Nora Usher (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Brown cloth, black spine title with illustration between title and author blocks on front. No Date of publication, possible 1st American Edition. Previous owner's name and address on ffep dated 1913. No other markings found. Edge and corner wear, frayed head of spine. Small stains. Back joint split 1/2" at tail of spine. Binding is all together but hinges and two gutters cracked. Top half of title page is loose. Well tanned pages, a few smudge stained. A good reading copy in Fair condition.

Small hardcover, circa. 1900, with cover that shows moderate wear. Pages age-toned. Binding sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Early Printing. no date, circa 1900, pale blue, mustard and black decorated light brown cloth, perhaps first U.S. edition, age-toned text paper, otherwise a nice, clean, square copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Not dated but circa. 1930. 128pp plus 22pp publisher's adverts at rear. Colour plate frontispiece. In grey cloth-covered boards with illustrations to front and spine (boards a little faded, especially on spine; corners minorly rubbed and a little rounded). Very attractive prize presentation plate on front free endpaper, indicating the volume was awarded to one Doris Wilson by Loughborough Hall Sunday School in 1936, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. children's books, decorative covers, Vintage Books, pictorial and decorative covers,

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. No Jacket. Pamphlet, magazine format with stapled spine and blue/gray illustrated covers. 8.5x5.75 with 32 pp. Part of The Lily Library series. Date is an estimate. Pages have darkened. Orginal, not a reprint.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No date, circa 1930s? The pictorial red cloth has a small stain to the lower spine, otherwise VG. Pages age-browned, but very clean & tight. No inscriptions. The Excelsior Library. 128 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 64pp. +32pp. adverts. HARDCOVER Attractive light blue pictorial boards featuring sea rescue. Not dated but contains gift inscription to fep dated 1911. Fairly porous paper, which has attracted much browning, although text remains clearly legible. Four full-page illustrations. No d/w - presumed as issued. Mild external rubbing to cloth but remains visually tidy. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 16mo - over 53/4" - 63/4" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. An about good undated hardcover in an about good price clipped dustwrapper. The book is in brown boards which are a little bowed and lightly bumped to the corners, the spine is bumped to the ends and there is spine lean, inked writing on the reverse of the frontispiece (dated 1943) and the corner is clipped, toned pages foxed and toned to the text-block edges. The attractive dustwrapper is a little aged/foxed, creased/rubbed to the edges with a small closed tear to the bottom of the front panel and small chips from the spine ends/tips - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; 75x56.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Small paperback booklet in good condition. Shelfwear and creasing to all edges of covers with bumps to corners. Pages tanned. 32mo. 30pp.

Decorative Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Edition. Blue boards with black lettering and an illustration to the spine and the front panel. The boards have a little white marking to the right edge of the front panel and slight corner rubbng. Scattered light marking to page edges. Previous owner's name and date (1939) in ink to the front free endpaper (my mother). There is a little spotting at the front of the book but the pages are otherwise free from browning or any other marking and are otherwise clean and unmarked. Coloured frontispiece which matches the jacket illustration. The jacket has a three inch tear at the top left corner of the front panel, a one inch tear to the top right corner and a three inch tear to the bottom left corner. There is some chipping to the corners and there is a little loss at the top of the spine but the jacket is largely complete. The rear panel has some surface discolouration. Believed to be a second edition from the mid to late 1930s published in Excelsior Library series and priced at 1/3 but no publication date is given.

Paperback. Condition: VG-. No. 26321. Words and Musical Score. 310 x 250 mm. 8 page folded booklet. Vendor's stamp bottom of front cover. Copyright 1914. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 25 grams. 26320.

Condition: Very Good. Plates (4) Small octavo pictorial grey cloth (tips sl.rubbed) 64pp+32p catal. paper toned & bookplate removed from FEP *Dutiful daughter gives up the chance of an art prize in order to help finance her education but in truly moral fashion she wins all in the end. 1 volume. Hardcover.

Hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, black title, author lettering and illustrations to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 128 printed pages of text with colour frontispiece. Prize plate to the front free end paper dated 1932. Very Good condition book, in scarce Very Good condition price clipped dust wrapper with only small rubs to spine tips and top corners, spine colours not faded. Dust wrapper without any tears and supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945.