Johns Geoffrey (34 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Slight edge wear, former owner's name whited out on front endpaper, in edge worn, slightly chipped DJ. Now protected in a mylar jacket. A novel that gives an insight into the world of antiques in post war Britain. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 258 pages. …

DVD. Condition: Used - Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 200 pages. The author explains the nature of auctions and the antiques trade through the medium of a fictitious character. A clean and sound book, the wrapper has some wear and small tears to the edges, it is also price clipped. all orders processed promptly and dispatch from the UK. Please email with any queries. 5.5"x8". Derek Williams (illustrator). …

DVD. Condition: Used - Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition In The United States Of America. The Book Is Bound In Gray Cloth With Blue And Gilt Lettering On The Spine. Blue Title With Blue Image Of Auctioneer On The Front. Tiny Scuff On The Front Pastedown. Ownership Stamp Neat The Upper Corner Of The Ffep. The Page Edges Are Lightly Tanned. The Unclipped Jacket Has Minor Wear And A Few Tiny Tears. …

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some tears, toning and is price clipped.

Condition: Good. DJ may have small chips and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition in the USA (stated). Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. NO chips. NO creases. NOT price clipped ($3.95). NOT a library discard. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. "First Edition in the United States of America" is so stated. Bound in the original gray cloth, stamped in blue and shiny gold. From the Dust Jacket: " In this novel about the not-so-musty world of antiques, Geoffrey Johns traces the life of Willy Shaun, who rose from a childhood in the rag and bone business, to become one of the shrewdest dealers to control England's lucrative antique business. As the story of Willy Shaun unfolds, the reader is given a good look into the world of the antique trade -- the terminology, the methods of fraud and trickery. Chippendale, Wedgewood, Hepplewhite, Hester Bateman." . First Edition in the USA (stated). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 258pp. …

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. 1961. 200 pages. Red and yellow pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. 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. Book has a forward lean. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. 1961. First Edition. 200 pages. Orange and beige 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. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This hard cover collection of issues was originally published in a single magazine form in Infinite Crisis 1-7 in 2005 and 2006. The dust jacket has minor wear. The first blank page is signed in white out by a previous owner. Contains colored illustrations. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size G: 10"-11" Tall (254-279mm). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. First. 4to. 1st story is Skyway Robbery - By Johns. Damp affected boards, tears to joints. Cracked at title page. Lower edge of several pages torn off, not affecting text. Page 15 loose with tears and loss to edge, not affecting text. Book.

Condition: Very Good. very gently used HC w/ DJ, VG/VG, binding clean and tight, free of markings, very light shelf-wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Later printing. Jacket design by George Maas. Very good with spotting on the top page edge and foxing on the endpapers in a very good dustwrapper with spotting, faint tide marks, and a tears on the rear spine fold. An exciting and humorous novel about the not-so-musty world of antiques.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1961, with dust cover, cover marked and grubby with age spots but intact, book good tight binding, name and address of original owner in frontalong with date Jan 1962.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 288 pages. dj wornThis book illustrates and describes the nineteen forest parks of New Zealand. The aim of creating forest parks is to meet people's needs. Prominent features of our landscape, the parks are managed for multiple uses, for scientific and re creational purposes to the roduction of wood and hydroelectric power .--Inside front cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. H/b; d/w; vg-/g+; 4to; 205pp; edges worn; d/w has a horizontal cut on front, & closed tear to spine but is complete & not price clipped; as well as Biggles story, this also contains a Flame story by Eric Leyland & much more; ; 4to 11" - 13" tall. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket worn to edges with a little loss, unclipped price on flap. Brown cloth with gilt titling. slightly bumped. Top corner cut from ffep. No ownership inscription. 125 pages clean and tight. Size: 12mo. Illustrated (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. New York, NY, Doubleday, 1961. First edition. 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt and blue lettering embossed on spine and auctioneer and blue lettering embossed on front board, rough cut pages, 258 pp. As the story of Willy Shaun unfolds, the reader is given a good look into the world of the antique trade; the terminology, the methods of fraud and trickery, the code of honor among dealers. In addition, there is much information about the antiques themselves. Great tale and interesting reading! Dust jacket sunned on spine, slightly shelf worn and soiled. New in a near-fine dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover. …

