Search Results: one good turn by valentine

Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1931. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1931. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Water staining to edge of rear pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Ward Lock, 1931. No dustwrapper, red cloth with title etc in black. Some wear and tear to cover, pages darkening, binding sound.. Hardback. Fair.

London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1931. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. In which Valentine (aka Archibald Pechey) channels PG Wodehouse, and comes up with a decent imitation of the Master, if, of course, not quite the real thing. Stock toned and a little spotting to edge of block and endpapers but otherwise all in VG order. Smart red boards showing light shelfwear only. VG unclipped d/j, lightly worn to edges and a little dulled. 12mo. 256pp

London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited 1928. 8vo. First edition. 256 pp. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust wrapper. Dj chipped & torn at edges. Cloth clean. Internally clean. The author Archibald Thomas Pechey was the father of celebrity television chef Fanny Cradock. Early work. Scarce. Copac records just three copies : BL; NLS; Dublin. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1928.