Rupert Downing (11 results)

Condition: Good. 1968. First Edition Thus. 175 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. If I Laugh: The Chronicle Of My Strange Adventures In The Great Paris Exodus, June 1940. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1943. Fifth edition. 229 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning. Boards are slightly bowed.

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

112471. Condition: vg. vg Mayflower Book 112471 - 1968 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st. First edition hardback, 1942, with unclipped jacket. In overall good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dj rubbed to edges with several chips and nicks, white rear cover slightly soiled; green cloth boards generally clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotations or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++ / Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A UK first edition, first impression. THE WRAPPER : The wrapper on this copy is bright, clean, unfaded and complete. It shows insignificant soiling to the back panel. The wrapper is unclipped. Looks sharp in protective plastic. THE BOOK : The book is square and tight. The boards are clean and bright. The spine ends are a little bumped, as are the upper corners. The pages are clean. The closed page edges are unmarked. The text block is a little dulled. No dog-eared pages. The binding is tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. A decent copy. PayPal accepted.

4to: 1 p. 22 lines. Text clear and entire on lightly aged and creased paper, with one 1.5 cm closed tear (not affecting text). Congratulating Place on her 'Assistant Principalship'. He considers she was 'very wise to take the opportunity'. He has discussed 'the house-key question with the Keeper [T. D. Kendrick]', who regards Saturday afternoons 'as a sacred time reserved for peaceful work, undisturbed by ones colleagues'. Consequently 'it would be rather difficult to accommodate you as a helper on Saturdays and after your week's work at the ministry'. He is 'sure you will soon find better things to do on a Saturday afternoon than languish in the Iron Age Gallery!' If she wishes to come in to do some research, 'There is someone on duty, and it is our duty to help. [.] we count you among our most successful helpers.'.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Signed by the author on the title-page, and inscribed "To Ray and Johnie, with affection and best wishes from the Author, August 1956" on the front free endpaper. 176pp with torn dustwrapper, (15% missing from front panel.) Blue boards and gilt lettering to spine: spine slightly sunned at bottom two inches. Generally VG and attractively priced. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. 176 pp Bound in light blue cloth with gilt titles both book and dust jacket are in very good condition. The jacket is just a little edge worn.

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Hardback. Octavo. 229pp. Original blue cloth with pink spine titles. Covers lightly used and marked with slight spine fading and corner bumping, otherwise very good. Ink name of Norman Scarfe to endpaper. No dust jacket.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original strawberry cloth cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered in gilt and black, end paper maps. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 285 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Tiny ink squiggle to the verso of the front free end paper. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing to the spine tips and corners, red band across the spine sun faded, not price clipped + corner mounted close cut signature on light blue sugar paper of the period and probably from a souvenir | autograph book to the title page SIGNED 'Gort' + mounted period monochrome photograph. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS.