Search Results: a dancer from the abbey by elsie j oxenham

Collins, 1956. Hardcover. Good. 1956. Reprint. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Collins, 1956. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1956. Reprinted. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt. Full colour frontispiece. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Loss to front paste-down. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Sunning to spine. Gilt lettering is darkened. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains.

Collins, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. First Edition Thus. 254 pages. Illustrative jacket over red cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Small marks to boards. Textblock is shaky. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Visible tanning to spine. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

Collins, 1959. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 254 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth with a colour illustrated frontis. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and slight water stains and dog-eared pages throughout. Moderate tanning to text block edges. Front hinge is cracked with exposed netting. Boards have mild rubbing and visible bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket with visible edge wear and creasing. Splitting to joints and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends. Heavier creasing to interior.

Collins, 1958. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1958. First Edition Thus. 254 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Binding remains firm. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Edge of front board is heavily bumped. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing.

UK: Collins red Abbey, 1958. Good+. 1958. Hardcover. Hbk no d/w; G++; colour frontis ; quite a nice copy, spoilt by some splitting to spine edge; - red abbey school series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Collins. Good. Hardcover. 1954. 254 pages. Dj ripped and worn.<br> .

Wm Collins Sons & Co 1954. LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

London: Collins. Hardback. 254pp. Seagull Library series. Colour frontis. Blue boards with silver titles to spine and silver gull to front. Reprint. Bumped to spine ends. Dw is bright but is edge worn with significant damage to tails of dust wrapper spine and a numbered label to dust wrapper spine. Very good copy in chipped and torn dust wrapper . Hard Cover. Reprint. 1956.

Collins, 1956. 1st Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A Volume from the 'Seagull Library' Series, a 1956 reissue following first publication in 1953. 254pp. Blue cloth boards with silver motif and titles. Boards clean and bright, just gently rounded at corners. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a little light tanning on endpapers. In its original pictorial dust jacket (rubbed at edges, with a couple of small chips, closed tear from upper leading corner with consequent creasing, complete and bright). Jacket fitted with archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong its life. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket.

London: Collins, 1958. 1st edition. Nice copy. small octavo. chipped dust jacket 254pp., col. frontis.,

London, Collins, 1953. FIRST EDITION 1953, 8vo, light blue boards, 254 pages. Coloured frontispiece by Frank Varty. Very slight foxing to edges, half-title and reverse of frontispiece, faint foxing to inner edge of title page, no inscriptions. Near Fine clean bright copy in VG+ Frank Varty DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, very slightly worn at head and tail of spine and corners). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London: Collins. Bound in light blue cloth with bright, black title lettering to spine, this hardcover 1953 First Edition is VG in Vg wrapper (Unclipped dustwrapper). 254pp with coloured frontis and thirty chapters. Neat nam e on front free endpaper. Otherwise perfectly clean endpapers. Wrapper has slight wear at top/tail of spine, and tiny chips at top/tail of return flaps at hinge. Return flap hinges have slight rubbing. Front panel of colour printed wrapper shows ballet dancer in Tutu with wings in woodland glade.General condition VG for date. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1953.