Hilaire Belloc: Selected Essays by Hilaire Belloc - 1958

Penguin Books, 1958. Paperback. Acceptable. 1958. First Penguin Edition. 240 pages. Striped paper cover. Pages are moderately tanned with notable foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Minor dog-eared corners, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Slight tearing and crinkling to lower edges. Cover has heavy shelf-wear to edges and surfaces, with curling to corners. Notable crushing to spine ends, with visible reading creases, water drops and splits down spine. Book has a pronounced forward lean. Small tear to rear cover. Moderately tanned and foxed.

Penguin, 1958. Paperback. Acceptable. 1958. No Edition Noted. 181 pages. White and orange paper cover with black and white illustrations throughout. Heavy tanning to pages with moderate foxing and dog-eared pages throughout. Major tanning to text block edges and pencil inscriptions to half title page. Covers have heavy sunning and ink marks with noticeable corner bending and fair sunning to spine. Splitting to joints.

J. B. Lippincott (Philadelphia and New York), 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Books, 1958. Paperback. Good. 1958. First Edition Thus. 239 pages. Orange striped penguin cover. 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. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning.

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951. Hardcover. Good. 1951. No Edition Stated. 283 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Selected by W N Roughead. Upper text block edge orange. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Spine is slightly sunned. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Gilt is bright.

Penguin, 1958. Paperback. Good. 1958. First Thus. 240 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. 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. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Penguin, 1958. Paperback. Good. 1958. 239 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. 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. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Mercury Books, 1962. Paperback. Good. 1962. First in Mercury. 283 pages. Illustrated paperback. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Some foxing to front. Covers have heavy tanning with moderate creasing, tears and reading lines. Book has forward lean.

Penguin Books, 1958. Paperback. Good. 1958. First Edition Thus. 240 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. 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. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, n.d. [circa 1926].. n.d. [circa 1926].. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream wraps. The wraps are soiled & darkened with the tail of the spine chipped. There is an owner's ink name on the front wrap. There is a small piece out of the top corner of the rear wrap & 2 tiny chips out of its front edge. iv & pages 5-30. There is soiling to the front margin of 1 page & light staining to another. Good only. <p>First American edition.<p>A title in the series "The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry".