wray hunt (102 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. Paperback. Book in good condition. Wear, rubbing on spine with white patch where thin layer of paper on spine is gone, small tear at top of spine, small round price sticker on front cover, some soiling on front and back covers, marks in pencil (bookseller's price and inventory number, name) written on first page, pages tanning, some light creases in front cover, small tear between front cover and spine, binding loosening but still attached. ; 7.10 X 4.30 x 0.40 inches; 187 pages.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. thus. The photos in the listing are of the actual book you will receive. Edge wear, readers crease to front cover, toning and light soiling inside cover, light toning to pages. See photos sr 4/2.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: VERY GOOD. Faint partial crease to upper corner of front cover. Pages tanned. Slight spine slant. 18 cm. 256 pages. Additional info or photos on request. Ships in protective packaging, with tracking and insurance.

Condición: Good. 1955. First Edition Thus. 186 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Condición: Good. 1955. First Edition Thus. 186 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. E M Watts Ilustrador. 1st Edition. APPEARS UNREAD. Minimal wear to hard back book.Colour frontispiece. 213 pages. Pages are clean,bright and tight. No name or inscription.

Hardcover. Condición: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. None Stated. The story of the English parish in both religious and social life. An ex-lib copy with minor markings - a plate on the front paste down and a book pocket on the rear one. Missing the RFEP. Overall an acceptable copy.

Condición: Very Good. 1931. Hardcover. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Ex-libris sticker to inside front cover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. A NICE COPY , VERY GOOD CONDITION , EXCELLENT VALUE.

Condición: Good. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Condición: Good. 284pp+ Ads. Boards have little wear. Light toning to pages with some spotting.

Condición: Very Good. 1931. Hardcover. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Ex-libris sticker to inside front cover. . . . .

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

hardcover. Condición: very good(-). First. Illus. Small 8vo, blue cloth, cloth lightly soiled, spine sunned, corners lightly bumped. London: George G. Harrap, (1932).

Spine faded, ex lib, sl. foxing, b/w illus. 255 Pages.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st edition Puffin paperback. Has some slight wear at top of spine o/w very good firm copy.

Condición: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering.Black and white illustrations throughout. Prize plate to reverse of frontispiece. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters and hinge at title page but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has minor tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardback, no dustjacket. The purple cloth binding has some light rubbing and the spine is fading, the binding is sound. There is some edge foxing throughout with some leaves more extensively affected. Illustrated, 255.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good +. First Edition.

Condición: 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. Good condition book. First edition. Firm and clear textblock. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Firm dark red covers with black lettering and decoration, a little faded on spine, sound binding with a slight skew, clean pages and plates. Stamps for Halifax Antiquarian Society and "Withdrawn" stamp on front end-papers and prelims. Pages of main text and plates (including reverse of plates) are free from stamps. Hand-written reference numbers on end-papers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 70719091077. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Condición: Schlecht. Buch Pappe 993 392 Seiten.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 284 p, ill. Subject; Fiction. 3 Kg.

HRD. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condición: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Top textblock edge dyed grey. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

HRD. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked navy buckram. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 255 pages; Physical desc. : 255 p : illus. , plates, ports ; 20 cm. Subject: Parishes - England. Holsham, Eng. (Parish) . England - Social life and customs. Series: The simple guide series. 3 Kg.

Geb., 4. Auflage Bestossen. NaV, Schnitt etwas fleckig.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Boy of the Indian Frontier is one of those marvellously earnest mid-century adventure books that emerged from the fading edges of the British Empire, when publishers still believed children longed to read about distant mountain passes, tribal skirmishes and stern men in solar helmets explaining honour. And to be fair, many of them absolutely did. Written by Wray Hunt and published here in a gloriously vintage 1955 Puffin edition, this is the sort of book that transports you instantly into a world of rocky frontiers, danger, loyalty and imperial-era geography lessons disguised as entertainment. It belongs to that particular school of children?s fiction where young protagonists are expected to acquire resilience, courage and practical survival skills before they are old enough to legally buy fireworks. The ?Indian Frontier? in question is the old North-West Frontier region, that endlessly romanticised stretch of mountains and tension where the British Empire spent an extraordinary amount of time getting into trouble while insisting everything was fully under control. The atmosphere is thick with patrols, horsemen, hidden valleys and conversations conducted with grave importance over campfires. What makes these old books fascinating now is not just the adventure but the accidental time capsule quality. Modern children?s fiction tends to involve wizards processing emotions or teenagers uncovering dystopian conspiracies while maintaining excellent hair. Boy of the Indian Frontier instead offers dust, peril and adults quietly assuming that a child can probably cope with witnessing geopolitical instability before tea. There is something deeply comforting about the confidence of old Puffins. No glossy branding. No cinematic tie-ins. No assurances that the text has been sensitivity-read by fourteen committees. Just a solid paperback announcing: ?Here is a boy. Here is a frontier. Good luck.? As an object, this 1955 edition is likely delightful in exactly the way only ancient Puffins can be. Softened corners. Creaming pages. A spine with the faintly exhausted dignity of a retired schoolmaster. Condition is Good, which in Crappy Old Books terminology means it has survived several decades, multiple house moves and perhaps one enthusiastic child who read it beneath the bedclothes with a torch while developing suspiciously imperial ideas about map-making. There is no ISBN because the publishing industry had not yet fully embraced the thrilling future of numerical administration. Books of this era simply emerged into the world on reputation, cover art and the assumption that children enjoyed mild peril. An atmospheric relic from a vanished literary landscape. Equal parts adventure story, imperial ghost and old-fashioned boys? own yarn, wrapped in the unmistakable charm of a battered Puffin paperback that has outlived several empires and quite possibly a garden shed.