stowell thora (38 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair.

soft cover. Zustand: Poor. A story book about the days of the Pharoahs. Colored frontispiece and many b&w illustrations. Flexible cloth soft cover, no dust jacket, 5 3/8" x 6 3/4", 95 pages. Poor-fair: ex-library book, hinges split, cover wear, corner creases.

A Hard Back Library Re . Zustand: Fair. ususal marks, appears to have been rebound long ago, as show extertior wear.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 25 pages. (M12).

ay Smith; Alf Watson & Others Unknown (illustrator). Pictorial hardback children's book. Boards in good condition other than minor scuffing to edges. Some light surface grime to rear board. Front board depicts 2 children " In the Hayfield". Pictorial endpapers. Lovely colour frontis. Two-tone illustrations plus many black and white illustrations throughout. A collection of children's individual stories. A lovely vintage book. "The Great Books" series.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Top half inch of spine darkened and spine slightly faded and wear to extremities. Internally a little foxing but overall clean and tight.

First edition. The Design of Life Series. 174 pp. Frontispiece, 45 other illustrations. Blue cloth boards. Overall condition VG. No dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Hbk illus boards, 4to, G+; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. William Stobbs (illustrator). 1st Edition. Historical adventure set in the days of sail. Undated but 1951. A young Cornish boy goes to sea and is captured by Barbary pirates, the Sallee Rovers. Atmospheric illustrations by William Stobbs. Page edges and endpapers slightly tanned otherwise in very good condition with no inscriptions. The dust jacket is price-clipped with loss top left front and top of spine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Comic, 22 pages, Some light wear to cover and spine, mainly edges and corners, Edges and corners a little creased and worn, Previous owners name in ink at top of cover, Wear to surface of spine, staples rusty, surrounding area stained, 3 cm rip at base of spine, 1 cm at top, Internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published and stated first edition. 315 pgs. Illustrations and photographs by authors, Thora Stowell and Thornton W. Burgess. Clean unmarked text. Tightly bound in green cloth with black lettering on spine. Title, authors and drawing of an elephant on front cover. Cover worn and faded. Corner edges bumped. Spine moderately sunned. No DJ.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Generously illustrated account of the lives of animals, including their biology, relations with man and habits. Decorative cloth boards and colour frontispiece. 8vo. Spine cocked, with tears to top. Foxing to page edges. Fair.

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 196 cm, illustrated, 19 cm. Subjects; Manuals. Children's books. Children's toys. Fiction - children. Toys. Games. 3 Kg.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Brier, E.E. & Watson, A.H. & Smith, May & et al., (illustrator). Very good condition with no wrapper. Pictorial boards and spine. Front board shows two children on a swing "ever so high!". First story is "Six and Twenty Fairy Cows". Colour frontis. B/w and two-tone illustrations to text. Spine slightly bumped. Mark to top edge of front cover. Light foxing to textblock. Some hinges cracked and pulled but binding still tight. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition. Illustrated paper covered boards. Spine has light browning and slight wear to ends. Foxing to front board. Slight wear to lower corner of front board. Good solid binding, very clean text throughout. Colour frontis plus black and white illustrations within the text. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 6.25 x 8.25 inches (16 x 21.5 cm).

Pictorial Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Illustrated with many B&W and a few color images. Book is in good (pages aged, corners worn to boards, wear at top and bottom of spine, binding is unbroken with no loose pages) condition with pictorial covers. Please feel free to ask me for pictures or more information, Thanks.

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 196 cm, illustrated, 19 cm. Subjects; Manuals. Children's books. Children's toys. Fiction - children. Toys. Games. 1 Kg.

pictorial hard cover. No Jacket. Compilation of children?s stories, games and puzzles, probably 1920?s or 1930?s. Front cover shows a boy and a girl on donkeys at a beach. Illustrated with several colour plates and numerous black and white drawings. 220 pages G. Shelf wear and edge wear to covers with splits at top of spine where cloth spine meets boards. Some foxing and browning to paper, overall good condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. A very clean bright copy. PO to blank endpaper.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Circa 1937. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Pictorial boards, colour plates. B/w illustrations. First story is 'The Witch's Cottage' by Ierne L. Plunket. Board edges worn, a few corners bumped. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Some light browning to verso of frontis. A few light foxspots to contents. Contents are tight. A little chipping to edges of wrapper, with some foxing and grubby marks - but nice and complete! Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

London, Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, (1935). 23 S. Mit 8 tls. zweifarb. Illustr. von Grace Lodge. (= Strang's Penny Books, A 5). Kl.-8vo (18 cm). Geheftet. Für Kinder von 6-7 Jahren. Mit Anhang von Fragen u. Übungen zu Text u. Illustrationen. - Thora Stowell (i.e. Alice Ogden, 1885-1974), britische Mädchenbuch-Autorin. - Grace Lodge ist vor allem als Illustratorin von Enid Blyton-Büchern bekannt. - Herbert Strang (i.e. George Herbert Ely, 1866-1958, u. Charles James L'Estrange, 1867-1947). Die beiden Autoren schrieben vor allem Abenteuerbücher für Jungen, stark beeinflusst von Jules Verne, gaben aber auch zahlreiche Serien u. Anthologien unter ihrem Pseudonym heraus. - Leicht gebräunt, stellenw. stockfleckig. Gutes Exemplar.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pictorial hard boards have some edge wear with BUMPING TO CORNERS. Spine is intact. Clean & tight book. Pages have a little FOXING. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref O5.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good +. Nancy Innes (illustrator). First Edition. Clean green bds with gilt title to spine. bump to spine ends and corners. Some foxing to outer edge of text block. Pages tanned. B/W illus. Interior Very Good. No inscriptions. Unclipped dustjacket with tears to top jacket corners and spine end. 2 tears to bottom front jacket edge. Some creasing to jacket edges. Sunning to jacket spine. Some foxing/grubby marks to jacket.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Elcock, Howard K. & Reeve, Mary Strange & Johnston, M.D. & Peart, M.A. & et al., (illustrator). Circa 1924. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Cloth spine with pictorial onlay of girl in yellow dress, pictorial front cover shows two girls, one playing a whistle(?). 6 colour plates and b/w illustrations. 168 pages. First story is 'The Sea-Eagle' Nest' by Francklyn. Spine and corners bumped. Covers edge worn. Onlay to spine is a little sunned. Crease to corner of front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Elcock, Howard K. & Reeve, Mary Strange & Johnston, M.D. & Peart, M.A. & et al., (illustrator). circa 1924. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Cloth spine with pictorial onlay of girl in yellow dress, pictorial front cover shows two girls, one playing a whistle(?). 6 colour plates and b/w illustrations. 168 pages. First story is 'The Sea-Eagle' Nest' by Francklyn. Spine browned, bumped and worn with a little loss from top edge of onlay. Wear to corners and cover edges. Uneven fading and a few marks to covers. A couple of hinges cracked. A little foxing, mainly to text block. One plate partially detached. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good ++. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good +. Second Printing. Part of the publisher's Modern Reprint Library. The book is bound in yellow cloth, stamped in blue in a matching dust jacket a couple of minor chips to extremes, but has held up well. 318 pp.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Reeve, Mary S. & Lodge, Grace & Harrison, Florence & Brock, C.E. & Millar, H.R. & et al., (illustrator). 1923. Very good condition with no wrapper. Pictorial front cover shows three girls sitting on grass, one reading a book. First story is "The Influence of Anne" by D.F. Bruce. 6 colour plates, b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Cover edges worn. Some slight chipping to edges of onlay to spine. Name plate to front pastedown. Endpapers browned. Foxing and some fingering to page edges and margins. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Elcock, Howard K. & Reeve, Mary Strange & Johnston, M.D. & Peart, M.A. & et al., (illustrator). circa 1924. Good condition with no wrapper. Cloth spine with pictorial onlay of girl in yellow dress, pictorial front cover shows two girls, one playing a whistle(?). 6 colour plates and b/w illustrations. 168 pages. First story is 'The Sea-Eagle' Nest' by Francklyn. Slight bumping and wear to spine, corners and lower edge of front cover. A couple of small marks to rear cover and fading to edges. Spine and front cover general lovely and bright. Ink inscription to front pastedown. Hinge cracked next to first page of text and first gathering pulled so feels very loose. A few hinges cracked. Contents generally clean with just a little foxing. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. This is an undated edition. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Cover marked and worn at edges. Signs of wear at spine hinge, with some stitching visible. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good condition for age. No just jacket present. Black coated cloth boards, gilt spine. Some wear to the spine, foxed edging but pages are mostly clean. Colour frontispiece, many monochrome illustrations. 1935 1st edition, 292pp.