Aberconway (105 results)

Glossy Pictorial Card. Condition: Near Fine (NEAR NEW). No Jacket. Revised edition. FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Pictorial Illustrations Throughout. (illustrator). Not Signed…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardback with dust jacket, size 8vo, 446 pages. Illustrated with b/w plates. Dust jacket is edge worn with nicks & small tears, also rubbing & marking + browning & staining. Boards show some light bumping & marking. Browning &brown spotting to the fore edges & prelims othe…

Maroon Backed Grey Boards. Condition: Very Good - See Description. None. First Edition. Unnumbered pages, [3] tipped-in colour illustrations, [16] black and white illustrations by Rex Whistler. Delightful tale for children of all ages, Whistler's delicately coloured and delineated illustrations enliven a whimsical text. Hb, in m…

Condition: Fair. 1954. First Published. Unpaginated. Pictorial dust jacket over grey and red cloth. Black and white and colour illustrations throughout. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, front board slightly loose. Previous owner's inscription to fr…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto. 7.75 x 10 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of artworks and tipped in color plates by Rex Whistler. Very good in original two-tone paper-covered boards, sticker ghost to front free endpaper…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Compact ed., 2nd printing ; 584 pp. ; 2048 illustrations in colour ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 1854710362 (lib. bdg.); 9781854710369 (lib. bdg.) ; OCLC: 28436629 ; LC: SB450.95; Dewey: 635.903 ; Reprint. Originally published: London : Penguin Books Ltd., 1975 ; color photographic boards ; no du…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 192 pages. 30 cm. Original green cloth hardcover. Glossy illustrated dust jacket (texts on flaps). Gilt lettering on spine. Illustrations (48 col. plates and 302 drawings by Charles Stitt). Dust jacket slightly yellowed with a few tiny creases at extremities. Charles Stitt…

Grey Cloth/Red Cloth Spine. Condition: Good/Very Good. No Dust Jacket. unpaginated, illustrated with black & white drawings and three full-page colour plates tipped in, all by Rex Whistler, occasional thumb smudges to pages, grey endpapers, grey cloth with small gilt illustration to bottom corner of upper board, faded red cloth…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ- In Mylar Cover. 1st Edition. DJ in Mylar but dulled from age, some very minor foxing title page, but end plates clean Aberconway and Whistler were friends and when the author first wrote the book, the illustrator finished sketches along with him but the author did no…

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. The Gardens at Bodnant: The Residence of Lord and Lady Aberconway (Talycafn Denbighshire). Supervised by Lord Aberconway for the Joint Committee of the National Trust and the Royal Horticultural society. Head gardener: Mr. C. Puddle. Illustrated with 8 b&w photographs, plus double-page plan…

4to [30 x 22 cm]; 192 pp, 48 full page color illustrations from paintings, including frontis, 302 other illustrations from drwgs. original cloth with gilt spine title lettering, dj, illustrations pasted on front endpaper, else a fine clean copy. The author, one of the most distinguished horticulturists in Britain, describes hund…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2nd impression. 4to. 466 pages. Text in English, French, and German. Red cloth, gilt spine titles on black label, gilt decorations; top edge dyed maroon; pictorial endpapers, black & white illustrations; buff dust jacket, not price-clipped, now prote…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat stained and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: book plate or Roderic Hill. Physical description; 40 unnumbered pages color frontispiece, illustrations (part mounted color) 26 cm. Subjects; Whi…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Rex Whistler was a regular visitor to the young authors home where he challenged her to invent a story which he would illustrate with quick pencil sketches as she unfolded it verbatim. A year later in the early period of WW2 he suggested that he would like to make larger coloured drawings from th…

Condition: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original yellow cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 179 printed pages of text with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Ink message inside, old dry damp stain to the bottom half of the rear board. Good condition…

First Edition. Grey cloth, red backstrip, gilt to backstrip and vignette to lower corner. No DW. Tipped in coloured frontis + 2 tipped in coloured plates with b/w plates and illustrations within text. Unpaginated. Boards sunned to margins with a few stains. Contents sl. thumbed with 3cm tear to lower margin of one page. Lower ed…