Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$10.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: spine section quite dark and with age, chipping to the top of the cloth of the spine and a 1 inch partial split at the bottom left-hand side of the spine/rear panel join, rubbing to the corner of the top right of the front board exposing cardboard, offset tanning of front and rear end papers, Christmas gift detail on the 1st page. No other damage apart from scattered foxing. Second impression of the First Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], 151, [5] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; education. Inventory No: 0276872.
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: Green cloth hardcover, very light wear, clean, spine faded, tightly bound; unamrked and clean pages. Frontispiece photo of Sanderson, plus two other plates. No dust jacket.
Seller: North Country Books, Milton, VT, U.S.A.
H.G. Wells. The Story Of A Great Schoolmaster. Chatto & Windus, 1924.
Price: US$12.44 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1924. No Edition Remarks. 150 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white photographic frontispiece. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$12.72 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 150pp, 3 plates, several news cuttings pasted in, owner's inscriptions on title and Contents pages, edges browning, text otherwise clean and sound, green cloth, spine ends slightly frayed, Good condition / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
H. G. Wells. The Story of a Great Schoolmaster. Chatto & Windus, 1924.
Price: US$12.72 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Faded green boards and spine lettered in green; a 1 cm split at head of front hinge and a 5 mm split on rear hinge. Foxing to fore edge. Internally foxed up to page 1. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
H.G. Wells. THE STORY OF A GREAT SCHOOLMASTER. Chatto & Windus, 1924.
Price: US$14.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1924 Chatto & Windus edition - Pages are tanned. Pages have no notes or highlighting. The cover and spine have some wear. Embossed font on the spine is faded.
Seller: Re-Read Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 150pp. 1924. First edition. A very good, tight, clean copy in original publisher's green cloth embossed in light green. A frontispiece and two other plates as called for. The text to the spine and to the front board all present but a little faint. An ink name and date to the corner of the front paste-down. Several neat ink numbers to the corner of the rear endpaper. A very good first edition copy.
Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
WELLS, H. G.. THE STORY OF A GREAT SCHOOLMASTER. Chatto and Windus, London, 1924.
Price: US$19.93 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green boards with light green lettering on spine and covers. Well rubbed and thumbed. Also some discolouration and light staining. Head and tail of spine bumped, corners rounded. Binding is strong and neat. Head edge stained, green. Edges are lightly discoloured and foxed, so too are title pages. Endpapers and free endpapers are lightly discoloured. The occasional page is foxed, else this book is in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound.
Seller: Uncle Peter's Books, Clunes, NSW, Australia
Johnston, Sir Harry. THE GAY-DOMBEYS. Chatto & Windus, London, 1924.
Price: US$19.93 + shipping
Description: A story compiled from letters, diaries, newspaper cuttings, suppositions, recollections, oral information; and the papers of the late Sir Eustace Morven. With a preface by J. H. Wells. Pp. 332; red cloth, spine lettered in black, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; a little faint foxing and soiling, the outer leaves lightly offset; Chatto & Windus, London, 1924. Sixth impression. *A novel, first published in 1919, peopled with characters who are descendants of those in Dickens' Dombey and Son. Loosely inserted is a newscutting of an article by Sir H. H. Johnston, subtitled Why I have written "The Gay-Dombeys", and explaining the novel's title thus: 'I had never felt satisfied with the inconclusive end of Edith Dombey at the height of her beauty; I had felt sure that Walter Gay, with the help of Florence's friends, would build up once more the House of Dombey and Son; introduce steamers instead of sailing ships; and, to please old Mr. Dombey on his death-bed, would add his wife's family name to his own.'.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$20.99 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. 8vo. Prelims. + [151pp.] B/w. portrait frontispiece and illustrations. Minor ownership inscription to front f.e.p. Edges of pages foxed. Original green cloth with faint green lettering. Spine slightly rubbed to head. US$20
Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$26.71 + shipping
Description: Portrait-frontispiece Spine faded and sides marked, free end-papers browned, but a very good copy; with a publishers advertisement slip for Sanderson of Oundle loosely inserted H.G. Wells Society Bibliography 90
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
H.G. Wells. The Story of a Great Schoolmaster. Chatto & Windus, 1924.
Price: US$50.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Story of a Great Schoolmaster, H.G.Wells, Chatto & Windus, 1924, First Edition / First Impression The life and ideas of F.W.Sanderson, Headmaster of Oundle School, a frontispiece of whom appears in the book. One of H.G.Wells' uncommonly seen volumes in excellent condition. The binding is tight and straight, the boards have slight wear and darkening to the spine and the endpapers and pages are clean without tears or marks. The green tint to the top edge is retained. Neat owner's inscription to the inside front board. Will be dispatched wrapped in bubblewrap and a cardboard box.
Seller: Grimes Hill Book Club, Wythall, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Description: A bright copy of this attractively bound collection of children's stories by Punch magazine author E. V. Lucas, illustrated. Collection of children's tales by E. V. Lucas, English humourist, publisher, playwright, &c., celebrated for his short essays, as well as verses, novels, and plays. With tales titled 'Anne's Terrible Good Nature,' 'The Thousand Threepenny Bits,' and 'The Monkey's Revenge' among others.Illustrated with black and white full page plates by A. H. Buckland. In the original publisher's pictorial cloth binding, with colourful illustrations to front board and spine, titles in gilt. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting scattered to leaves. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. 151 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Illustrations. Green cloth binding, losses to the glazing of cloth on upper boards and spine, else very good copy. (42376).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$76.32 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Size: Octavo. some slight foxing to page edges. Dust Jacket has large closed tears and associated wear. has large crease to front cover. Category: Reference; Britain/UK; 1920s; For further information on this title, click on the "Ask Bookseller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We will try to reply within two working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Wells, H. G.. The Story of a Great Schoolmaster. Chatto & Windus, 1924.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The volume is edge rubbed with bumps to the spine ends; there is some soiling to the cloth, wrinkling to the spine, and offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket. The dust jacket, sleeved in mylar, is rubbed with some edge wrinkling, chips, and tears, and has some soiling and uneven toning. From the Larry McMurtry collection with his "stirrup" bookplate affixed to the front pastedown.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.