Greenwitch by Cooper, Susan - 1974

Chatto & Windus, 1974. Hardcover. Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition (ex-library)/Good. Library discard. Covered in clear, removable plastic. Usual library stamps & markings. Library pocket on first page. Body of text clean and very readable 148 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children; Science Fiction & Fantasy. ISBN: 0701150483. ISBN/EAN: 9780701150488. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57202. . 9780701150488

Greenwitch by Susan Cooper (Chatto & Windus Ltd, 2nd impression 1975). The third in 'The Dark is Rising' series and originally published 1974, this copy a 1975 2nd impression. Dustwrapper design by Michael Heslop. Hardback in price-clipped dustwrapper but with publisher's price sticker applied. pp [8], 147. Size: 9 x 5.75 inches approx. (229mm x 147mm). Light wear and rubbing to dustwrapper; wear and creasing to spine ends and with small staining visible to verso; sunned/faded to spine and creeping on to front panel; some age tanning. Covers bruised to spine ends; sunning to top edge of boards and head of spine. Light foxing and offsetting to endpapers; age toning to pages but generally clean throughout; spotted and tanned to edges of page-block. Overall, showing light wear but otherwise a reasonably nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available;… Read More

Chatto & Windus, 1975. ~First edition was 1974. Small neat owners' signature dated 1976. Front of dustwrapper looks faded in bands along spine edge and top edge, but this is almost certainly the original design. Dustwrapper price-clipped and protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request.. 2nd impress. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. 147pp. With dustwrapper. Binding tight, text unmarked.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. PUBLISHER'S REVIEW COPY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO JILL PATON WALSH. Publisher's green boards with gilt spine lettering. A fine copy in a near fine DW with a tiny piece missing from the top right hand corner of the inside flap and faint indentation from a paper clip at one time attached to the front panel of the D/W (perhaps attaching the Chatto Review Slip". Inscribed by the Author to the title page: "For Jill, with love,/ Susan". From the collection of the late Jill Paton Walsh (1937-2020) and John Rowe Townsend (who died in 2014). ISBN: 07011 5048 3. NB: somewhat unusually this copy appears to have 2 identical title pages. Publisher's review copy enclosing An ADVANCE COPY of Greenwitch and requesting that "NO REVIEW SHALL BE ALLOWED TO APPEAR BEFORE THE DAY OF PUBLICATION WHICH IS 13 JUNE 1974". Scarce with these attributes. The… Read More

Stein & Day, New York, 1972 (Second Printing- first published 1971), 8vo., 383. quarter red cloth over green paper boards
Book has a rear lower bumped corner and a bump to lower front. There also is some soiling(red) to the front and rear boards. Internals very clean. Unclipped jacket has a "scrunch" with accompanying "waves" to the lower rear with a crease extending to the flap fold. (please see images).
Inv. # 63596 TG* bds 7/2023

binding generally clean, straight & tight. Internals are clean, though pages have darkened which is common enough with many of these UK titles due to the paper stock selected. Unclipped wrapper has rubbing/dust dulling but no tears, chips or creases.
11/2023

The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.

Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2

Little May and Her Friend Conscience. Used. Very Good+ Condition. RARE/SCARCE. ANTIQUARIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK. Thomas Nelson & Sons First Edition, 1876. Color front paper paste-down label is in good shape. Complete. Dark Blue, blind-stamped boards. Pocket-size. 70 pages plus adverts.

Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."

black cloth binding. First Printing. boards have light edgewear, corners curved in slightly. Unclipped wrapper has a 15 mm open tear on the front at the top, minor soiling. Overall, a very tidy copy of Russell's first novel.

Hulme, Keri: The Bone People. Louisiana State University Press, A tale of New Zealand. Stated United States First Edition, 1985. 450 pages, indexed. WINNER OF THE PEGASUS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE BOOKER PRIZE. Used. Very Good/Very Good unclipped original $17.95 dust jacket. Summary: "The Bone People, first published in 1984 by Spiral, New Zealand. About this book: The Bone People is an unusual story of love. It is unusual in the telling, the subject matter, and the form of love that the story depicts. This is in no way a romance; it is filled with violence, fear, and twisted emotions. At the story's core, however, are three people who struggle very hard to figure out what love is and how to find it. Hulme won New Zealand's Pegasus Prize for Literature (1984) for The Bone People. Then the book went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize (1985).

Hardcover, Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York. 139p.This 1971 edition reprinted from the 1929 Mandrake. Silver titles on spine, Book for Libraries emblem blind-stamped lower right front board. Front pastedown has ghost of a bookseller's sticker; rear pastedown shows what appears to be an Army/Navy surplus stamp in red. A few tiny dark marks near the blind stamp and some soiling to top rear board. Minor blemishes withstanding, this is a very nice, collectible copy.Inv. # 32586 bds 2022

SIGNED. The Lord of the Rings. The Art of the Fellowship of the Rings. First Edition. First Printing. Houghton Mifflin (2002). Fine, as new, very large format hardcover with fine as new jacket. Signed by 4 of the film project artists: Bay Esitt, Gray Horsfield, Joehan, and Jeremy Bennet. Over 500 exclusive images from earliest sketches to full color paintings and storyboards. Carefully boxed for swift, safe shipping. Cannot ship outside the U.S. due to size and weight. Standard shipping only. 6-b