Search Results: Authors starting with V from Ripping Yarns

London: University of London Press, 1963. Hardback. Good/Good. Peggy Fortnum. Translated from the Dutch by Roy Edwards. Orange boards with unclipped dust jacket. Jacket is attached to boards. Corners and spine bumped and rubbed. Hinges cracked. Ex-library with usual stamps and marks. Size: 7 x 5 Inches

Puffin (Penguin Books), 1959. First Puffin. . Alie Evers. Puffin no. 131.Translated from the Dutch by Dora Round. Cover design by Richard Kennedy. Paper covers slightly scuffed at edges. Very good.

Jeppestown, S.A.: Ad. Donker, 1996. 1st Reprint. . Paperback. Good. Trade Paperback, 272 pp. A little dusty outside; pages a little tanned but good clean and tight.

Faber & Faber. Good+. Paper covers, 5.5 x 8.5. 24 pp. Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement Number 2. List of Oxford University Press publications on inside of front cover. Oliver & Boyd list on reverse side of contents. Order forms for the Critical Quarterly at back. Faber list to back cover. Edges slightly bumped; front cover slightly marked; otherwise very good.

Hardback. Good. Various - See Description. A compilation of various children's books and pamphlets. Unpaginated but neatly bound in yellow cloth-covered boards. including various children's nursery rhymes, humorous illustration strips, rhyming tales. 36 full-colour pages of lovely, bright and bold illustrations including chromo lithographs. Includes stories from 'Three Little Kittens' also 'The Greedy Kitten' and 'The Merry Kitten, accompanied by 12 chromo-lithograph illustrations of cats. Corners and spine bumped and worn. Text-block loose in places, with some mends. 1st and last free endpapers lacking, also 1st rhyme and last page of text (apparently of 4 short rhymes) but pictures which should accompany these are present. half of page featuring text of Hush-a-Bye Baby is missing, as is the first text page of 'Three Little Kittens' but illustrations which accompany these are intact. 4 sums have been written in neat ink on the 1st pastedown. Elsewhere on text… Read More

London. Hardcover. Good. Various. Twenty-second Annual Volume.Green cloth board, decorated and illustrated in black and gold, black and gilt titles to cover and spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. This is a heavy book and will require additional postage cost. 475pp. Cover slightly marked and faded to front and back - please see photos.

Harcourt Brace Javanovich, Inc, 1971. First Thus. . Hardback. Good ++/Good-. Translated from the Greek by Mike Edwards. Signed by author and dedicated to poet Adrian Mitchell and wife Celia to FFEP. Black paper covered boards, cream cloth covered spine, unclipped dust jacket. Dustwrapper a little mishapen, bumped and scuffed at corners and edges with a few nicks and chips to top and bottom of spine. Small closed tear to front top edge. A little faded at spine. Inside dust jacket slightly tanned. Now in removeable clear protective sleeve. Boards bumped at corners and edges. A couple of marks to top textblock edge, otherwise book very good, clean and tight.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1982. 1st UK. . Romain Simon. A Pere Castor book. 9" by 8.5" colour pictorial children's animal storybook. Glossy paper-covered boards. Very good condition.

Arnold Biggin and Sons, 1980. Paperback. Good. Red pamphlet, corners and spine bumped. Dedicated to Adrian Mitchell and signed by the author. (From Adrian Mitchell's library) Size: 7 x 5 Inches

London: Duckworth. Good. Pictorial green cloth boards; front cover shows illustration of cowboy and 'Indian' wrestling for a gun, both astride galloping horses; spine shows cowboy in forest; illustrated in brown, red, white and black on green. 336 pp, light foxing to endpapers, hinges cracked, boards bumped and slightly faded. Good.

London: S.Low/ Treuttel, Wurtz, Treuttel Fils et Richter, 1826. Good+. Brown half leather, marbled boards and matching endpapers and edges, gilt decoration and 5 bands to spine. 180 pages plus 'Notes'. Text in French language; 2 monochrome frontispiece illustrations. Externally bumped and scuffed at some edges and corners. Scattered foxing mostly to first few and last few pages. Majority of text pages clean and clear. Good+ tight copy for its age. Size: 6 x 4 Inches

London/melbourne/Cape Town: Ward, Lock & Co.. Good+. Blue and silver patterned boards, silver lettering on front and spine. Slightly bumped at edges of spine and corners, very small tear on bottom left hand corner of front board, slight foxing to fore edges. Otherwise very good.

Middlesex: Penguin, 1974. Paperback. Good+. Translated and with an introduction by Joanne Richardson. Size: 7 x 5 Inches

Ajmer: A. R. A. W. L. II Publications, 2009. Paperback. VG. In English. 107pp. Corrners slightly bumped. Size: 8 x 5 Inches Approx

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878. Hardback. Good. Green boards embossed and decorated in black and gilt, 370pp. B&w illustrations, trans.Ellen E. Frewer. 2 previous owners' names to endpapers, dated respectively 1882, 1891. Small booksellers' label to rear endpaper. Externally, bumped, scuffed and a little frayed at ends of spine and board corners, with small 1cm split in spine covering at top of spine. Contents and list of illustrations pages detached from block but connected to each other, text block remains tight. First and last pages tanned but otherwise clean. A good tight copy otherwise.

Arco Publications, 1960. First Thus. . Hardback. Good+/Good-. Translated from the French by I.O. Evans. Dark brown boards, unclipped dust jacket. Dustwrapper a little tanned and dusty, scuffed at edges with some very small chips. Small scuffs on spine. Pages tanned but good clean and tight. No inscriptions.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1894. Hardback. Brown cloth embossed boards, 192pp. B&w illustrations and frontis. 'Author's Illustrated Edition', trans. by Verrne himself. Decorated endpapers. Ex-library copy with 'Norfolk and Norwich Library' label to front board and pastedown and small stamp to list of illustrations page. Library binding boards have metal corners which are starting to be revealed as the corners have been bumped. pages are tanned with occasional small marks but good tight copy othwrwise.

Paris: Bibliotheque D'education et De Recreation. Hardback. Good+. '44 dessins par Emile Bayard et A. De Neuville Graves par Hildibrand.' No date. Marbled boards with green spine and gilt lettering. Spine is very much scuffed at edges, corners bumped, spine frayed at top. Some foxing to beginning and end pages. Tight. More photographs available on request. Touse drosits reserves' Size: 11 x 8 Inches Approx

Paris: Bibliotheque D'education et De Recreation. Hardback. Good. Vignettes par riou. No date.Marbled boards with green cloth spine and gilt lettering. Spine is rubbed and worn, top frayed and bottom 1 1/2 inch of spine cover missing. Black and white illustrations throughout 222. Some foxing to first and last pages. All tight. In French. More photographs available on request. 'Touse drosits reserves' Size: 12 x 8 Inches Approx

Paris: Bibliotheque D'education et De Recreation. Hardback. Good. Marbled boards with green cloth spine. Spine cover is worn through at edges. Gilt lettering to spine. Boards a little scuffed, corners bumped. '41 Dessins et une Carte Par Du Montaut. No date. Some foxing and a few water marks. All tight. More photographs available on request. Touse drosits reserves' Size: 11 x 8 Inches Approx