Vian C Smith (15 results)

Condition: Good. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. v/g tight hardback,with a neat bookplate to front paste down,in poor nearly complete,un-clipped d/j.1945,1st edition.252,pages.

Maroon hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with torn dust jacket. Inscribed by previous owner. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 255pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The author served for four and a half years as a sapper in the British Army during the Second World War starting with the B.E.F. in France and then the 8th Army, these are his memoirs of his period of service. 253pp. Edges of DJ have several nicks, two closed tears and two open tears along with minor loss to head of DJ spine. Light foxing to endpapers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Cover. Reprint.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Scarce. First Edition. No dust jacket. Rebound ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers. A tan to the page edges. Contents otherwise clear and unmarked, with firm binding. A bright, sturdy example.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Novel featuring WW2 home-coming soldiers "abruptly turned adrift in a civilian life". All in VG+, crisp, clean and bright internal order. No inscriptions. Marking to leading edge of front board. Otherwise all smart, with crisp white titling. Scarce in VG+ unclipped d/j, now in removable protective sleeve. 12mo. 255pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 256pp, owner's name on endpaper, edges browned, text clean and sound, Very Good condition in browned and frayed dustwrapper. ISBN: 0575007206.

Hard with Dust Jacket. Condition: Good+ in good dust jacket. First impression. Good+ in good dust jacket. DJ lightly creased and dust stained to white rear panel, with light chipping to corners. Light foxing to endpapers and page edges. 254pp.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. DJ is age-toned with some loss to spine ends. Faint scattered foxing to top edge. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 252 pages. The author's account his service as a Sapper in the B.E.F durig World War Two.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor (ex-library). Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Reprint. Hardcover. 253 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1945. Reprint. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in poor (ex-library) condition and comes in poor dust jacket. Tanned pages. Front face of dust jacket has been cut out and pasted to the front board with synopsis pasted to the inside. Wear and marks to boards with spine being quite faded, stained and wrinkled. Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; War; Inventory No: 15040068. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale.…

Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dw not price clipped, missing bottom quarter on spine otherwise very good, colours good. Endpapers and cut edges foxed but pages otherwise clean, binding tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8vo. orig. cl. inscr. else v.g. in worn and torn d/w.

8vo., First Edition; cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in white, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges and with neat repair (just affecting lettering) at headband. Vividly-written novel based on the author's service with the Royal Engineers in WWII. The first edition is scarce in this condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller.