Capt J E Gurdon (10 results)

Condition: Good. 1934. No edition remarks. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour frontispiece. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Book has slight forward lean.…

Condition: Good. 1934. No edition remarks. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour frontispiece. Presentation plate on front free endpaper. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.…

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edition Not Stated. VG+, Shelfwear, edge bump, light browning/VG, Price-clipped, edgewear, small chips, tears, creases, scuffing. Children's adventure. Expanded condition report/photo on request.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content with toning. Prize label to end paper. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Hardback. Reprint. Octavo Size. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Mild Foxing to rear pages (advertisements), pages lightly tanned at edges. Front board has minor wear to leading edge. Presentation plate to prelims. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 192 pages. A school mystery involving flying, as one would expect from this author, a renowned World War One aviator.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG/GD/VG. y 1st Thus . HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus ?* Date of Publication: 1934* Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Emerald green cloth, brown title & decoration to spine & face. Considerable damp staining overall. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. GD* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a biplane in a steep drive with the pilot standing on the wing, black and red titles to face and black titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 1/6d. Some slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, considerable age to prelims, last page & to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: One colour plate to frontis.* Pages: 192 pp. text. i pp., blank pages at rear.* Description: An adventure story with a flying theme set in East Anglia at Quaynes School. The character of Mr Randolph Raleigh the new music master, is central and this is yet another boy's book written by Capt. J.E.Gurdon. DFC, a veteran of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I.* A NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st thus with some minor faults in a VG protected dust jacket.* 1934-01-01. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 256 pages. Dj chipped and frayed. Bookplate.

Hardback. Condition: GOOD. No Dust Jacket. INSCRIPTION DATED 1938, TANNING.

Hardback. Condition: GOOD. FIRST, INSCRIPTION DATED 1938, TANNING, EDGE FOXING DW VGC PLANE AND BOYS HIDING ON THE COVER.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. THE DUST JACKET IS RUBBED AND FADED. THE CORNERS AND EDGES ARE SCUFFED. THERE ARE SMALL TEARS TO BOTH TOP CORNERS OF THE FRONT JACKET. THE SPINE IS RUBBED AND FADED. BOTH ENDS OF THE SPINE ARE SCUFFED. THE PAGE EDGES HAVE SOME MARKS. THE PRICE IS UNCLIPPED. THE FFEP HAS A PENNED MARK TO IT. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.…