Astraea Starforth (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12 stories set around the world. First story: It Happened in Mexico, last story: Reekie Bogles set in the Highlands of Scotland. With frontis. in colour, four b&w plates and line drawings in text. Undated but pencil gift inscription 1931. Rubbed at corners and spine otherwise in very nice bright condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First or early edition, 1931. Colour frontis and attractive dust jacket (unattributed). Prize label on front free endpaper and top page edges darkened but otherwise in very good condition. In bright dust jacket, price-clipped and with small tears and slight loss to corners. I can find little about the author except that she lived at 16 Kensington Road, Bath, had a son at Westminster School and was the author of a romantic novel, The Loth Word.…

Condition: Good. dw. Red cloth-covered boards. Dark blue lettering on covers. Dustwrapper worn at edges and a little soiled. Light wear to edges of covers. Neat handwritten prize dedication inside front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not applicable. 1st Edition. 94 pages + 12 colour and two-tone plates + many line drawings by Ms Attwell within the tales. All printed on the thicker semi-stiff paper. Glazed colour paper paste-down on cover and spine, split started at front edge of head of the spine and perhaps? a sliver of the back tip of the spine illustration lost, but minor. Small inscription "Mary Ridlington" top edge of FFEP, and "Xmas 1931" inside front board again in ink and tiny. NO OTHER marks, colourings or inscriptions. Corners and extremes a little light wear, despite the above this remains a superior condition copy of a scarce pre-war Attwell book. Thick quarto (4to). *Stories & poems inc; Bunny's Tale+ Solomon Sam + The Haughty Giant + Tony's Wonderful Christmas + Wimseys Wonders, etc, etc. Mabel Lucie Attwell (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 255. Rare:Only 3 copies found at WorldCat (OCLC) the worldÕs largest library catalogue. Original publisher's cloth binding in cherry red, lettered dark blue. Illustrated dust jacket, lettered red and black features two goals in school uniform in a Spanish landscape. Frontispiece in colour depicts one of the young school girls in a church "The door was flung violently open." Girls juvenile fiction: After the death of her father, thirteen-year-old Jenny is sent to a boarding school for English and Spanish girls in Barcelona by her Uncle Joe. She soon makes friends and forms a secret society that meets in a disused chapel. When some of her uncle's important documents go missing, and a mysterious group begins using the chapel, Jenny must solve the puzzle. Very good in minus very good dust jacket. Slight fading of covers. Dust jacket chipped at edges and large thumb-size chip at head of spine.…

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Blue cloth with dark blue lettering and banding, and pictorial designs to front. In matching illustrated B&W dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (DW darkened, edges rubbed, small chips and tears to corners and ends of spine. Not price clipped.) Cloth heavily daded at ends of spine, some light fading around board edges. Endpapers clean, neat inscription to front ?Irene Dacre.? One or two minor handling marks to pages else a very good clean and tight copy. 315pp. …