Search Results: Authors starting with A from Sparrow's Bookshop

E.P. Dutton & Company, 1950. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Jacket is sunned and edgeworn, with chipping at corners and spine ends. Top and bottom edges of front cover are torn. Pen scribble on front. Jacket spine is sunned. Pages are clean and unmarked. Board corners are bumped and slightly frayed, and spine ends are softened. Title lettering on cover and spine is clear and unfaded. Binding is starting at front hinge.

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1972. Paperback. Very good/N/A. A summary study of Srila Vyasadeva's Srimad-Bhagavatam, tenth canto. Fifth printing. All pages are bright, clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and free of any reading creases. Minor rubbing and shelf wear to covers.

The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1984. Paperback. Very good/N/A. Fifth printing of this edition. Some chipping and wear around edges of covers and spine. Binding is strong and spine is straight. All pages clean and unmarked though tanned.

Daimon, 1985. Paperback. Very good/N/A. Very mild shelf wear around the edges of covers and spine with faint rubbing to faces. Binding is tight, spine is square and all pages are clean and unmarked.

Ace Books, 1970. Paperback. Good/N/A. First printing of Ace edition. All pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight, but has significant spine lean and some light reading creases. Light rubbing and creasing to covers, which still remain bright.

Ace Books, 1953. Paperback. Good/N/A. No markings and pages are crisp. Covers show moderate use and shelf wear with some rubbing and creasing.

Simon and Schuster, 1951. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. First edition with revised text of 1946 Arkham House edition. First thus. Jacket protected in archival cover. All pages clean, binding and hinges firm, and board corners sharp. Minor edge wear to jacket with some small scuffing and chips, otherwise jacket is absolutely bright and crisp. A bit more rubbing to back jacket. Spine ends starting to soften.

Ace Books, 1970. Paperback. Good/N/A. No markings and pages are crisp. Covers show moderate use and shelf wear with some rubbing and creasing.

Arkham House, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. First edition, limited to 4,000 copies. Jacket protected in mylar. All pages are clean and unmarked aside from previous owner's colorful bookplate on front free endpaper. Binding and hinges remain firm, but with an ever so slight lean to spine. Moderate rubbing, soiling and edge wear to jacket. Possible previous liquid damage along bottom edge of back jacket, wrapping around spine and a small corner of front jacket. Spine tail on board also affected, but no interior pages affected.

Oxford Clarendon Press, 1998. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is loosening from spine. Corners and spine ends are sharp. Boards have some fading. Jacket has minor shelf wear and rubbing.

Penguin Books, 1994. Paperback. Good/N/A. A selection of oral tales from 22 languages. Pages are unmarked and binding is firm. Whole book has a wave. Light edgewear with plastic film starting to peel along back of fore-edge. Spine has some rippling and light reading creases.

J. B. Lippincott, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. First edition. Jacket is nicely intact aside from open tear at the top of the back cover with other small tears and scuffing around the edges. Boards are solid and the spine is square with a bit of sunning present. Binding is firm and the pages are bright, crisp, and unmarked aside from smudges on front pastedown and free endpaper.

E. P. Dutton & Company, 1927. Hardcover. Very good/None. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Spine ends bumped and fraying, corners more mildly so. A few instances of mildly split binding throughout book. Small pen streak on fore edge of page 1 and some erased writing in pencil on half-title and contents page, otherwise all pages are clean and unmarked though tanned.

Golden Press, 1973. Hardcover. Good/None. Authorized edition. Pictures by The Walt Disney Studio. Pages are lightly tanned and unmarked. Boards are firm and even with some soiling, scratches, and scuffing. Tips of boards are frayed. Spine is tight and square with fraying at head and tail. Binding is starting to loosen throughout.

Thorsons Publishers, 1962. Paperback. Very good/N/A. Sixth printing of this edition. All pages are bright, clean and unmarked aside from numbers written on front cover. Binding is tight. Minor shelf wear and edge wear to covers. Some creasing to back cover.

Publius Press, 1985. Paperback. Very good/N/A. Pages are clean and unmarked, aside from previous owner's stamp on bottom corner of title page. Covers are clean and unscuffed, with slight wear and browning along edges. Spine is creased, but otherwise tight and square. Hinges are secure.

Eyrie and Spottiswoode, 1936. Hardcover. Good/None. Third edition. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards. Boards are solid and spine is square aside from small tear at the head, sunning and scuffing. Binding is firm and the pages are bright, crisp, and unmarked aside from faint pencil marks on the front pastedown.

American Society for Metals, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. First edition. Previous owner's name on front endpaper and a handful of pages throughout have minor underlining or marginalia in blue pen. Binding is secure, but back hinge is cracked with webbing visible. Sunning, scuffing and softening to spine, else minor shelf wear to boards.

St. Martin's Press, 1973. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Reprint of the first edition. Pages are unmarked and binding is firm. Boards are clean but bottom of spine is softened slightly. Spine of jacket is lightly sunned. One small chip on front upper corner.

Mentor Books, 1959. Paperback. Good/N/A. First printing of this Mentor edition. All pages are bright and unmarked. Some faint wrinkling/staining to bottom edge of covers and all pages. Binding is tight. Moderate rubbing, shelf wear and edge wear to covers.