The Human Boy by Eden Phillpotts - 2009-06-04

Methuen & Co, 1899. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1899. 272 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed binding thread. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Light cracking to hinges, causing boards to be loose. Moderate tanning and foxing to pastedowns and endpapers, with pencil inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean, with heavy tanning overall. Boards are slightly bowed.

Harper & Brothers, 1900. Hardcover. VG- to G+/na. Rubbing & edgewear; discoloration & some small stains to cover; few scratches; yellowing; inside otherwise overall clean & sound. 242 pages

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Methuen & Co., 1925. Book. Good. Hardcover. Twelfth Edition. Original glazed blue cloth, lettered in black. Lightly scuffed on spine ends, otherwise a clean, tight copy: good. Stories of school life, the last of which (The Buckeneers) is written in misspelt schoolboy English: thus pre-empting Nigel Molesworth in Down with Skool! by half a century..

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1899. Hardcover. Very good. Early edition, from the same year as the first printing. 8vo, in half leather and marbled boards, very good, light wear, some mellowing to spine color. Collection of stories set in a boys' boarding school.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Harper & Brothers. Used - Very Good. 1900. Harper & Brothers. Cloth, 12mo, 242 pp. Slightly cocked. A few stains, mostly at rear, and general wear to boards. Previous owner's stamp on ffep. Pages clean, binding solid. Very Good. (Subject: Literature.)