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The Journey: Available Copies
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The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders by Dunsany, Lord
Seller: HPB-Ruby (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $3.24
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $6.99
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Seller: HPB Inc. (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $3.24
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $6.99
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Seller: HPB-Ruby (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $3.25
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $7.00
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Seller: HPB-Movies (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $3.25
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $7.00
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The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders by Lord Dunsany
Hardcover
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Publisher: Jarrolds (1950)
Seller: World of Rare Books (Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $13.86
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $19.86
1950. First Edition. 208 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are mildly tanned with light foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper and title page. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Sticker to spine. Book has forward lean.
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Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop (Colchester, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $15.39
Shipping: $12.14
TOTAL Cost: $27.53
Macdonald & Co. (Publishers), 1944, 3rd impression. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 95pp. Owner name/date, d/j a little chipped and torn. A fair copy. -1
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A Journey by Dunsany, Lord
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Macdonald, London (1944)
Seller: Dreadnought Books (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $12.83
Shipping: $19.93
TOTAL Cost: $32.76
Size: 8vo <9 3/4". 95 pp. Internally clean. Binding firm. Edges foxed and browned. Covers marked. Corners slightly bumped. Boards bowed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Poetry; Military & Warfare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 43591.
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A Journey by Dunsany, Lord
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Macdonald, London, 1944, third impression, (1944)
Seller: BRIMSTONES (Lewes, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $25.65
Shipping: $28.02
TOTAL Cost: $53.67
hardback, 8vo, 95pp, pages browning and edges foxed, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth, sliver-gilt titles, Very Good condition in browned and frayed dustwrapper
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The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders by Lord Dunsany
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Jarrolds, London (1950)
Seller: The Book Bin (Salem, OR, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $75.00
Shipping: $5.50
TOTAL Cost: $80.50
No jacket. Black cloth with gilt spine titles, rubbed, bumped to extremities, with wrinkling over top margin of front panel near fore-edge corner. Spine slightly toned, gilt dulled and nearly illegible. Binding sound. Pages lightly tanned, browned to endpapers, and sparsely foxed to first and last few pages. Prior owner's name penned to top of FFEP. Interior else clean, text unmarked.
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A Journey by DUNSANY, Lord
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: MacDonald & Co. Ltd, London (1944)
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $100.00
Shipping: $5.50
TOTAL Cost: $105.50
First edition, variant deluxe issue, not numbered or signed. Printed on 'unbleached Arnold' watermarked paper. Pebbled black morocco stamped in gilt, topedge gilt, silk bookmark. Lightly toned page edges, corners lightly bumped, near fine. Prints poems of World War Two (Cantos I - V): The Battle of Britain/ The Battle of Greece/ The Battle of the Mediterranean/ Battles long ago/ The Battle of the Atlantic.
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The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders by Lord Dunsany ( Edward Plunkett )
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Jarrold Publishers Ltd., London (1950)
Seller: Jacques Gander (Fairford, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $97.48
Shipping: $11.21
TOTAL Cost: $108.69
Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, in green and yellow banded dustwrapper dustwrapper. 208 pages, 5 X 7.5 inches, Very good with th espine cocked, in a good dustwrapper with chipping at the corners and spine ends, edge tear san creasing, 3 cms missing from foot of the spine, and price clipped.
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THE STRANGE JOURNEYS OF COLONEL POLDERS. by DUNSANY, Lord.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Jarrolds. [1950]., London (1950)
Seller: Thompson Rare Books - ABAC / ILAB (Hornby Island, BC, Canada)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $85.00
Shipping: $25.00
TOTAL Cost: $110.00
First edition. Octavo. Green cloth covered boards with black title to spine, in dust jacket. 208 pages. Publisher's device on title page. Boards lightly warped, upper corners a bit bumped, endpapers slightly darkened, in a dustjacket that is a bit dust-soiled and has small closed tears and tiny chips at the edges. Very good in dust jacket. Joshi & Schweitzer 1A.63.b.
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The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders by DUNSANY, Lord
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Jarrolds Publishers [1950], London (1950)
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA (Winchester, VA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $137.50
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $143.50
Small octavo (19cm.); original cloth in decorative dust jacket; 208pp. General shelf wear to jacket extremities, most heavily at spine ends, spine a hint toned, rear panel a bit creased from two very short closed tears, endpapers toned, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Fantastical novel in which a Hindu, having suffered insult, casts a spell on Colonel Polders which compels him to inhabit the bodies of various animals. JOSHI & SCHWEITZER I.A.86.a.
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The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders by DUNSANY, Lord
Paperback
ISBN:
Publisher: Jarrolds Publishers, London (1950)
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $150.00
Shipping: $5.50
TOTAL Cost: $155.50
First edition. Octavo. A bit cocked with offsetting to the endpapers and ownername of Frank Borden, very good in good dustwrapper moderately rubbed with chips at the spine ends and tears at the extremities. Laid in is a letter from that references Bordern as a "friend of Lord Dunsany's and a student of his work."
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The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders by Dunsany, Lord (Also known as Edward Plunkett)
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Jarrolds Publishers, London ()
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (Winnipeg, MB, Canada)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $157.50
Shipping: $16.50
TOTAL Cost: $174.00
[1950], 1st printing. (Hardcover) Near fine in very good dust jacket. 208pp. Second state with green boards and black lettering. The front board is slightly splayed, there is minor offsetting on the endpapers and next inner page, the dust jacket is quite bright, is price-clipped (with new 6 / - price added near the clip), and has minor tears and edgewear. Also known as Edward Plunkett. (Fiction)
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