Borrobil by Dickinson, William Croft - 1964

Penguin Books, 1964. Paperback. Acceptable. 1964. First Thus. 174 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 Books, 1964. Paperback. Good. 1964. First Edition Thus. 174 pages. Paperback book with illustrated cover. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to reverse of front cover. Binding remains firm. Paper covers have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light curling to corners. Some tanning to spine and edges. Minor marks to covers.

Puffin Books, 1976. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Books, 1964. Paperback. Acceptable. 1964. No Edition Remarks. 174 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Contains black and white illustrations. Heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Occasional thumbing throughout and inscriptions to half title page. Foxing to reverse side is covered. Paper cover has moderate edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Small tears and chipping, with heavy tanning and marking overall. Book is slightly curled.

Penguin in association with Jonathan Cape, 1964. Paperback. Acceptable. 1964. No Edition Stated. 174 pages. Paperback book. Moderate brown staining to pages on occasion. Heavy tanning to endpapers and page edges. Pen mark inside rear cover. Mild wear to spine, cover edges and corners, with staining and soiling to covers. Notable tanning to spine.

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Puffin, 1976-07-30. Paperback. Good.

London: Jonathan Cape: 1944. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with titles in black to the spine and a motif in black to the upper board, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and black and white in-text drawings throughout by John Morton-Sale. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities of the cloth a touch rubbed, the top corners with very minor bumping. The contents, with a contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. Complete with the good only original illustrated dustwrapper which has loss to the spine tips, tears and chips with associated creasing to the edges, the front flap presumable has been repaired with multiple pieces of tape at the fold. Not price clipped (7s. 6d. to the front flap). Uncommon in the dustwrapper. William Croft Dickinson was a leading scholar of Scottish history who also wrote children's fantasy novels and ghost stories.… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1944. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". John Morton Sale. A smart first edition of this charming fantasy tale set in a magical Scotland, the author's presentation copy. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto of the front endpaper, 'To E. S. de Beer, with all friendly greetings, W. Croft Dickinson, Dec 1944.Esmond de Beer was a scholar, editor, and bibliophile from New Zealand. He worked as an editor for the Clarendon Press.An entertaining fantasy tale for children, in which two young children find themselves transported to an early Scotland where magic is rife. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and in-text illustrations throughout, by John Morton Sale.Written by the leading scholar on early modern Scotland, William Croft Dickinson. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Author's inscription to the recto of… Read More