Search Results: General Literature from Tapsell's Books and Music

London: The Ace Publishing Company 248 pages Not dated (about 1936). Illustrated by Stanley Orton Bradshaw. Colour frontispiece and three other coloured plates. B/w text illusts and four b/w plates. Pictorial boards. Black titling on cloth spine. Water staining to boards, which are rubbed at extremities. Inscription on fly leaf dated 1940. Rare. *Includes four stories by W.E. Johns.. Hard Cover. Good.

London: Batsford, 1944. viii, 148 pages. Colour frontispiece, many b/w photo plates and illustrations. Index. Top edge gilt, others uncut. The dustwrapper is price clipped.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, 1951. 288 pages. Original orange cloth. Page edges browned. Dustwrapper price clipped. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1899. 253 pages. Original green cloth with gilt titling on the spine. Edges uncut. Corners a little bumped. Scarce. *Includes criticism of the poetry of Tennyson, Swinburne, Shelly and Kipling.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. 258 pages. Original orange cloth (slightly mottled) with gold paper titling labels on the spine and upper board. Endpapers tanned near the hinges. No dustwrapper.. 1st U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Sydney: F.J. Thwaites, 1947. 288 pages. Pages browned. *A romance in which two young scientists seek a cure for malaria in Nigeria. . 6th Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good.

Sydney: Bantam, 2018. 373 pages. Pictorial card wrappers.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

Sydney: The Shepherd Press, 1947. With 46 illustrations by Norman Lindsay, including two tipped-in. Black cloth with gilt titling, rules and publisher's motif on the spine. The dustwrapper is chipped. Scarce, especially with such a good dustwrapper.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Good.

Den Haag: Stok, 1951. 228 pages. B/w frontispiece of Mr Bush (played by Robert Beatty in the Warner Brothers film) and several full-page b/w illustrations. Translated by J.C. Mollema. Endpapers slightly foxed. The price-clipped dustwrapper is chipped at head and tail of spine and is a little dampstained. Original pictorial cloth with the scarce dustwrapper (with a portrait of Forester on the lower panel). *Volume 3 of the Dutch-language edition of the Hornblower books.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London: Sands and Co, 1902. 200 pages. Original decorated pink cloth with titling on the upper board and spine. Lightly spotted and worn at extremities. Endpapers slightly foxed. Fore-edge uncut. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good.

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1934. 328 pages. The price-clipped dustwrapper is lightly worn and chipped and has a closed tear. Edges a little spotted. Scarce. *The copyright page states that this is the seventh printing, yet the dustwrapper states sixth printing.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London: Bantam, 1988. 297 pages. Fine in like dustwrapper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1928. 272 pages. Original green cloth with gilt titling and rules on the spine. Edges slightly spotted. No dustwrapper. Previous owner's bookplate on fly leaf. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. 1st edition. xviii,289pp. Many full-page sepia photo plates. Decorated and embossed original cloth. Rare in this fine, bright and crisp condition. *The author recounts incidents from the life of Christ as he travels around Palestine..

London: Methuen, 1939. xi, 267 pages. B/w portrait frontispiece. Original blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine.. 3rd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1935. ix, 182 pages. Colour frontispiece, 8 b/w plates and many b/w line drawings by E. Caldwell. Note and glossary. Original decorated fawn cloth (slight wear at extremities) with titling on spine and upper board. Gift inscription on an early blank page; previous owner's initials on verso of rear endpaper. A crisp, bright and very clean copy of this famous story adapted for school use.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1928. 191 pages. Original yellow cloth with titling on spine and upper board. Spine slightly sunned. No dustwrapper. Head of spine very slightly rubbed.. 1st U.K. edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: George G Harrap and Co, 1920. 190 pages. Colour frontispiece and three other colour plates by Mabel Hatt. Original pale green cloth (a little flecked). Previous owner's details on front pastedown. Scarce. *Includes four stories about the stars and children in Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece, Renaissance Italy and modern times.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Melbourne: Ellis and Lake Not dated (circa 1890s). xii, 387 pages. Original red cloth with gilt titling on the spine; gilt and black decorations on the spine and upper board. All edges gilt. First few and last few pages foxed.. New Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

London: Alston Rivers, 1927. 285 pages. One b/w map. Original papered boards, decorated and ruled. No dustwrapper. Edges slightly spotted. Rare. *A novel set in China.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.