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Paperback. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : no dust jacket present. First Printing: March 1973. This 1973 first printing of "The Journey of the Flame" is in good condition. The cover shows minor wear consistent with age, and the binding remains intact. There is no dust jacket, and the pages show slight yellowing typical of books of this vintage. No inscriptions or library markings are present, preserving its collectability. Alfredo Ramos Martinez (illustrateur).…

Soft cover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : Softcover Wraps. First Softcover Edition. Softcover book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Spanish Ed Alfaguara 1997/ 1st Pr. 152 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear. Clean text. All usual and standard signs of an ex-library (New York Public Library)-book (stamps, stickers, etc.) present. Extra mylar wrapper. Jane Brown (Author Photo); David Tweedie (Cover Design); Véronique Rolland (Photography) (illustrateur). …

Paper Covers. Etat : Good Condition. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. As Issued. White spine with Adventure Series No.3., Title and author on spine.This paper covers stapled book is in good condition with minor creases to front cover and spine Book in general is in good condition with covers a little darkened and paper lightly tanned. 191pp Content clean, bright and sund. Photos available on request. Profusely Illustrated (illustrateur).…

hardcover. Etat : Good.

63p. slender paperback, 4.75 x 7.25 inches, small chips at spine ends, otherwise very good condition. Frontispiece portrait of Pazukhina together with other organizers of the collective farm. Printed on crude paper, evenly toned. "Made in Russia" rubberstamped on rear cover. "1933" penned in corner of verso of title page. Account of life on a collective farm by one of its organizers.…

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition Presumed. No stated date but believed to be late 1930s or early 1940s. Presumed first edition. xii, 212pp. This is the story of a young South African who, after serving with distinction in the 1914-18 war, disgraced himself over a worthless woman. Then came a period of "roughing it" in America, after which he worked his passage to France and joined the famous Foreign Legion. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered boards with black titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with light bumping to the corners and heavier bumping with some fading and a little damage to the cloth at spine ends. There is some damp spotting and fading on the fore edge of the front board and a water stain around the bottom corner of the rear board. The contents are tight and clean with a faint stain near the bottom corner of the rear fixed endpaper and a name and date has been written on the front free endpaper. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with some soiling and a large red stain is visible on the reverse of the wrapper around the bottom rear corner. Small pieces are missing from the corner tips, about 1/4" from the bottom of the spine, a larger piece from the bottom rear spine corner, up to about 1/2" from the top of the spine and up to about 1/4" from parts of the top front and rear edges. The top front edge has noticeable creasing and there are several small tears on the top edge. The bottom spine edges have tears of up to about 1 1/2" and these tears together with some other smaller tears on the edges have been repaired on the reverse with document repair tape.…

No Jacket. Duodecimo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Reprint . Small sticker from the previous owner. Reprint, 1954. A Small publication of 54 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Reprint. Hardback. Slight wear and a couple of very small tears to D/J. Price clipped. This is the story of a full life in an English community lived first and told afterwords, from within. These Good Neighbours lived about fifty years ago in a place not fifty miles from the metropolis. The author's gradnfather lived there with them, and he himself lives there still. But the book is full of learning, though not book-learning, nor hearsay. Walter Rose ranges over the whole life of man-next-door-to-the-fields, the play of children and adults, as well as the never-ending work that is the life and topic of such a society. Illustrations. 138 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). John Hookham (illustrateur).…

Hardcover. Etat : Acceptable. No Jacket.

Cloth in Slipcase. Etat : Near Fine. NF/no dust jacket--as issued. Slipcase haslight rubbing and edgewear. 1923. David McKay. Presumed first edition. Very nice copy of this scarce book.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Presumed first edition. No additional dates, editions or printings indicated. Fine, if not new hardback in fine, if not new dust jacket ($34.94 in USA ￡23.50 in UK) on rear panel.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Blue Wrappers Printed In Darker Blue. One Of Reportedly 1000 Copies Printed For The Farquhars By The Grabhorns. . With The "Very Happy New Year" Card Of The Farquhars Laid In Loosely. Lightly Used, Near Fine, Fading To Spine Edges , Trace Of Paper Remnant In Horizontal Line On Inside Of Front Cover.…

254 pp, maps on paste-downs, end-papers foxed, lacks front end-paper, else very good copy in black, cloth boards.

