siege malta part von fowler wright (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1942. First Edition. 728 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and mild foxing throughout. Faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild cracking to gutters, with exposed binding. Moderate tanning and foxing to text block edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.

Zustand: Good. 1942. Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear, sunned spine with edge wear but remains intact. Spine loose from pages at FFEP but book remains intact. Foxing and yellowing of pages, otherwise good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Boards have some wear. Content has light toning. No DJ.

Zustand: Good. 1942. Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear, sunned spine with edge wear but remains intact. Spine loose from pages at FFEP but book remains intact. Foxing and yellowing of pages, otherwise good copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Full title . "The Siege of Malta - Founded on an Unfinished Romance by Sir Walter Scott. Part 1 - St. Elmo"."The island of Malta is key to the control of the central Mediterranean Sea. For five months in 1561 a Turkish force attacked Malta - and was defied, in a great epic of endurance, by the Knights of St. John. Sir Walter Scott visited the island a year before his death, and gathered material to write a novel about it, dying before it was complete. Now S. Fowler Wright has finished Scott's last great historical romance. This is a story of high courage and deep faith. At its centre stands the old Grand Master of the Order, La Vallette (after whom Valetta was named), grim and unshakeable. But it is also a story of love undaunted amid fearful perils; of a girl who, rather than be separated from the man she loves, learns to wield a sword, and, escaping by a hairsbreadth from the clutches of the infidel, finally wins even the Grand Master's grudging admiration. Here is a novel to stir the blood and stimulate the imagination." (Text taken from Goodreads.) This 1942 first edition copy is in Good condition overall. The (unclipped) dust jacket (Fair) is clean, with numerous small open tears to the top and lower edges (see photos). The blue, cloth-covered boards are in good condition with some light bumping to edges, corners, and to spine head and tail. Internally, the pages are clean with no noted marks or annotations (other than a previous owner's name in pen on the inside front cover). The binding remains good, and the block is clean.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of the first part of this novel based on an unfinished work by Sir Walter Scott, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Part I only of a II part work.The first edition, first impression of part I, 'St. Elmo'.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Founded on an unfinished romance by Sir Walter Scott, this novel explores the history of Malta and the struggle for control of the Mediterranean between the East and West.Written by Sydney Fowler Wright, a British editor, poet, science fiction author, screenwriter, accountant and a conservative political activist.Part Two was titled 'St. Angelo'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Significant losses to dust wrapper back strip head and tail. Small losses at tails of each wrap. Closed tears to wrap heads. Back strip age toned, with handling marks to rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned due to paper type, otherwise clean. Near Fine. book.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in white to lightly sunned spine, minor edgewear, in a clean and bright pricelipped pictorial dustjacket with some marginal creasing and closed tears. A very solid copy. 728pp. Internally clean, uniformly toned throughout, most likely due to wartime economy standard paper stock. The second part of Fowler Wright's epic retelling of the 16th century siege of Malta.