day tortoise von bates (32 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by Peter Farmer. Please note some stock images show a jacket, this copy does NOT include a jacket. 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: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good Jacket. First Edition. First Edition. Price clipped jacket. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Zustand: Good. 1961. First Edition. 94 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable tanning, rubbing and marking.

Zustand: Good. 1961. Third Impression. 94 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Minor foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, lighter to pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Light cracking and creasing to gutters but binding remains firm. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning with subtle sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has similar sunning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Some minor tanning, creasing and scuffing overall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Peter Farmer (illustrator). 1st Edition. Some light foxing. The jacket has a couple of small chips and closed tears.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Good for year, hardcover. Generally clean, bright and tight. Some marks and age tanning but otherwise in good condition. Ex-library copy with usual markings . Dustjacket fair.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Dust Jacket Included. PETER FARMER (illustrator). THE DUST JACKET IS RUBBED AND FADED. THERE IS A SMALL TEAR TO THE TOP OF THE FRONT AND REAR JACKET. THE CORNERS ARE BUMPED. THE SPINE IS RUBBED AND BOTH ENDS ARE BUMPED. THE PRICE IS UNCLIPPED. THERE IS A SMALL PENNED MARK TO THE FFEP. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Peter Farmer (illustrator). Some fox spots to endpapers. Binding tight. Dustwrapper price-clopped but smart in new Brodart plastic overwrapper.

First Edition. Previous owner's inscription. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 93p. : ill. ; 19cm. Subjects: English fiction. 3 Kg.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Peter Farmer (illustrator). First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to end papers and page edges and no bumping to corners. 94pp. A story about a man in his late 50s nd a brief joyful interlude in his life with a vivacious woman named Kitty. Tucked in is a copy of an obituary from The Times 1974 of the author. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 7.5 x 5 inches.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 93p. : ill. ; 19cm. Subjects: English fiction. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 93 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Subjects; H. E. Bates. Fiction. Genre; Novels - England - 20th century. 3 Kg.

Third Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his personalized bookplate to front pastedown. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 93 pages; Physical description.: 93 p : ill ; 20 cm. Subject: Fiction -- Fictional Characters -- Texts. 3 Kg.

First Edition. 1961 1st edition with B&W illustrations by Peter Farmer; attractive binding; dust jacket not price-clipped with discolouration to spine and edges and light wear and tear to top edge; page fore-edge lightly foxed; short gift inscription on front free endpaper; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A small publication of 96 pages. There is gilt on the spine and the front of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages are immaculately clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. the jacket is torn and worn. chipped on the spine. sunned. marked. foxing. tightly bound. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

98 pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper, B/w illustrations. a very good copy. Second impression.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 3rd Edition. The jacket is rubbed, edgeworn and a bit soiled but has not suffered much paper loss. Internally clean and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First edition. 93 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Peter Farmer.

1st edition. Light foxing on page edges and endpapers. Binding tight. Dust jacket price-clipped; spine a bit yellowed; small, faint stains near spine; protected in removable clear film. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Farmer, Peter (illustrator). 1st Edition. D/W slight wear and snags to edges, spine browned and ends worn, slight ageing to edges and a few handling marks. Front design repeated on rear. Green boards with title/author on front in gold, rubbed spine ends, slightly warped and a small dirt mark at front base . Internally vg, with no insc. 96pps, inc 24 b/w illus, many full page. . Please read notes on shipping.

A short novel by H.E. Bates. Hardback book with unclipped dustjacket, Some v.minor chipping & some browning to d/w but overall near VG; interior: some foxing to endpapers but o/wise VG. Book illustrated by Peter Farmer.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Includes short stories by H. E. Bates 'The Day of the Tortoise'; V. S. Pritchett 'Stage Fall'; Joan Aiken 'Honeymaroon'; Edmund Gilligan 'Sea Bride'; Youngman Carter 'Dead Ringer'; Ray Bradbury 'Drummer Boy of Shiloh'. Minor rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

Zustand: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Includes short stories by H. E. Bates 'The Day of the Tortoise'; V. S. Pritchett 'Stage Fall'; Joan Aiken 'Honeymaroon'; Edmund Gilligan 'Sea Bride'; Youngman Carter 'Dead Ringer'; Ray Bradbury 'Drummer Boy of Shiloh'. Minor rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

Zustand: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Includes short stories by H. E. Bates 'The Day of the Tortoise'; V. S. Pritchett 'Stage Fall'; Joan Aiken 'Honeymaroon'; Edmund Gilligan 'Sea Bride'; Youngman Carter 'Dead Ringer'; Ray Bradbury 'Drummer Boy of Shiloh'. Minor rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

Zustand: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Includes short stories by H. E. Bates 'The Day of the Tortoise'; V. S. Pritchett 'Stage Fall'; Joan Aiken 'Honeymaroon'; Edmund Gilligan 'Sea Bride'; Youngman Carter 'Dead Ringer'; Ray Bradbury 'Drummer Boy of Shiloh'. Minor rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

Sm. 8vo., with numerous illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, text margins lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean copy. FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOVELLA, with an illustration by Mary Dinsdale. It appeared in book form in the following year. VERY SCARCE. Eads, B258.1.

8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; green cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Eads, A92.

First Edition. Illustrations by Peter Farmer Fine copy in dust-wrapper.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Peter Farmer (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of one of H. E. Bates's short stories with illustrations and in the original dust wrapper. First edition of The Day of the Tortoise by H. E. Bates in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated throughout the text in black and white, and in colour to the title page, by Peter Farmer, British book illustrator and theatre artist.This is a lovely first edition copy of this short story. Herbert Ernest Bates CBE was an English write, best known for Love for Lydia and My Uncle Silas. He was a prolific writer and this is one of his many short stories.Prior owner's book plate and ink inscription from 1965 to the first pastedown. From the library of John Anderson. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. There is some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. To the dust wrapper, there are a couple of very small tears. There is some slight spotting to the fore edge. Prior owner's book plate and ink inscription from 1965 to the first pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.