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Robert Graves. The Isles of Unwisdom. Cassell and Company Limited, 1950.
Price: US$3.19 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: No jacket. Boards are lightly worn, marked & bumped. Tanned, marked & lightly foxed textblock edge. Pen on ffep. Worn hinges. Gentle foxing throughout, but text is good & clear to read.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Robert Graves. The Isles of Unwisdom. Cassell & Co., 1950.
Price: US$4.78 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1950. First Published. 417 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Light brown staining to textblock edges. Visible creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Some bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. White marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Graves, Robert. The Isles of Unwisdom. Cassell 1950,, 1950.
Price: US$6.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 417pp, edges slightly browned, text clean and sound, bookplate of the Graves family with motto 'Aquila non captat muscas', a different owner's name facing, black cloth, spine faded, Good / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Graves, Robert. The Isles of Unwisdom. Cassell & Co., 1950.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: the boards are edge worn and shelf rubbed. a bit marked. sunned. old tape residue marks. previous owner's inscription. internally clean and tightly bound. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Robert Graves. The Isles Of Unwisdom. Cassell and Company Ltd, 1950.
Price: US$9.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and has light toning. Cracking to hinge. Some spotting to page ends. Worn DJ with some edge wear, tears and creasing. Previous owner text in FFEP.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Price: US$9.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No dust jacket. Hardcover. First edition. Boards are a little faded and have one or two small surface marks. Spine is slightly cocked and bumped. Small stain and tear on left side of spine head. Minor foxing on page block and one or two pages. Pages are a little tanned. Binding remains sound and text is clear throughout. AF
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Graves,Robert. The Isles Of Unwisdom. Cassell & Co, London, 1950.
Price: US$10.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in black cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.No Dust-Jacket.This copy has NO previous ownership inscriptions or names present.Tight square copy.The book is clean internally.8vo 417pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1950]
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
GRAVES, ROBERT. THE ISLES OF UNWISDOM. Cassell, London, 1950.
Price: US$11.05 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xiv + 417pp; Edges spotted and covers dulled; Previous owner's scribbled-through name to ff.e.p.; An account of an expedition of Spanish seamen that set out from Peru and discovered the Solomon Islands; Size: 12mo
Seller: Weathered Stone Books, Skreen, SLIGO, Ireland
Graves, Robert. THE ISLES OF UNWISDOM. Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1950.
Price: US$12.88 + shipping
Description: 417pp. Orig. d.j. cover pasted to inside end-paper Size: 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$13.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. First edition. The hinges are in good condition. Photograph available on request.
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Graves, Robert (1895-1985). The isles of unwisdom / by Robert Graves. London : Cassell, 1950.
Price: US$13.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Owner's name on inside cover. No other marks to book or cover. Strong, tight binding. A few minor marks to the black cloth boards and a little fading to spine, but cover is in good overall shape. No dust wrapper, hence price. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.
Seller: Repton and Clover, Norwich, United Kingdom
Graves, Robert. The Isles of Unwisdom. Cassell, GB, 1950.
Price: US$21.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Name of owner at front of book. Clean bright dw has tiny nick at base of rear flap joint and has minor internal magic tape repair.
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
GRAVES, Robert. The Isles of Unwisdom. Cassell and Company, London, 1950.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Lacks front fly, spine-lettering rubbed, a good or better copy in near very good dustwrapper with wear at the spine ends and other extremities.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Graves Robert. The Isles Of Unwisdom.. Cassell, 1950.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback book, no dust jacket, in good condition. Date 1952
Seller: The Book Squirrel Limited, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom
Robert Graves. The Isles of Unwisdom.. Cassell, London, 1950.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo pp.417
Seller: Edmonton Book Store, Edmonton, AB, Canada
GRAVES, Robert.. The Isles of Unwisdom.. London, Cassell 1950., 1950.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Fore-edges and early and late pages noticeably foxed, bookseller's label on front paste-down, o/w good in like dustjacket slightly darkened on the spine, with a 2 inch repair along the front flap.
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
Graves, Robert. The Isles of Unwisdom. Cassell, 1950.
Price: US$25.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. First Edition (1950) from Cassell and Company Publishing. Dust jacket has a mylar plastic cover which appears to be a little too small and shows some light scuffing. Dust jacket itself shows some wrinkling and pulling due to it's too small cover and shows some light browning, fading and edge wear including some flaring and rubbing. Book itself shows some scuffing and warping of covers. Previous owner's name in pen on cover page.
