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Percival Christopher Wren. Beau Geste. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$3.59 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1927. Cheaper Edition. 410 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Black and white marks to boards. Textblock is shaky.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Wren Percival Christopher. Beau Geste. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$4.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Percival Christopher Wren. Beau Geste. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$4.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1927. Reprint. 410 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Front free endpaper is removed. Scuffing to title page. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to hinges and gutters, leaving netting exposed. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Dents to edges. Textblock is shaky.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Percival Christopher Wren. Beau Geste. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$4.87 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1927. Reprinted. 410 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Front hinge is cracked with exposed netting. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Text is clear. Binding is slightly shaky , however pages remain attached. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Book has a slight forward lean. Severe crushing to spine ends.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Percival Christopher Wren. Beau Geste. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$5.12 + shipping
Condition: Fair
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Seller: Yare Books, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Wren, Percival Christofer. Beau Geste.. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$6.42 + shipping
Description: Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Percival Christofer Wren. Beau Geste. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$6.57 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: . . . EAN: 9788432090806 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Título: Beau GesteAutor: Percival Christofer Wren Editorial: Planeta (1 enero 1988) Idioma: ES Páginas: 352 Formato: Libro de bolsillo Año de publicación: 1988
Seller: Hamelyn, Madrid, Spain
Percival Christofer Wren. Beau Geste. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$6.57 + shipping
Description: . . . EAN: 9788432090806 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Título: Beau GesteAutor: Percival Christofer Wren Editorial: Planeta (1 enero 1988) Idioma: ES Páginas: 352 Formato: Libro de bolsillo Año de publicación: 1988
Seller: Hamelyn, Madrid, Spain
Wren, Percival Christopher.. BEAU GESTE.. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$8.01 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: John Murray. 1927. Hard Cover. Book: Good, black titles on spine, blind impressed titles on front board, brown boards, spine lightened. 7.5x5. 410pp.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Percival Christopher Wren. Beau Geste. John Murray, London, 1927.
Price: US$10.25 + shipping
Description: .please e-mail for further details. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: J J Basset Books, bassettbooks, bookfarm.co.uk, Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
Percival Christopher Wren. Beau Geste. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$10.57 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1927. John Murray. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Red boards. Red titles - gilt titles on spine. Spine sunned. Spine ripped/damaged. Slight endpage foxing. Previous owners name on front inside board. 7 x 5
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
. BEAU GESTE WREN, PERCIVAL CHRISTOFER. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$10.96 + shipping
Description:
Seller: Gertrudis Giménez López, Puerto Lumbreras, MURCI, Spain
Percival Christopher Wren. Beau Geste. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$12.80 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1927. Reprinted. 410 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front pastedown and free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to spine and boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Percival Christopher Wren. Beau Geste. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$12.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1927. Reprinted. 410 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt. 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.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
WREN, Percival Christopher. Beau Geste. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover and slipcase. Top edge gilt. Good binding and cover. Wear to case, rubbing to edges of book. Scattered foxing.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
WREN, Percival Christopher. Beau Geste. John Murray, London, 1927.
Price: US$70.06 + shipping
Description: Number 877 of a signed limited edition of 1000. Illustrated by Helen McKie. Some foxing, mostly to earlier and later pages. Very slight loss of colour to boards, spine seems a bit foxed. Small bookseller's plate on front free end paper from Constantinople. Bookplate in middle of title page stuck to next page preceeding contents page. Used - Good. SIGNED Copy. Good hardback, top edge gilt
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Wren, Christopher Percival. Beau Geste. John Murray, London, 1927.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An edition in good condition witha fair amount of shelf wear, especially to the spine. There is an ink signature of a previous owner on the title page; Beau Geste is the story of three young men who are wrongly accused of treason and imprisoned in a remote castle. With the help of a mysterious woman, they must escape and fight against the French army in order to prove their innocence.; Black & White and Color; 8vo; 578 pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Wren, Christopher Percival [Helen McKie (illusts.)]. Beau Geste. John Murray London 1927, 1927.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 1st ed. thus 1/4 cloth Nice Copy octavo 579 + (4)pp., frontis., colour & b/w plates, No. 293 of the De Luxe limited edition of 1000 signed by P. C. Wren. With nice Helen McKie illustrations tipped-on to heavy card stock. Quarter bound in red cloth over blue boards. Prize inscription tipped on to free front end paper o/w a nice copy
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Wren, Percival Christopher. Beau Geste. John Murray London 1927 De Luxe Edition, 1927.
