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Published by Falcon Press, 1948
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1948. Second Impression. 140 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. 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. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Sticker to front flap. Mild rubbing and marking.
Published by The Falcon Press Ltd, 1948
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Boards may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.
Published by Falcon Press
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Photograph available on request.
Published by Falcon Press, 1953
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1953. 200 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Published by The Falcon Press, 1953
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and toning.
Published by The Falcon Press Limited, 1948
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. DJ may have small chips and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.
Published by Falcon Press, 1953
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. Unclipped DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents with no inscriptions, 200pp.
Published by Heinemann, 1957
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book has light wear to the edges and corners with a light cock to the spine, otherwise in very good condition. Well-bound with bright pages that are crisp and unmarked. The dust jacket has mild wear to the edges and corners, including a half-inch chip at the bottom right of the front cover and an inch long closed tear at the top of the back cover. Light yellowing to the hinges and minor rubbing and smudging to the covers. A former tag loiters at the bottom of the back cover, otherwise in very good condition. Crisp, holds color well and is now enclosed in an archival cover.
Published by Heinemann, London, 1957
Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition. Book has very light wear. DJ has wear and tears on spine ends, chips at corner folds and a closed tear on bottom of front panel. Illustrated with b & w plates. Contains index. John Grant was sentenced to death, then transportation for life in Australia, for shooting a lawyer in the "hams'. This recounts his trial, survival of the journey to Australia (in the early days of that colony) and his life there and on Norfolk island until he was pardoned.
Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Good condition book. First edition. Small scuffs to the spine. Firm textblock with clear contents. A good copy.
Published by Heinemann, London, 1957
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First Edition in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine; small bit of surface wear only to cloth near top front edge. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white plates. 222 pages with index. Dust jacket is not price clipped, a few short closed edge tears, tiny chip at lower spine corner; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. True story of a young Englishman who committed a crime of passion and was sent to a penal colony in Australia. Records some remarkable first-hand impressions of early Australian life, and the odyssey of one suffering human spirit.
Published by Heinemann: London, 1957
Seller: Books on the Square, Virden, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1957. 1st ed. Fine book in very good dust jacket. Illustrated. 222 pp. 8vo. [U].
Published by The Falcon Press Limited, 1948
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd, 1957
Seller: best books, St. leonards on sea, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. dj has closed tears, chipping and browning on the back. Front end page has a Qantas Australian airline Christmas book plate, signed. Australia.
Published by HEINEMANN, 1957
Seller: CHESIL BEACH BOOKS, WEYMOUTH, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. SHELF WEAR FOXING ON DJ COVERS, WEAR AND MINOR TEARS ON DJ EDGES, CLOTH WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, FOXING ON REVERSE OF DJ, FOXING ON EPS AND SIDES, OTHERWISE GOOD. 600 GRAMS.
Published by Heinemann, GB, 1957
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.
Published by Heinemann., London/Melbourne, 1957
Seller: Peter Moore Bookseller (PBFA, BCSA) Est.1970, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. pp.x+222. 21.5cm. Frontispiece facsimile. 7 black and white photographic plates. Appendices. Index. Hard cover in defective dust jacket. A fair to good copy. 'Story of an exceptional man in exceptional conditions . remarkable first-hand impressions of early Australian life'.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, etc., 1957
Seller: D. A. Horn Books, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "Recently Mr. Hill-Reid discovered, in a trunk in the vaults of a London bank, the journal and letters of John Grant, an educated young man sentenced in 1803 to life transportation for a crime passionnel. The story that emerges from these papers is as astonishing as the circumstances of their discovery. .Grant was a poet and a lover of equity; he found himself, sixteen years after the first shipload had landed at Botany Bay, in a community where the elementary principles of justice were unknown. .it recounts the odyssey of one suffering human spirit." --- Original black cloth boards, lettered silver on spine (22.2 cm height). Illustrated dustwrapper, now protected. Pp. x, 222 including Frontispiece ("A page of one of Grant's letters home"), List of Illustrations (Frontispiece + 7), Author's Preface, Appendices (A - O), Index. With footnotes.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1957
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Good DJ. 1st Edition. 8vo, Previous owner's name at top of front free page. Inscription in lower right hand corner of front free page. DJ shows small tear at upper rear fold and upper rear spine. John Grant's Journey records some remarkable first-hand impressions of early Australian life. But its interest is not mainly historical, for above all it recounts the odyssey of one suffering human spirit. 222 pgs.
Published by Heinemann., London/Melbourne, 1957
Seller: Peter Moore Bookseller (PBFA, BCSA) Est.1970, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. pp.x+222. 21.5cm. Frontispiece facsimile. 7 black and white photographic plates. Appendices. Index. Signed QANTAS presentation label pasted to free front end paper. Hard cover in dust jacket. The jacket in poor condition. A good clean copy.
