Search Results: Readers and Educational Books from Ripping Yarns

London: H. Williams & Son, 1912. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Various. Green cloth boards, pictorial. Front cover depicts an island bay with palm trees along shore. Black titles to front and spine. Boards and spine slightly faded and worn at edges. Minor foxing to page edges. Endpapers and title page browned with age, remainder of text still clear and unaffected. Informative illustrations throughout to accompany text, with some photographic illustrations of natives. 63pp.

London: W & R Chambers, 1950. Soft cover. Good. Blue soft cloth cover, 128pp. B&w illustrations. Edited and foreword by W.F.Arbuckle. Covers a little bumped and scuffed at corners and spine; light crease across corner of rear cover and final page; lineage of Robert Bruce has been written out in pencil on inside rear cover. A good tight and otherwise unmarked copy. Size: 8 x 5 Inches

Tokyo: Academy Shuppan. Soft cover. G+. Isao Yajima. Complete set of Academy Shuppan's 'New Approach to English Learning' edition. 12 slim volumes. Glossy blue paper covers. Many colour illustrations to each volume. Contents very good; some covers slightly marked, slightly scratched. The 12 books together are heavy so may incur extra postage.

London: G. Bell & Sons, 1928. Hardback. Good. H.M.Brock. Red cloth-covered boards, 152 pp. Black illustration of Jack and Jill to front board. Attractive Brock b&w illustrations. One neat mend with professional booktape to one page; four neatly-written french words added to list on one page; externally boards scuffed and a little faded at spine which has a one-inch split at bottom. Neat ink inscription to fep says 'Class Copy 1928'.

London: Longmans Green and Co, 1883. Hardback. Green leather spine and corners, marbled boards, 192pp. Longmans' Modern Series of educational readers. Short stories by authors incl. Mrs Hemans, Mary Howitt, Hannah F.Gould etc accompanied by b&w illustrations, a selection of words used in the story, split into syllables and key phrases explained. Externally bumped and worn at edges of boards, corners and ends of spine; small loss at ends of spine; scuffed surface on marbled boards. Inside, neat pencil name to 1st free ep; some pages have scattered foxing. Well-used, externally worn but tight copy. Size: 17 x 11 Cm

London: Methuen, 1984. 1st Edition. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. VG/VG. 285pp. Black boards. Text block is a little yellowed at edges. Dust jacket slightly bumped at edges. A very good copy that appears to have barely been read.

London: Thomas Allman, 1842. Hardback. G+. 4x3 inches approx. Brown embossed cloth with gilt to spine. All edges gilt. 188pp. Lengthy inscription dated 1847 to front free endpaper. Edges bumped. Spine slightly frayed at one edge. Otherwise very good.

The National Association for the Teaching of English, 1989. Paperback. VG. Green covers with black and white photograph. 33oo. Corners slightly bumped. Size: 10 x 7 Inches Approx