Allingham Mrs (28 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

No Binding. Condition: VG. Size 8.5 x 11 inches, on glossy paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Thus. Glossy pictorial boards. Lightly rubbed on the corners with some minor rubbing on the panels; no interior markings; as issued, no dustjacket. Cover art by Mark Oldroyd. Illustrated with line drawings by: S. A. Field; Ronald Lampitt; H. A. Seabright; Colin Orme; Bertram Prance; Norman Howard; Margaret Bradley; Freeman; Cyril Holloway; S. Tresilian; and H. M. Brock. This anthology contains: The Electric King by Lord Dunsany; The Regent's Park Murder by The Baroness Orczy; They Never Got Caught by Margery Allingham; The Interruption by W. W. Jacobs; Nobody at Home by C. D. Heriot; St Catherine's Eyes by Mrs Belloc Lowndes; The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford; The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Bramah; The Idiots by Joseph Conrad; The Vampire by Sydney Horler; The Magic Casket by Austin Freeman; The President of San Jacinto by H. C. Bailey; Outside the Law by Anthony Berkeley; Before Insulin by J. J. Connington; The Perfect Murder by Stacy Aumonier; The Shadow of the Shark by G. K. Chesterton; The Marionettes by O. Henry; Diamond Cut Diamond by F. Britten Austin; Murder at the Microphone by Augustus Muir; Death in the Kitchen by Milward Kennedy; The Vertical Line by Freeman Wills Crofts; The Clue of Monday's Settling by Edgar Wallace; The Ghost of a Smile by Gerard Fairlie; Sons of the Chief Warder by Bertram Atkey; Query by Seamark; The Room on the Fourth Floor by Ralph Straus; The Wounded God by A. E. W. Mason; Charles by A. J. Alan; The Funeral March of a Marionette by John Metcalfe; The Interlopers by Saki; The Travelling Grave by L. P. Hartley; The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe; The Bird Woman by H. Spicer; The Dabblers by W. Fryer Harvey; Marsyas in Flanders by Vernon Lee; The Room by Eleanor Scott; Florence Flannery by Marjorie Bowen; The House on Big Faraway by Norman Matson; Madam Julia's Tale by Naomi Royde-Smith; The Cigarette Case by Oliver Onions; and A Pair of Hands by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Size: 8vo. Mark Oldroyd; S. A. Field; Ronald Lampitt; H. A. Seabright; Colin Orme; Bertram Prance; Norman Howard; Margaret Bradley; Freeman; Cyril Holloway; S. Tresilian; H. M. Brock; (illustrator). Book. …

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Good dust jacket. Former Library book. Dust jacket price clipped. (Country Life, England, Juvenile Fiction) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. First in This Edition. 203 pages. No dustjacket. Clean red hardback binding, black lettering to spine (latter somewhat faded), corners of boards lightly bumped, page-edges age-browned, as too endpapers. Internally clean and tidy. 12 B&W etchings by Mrs. Allingham. Illustrated by Mrs. Allingham (illustrator). …

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Original Boards. Condition: Fair. New Edition, (12) + 116 pages, well-illustrated by Mrs Allingham (12 illustrations) hardcover, 8vo, bound in original publisher's illustrated boards with illustration of 2 small girls in bonnets and capes sitting on high chairs, boards rather worn and grubby, spine strengthened with contemporary brown paper tape, Provenance: with previous owner's name within: Mary Hill, fair condition, George Bell and Sons, London, 1888. * a tale of improvement by a famous children's author. ALLINGHAM, Mrs. (illustrator).…

Pictorial. Condition: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. New Edition. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES AND FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY) .Please e-mail for further details. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". With 10 Illustrations By Mrs. W. Allingham (illustrator). Inscibed "Emily Matterface fro.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. New Edition. 116pp. HARDCOVER Clean internally. Quite worn & rubbed externally. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. Mrs. Allingham (illustrator). Book.

