Stephen southwold (65 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 228 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Ownership plate stuck to front pastedown. Moderate water staining to frontispiece and top edges textblock. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.…

Zustand: Fair. 1929. Reprinted. 255 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Decorated green cloth covered boards with gilt. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. End papers are more notably foxed. Front free end paper excised. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding is shaky. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Cloth has moderate damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean. Cloth has loss to front board fore edge. Gilt lettering has become dull.…

hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by Frank Rogers. Tea like splash marks on the back Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used; Good. Feast your eyes upon this wonderful big red book! If you love mythology then this is the title for you! Author Stephen Southwold, explains myths for the younger readers - A myth is an old story of the early days of the world. It is a wonder-tale, and tells of god, giants, and fairies; of men and women who can change themselves into animakls and birds, and of animals who can at will become men, women or children. - read this amazing book of classic myths including stories of Pegasus the wonderful horse, Thesues and the Minotaur, Galdir and the Unicorn and even Sir Lancelot and the Dragon! With animals at the centre of each one, this is the best kind of literary gift to fire up the imaginations of younger readers. Title: The Book of Animal Tales Author: Stephen Southwold Publisher: Harrap Publication Date: 1936 Format: Hardcover Condition: This book is in good condition for its age. The boards are faded and have markings. There is a prize sticker on the pastedown. Tanned pages with age spots to the textblock. …

Zustand: Good. No Edition Stated. 251 pages. White pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. 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 mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. …

Zustand: Good. 1923. No Edition Remarks. 155 pages. No dust jacket. Blue illustrated cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. Reverse of frontispiece is a moderately foxed. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Sunning to spine. Boards have minor damp and dust stains. Board corners are bumped.…

Zustand: Good. 260 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.…

Zustand: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Frontispiece is detached but still present. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Large black marks to rear board. Water staining to boards. Textblock is shaky.…

Zustand: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 48 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated paper covered boards with lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Lettering is darkened. Minor splits and scuffing to spine ends and corners. Visible wear marks to boards.…

Zustand: Good. 3rd Imp. Light wear to boards & a solid binsding. Content is clean with a mild tone & spotting to page ends. DJ with some edge wear/toning and creasing - some loss & under a removable plastic cover.

Zustand: Fair. 1929. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Blue illustrated cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. 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 mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is clear. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. * PUBLISHER : GEORGE G. HARRAP * YEAR : 1935 * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : 61 * CONDITION : USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE COVER BOARDS ARE HEAVILY RUBBED AND WORN WITH BUMPING ALONG THE EDGES AND CORNERS WITH A STICKER PULL TO THE REAR. THE SPINE IS HEAVILY RUBBED WITH BUMPING AT BOTH ENDS. THE HINGE IS CRACKED BETWEEN THE FRONT BOARD AND FFEP, HOWEVER THE BINDING REMAINS FIRM. ON THE INSIDE FRONT BOARD IS A NAMED STICKER PLATE. THERE IS FOXING INSIDE BOOK. THE PAGES ARE TANNED, THOUGH PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK. HONOR C. APPLETON (illustrator).…

Zustand: Good. Boards have some wear, toning. Owner name to end paper. Slight cracking to hinge. Content has light toning. No DJ.

Zustand: Fair. 1927. No edition remarks. 178 pages. No dust jacket. Blue illustrated cloth. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing. Heavy tanning to endpapers. Mild cracking to gutters and front hinge. Mild water staining to pages throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Mild water stains and droplets to boards. …

Zustand: Fair. 1938. First Impression. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with decorations. Specimen copy with associated stamps and inscriptions. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Minor dog-eared corners. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed. Staining to rear board.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. New York: Putnam, 1932. First Edition. Dust-soiled cloth mainly Very Good, without dustwrapper. Weird thriller. Ancestral memories induce criminal acts. [Bleiler 1948 Checklist; Locke Spectrum of Fantasy; Stableford Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. THE COVER IS HEAVERLY RUBBED WITH WARE TO ALL EDGES AND BUMPED CORNERS AND BOTH ENDS OF SPINE. TWO SMALL TEARS TO BOTH ENDS OF SPINE . SIGNS OF SHELF WEAR. SMALL AMOUNT OF FOXING THROUGHOUT THE BOOK AND A PRESENTED TO LABEL ON FFEP. PAGE EDGES DISCOLOURED. BINDING SECURE AND PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.…

hardback, 8vo, 269p, light foxing on page edges, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good condition in frayed dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. hardback, 8vom 256pp, illustrated by Ernest Aris, colour frontispiece detached and frayed, owner's name on endpapers, edges browning, blue cloth, gilt pictorial decs dull, spine rubbed and faded, Fair condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 270pp. Black cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 8bo. Cloth very slightly rounded at spine heel; upper text block edge shadowed by dust, remaining edges very slightly foxed; internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, colourful, dust wrapper, rubbed and browned at edges, minor bump along rear, lower edge. Dust jacket in a removable, clear film sleeve. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 8vo hbk; blue cloth boards (worn) which have marking at edges; pink trim and lettering; pale gift inscription inside cover (not author's) dated 1943; generally clean sound copy, but does have occasional mark on pages; a book of animal/nature stories; fair to good; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Illustrated by Ernest Aris (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, 8vo, 320pp, slight foxing, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, black cloth, gilt titles, slightly rubbed, Very Good / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Splendidly written historical tales aimed at children aged c.9-10. Occasional foxing, but in general good, clean and bright internal order. Decorated red boards a little worn to edges. Ideal gift for an eccentric Uncle to give to an unappreciative nephew in the hope of inspiring a flowering of interest in history and the world about. 1935 reprint of 1929 first edition. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 12mo. 248pp. L Gee (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 254pp. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. 12mo. Cloth a little rounded on corners and spine ends, small indentation on lower edge, and single black spot on spine. Upper text block edge a little dust darkened. Previous owner's name inked on the front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, a little rubbed and bumped on edges and folds, slightly faded, with some visible shelf wear and staining on rear panel. Neil Bell was the preferred pen name of writer Steven Southwold, under which name he wrote many science fiction and well-remembered novels, such as I Am Legion and The Inconsistent Wife. Several of the novels he wrote under this pen name were detective fiction, as this one is.…

Original Cloth. Zustand: Good. nd. I think first edition was 1927 but this may be later. 5¾ x 7¾" pp. 256 with illustrations throughout the text by Anne Anderson. Good in grey-blue boards. Spine badly faded. Book is firm and tight, foxing to edges and to first few pages, but mostly clean and bright with no marks, stains, labels, or stamps. No dustwrapper. Anne Anderson (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 12mo. Green cloth, gilt animal device on front cover, boards lettered in gilt, 64pp, illustrated in-text, with head and end pieces, light foxing, toned pages, owner inscribed on front free end-paper, gilt faded, wear to boards, spine and extremities, with white scuffs to covers. Very Good. Ernest Aris (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. University Of London Press January 1949 Binding: Hardcover DUST JACKET HAS A FEW CREASES AND TEARS, OTHERWISE VERY GOOD.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. SIGNED (inscription) by the author. No jacket. Some foxing to the edges. Very good physical condition, overall. A rare title.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. 4to hbk; cover illustration by E Aris; board edges very rubbed; red cloth spine; a little writing indentation on front covers; front hinge started cracking - binding a little slack; rear hinge cracked; colour frontis; 3 further colour plates, 2 of which are credited to Honor appleton; contents clean & sound; many b/w line drawings; G+; ; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Illustrated by Honor Appleton; (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Fair used condition, inner hinges straining, old tape repairs, rear end paper has been removed, light wear & marks. R.M. Turvey (illustrator).