Search Results: Authors starting with M from Ripping Yarns

Durham: DMLS, 1985. Paperback. Good+. Blue covers. Durham Modern Languages Series. General Editor W. R. Bridgwater. Edited, with Introduction and Notes by R. G. Maber. 96pp. First published 1983, reprinted 1985. Corners slightly bumped. Size: 8 x 6 Inches

London: Ernest Benn. Paper Covers. Good. Crimson paper covers, Title label to front. 30pp. Externally scuffed at spine. Inside, good clean and tight. Several other poets in this series - please enquire

London: Faudel, Phillips & Sons/RE. King. Hardback. Good. Maroon cloth, gilt title, embossed boards, 382pp. Scattered foxing to first few pages and last endpapers but text pages mostly clear. A little dusty but good reading copy.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1966. 1st Edition. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. Good+/Good. Margaret Gordon. Illustrated paper-covered boards, unclupped dustwrapper, unpaginated. Bright colour illustrations. Dw scuffed at edges and spine. Tiny nicks at corners and one small closed vertical tear at back cover/inside flap join. Boook itself has boards also a little bumped and scuffed at edges, other2wise good+ clean and tight copy. Size: 7.50 x 10 Inches

New York: Hargail Music Press. Paperback. Good. No date. Brown paper covers with black and white photograph to front cover. Front cover reattached using professional acid-free tape, small strip loss to front cover at top of spine. Small damp mark to bottom of back cover. Pages tightly bound. Size: 6 x 5 Inches

Penguin, 1973. First Edition. . Paperback. Good. Poet to Poet series. Card covers bumped at corners and edges, a little creased, one very small closed tear to front top edge. Pages tanned but clean, tight and good.

Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1962. 1st Edition. . Hardback. Good-. Dark blue boards, 498pp. Gilt tile to spine dulled; spine slightly faded; a couple of small wrinkles in cloth covering. Inside clean and without marks. Good tight copy.

London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1967. Patterned boards with price clipped dust jakcet. Spine faded. Jacket has creases to edges and a couple of small closed tears but complete. Eight colour plates and line drawings with. All pages clean and bright. 325pp. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. VG/Good+. Illus. by E. H. Shepard. 7 x 5 Inches.

Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott. 4th Impression. . Hardback. Good. Kurt Wiese. Maroon boards, 126pp. Externally ends of spine bumped and scuffed; a few marks to boards. Inside clean and good.

Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company. 15th Impression. . Hardback. Good-. Maria L. Kirk. Red boards, corners and spine bumped. Boards are rubbed, scuffed and faded. Hinges cracked but text block tight. Some scattered foxing, and small chips to edges of some pages - text not affected. Size: 8 x 5 Inches

London: Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1975. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. VG+/No Jacket. White paper inner covers with green dustwrapper bound in at spine. Red & green lettering to d/w. Part of the Ugly Duckling series with advert on rear cover for 'Loving Them Both' by MacInnes and Herbert Dingle's 'The Mind of Emily Bronte'. Very slightly bumped at edges. Very good condition indeed.

1963. Paper Covers. Good. Cream paper covers, 44pp. Articles incl. H.A.Mason on 'Studied Simplicity', Geoffrey Strickland 'The Question of Tone : Leavis and Snow', poems by Antony Black, Avril Bruten, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove, Matthew Simpson, Philip Ward, Charles Page on TS Eliot etc. Rusting staples, covers slightly browning at edges but a good tight copy.

London: John F. Shaw and Co.. Hardback. Good. Orange decorative cloth hardback. Colour frontispiece. No date but Sunday School prize stamp to front paste-down endpaper dated 1925. 192pp. Boards slightly scuffed. Hinge cracked at pp 80/81. Frontispiece creased at edge. Browning to endpapers & last page of text, very light foxing to title page. A good copy.

Happenstance, 2011. Paperback. Good+. Corners and spine lightly bumped. Size: 7 x 5 Inches

MacMilllan, 1969. 1st Thus. . Good+/Good+. Blue cloth hardback with unclipped dustwrapper. Short stories by authors including Sylvia Plath, Alan Sillitoe, Olivia Manning etc. Very small mark to front free endpaper. Dustwrapper very slightly marked, very slightly bumped at edges.

London: Sexton Blake Library. Paperback. Good. Corners and spine bumped and rubbed, general shelf wear. Staples are rusty, which you can see on centre folds as well as on the outside. A good reading copy. Size: 6 x 4 Inches Approx

London: Boriswood, 1936. 1st Edition . Very Good-/Good+. Cream paper dw with black decoration and lettering to front and spine, orange cloth-covered.boards. Neat ink initials of previous owner to top corner of fep; faint scattered foxing to endpapers, text pages not affected. Dw. slightly browned on spine with one small watermark and very slightly bumped at top of spine, but complete and not price-clipped.

South Africa: Firfield Poetry Press, 1998. 1st Edition. . Paper Covers. Good ++. George Coutouvidis. Oblong paperbacked book, 32pp. Full page b&w illustrations to every alternate page. Externally, cover edges a little scuffed otherwise very good, clean and tight. Size: 8 x 10 Inches

London: Pickering and Ingus Limited. Hardback. Good/Good-. Yellow boards with price clipped dust jacket. Jacket has several tears to edges of jacket with some creases, too. Jacket is now in removeable clear cover to protect it. Bookplate to FFEP dated 1961. No printed date. First few pages are loose. 192pp. Pages tanned. Size: 8 x 5 Inhces

London: Oxford University Press, 1928. 3rd Edition. . Hardback. Good+. George Morrow and Marjory Whittington. Blue pictorial boards 8 x 6 ins. Colour frontispiece and b&w illust. Pictorial map endpapers. Boards bumped at edges and slightly faded, tiny ink mark on a few page edges; otherwise very good.