Blue Cloth. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Light edgewear, tape marks and old price on flyleaf. Jacket shows edgewear, soiling to back. "Stories of G.K. Chesterton's Immortal Detective", edited for younger readers.
Published by Cassell, London, 1961
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 430 g.; X, 258 pages, last two pages blank, intentionally, preface by editor, acknowledgements. Orange coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. A little rubbing and bumping to backstrip edges and to the lower book corners. Browning to the text block edges with faint foxing. Offset scanning, browning and foxing to the endpapers and age toning to the internal text. Photographic front cover, showing Winston Churchill, with a red background and white and black titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the backstrip edges. The dustwrapper panels have become quite rubbed, marked and the rear panel shows handling marks. Browning to the verso of the dustwrapper. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front fold over panel. This is a collection of the finest British speeches from Queen Elizabeth I speech at Tilbury in 1588 on the eve of the fight with the Spanish Amarda, to Winston Churchill's speeches during World War II to William Pitt's speech of 40 words (as he was ill and dying) of " I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me: but Europe is not to be saved by any single man. England has saved herself by her exertions, and will, I trust, save Europe by her example." on the fight to defeat Napoleon -- from the text, page 88. This anthology is the best of English oration through the ages. Size: 8vo - over 7Ā¾" - 9Ā¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Speeches; Britain; Inventory No: 0107040.
Published by Cassel & Co., London, 1958
Seller: BOOK COLLECTORS GALLERY, SUMMER HILL, NSW, Australia
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. PRICE NOT CLIPPED. DJ slightly chipped at top & bottom of spine. Closed tear at bottom back of dj. Light fox-spotting to end papers.
Published by Cassell, London, 1959
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Very tidy, ownership name in front, foxing in edges and lightly in prelims. Dust jacket is intact, minor rubbing, unfaded, protected in a loose plastic sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by London, Cassell,, 1961
Seller: Little Owl Books, Norwich, NORFO, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. H/B red cloth bds, VG, sl. fading at top edge, small rubs at top of spine, contents nice and tight with b/w photographic illustrations, maps and diagrams, rub on front pastedown, poss. contents pge missing. A nice sound reading copy.
Published by Cassell & Company Limited, London, 1959
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (29cm); light blue cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 144pp.; crown of spine lightly pushed, Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced 6/- net) with minor nicks and tiny tears to edges; minor rubbing/soil to rear panel; Very Good+. The stories have been edited for this collection for younger readers by Andrew Scotland, M.A. Ph.D. (from the dustjacket);.
Published by Cassell, London, 1965
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. 334 pages. Illustrated. A firm straight book, internally spotless. Dust jacket with the usual edge wear, price clipped.
Published by Chicago : Encyclopędia Britannica, 1979
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Facsimile Edition. Very good set in the original gilt-blocked leather; with red gilt-blocked labels to spine. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges; light foxing scattered internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 3 volumes, 160 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm. + 1 slip. Notes; Date is suggested. Facsimile of the 1st edition: Edinburgh : Printed by A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar and sold by Collin Macfarquhar, 1769-1771. Slip: "The first edition of the Encyclopędia Britannica was issued serially in sections from 1768 tp 1771." Contents; Vol. 1. A-B -- vol. 2. C-L -- vol. 3. M-Z. Subjects; 1701-1800. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. 1 Kg.
Published by Chicago : Encyclopędia Britannica, 1979
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Facsimile Edition. Very good set in the original gilt-blocked leather; with red gilt-blocked labels to spine. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges; light foxing scattered internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 3 volumes, 160 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm. + 1 slip. Notes; Date is suggested. Facsimile of the 1st edition: Edinburgh : Printed by A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar and sold by Collin Macfarquhar, 1769-1771. Slip: "The first edition of the Encyclopędia Britannica was issued serially in sections from 1768 tp 1771." Contents; Vol. 1. A-B -- vol. 2. C-L -- vol. 3. M-Z. Subjects; 1701-1800. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. 1 Kg.