Briggs Elspeth (25 results)

Condition: Good. 1960. No edition remarks. 228 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Richard Auger. 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. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing.

Condition: Good. 1939. First Published. 305 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions and stamp to endpapers and rear pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Condition: Good. 1962. No Edition Stated. 429 pages. Red & cream dust jacket with black lettering over blaclk cloth. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and loss to edges and corners. Notable tanning to spine and edges, with staining and soiling to DJ. Title written in pen on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: VG, Wear, Browning, Edge-fox. Dust Jacket Condition: NO DUST JACKET. 1st Edition. Alternate historical drama, postulating what might have happened if King William had died before Queen Mary the Second. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Small-sized ex-library hardcover. Dust jacket is plastic protected. Pictorial chapter headings. Dust jacket and boards are very sound. Front and back inner hinges have been reinforced with white paper. Library plate on front inside cover. Library stamps on title page and page block.Text is clean, bright and tight throughout. Ex-Library.

Brown hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Spine faded. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 305pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Briggs, Elspeth (illustrator). First edition. Hardcover with very lightly worn spine ends and lower leading corners. Plastic protected dust jacket. Mild spotting to head of page block. Tiny chip to leading edge of FEP. A few pages are dog eared. Pages are clean, binding is sound, and text remains clear throughout. Illustrated by charming woodcuts. T. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. No dust jacket. Hardcover. First edition. Signed by the author on title page. Ex-library, with library labelling on spine foot, front pastedown, front endpaper, title page and at one or two further points. Boards and spine are a little worn and scuffed, with a few light stains and surface scratches. Spine is slightly cocked. Spine is creased, and spine ends are worn and bumped. Pale mark on spine foot. Leading corners are rather bent. Faded page block with one or two grubby marks and minor age-spotting. Small tear to lower part of inner edge of front pastedown. Several small grubby marks on rear pastedown and endpaper. Binding is sound; pages are tight; text is clear. AF. By Author. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Alden Press, Oxford, 1962. Hardcover. First edition, first impression. Published by Katherine and Winifred Briggs in memory of their sister, Elspeth. Waxed black cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Pastedowns and endpapers illustrated with a map. Dustjacket. Bottom corner of fore edge of upper board lightly bumped. Spine of dustjacket dulled. Dustjacket lightly tanned. Small triangular superficial area of loss to head of spine. Foot of spine and bottom edge of rear panel of dustjacket nicked and lightly creased. Head of spine and top edge of rear panel of dustjacket lightly creased. A very good copy in a very good dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. No dust jacket. Hardcover. First edition. Signed by the author on front endpaper and title page. Ex-library, with library labelling on spine foot, front pastedown, front endpaper, title page and at one or two further points. Boards and spine are a little worn, with a few surface marks and scratches. Spine is cocked, and spine ends are a little bumped and creased. Leading corners are a little bumped. Faded page block with one or two grubby marks and some age-spotting. Binding is sound; pages are tight; text is clear. AF. By Author. Ex-Library.

1st edition blue cloth hardcover with worn clipped dustjacket. 228. Ex library with usual stamps, some cellotape residue.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Impression. n.d. c.1925. 118pp. Stiff paper covers. 650g. Illustrated with 5 colour plates including frontispiece, 74 b/w photographs and 74 drawings. Covers a little soiled, marked and edgeworn, with a small loss to bottom of spine. A little light spotting throughout, internally not affecting plates, and name to top of title-page,o/w near V.G.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +++. Auger, Richard (illustrator). First Edition. A UK first edition, INSCRIBED on the ffep by the author's sister - the noted folklorist Katharine Briggs - to Ronald Searle's wife, Kaye Webb. THE WRAPPER : The wrapper on this copy is bright, clean and complete. It is unclipped, but has a 5/- sticker over the printed price on the front flap. The wrapper is unfaded, showing slight wear to the edges. There is a slither of loss to the head of the spine. Looks sharp in protective plastic. THE BOOK : The book is square and tight. The boards are clean. The corners are sharp. The spine ends are gently bruised and the tips are faded. The pages are clean. No foxing. The closed page edges are sound, if just a little dulled. No dog-eared pages. The binding is solid - no cracked hinges. There are no ownership inscriptions. INSCRIBED by the author's sister. A nice copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted. Signed by Owner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Period novel set in Restoration England. 1st edition. Small 8vo. Some fading, else near fine in original tan cloth. D-w is faded but else VG.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Edition. Clean dark red bds with grey title to spine. Spine lightly sunned. Small bump to bottom spine end and bottom corners. Small fray to front bottom corner. B/W woodcut illustrations. Small tear to front edge of 1 page, otherwise interior very good and clean. Unclipped dustjacket with rub to some edges. Small loss to top jacket corners and bottom jacket spine end. Jacket a bit grubby.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1960 Fredric Warne Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket.

