Edited by gilbert phelps (10 Ergebnisse)

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Chicago: 1950. First Edition; First Printing. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.75"], 162 pages, illustrated. Includes "The Shades of Toffee" by Charles F. Meyers, "Operation Decoy" by Walt Sheldon, "Luvver" by Mack Reynolds, "The Man Who Would Not Burn" by Paul Lohrman, "The Mechanical Genius" by Gilbert Grant, etc. A very good copy with small edge tears, light toning to the paper. See Photos mag 30/ E. cover by Robert Gibson Jones (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback, no dustjacket or slipcase, some light wear to covers and spine, a few small faded patches on top right corner of cover and top of back cover, top and bottom of spine a little bumped, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1977 SIGNED by Fred Trueman very good hardback, foxing inside endpapers, glue residue on spine and front and rear boards, in a very good dust wrapper, corners and edges rubbed, light foxing and browning inside cover. Protected by clear removable archival covering. Date in ink at the top of front endpaper. 280 pages. Illustrations. Signed by Author(s).…

Hard Boards. Zustand: Very Good. HARDBACK 1974. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. IN SLIPCASE Dispatched "Royal Mail Tracked 24" next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 457.3. The Rare Adventures and Painful Peregrinations of William Lithgow. Edited and introduced by Gilbert Phelps. Folio Society, London.…

Hardcoveer. Zustand: Very Good. This Folio Society edition of The Rare Adventures and Painful Peregrinations of William Lithgow, edited and introduced by Gilbert Phelps, presents the extraordinary travels of the 17th-century Scottish adventurer whose journeys spanned Europe, North Africa and the Near East. Lithgowâs account is vivid, eccentric and often astonishing, mixing perilous encounters with sharp observations of the people and places he visited. Phelpsâs introduction helps frame Lithgowâs narrative within its historical context, highlighting both its colour and its credibility. This copy is offered without its slipcase, but remains a lively and distinctive volume for collectors of early travel writing and Folio Society editions.…

FIRST PRINTING. VERY GOOD COPY IN GILT EMBOSSED GREEN CLOTH WITH VERY GOOD SLIP CASE, ILLUSTRATED.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 280 pages, well illustrated, a book published to accompany a BBC television series. Phelps puts cricket into its "historical and social context" as well as compiling an 80-page anthology; Arlott looks at cricket's past and future, and Trueman outlines "Players of my time", with stats by David Frith. SIGNED on front free end paper by F S Trueman. Below his signature has been added, in laid-down form, a very good SIGNATURE, of John Arlott. A tight copy, though the binding is a little cocked. Jacket is poly-protected. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Stiff unmarked book in pale cloth with wrap-around illustration; in sturdy light green slipcase with just a faint touch of sunning. Third printing with the new foreword.; 493 pages. Illustrated by John Lawrence (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint. This book is one of the world's great travel books, and a neglected masterpiece of our prose literature. This Folio edition is in green boards with gilt decoration. The beige grain effect slipcase has wear to its corners and extremities.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: As New. First Edition. Beautiful Folio Society Edition in green pink and black illustrated cloth & light blue slipcase, First Printing with new Foreword and binding design, no markings, a Fine unread copy in Near Fine slipcase; 8vo; 493pp illus.