Eric Ambrose (32 results)

Condition: Good. 1954. No Edition Remarks. 264 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white 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. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing # L92-535 of this collection of 15 short horror stories. Authors include Edgar Allan Poe, HP Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon and more. Light reading creasing to spine. Age toning to cover and pages. Slight edgewear. In Very Good Condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. DJ may have marks, chips and tears. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be tanned. May contain inscriptions.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. W.J. Makin (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition. An as new book in an as new dust jacket. Nice!

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 96 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white photographs and two-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. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ has rubbing and creasing to the fore edges.

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Softcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First edition. Hardback. With dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Paperback. Condition: New. Deutsche Erstausgabe.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Blu-ray disc. As New in original slipcover. Desperate gambling addict Charlie Bartlett is heavily in debt to smarmy, big spender Doc. With no cash at his disposal, he offers Doc sex with his wife Ann as a means of payment for his debt. However, Ann will have no part of her husband's perverse plan, thus setting into action an unexpected chain of events as manipulative Charlie gets a taste of his own medicine. WET DREAMS: In a chic restaurant, a newlywed and her promiscuous girlfriend indulge in a lot more than lunch when their sensuous wet dreams, involving the unsuspecting patrons, set off an explosion of outrageous sexual fantasy!

Condition: good. A former library book with all the expected stamps, stickers and markings. Excellent condition for a former library book. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. Does not appear to have come with a dustjacket originally. The pages appear unmarked. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Shadow. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller!

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Contains: The Red Triangle. Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt: Investigator by Arthur MORRISON. Six detective/mystery stories. The Doings of Vigorous Daunt: Billionaire by Ambrose PRATT. Six stories of adventure and crime. Was She Worth It? by Marie Connor & Robert Leighton. Complete serialisation. Other short stories include: On Thorny Ground by Winifred GRAHAM, Under the Red Seal by Rafael SABATINI, Why the Express was Stopped & Algie's Diplomacy by Eric HULME-BEAMAN, Through Force of Circumstance & Miss Till's Predicament by W. Pett RIDGE, The Attack on the Chaise by H. B. Marriott WATSON, In the House of Bondage by John OXENHAM, The Song of Miriam by Marie CORELLI, Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland by H. G. WELLS, A Mere Interlude by Thomas HARDY, The Great Fortuna Mine by E. Phillips OPPENHEIM, The Great Sacrifice by George C. WALLIS, The Face in the Dark by L. T. MEADE & Robert EUSTACE. Two volumes uniformly bound in crimson leather over red cloth covered boards. Title on spines reads "Harmworth Magazine (the name of the journal before it changed to the London Magazine). A little scuffing, otherwise very good. Bound without prelims or contents pages but also containing the last issue of Volume VIII. The Red Triangle is the last collection of stories featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. The Great Sacrifice is a science fiction story, written to counter the anti-Martian War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Very heavy: will require additional charge for delivery by courier. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New. Deutsche Erstausgabe.

0. 8°. 283 S. Orig.-Kart. neuwertig, ungelesen Sprache: Deutschu 0,700 gr.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition in dustwrapper. Octavo. 253 pp. Illustrated with vignette wood engravings by British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver Eric Ravilious. Publisher's dark-pink boards lettered in cream to the spine and front board. Boards a little mottled but the cream lettering bright, clear and un-faded. There is a former owner's neat name in ink and date (1943) to the front free end-paper. No spine fade. Overall a VG+ copy. The VG dustwrapper (repeating the Ravilious illustration for October) is priced 7s 6d net to the inside flap (as called for) and is pretty much complete but with some staining to the right-hand edge edge of the front panel, the top-edge of the rear panel and also to the spine which is quite browned. Arranged in calendar form with each month illustrated with a wood engraving by Ravilious, as is the title page with some extra sections on 'A Few River Fish', 'Herbs in the Kitchen' and 'A Calendar of Home-Grown Vegetables'. A blissful little cookbook but it is s the illustrations by Eric Ravilious that set this apart. Further photographs available upon request.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition in dustwrapper. Octavo. 253 pp. Illustrated with vignette wood engravings by British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver Eric Ravilious. Publisher's dark-pink boards lettered in cream to the spine and front board. Boards bright and clean. No inscriptions. The merest hint of spine fade otherwise a near fine copy. The dustwrapper (repeating the Ravilious illustration for October) is priced 7s 6d net to the inside flap (as called for) and is pretty much complete with a tiny bit of wear at the spine ends and with the usual partial tanning to the spine and with a little surface loss at the base of the spine just affecting the publisher's name. Arranged in calendar form with each month illustrated with a wood engraving by Ravilious, as is the title page with some extra sections on 'A Few River Fish', 'Herbs in the Kitchen' and 'A Calendar of Home-Grown Vegetables'. A blissful little cookbook but it is s the illustrations by Eric Ravilious that set this apart. Further photographs available upon request.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Eric Ravilious (illustrator). First edition. An excellent example of the first edition of Ambrose Heath's work of quintessential pre-war British culinary writing. The first edition, first impression of this work, with unclipped dust wrapper.Organized by month, the book offers a seasonal approach to cooking, reflecting the rhythms of rural life and the availability of ingredients throughout the year. Heath's recipes are interspersed with practical advice and insights into kitchen gardening.Illustrated with vignette wood engravings by British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver Eric Ravilious.With the bookplate of Martin and Pamela Finch to the front free endpaper. They were antiquarian booksellers with an interest in antiquarian gastronomy. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper back strip significantly age toned, with tape to back strip head, and significant tape reinforcements to back strip reverse at tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine. book.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Eric Ravilious (illustrator). First edition. An excellent example of the first edition of Ambrose Heath's work of quintessential pre-war British culinary writing, with a letter from the publisher tipped in. The first edition, first impression of this work, with clipped dust wrapper.With a loosely inserted letter from the Country Life publishing house tipped in to the front free endpaper, dated 1955. In the letter, M. Nicholson for Webster Evans, Editor of Country Life Books, answers a question from one Mr Scott regarding this work, and explains 'I am very sorry but we are unable to resolve your Eric Ravilious problem [.] if I could have consulted the original agreement, I could have found how many illustrations Ravilious was asked to do, but that is now impossible'.Organized by month, the book offers a seasonal approach to cooking, reflecting the rhythms of rural life and the availability of ingredients throughout the year. Heath's recipes are interspersed with practical advice and insights into kitchen gardening.Illustrated with vignette wood engravings by British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver Eric Ravilious.Bookplates of Stanley Scott to rear pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with clipped dust wrapper. Externally, exceptionally vibrant. Publisher's letter tipped in to front free endpaper. Bookplates to rear pastedown. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip. Neat unobtrusive paper restoration and reinforcement to dust wrapper reverse, located at back strip head and tail, and head and tail of flyleaf folds. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Fine. book.

Dyson, Ambrose (illustrator). 1st edition. 13 folding leaves with text and illustrations in remains of paper portfolio, o/w contents in fine condition.