Author's Name: Betsy Sandbach and Geraldine Edge. Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1941 # of Pages: 223pp. Details of Condition: Green cloth HB,cover bumped,browned and slightly marked,great pastedown on cover,blue lettering on spine,no Dj,first edition,ex library stamps and marks,BW photo plates,few plates detached but present,internally back cover torn along spine,adventures of Betsy Sandbach and Geraldine Edge,nurse escorts to the first five hundred children evacuated to Australia,lovely slightly worn book,pages slightly browned but no rips,great story
Author's Name: Walter Besant. Publisher: Chatto & Windus,Piccadilly. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1894 # of Pages: 232pp + 32pp book list. Details of Condition: Brown cloth HB,spine and corners bumped,faded,browned and slightly marked,spine torn but still attached,gold gilt shield decoration on cover,green endpapers,front and back freps clipped,great illustrated frontpiece of Admiral Coligny from an engraving by Clouet in the Bibliotheque Nationale,frontpiece covered with tissue,one tiny stamp on title page, few pages not cut in back pages of book list,pages browned with a few brown spots but good,includes genealogy charts
Author's Name: George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge. Publisher: Duckworth. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1929 # of Pages: 468pp. Details of Condition: Red cloth HB,corners rubbed and bumped,spine missing but book intact,cover slightly marked,Myer emporium library pastedown on cover,pages torn,browned,nicked,few brown marks,sixth impression,worn,marked and slightly loose but good reader
Author's Name: C.V.Wedgwood. Publisher: Readers Union/Jonathan Cape. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1945 # of Pages: 256pp. Details of Condition: Brown HB with no Dj,cover bumped on corners and slightly marked but good,author of Oliver Cromwell,double sided BW frontpiece of William at twenty one and William at fourty eight,map of Netherlands at the time of liberation,pages good with no inscriptions,rips,marks or stamps,bind and book good
Author's Name: Johannes Jorgensen. Publisher: Longmans,Green and Co. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1947 # of Pages: 428pp. Details of Condition: Blue cloth HB,no Dj,cover slightly bumped but good,translated from Danish by T.O,Conor Sloane,few pages detached but present,faint tape marks on endpapers,BW plates and family tree chart,few tiny brown spots, no rips,stamps,marks or inscriptions,nice book
Author's Name: Mrs.Charles E.B.Russell. Publisher: Adam & Charles Black. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1948 # of Pages: 127pp. Details of Condition: Small thin grey cloth HB,cover slightly bumped and browned,Dj clipped,second edition with thirty one photographs by author,pages slightly browned but no rips,marks or inscriptions,booksellers stamp on frep,great photos,lovely book about Mrs Russell and Dr.Albert Schweitzer and there work caring for and studying monkeys
Author's Name: John Fothergill. Publisher: Readers Union/Chatto & Windus. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1951 # of Pages: 242pp. Details of Condition: Small thin tan cloth HB,cover bumped,marked and faded,frep inscribed,author of An innkeepers diary,BW plates and line drawings,no Dj,bind and book good,no rips,stamps or marks to slightly browned pages,story of life of a landlord of three pubs,The Spreadeagle Thame,The Royal Hotel
Ascot and the Three Swans Market Harborough
Author's Name: Tina Spencer Knott. Publisher: Hammond,Hammond & Co. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1950 # of Pages: 224pp. Details of Condition: Green cloth HB,great illustrated pastedown on cover,no Dj,cover slightly bumped on corners and spine ends but good,ex library stamps and marks, illustrated frontpiece of The farm of Luckett,illustrated by Eric King, lovely book looking at experiences of new farmers on their farms in Devon,great pastedown,bind and book good,no rips or marks to pages,few stamps,information on author stuck on back cover
Author's Name: Alberta Hannum. Publisher: Michael Joseph. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1947 # of Pages: 183pp. Details of Condition: Yellow cloth HB,cover slightly bumped and marked but good,illustrated horse on cover,Dj illustrated by Beatien Yazz,Dj slightly nicked on edges,back inner Dj flap torn off,story of a young couples life on a trading station in the Arizona desert for four years and their encounters with an eight year old Navaho Indian boy Beatien Yass an artistic genius,second impression,bind and book good,no rips,marks or stamps,inscription on inner front cover,beautifully illustrated reproductions of Beatien Yazz,all plates in good condition,lovely book with great illustrations
Author's Name: Lin Yutang. Publisher: William Heinemann. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1943 # of Pages: 251pp. Details of Condition: Blue cloth HB with no Dj,corners bumped,faded and slightly torn on spine,ex library stamps and marks,second Australian edition,illustrated by Kurt Wiese,book slightly loose and internally torn along spine but intact, pages browned,nicked and marked,worn but good reader
Author's Name: Jack Lawson. Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1946 # of Pages: 191pp. Details of Condition: Small thin cream cloth HB,cover slightly bumped but good,new edition with a new chapter,Black jacket edition,Dj slightly torn and taped,bumped and browned,pages slightly browned but no rips,stamps,marks or inscriptions,bind and book good,lovely book and Dj
Author's Name: Susanne Hart. Publisher: Champion Book Club. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1969 # of Pages: 256pp. Details of Condition: Red HB with gold gilt bands on spine,cover in new condition,Dj slightly marked on inside but in great condition,endpapers decorated with African scene with animals,red page edges,pages new condition with no stamps, rips,marks or inscriptions,bind and book in new condition,two tiny tape marks on inner Dj,great animal book,author of A woman vet in Africa,lovely colour and BW photo plates and line drawings all good, nice book in great condition
Author's Name: Norman Grubb. Publisher: Lutterworth Press. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1942 # of Pages: 174pp. Details of Condition: Small tan cloth HB with no Dj,cover bumped on corners,faded and marked but good, frep inscribed,foreword by The RT.Hon.Viscount Caldecote,BW frontpiece of Alfred Buxton at age 45,pages good with no stamps or rips,BW photo plates and maps all good,large fold out map on back page,book good,just cover slightly marked
Author's Name: Northcote Deck. Publisher: Evangelical Publishers. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1945 # of Pages: 124pp. Details of Condition: Red cloth HB,cover slightly bumped and faded but good,one stamp,pages good with no rips,marks or inscriptions,BW photo plates and maps, experiences of south seas evangelical mission worker Miss Florence Young in the Solomon Islands,bind and book good,no Dj
Author's Name: James Boswell. Publisher: J.M.Dent & Sons/E.P.Dutton & Co. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1949 # of Pages: 638pp. Details of Condition: Small red cloth HB,cover faded and slightly marked,gold gilt lettering on spine,no Dj, orange decorated endpapers,bind good,volume one of two volumes, introduction by S.C.Roberts,index by Alan Dent,chronological tables, pages slightly browned but no rips,marks or inscriptions,bind good, lovely book with faded cover
Author's Name: Alwyn Gascoigne. Publisher: Collins & Co. Cover: Hardcover. Date Published: 1965 # of Pages: 174pp. Details of Condition: Blue HB with no Dj,cover and bind good,pages good with no rips,inscriptions or marks,illustrated,no stamps,internally in near new condition,story of ups and downs of farming life in New Zealand,nice book
