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Published by N.Y. / New York: D Appleton-Century, 1943, 1st edition, First Printing, New York, NY, 1943
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good (see description). Dust Jacket Condition: Good (see description). Uncredited Cover Art (illustrator). First Edition. ----------hard cover, a solid Good to Very Good copy with a bit of light wear, a bit of browning to gray cloth, bumped upper corner, in an attractive Good price clipped dustjacket with some chips and tears, jacket has been rebacked with some plain paper and therefore taped age toning to spine, , ink name and 1944 date on front blank endpaper, 238 pages, b&w photos, contents include: Second World War; The Tragedy of France; Defense Scheme; Malta Goes Military; The Siege Begins; Cunningham and Wavell; Luftwaffe vs. Illustrious; Mussolini Tries Again; Days of Wrath; The Civilian Front; Ships and Men; Malta, G.C.; Victory and Beyond; From Melita to Malta; The First Siege; The Years of Plenty; The Second Siege, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5.75w x 8.25h Inches. Not Signed. Price Clipped Jacket.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1917
Seller: Bertram Books And Fine Art, West Point, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Printing. viii, 238 pages. A nice tight copy. Dust jacket has large pieces missing and closed tears. In mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6Ύ" - 7Ύ" tall. Hard Cover.
Published by Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1913
Seller: Pensees Bookshop, Charleston, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Brown boards with just very slight wear, clean pages, previous owner's name on the ffep. Dust jacket (in removable mylar sleeve) is lightly rubbed along the edges with small tear at the bottom front and slight loss at the t/b of the spine.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917
Seller: Days of Old Books, Wadesville, IN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. 1917 hb. Name inside. No dj. Partially cracked spine.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1923
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA, Carrollton, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5". ix, 355pp. Open tears to corners, head and tail of spine, and rear panel of unclipped dust jacket, with sunning and scattered rubbing. Vibrant red cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt, faded to spine. Light edgewear and slight lean to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A lovely copy in worn but present dust jacket of the short stories of novelist, essayist, playwright, and historian Ian Hay Beith.
1st ed. A journey through India. Pp. 96, 6 woodcuts, uneven toning to endpapers. Black cloth, illustrated d/w with some creasing and rubbing. G+/G+.
Published by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, London
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Reprint. First published in 1921, this is an undated subsequent edition, in a classic Hodder yellow jacket of about 1930. Edge wear, chipping, closed tears and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, 1" loss to top of spine, creasing and long closed tears to back jacket, some overall dust and time staining, corners rubbed with small loss, some foxing to page fore edges and endpapers. Not clipped (price on spine 2/-), no inscriptions, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, internally quite clean tight and square, overall a reading copy only. 320pp. A tale of true love during the first World War. Major General John Hay Beith, CBE (1876-1952), was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but he is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay.
Published by William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., Edinburgh and London, 1951
Seller: Schooner Books Ltd.(ABAC/ALAC), Halifax, NS, Canada
Condition: Vg. (x),(3)-299 Pp. Colour frontis and b&w. illus. Green cloth with gilt to spine and front cover.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1930
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Thus. [1930]. 1st thus, in Hodder and Stoughton's self proclaimed 'famous' 2s series. 312pp, plus viii page publisher's catalogue at rear. Red cloth covered boards, blind ruled with black titles on spine. Boards a little faded, sunned on spine, rubbed at corners and spine ends. Previous owner's name on front, slightly toned, endpaper, else internally neat, clean and tight. Vintage crime fiction. Ian Hay was the pen name of Major General John Hay Beith. The Poor Gentleman, his 11th novel, was first published in 1928. 12mo.
Published by William Blackwood, Edinburgh 1951, 1951
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
26.0 x 18.0cms, 300pp, colour frontespiece & b/w illusts, very good hardback (no dustwrapper, some foxing, small owner's stamp) An influential body of Scottish noblemen and gentlemen set out to encourage the negelected game of archery and called it 'The Kings Body Guard for Scotland, the Royal Company of Archers',
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Re-Issue. Early shilling edition. Romantic fiction. Blue bds with Black title and decoration, pp 367. CONDITION Very light wear to ends and tips, contemporary name to ffep, light edge browning to pages due to paper quality. Size: 12mo - over 6Ύ" - 7Ύ" tall.
