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Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None. 94 pages. Heavy paper with b&w illustrations throughout. Color frontispiece. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Color illustrated boards with 3 inch tear at spine, edge wear. Red paint spots on rear. Pages clean. Record # 809366.

Condición: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards. Illustrated by Geo. Morrow. Contains black and white in-text illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Creasing to front endpaper. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have heavy edge wear with bumping to corners and rub wear all over. Crushing to spine ends with small splits. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Dark rubbing overall.

Condición: Fair. 1936. No edition remarks. 384 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages are mildly tanned with heavy foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild droplet staining to text block edges. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to front board.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Cicely Englefield and Alan Wright Ilustrador. First Edition. First Printing. In beige cloth covers with embossed colored illustration of birds and black and blue lettering on front cover with black lettering on spine. Sixteen full page color plates unmarked Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Bumping of ends of spine and corners. Random foxing throughout but not on plates. Moderate shelf wear and soiling to covers. Photos upon request. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 124 pages. Carl N Taylor "Still Hunting"/ C V Trench "Ruled Out!"/ W Charnley "The Unlucky Gunman"/ Victor Dines Marooned In The Arctic - II"/ W H Easterbrook "Bhang" / George W Holmes "The Wizard" / H P Musson "A Bishop In The Wilds - I" / Robert Stanley and Edward M Walker "Across America In A Twenty-Dollar Car" / G S Warnock "My Persian Journey" / G C Clarke "A Brush With Wild Indians" / Denis Green "The Matelli Tiger" / B M Hill "The Island of Sanctuary" / W Gilhespy "Chunner The Thief" / Mabel Appleby "The Queer Side of Things - The Blind Seer" (SL#253).

Cecily Englefield and Alan Wright Ilustrador. This is a charming book. The buff cloth covered boards have delightful coloured pictures of baby birds and a small owl on the spine and front. The front board is slightly bowed and the top and bottom of the spine slightly crumpled. There is no fraying. There is a minor gutter crack of the front end paper and there is mild foxing of the first and last few pages. On the reverse of the FEP there is an dated presentation inscription. There are 16 colour plates. 199pp. This is a larger book and may need extra postage if sent abroad.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is aged toned. Presentation sticker to front pastedown. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Fair original illustrated boards, depicting indian on horse, general wear, 1" broken at head of spine, remains of bookplate on ffep, otherwise clean throughout.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards are shelf rubbed and slightly edge worn. Wearing can also be noticed at the spine. The pages are tanned with some age related marks. Still fully legible. A previous owner's inscription can be found on the front end page. There are minor marks on the blocks too. Tightly bound and complete with 384 pages. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dustjacket. Illustrated by Cecely Englefield and Alan Wright Ilustrador. Presumed First Editon. 199 pages. NO DUSTJACKET. Lovely colour plates. and B&W line drawings. Pages of the book are in good condition. No dustjacket. A rather scruffy beige background hardback binding with a child's red ?felt-tip letters and marks to fornt and back boards. Abrasion to leading edge of front board and moderate wear to boards' corners and edges.

Condición: Used - Good. Good hardback. Undated - probably 1st edition, 1929. Thick card boards; illustrations by Geo. Morrow. RSPCA prize bookplate on front pastedown; minor marks in text; page fore-edge foxed. Board corners worn Used - Good. Good hardback.

Hardback. Condición: Good. Cecily Englefield & Alan Wright Ilustrador. 1st Edition First Edition. Size: Oversized.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. the book appears much used and worn. foxing and markings. one illustration[page 88] has been partly cut out. all else remains present and legible. may require extra postage outside South Africa. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hutchinson 1936 hardback , first edition very good in very good restored dustjacket. Illustrated by Edward Thornton.

Hardback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Englefield, Cicely & Wright, Alan Ilustrador. First edition. 1st 1933. Good condition with no wrapper. Beige pictorial cloth. 16 beautiful colour plates. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers grubby. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins and some light foxing. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: NO. Cecily Englefield and Alan Wright Ilustrador. 1936 Hardback illustrated by Cecily Englefield and Alan Wright. Very good condition. Rubbing to corners, with small tears. Inscription to first blank page, bright and clean copy, full page colour illustrations and b&w. NO Dust Jacket as issued. U5A18.

