Guy Dempster (36 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1st edition. Very good condition. Pencil marking in front cover. No foxing, no markings. Contains four b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8vo. a good copy some pages a bit creased. Book.

Condition: Good. 1952. 144 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1948. 96 pages. Brown pictorial dust jacket over beige 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. The clipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Cloth. Condition: G++. First Edition. The destroyer "Andromeda" leaves Malta and is stolen after being handed over to a friendly power. Cream covers with black lettering to spine, 96pp with full-page b/w frontispiece. First edition produced to economy standards with orange page edges. Edges of covers a little grubby and very mild bumping to extremities, but a very sound, tight copy. No DJ. Ref:06921.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition. 'Fleet Wings' by Guy Dempster. Lutterworth Press 1942 second edition. Well worn with some marks and a plastic cover has been fitted. A reasonable copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd impression . Gift inscription written by the previous owner on the front free end paper page. 2nd impression. Publication of 198 pages. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, marks and a touch edge worn. The spine of the book is slightly discolored. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 'Secret of the Desert' by Guy Dempster. RTS Lutterworth Press 1939 first edition. Covers worn and faded. A reasonable copy. No dust jacket.

hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, grey cloth lettered red to spine, bookplate to front pastedown, the pictorial dust jacket is chipped and has loss at the head of the front panel, now protected in a non-adhesive clear film sleeve, 192pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 'Winged Venturers' by Guy Dempster. Lutterworth Press 1942 first edition. Bookplate. Near VG in dust jacket which shows loss to the top of the front panel and has some minor chipping and neat tape repairs.

Condition: Good. 1948. First Edition. 96 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A. Sindall (illustrator). 1st Edition. vi / 249 pp 4 bw plates, blue cloth red title to spine red propeller motif to front. Small nicks to edges of front cover, endpapers banded with remains of a label in front, spine a shade sunned - sound book dust wrapper worn and torn with significant loss.

Condition: Fair. 1945. First Edition. 192 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over orange cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription and sticker to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is darkened. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creases. Moderate loss and tears to spine and edges. Heavy wear marks to spine and panels.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair +. First Edition. Price clipped. d/j Chipped and worn, tears on the corners. Piece missing from bottom left and right side of dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st impression. 206pp. Red cloth boards, a little faded at edges. Internally neat, bright, tight and clean. In its original pictorial dust jacket, artwork by Bowe (rubbed at edges, chapped along lower edge, a couple of nicks and visible shelf wear on verso). Hard to find first edition, although there was a later reprint, with a different dust jacket which is a little more common. A gripping sea adventure story. 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Covers are mottled. Dustwrapper, now protected has some repaired tears with some loss on the rear cover.

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Second Impression. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Pages browning. Cover marked. Pages browning. Spine faded. Foxing. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 223pp. b&w frontis.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 192 pp bw frontispiece, orange cloth black title to spine. Lean to spine, corners softened, endpapers and edges a little marked and tanned, dust wrapper marked and worn with loss at spine ends and corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. pp vi 249. Illustrated with four plates by A. Sindall. Blue cloth a little darkened at spine and a little light wear to spine edges. Some occasional light spotting. Good +.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, small creases and edge worn. The condition of the book is given in terms of the book's age. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Good clean firm interior generally with nice colour f/p - free front e/paper has been removed - clean unmarked pages. Inscription to prelim page. Decent clean firm boards with clear bold-lettering to spine. D/j has standard edge-shelfwear with loss to top of spine but of acceptable appearance and covered with a new removable sleeve-protector - not price-clipped./.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Nice clean copy; front end-paper neatly removed. The d/w has largish loss at bottom but remains are quite pleasing.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. Rear panel of boards has damp staining along bottom edge and on the top corner which is a little warped. Prize award message in ink on front free endpaper and previous owner's name on front pastedown. Page edges browned but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. First printing. No jacket.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket has large closed tears and associated wear. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Edges browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children; Teens & Young Adult. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 24042. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children; Fiction. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 6992. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Lumley, Savile (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1942. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Light brown cloth with red title to spine. Black and white frontis by Lumley. Spine is bumped and darkened to top. A few grubby marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper has 2" missing from top of spine; rest is browned. A few marks to covers; uneven browning and grubby marks to edges; some closed tears and chips, with minimal loss. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Good orange cloth hardcover with good clipped dustjacket. 192p. Sequel to Fleet wings where Guy and Tony continue in the eastern theatre of war in Burma.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Jacket is torn and marked.Award plate from Dennistoun Baptist Church Sunday School[Senior Dept]presented to Billy Winning for perfect attendance 1949-50.Well bound.Very good copy.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cornflower blue paper covered boards, black title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 143 printed pages of text with colour illustrated frontispiece. Mottling to the blue of the spine, light foxing to the upper and fore edges. Near Very Good condition book in Very Good condition period art work dust wrapper with 30 mm closed tear to the upper front gutter, surface staining to the white of the rear panel, not price clipped 5s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR BOYS.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Colour Frontis Plate (illustrator). First Edition. Dust jacket complete, unclipped, slight wear to edges. Original blue cloth covered boards with bright titling on spine. School prize label on f. paste down. Colour frontis plate. 143 pages clean and tight. Size: 12mo.