Seller: Half Moon Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Graves, Robert. The Isles of Unwisdom. Cassell, London, 1950.
Price: US$25.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Neat handwritten gift inscription to front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped and has minor tears to extremities. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 417 pages
Seller: Horsham Rare Books, Horsham, United Kingdom
Graves, Robert. The Isles of Unwisdom. Cassell, 1950.
Price: US$25.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Lightly read. No markings in book. Binding is fine. Red scuff mark on front cover. DJ with 1"x 1" piece missing on DJ front. Otherwise shelf wear to edges. DJ in mylar for it's protection.
Seller: Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc., Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.62 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his personalized bookplate to front pastedown. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 417 pages; Physical description. : xiv, 417 p. ; 19 cm. Subject: Mendana de Neira, Alvaro de, 1542? -1595 - Fiction. Solomon Islands - Discovery and exploration - Fiction. Notes: Referenced by: Higginson, Fred H. Bibliography of the writings of Robert Graves, A64b. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Graves, Robert.. The isles Of Unwisdom.. Cassell & Company, Ltd., London., 1950.
Price: US$38.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition 1950. Maps of The Soloman islands. A few light foxing marks, else very good. Dustwrapper has a very small chip to the lower edge of the front panel and is rubbed and very slightly torn. Still a nice bright copy. Not price clipped. 417 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his personalized bookplate to front pastedown. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 417 pages; Physical description. : xiv, 417 p. ; 19 cm. Subject: Mendana de Neira, Alvaro de, 1542? -1595 - Fiction. Solomon Islands - Discovery and exploration - Fiction. Notes: Referenced by: Higginson, Fred H. Bibliography of the writings of Robert Graves, A64b. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Graves, Robert. The Isles of Unwisdom. Cassell, London, 1950.
Price: US$51.00 + shipping
Description: Correct 1st edition of this historical novel set in the South Pacific in 1595. Three small, faint spots on top edge thus very nearly fine in near fine dw with a sun-darkened spine that is chipped at the bottom and has a quarter-inch chip across the top spine edge.
Seller: Tom Davidson, Bookseller, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985). The Isles Of Unwisdom. London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1950, 1950.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Description: [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19x 13cm), pp.xiv; 417; [1], blank. Includes a double-page map. Publisher's black cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. Pictorial dust-jacket designed by Barbosa. Contents clean, edges lightly spotted, initial 'H' to flyleaf, jacket with a few small nicks and tears. Very good indeed. A sixteenth-century naval drama.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
ROBERT GRAVES. THE ISLES OF UNWISDOM. CASSELL, London, 1950.
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: cheap budget copy,first edition from 1950 with its dustjacket,.BOOK; grey-black weave boards are mostly clean,minor age mark,&mottle.binding firm & tight.an unread copy of this title.slight hint of dulling to outer very-pagends,with minor spot foxing.slight hint of foxing pages,old page boarder,.no insriptions,other than a small name,hand writen lead endpage,.internal the pages are overall very crisp clean,.DUSTJACKET; mostly bright and clean.degree of rub/minor loss to head/tail corner of spine,.minor age darkening to spine,fraction cover foldline edges.slight age dulling to cream paper of rearpanel & touch crease the rear flap,.this dustjacket is neatly price clipped.most happy to foward a Scan on request/please see the thumbnail showing.nice budget Read & Collect copy of this famous title'.PRICED TO SELL.,a FREE 'Fast' AIR POSTAGE thats worldwide, is INCLUED IN PRICE.,plus our QUAILTY PACKAGING. Size: 7.5 By 5.5.9
Seller: Instant Rare and Collectable, North Auckland, AD, New Zealand
GRAVES,, Robert.. THE ISLES OF UNWISDOM.. London, Cassell and Company 1950., 1950.
Price: US$110.85 + shipping
Description: xiv+417pp. 8vo. Original cloth in chipped dustwrapper with internal repairs, some foxing on panels. Map. Foxing to edges and preliminaries. A very good copy. First edition.
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
GRAVES, Robert.. The Isles of Unwisdom.. London: Cassell, (1950)., 1950.
Price: US$226.22 + shipping
Description: First edition, Canadian issue with the price "$2.50" on the flap of the d/w. The price in dolllars is the only way to differentiate this edition from the English edition. Fine in a near fine d/w. This is only the second copy of the Canadian issue we have seen.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada