Courage John (28 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 102 pages. James Courage "Nothing to Make Us Mad" / Joyce Cary "Spring Song" / Felicien Marceau "The Armistice in Vienna" ,/ Margaret Lane "Sweet Cherub" / Michael Swan "Lorca's Gipsy" / William Sansom "Ivan Bunin: The Harp string Broken" / Ian Greenlees "Letter from Rome".

Condition: Good. 1953. First Edition. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Book has slight forward lean. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. ix / 451 pp paperback a little rubbed around the edges, pages edges tanned, inscription to half title.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First. 4to. jigsaw missing from rear pocket staining abraiding & bumping to cover. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. Very good in wrappers with bumped top corner and spine ends as well as a few wrinkles in spine cover.

Condition: Good. 1953. First Edition. 192 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Sax, R.M. (Sachs, Rudolph Michael) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Boards have a small scratch to the rear panel next to the spine but are otherwise unmarked. Page edges are browned. Endpapers are browned with residual tape and bookplate marks - I believe the book has been in some kind of lending library but there are no stamps or other library markings on the book. Pages are lightly browned with a faint stain four inch long stain to the page facing the first page of the text and there are small spots and stains in several places through the book but the pages are otherwise unmarked. Jacket has been reinforced with brown paper to the reverse - this is firmly stuck to the jacket. Jacket has edgewear and discolouration with some edge rubbing and chipping to the top and bottom of the spine. Staining to the top of the rear panel. Library label at the base of the spine. Jacket illustration by Sax. First printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. APPEARS VERY LITTLEREAD. Minimal wear to hard back book. Pages are clean, bright and tight. No name or inscription.Front hinge starting to crack.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 84 pages. Norman MacCaig "Three Poems" / Noel Devaulx "A Ball at Alfeoni's" / James Courage "An Evening for a Fish" / Alan Ross "Two Poems" / Peter Quennell "Odi et Amo" / Julian Symons "Meeting Wyndham Lewis"/ Bernard Spencer on Bitter Lemons / Paul Sieghart on Sound Broadcasting's Future . Carol Christopher Drake "House on the Northwest Coast".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy with no inscriptions. Lacks DJ,=. A tight, brught copy. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hard cover orange cloth bds, Good, a little fading, cup ring to rear, no dust wrapper, contents clean and tight, occas. age spot, pp187. A nice reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. Undated. No dust jacket. Wear to boards with rubbing to edges and corners. Ring stain on front cover. Slight crack to bottom of front hinge. Pages clean.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. First Edition. 1952 first edition. No dust jacket. Some marks and scuffs to boards. Fading to spine. Spotting to page edges.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original illustrated cream paper covered boards, red cloth spine, Advertisement for Cadbury's chocolate 2d Bars to the rear board. Quarto 9½'' x 7''. Contains 126 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations. The puzzle in the envelope to the rear is incomplete. Rubbing to the boards and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1956 first edition. Rubbing and creasing to edges of DJ which s now in protective sleeve. Not price clipped. Spotting to page edges but otherwise pages ae clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, in a reprint dust jacket. Boards are very good. Internally near fine. Dust jacket very good with mild edgewear and rear panel a little grubby.

BINDING - Hardcover. Condition: CONDITION - used/fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket - Fair. with some wear. 1st Edition. 172 Pages. External Wear.

Large 8vo. 126pp, frontis, title-page vignette, jig-saw in purpose-made rear pocket. Original red-cloth-backed pictorial colour boards. Binding lightly rubbed and soiled; closed tear to rear envelope. COPAC: NLS, Trinity College, Dublin.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Boards are in good order with light bumping to corners. Internally, a very good copy with very light and uncommon foxing. The original dust jacket is creased with quite heavy edgewear, spine is very faded with areas of loss to the head and the foot. Rear panel is grubby.

Condition: Good. London: Stanley Paul and Co. Ltd, 1952. 1st edition. 12mo. 224pp. Good book. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (mystery fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original green boards are in very good condition. Internally some yellowing to the FFEP, then very clean throughout. The unclipped dust jacket is in very good order, with mild edgewear, some rubbing to edges and some spotting to rear panel. Overall VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original boards are in very good condition. Internally near fine with no marks or inscriptions. The original dust jacket is in excellent condition with extremely light chipping to corners and creasing to the head of the spine. A light yellow stain of some sort to the head of the rear panel. Overall a VG example.

Hardcover. First Edition. 256pp. Boards. A mystery featuring ex-Commando amateur detective Captain Bill Britain. Light edge wear. A near fine copy in very good+ dustjacket with mild edge wear, a short, closed tear with two associated creases on the lower edge of the front panel, and a few very minute chips to spine ends. In Hubin, 1994, p. 192. ; Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original boards are in near fine condition. Internally near fine with no marks or inscriptions. The unclipped dust jacket presents well, some small closed tears and chipping. White boards are very slightly grubby. Overall a VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original orange boards are in excellent condition. Internally light age toning to pages. Otherwise very clean throughout. The unclipped dust jacket is in very good order, creasing to rear panel and some very light edgewear. Overall VG.

Original red boards are in near fine condition. Internally near fine throughout with no marks or inscriptions. The original 7/6 dust jacket is in very good order with one or two small closed tears, very light rubbing to edges and rear panel. Overall an excellent example.

First edition. Octavo. 288 pages. 32-page publisher's catalogue at rear. A murder mystery. A very scarce title, possibly because of the fateful publication date which led to so many books being destroyed in publishers' distribution warehouses during the Blitz. This could be seen as somewhat appropriate as the plot itself revolves around an air raid. The author wrote under various pseudonyms in various genres.Edges lightly spotted. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper a bit nicked and rubbed at the edges and with a closed tear of 1 cm.