An Excellent Copy of the First Edition in unclipped 7/6d pictorial dustwrapper 8vo.119 pps An historical tale set in the period of the restoration, with simple woodcuts by the author. No ownership marks.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A first edition presentation copy by the author's sisters of this scarce historical fiction novel by Elspeth Briggs, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition.A presentation copy from the sisters of the author, with a card stating that they are sending the recipient a copy of the work on their sisters birthday.In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.This historical fiction novel was written by Elspeth Briggs and was published by her sisters following her death in 1961. The work, set in the 17th century, follows the seven sons of Sir Thomas Brocas.A very scarce work. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely with only slight marks. The wrap is smart with edge wear, small closed tears, marks, slight sunning to the spine and light spotting. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. Fine. book.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Briggs, Elspeth (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1948. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. An historical story set in the time of the restoration, full of the sense of the country. Illustated with b/w woodcuts. 119 pages. Spine and corners very slightly bumped. Contents fine. Wrapper rubbed at corners and slightly grubby to rear. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. No dust jacket. Hardcover. First edition. Signed by the author on front endpaper and title page. Ex-library, with library labelling on spine foot, front pastedown, front endpaper, title page and at one or two further points. Boards and spine are a little worn, with one or two stains and surface marks. Spine is slightly creased, with minor bumping to ends. Leading corners are slightly worn and bent. Faded page block with one or two grubby marks and age spots. Rear endpaper is creased near leading edge. Binding is sound; pages are tight; text is clear. AF. By Author. Ex-Library.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-dulled and rubbed as with age. Light foxing to prelims and page edges. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 216 pages, illustrations, 19 cm. 3 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Richard Auger (illustrator). First edition. An uncommon first edition of this charming novel by Elspeth Briggs set within an imposing Manor, signed by the author to the half-title. The first edition.Signed by the author to the half-title.'Squire's Fairing' follows a young woman, Jenny, as she goes to work as a housemaid at the local Clerewell Manor, a Manor in which her grandmother had been mistress - her grandmother's ghost is said to walk in the village.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and illustrations throughout.Written by Elspeth Briggs.Illustrated by Richard Auger. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Some light marks to the rear board. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. A touch of discolouration to the extremities. A very few spots to the fore edge. Dust wrapper is lightly edge worn. A few light marks and a little discolouration to the wraps, mostly to the backstrip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. signed by author. book.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-dulled and rubbed as with age. Light foxing to prelims and page edges. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 216 pages, illustrations, 19 cm. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1954 Alden Press Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression .Very good clean tight binding in very good dustjacket. Wonderful jacket design & illustration as shown.

FIRST EDITION, light spots at opening recurrent at rear, pp. [viii], 305, [1], crown 8vo, original brown cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, slight lean to spine, top edge dusty, edges spotted, endpapers more faintly so, dustjacket a little chipped at extremities and faintly spotted, short closed tear at head of rear panel, good. An alternate history, imagining that Mary II had survived her husband, King William. Scarce in the dustjacket. The author was the sister of folklorist Katharine M. Briggs.