Frederick Grisewood (41 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Jacket. Illustrated by Joan Hassall. '10p' written on the front Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Condition: Good. 1950. Further Enlarged Edition. 176 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Contains black and white in-text illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Occasional thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Rubbed marking overall. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing to edges and along spine joints.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Freddy Grisewood was a popular broadcasting personality in the mid twentieth century; a countryman from the Cotswolds; complete D/J protected by removable premium grade clear film.

Condition: Good. 1950. Reprinted. 176 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with black lettering to spine. Illustrated in black and white by Joan Hassall. 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.

Condition: Good. 1952. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green 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. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Yellow hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Age darkened page edges. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 256pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. 12mo. A good copy. Orange boards, black titles. Wear to extrems. Marks to front board. Spotting, mainly to eps. Tape to ffeps. Book.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 6th edition. hardback, 6th edition, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a price clipped but very well preserved dust wrapper, the text is clean and unmarked, 176pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hassall, Joan (illustrator). Smaller sized hardcover without dust jacket in good condition. Illustrated by Joan Hassall. Boards are marked and sunned. Corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is slightly cocked. Page block is lightly tanned and blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Condition: Good. 1952. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends.

Condition: Good. 1952. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with silver lettering. Signed by the author with dedication to front free end paper. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Silver lettering is bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Boards have minor damp and dust stains.

Condition: Good. 1934. First Edition. 110 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK1ST.EDITION.1ST.REPRINT (SAME YEAR AS THE FIRST PRINTING)VG HARDBACK IN A POOR DUSTWRAPPER.A FEW TEARS,PRICECLIPPED AND FADED SPINE BUT a bright tight copy, Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng.

Condition: Good. 1950. Enlarged Edition. 176 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout however binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has light edge-wear with tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Boards have little wear. Pages age toned. Signed and inscribed by author to half titlle page. DJ is toned with edge wear, price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Foxing to text block edge, and lightly to part free end papers, spine v sl cocked, dw has tanning and dulling to spine, with rubbing and/or sl chips to corners, sl rubing to spine ends and a v sl scar to to top edge rim, upper cover, price clipped. ; 180x120mm; 110 pages.

Hardback. Printed pages: 111. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Impression. Dust jacket: Slight wear and creasing with a few archival tape repairs to reverse. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Second printing. Green cloth binding. A few light marks to text but generally in very clean condition throughout. Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £12.00; USA £15.00; Oceania £16.00; Rest of World £16.00. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 4.75 x 7 inches (12 x 18 cm).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Joan Hassall (illustrator). Sixth Enlarged Edition. This fine unmarked copy is bound in cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. The price clipped dust wrapper is in fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. Freddie Grisewood was one of the BBC's most famous voices in the fifties and sixties anchorman for 'Any Questions' & 'Any Answers'. He also gained an enormous following for his 'Old Bill' monologues of Cotswold country stories in dialect. Originally published in 1934 this latest edition has been enlarged with two new stories 'My County' and 'Reuben' Ref EE7.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A clean, tight copy. Light wear to the edges. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. No dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Hassall, Joan (illustrator). First Edition Thus; First Printing. Some foxing to unclipped DJ, corners lightly bumped, ink name to front endpaper, light foxing to edges of reading block. ; Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Complete with original publisher's band. ; B&W Illustrations; 172 pages; Revised and expanded edition with four new stories and preface. Seventeen short stories of the grand old Cotswold character made famous originally on BBC radio.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Hassall, Joan (illustrator). Paperback in very good condition for its age, from the collection of Ian Angus, former librarian at King's College, London, and deputy librarian at University College, London. Ownership pencilled to inside front fold. General shelf and handling wear, including light tanning, creasing and wear to cover, edges and corners, notable tanning to pageblock, this leading into page edges. Tanning to end papers, (note: front endpaper removed.). Within, pages are firmly bound, content unmarked. CN.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. reprint edition on red cloth.

Condition: Very Good. First. Frederick Henry Grisewood OBE (1888 â" 1972) was a British broadcaster, who had a long and varied career with the BBC He was perhaps best known for being the host of Any Questions? from its inception in 1948 until 1968 In 1937, he was the commentator for the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the first-ever BBC live outside television broadcast This copy is very good in dark green cloth wih silver titles on the spine The covers are slightly scuffed and the titles are slightley faded The book leans a bit, but overall the binding is sound and the text is clean and bright A gift inscription from a previous owner is on the ffep, but no other marks or damage at all There is an inscription from the author, in the year of publication, on the title page 256 pp.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hassall, Joan (illustrator). Enlarged Edition. Loosely inserted is an 11 line typed letter , signed by Frederick Grisewood and dated 1948. A clean, tight copy in worn brown cloth complete with 'tea ring' There is also a tea? stain to the page edges. 176pp. illus. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Although he is a Cotswold man and lives in a Cotswold village, Our Bill or his counterpart can be found all over rustic England. Should you be fortunate enough to get into the inner circle of village life you will find there an 'Our Bill' ready to be guide, counsellor and friend. 111 pages, printed on wire laid paper. Green cloth, minimal foxing fore and aft, inscription to front end paper.

Paperback. Condition: Good. John Hassall (illustrator). 1st Thus. Typographic cover. Reasonable text but covers very worn and lacking front flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good PLUS. Reprint. HARDBACK IN JACKET 1952 reprint. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Jacket has edge wear, minor loss and a few short tears. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref O1274. The World Goes by: The Autobiography of Freddy Grisewood. Frederick Grisewood.