Peter davies uk (77 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The cover has brown cloth. Book One is titled Tales of the Canadian Northland, and has 14 chapters. Book Two is titled Mississauga, and has 4 chapters. Book Three is titled Ajawaan, and has 8 chapters. B/W photos. At the end of the Preface, the author states: Beaver Lodge, Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada. The text block ends have darkened, and two of the ends have a little foxing. One page margin has light stain and is a little rumpled. Scans e-mailed upon request. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Spine Somewhat Cocked. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Edge & Shelfwear. First UK. Sturdy. OP.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Fair condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, previous owner inscription to inside page, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Fair condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, foxing to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Good condition. Hard cover. Edges dust darkened/tanned. Slight foxing to side edge. Pages good. Very slight damage to front flyleaf. No jacket. Couple of tiny marks on cover. Spine faded. Small tear to top of spine. Minor bumping to corners and base of spine. 119 pages.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Edges dust darkened and foxed. Pages sound with the exception of some foxing. Glossy pictorial boards. Date written on front flyleaf. No jacket. Cover marked and dirty with wear/bumping to edges and corners. Spine slightly faded with wear/bumping to ends. 260 pages.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 1st Edition. The author was the youngest commanding officer in the British Army at the outbreak of the Second World War, he was wounded and became a PoW being repatriated due to his wounds. After the war he again took a regimental command and continued his career as an international show jumper. Includes 38*b/w photographs. xi+180pp. DJ in poor condition with tears and loss. Book is very good condition with just a little shelf-wear.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 168pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on printed green spine label. 12mo. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Top text block edge tanned, remaining edges tanning. Free endpapers just starting to tan; pages starting to age. Otherwise internally neat, clean and tight.…

Hardcover. good used hardback with no dust jacket. A novel set in the time of Jesus and thhhhhhhhe early church, with the Romans being the main characters.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Account of the first sixty-five turbulent years of the fledgling US navy that built following the War of Independence. Includes 34*illustrations. 340pp. DJ has been laminated. Laminate starting to peel in places. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Includes 8*b/w photographs. 192pp.Cream cloth board with darkened spine and patches to boards. Blue tittle plate on upper spine. Some pages toned. Tape stain to rear board.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Dust Jacket Included. * PUBLISHER : PETER DAVIES * YEAR : 1946 * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : 163 * CONDITION : USED - ACCEPTABLE * OTHER: THE DUSTWRAPPER IS HEAVILY WORN WITH CREASING AND TEARS ALONG THE EDGES AND CORNERS WITH A LARGE TEAR ACROSS THE FRONT. THE RED COVER BOARDS ARE RUBBED WITH BUMPING AND FADING ALONG THE EDGES AND SPINE, THE GILT LETTERING IS CLEAR. THE BINDING IS FIRM. THE RED COLOURED TOP FOR-EDGE HAS DULLED AND FADED IN PLACES. TO THE TOP OF THE FFEP IS A PENNED WRITTEN NAME. THERE IS FOXING ALONG THE FOR-EDGE AND INSIDE BOOK. THE PAGES ARE LIGHTLY TANNED, THOUGH PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK. SILVA BAKER (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Adrien Jean Baptiste François Bourgogne fought in Napoleon's campaigns in Russia and Germany with the Imperial Guard, these memoirs are a rare example from a French perspective. Includes 12*b/w illustrations. xvi+356pp. Blue cloth boards with bumped corners, marking and spotting and fade especially to spine. Gift inscription dated on endpaper. Ex-library with labels pasted to frnt fixed endpaper. Foxing to several pages. Pages untrimmed. du Faur, Faber (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 154pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on printed brown spine label. 12mo. Sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed spine ends. Top text block edge tanned, remaining edges tanning. Free endpapers tanning; pages ageing; a little shaken. Otherwise internally neat and clean. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 182pp, [10]pp publisher's catalogue. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on printed green spine label. 12mo. Sun-faded spine. Top text block edge tanned, remaining edges tanning. Free endpapers just starting to tan; pages starting to age. Otherwise internally neat, clean and tight.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 182pp, [10]pp publisher's catalogue. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on printed purple spine label. 12mo. Slightly sun-faded spine, rubbed spine ends. Text block edges tanned. Endpapers just starting to tan; pages starting to age. Otherwise internally neat, clean and tight. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 174pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on printed red spine label, top text block edge sprayed red. 12mo. Slightly sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed spine ends. Top text block edge colour fading, remaining edges tanning. Free endpapers tanning; previous owner's name on front free endpaper, pages ageing; a little shaken. Otherwise internally neat and clean.