Introduction by H E Bates (9 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Mass market paperback, later (1963) printing, 190 pages; spine creased and concaved, store stamped on first page, otherwise very clean and unmarked. See also our listings for Airey Neave's They Have Their Exits (The first Englishman to escape from the 'escape-proof' castle of Colditz), and for a set of two books by P. R. Reid: The Colditz Story, and The Latter Days at Colditz. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Later Printing. 256 pp. Yellow boards lettered in black on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by William Geldart. This anthology contains: A Stranger to the Wild by Charles G. D. Roberts; Black Horses by Luigi Pirandello; The Gymkhana by Enid Bagnold; Sugar for the Horse by H. E. Bates; The Maltese Cat by Rudyard Kipling; My First Wild Horse by Barbara Woodhouse; Mr Carteret and His Fellow Americans Abroad by David Gray; An Expensive Operation by James Herriot; The 500 Mile Race from Deadwood to Omaha by Jack Schaefer; The Horse Show by Clare Leighton; First Money by Will James; Tale of the Gipsy (Gypsy) Horse by Donn Byrne; How Mr Pickwick Undertook to Drive and Mr Winkle to Ride by Charles Dickens; Philippa's Fox Hunt by E. Somerville and Martin Ross; A Genuine Mexican Plug by Mark Twain; Lost in the Moors by Diana Pullein-Thompson; Ballinasloe Buys and Point-to-Points by Marjorie Quarton; and A Happy Ending by Anna Sewell. Size: 8vo. William Geldart; (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U.S. Edition. 256 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a small nick on the lower edge of the front panel; previous owner's name inside. The dustjacket features Portrait of Ellen Terry by George Fredric Watts, circa 1964. This anthology contains: Miss Geraldine Parkington by Catherine Cookson; The Chairmender by Guy de Maupassant; A Constellation of Events by John Updike; The Kepi by Colette; The Square Peg by Jilly Cooper; First Love - A Confession by Frank Harris; Kiss Me Again, Stranger by Daphne du Maurier; When Love Isn't Enough by Stella Whitelaw; A Girl I Used to Know by Rosamunde Pilcher; Joe Johnson by H. E. Bates; Snow Storm by Jean Stubbs; The Letters by Edith Wharton; Ethel Crowther by Audrie Manley-Tucker; The Curious Courtship of Mrs Blishen by Judy Gardiner; Comrades in Arms by George Gissing; The Needlecase by Elizabeth Bowen; The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev; and Lalla by Rosamunde Pilcher. Size: 8vo. George Fredric Watts; (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. First Printing - First Thus. 190 pp. New Edition - Pan Book G532. Light edgewear with some creasing on the corners and spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: Island of Resistance; The Women Who Took a Hand; The Men Who Would Not Die; Miracle in the Desert; The Man Who Went Prepared; He Rode with the Cossacks; It Feels Like This; and Escape - or Die. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Nr. Very Good. No Jacket. Ninth Impression. Covers have a 1" closed tear. Kaye Webb (illustrator).

Condition: Near Fine. Tight and unmarked-" This anthology contains: A Stranger to the Wild by Charles G. D. Roberts; Black Horses by Luigi Pirandello; The Gymkhana by Enid Bagnold; Sugar for the Horse by H. E. Bates; The Maltese Cat by Rudyard Kipling; My First Wild Horse by Barbara Woodhouse; Mr. Carteret and His Fellow Americans Abroad by David Gray; An Expensive Operation by James Herriot; The 500 Mile Race from Deadwood to Omaha by Jack Schaefer; The Horse Show by Clare Leighton; First Money by Will James; Tale of the Gipsy (Gypsy) Horse by Donn Byrne; How Mr. Pickwick Undertook to Drive and Mr. Winkle to Ride by Charles Dickens; Philippa's Fox Hunt by E. Somerville and Martin Ross; A Genuine Mexican Plug by Mark Twain; Lost in the Moors by Diana Pullein-Thompson; Ballinasloe Buys and Point-to-Points by Marjorie Quarton; and A Happy Ending by Anna Sewell. Size: 8vo. Wings Books - Random House, New York, 1992. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. William Geldart; (illustrator).". …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Glassine Wrapper. First Edition/First Printing. John Wiltshire, a Scottish copra trader, arrives on the South Sea island of Falesá. He meets a rival trader named Case, who arranges for him to be "married" to a local girl named Uma in a ceremony designed to impress the natives but to be completely non-binding in the view of Europeans. He soon discovers that Uma has a taboo attached to her which causes all the other natives to refuse to do business with him, to Case's profit. He also hears of Case having been involved in the deaths of his previous competitors. It seems that Case's influence over the villagers stems from their belief that he has demonic powers, as a result of his simple conjuring tricks and tricks produced by imported technologies such as luminous paint and Aeolian harps. Clarke Hutton (illustrator).…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back publisher's original maroon cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine. 8vo 9½" x 6" 256 pp. Light tanning to page edges. Fine in Fine dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed by Carmine Infantino, Murphy Anderson, Martin Nodell and Julius Schwartz. Shelfwear, primarily at head and heel of spine. DJ has a 1/2-inch and a 1/4-inch closed tear in front panel. yu. Carmine infantino, Gil Kane, Jack Cole, C.C. Beck, Joe Kubert, Jack Cole, Jack Kirby, Ross Andru, Don Heck, Curt Swan, Bob Kane, H.G. Peter, Martin Nodell, Murphy Anderson and Neal Adams (cover) (illustrator). Signed. …