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1890. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette of windmill to front cover. Eleven b/w illustrations. Fifth edition. Spine bumped with slight damage at base. Corners rubbed. Joints cracked. Foxspots to endpapers and prelims. Name in ink to front endpaper. One or two margin marks but contents generally clean. One page has a closed tear. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Allingham, Mrs. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. circa 1909 Mrs Allingham frontpiece. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. viii, 286 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0241891892; 9780241891896 LCCN: 75-329171 ; LC: CT9990; Dewey: 920/.0415 ; OCLC: 1952718 ; brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : Familiars -- Hermits and ascetics -- Miracle workers, Rhymers, Witches, Giants and Oddities -- John Perrot -- John Asgill and Dean Swift -- Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry -- Philip Skleton and other men of God -- Spenders and spongers -- Men of violence -- George Robert Fitzgerald -- Scholars -- Richard Pokrich -- The Stratfords and the Kings -- Buck Whaley and Tiger ROche --- Court circles -- Lord Massereene -- Amanda Ros -- Folly and death and Adolphus Cooke -- Selected books -- Index ; also includes oddities such as Crazy Crow, Richard Crosbie, Harry Badger, Eleanor Butler, Sarah Ponsonby, Charles Byrne, Countess of Desmond, Thomas Dermody, Charles Maturin, Richard Kirwan, Jackie Barrett, Valentine Greatrakes, and Colonel Hanger ; "This is a 'rare gallery of human curiosities'" - William Trevor. ; "A delightful excursion into the bizarre, colorful, and extravagant lives of Irish eccentrics, saints, scholars, bucks and hellrakes, duellists, abductors, rhymers, and miracle-makers." ; "Peter Somerville-Large is the author of "Cappaghglass," shortlisted for the Ewart-Biggs Prize." ; FINE. Book. …

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. soft illustrated wraps, very slightly creased, else almost as new. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mrs Allingham (illustrator).

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. soft illustrated wraps, very slightly creased, else almost as new. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mrs Allingham (illustrator).

Printed wraps. New edition. (10),116 Pp.Frontis and 11 wood engravings Paper covers torn along spine otherwise very good. Mrs. Allingham (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. blue cloth sunned at spine, occasional slight foxing. Reissue of a Victorian children's favourite. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mrs Allingham (illustrator).

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd 1884. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Town and Country Series. Third Edition. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt vignette of windmill and black borders to front cover. 7 x 4.75". Eleven b/w illustrations. 310 pages plus 24 page book list. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Joints cracked. Name and date in ink to half-title page. Some light page browning. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Allingham, Mrs. (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1906. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Celebrating the countryside and its history, scenery, and diversity. With chapters covering various regions in the country and the differences in each cottage. Profusely illustrated throughout with various illustrations in black and white and complete with fifteen full colour tissue-guarded plates. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt titles, bevelled edges. 168 pages. Top edge gilt. Boards scuffed and a little grubby, lightly rubbed at corners. Gilt title to front is a little discoloured. Previous owner's book-plate to front pastedown. Contemporary name in ink to title page. Some foxing present. A few of instances of heavier foxing. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Allingham, Mrs. & Ball, Wilfrid & et al., (illustrator).…

