Vicars Bell, First Edition (34 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1963). 106pp. VG/VG copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of the fourth fictional novel by this author. No dustjacket. Light fading to the spine. Light edge wear. Small bookstore sticker on the bottom edge of the first glued down end page. In very good condition.

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 207 pages. Orange jacket over green cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear and loss.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition second printing octavo hardback Light blue cloth gilt 184 pp. Very Good condition. No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. In an orange cloth cover with gilt titles to spine. In a clipped brown and light brown pictorial dust jacket with red titles to spine and front, enclosed in clear "book protector". Black and white photograph to frontispiece. 160 pp. The dust jacket is in near fine condition. The book itself is in very good condition, the only defect being offsetting to the feps and a small dedication in ink to the top corner of the ffep, otherwise the pages are clean and unmarked. No.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 207 p. Subjects: Bell, Vicars 1904-1988. Great Britain Social life and customs 20th century. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good plus dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 160pp, four black and white plates. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Text block edges and free endpapers tanning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket sun faded, has some shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. The fascinating story of an English parish from the earliest times to the date of publication.

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 207 pages. Signed by the author. Orange pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Half title page has been signed by the Author and dedicated to Author's mother. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Prominent forward lean to text block. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

hardcover. Condition: Very good copy. 1st. 8vo, 106 pp.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good (+). First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked orange cloth boards. clear gilt lettering to spine, tanned end papers, slightly dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with nicks to edges and sunned spine. 160pp. Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire as seen through the lives of its parishoners through the centuries - kings, monks, dukes, labourers, farmes, doctors, poachers, witches, ghosts, rogues and heroes. Forward by Arthur Bryant. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 8.75 x 5.5 inches.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 207 p. Subjects: Bell, Vicars 1904-1988. Great Britain Social life and customs 20th century. 1 Kg.

orange/red Cloth. Condition: Good/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Impression. First published in 1949, second impression 1950, xiii, 160pp, illustrated with black & white plates, maps and drawings, orange/red cloth with gilt spine lettering, a little sunned at the top of the spine where there is loss from the dust jacket, small ding to upper board, dust jacket browned, some wear to the edges, especially of the spine, some loss to top of spine, unclipped. Size: 8.75 x 5.75 Inches. Local History.

8vo, 21.6cm. Pp. 160, frontisp., 3 plates. 5 drawings, index. Hardbound, orig. cloth in pictorial duat-jacket. Very good, jacked not price-clipped. - First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing of this collection. Boards bright and clean. Wrapper rubbed to extremities, spine and front panel darkened, rear panel orange. Unusual title. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair DJ. First edition. Author's signature and gift inscription on fly title. Cloth a little worn, ffep discoloured. Dw worn, sunned and lightly marked. Small tears to corners and top of backstrip, larger tear to base of backstrip. Price clipped.

First edition. Hardback. Book and clipped dust jacket are in Very Good+ condition. Small abrasion to top corner of jacket front panel (See picture). No inscriptions. Illustrated by Dorothea Patterson. Jacket supplied in a new removable clear cover.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG DW. 1st Edition. DW has slight discolouration.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. True first British printing with original clipped (re-priced by publisher) jacket (7s 6d). Jacket has faults - namely minor patchy edge/shelf wear, patchy browning (including to spine), few marks, very small patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine and to corners), creasing/rubbing to edges, pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, little pushing/bumping to corners, little creasing/rubbing to front/back inner flaps and is in only good condition. Boards are very good (having been well protected by the jacket) with a little pushing/bumping to corners, a little browning to spine, the odd small mark and a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages bit tanned. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 197. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered yellow on spine. From the Donald Rudd collection of detective fiction. Slight lean with some chipping to lettering at spine, slight rubbing and label remains on the rear endpaper, otherwise a used, very good minus copy.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Banbora (illustrator). First Edition. Ex-library copy. The boards are discoloured and worn along the top and bottom edges and there is a spine lean. The front free endpaper has a patch of label residue near the top with some creasing around this. Tape marks to the front and rear pastedowns and there are strips of tape running along the hinges at the front and rear endpapers. The front pastedown has a small stamp and a small pen mark and the endpapers are browned and worn. Browning to the page edges. The pages are browned with stains in a few places and are a little worn but otherwise generally unmarked. The jacket has been cut down to fit inside a cover by about 3mm and it was also folded over at the top with this leaving a crease along the top edge. The spine has a one inch patch of red staining from a label. There are a few small stains to the rear panel. The rear flap has two one inch triangular pieces missing at the top where another small section has been torn off and reattached with tape and both flaps have patches of surface damage. The jacket is signed Banbora. First printing.

1st edition. A tidy copy in tight binding; dust jacket not price-clipped, slightly shelf-worn, & protected in removable clear film Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, small inscription on front pastedown, light spotting on endpapers, boards and binding tidy, tape repairs to closed tears on dust jacket, scuffing to dust jacket. Size: 8vo.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good/VeryGood. First Edition. HB. Salmon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. 160 pages including index, 5 line drawing , + 3 b&w plates and frontispiece. DJ unclipped; has some little shelfwear; small 1/4 inch triangle missing from top of front joint of DJ. Book tight and clean.

No Binding. Condition: Not Specified. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Death Walks by the River by Vicars Bell Dust Jacket Only First Edition Faber 1959. Not price clipped. VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket 8vo. Original publishers pale green cloth lettered red on spine and illustration in red on cover. pp 61. Illustrated throughout by Dorothea Patterson. Signed presentation copy from the artist. Neat name on front endpaper. VG+/VG+. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean, tight & coplete. A very nice copy considering it's age.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket 8vo. Original publishers blue cloth lettered gilt on spine. pp 43. Illustrated throughout by Dorothea Patterson. Signed presentation copy from the artist. Neat name on front endpaper. VG+/VG+. Exellent clean copy. Signedes.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dorothea Patterson (illustrator). First edition. A first edition, illustrated copy of this sweet children's story by the popular children's author, Vicars Bell. A scarce first edition copy. In the original cloth binding with gilt lettering, and the publisher's clipped dust wrapper. With a frontispiece, three full page illustrations and numerous vignette illustrations throughout by Dorothea Patterson. Collated complete. A delightful children's story about a kitten who went out to see the world and found it more alarming than he expected. Vicars Bell was a popular writer and village headmaster from England. He wrote a range of children's books and detective stories, set in rural villages, as well as other writings. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor shelf wear. Light marks to the boards. Some offsetting to the rear free endpaper and paste-down. The original clipped dust wrapper is in good condition. The front panel is bright and clear. Some chipping to the spine and edges. Marks to the rear panel. Shelf wear to the edges and offsetting to the right flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot and several marks throughout. Tipex applied to the front and rear of the title page. The occasional closed tear. Very Good. book.