Mark Harborough (23 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. A very good orange hardcover. Spine sunned. Illustrated colour plate frontis. Scout book. 1933 edition.

Condition: Fair. 1933. Reprinted. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Blue embossed cloth with black lettering to spine. Pages are lightly tanned with moderate foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper and half title page, with water drops and a few small nicks along text block edge. Minor dog-eared corners. Mild cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with notable bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a pronounced forward lean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'Fossil the Scout' by Mark Harborough. Oxford University Press 1933. Inscription. Slght foxing. A bit of shelf wear. Good condition.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. viii, 9-64pp, various in-text black and white illustrations. Pictorial heavy paper covers. 12mo. Chipping to edges with some loss to spine ends, wear and soiling to covers, corners starting to curl. Three newspapers articles pasted to blank pages. Some foxing and tanning. Internally, neat and tight.…

Condition: Fair. 1924. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Decorative blue cloth with black and silver lettering. Black and white illustrated plates. Moderate foxing and light tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, slightly lighter to pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking and slight staining to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning with visible tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards are worn and stained,not affecting the inside.Previous ownership inscription.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Antique ex library book. Brown cloth cover with red and black design and title on front and spine. Some minor foxing throughout.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. some wear to covers and cover edges, foxing, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Circa 1930. Paper covered boards, a little rubbed to the edges, with an illustration labelled Scouting Days of a man on a horse. Colour frontispiece and b + w illustrations. Original owner's name and date 1931 in pencil to the inner board, a few fingerprints, otherwise internally clean. Adventure stories include Trapped! A Scouting Story' by Walter Rhodes and stories by Mark Harborough, Harold Avery and Captain G B McKean V.C. and a poem by William Pitt.…

Decorative Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Presumed 1st Edition. Undated; attractive prize plate to inside front board dated 1933. Blue cloth hardback with blind embossed decoration. Pp 234; a square, tight, clean copy; all within is tight, clean and clear. A sound example of a scarce title. Image/further details available upon request. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition hardback, 1933, with price-clipped jacket. In overall good used condition in a fair dj with some signs of handling and storage - dj is complete but rubbed, chipped and nicked to edges with a couple of repairs; illustrated blue cloth boards are rubbed to edges and faded where the dj is chipped. Binding overall tight and appears little read - minor crack to gutter at half-title, no annotations - 4 word gift inscription to half-title and remains of a postage (?) stamp to reverse of frontispiece; toning and slight spotting to page-ends and endpapers but text, illustrations and maps at endpapers bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available. K. Wallis Coales (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 254 pages. No dj. Presented to sticker on ffep. Text foxed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. An ageing but firm book.255 pages, colour frontis. Map endpapers. K. Wallis Coales (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: nrVG. No DW. Not dated but about 1930. Small red haredback. Boy's Pocket Library. Colour frontis. Camels on endppers. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. But edges bit spotted and two white spots on spine.

Softcover. Condition: VG in Wraps. A Handicraft book for Scouts. Black and white illustrations. Light wear. 62 pp.

Hardback. Printed pages: 254. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Dust jacket: Rear original jacket featuring a boy scout climbing a swastika. Heavy soiling, some wear and creasing to top edge. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Good. Book: Blue cloth binding with blind stamped illustration to front board and spine. Foxing to page edges, scattered foxing to text. Prize bookplate to front pastedown endpaper (dated 1939). Inked and pencilled number to front free endpaper. The rear free endpaper has been signed by numerous people two days prior to the award being presented. Presumably either teachers or classmates. Complete with the colour frontis. An uncommon vintage boy scout adventure. Overall book condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5.25 x 7.5 inches (13 x 19 cm).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Some foxing. Previous owner's signature dated 1941. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Some wear to ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; viii, 234 pages + [2] pages advertisements + colour frontispiece. Red cloth boards. Black lettering and decoration on front board. Page dimensions: 184 x 121mm. Children's adventure novel.…

[1929]. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. Not paginated. Illustrated paper covered boards. Illustrated endpapers, color frontispiece, black and white and color illustrations. There is a small closed puncture on the spine of this unusually bright and crisp copy. Contributors include Percy Dent (Indian Totem Poles), J.T. Gorman (The Spell of Chikamagambe), Gunby Hadath (For the Good of the Cause), Mark Harborough (Cave Men), George S. Surrey (Men and Bears), Laurance Woodhouse (A Hundred Years of Rugby Football). Publisher series: Big Books. (Juvenile).…

Decorative Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Cornered by Scouts. A Scouting Story. Circa 1915. Message to previous owner to inside cover is dated 1942. Old Scout Shop label to inside cover. Rolled spine. Orange cloth with black lettering. 232 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Uncommon. A story of Boy Scouts & Windmill Camp. Neat but lengthy gift inscription of a scouting nature (not by the author). Colour frontis & 5 black & white plates as called for.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Or Early Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 254. Original publishers illustrated blue cloth, lettered black on spine and front cover. No date, circa 1928. From the collection of illustrated juvenile fiction (1890- 1930) of Brian Mills (ÕThe DreamerÕ) (1939- 2011). He left no signs of of his ownership but they are distinguished by their excellent bright condition in a genre that often shows up rather wornÉhe was known to constantly upgrade his collection. Very good indeed. …

Condition: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original yellow cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine and front cover, square colour onlay to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 232 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrated plates on coated paper throughout. Spine ends and corners turned-in with shallow rubs, age tanning to the free end papers, pencil name dated 1915 to the front paste down and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOY SCOUTS & GIRL GUIDES. …

254 pp. Color frontispiece. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Early edition. A bright fine copy in an nice example of the dust jacket, lightly dust-soiled, particularly at the rear panel.