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The Coloured Lands: Available Copies

The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. 1st US edition. Slightly dampstained. Gifter's inscription on front endpage. (literature, short stories, anthology, poetry)

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-Libris with usual library matter and stamps to upper, lower and outer edges of text. Slight browning and wear on all edges of text. Cover worn on facing, corners, along spine and ends of spine. Else good. 238 pp.

Ex-lib. w e-p, edge & sp. marks. Fair HB; spine ends frayed; cover soiled; text G, unmarked. [Illus. in color & B/W] 238 pp.

Green cloth with red spine titling; cloth soiled and edgeworn, with foxing to rear panel. Spine square. Binding sound. Cover art of the jacket has been pasted in at inside front cover, and inner flap with the book description has been pasted in at inside back cover. No other part of the jacket remains. Top of textblock foxed; interior hinges browned; interior lightly toned. Pages else clean, text unmarked.

238 pp. Illustrated by the author. Large 8vo, publisher's green cloth in dust jacket. First American edition. A fine copy (ink gift inscription on front free endpaper) in a very near fine jacket with a few internal tissue repairs to short tears. Extremely attractive.

1/4 orange buckram 3/4 patterned paper238pp numerous ills many full page colour plates small inobtrusive school stamp on end paperhence cheaper price

Some of the contents are lent from private collections for publication here. They include works from age 16, poems, stories, and drawings in color and black-and-white. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (cover soil but spine letters bright; endsheets foxed; corner bump; owner gift note; no jacket). -- Pages and artwork are bright. Chesterton's varied early work.

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

First Edition. 1st edition. dj in mylar sleeve, shows minor wear. pages tanned and clean.

A new edition in new format with added material. including an afterword by Martin Gardner. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

Includes intact dust jacket. Previous owner's book plate is pasted in. Pages are unmarked. Binding is tight. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed

Large 8vo, pp. 238. Illustrated by the author in color and black and white. Introduction by Maisie Ward. Satirical hort pieces, poems, cartoons. Corners and ends of spine little worn, o/w a VG tight copy.

Very good condition. A few small stains on covers with a light crease on front cover near spine. Spine tips are lightly bumped. Fly leaves are lightly browned. A few spots on page fore edge. 238 pages. Illustrated by the author.

Illustrated with drawings and color plates, 238 pages. Clean unmarked copy, nice. Dust jacket in a new protective mylar sleeve.

Illustrated by the author. First edition. Light spotting to boards, else very good in a very good dust jacket. ; 238 pages

238 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.59 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

London: Sheed & Ward, 1938. First edition. Hardcover, yellow spine with patterned boards. Volume in very good- condition with wear along the bottom rails and light soiling to the top of the back board. Slight lean to spine. Pages age-toned but nice and clean, binding still surprisingly tight. Dust jacket in very good condition with some wear at the corners, else fine and protected in plastic sleeve. Black and white illustrations also by Chesterton throughout. Overall a nice copy.

New book - AS

1st 1938 HB Sheed; no dust jacket; previous owner inscription on ffep

First American edition. Illustrations in both color and black-and-white by G.K. Chesterton. Small quarto. 238pp. Owner name on front fly, faint stains on foredge, slight spotting on boards and topedge, very good in a good only dust jacket splitting along the front spine fold with a long closed tear along the front panel, and a toned spine with a chip at the crown.

238 Pages. The boards are worn and damp marked.Previous ownership stamp.Tanning. Tightly bound.Due to weight postal adjustments may be required.22-01-2025. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Very good in custom Mylar jacket (chipped on back). Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

1st edition thus stiff wrappers New book tall octavo 237pp., col. & b/w illusts., Original fairy tales & satirical ballads. With GKC's own illustrations. Afterword by Martin Gardner. Originally published in 1938

238 pp, 4to HB. Very good copy with a gift inscription inside. Lacks a dust jacket.