john worby (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1939. First Edition. 250 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. First edition, third printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Zustand: Very Good. 1937 Binding: Hardcover Lee Furman, New York.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good +. First edition. 307pp. Octavo [21cm]. Orange cloth over boards. Title and subtle ornamentation stamped in brown and red ink on spine. Publisher's orange topstain, which is a bit faded. Spine mildly rolled. Spot of soiling at foot of textblock. Dust jacket is price clipped, and the spine is sun toned. Wear to the edges, with a few scattered losses. At the age of twenty-five, John Worby had spent nearly a decade "hopping freights, thumbing on highways, mooching, living in hobo jungles [and] meeting all types of people, both men and women, in and out of vagabondia" in England, Canada and the United States.

1st edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Spine uniformly sun-toned. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: vi, 279 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Worby, John 1911-; Autobiographies; Crime; Memoirs. 3 Kg.

8°, 224 S., roter OLwdbd.m. weissgeprägt. TSchrift u. VDeckel-Vign., VRckn. etw. aufgehellt, durchgeh. ger. stockfleckig, unbeschnitten; insges. schönes Expl. (Seltene) erste niederländische Ausgabe im Exil-Verlag von Hein Kohn (= Serie 'Het Nederlandsche Boekengilde', Nummer 54); nicht bei St/T. und im DtExilAr. Übersetzt und bearbeitet von Johanna Smelik. Mit der Bandgestaltung von W.D.Feist. Sprache: Niederländisch.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 1937. First edition. vii, 279pp. and a frontispiece portrait of the author. John Worby (born 1911) was an English tramp memoirist and self-described spiv. He is best known for his controversial memoir The Other Half, which chronicled his experiences of homelessness, vagrancy and petty criminality across Britain and North America. The book is bound in the original cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The book is in very good condition and the contents are tight and clean with light foxing to the endpapers and some damp marking around the top edge of the fixed endpapers. There is no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with light soiling and the spine is slightly sunned. The top of the spine is bumped and nicked. There is a tear of about 1 1/4" on the top of the front spine edge that has been repaired on the reverse with tape.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp vi, 249. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered black on spine. The publisher's own retained copy with their perforated stamp in the preliminaries and a label on the front pastedown reading 'File Copy - June 16th 1940.' Very good. Decent copy.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1939. Very good condition with no wrapper. Sequel to 'The Other Half'. Autobiography of John Worby, a spiv. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis. Reprint. Covers and text block browned. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Band en omslag door W.D. Feist. Nr 54 van de serie Het Nederlandsche Boekengilde. Linnen band, inclusief stofomslag. 224 p. -(Omslag verkleurd aan de rug. papier vegreeld en roestvlekkig. Binding stevig.).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. First Edition. First edition. Signed by previous owner. Poor Dust Jacket. The book is in very good condition, for its age. The pages are slightly 'browned', the text remains clear and bright. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.