herries j w (34 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1946, The Albyn Press, Slightly smaller than A5 stapled softback with matt card covers. Undated but from the text it would appear to be 1946. The book quotes the film "I Know Where I'm Going" which was released in 1945 and the railway information is pre-nationalisation quoting the LMS and LNER and suggesting travelling by train to some places closed in the very early years of nationalisation. 48pp on rather poor quality war standard paper and illustrated with black and white photographs plus a map across the centre pages. Good condition and no rusty staples. Small corner missing from title page top right., Book weighs 51g. For UK buyer if book weighs more than 2Kg when packed (allow 150g-200g for packing) we will request additional postage. For non UK buyer the threshold is 399g surface mail, 150g airmail. Please don't order unless prepared to pay or ask first. ISBN.

Pictorial Cover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. 56 pages, illustrated, local adverts. No date stated - perhaps 1960? A clean and soundly bound book, a little wear to covers.

Etat : Good. 1937. No Edition Remarks. 306 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Scottish first edition 1st printing, Near Fine unread book with light shelf wear and a couple of small rubs to red boards, in a Good jacket with light soiling, sun fade on white spine and edge wear that includes several small closed tears and several chips, largest is triangular about 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch at bottom of front panel. Collection of mixed genre short stories.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good+ condition. Etat de la jaquette : Very good- condition (DJ). First Edition. 216 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Price-clipped dustjacket is moderately sunned on the spine, with minor shelfwear, soiling and discoloration; protected in archival mylar. The text is clean and unmarked. Dustjacket illustration by Mackay. First edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Card. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 23pp, stapled binding. final page creased, with a small tear, not affecting text. Blue card covers.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition without Jacket on green cloth - collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Etat : 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. No dust jacket. Minor wear to blue cloth boards, with sunned spine. Light foxing to the page edges. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps/stickers. Otherwise, a good, clear condition book.

Etat : Good. 1947. First Edition. 216 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth. Signed by the author with dedication to front endpaper. 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.

Etat : Good. 1960. Hardcover. Clean copy in dulled dust wrapper. DW with nicks and small tears. Signed by the author to ffep. Remains a good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Etat : Very Good. 1947. Hardcover. Very good clean copy in good dustwrapper. DW has light nicks and tears, dulled spine. Light pencil scoring on FFEP, remains a very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Soft Cover. Etat : Very Good. Photographs (Robert Adam & A R Edwards) (illustrateur). c1945. 48pp. Card covers. Double page map. Numerous photos of the 12 areas covered/ Covers lightly soiled. Light waterstain to bottom 2cm of pages. with adverts of Edinburgh buisinesses.

8vo. pp [vi], 146. Publisher's black and white illustrated covers with black lettering. Illustrated in black and white. Papers presented at a Centenary seminar at 22 Clyde Road, Dublin, 17 September, 1981. ISBN: 095023592X Clean and unmarked throughout. Light shelfwear at covers. Overall very good indeed.

Etat : Very Good. 1947. Hardcover. Very good clean copy in good dustwrapper. DW has light nicks and tears, dulled spine. Light pencil scoring on FFEP, remains a very good copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. h/b 133 pages, condition is very good, no DJ, protected in a plastic cover. Unnumbered copy of a Limited edition of 300 copies. The Robin Chapel of the Thistle foundation.

Hardcover. Etat : V. Good. 216 pp. Red cloth boards w. title printed in blk on spine. Illus. dust wrapper w. drg. in red. Jkt spine discoloured and slightly torn at top. Grubby and 2 small tears at top of front cover. Jkt complete, apart from missing portion at top of rear cover (4" x 2 1/2"). Ink inscription on front endpaper. Half title page. List of author's titles. Title page. List of contents. Preface. Sound, neat copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is chipped with loss at the spine ends. 216 pages, 24 short stories, authors preface.