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. first edition with sealed in dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Clean red cloth with black titling to the spine. Head/tail to the spine a little 'turned' and fading, but overall VG. In the original publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. The dust-jacket has some small nicks/loss to the head/tail of the spine and the rear cover has a triangular sliver of loss to the top inner corner near the spine, and nicks with loss to the other 3 corners, but the d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks near Very Good - particularly the front cover which features a lovely 'Stead' illustration of Biggles and (? ) Ginger. Some light toning to the page fore-edges. Internally some pale foxing (pale yellowy spotting) mainly to the front endpapers/ prelims and rear endpapers, o/w NO Inscriptions or Marks. A Very Clean, Tight and Bright copy. 190 pages. Black and white illustrations to the text - but no indication of which artist(s). I assume the ones in the Biggles story are by Stead but I can't authenticate that. The Book has 11 Short Stories by the following authors = Captain W. E. Johns, Geoffrey Trease, Garry Hogg, Leslie Morley, Michael Poole, Jeffery Farnol, Eric Leyland, Leonard Gribble, Percy M. Westerman, Gundy Hadath and "Taffrail". Overall a near VG copy, and in the scarce and attractive d/j. See Images. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. Illustrated by Stead (Dust-Jacket Cover +?) (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Original staple-bound colour illustrated wraps 22x28cm. pp497-552 with b/w photos and adverts throughout. Staples disintegrated with sections coming loose with some rust residue, otherwise very good. The cover artwork celebrates the arrival of the First "Southampton" Flying boat Cruise at Aboukir in 1926. This opens with W.E. Johns' editorial. Dedicated to the Middle East, articles address Geoffrey Mahoney (ex-Egypt Air precursor Misr-Airwork)'s journey accompanying Talaat Harb Pasha on his pilgrimage to Mecca aboard a De Havilland Dragon. Mahoney disembarked at Jeddah and describes his impressions. Private flying by Kamal Bey Eloui, MD of Misr-Airwork. Wings over Egypt - A Brief History of Aviation in the Middle East, Commercial aviation in Egypt, Palestine and the Sudan by Capt H. Spooner. Civil aviation in Palestine. "A grim day off Gwadur" where Ft. Lt. R. Linton describes his difficulties landing a RAF flying boat off this Omani exclave. Also a biography of Major Mick Mannock, news briefs, a 2-page spread of airmail covers, and other related content. The photos feature stunning aerial and on the ground views across Egypt and Arabia. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Printing. Biggles in Arabia - (Another Job for Biggles) first printing in Collins Magazine Annual 1951 (published in 1950, pre-dating the book) in 7 parts, each with illustrations by William Stobbs (different illustrations to those in the book), VG+/Fine in a VG+ unclipped d/w, a couple of short tears, minor rubs, no loss, also contains Black Hunting Whip by Monica Edwards, compete in 6 parts illustrated by Geoffrey Whittam. William Stobbs, Geoffrey Whittam et al (illustrator).…

271 pp.; 24 x 17 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with an international traveling exhibition of artists' books, 1994. Text by the editor and curator Michael Glasmeier. Cover designed by Jan Voss. Profusely illustrated with full bibliographical data for each entry. Explicitly documents 30 years and 651 artists' books published in Germany. Inclusive of international artists such as Georg Baselitz, Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Anna Blume, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, Jonathan Borofsky, Mark Boyle, KP Brehmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Henri Chopin, Francesco Clemente, William Copley, Philip Corner, Hanne Darboven, Braco Dimitrijevic, Felix Droese, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Isa Genzken, Jochen Gerz, Nan Goldin, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Al Hansen, Geoffrey Hendricks, Georg Herold, H.K. Hödicke, Hans Hollein, Roni Horn, Jörg Immendorff, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Mike Kelley, Anselm Kiefer, Martin Kippenberger, Imi Knoebel, Alison Knowles, Jannis Kounellis, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, George Maciunas, Piero Manzoni, Hansjörg Mayer, Max Neumann, Olaf Nicolai, Albert Oehlen, Nam June Paik, Blinky Palermo, Eduardo Paolozzi, Ben Patterson, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Sigmar Polke, Markus Raetz, Arnulf Rainer, Dieter Roth, Jan J. Schoonhoven, Mieko Shiomi, Daniel Spoerri, Mayo Thompson, Rosemarie Trockel, Jan Voss, Wolf Vostell, Herman de Vries, Emmett Williams, and MANY OTHERS. Text in Germain with separate English supplement laid-in. Reference : No. 161 in "The Book on Books on Artists' Books" by Arnaud Desjardin. London, England : The Everyday Press, 2011, pp. 88. Good. Dust soiling to covers with 5.5 cm. faint coffee ring on recto with additional 1.7 cm. of soiling. 2.3 cm. of tearing of surface layer of dust-jacket. Light rippling of text block. Very Light bumping of page corners, contents otherwise clean and unmarked. INCLUDES THE SEPARATE ENGLISH SUPPLEMENT, with 3.3 cm. dog ear to bottom right corner of recto, otherwise Fine. Due to large size and weight of this publication additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.…

