Mabel Shaw (52 results)

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Slight tear along the top edge of the dust jacket; 197 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Some age wear; 197 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Name inscribed on inside cover; 197 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Private bookplate covers previous owner's inscription on the fly leaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Church library markings. Spine label peeled. Tanning. Binding good.

Condition: Fair. 1933. 1933 Reprint. 196 pages. Pink pictorial dust jacket over purple cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. 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 slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Protected by plastic wrapper.

Condition: Good. Ninth impression. Light wear to boards. Content has light toning. Name sticker to ffep. DJ with some edge wear and tears. Clipped.

Condition: Good. 1921. No Edition Remarks. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrated and photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Spine is in good condition.

Condition: Good. 1921. No edition remarks. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Red illustrated cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Prize plate stuck to front endpaper. Clean pages with noticeable tanning throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Moderate water stains to front board. Book has forward lean. Boards are notably warped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bookplate tipped in on the front inner board by Ian Mackenzie. Name of the previous owner written on the front free end paper page. Publication of 196 pages. Frontispiece. The boards are scuffed and marked. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is strong. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. DJ with some edge wear, light toning and creasing. Owner text to end paper.

Near fine first edition hardback in a slightly faded dustjacket in a removable protective sleeve; frontispiece, 196 + [4] pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good. 10th Impression. 197 pages. Black, dark pink and green pictorial dustjacket with light wear around edges and corners, not price-clipped. Clean dark purple hardback binding with light wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Light browning to page-edges, prize award label pasted to inside of front board o/w pages very clean and tidy.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Zambia, Education, Missions) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. photographs by Bernard Turner (illustrator). Competition prize label on the front end paper Firmly bound, decorated green cloth boards showing an African village scene on the front Scuffing on the edges of the spine. Crease on page 37. No jacket.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. In Slightly worn DJ, inscription inside; 197 pages.

Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDspine letters dark.

Some wear to exterior, with loss to bottom of spine and tear to bottom of front cover. Name to inside and some spotting to front and rear few pages. Majority of the contents are tight, bright, and clean, with little to no foxing to text. 160pp. (12.5x18cm). Please contact us for any more information.

8th edition. Very good cloth copy with title-blocked paper label to spine. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Previous owner's signature. Physical description; 196 pp., 21 cm. Subjects; Shaw, Mabel 1889-1973. London Missionary Society. Missions Zambia. Society. Girls' School (Mbereshi). Education. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. With a foreword by Micklem, E.R. Small inscription written by the previous owner. Publication of 160 pages. Frontispiece in color. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. There is foxing around the block of the book and on the first and last pages, little within the body of the book. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. With dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 197pp. Dark purple boards, a little faded to the spine and edges and with a little wear to the corners. Paper title label to the spine. B + w photograph frontispiece illustration. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, a couple of light marginal marks, otherwise internally clean. The author was a missionary and teacher in a school at Mbereshi, south of Lake Mweru in what was then Northern Rhodesia, for seventeen years from 1915.

8th edition. Very good cloth copy with title-blocked paper label to spine. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Previous owner's signature. Physical description; 196 pp., 21 cm. Subjects; Shaw, Mabel 1889-1973. London Missionary Society. Missions Zambia. Society. Girls' School (Mbereshi). Education. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Free end papers a little browned; text clean in firm binding; spine a little faded & worn. Dust jacket not price-clipped, but worn at edges, with fraying & loss to browned spine Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edge-worn jacket. Foxed edges else minimal wear to book.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Slight discolouration to the endpapers. Minor marginalised foxing inside. Remains well-preserved overall. ; 160 pages; Description: xv, 160 p. Col. Front. , plates. 20 cm. Subjects: Children --Africa. Missions --Africa. 3 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Paperback 8vo, illustrated card covers. 64pp illustrated with frontispiece and 3 other black and white plates. A well used book with age spotting, wear to edges etc. A fair reading copy. Apparently a true story of missionaries and villages in present day Zimbabwe, then named Northern Rhodesia. Previous owner's name on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A near fine copy, in a near fine dust jacket. The striking purple cloth binding is clean and unworn, with strong red to the spine. Everything is tight and square, with unbumped corners. Just a narrow band of fading to the spine bottom. The contents are clean and bright with only a neat ownership name and date to the ffep and a small bookplate to the front pastedown. Otherwise no markings of any kind. The lovely unclipped dust jacket (2/6 net) is clean and complete, with just the slightest of edgewear and rubbing, and a small dampstain to the spine. It has been neatly and invisibly reinforced from behind with clear tape, and is now protected in a removable mylar cover. From the author's preface: "This book is based upon letters written during a period of seventeen years spent in a mission school in Bantu Africa. It tells of an attempt to conserve all that is true and good in the old life and to build upon it".

Hard back binding in publisher's original purple paper covered boards, pink paper title block with purple lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 196 printed pages of text with monochrome photographic frontispiece. Thin strip of sun fading and scuffing to the lower spine and edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with sun fading to the pink of the spine and margins of the rear panel, tiny nicks to the upper spine end, not price clipped 2/6. 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. MISSIONARY (Proselytism).

Hardback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Helmer, Levine & Howard, Fred S. & Peachey, D. & Gladwin, May & et al., (illustrator). Fair condition with no wrapper. Red cloth spine, pictorial front cover shows girl in red cloak holding holly and a basket of fruit. First story is "In The Tyrant's Grip" by Comrie. Colour plates and numerous other illustrations. Spine bumped and grubby. Covers edge worn. Rear cover is grubby and spotted. Front joint is almost broken, rear joint cracked. Page browning and some fingering to margins. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!