T. Nelson & Sons. London. 1933. First Edition. No DW. Cream illustrated cloth, 4to. Colour frontis + illustrations throughout. vii, 199pp. Boards are a little soiled, worn and bumped at extremities. Illustrated endpapers, slightly browned, the inner hinge is cracked but contents are clean and sound.

, 768 pages, plus index at the rear [2] pages, black & white illustrations throughout, includes 'Gathering up the Threads', 'The Lass with the Lantern', 'Adventure for Two', 'The Ascent of Fujiyama in 1903' etc First Edition , Cover lightly rubbed, internally clean, book in very good condition , Red cloth, gilt titles on spine 29 x 22 cm Hardback ISBN:

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Fair. Wightman, W.E.; Woodville, R.Caton; Cleaver, Reginald; De Walton, John; Inns, Kenneth; Nicolson, W.C.; Goss, G.W.; Leigh, Conrad; Gillett, Frank; Burns, Inder Ilustrador. First Edition. Features: The Derelict; The Vengeance of Devi Chand - the revenge of a bereaved father in India; A Donkey in Spain - the author planned to take a walking trip through Spain with a donkey carrying his baggage; An Arctic Outpost - what happened to three members of the RCMP's Craig Harbour Detachment - article with photos; Through France with "Sylvabelle" - I - a yachting voyage from Brittany to the Riviera - article with great photos; The Netik - native 'magic' on a south sea island; Aerial photo of dozens of log booms at Vancouver, B.C.; "The White Man's Great War-Game" - II - amazing photo-illustrated article of the savages of Sura, Angas and other primitive tribes of northern Nigeria; Truffle-Hunting - a description of the industry in Italy and France - and a description of the manner in which the pigs and dogs are trained to search for them - with photos; The One-Legged Kea - a tale from the South Island of New Zealand; Behind the scenes in American crime - "a veritable hell-brew of wickedness and intrigue that has no counterpart in Europe - article with photos of Mrs. Margaret Whittemore and Richard Whittemore; Besieged by Crocodiles; The Lost Safe - a detective story; Lee Sum's Lucky Day - a 'gang-robbery' in the state of Pahang in Malaysia. Multiple pieces of red and clear tape holding covers in place. Brown tape securing fore-edges of each cover. A worthy vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. Nicolson, W.C. (cover); Wood, Stanley L.; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, F.E.; Sherie, E.F.; Woodville, R. Caton; Holloway, W.E.; Gillett, F.; Sindall, A.; Tennant, Dudley; Prater, E. Ilustrador. First Edition. Pages 89-176, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The House of Death - how an Oklahoma rancher saved his own life; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 6 - the continued story of this European adventure trip; Bali - Isle of Wonder - wonderfully photo-illustrated article; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - part 1of the adventure of Mrs. Idelle S. Meng and her husband on one of the loneliest islands in the Pacific; The Six Feathers - the unfortunate experience of a New Guinea trader who tried to smuggle the forbidden bird-of-paradise plumes out of the country; The Wood-Carvers of the Tyrol - great photo-illustrated article on a trip to the Groden VValley; The Romance of the Fur Trade - photo-illustrated article on fur trapping and fur farming in North-west Canada, including photo of a large polar bear being hauled into a boat; A Woman in Unknown Albania - part 3; The Trail of the Lonesome Postman - letters being delivered to some of the world's most remote locations; Caught by a Crocodile a British officer attempts to fill his water bottle at a river; The Idol That Jumped - the author purchased a 'devil-devil' figure from a Solomon Island chief, then startling things happened; The Merepur Mystery - a mystery is solved in India; The Man Who Fell Six Miles - Major R.W. Schroeder and his airplane - article with photos; The Written Word - Jim Carter saved himself in India with some clever writing. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue.