faint marks to boards. Ink inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Plate facing p.56 disbound but present, loosely inserted inside the volume. Pages are bright and clean, with light spotting to the front and rear. Lacking one plate. Good. W.H.C. Groome (illustrator). book. …