Price: US$165.42 + shipping
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover Near Fine This is No. 527 of the De Luxe limited edition of 1000, signed by Wren, with the scarce dw, and in its original cardboard box of issue. Light blue cloth boards over quarter red cloth spine with paper name label, light brown eps, 579pp plus 4pp "Song of the Legion", teg, others uncut, frontis portrait of the author and his signature on flyleaf with limitation statement, edges lightly rubbed, dw worn and split at corners and head and tail of spine and with dw spine sunned and minor stains to back cover. Rh edge lightly foxed. The leading edge of the box shows signs of wear.
Seller: Books On Dean, Albury, NSW, Australia
WREN, Percival Christopher. Beau Geste. John Murray, London, 1927.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Edition de Luxe. Octavo. Half binding with red and blue fabric. Signed edition. Limitations copy, 370/1000. Portrait of author in front endpages. Black and white, as well as colored, illustrations by Helen McKie. An adventure nocel about three English brothers who enlist in the French Foreign Legion after the theft of precious jewels from their relative's country estate. Very Good. Small chip to back endpaper. Slight rubbing to spine head and tail. Aging as expected. Text block clean.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Percival Christopher Wren. Beau Geste. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed. Edition De Luxe / Limited edition. Book is number 335 of 1000 copies. Boards are in very good condition for books age. Content is clean with a very light age tone. Rough cut pages with some age tone. DJ with some edge wear, small tears, light soiling, two small tape repairs. Previous owner signature in FFEP.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Wren, Percival Christopher. Beau Geste. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$297.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy in a worn dust jacket and edge worn slip case. 1st Thus. No 157 of 1000 copies of the Deluxe Edition signed by Wren. Illustrated by Helen McKie. This is not an ex-library copy. Please view photo(s) to determine exact condition.
Seller: Novelty Shop Used & Rare Books, Novelty, OH, U.S.A.
Christopher, Wren Percival. Beau Geste. John Murray, 1927.
Price: US$333.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8432090808
Seller: Iridium_Books, DH, SE, Spain
WREN, Percival Christopher. Beau Geste. John Murray, London, 1927.
Price: US$341.16 + shipping
Description: De-Luxe Signed Limited Edition. No.786 of 1,000. With colour illustrations. A very nice copy in scarce dustjacket; dj not price-clipped but with some general light wear and edge wear with slight chipping on corners and the spine; dj spine darkened. Both edges of spine have been strengthened/repaired with brown paper tape on verso although there is no sign of this on the outside. Used - Very Good. SIGNED COPY VG hardback in Good dustjacket
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
WREN, Percival Christopher. Beau Geste. London: John Murray 1927, 1927.
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Description: Edition de Luxe. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is number 359, signed by Wren. 223x155mm. pp. [12], 579 [1bl], [4]. Twenty illustrations (four in colour) by Helen McKie. Original blue cloth, backed with red cloth, paper label lettered in blue to spine. Lacking dustjacket. Some slight soiling to covers and foxing to fore-edge but otherwise a very good copy in excellent condition. Wren's most famous book, charmingly illustrated and complete with "The Song of the Legion" used as the March Theme from film.
Seller: Voewood Rare Books. ABA. ILAB. PBFA, Holt, United Kingdom
Wren, Percival Christopher. Beau Geste. John Murray, London, 1927.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Edition DeLuxe; No. 464 of 1000 copies, signed by the author. Photograph portrait of the author; illustrated by Helen McKie with 4 color plates and 16 black & white ones. [xii], 579, [1], [4] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. FINE COPY. The deluxe edition of this instant classic, source for the famed movie, with "The Song of the Legion: March Theme of the Paramount Picture" at the end. Ronald Colman's starring role in Beau Geste, filmed in the Arizona desert in 1926, caught the fancy of millions. The film was one of the most profitable pictures of the silent era and paved the way for the actor's memorable successes of the 1930s. Original red and blue cloth, printed spine label, t.e.g., others uncut, Fine in original slipcase Photograph portrait of the author; illustrated by Helen McKie with 4 color plates and 16 black & white ones. [xii], 579, [1], [4] pp. 1 vols. 8vo Edition DeLuxe; No. 464 of 1000 copies, signed by the author.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Wren, Percival Christopher. BEAU GESTE. John Murray, London, 1927.
