E J Oxenham (45 results)

Condition: Good. 1957. Reprinted. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 356 pp coour plate frontispiece drawing, 6 black and white plates, bound in beige cloth with red and black illustrations and titles to front and spine. Some marks to cloth on rear cover and at foot of spine, cover litle rubbed, deleted prize inscription dated 1929 in front, edges a little marked, good solid copy. E. Briar, J. Anslie, Ruth Cobb (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ Hardback. No Jacket. First in This Edition. owned by a book club has had 3 readers.

8vo. Original black lettered pink cloth, top edge pink (small surface tears at tail of spine, some light spotting), no dustwrapper. Pp. 256, illus with coloured frontispiece (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Condition: VG/GD+/ACC. n Second Reprint. HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 2nd.Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1953 (1949)* Publisher: Collins Seagull Library.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, silver title to spine and logo to face. Light bumps to corners, no rubs, lightly faded at head and tail of spine. Slightly shaken & some spine lean. GD+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated paper dust wrapper. Not price clipped, showing shelf price of 3/6d net. Medium shelf wear to top & bottom edge and some losses to head & tail of spine. Reinforced with tape at both edges. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. No annotation, inscriptions or marks to text. Clean, crisp and bright with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, slight offsetting to end papers. VG* Illustrations: One b/w line drawn illustration to frontis. ?She?s had a Nasty Fall.?* Pages: 220 pp. text.* Description: Joy Maidlin Di Ravarti is a young singer with a great future, but her path is not an easy one, and she meets with many adventures on the way. The scene is set at Abinger Hall, and old Abbey friends including - Lady Quellyn ? make their appearance. Miss Oxenham?s inimitable style gives life to a story which all girls will enjoy. ~ Jacket Notes.* A NEAR VERY GOOD copy with some ageing and shelf wear particularly to the dust wrapper reducing it to ACC* 1953-01-01. …

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Condition: Very Good. 12 pages, illustrated. With list of books. This is an original article separated from an issue of The Book & Magazine Collector publication. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). …

Condition: Very Good. 7 pages, illustrated. With list of books. This is an original article separated from an issue of The Book & Magazine Collector publication. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ Hardback. Reprinted. 314 pages D/J has tears around the edges. Owners name on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. 8vo. Bump and wear to spine ends and corners. Wear to edges. Tears in cloth to joints. Marks to boards. Spine cracking at title page. Label to ffep. Names to fpdwn and ffep. Colour frontis shows a schoolgirl on the ground with another on horseback . Page 15 loose. Foxing. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Contains three stories. Covers poor, marked, worn and knocked about.

255pp. 8vo. Original boards. Dustwrapper has a few small chips and tears. A very good copy. .

Hardcover. Condition: VG++/ACC/ACC. y First Edition Thus, 1st. Imp. HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1949* Publisher: Collins Seagull Library.* Binding and cover condition: Mid blue cloth, silver title to spine and logo to face. Slight bumps to corners, light rubs, wear and fading to spine. Some sellotape adhereing to spine. ACCEPTABLE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. Price clipped, shelf wear with losses to top & bottom edge and to head of spine, lower portion missing. ACCEPTABLE * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Top edge coloured but slightly faded. (Blue). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only minor reading wear. Neat gift inscription to fep. No marks to text, slight marks to fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 256 pp. text.* Description: What girl would not be thrilled to find herself heiress to a lovely Welsh castle? Such luck was Robin Brent?s: but how her good fortune threatened to stand in the way of her happiness! Not surprisingly, someone felt displeases and jealous of the heiress; but surprisingly enough, this person was, of all people, Lady Quellyn ? our old friend Joy of the Abbey School! Joy resents Robin inheriting Plas Quellyn as she thinks it should have gone to her sons but when Robin is in trouble, Joy is quickly to the rescue.* A Very Good text copy with severe wear to cover & dust jacket reducing it to ACC.* 1949-01-01.…

256pp. 8vo. Original boards. Dustwrapper has a few small chips and one large chip. Colour frontispiece. A very good copy.

c.254pp. 8vo. Colour frontispiece. Original boards and worn dustwrapper, a very good copy. . From Collins Seagull Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. No dust jacket. Foxing to all pages, text clear. A solid edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. With dust jacket. A clean, solid edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 4to; hbk; covers marked; G+; illustrated eps; some foxing; colour frontis; other plates & illustrations in half tone or line drawings; excess P&P outside UK due to weight ; Collins Schoolgirls' Annual; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Illustrated by Norman Sutcliffe Et Al (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 12mo. early edition. Prize label to pastedown dated 1930. Moderate damp affect to boards. Cracking at eps. Book.

c.256pp. 8vo. Original boards in slightly chipped dustwrapper. Includes bright colour frontispiece. Ink inscription on ffe. A very good copy. First edition.

222pp. 8vo. Original boards in pictorial dustwrapper, with some wear, chipping to backstrip and corners. Previous owners nam eon ffe. Foxing to edges. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. The jacket is a bit rubbed, sunned and edgeworn but has suffered little paper loss. Internally clean (one inscription and minor foxing) and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 288 pages. Orange dust jacket over red cloth. Prize plate stuck to front endpaper. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Notable sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine. Light rubbing and marking all over.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. No dust jacket, marked and faded cover; binding is loose a little, lots of biro marks inside front cover, clean inside. Good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No dust jacket, cover is quite battered and marked; private inscription inside front cover, binding holding well, clean inside.

Reprint. Octavo, hardback, 288pp. Inscription on front pastedown, toned pages and text block edges, offsetting to endpapers, head of spine softened; good to very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper with small missing segments to edges of front and rear panels with some associated creasing. Title on spine panel partially affected by tear with shallow loss to heel. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Slightly narrow hardback 4to; blue cloth spine; illustrated board covers; generally in nice condition, except that the front hinge has crackesd, exposing the netting; otherwise a good clean copy. Contains amongs other things, the scarce story The silence of dorothy Cheyne, which was taken from the scarce Oxenham book Dorothy's Dilemma. ; Little Folks Magazine; Vol. 108; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Illustrated by Stanley Lloyd; H M Brock; J Dewar Mills; Harry Rountree;Thomas Henry (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Hbk no d/w; 314pp + 6pp catalogue; lime green cloth covers with 2 girls in black on cover, arms round shoulders, tennis racket in one hand, hockey stick in other; girl playing tennis on spine; gift inscription (not author) on fep inside, dated 1929; colour frontis; contents clean; an almost vg copy; ; Abbey Girls; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages. Illustrated by E J Kealey (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated but probably 1935 omnibus edition without jacket on somewhat worn red cloth with school prize plate inside cover - Three complete Full Lengh Novels from Oxenham - will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.