E J S Lay (72 results)

Condition: Good. 1944. No Edition Stated. 277 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black & white illustrations. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. 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. Gilt lettering remains bright & clear.

Condition: Fair. 1943. No Edition Remarks. 111 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Colour illustrated plates to centre of book. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to first page. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning and water staining to spine and edges. Foxing overall.

Condition: Fair. 1946. No Edition Remarks. 111 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white illustrations throughout with colour illustrations to centre of book. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front reverse cover. Ink marking to final page and rear reverse cover. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Condition: Good. 1956. 313 pages. No dust jacket. Red 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. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Condition: Fair. 1929. Reprinted. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white illustrated plates. Light folding, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters and hinges exposing netting and causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with moderate water staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Slight bubbling to rear board. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Condition: Good. 1936. Reprint. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Book II. Orange cloth. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. String bound soft illustrated cloth binding, some marks and general handling wear.

Condition: Good. 1946. Reprint. 277 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. 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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Ex school library with a few stamp, plus an ex libris stamp from previous owner. A few ink spots and smudges inside the book.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. Ex library. Boards have some wear. Content has light toning. No DJ.

Condition: Good. 1938. No Edition Remarks. 506 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Volume III. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1936. Condition: fair 192 pages. Brown cloth softcover with black lettering. Clean pages. Mild foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:

Paperback. Condition: Fair ++/Good. Reprint. 176 pages. Front cover creased and top quarter of spine is taped. Moderate wear to covers' corners and spine-ends - stapled binding. Turqouise-blue and fawn background soft covers. B&W illustrations. Clean and tidy pages.

Some light edge wear the the covers and tanning. The binding is firm. The pages are clean with some tanning. This book has 31 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Soft wraps, red linen-style with large black ink stain, some scuffing, lower front and top rear corners creased, Fair, contents have occas. age-mark, underlining, annotation, corners torn away on pge 121 does not detract from text, pp176, school stamp to inside rear cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Fair to good condition soft cover, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, previous owner signature to inside page, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Condition: Good. 1934. No Edition Stated. 384 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Volume One. 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 tanning.

Condition: Good. 1955. No Edition Remarks. 32 pages. Illustrated paper cover with lettering. Book IV: Hanoverian Times. Contains colour illustrations. 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. Lettering is clear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition hardcover orange boards showing title etc clearly on front board and on a sun bleached spine. 192 pages good with clear slightly larger print. Black and white illustrations throughout. Usual signs of wear to book.

Condition: Good. 1934. No edition remarks. 384 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. 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 moderate marking and tanning, particularly to spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Owner's name to ffep. Lightly marked boards with minimal rubbing. Pages crisp and tight. Reference Book with 277 pages of text and some line drawings to describe and accompany the volume of plates.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Ex library copy with stamp, stapled edition. Fading and small creases on cover. Minor creases in corners of pages inside.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Poets and Poetry. Junior Book I. By E J S Lay. Published by Macmillan and Co in 1947. Size: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Page number: 96. Soft cover: Cloth backed with paper. A book of poems that is also a teaching book with questions asked about the poems for the benefit of children's education. It was first published in1928 and the cover design and the back and white illustrations reflect that time. Condition: Good: The stitching that holds the book together has weakened so the binding is no longer absolutely secure. The spine is worn. The pages sit a little proud of the binding but they are, but for a few marks, and a shadow of foxing, reasonably clean and un-thumbed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Stapled edition with slightly rusty staples, light handling wear including some small corner creases, small tape marks inside the cover.

Condition: Good. 1930. Paperback. Good copy with some shelf and age wear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Good. 1957. No Edition Remarks. 31 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Colour illustrations throughout. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning and marking overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1946 Macmillan hardback reprint; good, sound copy, ight wear to blue boards, no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Name inside front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to front cover adjacent to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked covers and no bumping to corners. 144pp. A wealth of poems from well known writers mainly early 20th century. An educational work for children with notes and questions. Senior Book II is a scarce volume in this series. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 7.25 x 5.25 inches.