Price: US$992.54 + shipping
Description: With illustrations by Helen McKie. Pp. [xii]+580(last blank)+[4](music & lyrics to Song of the Legion, dated 1926, the theme for the Paramount Pictures film of the book), frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 20 hand-tipped plates (4 coloured, on brown card), lettered guards, 9 headpiece illustrations, the title page printed in red & black; thick med. 8vo; qr. red cloth, with printed paper title label on spine, light blue buckram boards, the spine cloth slightly spotted; t.e.g., others uncut; dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split, with a few small chips, the backstrip quite discoloured and torn; upper hinge starting, pp. 36/7 browned at upper margin near hinge, outer leaves and edges foxed; Murray, London, 1927. De luxe edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by the author. *Presentation copy, with the author's armorial bookplate on the upper pastedown; the bookplate inscribed and signed by Wren and his new wife, Isabel, 'With love to Madge & Peter'. Isabel was P. C. Wren's second wife, and had previously been married to Cyril Graham Smith, a civil engineer with the Indian educational service at Poona. In 1927 Smith filed for divorce, citing Wren as co-respondent. 'Madge & Peter' were Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Parkes. (Alfred Herbert Parkes, who disliked his baptismal name, was customarily called 'Peter' by family and friends). The Parkes met the Wrens on a cruise, probably in 1927, and began a long-standing friendship. This copy of Beau Geste, Wren's most famous book, is the first of many volumes the author presented to the family over the years - usually to their son Francis Patrick, who was Wren's godson.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$1084.57 + shipping
Description: Limited to 1000 numbered copies, of which this is number 445. Bound in quarter red buckram over steele blue cloth, printed paper spine label. Top edges gilt, fore and tail edges uncut. Photo portrait frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with tipped-in black and white plates, and 4 tipped-in colour plates, all with printed tissue guards. Signed by Wren on the limitation page. Kept beautifully clean and bright due to the rare original plain brown dust jacket with red lettering, nicks to the tips, slightly browned spine has a bit of shelfwear to the spine ends, otherwise a near fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Wren, Percival Christopher. Beau Geste. John Murray, London, 1927.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Edition deluxe, no 628, signed by the author. Photograph portrait of the author; illustrated by Helen McKie with 4 color plates and 16 black & white ones. [xii], 579, [1], [4, printed music] pp. 1 vols. 4to. SIGNED. Handsomely bound copy of the deluxe edition of this instant classic, source for the famed movie, with "The Song of the Legion: March Theme of the Paramount Picture" at the end. Ronald Colman's starring role in Beau Geste, filmed in the Arizona desert in 1926, caught the fancy of millions. The film was one of the most profitable pictures of the silent era and paved the way for the actor's memorable successes of the 1930s. Black morocco gilt, a.e.g., for Asprey. Fine Photograph portrait of the author; illustrated by Helen McKie with 4 color plates and 16 black & white ones. [xii], 579, [1], [4, printed music] pp. 1 vols. 4to Edition deluxe, no 628, signed by the author.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Percival Christopher Wren [P. C. Wren]. Beau Geste. John Murray, London, 1927.
Price: US$1537.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated throughout by Helen McKie, this is an excellent copy of the Limited Edition signed Edition de Luxe of P. C. Wren's celebrated adventure novel. An exceptionally bright copy of the signed Edition de Luxe of Percival Wren's enormously popular adventure novel 'Beau Geste', in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Of one thousand copies of this Limited Edition produced, this is numbered four-hundred and eighty-seven, and signed by Wren.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, four tipped in colour plates, and sixteen monochrome plates from British artist and illustrator Helen McKie. Collated, complete.First published in 1924, Wren's enormously popular adventure novel about three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a relative. Set prior to the first world war, it has been adapted for the screen several times.With the inscription of John Howard to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Spotting to fore edge of text block. Front hinge strained but holding firm. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper back strip lightly age toned, with light marks to front wrap. Light edgewear to back strip head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Significant spotting to first and last few pages, otherwise generally clean and bright. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1537.04 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: John Murray, 1927, Numbered Limited Edition de Luxe, number 574 of 1000 printed. vi, 579pp, [v, The Song of the Legion]. Beautiful full blue Asprey morocco leather with gilt titles and five raised bands to the spine. Leather turn-ins or strip to the paste downs, with Asprey in gilt to the base of the front paste downs, marbled end papers. Limited Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. LIMITED DELUXE EDITION, 1927. Limited to 1000 COPIES of which this is No. 574. Twenty superb tipped-in illustrations by Helen McKie four in colour on brown card & 16 Black and White, all with titled tissue guards, plus 9 Headpieces. Frontispiece of Wren in uniform, also tissue-guarded. Title page printed in red & black. A beautiful binding. Approximately 8 ¾ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt tiles, five raised bands, very minor marks. Joints good condition very gently worn. Corners good condition very gently bumped and worn. Boards good condition full morocco with a gilt border, very minor wear and marks. Page edges good condition all edge gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition secure. Paste downs good condition leather border (turn-in) with Asprey in gilt to the leather border of front paste down. End papers good condition marbled with 2 additional end papers added by the binder. Pages good condition tanned with minor foxing. Binding good condition attractive. See photos Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1909 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom