Search Results: Titles starting with C from Julian Roberts Fine Books

Macdonald, 1967. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black boards with silver gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrappr. A near fine copy with clean boards. A few light spots to leading edges. No inscriptions & internally clean. The near fine dustwrapper is complete with no loss. Some light dusting to wrapper o/w fine. Original price of 16snet to front flap. A Ludovic Travers mystery.

Gollancz, 1979. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with gilt titles. Yellow Gollancz dustwrapper. A fine copy with clean boards. Internally clean and fresh with no inscriptions. The near fine dustwrapper has no chipping or splitting. A hint of toning to spine o/w fine. Original price of £3.95net to front flap. Gothic tale set in Burley's beloved Cornwall. A glimpse of girl where no girl should be; an unconsecrated tomb at the centre of an overgrown maze and then a confrontation between past and present - between Charles who died a century ago and Brian his mirror image.

George Allen & Unwin, 1973. First UK edition, first printing. Pictorial laminated boards (as issued). A very good+ copy with clean boards. Light edgewear to extremities. Internally complete with some toning & spotting to top margin of rear endpaper. Small mark to blank margin of p.102. No inscriptions. A much smarter copy than usually found with none of the usual fading to deep blue spine. Last seen flying through the air in a giant glass elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Charlie is back as the elevator picks up speed as Charlie, Willy Wonka and the gang hurtle through space and time.

George Allen & Unwin, 1967. First edition, first printing. Large 8vo. Original laminated pictorial boards will illustrations by Faith Jacques. A near fine copy. Very clean boards with light wear to extremities. Internally complete with none of the usual childish inscriptions these young reader's books are prone to. One small mark to front endpaper & a couple of tiny spots to rear endpaper. An unusually attractive copy of a book which is often found in very worn condition. Charlie Bucket's amazing adventure starts when he finds one of Mr. Willy Wonka's Golden Tickets allowing him a whole day inside the mysterious chocolate factory.

Herbert Jenkins, 1922. First edition, first printing. first issue without the pebbled cloth - ie, smooth grain and with the correct first issue eight titles starting "Piccadilly Jime" and ending "The Girl.....". 8vo. Sage green boards with black illustrations & titles. A very good copy. Mild edgewear to extremities with some light fraying toward foot of rear hinge. Bumping & pushing to top left corner of rear board. Internally clean with no inscriptions. A very good copy with none of the usual toning to spine. McIlvaine A27a. A story of love, rivalry, revenge and fulfillment on the golf links.

Collins Crime Club, 1963. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with black titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy. Clean boards. Internally clean with no marks to textblock edges & no inscriptions. The near fine dustwrapper is complete with some light vertical creasing near spine on front panel & mild edgewear to extremities - fresh and clean. Original price of 16snet on front flap. Bright orange lettering to spine. None of the usual fading & toning to wrapper spine. A very attractive copy indeed. Wagstaff & Poole p.214. A Hercule Poirot Mystery in which he investigates the murder of a man found by a young woman stenographer.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1952. First edition, first printings. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt titles. Blue topedge [as issued]. Pictorial dustwrapper by John Watton. A near fine copy with clean boards. Internally clean with no inscriptions. No marks to textblock edges. The very good+ dustwrapper has edgewear to extremities & usual toning to spine. Light graze (small drawing pin size) to back panel. Original price of 15/-net to front flap. Uncommon title. Colditz - the last resort for escaping pow's - an impregnable fortress; but, over four years 300 escaped with 31 home runs. Maps created, keys cuts, passes forged, gliders made - there was no end to the prisoners ingenuity - this is the account of the castle and its comings & goings from the most famous home runner of all.

The Bodley Head, 1966. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Green boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine copy with clean boards, Internally complete with a hint of spotting to leading edge. The near fine dustwrapper is fresh and crisp with a couple of short closed tears. Hardly any wear to extremities. Original price of 25snet to front flap. A very attractive copy with none of the usual darkening to lettering on wrapper spine. Set in Haiti under the rule of Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier. Duvalier went on to ban both Greene and 'The Comedians'.

Herbert Jenkins, 1920. First edition, first printing with 4pp of ads at rear. 8vo. Red boards with black titles. A very good copy with clean boards with no marks. Light edgewear only. Internally complete and clean. Neat old ink name to endpaper. Endpapers original and unsplit. No marks to textblock edges & none of the usual nasty fading/patchiness to the red spine. A very attractive copy. McIlvaine A23b. Set in New York and Connecticut involves a couple trying to retrieve their "perfect child" from the overbearing Mrs Porter to establish a normal family life; stuffed full of wonderful Wodehousian characters - the bossy aunt, a tetchy millionaire, a good natured boxer and an orotund English Butler.

Constable, 1925. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt titles. Top edge gilt. A near fine copy. Lovely fresh and clean boards with light wear to extremities. Internally clean with no inscriptions. A very attractive copy & without the usual heavy foxing. A cruising & sea classic about a journey made around the coast of Britain.

John Hamilton, 1933. Early printing most probably 1933. Colour frontispiece & four b&w illustrations. 256pp with no rear catologue. Blue boards with red titles [first printing gold titles] & sundial device to spine. A very good+ copy with clean boards & no chipping, nicking or tearing to cloth. Internally clean with no inscriptions. Very light spotting to front pastedown. This edition has been published with the "Other titles in the Ace Series" page as the front pastedown and no front blank or halftitle - possibly a manufacturing fault but all appears as originally manufactured and no counter page missing later in the book from lack of halftitle which there would be. An elusive early title. The second Biggles title with the action taking place mainly in South America during the interwar years.