Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Date Published: 1946
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Spine frayed and cominfg away at one side. Blue cloth cover bumped. and faded. Spine a little loose. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Date Published: 1947
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Award winning novel set between 1454 and 1458 in Yorkshire and the Marches of Mid Wales. A historical novel about ordinary people. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Date Published: 1946
Description: Good in Good jacket. ''When I hear this or that writer acclaimed as the best living English novelist, '' I feel inclined to put in a word for Oliver Onions... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HODDER STOUGHTON
Date Published: 1966
Description: Published by HODDER STOUGHTON in 1966, 303 pages, hardback with D/J, medium size, D/W with minor edge wear, wear to edges, slight foxing, corners bumped, a good reading copy. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Description: Small 8vo. brown cl. gt., pp. 304. Illustrated d/w not price-clipped, 2 tiny nicks upper fr. joint and a little creasing on spine, flaps lightly foxed. Near fine in a very good d/w. Michael Joseph, London, 1973. "All books are hardback unless stated otherwise. We are professional bookdealers with a very well-established high-street business. We are very careful with our descriptions so that our customers can avoid disappointments. When present, dustwrappers are always described and carefully ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London. Michael Joseph. 1947.
Description: Second impression. Blue cloth binding with bright silver lettering to spine. 190mmx130mm. Dustwrapper. 304pp (including glossary of words used that are no longer in daily use). The novel is a reconstruction of a 15th Century romance and was described John Betjeman as the work of "an inspired writer...a poet of prose. " No inscriptions. Condition Very Good in an attractive and Very Good dustwrapper (minimal wear at the spine ends), preserved in a protective sleeve. read more
Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Michael Joseph, London
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780718111465ISBN:071811146X
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Third printing/impression [1973] of a novel first published in 1946, winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Notable historical novel focusing not on the monarchs or aristocrats of the era but on the "humbler and more ordinary men and women: a young goldsmith, a mercer's daughter, a clan of miners with their travelling forge, a priest or two of sorts, a castle's househond and retinue of men-at-arms" [from the dust jacket copy]. Bound in original ... read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Publisher: Michael Joseph, London
Date Published: 1946
Description: VG/G. Shelf wear and edge chipping to worn dust jacket with areas of loss especially at corners, a touch of foxing to outer pages and page edges, overall very good condition. pp. 302. Includes glossary “ A few words no longer in use” . read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Michael Joseph Ltd.,
Date Published: [1946]
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Historical novel set between 1454 and 1458 at the beginning of the Wars of the Roses. A bright, very good copy in good dust jacket with chip from upper spine end, several tears, and some damp wrinkling. (#105308) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London. Michael Joseph Ltd. 1947.
Description: Dust Jacket Included. 19cm, second impression, 304p., glossary, blue cloth, slight foxing, very good in very good illus. jacket (s1) A novel of the War of the Roses, between 1454 and 1458. This book was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the best novel published in 1946. read more
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