Testing Torment by Oxenham (14 results)
Published by Cassell and Company Limited 1925
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United KingdomWorld of Rare Books
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Condition: Good. 1925. First Edition. 213 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth with blue lettering. Colour frontispiece is partially detached. Clean pages. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Presentation plate to front endpaper. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with… scuffing and marking to boards. Minor tanning to spine. Book has a backward lean.
Language: English
Published by The Elsie J Oxenham Society/The Abbey Chronicle, England 2025
- Softcover
Seller: Caerwen Books, Forrestfield, WA, AustraliaCaerwen Books
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Soft cover. Condition: New. Lovely new edition of this hard to find title. Unabridged with the original illustrations. Hickling, P B (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Cassell, England 1925
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Caerwen Books, Forrestfield, WA, AustraliaCaerwen Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Lovely copy of this hard to find title with a prize plate to the front free endpaper.
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Published by Cassell and Company, Limited, London 1927
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United KingdomLazarus Books Limited
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Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1927 first edition, second impression. Size 12mo, 7.5" tall, 214 pages. Grey cloth heavily decorated with frames and borders in darker grey all over the front cover and on the spine, with a vignette colour illustration on paper laid on to the front cover. Condition very good,…corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, Church attendance prize label on the front end-paper, other than this the contents are very clean. With colour frontispiece and four full page black and white illustrations by P. B. Hickling. P. B. Hickling (illustrator).
Published by Cassell and Company Limited 1925
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, , United KingdomLavender Fields Books PBFA
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A Story for Girls. Illustrated with colour frontispiece and three black and white plates as listed. Original cloth with very attractive pictorial front. Some spotting to prelims and end papers and remnants of erasure on front end paper, but generally a good copy. All books outside UK sent… airmail and all books tracked. PayPal accepted. All dust wrappers are film protected.
Published by Cassell London 1925
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Helen Boomsma of babyboomerbooks, Cape Douglas, SA, AustraliaHelen Boomsma of babyboomerbooks
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st ed. hardback book without dust jacket, in good condition, not ex-library. There is an undated Sunday School plate inside the front cover, there is foxing on first and last 20 pages and some in between, thick cream pages, tight binding and clean fawn board covers with a came…o illustration 'tipped-in' on the front (i.e. glued on extra). One colour plate as frontispiece: "Marsaili lit the Love candle; then as the younger girls knelt, she recited some verses" and 3 more b&w full-page plates. The second in the Torment series focusses on Tormentilla Grant who at 16 attends an all-boys school and belongs to a Campfire group. Ignore abe's shipping estimates as I will charge shipping at cost - Australia Post rates.
Published by London, Cassell, 1925. 1925
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, AustraliaGrant's Bookshop
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8vo. viii+214pp. Original decorated cloth with colour pictorial onlay, pale foxing to edges and prelims. Prize label. A very good copy. First edition.
More imagesPublished by Cassell & Company Ltd, London 1927
- Hardcover
Seller: Peter Sheridan Books Bought and Sold, West Molesey, Surrey, United KingdomPeter Sheridan Books Bought and Sold
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Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprint. London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1927. Second impression of this book by Elsie Jeanette Oxenham,214 pages in clean condition just some light browning to endpapers and small mark to margin of last page, inked prize inscription on front endpaper, dated 1928 for p…erfect attendance, Three B/w illustrations and colour frontispiiece. dustwrapper is worn on edges with small losses, few light marks and a little browned to spine,not price clipped 2/6 net.Though not perfect still a pleasing example of a collectable book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Reprint. Illustrated Boards. Good Plus/Fair. Illus. by P B Hickling. 7 ¾ x 5½ Inches. Hardcover. P B Hickling (illustrator).
Published by Cassell & Co, Great Britain 1927
- Hardcover
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United KingdomCamilla's Bookshop
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Bound in light green decorated cloth, with oval inset vignette to front panel showing three maidens 1920s costume, this dated 1927 Second Impression is VG is Good dustjacket. (X)/214pp with 20 chapters and 4 illustrations by P.B. Hickling. Neat inscriptio…n dated 1935 on front end paper, minor wear to two corners, some damp to back board. Minor abrasion to foot of page 161: affecting blank margin only. Otherwise VG. Dust jacket is 80% complete with two large chips one to top of spine and one to bottom of front panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. P.B. Hickling (illustrator).
Published by Cassell & Co, Great Britain 1927
- Hardcover
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United KingdomCamilla's Bookshop
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Bound in light green decorated cloth, with oval inset vignette to front panel showing three maidens 1920s costume, this dated 1927 Second Impression is VG is Good dustjacket. (X)/214pp with 20 chapters and 4 illustrations by P.B. Hickling. Neat inscriptio…n dated 1935 on front end paper, minor wear to two corners, some damp to back board. Minor abrasion to foot of page 161: affecting blank margin only. Otherwise VG. Dust jacket is 80% complete with two large chips one to top of spine and one to bottom of front panel. P.B. Hickling (illustrator).
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd., London 1927
- Hardcover
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United KingdomLeakey's Bookshop Ltd.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Second impression. 8vo. Pp 214. Colour frontis and 3 plates. original cloth with oval colour pictorial on-lay to front cover. Staining to bottom edge of front board. The unclipped d/w is rather worn and tatty with some losses. Hickling, P.B. (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Cassell and Company 1925-6, London 1925
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Three volumes from the illustrated series of adventure books for boys by Cassell and Co. Three first editions from 'Cassell's New Boys' Library' comprised of children's books with colourful illustrations.'A Loyal Young Rebel' by DH Parry, with four illustrations in colour and black and… white by CE Brock. Collated, complete.'Sabre and Spurs! A Tale of the Peninsular War' by DH Parry, with four illustrations in colour and black and white by Archibald Webb. Collated, complete.'The Testing of the Torment' by Elsie Jeanette Oxenham, with four illustrations in colour and black and white by P B Hickling. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings with coloured illustration tipped in to front boards. Externally very smart with only light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Prize bookplate to front pastedown 'A Loyal Young Rebel' and front free endpaper 'The Testing of the Torment.' Pencil inscription to front pastedown 'Sabre and Spurs.' Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting scattered to occasional leaf only. Very Good. CE Brock; PB Hickling; Archibald Webb (illustrator). book.
More imagesPublished by Cassell & Company Ltd 1927
- Hardcover
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United KingdomStella & Rose's Books, PBFA
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Circa 1927. Slightly better than very good condition in a good dustwrapper. The second in the 'Torment' trilogy. Grey decorated cloth, oval pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour frontis and 3 b/w plates. 214 pages. Information of reprint date on copyright page has bee…n carefully erased, leaving impression that it is a 1st edition. Wrapper is torn with loss to top and tail of spine and corners of front panel. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Hickling, P.B. (illustrator).
Published by Cassell; 1925
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United KingdomCotswold Internet Books
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2nd impression, 1927. Colour frontispiece plus 3 monochrome illustrations. School prize bookplate to front pastedown; tiny losses to front free endpaper near corners. Binding tight. Grey cloth has some colour loss from damp affectation to board edges; blue-black lettering and decoration to front board and spine with colour picto…rial onlay to front board; Dust jacket price-clipped; edge worn with short tears, creases, and small losses; protected in removable clear film. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.
