Andom (148 results)

Condition: Good. 1926. Third Edition. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with lettering. 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. Lettering is clear.

Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Faded spine. Bumping. Content has toning. Previous owner name to ffep. No DJ.

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white frontispiece. 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 moderater shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. Spine noticeably tanned. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Cloth, G. 208pp, b/w illustrations, cheap paper rather tanned, head & tail of the spine worn, Ex Cruising Association Library copy with their bookplate & gilt stamp to the upper cover, a fair copy. A collection of humorous short stories, some with a nautical aspect. Alfred Walter Barrett [ 1869 - c1933 ] journalist & author who published many books using the pseudonym R Andom. He was taken to court in June 1921 and found guilty of conspiring to corrupt public morals - he had published a lonely hearts magazine intended to allow lonely peiple find friendship. Some found more than that, the judge, in sentencing Barrett said - 'There can be no graver attack on the morals of this country than to establish a paper as you did for the purpose of allowing men and women to commit immorality.' This was Barrett's last published work - the hard labour to which he was sentenced perhaps sealing his fate. 300 grams.

Condition: Good. 1926. Third Edition. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing, heavy tanning to endpapers. Notable cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Stamp and pencil to front endpaper. Mild water droplets to pages throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable foxing to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has notable crushing and tearing to ends. Mild cocking to spine. Boards are moderately warped.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Not dated. Date with name of previous owner is 1917. In good plus pale blue cloth boards, blind stamped ruled liens and central and corner decoration to front; navy titles and decoration to spine. The boards are tight and flat, fairly clean; spine ends worn. "The Clevedon Community Bookshop Bindery Team" have inserted new rear end papers and front free end paper. The existing old front paste down has name and date in pencil and a later dedication in ink. The Team also cleaned the spine of old paste and provided new mull and card to spine. The text block is in good condition, tightly bound and flat; the cut edges and Prelims are tanned; some of the pages are slightly tanned around the edges. Without jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. C Harrison (illustrator). First edition thus. 12mo. n.d. but dedication to half title dated 1922. Tear to top of joints. Wear to extrems.Cracked hinges. Tanning to pages. Closed tear to lower corner of ffep. Silhouette illustrations. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. No Earlier Edition Stated. Numerous delightful b/w illustrations in text, pictorial spine and front cover. Softening to head and tail of spine, bump to top corner of front board, lightly rubbed bottom corners of boards, significant age spotting to page block, soiling to top of page block, mild age stain on FEP and BEP, previous owner's name and date on FEP. Text and illustrations are clean, bright and tight throughout. Used.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Octavo softcover (very tatty but okay as reading copy); 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 cost.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Green boards, slightly shelfworn. Contents clean bright and tight. Nice book. Please contact us for pictures and/or further details - only too pleased to help!

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Medium cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, boards are loose with front free endpaper detached but still present. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Water mark to rear board.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. JARROLD & SON Undated hardcover with illustrations by B LIVETT. Fair condition, book has wear to boards and splits to spine area. Pictorial design to front board and spine. No dust jacket present. Shipped within two working days from the U/K. Images available on request.

Condition: 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. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.

Condition: Good. 1920. First Edition. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by Louis Gunnis. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil inscription to front pastedown. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has strong forward lean.

Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. Not dated, edition not stated; published by Jarrold & Sons; might be the first edition of 1911, which was undated, but can't be sure. Stamp on front free endpaper. Stains on lower page fore-edge and in lower margins of several pages. Binding tight. Red cloth faded on spine, with a little general wear; black lettering and decoration on front board and spine.

Condition: Good. Fourth thousand. Good condition book without dust jacket. Illustrated boards are clean with little wear, spine toned with minor bumping to ends. Book has clean and bright contents, internal hinges cracked to webbing and some separation internally but no loose pages, no inscriptions, 242pp + adverts rear, 83 illustrations in silhouette by Alec. Carruthers Gould.

Paper Boards + Cloth Spine. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Colur Plates By Howard K. Elcock , Frank H. Mason , Gordon Browne & Others + Half Tone Plates & Drawings in Black & White (illustrator). First Edition of This Edition. Please Email for further details Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Signed "To Harold for Christma.

hardback, 318,(2)pp, moderate foxing, text otherwise clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, pictorial red cloth, corners bumped, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

1st edition. 1st edition, in apricot-coloured cloth with black lettering & decoration, with illustrations in line & silhouette by Bernhard Hugh. Lacks front free end paper, with damage to front hinge exposing scrim; a little foxing; page fore-edge dirtied by use. Cloth soiled on boards, with wear to black decoration; spine worn, with some loss of colour Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in apricot cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. B. Livett (illustrator). Undated edition, c1915. Original illustrated green cloth. Trace of removed label on front board, extremities nicked/scuffed, good. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Contains: The White Glove by William Le Queux. Chapter IX to conclusion. Pharaoh's Chickens by Seton Cross (stories) , The Adventures of Lucius Hunt Crime Investigator by W. Marten (6 crime stories), Grey Ghost by Muriel A Pollexfen. Complete serialisation. Novelettes and short stories by Ruby M. Ayres, L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace, Bart Kennedy, Berta Ruck, Edgar Wallace, A. E. W. Mason, C. J. Wills, R. S. Warren- Bell, Percy Brebner, Stanley Portal Hyatt, Austin Phillips, C. N. & A. M. Williamson, Arabella Kenealy, Winifred Graham, R. Andom. Original crimson cloth, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spines. Splitting at foot of spine, inner joints taped, signatures, fair/poor. A heavy item which will require additional postage outside the UK. Book.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. B. Livett (illustrator). Limited. First UK edition - pp315. Green pictorial cloth covers, with red and black text on spine and front cover, Vergy Good condition. The covers is a little worn, coners worn. Fading on the spine. Library bookplates and a library stamp on title page and back endpaper Pages with a slight brown aging. Wonderfcully illustrated by R.A Levitt. A good copy of this ex-library FIRST EDITION. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Ex-Library.