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. Delightful tender Children's Classic. Beautifully illustrated with 12 B&W Illustrations by Mrs Allingham. Frontispiece illustrated with 2 Little Girls.in a Tinsmith's Shop. Contemporary Black Half-Leather Binding with Green cloth covered boards and Leather corners. Gilt Lettering to front & spine. 115 Pages, 300g,8 1/2" Tall. 2 pieces of leather (2" long) missing at spine ends ("A F" missing from beginning of title and "HING" missing from the end. Some light white marks to cloth (see photo). Previous owner's name neatly stamped on ffep. Binding cracked between Frontis & Title page. 2 pages loose.Pages in nice, clean condition, only an occasional very light finger mark ion a margin. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Allingham, Mrs (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Reprint of Macmillan first edition of 1881. Blue/green decorative cloth hard boards with embossed gilt titling. Pp 137, many illustrations [rather inexpertly coloured with colour pencils]; two pages publisher's list. The book has slight lean but generall tight and sound; Light soiling to boards; darkened spine strip with rubbing to edges and ends. Images/further information available upon request. Mrs. Allingham (illustrator). …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Comprises 3 books in 1. 116pp/151pp/122pp. All are illustrated throughout, with line engravings- Flat Iron by Mrs. Allingham, and Brownies by Cruikshank, the illustrator of Jan is not credited on its titlepage, but the plates are signed H. Paterson and H. Harral Sc. The book is small 4to or wide 8vo, 8.4x6.8 inches, in half black calf, rubbed, and marbled boards, much rubbed. Parting at the spine, so that the front board is nearly detached; the back hinge is cracked and the split extends about 2inches from the top. Spine has raised bands with trace of gilding, loss of top section, and of part of title label. Contents- foxed at epp, and slightly soiled here and there. Owner's name on endpaper. The illustrations to The Brownies are traditional Victorian fairytale with a flavour of Edward Lear. (Literature, Victorian, Women, Fairytale, Dwarf, Folktale) 810g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mrs. Allingham/George Cruikshank (illustrator). …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. A later edition of this Victorian-era story for girls by the children's writer Juliana Horatia Ewing. A new edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial paper boards. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight in-text illustrations by Mrs. W. Allingham. Collated, complete. Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885) was an English writer of children's stories. This novel tells the story of the early life of Margaret Vandaleur, who is taken in by a kind relative after her mother passes away. In the publisher's original pictorial paper boards. Externally very smart. Small losses to the head and tail of the backstrip, which is also sunned. A little age toning to the extremities of the boards. Offsetting to the end papers. Pages are generally bright and clean apart from a small mark to the title page. Very Good. Mrs. W. Allingham (illustrator). book. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. Two of the popular children's tales of Juliana Horatia Ewing, both illustrated by Helen Allingham. Two charming tales by Juliana Horatia Ewing, 'Six to Sixteen', and 'A Flat Iron For a Farthing'.Ewing was a popular Victorian author of children's tales, known for their religious morality, and touching insights into children's lives. 'A Flat Iron For a Farthing' in particular is one of her best known books, and reflects on the childhood of the only child of a widowed father.'Six to Sixteen', published in 1894. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and nine in-text engravings. Collated, complete.'A Flat Iron For a Farthing', published in 1904. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and eleven in-text engravings. Collated, complete.Both volumes are illustrated by Helen Allingham. In the original publisher's paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart. Age-toning to the boards and spines, with some spots and handling marks. Minor bumping to the extremities and to the head and tail of the spines. Loss to the spines, heavier to 'Flat Iron'. Chip to the front endpaper of 'Six to Sixteen', gift inscription to the front paste down. Front hinge of 'A Flat Iron For a Farthing' is starting but firm, gift inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with a few scattered spots and handling marks. Good. Mrs. Allingham (illustrator). book.…

Condition: Very Good. First special edition hard back binding in publisher's original Japanese vellum covers, gilt scroll designs, title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel, top edge gilt, fore and lower page edges untrimmed. Elephant folio 16'' x 12''. 1 of approximately 85 Limited Edition copies with list of 60 subscribers to the rear. Contains [xii] 136 printed pages of text with 17 finely detailed full-page portrait plates on India paper. Slight soiling and marks to the white vellum covers, ghosting to the end papers, very minor age tanning to the page edges and in Very Good clean and sound condition, heavy volume. Member of the P.B.F.A. STAGE & THEATRE.…

Condition: Near fine. Beautiful first US edition of this collection of fairy stories by the Victorian woman of letters known for her depictions of middle-class life in the English countryside. 6.25'' x 5''. Original purple cloth stamped in gilt and black. Brown coated endpapers. Illustrated by Allingham with wood engravings throughout. Publisher's ads at front and rear. 139, [1], 4 pages. Slight lean and a touch of fading to spine, else particularly well preserved with only faint rubbing. Interior largely clean; hinges strong.…