Frederick John Gorst (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Yes, with plastic cover. Book is square and binding is tight. Contents are clean throughout. Cover boards are in good shape with shelf wear to the bottom edges and spine. Dust jacket is in good shape although the spine is heavily sun-faded. Top edges of pages are dusty. Former library book with usual library stamps, labels and markings. (Please note any images provided in our listings are stock photos supplied by AbeBooks and do not match the cover of the actual item.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Edition. First edition 1956 hardcover in red paper covered boards showing color loss at board feet. Spine ends bumped, tips still fairly sharp, bright gilt spine title. Vintage bookstore sticker at foot of rear pastedn, no names, tears or soil in the tight, crisp 268pp text. Original, un-clipped red background dust wrapper shows small chips and color loss at tips and spine ends. Cream background rear panel and backstrip show light soil, two closed tears at head/foot of rear panel, and missing spine title. True tale by Frederick John Gorst, who was seventy-three at the time of this book's publishing and long a resident of the USA, is perhaps one of the few people alive today who was working in the great English houses around the turn of the century. He worked his way up from a young page boy in a theological seminary to the estate of a country squire, then to the elegant Georgian mansion of the two eccentric nephews of Gladstone. He became personal footman to the lovely Lady Howard and finally reached the top as one of the four royal footmen to the Duke and Duchess of Portland.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardback in fair condition- with jacket. Cover is marked and torn in areas. Spine is broken. Tanning and foxing to pages. Marks to edges of pages. Brown cloth board cover. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Publication of 208 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, chipped pieces, minor marks and small closed tears along the edges. The boards are in good condition. There is foxing around the bloc of the book and on the edge of the first few pages. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. Near Fine book in Very Good Minus dust jacket. This is a red hardcover with gold lettering on spine, in red 4.00 dust jacket, 1956, Thomas Y. Crowell, no additional printings indicated. Book cover as new except slightest loss of color along lower edges; a little light foxing on endpapers otherwise interior as new; binding tight and square. Dust jacket has slight edgewear, moderate foxing on back cover; heavy foxing on reverse side of jacket. ("Foxing" is light tan spots caused by extended exposure to humid air.) Overall nice condition. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some light wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped, top and bottom of spine a little bumped, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but yellowing, and some light foxing mainly to edges / fore edges, more so on first and last few pages.