Search Results: the secret of the silver bottle by caleb hawker

London, Blackie, nd;. Hardback. Very good/ Dj Very good. 223pp with frontis. by Ernest Prater. Red covers with black title on front & spine. Dust jacket has loss ( 2" & 1") at spine extremities. .

Blackie & Son Limited. Hardcover. Good. Betty Ladler. Undated (circa 1950's). Good-Very Good Hardcover in a Good-Very Good Dustjacket. Blue patterned boards. Light edge wear, corners bumped, missing the front free endpaper, pages yellowed. Solid binding. DJ with edge and corner wear, small closed tears, rubbing and soiling to rear panel. B&W glossy frontispiece by Betty Ladler

London, Blackie, nd( Prize label dated 1957/8);. Tower Library; HBk; Good+/ Dj Very Good; 223pp with Frontis. by Betty Ladler; Lacks ffep; Blue decorated covers; Dust wrapper has closed tear, price clipped. .

Blackie and Son, 1111. Hardcover. Good/Good. No Edition Remarks. 223 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Prize plate to reverse of frontispiece dating 1961-2. 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. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

London and Glasgow: Blackie. 223 pages, frontispiece by Betty Laidler, tanning to page edges, spine dulled. . Good. Hardcover. Reprint.

England: Blackie Book. Illus. by Ernest Prater. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Foxing to the top of the compressed page edges, small ink price to front endpaper which has a bookplate dated 1954. Jacket looks exceptional for 50 years old with minute tears to the base of the spine and a faint damp stain to the back panel. Jacket is price clipped. A very pleasing copy..

No date. ( British Library catalogue states 1945.) Presumed 1st U.K. edition. Good for age and economy standards in somewhat bumped and marked boards. No dustjacket.

London; Blackie. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. Hardcover. H/b; d/w; vg/g+; 8vo; 223pp; edges yellow; d/w has several tears; Tower Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Blackie & Sons, 1111. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. The jacket is a bit shelf rubbed and edgeworn.Library markings.One award plate.Well bound.EK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Blackie & Son Limited. Hardcover. Good/Good. No date mentioned. There is a prize giving plate presented to a primary school student. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, small creases and edge worn. A small piece of the spine panel is missing. Now protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Blackie (The Meteor Library). No Date (1950s) . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Ernest Prater. b/w frontispiece by ERNEST PRATER. Hardback: dj (price unclipped), slightly rubbed on edges, spine slightly faded, some foxing on reverse of jacket and internally, heavier foxing on foredges, inscription on front flyleaf, still vg. 8vo, 223pp.

London, Blackie & Son, ND, c.1930.. Octavo, 224pp, original cloth boards in dustwrapper (3cm loss at foot of spine and some nearby wear, otherwise intact), a very good copy.

1st (?) undated. Blackie & Son - London.. A juvenile mystery story. VG+ in P-G dustwrapper. .

London: Blackie & Co. Possible 1st edition. Black & white frontis by Ernest Prater. Dustwrapper price clipped . Very Good. Hardcover. Undated.

Blackie and Son. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Hardcover.\r\nBook in Very Good condition, with light wear to covers.\r\nBook clean throughout. Illustrated throughout.\r\nDust jacket has light wear to corners, see picture.

The Secret of the Silver Bottle by Caleb Hawker (Blackie & Son Limited, reprint [1945]*), illustrated by Ernest Prater. A children's mystery/detective story originally published in 1936*, this copy being the later post-war printing from 1945. Three plates by Ernest Prater (a later printing had just the frontispiece). Another edition in 1957 was illustrated by Betty Ladler. Hardback in dustwrapper. 223pp plus b/w plates. Size: 7.5 x 5.25 inches approx. (192mm x 132mm). Light wear and rubbing to dustwrapper; sunned/faded to spine; dusty; pencilled note to front flap. Boards and spine clean and bright, a little rubbed to extremities. Edges of page-block dusty with some spotting but generally pages clean through out. Overall, light wear but otherwise a particularly nice, clean copy - attractive. *ref. British Library. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available; please… Read More