Ernest laurie long (11 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Price clipped jacket has small nicks and tears. Gift marked in pencil to front free endpaper.

Condizione: Good. 1955. First Published. 190 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Condizione: Fair. 1957. First Edition. 191 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition book. First edition. Dust jacket well kept with just some slight rubbing. A tan to the page edges, and a sticker from the literary agency on the ffep. Otherwise an excellent example, with clear, bright contents. A nice, neat copy.…

Condizione: Good. 1955. First Edition. 190 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Jacket looks good externally but the flaps have been cut off and the remains lightly glued to the boards. Book has slack binding ex library and bookseller marks 1 page has a long tear at the binding edge. Filler copy of a scarce title.

hard cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. One of the author?s sea stories series. 224 pages VG. Light shelf and edge wear to covers. Some foxing throughout, overall very good condition. No dust jacket.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardback, bound in the original orange cloth with printed titling to spine and upper board. 19 × 12.5cm, 255pp. Signed directly to the title page by E Laurie-Long. There is also a dedication (To Doris and Cecil, July 4 1937) to the ffep in the author's handwriting. A nautical adventure in which mystery after mystery follow the passengers of the "Wulf", and stewardess Lizzie Collins who has returned to the ship. (she was a recurring character in some of Laurie-Long's novels). Ernest Laurie-Long was a prolific author, mostly of navy and nautical themed adventures. Condition: This copy is in very good condition for age. There is some fading to the spine and rubbing to the boards, light foxing to the prelims and page edges but otherwise the book is in good solid shape. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. Previous owner's rubber stamp and bookseller's blindstamp on front endpaper. Small tears and chips to corners of dust-jacket and ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1951 reprint. 256 pages. Red boads with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 120mm. Nautical novel. "Lady Betty Wenfield, a young society woman, feeling herself responsible for a motor accident in which her husband is killed, decides to take her motor yacht, the Uhussie, to the Far East on a self-imposed task of investigating the mystery of the disappearance of an old friend, seven years previously. With the assistance of a down-and-out beachcomber who ships as mate, an American reporter looking for copy and a Chinese crew, the Uhussie sails from Penang to find herself soon involved with both the British and U.S.A. authorities, and also with native hatred and intrigue." - from dust-jacket blurb.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Front free endpaper torn out. A few 3/8" and smaller tears to margins of dust wrapper. Some staining to rear panel of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover.; 192 pages. Blue papered boards. A sea story for children. "In this splendid sea story, Lilia Fowell, daughter of a London shipowner, recalls the incidents of her young days and tells how, in order to avoid an enforced marriage, she stowed away in one of her father's ships bound for Australia. After being deserted by the captain and crew during a storm, she and the young mate, with the help of a few passengers, brought the derelict boat to Perth, Western Australia, to find their difficulties were only just beginning. This is a first-rate tale of the period when sail was fighting a losing battle with steam."; 12mo.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Pages 170-252, plus 20 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Warden of the Marches; Seeds of Fortune; An Elephant-Poacher's Odyssey; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - part 2; "Denied Admittance" - an Ellis Island Story; The Shrine or Ordam Padshah; The Two Portraits; A "New Chum" in New Zealand - part 2; The Isles of the Arafura; Cave-Hunting in New Mexico; A Rolling Stone. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Peddie, Tom; Soper, G.; Woodville, R. Caton; Wightman, W.E.; Potts, Leonard; Tayler, Laurie; Bestall, A.E. (illustratore).…