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Editore: N.Y. / New York: D Appleton-Century, 1943, 1st edition, First Printing, New York, NY, 1943
Prima edizione
Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good (see description). Condizione sovraccoperta: Good (see description). Uncredited Cover Art (illustratore). First Edition. ----------hard cover, a solid Good to Very Good copy with a bit of light wear, a bit of browning to gray cloth, bumped upper corner, in an attractive Good price clipped dustjacket with some chips and tears, jacket has been rebacked with some plain paper and therefore taped age toning to spine, , ink name and 1944 date on front blank endpaper, 238 pages, b&w photos, contents include: Second World War; The Tragedy of France; Defense Scheme; Malta Goes Military; The Siege Begins; Cunningham and Wavell; Luftwaffe vs. Illustrious; Mussolini Tries Again; Days of Wrath; The Civilian Front; Ships and Men; Malta, G.C.; Victory and Beyond; From Melita to Malta; The First Siege; The Years of Plenty; The Second Siege, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5.75w x 8.25h Inches. Not Signed. Price Clipped Jacket.
Editore: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1917
Da: Bertram Books And Fine Art, West Point, VA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hard Cover. Condizione: Collectible-Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Printing. viii, 238 pages. A nice tight copy. Dust jacket has large pieces missing and closed tears. In mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover.
Editore: Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1913
Da: Pensees Bookshop, Charleston, IL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First American Edition. Brown boards with just very slight wear, clean pages, previous owner's name on the ffep. Dust jacket (in removable mylar sleeve) is lightly rubbed along the edges with small tear at the bottom front and slight loss at the t/b of the spine.
Editore: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1923
Da: Underground Books, ABAA, Carrollton, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: good. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5". ix, 355pp. Open tears to corners, head and tail of spine, and rear panel of unclipped dust jacket, with sunning and scattered rubbing. Vibrant red cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt, faded to spine. Light edgewear and slight lean to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A lovely copy in worn but present dust jacket of the short stories of novelist, essayist, playwright, and historian Ian Hay Beith.
1st ed. A journey through India. Pp. 96, 6 woodcuts, uneven toning to endpapers. Black cloth, illustrated d/w with some creasing and rubbing. G+/G+.
Editore: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, London
Da: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, Regno Unito
Libro
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Reprint. First published in 1921, this is an undated subsequent edition, in a classic Hodder yellow jacket of about 1930. Edge wear, chipping, closed tears and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, 1" loss to top of spine, creasing and long closed tears to back jacket, some overall dust and time staining, corners rubbed with small loss, some foxing to page fore edges and endpapers. Not clipped (price on spine 2/-), no inscriptions, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, internally quite clean tight and square, overall a reading copy only. 320pp. A tale of true love during the first World War. Major General John Hay Beith, CBE (1876-1952), was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but he is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay.
Editore: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., Edinburgh and London, 1951
Da: Schooner Books Ltd.(ABAC/ALAC), Halifax, NS, Canada
Condizione: Vg. (x),(3)-299 Pp. Colour frontis and b&w. illus. Green cloth with gilt to spine and front cover.
Editore: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930
Da: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, Regno Unito
Libro
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Thus. [1930]. 1st thus, in Hodder and Stoughton's self proclaimed 'famous' 2s series. 312pp, plus viii page publisher's catalogue at rear. Red cloth covered boards, blind ruled with black titles on spine. Boards a little faded, sunned on spine, rubbed at corners and spine ends. Previous owner's name on front, slightly toned, endpaper, else internally neat, clean and tight. Vintage crime fiction. Ian Hay was the pen name of Major General John Hay Beith. The Poor Gentleman, his 11th novel, was first published in 1928. 12mo.
Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Re-Issue. Early shilling edition. Romantic fiction. Blue bds with Black title and decoration, pp 367. CONDITION Very light wear to ends and tips, contemporary name to ffep, light edge browning to pages due to paper quality. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Editore: William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 1916
Prima edizione
Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 4th Impression. 1st part of his WWI biography. He was a second-lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was in France in April 1915 and was one of the first 100,000 of Kitchener's Army. He was awarded the Military Cross. As a writer he is known for his humour and collaborated with PG Wodehouse on some of fictional writings. CONDITION Blue cloth with dulled gilt titles (starting to fray at spine ends) colour frontis illus of Highlanders, 342 pages is mostly bright and crisp with some light foxing, name to front paste down and ffep. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition in year of publication. Blue bds with Black title, pp 319. CONDITION Very light wear to ends and tips, some mild soiling, contemporary name to ffep, foxing mainly at ends and edges, tight copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Decorative Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Black bds with White titles, decorated with Turbanned and Bearded Indian (fresh and unworn apart front bumped top rear cnr, sl chipping to text on spine) pp 96 with 6 nice wood block illustrations (tight and clean with tidy gift inscription to ffep) Original White wrapper has wood block illus to front, age discoloured with very light wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Editore: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston & New York, U S A, 1924
Da: Sue Lloyd-Davies Books, CARMARTHEN, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Kleber Hall (Frontispiece) (illustratore). 1st American Edition Thus. Patterned paper-covered boards. The base colour of the pattern (brown) had 'faded' to green on the spine but all titling /pattern clear. NO dustjacket. The book is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks good. Corners rubbed with the bottom 2 corners showing a little of the boards. A little discolouration/bumping to the head/tail of the spine. Page fore-edges have some light marks. (6) + 78 pp. Internally, this copy is SIGNED by the author in green ink to the front free endpaper (Ian Hay Beith). The Frontispiece is stained around the edges of the image - but, very oddly, no stains affect the remainder of the pages / text, which is VG. I'd be tempted to say that the frontispiece was stained before being inserted on publication? But really I have no idea? . "Major General John Hay Beith (1876-1952) was a British schoolmaster and soldier and was Awarded the Silver Cross for bravery in action during the First World War. Best remembered, however, as a novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay." . A BIBLIO-STORY. See Images; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Signed by Author.
Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Not Stated (illustratore). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated work on the historical and cultural significance of the Indian subcontinent's fortifications. First edition. Illustrated throughout. An examination of the historical and cultural significance of the immense fortifications of the Indian subcontinent, with chapters on the Frontier Mail, the Khyber, a "Jirgah", and more. Written by Major General John Hay Beith, a British schoolmaster and soldier best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist, and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay. In the original full black cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light chipping to the extremities resulting in minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the panels. The odd small closed tear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed. book.
Editore: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, London, 1933
Da: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, Regno Unito
Libro Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by Bip Parsi (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR BIP PARSI, IN PENCIL ON TITLE PAGE 'Bip Parsi, Hampstead 1933', so it may have been his own copy. Some edge wear and browning to top and bottom of largely cream jacket and spine, spine and extremities browned, some slight overall dust staining, corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (price on spine 2/6), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 96pp, illustrated. Major General John Hay Beith (1876-1952), was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but he is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay. His witty memoirs of India in the last days of the Raj. Signed by Illustrator(s).
Editore: William Blackwood and Sons Ltd, Edinburgh, 1951
Da: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
Pp. x+300(last blank), frontispiece, 35 plates, appendices, index; cr. 4to; green cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt insignia to upper and lower boards, cloth slightly marked; book label of David Levine, Sydney, together with bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown; William Blackwood and Sons Ltd, Edinburgh, 1951. First edition. White p. 256.
Editore: Houghton Mifflin Company,, Boston:, 1919
Da: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First edition (matching year of publication on title and copyright pages). Good in a good (split along the front spine edge - tape repaired on verso, edge worn and age darkened) dust jacket. ; 203 pages.
Editore: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1916., 1916
Da: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First US edition. Fine copy in very good to near fine dust jacket with a tear along the top of the foldover to the front flap and one very short tear at the bottom edge of the front panel. Signed by the author on the title page beneath his printed name "Ian Hay." On the front panel of the dust jacket the authorship is given as "by the Junior Sub (Ian Hay).". Signed by Author(s).
Editore: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1919., 1919
Da: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First US edition. Fine copy, spine ends lightly crimped, in near fine dust jacket, the only discernible fault being the slight shadow of a label on the spine. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper "Ian Hay Beith / July 23d 1919.". Signed by Author(s).
Editore: London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. 1919], 1919
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
First Edition. Octavo. pp. xxxv, 271. In publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With rare original dust jacket showing an impressionistic scene of soldiers set against a red exploding sky. Portions of jacket lost to corners and spine head/tail; otherwise a very good copy. Following the highly successful 'The First Hundred Thousand', this novel is dedicated to 'that born fighter and Modern Crusader, the American Doughboy.'.