Published by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 1916
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4th Impression. 1st part of his WWI biography. He was a second-lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was in France in April 1915 and was one of the first 100,000 of Kitchener's Army. He was awarded the Military Cross. As a writer he is known for his humour and collaborated with PG Wodehouse on some of fictional writings. CONDITION Blue cloth with dulled gilt titles (starting to fray at spine ends) colour frontis illus of Highlanders, 342 pages is mostly bright and crisp with some light foxing, name to front paste down and ffep. Size: 8vo - over 7Ύ" - 9Ύ" tall.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition in year of publication. Blue bds with Black title, pp 319. CONDITION Very light wear to ends and tips, some mild soiling, contemporary name to ffep, foxing mainly at ends and edges, tight copy. Size: 12mo - over 6Ύ" - 7Ύ" tall.
Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Black bds with White titles, decorated with Turbanned and Bearded Indian (fresh and unworn apart front bumped top rear cnr, sl chipping to text on spine) pp 96 with 6 nice wood block illustrations (tight and clean with tidy gift inscription to ffep) Original White wrapper has wood block illus to front, age discoloured with very light wear. Size: 8vo - over 7Ύ" - 9Ύ" tall.
Published by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, London, 1933
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by Bip Parsi (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR BIP PARSI, IN PENCIL ON TITLE PAGE 'Bip Parsi, Hampstead 1933', so it may have been his own copy. Some edge wear and browning to top and bottom of largely cream jacket and spine, spine and extremities browned, some slight overall dust staining, corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (price on spine 2/6), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 96pp, illustrated. Major General John Hay Beith (1876-1952), was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but he is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay. His witty memoirs of India in the last days of the Raj. Signed by Illustrator(s).
Published by William Blackwood and Sons Ltd, Edinburgh, 1951
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Pp. x+300(last blank), frontispiece, 35 plates, appendices, index; cr. 4to; green cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt insignia to upper and lower boards, cloth slightly marked; book label of David Levine, Sydney, together with bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown; William Blackwood and Sons Ltd, Edinburgh, 1951. First edition. White p. 256.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company,, Boston:, 1919
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition (matching year of publication on title and copyright pages). Good in a good (split along the front spine edge - tape repaired on verso, edge worn and age darkened) dust jacket. ; 203 pages.
Published by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1951
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
First Edition
First edition. Well illustrated with b/w photographic plates. Original forest-green cloth, spine lettering and cover rules and medallions (archer's motif on front and royal arms on rear) all in bright gilt; minor rubbing at corners, ΒΌ" closed tear at head of spine; faint rippling along centre spine. Text clean and tight. A fine copy of this, the second history of the Company (the first having been published in the 1870s). **Together with five items relating to the Royal Company of Archers** (unless otherwise stated, all fine): 1) Archers' Hall. 16 pp. booklet, plus glossy colour-pictorial wrappers and center insert. Contains list of Officers, A Brief Historical Survey by Ian Hay, and lists of the pictures and silver on display therein. 2) [Announcement flyer for the book]. Blue perforated leaf with reservation slip at bottom. 3) Inspection by her Majesty the Queen . Holyroodhouse .26th June 1952. 4 pp. heavy cream paper folder printed in green; light horizontal fold. (Less than a month after Her Majesty's coronation.) 4) Report by the Adjutant On the Occasion of the Coronation Visit to Scotland . 23rd to 29th June 1953. 36 pp. cream booklet, now lightly foxed and toned around edges of front; minor rumpling of fore edge. Near fine. 5) Visit of the Woodmen of Arden to Edinburgh, June 1973 . XXIXth Triennial Match ., The Royal Company vs. the Woodmen. 10 cream stapled foolscap folio sheets, mimeographed; horizontal fold; hint of dusting to lower front. The six items together.
Published by Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1916., 1916
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First US edition. Fine copy in very good to near fine dust jacket with a tear along the top of the foldover to the front flap and one very short tear at the bottom edge of the front panel. Signed by the author on the title page beneath his printed name "Ian Hay." On the front panel of the dust jacket the authorship is given as "by the Junior Sub (Ian Hay).". Signed by Author(s).
Published by Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1919., 1919
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First US edition. Fine copy, spine ends lightly crimped, in near fine dust jacket, the only discernible fault being the slight shadow of a label on the spine. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper "Ian Hay Beith / July 23d 1919.". Signed by Author(s).
Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. 1919], 1919
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. Octavo. pp. xxxv, 271. In publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With rare original dust jacket showing an impressionistic scene of soldiers set against a red exploding sky. Portions of jacket lost to corners and spine head/tail; otherwise a very good copy. Following the highly successful 'The First Hundred Thousand', this novel is dedicated to 'that born fighter and Modern Crusader, the American Doughboy.'.