Knowles Vernon (41 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8 Pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dust jacket visible. This hardcover edition of "The Experience of Poetry" is in good condition. The binding is intact, with minor wear visible on the spine edges. There is no dust jacket present, and the book shows no signs of inscriptions or library markings, indicating it has been well-cared for over the years.…

Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. 126 pages. No dust jacket. Orange 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Some scuffing to the cover, mostly at corners. The paper with author and title on the spine is partly gone. Overall nice, solid copy. No dust jacket. 100% guarantee. Expert packaging.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 126 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over orange cloth boards with lettering. 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. Lettering is clear. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Tanning to jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 126pp. HARDCOVER Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. Some browning to half-title page. Externally, orange cloth has some marks & ding & repaired split to spine. Slightly bowed. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. Book.…

Condition: New.

Condition: Very Good. 9 pages, illustrated. With list of books. This is an original article separated from an issue of The Book & Magazine Collector publication. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). …

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. hardback, 8vo, 126pp, owner's name on endpaper, otherwise clean and sound, orange cloth, Very Good / no dustwrapper.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, spine and edges of covers faded, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. This book is in near fine condition. There are corner knocks but no stains or tears. This is a "rare reprint" edition. This is a children's book and contains 9 short stories about London. The book was written for the author's young friend who had moved to Australia and was home sick for London. The stories include the shop in the off-street, the birds, the painter of trees, the land of ideas, and a set of Chinese boxes. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education. Ralph Keene (illustrator).…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Reprint ed. Paperback trade, very good condition, few black & white text-photos, frontispiece portrait, top corner front cover slightly rubbed, colour patch rear cover little faded, some edgewear, small sticker front flyleaf. 77 pp. This is the story of a sensitive boy who grows up in Adelaide before the first World War. Vernon Frank Knowles was born at Phyllis Street, Maylands (Adelaide) on 17th April, 1899. He spent most of his adult life overseas and died in London on July 9th, 1968. He published verse, novels and short stories. His tales of fantasy are universal. (Originally published in 1932. The present book is reprinted from part of a book by Paul Depasquale (Pioneer Books): 'The Life and Work of Vernon Knowlesâ, 1979. No date, but 1980).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 1929. Black and white frontispiece by Eric Bailey. Endpapers browned. Publishers gold decorated paper covered boards with black cloth spine. The dustwrapper has a browned spine and with some marking and dustiness generally. Some light rubbing to the edges. generally a very good copy. With a frontispiece by Eric Bailey. (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Snakeskin paper cover boards with black cloth spine, paper spine label. Endpapers tanned, VG-FINE in dj with darkening to spine, chipped at spine ends.

First edition. 16mo. 98 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth backed snake skin patterned boards, paper spine label, in dustwrapper, very good. (59757).

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1921 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 24 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Helen Binyon. Previous owner's signatureand date (1933) at the the half title. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. No marks in the text. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation in a heavy cardboard box. A previous owner has tipped the front cover of the dust jacket to the front inside cover of the book. The fore edges are rubbed and the last couple of blank leaves have staining and small (insect? ) holes. Contents are very good. Selling Used and Rare books online since April 1998 and from our bookstore in the heart of the Bluegrass since 1984.; Black-and-white drawings; 8vo.; vii, 225 pages. Illustrated by Helen Binyon (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. (1935) First edition, pictorial title page by Malcolm Easton. Publishers blue cloth with spine titles in black. Collection of 12 stories most if not all fantasy. Locke SPECTRUM OF FANTASY pg-130. VG in age tanned dust wrapper with short creased tear to rear panel at upper spine fold, old tape mend to blank side.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Two and Two Make Five by Vernon Knowles (First Edition) Minor bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends with slight sunning to spine. Previous owner's plate to front pasted end page. Wear to edges and spine ends with 1 inch loss to top of sunned spine. Price-clipped. Not dated. Original blue cloth with gold lettering; 256 pages. "Fabular short stories, taken in part from earlier volumes. Including [a] THE CURIOUS ACTIVITIES OF BASIL THORPENDEN. He is an occult engineer, with a means of travelling through time, and an apparatus for storing emotions. He is also able to enter the Land of Ideas, where he progresses to the Territory of Reality. [b] THE FIRST COMING. Christ manifested himself (before the incarnation in Palestine) to a people who accepted him with love. This upset the Divine Plan, and the scenario had to be transferred" (Bleiler). BOOK.…

Presumed 1st Edition. Hardback. Near very good in good, worn, chipped, browned, price clipped and plastic protected, d/w. Spine and corners bumped, pages a bit browned. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. An incredibly scarce presentation copy of this volume of poetry, signed by the author to the front endpapers. An incredibly scarce, signed presentation copy of this book of poems from Australian author Vernon Knowles, most known for his 1924 fantasy fiction work 'The Street of Queer Houses'.In smart original half black cloth binding, with original title sticker to spine.At one time owned by a Mrs L. G. Churchman.Signed and inscribed to front free endpaper. Inscription reads 'Mrs L. G. Churchman: Her Book. Written in the House of the Seven Cats (and all delightful, too!) Vernon Knowles October 10, 1024'. Bound in original half black and grey cloth. Externally, smart. The odd marks to boards. Rubbing to extremities and spine. Small marks to spine. Slight chipping and marks to title sticker at spine. Spotting to endpapers. Very light pencil sketch of a church to rear paste down, author's ink inscription and signature to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound, with slight strain. Pages generally bright and clean, with the occasional handling mark. Very Good. None (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. First. A good copy. Inscribed by the author to painter Albert Rutherston. Seven short stories, mostly fantasy it seems. Lacking the jacket, some staining and marking to the boards, a little bumping to the spine tips, boards a little warped and some foxing internally.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to 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.…