Etat : Fine. Publisher's original stapled card covers. 16mo 5½'' x 4¼''. 16 pages. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Without any number, which are usually written in hand. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

Hardcover / Hardback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. First edition. Hardback. Featuring amongst others : Pat Garret, Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson, Frank and Jesse W. James, Bob and Emmett Dalton, Belle Starr, Al Jennings, Bill Tilghman + many more. Illus. 303pp. With previous owner's b/plate to fpd, fr. hinge beginning to show, covers sl marked. Rare UK edn. G++. …

Etat : Good. 1949 Cambridge University Press printing. A hardback volume in Good condition, in a rather grubby dustjacket with wear and tear to all edges, and 1" tear at front base spine. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). BUYERS OUTSIDE UK please also note the following: 1. shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel 2. many countries apply import or other taxes - these are the buyers responsibility; we may ask for extra payment to cover any taxes which we have to pay 'up front' on the buyer's behalf.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 8vo, reset and reprinted, pp, 77, map and many plates, light blue titled orange cloth faded, light blue decorated top cover, names and dedication on the leading endpapers, a scarce item Memories of a girl's holidays on Skokholm which lies 2.5 miles off the coast of Pembrokeshire.…

Hard Back / Cloth Embossed. Etat : Good Clean Cond. No Dust Jacket. Hardback : hard cover edition in good vintage condition, some slight wear to edges, as normal for age of book. Overall good copy of this title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Some stains on cover. Previous Owner Name/marks. Clean and Unmarked Text. Some b/w Illustrations (illustrateur). Book.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Pps. xiii, 253 pages. Publisher's blue cloth with black letters on front and spine. Cloth lightly soiled on spine. Corners rubbed with light fraying to upper rear board corner. Spine head and tail lightly scuffed and softened. Binding tight with slight foreword lean. End papers are cracked at spine; repaired. Binding tight. Age toned paper. No names or stamps on end papers. Ghosts of pencil erasures and occasional colored pencil mark or comment in text block. An unusual combination of bound pages and slightly smaller leafs pasted in with A & B added to page numbers. A scarce edition, comprising a series of essays and some poems, that show clear influence of Spiritualism, Theosophy, Astrology, Christian Science, etc. Approx. 8.25 x 5.25" w. …

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1961, STATED 1ST PRINTING ON TITLE PG, ,1st edition, BOOKCLUB, EX-LIBRARY USUAL WEAR POCKET STAMPS some mended margin pg tears ,GOOD/GOOD, Exlib book, hardcover, with dustjacket. Has checkout pocket and due date history in back. Contains several school stamps and markings ,His father said remember the way back if you go south. Up the hill to the tall pine tree, High above him he could see the birds flying south. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. frontis (portrait), 320p. Original black cloth. Simple gilt oval portrait on front cover. 19 cm. Four separate sizeable cloth pieces, adding up to almost half of the total area, were missing from backstrip which did still have the original gilt title at the top. Vintage black cloth added under partial backstrip. Wear at cover corners stiffened and some black paper added. Internally sound and clean with almost no foxing. We have also had this 1875 edition in publisher's cloth that was rust brown (and perhaps in other colors).…

Cloth. Etat : Good. First American edition. 31 pages, plus 11 leaves of publisher's ads. Yellow cloth soiled; red stain to part of top edge. Occasional moderate soiling within. Binding is sound. The first London edition was issued a year earlier.

Etat : Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Coward-McCann, New York. 1930. Xxvi, 356 pgs. Illustrated in black and white. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is lightly chipped to the spine ends and to the top edge of the front panel of the DJ). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's inscription present to the reverse of the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A scarce account of a famous smuggler, known at the time as Abd el Hai, out of Somalia; and his adventures in the Pearl Trade, smuggling arms, slaves and hashish from Egypt, Ethiopia, Yemen, through the Red Sea into the Gulf of Aden.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…