Stucley E F (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. 2nd. Blue boards binding clean and tight, some foxing to pages. 1956 gift inscription ffep. Dj has large chip on front cover, edgewear. For ages 10-14. 255 page chapter book about a young boy, Adam, who - with his sense of drama and taste for adventure - forms the central figure of a true-to-life story for girls. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Good. 1933. No Edition Stated. 95 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Hinges are cracked. Content is clean with stamps on the endpapers and a sticker on the front pastedown. Fair DJ has chips/tears and toning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gervase (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. One in a series of Adventure, Travel, & Biography books for young readers issued by Collins in the mid-20th century. This one features young Adam, whom the town witch tells early on that he holds the "star of success" in his hand. "A book of rare beauty which gets beyond the robust everyday world to the more intimate realm of the spirit." In 255 pages with full-color frontispiece & DJ cover art by "Gervase." A FIRST EDITION, unknown printing, from 1946, this 12mo has red cloth-covered boards stamped & ruled in silver to front & spine. Condition is VG: very clean, binding strong with a slight rightward lean, pages moderately tanned, heavier to endpapers (with foxing), but completely unmarked. Light soil & dust dulling to outside edges of text block. The price-clipped DJ is Good: colorful & bright, with rather heavy creasing & rubbing to extremities & a missing section to center spine; protected in nonreflective mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Condition: Good. Ex school library. Boards have some wear. Content has light toning. Some spotting to end papers and page ends. No DJ.

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition Thus. 255 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed blue. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creases. Moderate loss to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. RICHARD KENNEDY (illustrator). The dustwrapper is heavily rubbed with discolouring and dents, has some wear to the edges and corners, with some small rips and chips to the edges and both ends of spine. The blue boards are clean with fading to top edge, some bumping to the edges and corners, with silver lettering to the spine and fading to tail end. Tanned page edges, page 143 corner fold. The binding is firm. The pages appear clean and crease free. This book has 214 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. 255 pages. No dustjacket. Spine has FADED from blue to white, titles still bright, some fading to upper edges of blue hareback binding, small creases to spine-ends corners a little curled. Colour frontispiece. Page-edges a little foxed o/w pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprint . Book plate tipped in from the previous owner on the front free end page. Reprint, 1955. Publication of 255 pages. Frontispiece in color. Blue top page edges. The dust jacket is worn, shelf rubbed and chipped pieces. The boards are a touch edge worn, also on the spine. The boards remain in strong condition. There is foxing on the first and last few pages and on the inner part of the jacket. Internally the remaining pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Kennedy, Richard (Illustrator) (illustrator). First Edition. 214 pages. No dustjacket. Blue hardback binding faded to a lighter blue at spine which is darkened, small marks to covers. Moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. End-papers pulled-out exposing inner hinge at front, pencil-marks to pages 123-127, otherwise pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a price clipped dustjacket which is creased and chipped at the edges & has 3 inches of bottom of spine and back cover missing. 214 pages, illustrations in the text by Richard Kennedy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Richard Kennedy (illustrator). 1st Edition. An unusual pony story about a Devon family and their wild red-haired Irish cousin, Kit. Rather gothic in atmosphere and featuring the forbidding governess, Miss Trimmer. Slight tanning and foxing to page edges and endpapers. Inscription on front free endpaper. In a bright, near complete dust jacket, price-clipped (although price of 5/-net still remaining) and with small loss to spine ends. Elizabeth Stucley later wrote the famous book Magnolia Buildings about children in Clapham.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 1st edn. 2nnd impresson. HB. Cloth. DW. G-/G. Spine, covers pastedown, endpapers inside of dw damp stained. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a price clipped dustjacket which is creased and chipped at the edges with minor loss at spine ends and top edges. 214 pages, illustrations in the text by Richard Kennedy.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Chesterman, Hugh (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1933. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. A book for the young economist. Green cloth with red titles and illustrations to front. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Some slight foxing. White pictorial wrapper is a little foxed and edge-worn with minimal loss. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Square 8vo. 96pp. B/w. illustrations. Occasional foxing, original green cloth slightly rubbed to corners. US$22.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FREE U.K. Shipping. FAMILY Business. FIRST Class Service. Full refund if not totally satisfied 1935 FIRST Hardback edition, no dust jacket. Spine damage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Kennedy, Richard (illustrator). 1st Edition. Black & white illustrations. There is a small name inscription on the free front endpaper and light ghosting to endpapers. All else is very clean inside. Clean and firm blue cloth covered boards with minimal wear. A price clipped dustjacket with some wear and nibbles to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ND. 1946 - WorldCat. Scare in d/j. In VG+, crisp, clean and bright order throughout. No inscriptions. Smart black cloth with dulled red titling to spine. VG unclipped d/j, lightly toned to head and foot. 12mo. 248pp.