Search Results: Authors starting with G from Ripping Yarns

London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. Hardback. Good+. Black cloth boards, 5 x 7½ inches, 320 pp. Boards slightly rubbed at edges, lightly bumped at top and base of spine, contents faintly browned with light scattered foxing to pages edges, and first and last few pages; otherwise very good with no inscriptions.

London: Faber & Faber, 1932. 1st Paperback Thus. . Paper Covers. Good+. The story of two fieldmice. Yellow, black & red pictorial paper covers. Lovely b&w illustratrations to every page. Faber Paper Covered Editions - list of others in series to inside back cover. A little bumped externally at some edges, remains of price label to rear cover but tight, clean and good copy. Size: 5 x 7 Inches

North Carolina: BookSurge, 2008. 1st Ed. . Paperback. Very Good. Paperback, 234pp. ''as tidied up and adapted into English by Frank Gagliano'. Dedicated and signed with his initials by Gagliano on ffep. Spine indicates unread.

New York: Coward McCann, 1969. 1st US Edition. . Hardback with Dustwrapper. Very Good/Fair. Green boards, unclipped dw, 188pp. Signed and dedicated with cryptic message to the poet Adrian Mitchell and his wife, provenance assured from the library of Adrian Mitchell. ' To Adrian & Celia, many thanks and best wishes, John. Margarine, not butter, I'm afraid'. The writer's account of how he moved with his family to Provence in pursuit of a better simpler life. Dw bumped and scuffed at edges with a few tiny nicks and closed tears. Book itself very good clean and tight.

Bloodaxe, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. Bumped at corners and cover creased at spine, otherwise very good. Signed by author eith iscription and dedication to Celia and Adrian Mitchell.

London: Heinemann, 1969. 1st. . Gioia Fiammenghi. Very good condition: colour illustrated boards, slightly bumped at spine and corners; dustjacket with same illustration as boards, knocked at edges, spine and corners, price clipped, repaired on inside spine, but good; illustrated endpapers.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. 1st Edition. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. Very Good/Good. Maroon boards, unclipped dw, 287pp. Dw yellowed with a couple of 1cm closed tears at edges, otherwise good. Book itself very good.

London: The Grey Walls Press, 1945. Soft cover. Good. Poems by Ruthven Todd, G.S. Fraser, Nicholas Moore, Paul Potts, Fred Marnau; review by Stephen Spender of Auden's 'For the Time Being'. Paper covers. Good.

London: The Grey Walls Press, 1944. Soft cover. Good. Poems by Maurice Lindsay, John Bayliss, John Singer, Ernst Singler, Nicholas Moore. Paper covers detached. Otherwise good.

London: The Grey Walls Press, 1948. Soft cover. Good. Poems by Alan Ross, James Kirkup, Ruthven Todd, Nicholas Moore, Howard Sergeant. Paper covers. Good.

London: Virgin, 2008. 1st Edition. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. Very Good/Good. Black boards, unclipped dw, 355pp. Analysis of the psychology of our perception of risk and fear. Dw bumped and creased at some edges with 1inch closed tear from bottom edge. Otherwise clean and complete. Book itself very good.

Morris Publishing, 2001. 1st Edition. . Paperback. Very Good. Corners and spine lightly bumped. Signed by author and dedicated to poet Adrian Mitchell. Also includes letter to Adrian Size: 7 x 5 Inches

London: Hearing Eye, 2006. 1st Edition. . Paperback. Very Good. Illustrated paper covers, 34pp. Poetry Pamphlet Series no.42. Dedicated to the poet Adrian Mictehll and signed on title page. VG clean and tight.

London: Hearing Eye, 2006. Illustrated paper covers, 34pp. Poetry Pamphlet Series no.42. Dedicated to the poet Adrian Mictehll and signed on title page. VG clean and tight.. SIGNED. 1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

London: Fulcrum Press, 1973. 1st Edition. . Good. Paperback, 62pp. Also includes found within the book, a poem entitled 'We WIll WIn' publicising the poet's backing for the British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign, urging the reader to contact the organisation and also the 'Defend the 14' campaign. This is on 4 pages of green A4 stapled and dated 1975. A little bumped at edges but complete and good. The book itself is good clean and tight. On p.46, the poet himself has crossed out 2 lines from a poem 'If you're a woman, Share your bed with him' and hand-written 'Sexist ! D.G. 10.75' next to the crossing out. Good.

London: Cafe Books, 1969. 1st Limited Edition . Paper Covers. Good+. Poetry booklet. Red card covers, sewn at spine, purple glassine free endpapers, 23pp. One of a limited run of 500 copies. First in the Cafe Books series, with next three planned titles listed on rear cover. Covers and endpapers a little faded but clean, tight and unmarked.

Middlesex: Kestrel Books, 1972. Hardback. Good+/Good+. Antony Maitland. Light green/blue boards, unclipped dw, 91pp. Ends of spine of both dustwrapper and book itself bumped. Good+ clean and tight. Size: 8 x 5 Inches

London: Heinemann, 1976. 1st Edition. . Hardback. Good. Anthony Maitland. Corners and spine bumped and rubbed. General shelf wear. Tanning to endpapers Size: 8 x 5 Inches Approx

London: Heinemann, 1973. 1st Edition. . Hardback. Good/Good. Trevor Ridley. Pictorial boards with clipped dust jacket. Some watermarks, foxing and fading to jacket. Black and white and full colour illustrations . Size: 8 x 6 Inches

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney Singapore: Simon and Schuster, 1994. 1st US Edition . John O'Brien. Proof copy with pages unbound. Charming colour illus throughout by O'Brien. Dw over paper covers. Very good.