271 pp.; 24 x 17 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with an international traveling exhibition of artists' books, 1994. Text by the editor and curator Michael Glasmeier. Cover designed by Jan Voss. Profusely illustrated with full bibliographical data for each entry. Explicitly documents 30 years and 651 artists' books published in Germany. Inclusive of international artists such as Georg Baselitz, Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Anna Blume, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, Jonathan Borofsky, Mark Boyle, KP Brehmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Henri Chopin, Francesco Clemente, William Copley, Philip Corner, Hanne Darboven, Braco Dimitrijevic, Felix Droese, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Isa Genzken, Jochen Gerz, Nan Goldin, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Al Hansen, Geoffrey Hendricks, Georg Herold, H.K. Hödicke, Hans Hollein, Roni Horn, Jörg Immendorff, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Mike Kelley, Anselm Kiefer, Martin Kippenberger, Imi Knoebel, Alison Knowles, Jannis Kounellis, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, George Maciunas, Piero Manzoni, Hansjörg Mayer, Max Neumann, Olaf Nicolai, Albert Oehlen, Nam June Paik, Blinky Palermo, Eduardo Paolozzi, Ben Patterson, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Sigmar Polke, Markus Raetz, Arnulf Rainer, Dieter Roth, Jan J. Schoonhoven, Mieko Shiomi, Daniel Spoerri, Mayo Thompson, Rosemarie Trockel, Jan Voss, Wolf Vostell, Herman de Vries, Emmett Williams, and MANY OTHERS. Text in Germain with separate English supplement laid-in. Reference : No. 161 in "The Book on Books on Artists' Books" by Arnaud Desjardin. London, England : The Everyday Press, 2011, pp. 88. Good / Very Good. Rubbing of edges and light yellowing along spine. 1.4 cm. yellow soiling to recto and 1.1 cm., 1.4 cm., 2.8 cm., and 2.1 cm of soiling to verso with additional dust soiling of covers. 4 mm. of tearing to top left corner of verso. 3 mm. tear and 3.3 cm. of creasing to dust-jacket flap. Recto is lightly separated from the text block, binding otherwise tight to the spine and contents are otherwise clean and unmarked. INCLUDES THE SEPARATE ENGLISH SUPPLEMENT, in Fine condition. Due to large size and weight of this publication additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 90 pages plus 16 pages of nice ads. Features: Our Hunting Trip in Brazil - dealing with giant snakes and jaguars; Photo of Sulphur Bottom Whale leaping out of water to avoid swordfish; Stalked by a Mountain Lion (cougar) - while mining in the Selkirk Mountains near Golden, British Columbia; The Leaf-Wearers of Orissa - great photo-illustrated article on these native people's of India; My Adventure in Sing Sing; Silk Mask Jim - this amazing Chicago criminal, James J. Harrigan, was head of a great thieves trust responsible for over seven hundred robberies in a single year; My Strangest Experience; A Fight on a Mountain Top - the Philippine Constabulary seeks out remnants of Aguinaldo's forces - article with photo; Into the Unknown (part 1) - chasing mountain outlaws in New Guinea ; The "Pinto" of Great Black Pine Mountain - the life and death of a wonderful wild horse in Southern Idaho; The Lifted Veil - part 5 of the story of two British officer POWs in Turkey who apply Spiritualism to escape; Where No Writ Runs - photo-illustrated article on life in the highlands of Kurdistan; The Ghost of the "Lycaon" - a steamship of the Blue Funnel Line; Wolves in Sheep's Clothing - when policement become criminals; The Rector's Story - a South African clergyman's story; Odds and Ends - photo of Arizona Gila Monster listening to phonograph. Covers beginning to detach from textblock. Average wear. A nice vintage copy. Reynolds, Warwick; Small, A.G.; Prater, E.; Nicolson, W.C.; De Walton, J.; Hodgson, E.S.; Holmes, Fred; Bates, Leo; Wood, Stanley L.; Edwards, Lionel; Elcock, Howard; Somerfield, T.; Hodgson, E.S.; Ferrier, A.; Soper, G. (illustrator).…