Etat : Good. 1960. Hardcover. Clean copy in dulled dust wrapper. DW with nicks and small tears. Signed by the author to ffep. Remains a good copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. J G Glass (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Book is Signed by author with 1947 date - no dedication. Has slight wear at top and base of spine o/w very good; Dust jacket is attached on spine, has loss to base and top one inch of spine as well as on top right hand corner. Also has closed edge tears and sellotape repairs on back, Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. c1934 John Menzies paperback; Good copy, some ageing, darkened covers, but mainly sound copy; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. What little remains of the dust jacket is now in a protective sleeve, some foxing.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. No publication date. 48 page stapled booklet with B/W images throughout. Light wear to the card covers, including areas discolouration and scuffing (primarily to the back cover), and some creasing to the corners. Overall tanned appearance to the pages but otherwise they are clean with no inscriptions or annotations. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Weight: 55g.

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Henry W. Kerr, John Duncan, Hamish Paterson, and Tom Curr (illustrateur). First Edition. 1923. First edition. 114pp., frontispiece and four other black and white illustrations. James William Herries was a Scottish journalist, and was chief reporter for The Scotsman newspaper in the 1930s and '40s. In this book he describes a journey he made along the rivers Tweed and Tay in a skin-covered coracle. The book is bound in the original grey cloth covered boards with black titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling and a little staining on the boards. The top of the spine is lightly bumped and there is slightly heavier bumping to the bottom of the spine. The contents are tight and clean with browning to the free endpapers and a name and date (1925) has been written on the front free endpaper.

Hard Cover. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, some sunning to covers, top of page edges clean gilt and no bumping to corners. There is a trimmed glassine jacket stating three guinees nett. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. No 203 in a Limited Edition of 300. 133pp. The story of the Memorial Chapel near Edinburgh dedicated in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Robin Tudsbery who was killed in action in the last days of the Second World War. 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: 10.25 x 7.75 inches.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Jacket by C. Brown (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping and short closed tears to top and bottom of fab retro jacket and spine, some slight overall browning, corners rubbed with small loss, folds slightly rubbed, some foxing and offsetting to endpapers. Not price clipped (10/6), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 307pp. The adventures of traveller, journalist and psychic researcher J. W. Herries (1875-c. 1948). Quite a scarce book.

Hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covers, pasted illustration to the front cover, gilt title to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 192 printed pages of text [including illustrated advertisements], with 9 monochrome photographs, fold-out colour inside the front cover. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SCOTLAND (Gaelic: Alba).

First edition. Undated [1956]. xiv + 133pp; 26 full-page plates. Fine blue cloth with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Slight tape marking discolouration to endpapers, otherwise Fine in a plain cream-coloured dustwrapper, now protected in a clear plastic sleeve. Limited edition of 300 copies. The present book bears the handwritten inscription ''To Marion. From Isabella F Tudsbery. With best wishes''. [The Thistle foundation was established as a charity in 1944 by Sir Francis & Lady Isabella Tudsbery to provide housing and care for disabled war veterans and their families. The Robin Chapel in Edinburgh was completed in 1953 as a place of interdenominational worship and as a memorial to their only son, Robin (1919-45), who was killed in World War Two].

First Edition. Short stories, some set in the Highlands and islands of Scotland - some with the illusory time theme made popular by Priestley and J W Dunne> VG in Good, worn jacket which has internal repairs. Small newspaper clipping re Herries laid in.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Publisher The Thistle Trust, Edinburgh, presumed 1956. Very Good condition. In blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and design to spine and front cover. Rough cut pages. Tight binding, all pages intact, no markings or inscriptions. Illustrations in b/w. Limited edition of 300, no indication of number.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Published by Rathan Publishing Company in 1947, here is the first hardback printing of J.W.Heriies' STORM ISLAND and other stories signed, dated and inscribed by the author to a previous owner in blue ink to the front free end paper. Red cloth binding, black spine lettering, 216 pages, the book is in very good condition with some spotting to the end papers and a few pages thereafter plus some spotting to the extreme outsides of the page ages and a few bumps to the edges of the boards. The dust jacket is fair only with some general spotting to the covers plus some chipping to the edges and corners and some loss to the top and base of the spine. Signed by Author(s).