knowles vernon (37 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8 Pages.

Condizione: Good. No Edition Stated. 126 pages. No dust jacket. Orange 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. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Eric Bailey (illustratore). 1st Edition. A title in the delightful little "Mandrake Booklets" series. This one is a typical low-key, relaxed fantasy story from the Australian-born Knowles. A magic rope ladder is unleashed in a quiet English village and gradually all the villagers succumb to curiosity and climb up it. Frontispiece illustration by Eric Bailey. A very good copy, very slightly worn at corners, and a little browned and spotted on edges and endpapers. In a glassine wrapper - not contemporary.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 126pp. HARDCOVER Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. Some browning to half-title page. Externally, orange cloth has some marks & ding & repaired split to spine. Slightly bowed. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. Book.

Condizione: Good. No Edition Remarks. 126 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over orange cloth boards with lettering. 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. Lettering is clear. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Tanning to jacket.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 9 pages, illustrated. With list of books. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, spine and edges of covers faded, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Ralph Keene (illustratore). This book is in near fine condition. There are corner knocks but no stains or tears. This is a "rare reprint" edition. This is a children's book and contains 9 short stories about London. The book was written for the author's young friend who had moved to Australia and was home sick for London. The stories include the shop in the off-street, the birds, the painter of trees, the land of ideas, and a set of Chinese boxes. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education.

Reprint ed. Paperback trade, very good condition, few black & white text-photos, frontispiece portrait, top corner front cover slightly rubbed, colour patch rear cover little faded, some edgewear, small sticker front flyleaf. 77 pp. This is the story of a sensitive boy who grows up in Adelaide before the first World War. Vernon Frank Knowles was born at Phyllis Street, Maylands (Adelaide) on 17th April, 1899. He spent most of his adult life overseas and died in London on July 9th, 1968. He published verse, novels and short stories. His tales of fantasy are universal. (Originally published in 1932. The present book is reprinted from part of a book by Paul Depasquale (Pioneer Books): 'The Life and Work of Vernon Knowlesâ, 1979. No date, but 1980).

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Snakeskin paper cover boards with black cloth spine, paper spine label. Endpapers tanned, VG-FINE in dj with darkening to spine, chipped at spine ends.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

First edition. 16mo. 98 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth backed snake skin patterned boards, paper spine label, in dustwrapper, very good. (59757).

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Decorative Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good/Very Good. Eric Bailey (illustratore). A bright firm book with a little tanning to the endpapers ; dj sound with some browning. Pics available Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. London, Robert Holden & Co., 1927. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A good copy. Inscribed by the author to painter Albert Rutherston. Seven short stories, mostly fantasy it seems. Lacking the jacket, some staining and marking to the boards, a little bumping to the spine tips, boards a little warped and some foxing internally. [11663, Hyraxia Books].

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1921 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 24 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Illustrated by Helen Binyon (illustratore). First Edition. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Helen Binyon. Previous owner's signatureand date (1933) at the the half title. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. No marks in the text. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation in a heavy cardboard box. A previous owner has tipped the front cover of the dust jacket to the front inside cover of the book. The fore edges are rubbed and the last couple of blank leaves have staining and small (insect? ) holes. Contents are very good. Selling Used and Rare books online since April 1998 and from our bookstore in the heart of the Bluegrass since 1984.; Black-and-white drawings; 8vo.; vii, 225 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. (1935) First edition, pictorial title page by Malcolm Easton. Publishers blue cloth with spine titles in black. Collection of 12 stories most if not all fantasy. Locke SPECTRUM OF FANTASY pg-130. VG in age tanned dust wrapper with short creased tear to rear panel at upper spine fold, old tape mend to blank side.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Two and Two Make Five by Vernon Knowles (First Edition) Minor bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends with slight sunning to spine. Previous owner's plate to front pasted end page. Wear to edges and spine ends with 1 inch loss to top of sunned spine. Price-clipped. Not dated. Original blue cloth with gold lettering; 256 pages. "Fabular short stories, taken in part from earlier volumes. Including [a] THE CURIOUS ACTIVITIES OF BASIL THORPENDEN. He is an occult engineer, with a means of travelling through time, and an apparatus for storing emotions. He is also able to enter the Land of Ideas, where he progresses to the Territory of Reality. [b] THE FIRST COMING. Christ manifested himself (before the incarnation in Palestine) to a people who accepted him with love. This upset the Divine Plan, and the scenario had to be transferred" (Bleiler). BOOK.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Presumed 1st Edition. Hardback. Near very good in good, worn, chipped, browned, price clipped and plastic protected, d/w. Spine and corners bumped, pages a bit browned. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. None (illustratore). First edition. An incredibly scarce presentation copy of this volume of poetry, signed by the author to the front endpapers. An incredibly scarce, signed presentation copy of this book of poems from Australian author Vernon Knowles, most known for his 1924 fantasy fiction work 'The Street of Queer Houses'.In smart original half black cloth binding, with original title sticker to spine.At one time owned by a Mrs L. G. Churchman.Signed and inscribed to front free endpaper. Inscription reads 'Mrs L. G. Churchman: Her Book. Written in the House of the Seven Cats (and all delightful, too!) Vernon Knowles October 10, 1024'. Bound in original half black and grey cloth. Externally, smart. The odd marks to boards. Rubbing to extremities and spine. Small marks to spine. Slight chipping and marks to title sticker at spine. Spotting to endpapers. Very light pencil sketch of a church to rear paste down, author's ink inscription and signature to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound, with slight strain. Pages generally bright and clean, with the occasional handling mark. Very Good. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Frontispiece and jacket by Malcolm Easton. (illustratore). First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. Beyond the minor chipping a very nice copy of this collection of twelve tales by Australian author Knowles, "tales of the super-real rather than the supernatural, or, if you will, fairy tales for grown-ups." (jacket). VG+/VG, no inscriptions, uncut pages, in a VG unclipped wrapper with a slither of loss to the top of the spine Beyond the minor chipping a very nice copy of this collection of twelve tales by Australian author Knowles, "tales of the super-real rather than the supernatural, or, if you will, fairy tales for grown-ups." (jacket). Book.

Hardcover. First British edition (& 1st printing). Collection of fantasy stories: ten full-page illustrations by Helen Binyon. The contents of the British edition differ considerably from those of the 1924 Boullion-Briggs edition and are expanded to include fifteen fantasy stories (only eleven were collected in the U.S. edition). ''First published 1925'' on copyright page. Page edges browning, a VG+ copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. Publishers red boards with black cloth shelf-back spine, printed paper spine label, pictorial endpapers. Some dullness to black cloth spine, a VG+ copy in NEW facsimile dust wrapper. Collects 15 stories, most if not all fantasy. Locke SPECTRUM OF FANTASY pg-130.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG-. Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. A second collection of fantastic tales, following "The Street of Queer Houses", Bleiler states it to be a considerable improvement on the first volume of stories. VG- book, some light warping of the boards, small bookdealer stamp on front endpaper and dealer note in pencil on flyleaf. Illustrated by Ralph Keene. Rare original DJ, VG-, front cover seperated along spine, but kept together with archival cover. Chips missing, mostly at top and bottom of the spine. Provenance - From the Gary Munson Collection.