Gurney Slade (94 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. G++/no dust jacket. Hardcover copy. With moderate soiling and staining on boards and normal toning to pages. Nice solid copy.

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G : in Good condition with poor dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 94pp. B/w frontis.

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 277 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout by Victor Cooley. Prize plate to front pastedown. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.…

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content has toning. Gift message to ffep. No DJ.

Condition: Good. Light wear and sun fading to boards. Content is aged toned. No DJ.

Condition: Good. Boards have some wear /soiling. Content has light toning. No DJ.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards with some marks. Content is clean with spotting and a prize sticker on the ffep.

Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, fading. Content has toning. Owner message to end paper. No DJ.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 94 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. 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.…

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 94 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. 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: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Reprint. No date, 94 pages, black and white frontispiece by A. Brandt, some light foxing, school prize sticker dated 1952 on the inside cover, worn dust jacket with areas of loss, (Peerless Series).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 94 p.: illustration; 19 cm. Green cover with black spine and cover titles. Illustrated dust jacket. Back section of dust jacket has lists of four of the publisher's series: New Era Series, Triumph Series, Apex Series, and Peerless Series. No date of publication; WorldCat gives 1951. Book is in Near Fine Condition: upper page edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: price-clipped; edges rubbed; head of spine slightly chipped; tail of spine rubbed; color are bright.…

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. VG : in very good condition with rubbed dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 94pp. B/w frontis.

Condition: Good. Good condition book with dust jacket. Unclipped DJ is clean but has some wear to edges (see photos) and foxing rear. Book has clean contents with minimal toning, foxing to page edges and endpapers, prize label ffep 1948.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Peerless Series. Good condition book and DJ price clipped. 94 pages yellowing a little good and clean with clear print. Frontispiece: black and white picture: 'At his feet the prostrate body of a man in the dress of a monk (Page 85). 'It was near Tripoli that Yorke Villers and his cousin Roy met the Australian Major Todd and heard his story of the ring, worth a fortune, that lay buried somewhere near Jerusalem. They joined forces, but found that they were being shadowed by rivals who had enlisted the aid of the Bedouins - shadowed until the last dramatic moment among the rocks below a monastery in the Judean mountains. Top and bottom of DJ spine area chipped a little.…

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends with splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed. Staining to rear board.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 1st edn. HB. Cloth. DW. G+/G-. Rear cover shows slight spotting and damage to the cloth, dw chipped and has repaired tear on back and across spine, school prized bookplate on ffep. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No date but circa 1930. In orange cloth with darkening.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 1930, matching dates onj the title and copyright pages, no additional printings listed. Hadcover in full cloth with yellow lettering on the front cover and spine, no DJ. Condition very good, rear hinge cracked but holding well, stamps of G&G Cigar store on endpapers, no highlights no underlinings, inner flaps of DJ glued to pastedowns, not a reminder. 12mo, 267 pages, 4 illustrations by William Siegel. William Siegel (illustrator). …

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Spine faded and worn. 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 256pp.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content has toning to page ends. Presentation sticker to front pastedown. Good DJ with some edge wear, tears and clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Slghtly Worn, Browning. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Hard cover, no jacket, in good condition for its age, with full colour frontispiece. General shelf and handling wear, including fading, discolouration, blemishes and rubbing to boards, tanning and foxing to pageblock, creased and cocked spine. Gutter break at final page. Notable foxing to early pages, and intermittently thoughout, however, pages are secure, and text and illustrations are clear and bright. CN. Used.…

Condition: Fair. 1935. No edition remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Prize plate stuck to front endpaper. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Visible thumb-marking present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and heavy marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to boards. Books has a backward lean. Boards are mildly warped.…

Condition: Good. Boards have light wear. Content has light age tone. Owner message to end paper. No DJ.

Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Light wear to edges, pages clean, binding very good. Pictorial boards and spine, gilt lettering. Colour frontispiece, b/w line drawings throughout. No date, c. early 20th century, probable First Edition but cannot say for sure. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Victor Cooley (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. some foxing,no jaquette.some marks on cover.1 coloured frontis.288p.(16).weight 520 gr.format 20 x13,5cm.

Condition: Good. 1937. No edition remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine. Small labels to front. …

Condition: Good. 1953. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges.…