Billany Dan (55 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. First Edition.

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Integral damage to binding e.g. cover coming away, no spine, chunks of pages falling out. Stains to cover, page edges, and/or pages inside. Rip to the cover (or dustjacket if hardback), or significant tearing to pages. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Panther Edition. VG, Edgewear, creases, ink name, browning. War drama. Panther 1106. Photo on request.

Condition: Good. 1960. Panther Edition. 315 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Joan Billany (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Very Good. 1st Edition.

Condition: Good. 1952. 1952 Reprint. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. 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.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. paperback, 380pp, pages browning, otherwise clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0571138012.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Boards are worn and marked.Previous ownership inscription.Well bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 232 pages. 7.70x5.10x0.80 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. pp.192 illustrated with eight coloured plates by Joan Billany. green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. a little light foxing to end pages and spotting to fore and bottom edges. A good tighy and clean copy of this scarce book in a good protected price-clipped dustjacket with some short tears, chipping and creasing to top and ottom edges and light wear to corners and spine edges.…

Red hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd impression. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 380pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. General shelf wear. No jacket. Pages/boards clean.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is shelf rubbed.Previous owner's inscriptions.Well bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 380pp. In tan cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Cloth a little dull, lightly rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Text block edges lightly toned. Previous owner's name on lightly tanned endpapers. In its original dust jacket, not price clipped, lightly chapped at edges, chipped on corners and spine ends. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. A passionate novel of an uncompromising young man and his early years in Cornwall and of the girl he met there and the hard times her family endured between the wars.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Price clipped. dj worn at edges. A piece missing from top of dj spine. Previous owners name on front free end paper.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 380 pages. 7.80x4.96x1.34 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A rare and poignant piece of Second World War literature, The Trap is Dan Billany's acclaimed autobiographical novel written while held as a POW in Italy before his mysterious disappearance in 1943. Capturing both working-class Cornish life and the brutal realities of the North African campaign, it remains one of the most raw and authentic literary accounts of WW2. Serious collectors will recognize this 2nd Impression hardback as an exceptionally difficult title to source in collectible shape. Condition: The book is in good used condition with minor signs of reading and shelfwear. We try to be as transparent as possible with our photographs, and all major flaws are captured. From time to time we may miss something minor — please bear in mind that these are not new books.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. owners name front endpaper, otherwise book clean and tight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. wear to covers and cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Condition: Good. 1952. Hardback. Fine in cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing a little age and shelf wear, binding tight. Lightly toned, a little spotting, text is crisp and clear and remains a nice copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 244 pages. 7.95x5.51x1.10 inches. In Stock. Joan Billany (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. A clean, bright copy. 200 x 135 mm. xii, 218 pp + 8 colour plates. A magical adventure story drawing on Dan Billany's days at Chiltern Street School in Hull. The 31 boys in the book were based on his actual classmates in Standard Three, and this edition includes a list of their real & fictional names. Reprint. First published in 1943 by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Joan Billany (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hard cover orange cloth bds, silver lettering to spine, VG, sl. fading to spine, cover present in 3 parts, rear part with flap, front and front flap, some wear and small strip missing to btm of upper wrap, contents fine and tight, v. sl. tanning, pp380.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A child witnesses a murder and now is in danger. First U.S. edition, published in England as The Opera House Murders. Lightly bumped and rubbed, binding square and solid.

Condition: Good. 1952. Hardback. Fine in cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing a little age and shelf wear, binding tight. Lightly toned, a little spotting, text is crisp and clear and remains a nice copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (10s 6d net), generally toned. Beige cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, some foxing at the fore-edge and endpapers, clean otherwise. Billany's novel of a young man's "early years in Cornwall, of the hard times which her family endured between the wars," published here without any revisions due to Billany's death in World War II.…

Condition: Good.