john courage (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1953. First Edition. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Book has slight forward lean. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First. 4to. jigsaw missing from rear pocket staining abraiding & bumping to cover. Book.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo. Very good in wrappers with bumped top corner and spine ends as well as a few wrinkles in spine cover.

Zustand: Good. 1953. First Edition. 192 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Zustand: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original illustrated cream paper covered boards, red cloth spine, Advertisement for Cadbury's chocolate 2d Bars to the rear board. Quarto 9½'' x 7''. Contains 126 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations. The puzzle in the envelope to the rear is incomplete. Rubbing to the boards and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.

BINDING - Hardcover. Zustand: CONDITION - used/fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Jacket - Fair. with some wear. 1st Edition. 172 Pages. External Wear.

Zustand: Good. London: Stanley Paul and Co. Ltd, 1952. 1st edition. 12mo. 224pp. Good book. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (mystery fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. First Edition. 256pp. Boards. A mystery featuring ex-Commando amateur detective Captain Bill Britain. Light edge wear. A near fine copy in very good+ dustjacket with mild edge wear, a short, closed tear with two associated creases on the lower edge of the front panel, and a few very minute chips to spine ends. In Hubin, 1994, p. 192. ; Octavo.

First edition. Octavo. 288 pages. 32-page publisher's catalogue at rear. A murder mystery. A very scarce title, possibly because of the fateful publication date which led to so many books being destroyed in publishers' distribution warehouses during the Blitz. This could be seen as somewhat appropriate as the plot itself revolves around an air raid. The author wrote under various pseudonyms in various genres.Edges lightly spotted. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper a bit nicked and rubbed at the edges and with a closed tear of 1 cm.