Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans, First Edition (26 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine condition. Spine tight, pages clean. Crease at top of cover and tiny ding in middle of spine (really tiny, like maybe a pencil point).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Searle, Ronald (illustrator). 1st Edition. Third printing as Paperback x + 410 pp illustrated. Cover has light crease but still Very Good condition No inscriptions.

Condition: Good. 2007. First edition thus. 397 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Searle. Slipcase is missing. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning, particularly to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. No additional printings are indicated, which is one way Vanguard identified first editions. The book has clean text. Used bookstore stamp on the front pastedown. Some minor shelf wear along the bottom of the boards. Two corners are slightly bumped. The dust jacket is unclipped ($2.75). It has mylar protection added by a previous owner. This mylar has black strips along the top and bottom that caused some sticky residue along the bottom of the front/back boards. Otherwise the DJ has no chips. The back inside flap has some creasing and a 1/4" closed tear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Black boards with silver stamping; salmon red pictorial DJ; 104 pages; illustrations; 21 x 15 cm. From the title page: "A guide to survival in the 20th Century for felow pupils, their doting maters, pompous paters and any others who are interested". An offbeat combination of inventive and off-the-wall prose, dialogues, mock signage and some wild illustrations by Searle and a unique "futuristic" language from Willans. A historical document of technological anxieties transmuted through humor and cartoons. A well-traveled copy in very good (-) condition with bumping to corners and slightly soiled boards; DJ in good (+) condition with some sunning, light chipping and manageable tears, in archival mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: About Fine. First American Edition. About Fine in black smooth paper covered boards, in red, white and black dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 104pp. Humor. Q06229.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ronald Searle (illustrator). 1st Edition. Near fine. First US edition. Publisher's black cloth with silver cartoon stamped to front cover and red and silver text to spine. Binding square and tight. Pages unmarked. Jacket not price clipped. Minor wear to top of spine. Nigel Molesworth's guide to life in the 21sy Century, with typically wonderful illustrations by Searle.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Folio Society edition, third printing, 2014 (first printing of this edition was 2007). No jacket as issued. With original slipcase. Introduced by Wendy Cope. Illustrated. Pictorial black slipcase is near fine with a few small marks (mainly to one side) and the odd minor scratch/minor bump. Boards are fine with no faults. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. No internal faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, illustrated lining papers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 106 pp with splendid monochrome illustrations throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with light rubbing to the tips and corners, not price clipped, 8/6. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. HUMOUR (Satire, Cartoon).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Black and white illustrated. Moderate edgewear, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a toned spine, and slight rippling on the rear panel. "A guide to survival in the 20th century for felow pupils, their doting maters, pompous paters and any others who are interested.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Small decorative stamp on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (light damp stains on flaps) dust jacket. B000GKSYGG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First American Edition. A Fine copy in black paper covered board, stamped in silver and red, in a Fine salmon red dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 104pp. The illustrations are by Searle. British humor. Q14336.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Offsetting on the endpapers, light foxing on the page edges, and slight edgewear else about near fine in a near fine dust jacket with faint toning on the spine and tiny tears. "A guide to survival in the 20th century for felow pupils, their doting maters, pompous paters and any others who are interested.".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 1984 Pavilion Hardback 1st edition 3rd impression near fine clean tight binding in very good+ dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated in black and white. Rubbing along bottom edge of boards, near fine in a very good dust jacket with sunning and stains on the spine. Publisher's slip laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Black and white illustrated. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a shallow chip on the front panel. "A guide to survival in the 20th century for felow pupils, their doting maters, pompous paters and any others who are interested.".

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Searle, Ronald (illustrator). First Printing. 2007 First Printing. Fine Hardback. No inscriptions or bookplates. Near Fine slipcase. Slight marks to panels of slipcase. In brown paper covered boards with black illustrations. 397 pages. UK Postage £3.40; Airmail to most of the Rest of the World £30.00. If ordering from overseas, please check any additional tax and import duties payable in your country, which will be additional to the costs given here.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Poor dust jacket. Dampstained. Owner's name on front endpage. Corner of blank page at front clipped. In protective mylar cover. (Education, Humor).

Pictorial Boards. Condition: As New. Ronald Searle (illustrator). Second Printing. (398pp). Decorative endpapers, numerous drawings. As new in fine slipcase Size: Thick Octavo. Hardcover.

Pictorial Boards. Condition: As New. Ronald Searle (illustrator). Second Printing. (398pp). Decorative endpapers, numerous drawings. As new in fine slipcase Size: Thick Octavo. Hardcover.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Ronald Searle (illustrator). 1st Edition. 377, [1] pages. Light drip-stains to top edge; else unmarked, in sound binding. 8.25 x 5.75 inches.

1st edition hardback in original cloth Very nice copy octavo 377pp., illusts., No dust jacket but a nice copy in black boards. Very scarce, especially in this condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Searle, Ronald (illustrator). 1st Edition. Good To Very Good, Second Impression Max Parrish 1958, Hardcover In Acceptable Jacket. Lower Corner Clipped But Shows Original Price Of 10/6. There Appears To Be A Small Blue Ink Scribble Across Nigel's Face On The Front Panel (Although Given That These Are Searle's Illustrations, It Is Not Impossible That This Was Intentional). Clean Black Boards With Coppery Spine Lettering, Binding And Corners Intact, No Writing Or Marks. Slight Cant As Well As Two Round Impressions To Front Board, As If Stored Under Something With Feet (And The Waverley Novels). Small Mark To Back Panel. General Wear.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Searle, Ronald (illustrator). First U.K. Edition. 378 pages in very good condition. With 272 drawings by Searle. Illustrated endpapers. Black hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. One top corner lightly bumped. Illustrated blue DJ with white/red titles. Spine is faded, tears and chips at head, stains at the tail. Small tears and chips on the corners and edges. Stains on the lower jacket. Upper jacket is in very good condition. VG+/GOOD. Book.

FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY IN A GLASSINE PROTECTED DUSTWRAP. VERY SCARCE. 272 DRAWINGS BY RONALD SEARLE. VERY SLIGHT LOSS TO TOP OF SPINE OF THE DUSTWRAP.