Search Results: pilling always pays by armstrong thomas

Collins, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1954. 2nd Impression. 447 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue 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 sunning. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Medium tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks and light foxing overall.

Collins, 1954. Hardcover. Good. 1954. No Edition Remarks. 447 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. 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 sunning. Book has slight forward lean.

London: The Companion Book Club. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1956. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Book Club Edition . Missing DJ, corners lightly bumped, small split to top of spine, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Book club edition, March 1956. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to red spine panel, top edge red. Nice tight copy, no names inside. ; 416 pages; How does a rich man who has worked hard all his life for his wealth, deal with his lazy layabout children? Set in a Yorkshire mill town, Pilling the bookmaker seizes his chance when a near financial disaster allows him to convince everyone that he has fallen on hard times, to find out if his son and daughter have any Yorkshire backbone in them or not! .

London: The Companion Book Club., 1111. Undated. . Hard. Good++ in fair++ dust jacket. 12mo. 7 1/2".. Good++ in fair++ dust jacket. Cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. DJ was lightly rubbed around the edges and a little darkened. A few small closed tears around edges, with some chunks missing around the edges. A little foxed to first couple of leaves and to page edges. Leaves lightly browned. 416pp.

Collins, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1955. Third Impression. 447 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue 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 sunning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

Collins, 1954-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Hardcover. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

Collins, 1954. Hardcover. Good. 1954. No Edition Remarks. 447 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is very heavily dulled.

London: Collins, 1954. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 447 pages; just a hint of shelf wear, top edge remainder mark, edges age darkened, but very gently read, if at all, very clean and unmarked; DJ lightly chipped, particularly at spine ends, front panel illustration bright and clean, but spine panel portion age darkened. See also our listing for Armstrong's classic A Ring Has No End.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good -.

London: Collins. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1955. Third Printing. Hardcover. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, light soiling. Price-clipped. Pages somewhat toned ; DJ in mylar. A bright solid book.; Crowther Chronicles #2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 447 pages; This is a follow-up to 'The Crowthers of Bankdam' .

London: Companion Book Club, 1956. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Leicester: The Companion Book Club Blue grey cover, slight bumping corners, otherwise clean and sound.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1955. slight wear to cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight. 3rd Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London, UK: Companion Book Club, 1000. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. h/b 416 pages, condition is very good, the DJ has tears and has been taped.

London England: Collins, 1954. Previous owners name and date to inside cover. Slight foxing to end pages and edge. Sunned spine. 447 pp.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.

London: Collins, 1954. First edition hardcover in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket designed by Robert Johnston, in good condition for its age. Jacket is sunned and marked throughout, and edges are rubbed, with small tears noted at the front spine foot, and rear upper edge, toward the fore-edge. Page block and endpapers are tanned, and previous owner's inscription penned to FEP. Pages are clear and bright throughout. LW. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used.

THE COMPANION BOOK CLUB, 1956. Hardback. GOOD/No Dust Jacket. FOXED AND TANNED

London: Collins, 1954 F/F-. 8vo. original blue boards gilt in dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed & nicked); pp. 448 (last blank). A near fine copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. F/F-.