Collins Publishers for the Children. 1945. First edition. DW. Slim landscape 8vo. Colour illustrations to every page. Boards are a little worn and rubbed and is split along tail of spine. Small neat gift inscription to front pastedown o/w contents are clean and fresh. The wrapper is NOT price clipped, but is a little soiled and rubbed, it lacks 1½ inch portion from tail of spine and has a large closed tear to front cover near head of spine, not affecting text. Smaller closed tears and light creases to both front and rear covers. SCARCE in wrapper. View More...
First edition. Small 8vo. iv, 145pp. + 8pp adverts. Hand-coloured frontis. + 3 delightfully hand-coloured plates. Lovely large print for young Victorians. Original lime green decorated cloth gilt, spine and corners tooled in blind. Boards sl. soiled but very sound. All edges gilt. Lacks front free endpaper and some damage to front inner hinge, which has been repaired at some stage but is also very sound. Pencil names to paste-down and an old "50p" price to top corner in faded biro, other than this, contents are remarkably clean and fresh. SCARCE. View More...
Herbert Jenkins, London. 1954. First Edition. Hardback. DW. Bookplate to front pastedown with ownership inscriptions to prelims. Generally a nice copy in price clipped, and chipped and worn wrapper. View More...
First Edition. Beige illustrated boards with blue backstrip. 48pp. Slim 8vo. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Some stains to boards o/w a nice copy with age browning to contents with a little foxing and owner signature to front free endpaper and some pencil annotation to title page. Scarce. VG+. The book is protected with a plastic library cover. View More...
First edition. DW. SIGNED by the author to bookplate tipped in to front free endpaper. The bookplate having the same design as the wrapper. NEW, UNREAD. View More...
Publisher:
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge., London. N.d.(c.1889)
Seller ID: 40148
Slim 8vo. 48pp. Colour frontis. + 11 colour illustrations. Original paper covered illustrated boards. Boards browned, worn and rubbed, spine frayed with some loss. Olive Isabel Eileen Boult's Bookplate to front pastedown (sister of Adrian Boult, conductor), front and rear endpapers browned, previous owner's inscription dated xmas 1889. Contents very clean and fresh. View More...
A & C Black. 1904. First edition. Hardback. No DW. Very attractive orange pictorial cloth gilt with a touch of silver. Top edge of pages gilt. 16 coloured plates with tissue guards. Pages browned otherwise a lovely edition, retelling Scott's tales for children. View More...
Scholastic, London. 1998. First Edition. Paperback. SIGNED by author and illustrator to bookplate on inside cover. Illustrated. Some browning to contents o/w a very nice copy. NR. FINE. View More...
Viking. London. 1995. First edition. Original laminated boards. 12 pages full of flaps, spinners and tabs, two of which, a train and a very small circle one lack small pieces. Some tabs slightly creased. Generally a clean and fresh copy. View More...
Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow. 1927. First edition. Slim paperback. Ex-library (Walsall Boy Scouts Association library) with a couple of small stamps and label to endpaper and bookplate to inside cover. Lacks backstrip and has tape marks to covers near spine, and a large closed tear to upper cover at joint with tail of spine. Ownership signature to front cover, title page and top margins of a couple more pages o/w contents sound overall. View More...
First edition. Large slim folio. Illustrated boards with green backstrip. No DW. Pages Japanese folded, printed on one side only with blank sides inside outer fold which is unopened so the whole could be framed. Boards a little soiled and very rubbed to top right corner. Contents foxed, gift dedication. A charming copy of a scarce dog item. VG+. View More...
Blackie & Sons. London. 1941. Reprint. DW. Large 8vo. Illustrated. Pages browned. A lovely tight copy in a wrapper that is worn and torn to edges and chipped to tail of spine and corners. View More...
First edition. 201pp. 10pp. of full-page illustrations + illustrations in text. Original black cloth, silver lettering to upper board. Board extremities rubbed. Inner hinge visible, pastedowns lacking some portions, previous owner's inscription to half-title, some foxing throughout o/w contents sound. View More...
George Allen & Unwin. 1967. First edition, UK. Large 8vo. Illustrated. Original illustrated laminated boards, worn to corners, lacks spine, contents slightly shaken. Pages browned. "This book belongs to" stamp added to front pastedown in a messy way. Pages browned and lightly foxed to margins, first four illustrations coloured in otherwise a clean copy. This book hasbeen used and loved and is priced to reflect this. View More...
George Allen & Unwin. 1973. First edition, UK. Large 8vo. Original illustrated laminated boards. Worn to head and tail of spine and corners with light crease to laminate along lower board by spine. Slight lean to spine. Pages slightly browned and a few pages creased to outer edge otherwise a clean and sound copy. View More...
First edition, first printing. DW. Slim 4to. Original pictorial boards with same artwork as wrapper. Busy gremlins attacking silhouette aircraft illustrate the endpapers. 12 full coloured plates, 1 double page coloured plate and numerous b/w drawings from the Walt Disney Studio. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed, on Dahl's Gypsy House headed paper, dated 27/9/90 [two months before the author dies] It states "Dear Mr Martin, Thank you for your letter. I will buy your 'Gremlins' copy. Here's my cheque. Yours Roald Dahl". This is a very attractive and bright copy of Dahl's first book... View More...
Publisher:
Western Publishing Company Inc., Wisconsin. 1964
Seller ID: 58258
First Edition. No DW. Slim 8vo. Laminated pictorial boards. Illustrated throughout. Unpaginated. Boards sl. worn at extremities, but contents clean and sound. VG+. View More...
D.C. Thomson & Co, London. 1946. Very slim 4to. 4pp. Discolouration due to age, and some very small tears, but a remarkably attractive copy given the age. View More...
Children's Book Club/Hodder and Stoughton, London. No date [1940]. Hardback with DW. Colour and b/w illustrations. Occasional mark to contents o/w a nice copy in slightly rubbed and worn wrapper. View More...
Larousse. Paris. 1992. Hardback reprint. Origianl laminated boards. Slim 4to. French text. Small close tear to top margin of front endpaper near spine o/w a lovely clean copy. View More...
J. M. Dent. London. E. P. Dutton. NewYork. 1953. No DW. Original patterned boards. Eight plates in colour plus drawings in the text by W. Heath Robinson. Slight signs of use to covers otherwise a clean and sound copy of a lovely volume in the Children's Illustrated Classics Series. View More...
First Edition. No DW. 320pp. Illustrated with colour and black and white plates. Blue cloth, gilt extra. Board extremities very slightly bumped. Gift inscription to endpaper. Some signs of age browning to pages o/w a beautiful and charming copy. VG+. View More...
Hulton Press. 1951. First edition. No DW. Slim landscape 8vo. Red illustrated paper covered boards, blank white spine. Illustrated with two coloured pictures to page, not unlike a strip cartoon, with text beneath. A couple of pictures have extra colouring in. Head and tail of spine pulled otherwise a clean and sound copy. View More...
Henry Frowde / Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1914. No DW. Early edition in original pictorial cloth gilt. 284 pages plus 16 page publisher's catalogue. Coloured frontis. [very funny caption] with 5 other coloured plates, one has been torn across and repaired with stamp hinges. Covers worn at edges, inner hinge cracked and contents shaken, pages occasionally foxed but still an attractive copy of this children's classic by the mother of E. M. Delafield, author of The Provincial Lady series. View More...
SPCK. London. [1888]. Large slim 4to. Paper covered boards with Chromolitho illustrations, plain green/grey cloth spine. Story abridged for children. Profusely illustrated with an illustration to each page plus bright plates Tissue guards present. Lacks rear free endpaper and rear hinge is visible but sound, boards worn and rubbed especially to edges, pages slightly foxed otherwise a sound copy of a very attractive and scarce children's edition of Robinson Crusoe. View More...
