Gard Joyce (45 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition, Stated. Good plus hard bound, no jacket. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, first edition, 1967. Ex-lib with minimal markings, strongly bound, clean interior. 196 pages. Fiction. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Brown boards, pristine, bright and sharp. As New. Protected dustjacket, clean and square, Very Good +. Book is firm in binding, 196 pages. Stated as 1st Edition. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 196 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Ex-library book, rebound in worn illustrated covers. The pages have some discoloring and staining; musty from storage but a solid reading copy still. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Juvenile; Inventory No: 216756.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd printing. Ex-library with typical marks, light discoloring and wear; a tight binding. The jacket has some stains, a few tears; clipped flap. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Juvenile; Inventory No: 188924.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Ex-library marks, light wear, pages toned; a sound binding; good shape. The jacket has some discoloring and wear; clipped flap; tape marks on both. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Juvenile; ISBN: 003081605x. ISBN/EAN: 9780030816055. Inventory No: 222960.

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hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. hardback, first American edition, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in a price clipped dust jacket which has darkened a little to the spine, 196pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Light shelf wear and tear to DJ with some foxing to reverse, light staining to boards, arker pen initials to inside front cover. ; Brown boards with black lettering to spine and motif to front board. Nice tight copy, no names inside, DJ design by Alan E. Cober. ; 208 pages; Philip Ruddock, the grandson of the last man to work the pottery at Hazelbourne in the Cotswolds before it fell into decay, has been brought up by his mother in almost complete ignorance of the craft that was his grandfather's life. But when new people come to reopen the old pottery, Philip soon becomes devoted to the craft though his mother disapproves. Philip senses that a big kiln in a barn, now too unsafe to enter, may contain some of his grandfather's last work that is somehow linked to his mother's hatred of pottery. Then a fierce blizzard cuts off the pottery and Philip must do a "snow firing" alone.

Hardback. First U.S. edition. Very good plus in very good dustwrapper.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight toning. Good DJ with some edge wear and light toning. Price clipped.

Condition: Very Good. 1968. First Edition. 196 pages. Pictorial jacket over 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. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Holt Rinehart Winston, New York, 1968. Hardcover, 196 pp. 1st edition (stated). Family drama centering on a English boy born into a family of potters. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a clipped top flap. Original price is intact on bottom corner. Jacket has a small chip, closed tears and some splits at foot of spine, two old sticker ghosts. Jacket is in a new mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U.S. edition. Joyce Gard was the pen name of Joyce Reeves, sister to the great children's writer and poet, James Reeves. Her historical novels are usually inspired by actual people, places, happenings or folk lore. In this book she uses her own experience as a potter, and the resurgence of rural craft potters in the years after the Second World War, to weave a story that incorporates much of the history and traditions of the potter's craft. First published in the UK by Gollancz in 1967, this is the first printing of the US edition from January 1968. A fine copy in its pictorial laminated boards with a wrap-around design by Alan E. Cober repeated on the dust jacket. The jacket is very good, a little browned and rubbed with upper corner of flap price-clipped but with a price, crossed out, on lower corner. This is the superior Holt Library Edition binding, but it is NOT an ex-library copy. Fine in an excellent dust jacket. MC.

Condition: Good. 1964. No Edition Remarks. 160 pages. Illustrative jacket over red cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Some creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Bleaching to spine ends. Minor marks to boards. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Loss to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine. Light rubbing to surfaces.

Condition: Good. 1964. No Edition Remarks. 160 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth and gilt lettering. Binding remains firm. Pages remain bright with minimal tanning. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and spine is presentable with minimal crushing and tanning. Clipped jacket. Jacket has light edge-wear with closed tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG/VG. Inscription on the front endpaper. 9719.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Clipped Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. The secrets of an old kiln in the Cotswolds almost destroys a boy and his mother. In Publishers library binding, NOT a library discard, old store stock in unread condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The jacket is rubbed and marked.Ex-library book.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Good. 1969. 319 pages. White pictorial dust jacket over 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. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Light wear to clipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is a little marked, with an ink cross through the price on the front inner flap. Page block is lightly tanned. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Condition: Good. 1969. First Edition. 319 pages. Pictorial dust jacket in clear protective cover over red cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing.

. (illustrator). CONDITION: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket; only flaw is clipped flap. Juvenile hardback. Set in the Farne Islands of Northumberland and inspired by a tale of 7th century England about the seal-man Talargain, this story tells of the seal boy's meeting with a modern girl and brings in the landscape and history of the area. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. First edition. Fine in a very good+, clipped dust jacket, 191pgs, In publishers library binding, NOT an library discard.

Condition: Good. 1968. First Edition. 196 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is clear. Minor wear marks to boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A delightful,l very unusual and imaginative story of the arrival of the Bat people (those who have wings.) and their effect on the children of the story.Quite strange and enjoyable. Age range 7 to 10, perhaps. Illustrated in black and white.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Clean firm interior mostly, no usage marks to main section, no inscriptions, contains a map f/p, dulled/toned and stained to closed-edge of pages, good clean firm boards; d/j has standard shelfwear, stain marks across front as shown, dulled to spine and rear, toned to edge of inner flaps, but no large tears or loss, covered with a new removable sleeve-protector, not price-clipped./.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. First edition. Near Fine in a very good+, dustjacket. Text block of book slightly age darkened. Dj spine age darkened. Juvenile adventure set on a sheep farm in the Lake District of England.