Search Results: down with skool a guide to by willans geoffrey

Max Parrish, 1959. Hardcover. Good. 1959. 9th Impression. 106 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. 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.

Max Parrish, 1958. Hardcover. Good. 1958. 8th Impression. 105 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened to spine.

Max Parrish, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1959. 9th Impression. 106 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth with gilt lettering. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Contains black & white illustrations. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Light crushing to spine. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Clipped jacket. Panels have heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, tears, chips, and creasing. Visible tanning all over.

England: Max Parrish, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 5th Impression. Jacket is price clipped and has corner wear and discolouration . Boards a little marked and bumped to corners.

Max Parrish, 1956. hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Ronald Searle. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

London: Max Parrish and Co Ltd, 1954. Hardcover in good condition, with clipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is marked and sunned, and edges are creased and nicked, including a few small tears. Jacket interior is tanned and foxed. Boards are marked, and edges, corners and spine ends are bumped. Page block is tanned and foxed, with light foxing also noted on the pastedowns, endpapers and a few of the pages. Previous owner's name penned to FEP. Binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Illus. by Searle, Ronald. Used.

Vanguard Press. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Book Good. No dust jacket. (education, humor)

Max Parrish, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1953. First Edition. 106 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. White marks to boards. Textblock is shaky. Book has a visible forward lean.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Good.

London: Max Parrish, 1954 Book. Illus. by Ronald Searle. Good Plus. Hardcover. Third Impression. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.. Black cloth on boards. Birthday note to previous owner. No other writing. DJ hand-soiled but complete. Molesworth of St. Custard's first appeared in Punch. 120 drawings. 106 pp..

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954. Book. VG+. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth-effect paper covered boards, lettered and with front cover illus. in silver. Mild shelf wear, rubbed corners and spine extremities, slight binding lean. Text block edges slightly dulled by age, with slight foxing along top edge. Firm binding, clean interior beyond former owner's signature and inscription "Thou shalt not steal!" along top edge of front flyleaf; rear pastedown a bit age-toned. 106 pp., illus. Yellow illus. dust jacket is mildly soiled on both covers, with tanned spine panel, several short closed edge tears and a few small chips, mild loss at head of spine, both flaps fully intact, now in archival mylar. First American edition, following the British (1953). Scarce..

Vanguard Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. Binding tight with edgewear, Prior owners name on front inside; 106 pages; Inside cover and first blank page have childs drawings and name not affecting the books illustrations or text. .

London: Max Parrish 1954. (Hardcover) 106pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt illustration on cover. Illustrations. The spine is cocked, the covers are worn and bumped at the edges, the lettering on the spine is faded, and there is a previous owner's name in ink on the front free endpaper. "Contanes: Full lowdown on skools, swots, snekes, cads, prigs bulies headmasters criket foopball, dirty roters funks, parents, masters wizard wheezes, weeds aple pie beds and various other chizzes - in fact the LOT". Illustrations by Ronald Searle. (Humor, Humor).

London: Max Parrish, 1954 VG+/VG. 8vo. original black boards gilt (some toning & spotting to edges and outer leaves) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed & nicked, slight silverfishing to edges & foldovers, some faint spotting and staining); pp. 106, with numerous illustrations. A very good copy.. Fifth Impression. Hard Cover. VG+/VG.

(London: Max Parrish: 1953) First Edition in book form (The Diaries of Molesworth first appeared in 'Punch'). Gilt pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 106. Illustrated by Ronald Searle. Gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper; a near fine copy in very good price-clipped dust-jacket.

London: Max Parrish, 1953 VG+/VG. 8vo. original black boards gilt (a trifle rubbed & toned, prev. ownership RSM to FFE) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, rubbed & a little rubbed & frayed, some marking & toning); pp. 106, with numerous illustrations. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG.

FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL PRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, NUMEROUS BLACK & WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES. FEW VERY MINOR MARKS TO JACKET WITH SOME VERY MINOR CHIPPING TO TOP EDGE OF INNER FLAPS ON JACKET OTHERWISE AN EXCELLENT COPY WITH NO MAJOR FAULTS. JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT MAY SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Ronald Searle. Rubbing along bottom edge of boards, near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning and stains on the spine, rubbing, and a couple small nicks and tears.