Mail Coach by Selby-Lowndes Joan - 1947

London: Collins. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1946. Second Printing. Hardcover. H/b in d/w; vg-/g; 8vo; 191pp; bright yellow cover, red lettering to spine; top of spine grubby; no handwriting such as names inside; d/w - not price clipped; loss to top of spine; chipping/creasing to edges; author's 1st book; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Collins, 1945. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1945. No edition remarks. 191 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over yellow cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout by author. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned, particularly spine. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces. Spine noticeably tanned.

London: Collins, 1945. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardback. Near Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¼ - 9¼" tall. First edition, first printing. Octavo hardback, yellow cloth. 191 pp. Black & white illustrations by author. Very light foxing on cloth, near Very Good condition in near Very Good, unclipped dust jacket (edges slightly rubbed, light chipping to top and bottom edges). No inscriptions.

Collins, 1945. 1st edn. 8vo. Original red lettered yellow cloth (boards lightly soiled, top edge dust stained, upper board slightly raised), dustwrapper (chipped at head and tail of spine, a few small tears - in protective cover, noty price clipped). Pp. 191, illus with b&w drawings by author in text (no inscriptions).

London: Collins, 1947. Repr . Cloth. Very Good/Good. dj (price clipped) chipped at spine tips, piece missing from lower spine, a few short tears, vertical crease on front flap, yellow cloth with red spine lettering, illustrated by the author, front flyleaf removed, lower page edges uncut, light edge foxing, else vg. 8vo, 191pp.

London: Collins, 1947. Thrid Impression. Yellow Cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Large. Selby-Lowndes, Joan . 190pp. A third impression copy coming with an ALS. (1947) This letter from the author is writen to someone called 'Paul' and thanks him for his letter and that she was sending him this book. The letter has been illustrated by Joan Selby-Lowndes with a drawing of the house she was living in and a couple of other illustrations - all in pen, ink and watercolour. The book is bound in clean yellow cloth and there are light bumps to the head of the spine and to two board corners, with two other board corners being slightly turned in. Illustrated with several line drawings by the author throughout. There is a gift inscription from the author to the receipient Paul to the head of the front end paper. The textblock is clean and tight. Dust wrapper is price clipped. There are several short tears to the head of the wrapper and a few slight niks… Read More