Simmonds, Ralph (39 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. the cover has some wear all pages are nice and white a few pages do have a small brown dot-mark there are no tears to pages.

Condition: Good. 1929. Popular Edition. 211 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering. B&W frontispiece. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Presentation plate and previous owner inscriptions to front endpapers. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine and board edges.

Pictorial Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Illustrated children's adventure story. One plate loose. Attractive bright boards with silhouettes of a boy and a girl on front cover and also on spine. Inscription on free fep.

Condition: Good. 1911. First Edition. 312 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour illustration plates by Harold Earnshaw. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. this handsome green linen aging hardcover is holding up well! both covers and 270 pages are all clean. and attractive, newish; a nice sturdy copy; I ship daily at 0900 CT IL USA; if 84 y o, then you are paying <11.25 c / year!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Quentin Blake, illustrations by Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, Ralph Steadman, Fritz Wegner, Posy Simmonds et al (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition published in this collected form, subsequent impression with number line '25 27 29 31 33 32 30 28 26', A tribute to the author's popularity. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of largely pale blue jacket and spine, corners bruised, rubbed and split, not price clipped (£19.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 444pp, lavishly illustrated. Four exciting sections - ANIMALS, MAGIC, FAMILY, FRIENDS AND HEROES and MATTERS OF IMPORTANCE introduce some of Roald Dahl's most popular characters, from the Enormous Crocodile to the Twits, from the Witches to the BFG, from James to Matilda. Throughout this book, you can delve into stories, poems, memoirs and letters galore all wonderfully illustrated by Quentin Blake as well as other well known artists. A very large heavy book, extra postage may be required.

Hardback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition but not first printing (probably November 1916 as per publisher's marking) Blue pictorial cloth showing Zeppelin over mountains olivine top edge x + 372 pages illustrated (mainly black and white with colour frontispiece) No inscriptions.

Condition: Very Good. Pictorial covers. Writing on prelims.

HB BLUE CLOTH PRIZE CERTIFICATE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER SCATTERED FOXING VERY GOOD PP212 8V0 Aeroplane adventures in Scotland.

Super octavo, illustrated brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & board, vii + 312pp, illus, VG (rubbing to boards and edges, bruising & some fraying to spine extrems & board corners, 'pinprick' hole to mid-spine, prize label to front pastedown, Book society stamp to fep, large crease to lower corner of prelims, browning to feps, foxing, binding sloppy).

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Brock, H.M. (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1924. Good condition with no wrapper. Brown and green pictorial cloth. Colour frontis. 3 b/w plates. 212 pages. Spine bumped, corners slightly worn. Covers grubby. Front joint cracked for about 1" near centre, rear joint cracked. Small bookseller's stamp to rear pastedown. Contents are grubby and foxed throughout, very grubby in places. Text block also grubby. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Large format paperback. ISBN:1876213264 Fine. Large Format Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Undated c1912 Cassell, appears to be first edition, hardback; Good age-mottled but clean and sound copy, pictorial boards have some wear, a few dints, no dj, one illustration page is loose; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good tight condition, rough cut pages, foxing on fore edge, illustrated, owners signature on end page, blue decorative boards, corners bumped, minor wear to spine edges.

1st edition. Printer's code for Aug.1915 at rear. All illustrations present. Some foxing; binding tight; a couple of plates re-attached with yellowed sellotape; spine bumped & worn, with fraying to cloth at head & foot, & worn gilt lettering; gilt on front board dull. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in pictorial blue cloth Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in pictorial blue cloth.

First edition, octavo, illus blue & red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 312pp, illus, VG (bruising to spine extrems & corners, rubbing to boards, school prize label to fep, boksellers' label to front pastedown, inscription in ink to fep, foxing, some soiling spots to pages).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Includes a colour frontispiece and numerous b/w illustrations. 374pp. Coloured decorated pictorial cloth boards over red cloth. Light bumping to corners and shelf-wear. Gift inscription on free end paper. Page edges tinged green. Some foxing to various ages. Split to hinge between contents pages and first page proper, front board feels a little free because of this, but is fully attached.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 4th Edition. pp XIV, 270. 1st printing. Book in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Pages clean, no markings, wear to edges. Complete with numerous illustrations. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Thick 8vo. First edition thus - being the revised and enlarged edition to include latest aircraft developments, of "All About Airships" published 1911. pp(12)372 with tissue-guarded colour frontispiece and numerous monochrome photo & other plates. Original blue cloth, colour-illustrated backstrip and front cover titled in gilt. Head & foot of backstrip and hinges moderately rubbed, binding elsewheres lightly so. Backstrip also a little inwards-curled at head and foot, and with gilt a little dull. Lower outer corner of front cover a little curled, upper outer corner slightly so. No dust jacket. Edges of text-block moderately age-toned; top edge also lightly dust-marked, and with a number of little indentations. Front flyleaf with shallow indentation remaining from erased pencil price. Binding holding firmly and of pleasing appearance, contents generally clean and tight. VERY GOOD copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Binding a bit wobbly. but overall a robust copy.Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover to prevent further damage.

Hard back binding in publisher's original illustrated royal blue cloth covers with green and cream illustration of airships to the spine and front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 372 printed pages of text with colour illustrated frontispiece and monochrome photographs throughout. Rubs to the softened spine ends and corners, shallow rubs to the gutters, bubbling of the cloth to the covers, front free end paper missing and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ZEPPELINS, AIRSHIPS & BALLOONING.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Popular edition hard cover book in good condition. No dust jacket. Bumps to head and foot of spine and some fading to rear board. Book slightly rolled. Spotting to edges of text block with foxing to front and rear endpapers. Pages lightly tanned. Presentation bookplate on front free endpaper. 12mo. 212pp.

Reprint. Undated, but appears to be an early reprint. 1st edition came out in 1915, & the printer's code indicates that this copy was printed in Nov.1916. Erasure mark on front free end paper; blue cloth mottled on back board; spine bumped at head & foot, with wear to cloth. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in pictorial cloth Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in pictorial cloth.

Illustrations by Harold Earnshaw. Royal 8vo. pp. vi + 312 + 4 colour plates. plus a vignette on the upper board.some scattered foxing as usual and a prize label blue cloth a little rubbed and bumped hardcover.

Hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet paper covers, black title and author lettering to the spine and the upper panel. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 211 printed pages of text with monochrome period art work frontispiece. 25 mm tear to the bottom rear gutter, shallow rubs to the spine ends, edges and corners, tan age spots to the end papers and closed page edges, ink message to the front free end paper and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR BOYS.

Reprint. With colour frontispiece and B&W illustrations. Undated but printer's code 1116 indicates a 1916 reprint. Some foxing; front hinge cracked but repaired; tiny nick in edge of front board; spine a little bumped at head & foot; gilt title on spine dull. Used - Good. Good hardback in pictorial boards Used - Good. Good hardback in pictorial boards.

Illustrated Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Harold Earnshaw (illustrator). First Edition. 312 pages. Illustrated cloth-covered boards in red, green and black with gilt titles. Illustrated frontis. (loose). Missing front free endpaper. Light foxing to prelims and a few final pages with very light spotting to edges. The illustrated covers are remarkably bright and clean without colour fading.

Hard Illustrated Cover. Condition: Very Good. H.M. Brock (illustrator). 1st Printing of 1st Edition. A firm straight book. Text clean, dusty edges. 212 pages, colour frontis and 3 black/white plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. original highly decorated red cloth hardcover, illustrated throughout with all plates present as called for, 374 pages, contemporary name to flyleaf. small tear to top cover edge (see image) some internal spotting otherwise a very good bright copy. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B/C.