Search Results: Titles starting with S from JimsOldBooks

New York: Harper and Row, 1966. Ex US college library (Christian Brothers College, Memphis) copy with no dustwrapper. Slight fading to red cloth spine and some bumping to the ends of same but black titles thereon are still clear. A barcode label on front board, paper label on title page, card pocket inside back cover, ink stamps on top and bottom page edges, but otherwise a good tight copy. The third in the author's "Alms for Oblivion" series of novels. 239pp. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1939. Ex W H Smiths library copy with paper label inside front board, also an RAF ink stamp for 956 (or possibly 958) Squadron dated 1943 on f/ep. This was a Barrage Balloon squadron based at Colnbrook (956) or Swansea (958). Shelf wear and bumping to spine ends, edges and corners of green cloth-covered boards, and some water-staining to outer edges of same. Otherwise a good, internally clean and tight copy of this hard-cover book containing twelve stories of animals by the author of the ''Whiteoaks of Jalna'' series. The stories are ''The Sacred Bullock'', ''Electric Storm'' (cats), ''Tiny Tim'' (dogs), ''Justice for an Aristocrat'' (horses), ''April Day'' (dogs), ''The She Gull'', ''The Pony That Would Not Be Ridden'', ''The Ninth Life'' (cats), ''Bob'' (dogs), ''Cats Cruise'', ''Peter… Read More

Ely, Cambridgeshire: Melrose Books, 2009. A very good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper, of this hard-cover book. The author, a Scots philosopher and mystic, claims that humanity is on the crossroads of an Epochal Threshold, and is awaiting the return of the Great Shepherd, or Sacred Ibis, also known as the Ancient Egyptian god Thoth. 306pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bowral, NSW: Sally Milner Publishing, 2001. A tiny bit of scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this slim soft-cover book. Deals with the use of sadi thread, which is a sort of metal thread used in embroidery; and shisha, which is small pieces of mirror-glass also used in embroidery, particularly in India. Also includes nineteen patterns by the author. 95pp, colour illustration throughout.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Daily Express Fiction Library, 1930. Some creasing and small tears to the edges of dustwrapper, also some fading to spine of same, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red boards, yellowing to the pages, but otherwise not too bad. Part of the publisher's "Daily Express Fiction Library" series, no publication date given, but probably 1930s. A collection of eight of the author's short stories set in the South Seas, namely: ''Sadie Thompson'' (usually entitled ''Rain''), ''The Pacific'', ''Macintosh'', ''The Fall of Edward Barnard'', ''Red'', ''The Pool'', ''Honolulu'' and ''Envoi''. 252pp.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: Country Life Ltd, 1967. Tears to top edge of unclipped dustwrapper, with the top corners missing at front and back panels. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of light blue boards, a previous owner's name on f/ep, but otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book. Memoirs by the author on his many years in the Royal Navy before WW2, and on horsey topics, as he was Hunting Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph from the late 1930s onwards. 128pp, 25 b&w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1928. Unclipped dustwrapper has torn all the way up the spine, so is in two parts, a lot of tears and creasing to the edges, slight bumping to the spine ends and corners of green cloth-covered boards, original owner's gift message dated 1929 on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 1924, this is the fifteenth impression from 1928. 114pp.. Hard Cover. Good/Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Pulborough, West Sussex: Historic Military Press, 2003. Slight rusting to staples, otherwise a very good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the covers, of this slim soft-cover book, part of the publisher's "Wrecks and Relics" series. This one deals with the U-Boat U-309, which was sunk in the Moray Firth in February 1945 by the Canadian ship HMCS Saint John. 32pp, b&w illustration throughout.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977. Minor creasing to the edges of the unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy. A later novel by the author, the story, set between the 1890s and the 1950s, deals with a woman whose family were all soldiers trying to push her sons, and later her grandsons, into the military life. 284pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Seeley Service & Co Ltd, 1972. Revised edition from 1972. MInor wear at the spine ends of price-clipped dustwrapper, original owner's name on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. 277pp, colour frontispiece, 44 b&w photographic illustrations, 108 b&w diagrams.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1962. Some creasing and a couple of small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, also an old price-sticker (5/-) on front panel of same, minor bumping to spine ends of blue boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book. Part of the publisher's "How to Catch Them" series, this one deals with Salmon. Originally published in 1956, this is a third impression from 1962. 94pp, some small b&w diagrams.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Umea, Sweden: Umeå Universitetsbibliotek, 1978. Minor creasing to the edges of the dustwrapper, otherwise a very good clean tight copy of this soft-cover Swedish language book. Deals with Rudolf Varnlund's 1932 play ''The Holy Family'' (''Den heliga familjen''). 188pp.. Soft Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, 1993. Very slight creasing to the corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book, a novel based around the life of the Old Testament hero Samson. 351pp.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Truro: Cornwall Archaeology Unit, 1994. A veritical fold to outside edge of the front cover, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this spiral-bound soft-cover book. Looks at the remains of the houses and farm buildings dating from between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries on the now uninhabited island of Samson in the Scilly islands. 84pp, 51 b&w illustrations, 14pp diagrams of the buildings.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Horace Marshall & Son, 1900. No dustwrapper, some shelf wear to spine ends and corners of green cloth-covered boards, spine is a bit discoloured (original owner was a pipe-smoker) but gilt titles thereon are still clear, as is the publisher's gilt monogram on front board. Some water-damage to the back cover and to the last few pages, some yellowing to the pages and still a smell of tobacco, otherwise a not-too-bad, tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the life and work of the eighteenth century writer Samuel Richardson, author of the novels ''Clarissa'', ''Pamela'' and ''Sir Charles Grandison''. 308pp, 5 b&w plates (2 folding).. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1926. No dustwrapper, some wear to spine ends, corners and bottom edge of blue cloth-covered boards, slight fading to spine but black titles thereon and those on front board are all still clear. A previous owner's name on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book, the second in the author's ''Saracinesca'' series of novels set in Rome in the 1860s. Originally published in 1889 this edition was published in 1926. 443pp plus 4pp adverts.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: The Bodley Head, 1980. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends of red boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The author's travels from leaving his native Yugoslavia in 1977, overland to Afghanistan, Pakistan, sailing to Thailand with an American who had refloated a sunken yacht, then to Mauritius and finally to India where he spent time in an Ashram. 224pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1930. No dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red cloth-covered boards, a previous owner's name in pencil on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover novel. Originally published in 1887 this is the 1930 Popular Edition. Red cloth boards with black titles. The first in the author's ''Saracinesca'' series of novels, this one is set in Rome in the 1860s. 432pp.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Kingston, Ontario: Artful Codger Press, 2003. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. A historical novel set in Ruperts Land, Canada in the mid nineteenth century and based around the real-life story of Sarah Ballenden, the Meti (mixed-race) wife of John Ballenden, Chief Factor of the Hudson Bay Company. 239pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hutchinson, 1958. Includes original box. Minor scuffing to corners of box lid, a tear to the back panel of unclipped dustwrapper, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Number eighteen in the "Saturday Book" series, contains twenty-five pieces by various authors. 304pp including over 100pp with b&w and colour illustrations.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.