Gilbert Cousland (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Illustrated Black & White (illustrator). Wear, aging, soiling to covers. Binding is firm. Soiling/light age toning to endpapers; otherwise interior is clean, free of markings.

Condition: Fair. First Impression. 26 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking.

Condition: Fair. 1937. First Impression. Unpaginated. Illustrated dust jacket over pink cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Moderate cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Dust jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 19cm), 56pp. Full-page illustrations by the author. Original grey cloth. Short ownership inscription, light thumbing of the contents; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G: in good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Inner hinge cracked. 240mm x 200mm (9" x 8"). [51pp.]. b/w photographs and illustrations throughout.

Oatmeal cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Gilbert Cousland, Photographer (illustrator). First Edition. Tight clean hardcover, free of markings. Dust Jacket has large chip missing from bottom of front panel, sunfaded, unclipped, fits OK. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 'What My Camera Saw Beyond the Farm Gate.' by Gilbert Cousland. Collins. Undated. Some wear but the gate is good and intact. Solid binding. The inner plastic sheet is torn and creased. Contents in good order although the title page is a little dusty along the bottom edge. Good.

Second edition hard back binding in publisher's original jade green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered in white to the spine, front and back. Quarto. 9½'' x 7½''. Contains 52 pp with 24 monochrome archive photographs throughout. Covers heavily marked, two pages taped into place, ink message inside dated 1936. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Cousland, Gilbert (illustrator). Unpaginated; b/w illustrations; no d/j, green boards, spine completely faded, also boards at front and rear, light edgewear, white title. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jacket artwork by Gilbert Cousland. (illustrator). Later impression. Later impression. 8vo. Original orange boards. Dust-jacket. First published in 1934 (in America, less edifyingly as The Boomerang Clue), this is Christie in breezy standalone mode: Bobby Jones (the vicar's son, not the golfer, a distinction the opening chapter enjoys) finds a dying man on a cliffside whose last words supply the title, and investigates with the aristocratic Frankie Derwent in tow. The question proved durable enough to be re-asked twice on screen, including Hugh Laurie's well-received 2022 adaptation. Incidentally, Christie's own account of the title is rather lovely: she said the idea came from visiting a friend for tea, whose brother tossed aside a book he was reading and said "Not bad, but why on earth didn't they ask Evans?", and she decided on the spot that a future book would bear that title, before knowing who Evans would even be. St John & Red Cross bookplate to half-title; a very good copy, in very good jacket. Book.