Phelps Gilbert John (33 results)

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. ISBN: 0517690381, Hardback, 1st printing of reprint edition, Fine Minus in Fine Minus DJ; light wear to DJ and DJ edges, true tales and observations of the animal kingdom by many famous authors and naturalists, 8vo., 213 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Wright, Sheila (illustrator). This book was first published in 1979 by Topaz Publ. and in the UK by Angus and Robertson. Anthology of sketches written by well-known naturalists observing wild animals and their own pets. 216 pieces; index. 224 p. Small b/w illustrations and some full page color plates. Examples of titles: "A hare about the house" (Cecil S. Webb); "Otter nonsense" (Gavin Maxwell); "Caught by a lion" (David Livingstone); "Of beasts and brutes" (Elspeth Huxley); "Horses and telepathy" (Henry Blake). Pristine honey colored boards, very slightly faded at the front top edge. White endpapers, unsoiled. No markings. Inside as new. Glossy illustrated dust jacket with one inch tear at top, front and back. Unclipped (Original price $19.95) Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Condition: Very Good. 1St Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1St Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1St Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Oversized 213pp Illustrations Remainder dot on bottom and previous price crossed out on front facing page near upper outside corner Dust jacket has a few small tears on edges.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Thus. Book and jacket show light shelfwear, rubbing at corners and edge extremities. Front endpaper of book has staple hole where someone had stapled a receipt to that page. Remainder dot to top edge. Used Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Sheila Wright (illustrator). Reprint. Tan paper-wrapped binding with dark green print on spine. Sound and unmarked. 224 pages including iondex and credits. Dust jacket hass small closed tear in top edge of front fold, near corner. In mylar and noty prtice-clipped ( $19.95).Originally "Animals: Tame & Wild", published in 1979. Eighty short articles, essays,eic. about a variety of animals.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. By Black and White Drawings (illustrator). Very Good in Very Good jacket Folio-over 12"-15" Book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Some shelf wear to DJ. Book is clean, tight and square.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. cover by Robert Gibson Jones (illustrator). First Edition. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Chicago: 1950. First Edition; First Printing. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.75"], 162 pages, illustrated. Includes "The Shades of Toffee" by Charles F. Meyers, "Operation Decoy" by Walt Sheldon, "Luvver" by Mack Reynolds, "The Man Who Would Not Burn" by Paul Lohrman, "The Mechanical Genius" by Gilbert Grant, etc. A very good copy with small edge tears, light toning to the paper. See Photos bx 431/ E.

single issue magazine. Condition: Good. Robert Gibson Jones (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. 1950. First edition. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers, 130 pages, illustrated. Includes "Mistress of the Djinn" by Geoff St Reynard, "Long Beer --- Short Horn" by Mack Reynolds, "I Take This Earthman" by Charles V. De Vet, "The Dreaming Tress" by John W. Jakes, "One Way" by Gilbert Grant, etc. Good copy with scattered very light chipping to the slightly faded/toned spine, remains of tape across the spine ends, scattered creasing/light edgewear to the cover, small piece of tape to the inside front cover at the central fore-edge,paper tanned as usual. bx291 mag8.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good. Robert Gibson Jones (cover) (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. 1950. First Edition; First Printing. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers 130 pages, illustrated. Includes "Mistress of the Djinn" by Geoff St Reynard, "Long Beer --- Short Horn" by Mack Reynolds, "I Take This Earthman" by Charles V. De Vet, "The Dreaming Tress" by John W. Jakes, "One Way" by Gilbert Grant, etc. Very good copy with corner creasing and a date stamp and "AMERICAN" stamped to the rear cover text paper tanning/tanned.bx502.

Hardback. 1977. First edition. An ex-library copy in good condition and in a good d/w.

HARDCOVER. 1979. First edition. A very good copy in edge rubbed and tanned illustrated boards. Light age tanning to the edges of the text block but the contents are fine and clean.

Hard Back. Condition: Book Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First British Edition. 224 pages including index. Pictrorial hardback, beige background, black/brown titles to spine. Very light wear to spine-ends & corners with slight surface darkening due to use. Slight darkening to page-edges. Excellent colour & b/w ilustrations. Text is very clean. Very nice condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Worn - Marked. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn. Various Artists & Photographers (illustrator). First.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1977 SIGNED by Fred Trueman very good hardback, foxing inside endpapers, glue residue on spine and front and rear boards, in a very good dust wrapper, corners and edges rubbed, light foxing and browning inside cover. Protected by clear removable archival covering. Date in ink at the top of front endpaper. 280 pages. Illustrations. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth in slipcase. Condition: Good. John Lawrence (illustrator). Illustrated with wood engravings by John Lawrence, octavo, pp 493, very slight foxing to the fore-edge, othwerwise very clean internally, patterned cloth, the spine label slightly scuffed otherwise very good, the slipcase is worn and marked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good, Brown Edges, Few Spots. Carl James and Various Photographers (illustrator). First. A very heavy book. Extra charges will apply.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 280 pages, well illustrated, a book published to accompany a BBC television series. Phelps puts cricket into its "historical and social context" as well as compiling an 80-page anthology; Arlott looks at cricket's past and future, and Trueman outlines "Players of my time", with stats by David Frith. SIGNED on front free end paper by F S Trueman. Below his signature has been added, in laid-down form, a very good SIGNATURE, of John Arlott. A tight copy, though the binding is a little cocked. Jacket is poly-protected. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Signed by Fred Trueman. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout and 13 in colour. ISBN: 0-563-16115-9 Pages: 280 F/NF. Signedes.

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Condition: As New. 2005. Hardback. Folio Society (3rd printing 2005 with new foreword and a new binding design). Card slipcase showing v. minor shelf wear. In fine illustrated covers with titles to spine. Internally crisp and clear, and remains a very fine copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated by John Lawrence (illustrator). Stiff unmarked book in pale cloth with wrap-around illustration; in sturdy light green slipcase with just a faint touch of sunning. Third printing with the new foreword. ; 493 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. First Edition. Beautiful Folio Society Edition in green pink and black illustrated cloth & light blue slipcase, First Printing with new Foreword and binding design, no markings, a Fine unread copy in Near Fine slipcase; 8vo; 493pp illus.

Condition: As New. 2005. Hardback. Folio Society (3rd printing 2005 with new foreword and a new binding design). Card slipcase showing v. minor shelf wear. In fine illustrated covers with titles to spine. Internally crisp and clear, and remains a very fine copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.