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 162pp, [10]pp publisher's catalogue. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on printed maroon spine label. 12mo. Slightly sun-faded spine. Top text block edge tanned, remaining edges tanning. Free endpapers just starting to tan; pages starting to age. Otherwise internally neat, clean and tight.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition. 208pp, two sections of black and white photographs. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Bumped spine ends. Gutters stretched. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has a 10cm2 section missing top of front, several closed tears, sections at spine ends missing, price unclipped. Sets out to help golfers over 45 adjust their game to suit their abilities and requirements. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. The authors' memoirs of his life seeking underwater treasure. Includes 24*pages of b/w photographs. 238pp. Blue cloth boards. Sunned spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bright, tightly bound red boards, gilt title on the spine, no writing inside. The jacket is not price-clipped but has some dust spotting along the outer edges of the inner flaps, also slightly affecting the closed page edges. Lavishly illustrated with b/w plates throughout (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. The author was a company director who volunteered as an ordinary aircraftman at the start of the war. This is his fascinating account of his life in the RAF. 218pp. Light rubbing to edges of DJ. 1cm closed tear to head of upper DJ joint. Marbling to upper rear DJ edge. Lower DJ corners scuffed and nicked. Toned shadow to free endpaper.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition, second impression. 196pp, with photographic illustrations and diagrams etc. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth a little tired, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Upper text block edge dust darkened. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original chipped and rubbed dust wrapper, with minor loss along lower edge and at head of spine, shelf worn, bumped at edges.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. First UK edition. xx, 266pp, with black and white illustrations in text. Brown publisher's cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. Binding has been customized with a sealed in illustration and notes regarding Guy Richards on the front panel and an adhered plastic protective sealed wrap. Genealogical tables on endpapers. 8vo. Cloth gently rounded at corners and spine ends, small scar in cloth on spine. Upper text block edge a little toned. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Written in a style more akin to a detective story than a typical history, Guy Richards, former City Editor of Journal America, explores the last days, death and fall out of Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial Family during the Russian Revolution.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. N/A. 1st Edition. First edition. 232pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly rubbed bottom corners and spine ends, top corners bumped, cocked. Text block edges starting to fox and tan. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has areas of loss, closed tears, creasing, shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. First trade edition (fifty copies having been privately printed a few years earlier). xii, 276pp. Black and white plate frontispiece and eight further similar plate illustrations. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (boards a little worn and marked). Some mild flecking on text block edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (chipped at edges all round with minor loss along rear upper edge, a little discoloured). 8vo. J M Barrie's autobiography - the book that prompted George Moore to call Barrie 'one of the most beautiful writers of the English language that ever lived'.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Fair to good condition hard cover, some wear to cover, and spine faded, tanning to pages, previous owner signature to verso, otherwise in a good readable condition. Wartime economy standard.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, first printing. 282pp. Orange cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. 8vo. A little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, slight bend in front board and a mild rub mark on the rear board. Text block edges have mild foxing and some slight discolouration. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has moderate shelf wear, chipping to the corners with some loss. A tear to the top and bottom of spine. Chapping to the top and bottom edges with some loss. A biography of Alan Caillou's adventures and experiences of his time as an intelligence officer between 1941 & 1942.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. 1st UK edition; ex St Johns private library copy; book looks very little read; it has a cancelled red cross hospital sticker on the fep; and one date stamp on rear end page; I cannot see other markings; nice clean copy in unclipped d/w; ; Ex-Library; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages. Illustrated by Graham Miller (Cover) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Biography of the founder of the central African state of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Includes 1*b/w photographs. 180pp, Black cloth boards with blue title plate to spine.