Amirs Ruby by Percy Westerman (16 results)

Condition: Fair. 224 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over brown pictorial cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate 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. Slight forward lean to text block. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Light tanning to spine and edges. Tape to top of spine.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 224 p.; 8 vo. Subjects: Fiction; Fiction in English. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 224 p.; 8 vo. Subjects: Fiction; Fiction in English. 1 Kg.

Reprint. Inscription on front pastedown blacked out with marker pen; binding tight; spine a little bumped & worn. Illustrated by W.Edward Wigfull Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. Minor crease marks to spine and cover. With dust jacket. Page loose. Inscription on inside cover. Photograph available on request.

Reprint. Undated - gift inscription (1947); free end papers browned; dust jacket chipped at head of spine. Illus by W.Edward Wigfull Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good price-clipped dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good price-clipped dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. GD+ original illustrated cloth, moderate shelf wear, ffep missing, 4 b&w plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Pages clean, no markings, wear to edges. Complete with 4 illustrations. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. W. Edward Wigfull (illustrator). Reprint. This copy is, as with most of this author's books, undated so it is assumed that this is a reprint. Bound in III brown cloth covered boards with black titling to the spine and upper board this copy is in near fine, unmarked condition, save for some spotting to the outer page edges. The unclipped dust wrapper has some typical spotting to the inside which is not apparent from the outside so still very good plus. This is just one of many Westerman titles I am selling on this site. Percy Francis Westerman (1876 - 22 February 1959) was a prolific author of children's literature, many of his books are adventures with military and naval themes. His writing career allegedly began with a sixpence bet made with his wife that he could write a better story than the one he was reading to his son, who was at the time ill with chickenpox. His first book for boys, A Lad of Grit, was published by Blackie and Son Limited in 1908. In the same year, Baden-Powell founded the Scouting movement, which strongly influenced many of Westerman's books - he was a particularly keen supporter of the Sea Scouts. He published a further three books in 1911, which were so successful that he gave up his Admiralty appointment that year to become a full-time author. He lived on board a houseboat - a converted Thames barge - on the River Frome at Wareham in Dorset, where he wrote the majority of his books. An early book, The Flying Submarine (published in 1912) may indicate Westerman's genre. This boys' adventure novel was about a mysterious man from a South American country. He was an inventor, who had discovered a new kind of lighter-than-air gas that he called "helia", which was much lighter than helium or hydrogen. He used helia in many inventions, including back-packs that could help a man float in the air or fly upwards, and in the remarkable titular submarine that could, when enough helia was used, fly! Eventually he used his flying submarine to win a war between his South American country and its belligerent neighbour. It is highly likely that Westerman derived the idea for this super-weapon from Jules Verne's Terror, the speedboat, submarine, automobile, or aircraft superweapon invented by Verne's arch-hero Robur in Master of the World and The Clipper of the Clouds. Ref III 2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrations by W. Edward Wigfull (illustrator). 1st Edition. Assumed to be first edition first impression as although undated, no further impressions listed. Decorated boards, no jacket. A couple of faint old glue spots to top front cover, some slight edge wear, some foxing and browning to page fore edges, previous owner's inscriptions and school presentation inscription in brownish ink to ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 224pp. Percy Francis Westerman (1876-1959), was a prolific author of children's literature, many of his books adventures with military and naval themes. During the 1930s Westerman was voted the most popular author of stories for boys. His books sold over one and a half million copies in his lifetime, and he published at least 174 books, with 12 different firms.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. Tears and chips to jacket as seen in photo. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Pages clean, no markings, wear to edges. Complete with numerous illustrations. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Illustrated by W. Edward Wigfull. Pp. 224, black & white frontispiece and 3 plates; cr. 8vo; brown cloth, lettered in black; top edges brown, head of spine and fore-corners of lower board slightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled and foxed, edges slightly rubbed and creased, with a few splits and a couple of tape repairs on reverse, the back panel and backstrip lightly water stained at foot; bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, the free endpapers slightly offset, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Blackie & Son Limited, London, n.d.[194-]. Percy F. Westerman's Stories of Adventure and the Sea series. *First published in 1932. The list of titles on the back panel of the dust wrapper includes Unfettered Night, which was published in 1947. William Edward Wigfull illustrated over twenty of Percy F. Westerman's novels, and six by Percy's son, John F. C. Westerman.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Light spotting to title page, Binding firm, Light wear to edges, Previous owner sticker pasted to front pastedown. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Complete with 4 illustrations by W. Edward Wigful. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Edward Wigfull (illustrator). London: Blackie and Son Ltd Collectable adventure story by Percy F Westerman 224 pages with illustrations by Edward Wigfull. INSCRIBED by PERCY F WESTERMAN on front endpaper To Timmy Carter with best wishes from Percy F Westerman June 1936 no other date in book. Endpapers are slightly browned little light foxing on title page, other pages are overall clean just light foxing to outer side edges of pages which comes in very slightly on some pages. Frontispiece has been detached at some time but is now neatly stuck back in, on rear of frontispiece and page opposite there is brown strip where selotape was used in past to attach the illustration SEE IMAGE, frontispiece has a few light marks. Outer illustrated boards are clean with very light rubbing on edges, little wear top and bottom of spine. A pleasing copy of a collectable book especially with signature SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Inscribed By Author. Illustrated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edward Wigfull. 7 ½ x 5 Inches. Hardcover.