Troddles by Andom (29 results)

Condition: Good. 1926. Third Edition. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with lettering. 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. Lettering is clear.…

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white frontispiece. 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 moderater shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. Spine noticeably tanned. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled. …

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Cloth, G. 208pp, b/w illustrations, cheap paper rather tanned, head & tail of the spine worn, Ex Cruising Association Library copy with their bookplate & gilt stamp to the upper cover, a fair copy. A collection of humorous short stories, some with a nautical aspect. Alfred Walter Barrett [ 1869 - c1933 ] journalist & author who published many books using the pseudonym R Andom. He was taken to court in June 1921 and found guilty of conspiring to corrupt public morals - he had published a lonely hearts magazine intended to allow lonely peiple find friendship. Some found more than that, the judge, in sentencing Barrett said - 'There can be no graver attack on the morals of this country than to establish a paper as you did for the purpose of allowing men and women to commit immorality.' This was Barrett's last published work - the hard labour to which he was sentenced perhaps sealing his fate. 300 grams. …

Condition: Good. 1926. Third Edition. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing, heavy tanning to endpapers. Notable cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Stamp and pencil to front endpaper. Mild water droplets to pages throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable foxing to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has notable crushing and tearing to ends. Mild cocking to spine. Boards are moderately warped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Not dated. Date with name of previous owner is 1917. In good plus pale blue cloth boards, blind stamped ruled liens and central and corner decoration to front; navy titles and decoration to spine. The boards are tight and flat, fairly clean; spine ends worn. "The Clevedon Community Bookshop Bindery Team" have inserted new rear end papers and front free end paper. The existing old front paste down has name and date in pencil and a later dedication in ink. The Team also cleaned the spine of old paste and provided new mull and card to spine. The text block is in good condition, tightly bound and flat; the cut edges and Prelims are tanned; some of the pages are slightly tanned around the edges. Without jacket. …

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. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First edition thus. 12mo. n.d. but dedication to half title dated 1922. Tear to top of joints. Wear to extrems.Cracked hinges. Tanning to pages. Closed tear to lower corner of ffep. Silhouette illustrations. C Harrison (illustrator). Book.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. No Earlier Edition Stated. Numerous delightful b/w illustrations in text, pictorial spine and front cover. Softening to head and tail of spine, bump to top corner of front board, lightly rubbed bottom corners of boards, significant age spotting to page block, soiling to top of page block, mild age stain on FEP and BEP, previous owner's name and date on FEP. Text and illustrations are clean, bright and tight throughout. Used.…

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Medium cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, boards are loose with front free endpaper detached but still present. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Water mark to rear board.…

Condition: Good. 1920. First Edition. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by Louis Gunnis. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil inscription to front pastedown. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has strong forward lean.…

Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. Not dated, edition not stated; published by Jarrold & Sons; might be the first edition of 1911, which was undated, but can't be sure. Stamp on front free endpaper. Stains on lower page fore-edge and in lower margins of several pages. Binding tight. Red cloth faded on spine, with a little general wear; black lettering and decoration on front board and spine.…

Condition: Good. Fourth thousand. Good condition book without dust jacket. Illustrated boards are clean with little wear, spine toned with minor bumping to ends. Book has clean and bright contents, internal hinges cracked to webbing and some separation internally but no loose pages, no inscriptions, 242pp + adverts rear, 83 illustrations in silhouette by Alec. Carruthers Gould. …

hardback, 318,(2)pp, moderate foxing, text otherwise clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, pictorial red cloth, corners bumped, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

1st edition. 1st edition, in apricot-coloured cloth with black lettering & decoration, with illustrations in line & silhouette by Bernhard Hugh. Lacks front free end paper, with damage to front hinge exposing scrim; a little foxing; page fore-edge dirtied by use. Cloth soiled on boards, with wear to black decoration; spine worn, with some loss of colour Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in apricot cloth.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. Original pictorial orange cloth on boards. The ninth book of Troddles. Cover faded, corners worn, and inscription. 318 pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bernhard Hugh (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Green boards, slightly shelfworn. Contents clean bright and tight. Nice book. Please contact us for pictures and/or further details - only too pleased to help.

Decorative Boards. Condition: Good. No date.end page removes probally 1930s Wear and tear to boards and corners. Foxing to end pages and edge. 315 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated edition, c1915. Original illustrated green cloth. Trace of removed label on front board, extremities nicked/scuffed, good. B. Livett (illustrator). Book.

Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. Reissue. Previously published as 'The Runaways.' Foxing on page edges and rear endpapers. Free endpapers a bit browned. Binding tight. Red cloth with black lettering and decoration on front board and spine. A few tiny stains on front board.

Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. Undated & with no edition stated - publisher's catalogue at rear indicates 1st edition, 1919. Blue cloth with maroon lettering & decoration; illustrations by Louis Gunnis. Free end papers a little yellowed; owner's names on front free end paper; a little wear at head & foot of spine; top corner of front board discoloured.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition: Greening & Co., 1909. Illustrated Original grey cloth, lettered in black and gilt. A little foxing, very good. Re-issued in 1911 with the revised title At School with Troddles. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original pinky-orange cloth with figures in silhouette, lettered in black. Lightly scuffed/grazed, a little foxing, very good. A war-time entry in the series of Troddles' stories: perhaps consequently, one of the scarcer titles in the series. Bernard Hugh (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All books sent tracked. PayPal accepted. Lighthearted humourous adventures. Illustrated throughout by C Harrison. Original pictorial cloth faded a little at spine, neat contemporary inscription on pastedown. Slight foxing to prelims but clean throughout. a very scarce item. Illustrated By C Harrison (illustrator).…

Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. 1st edition, 1914, in dark blue cloth with title in gilt on spine & black on front board. A few minor marks in text; binding firm; cloth on spine darkened, with dulled gilt; wear at head & foot, with repaired splits in cloth at head.

Hb without Dj. Condition: Good. No date of publication but assume c. 1900. A tale of the travels of the narrator and friends Wilks, Murray and Troddles, akin to the travails of Jerome K Jerome's heroes. Cartoon style frontis. Grubby blue cloth blind stamped. No spotty foxing but heavy browning to pages. Binding sound and firm. No inscription. All profits to Amnesty International. Size: 10.5cm - 16cm with 252pp. G M Payne [frontis] (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 286, 16. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered gilt on spine & decorated in black on front cover. Illustrated throughout by T. M. R. Whitwell. Very slight surface wear otherwise clean, very good. Bookplate on front endpaper of the author Peter Haining.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Paperback covers with rubbing to corners and edges, more so with some spine loss at top and bottom and creasing along spine length, staples rusted, internally appears age browned but generally clean and good.

1st ed. Illus by Louis Gunnis Blue cloth faded on boards; spine browned & worn; end papers foxed; pages browned; top corner of back free end paper torn off. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dustjacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dustjacket).

First Edition. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" Approx. 208 pages. .Original orange binding with only minor fading of spine/edges tiny splits base of spine only,good corners .Contents, good, NO foxing/tears/folded pages ect. only faults being to 1st endpaper owners signiture/date (Dec1924) embossed address,Due to the poor paper used in the maufacture there is very minor darkening to edes of paper. page 41 has had about 6 words underlined (and the underlining then partly rubbed out).…