Published by Heinemann, London, 1957
Seller: BOPBooks, Tauranga, BOP, New Zealand
Book
Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Plates, (illustrator). 1st. This "Convict's Story 1803-11" is based on the journal and letters of John Grant, who was transported from England to the Australian colony for life, his sentance arising from a crime of passion. Grant was basically an educated, sensative and respectable young man, thwarted in love. Late in 1811 he was pardoned and returned to England. His extensive letters and records of his transportation and experiences in Australia, including a spell in the Hell-hole of Norfolk Island prison, were disovered by the author while he was researching the history of a long established London bank, where they had lain unopened for about 150 years. Thus the origins of the book are as extraordinary as is the story the documents revealed. 222 pages including appendices, index , eight b/w plates (two being documents). Black hard covers with gilt spine titles VG+ with small dent lower front edge adjacent spine, ink name FFEP, text block otherwise excellent. Colour art DJ VG+.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1957
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 222 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age tanning, soil, in protective Brodart. Pages clean, edges have some tanning and some foxing on top edge. Binding tight. John Grant was sentenced to death, then transportation for life in Australia, for shooting a lawyer in the "hams'. This recounts his trial, survival of the journey to Australia (in the early days of that colony) and his life there and on Norfolk island until he was pardoned in 1811. Record # 31242.
Published by Heinemann, [1957], 1957
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
8vo., First Edition, with a facsimile as frontispiece and 7 plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Based on Grant's own journal. Includes his conviction, transportation to Australia, pardon and return.
Published by Heinemann, London, 1957
Seller: Wheeler's Bookshop, Midhurst, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Colour dj. Biography of a man sentenced in 1803 to life transportation (to Australia) for a 'crime passionnel'. 222 pp. B/w plates. Small inscr. to ffep. Light edge-wear to dj. VG / VG.
x+222pp. 8vo. Original boards in slightly worn dustwrapper. A very good copy. Journal and letters of an educated man transported to New South Wales in 1803.
Published by Heinemann London 1957, 1957
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
First edition 222pp ex libris (pockets and cancellation stamps) d/w rubbed w. minor tear to upper edge of rear cover, excellent, illust.
Published by Heinemann, 1957
Seller: E. Manning Books, Robertsdale, AL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Heinemann, London, 1957. Hardcover (approx 5.75 x 8.75 inches (15 x 22 cm)), 222 pages. First U.K. Edition. Stated "First published 1957" on copyright page with no other date/printing indicated. The book and dust jacket (dj) are in Good condition. Black boards with silver lettering along spine. The boards are bumped and rubbed. Worn & frayed (rubbed) along bottom edges. Slanted spine. The spine and boards are slightly bowed. There is an inscription and stamp on the front endpaper. The dj is bumped, chipped and rubbed, with some creases. Soiled and foxing. The dj is not price-clipped, shows original price of 21s net. The dust jacket is protected in an archival (removable) book jacket cover. Additional photos available upon request. Weight: 515g.
Published by The Falcon Press, 1948
Seller: The Mill Bookshop, Gatehouse of Fleet, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Publisher - The Falcon Press, London, 1948. 1st ed. First edition. Introduction by Beverley Nichols. Good condition, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, slight forward lean, marks to boards, corners bumped. Bank stamp to ffep, with date August 1948. Tanning to endpapers. Browning to page edges. Unclipped jacket with browning and moderate shelf wear including 1cm loss to top of spine and loss to all corners. 'A book designed for the ordinary man, to conduct him.from the time when he writes his first cheque, through the occasion when he makes his first investment to the time when he writes his will. [The author explains] bank accounts, overdrafts, income-tax, investments, mortgages, shareholdings.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd., London,, 1957
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
First edition: octavo; hardcover, black boards with silver-gilt spine-titling; 222pp., with a monochrome frontispiece and 7 plates likewise. Minor wear; a few scattered spots to early pages and browning with dense spotting to text block edges. Price-clipped dustwrapper is well-rubbed with scrapes and chips at the corners and spine extremities; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Convicted to death due to a crime of passion, John Grant's sentence was commuted to transportation for life to the colony of New South Wales. Taking with him - rather bizarrely - a harpsichord and a copy of the works of Racine, he survived the trip and probably would have faded into obscurity but for two things: his inflated sense of fairness and the prodding of another convict - Irish Baronet, Sir Henry Hayes Brown - who drove him to rebellion. He was thus sentenced to be flogged upon his arrival at the even worse convict settlement of Norfolk Island. Author Hill-Reid discovered the tale of John Grant in a manuscript found in a trunk in a London bank vault; his re-telling of this hapless fighter for justice in a land where such notions were a mere luxury, is engaging and casts a wonderful light upon the lifestyle of the early Australian colony.
Published by Heinemann, London, 1957
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 222pp. Illustrated with eight black and white plates. Pages lightly age-toned, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, very good in an about very good age-toned dustwrapper with small chips and tears along the extremities.