Grisewood Frederick (39 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. 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.

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.…

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 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. Hassall, Joan (illustrator). 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.…

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.…

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.…

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. …

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. Size: 4.75 x 7 inches (12 x 18 cm).…

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

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A clean, tight copy. Light wear to the edges. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, 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.…

Condition: Very Good. First. Frederick Henry Grisewood OBE (1888 - 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. Signed.…

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: 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 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. Illustrated by Hassall, Joan (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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. Hassall, Joan (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. No dust jacket.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 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. Joan Hassall (illustrator).…

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 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. Hassall, Joan (illustrator). 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.…

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.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 256 pages. Book in good to good plus condition; dust-jacket largely complete but quite heavily rrepaired with sellotape. Tipped in obituary (1972). Name on front endpaper and four names on end pastedown. A good copy of the autobiography of Freddy Grisewood, one of Britain's best-known broadcasters.…

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

Hard Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. 1st Edition. 3rd impression 1935. Hardback in jacket. 18x12cm. 111 pages. Black & white frontispiece. No other illustrations. Clean & tight book. Author inscription dated 1938 on the front end paper. No other inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket spine top has minor loss. Front flap is not price-clipped: 2/6-. Jacket is now under clear removable protective covers. Dispatched "Royal Mail Tracked 24" next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref.…

Rep. Signed by author on title page. Green cloth with silver titles on spine; other name inked onto front pastedown, and on title page. Light foxing; nice frontis. Dust jacket badly worn at edges with loss on top edge; protected in removable clear film. Used - Good. Good SIGNED hardback in fair dust jacket Used - Good. Good SIGNED hardback in fair dust jacket.…

Signed and dated Dec 1952 by author on title page. Light foxing. Otherwise a tidy copy in tight binding. Dust jacket fair to good; not price-clipped; very worn with many creased tears, repaired on reverse side with archival tape; faint stain along rear fold; protected in removable clear film. Used - Good. SIGNED copy Good hardback in good dust jacket. …