Aunt Laura (54 results)

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. Condition: Good. This is one of the series books that American girls read for fun a century ago. It's not only a fast-paced tale of friendship and adventure, but also a piece of history that reveals many interesting things--good and bad--about our past. Aunt Claire has combed through the attic of forgotten stories to rescue some good ones. Her first selection is The Automobile Girls at Newport, originally published in 1910. In this book, you will meet Ruth, Barbara, Mollie, and Grace, the four explorers who take to the road in Ruth's bright red car, affectionately called Mr. A. Bubble. They are heading for Newport, Rhode Island, a resort town famous for mansions and millionaires. Oh, and Ruth's Aunt Sallie is coming along too, just to keep the girls out of trouble. She's a good sort of aunt (rather like Aunt Claire), but she's also fond of naps, and she leaves some of the more dangerous adventuring to the girls. And danger does find them--a professional thief is following the girls to Newport He is planning to pull off a big jewel heist at the annual Tennis Ball, and . . . well, I suppose you'll just have to see. Aunt Claire's illustrated introduction provides just the right amount of historical context for young readers: What was it like to go on a road trip in 1910? Were girls encouraged to drive? And what can we learn from the mix of social attitudes displayed in the book? Don't forget to look underneath the jacket to see the original cover from 1910.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; tan pictorial c w/green titles; 240. Frontis (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean large format hardback book, binding pulled, cloth spine, pictorial boards, endpapers tanned, gift inscription dated 1931 on frontispiece verso. Unpaginted, 8 colour illustrations on plates, some by C. P. Shilton and Savile Lumley, black & white illustrations in the text. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcover, staple-bound. The covers rubbed with chips to the lower fore-corners; marginal stains.

Wraps. Good, light soil, spine tattered, shaken, pages toned. 6 chromolithograph plates. Series: Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books #10 25.7x22.4 cm. no pagination.

Condition: Good. Good plus, some wear to corners. back strip soiled, small (.5x1.5 inch) piece missing at center spine of front cover. 6 chromolithograph plates. Series: Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books #33 25.7x22.4 cm. no pagination. Pictorial wraps with cloth back strip.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'Comprising Puss in Boots, Jack and the Beanstalk and The House that Jack Built'. Collection of stories by the prolific victorian children's author. With numerous full page colour illustrations by b/w drawings within the text. 4to. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Previous owner's inscription to ffep, with small tear and loss to bottom corner. Mild occasional foxing within. Binding sound. Good.…

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, undated but we think about 1875, Pictorial red cloth lettered gilt, 10 3/4" x 9 1/4", Mild stain to the top right of the upper board and also at the foot, barely visible but having affected the gilt lettering of 'Dogs', showing also at the foot of the front and rear endpapers. Signature of a previous owner to the title page, the body of text unmarked, minor foxing. Twenty-four chromolithograph plates by Herring and Landseer, printed by J Butterfield.…

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, undated but about 1875, small quarto measuring 11 1/2" x 9 1/2", re-cased at some point with blue cloth over bevelled edge boards, original cloth laid over, lettered gilt to the spine, and with new endpapers. The untearable Gift Book series consists of the paper being backed onto linen. Minor pencil scribble to the verso of the final leaf. Illustrated with brightly coloured plates. A pleasing copy.…

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, quarto, 10 1/2" x 9 1/8", red cloth gilt. Comprises four tales, Sing a Song o' Sixpence, Robin's Christmas Eve, Robin Hood & His Merry Men & The Sea Side. Rubbed to the extremities of the cloth and mildly darkened to the bottom left of the upper board, the binding tight and the contents clean and unmarked. Twenty four leaves of chromolithograph plates in oils by Kronheim and Dalziels. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to (261 x 220 mm.), publisher's maroon cloth, decorated in blind and gilt. 24 pages of chromoxylographic illustrations, 2 per page, printed by Edmund Evans, each page corresponding to a page of text, the whole interleaved with blanks. Sometime very neatly rebacked, retaining spine and original endpapers. Gift inscription on first free endpaper dated 1867. Very clean throughout. Occasional minor offsetting onto blanks. Generally a very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [1947]. 4to. Colour pictorial jacket. Eight colour plates and b/w illustrations throughout, mostly by B. Butler, but pastedown illustrations front and rear are by Harry Rountree. Book and jacket beautifully clean. No inscriptions. VG+ / VG+.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Not dated, approx 1880s. Brown decorative cloth boards with minor rubbing/bumping to edges, slight fraying to spine ends, very minor scuffing/soiling. Contents generally clean and tight but for minor soiling/browning, minor splitting, ffep loose. Charming colour illustrations by Frank Grey throughout. Includes 'The Little Sportsman's Alphabet' beginning A for Ascot, 'The Farm Yard Hunt' about the ravages of Reynard the Fox on the farm and 'A Country Holiday' about a boy's holiday on the farm and his various mishaps. Attributed to Laura Valentine (Aunt Louisa). Scarce. Grey, Frank (illustrator). …

Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Front Boards highly decorated with title and the figure of a man on horseback embossed in gold relief. Boards rubbed and corners bumped with some fraying to spine. Large Format. Not Inscribed. Internally cracked with fronticepiece ,title and early pages loose. There are twenty four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Kronheim. ( two are loose with one torn) There is uniform light foxing throughout. A Fair copy only.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition Thus. A modernised and revised edition of the 'Half Hours with the Best Authors'. Complete twelve volume set. Quarter white buckram ornately decorated in gilt to front boards and spines. Green moire boards. Top page edges gilt, outer page edges untrimmed, some pages unopened. A little light marking to covers. Foxing to page edges. Tanning to free endpapers. Foxing to first and last few pages in all volumes. Scattered foxing elsewhere. Frontis to each volume. A very pretty late Victorian set. . Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 4 x 6 inches (10 x 16 cm).…

Cloth. Condition: Fair. A beautifully illustrated early edition of this collection of nursery rhymes for children, by Laura Valentine. Early edition. Dated using the British Library. Illustrated with twenty-three plates printed in oil colours. Collated missing frontispiece. Including: Sing a Song o' Sixpence, The Robin's Christmas Eve, Robin Hood & his Merry Men, and The Sea Side. Written by Laura Valentine, under the pen name Aunt Louisa, a Victorian English writer known for her children's literary series. Illustrated by Kronheim and Dalziels. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, worn with bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Some loss to the cloth on the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with light age toning. Frontispiece and title page have been removed. Fair. Kronheim; Dalziels (illustrator). book. …

64 pp. About 1-1/2 x 1-1/4 inches, publisher's gilt-decorated cloth; gilt spine; a.e.g. 5 cent postage stamp affixed to the front free endpaper; a beautiful copy.

Condition: Good. Hardback. Original red cloth with titles and decoration in gilt, white and black, colour illustration inset on front. Covers with slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, chipping to cover illustration, inner hinge starting and lacking front endpaper, frontis torn and chipped with some repair, spine crack, otherwise a good-plus copy. No date, c.1880s.…

FIRST EDITION circa 1867 (no titles on adverts later than 1866, inscribed Dec. 25th 1868), 280 x 190 mm, 11 x 7½ inches, cloth backed pale yellow boards, repeat illustration on upper cover, engraved frontispiece with 2 images and 19 large charming engraved illustrations (uncoloured) all of sweet children, happy, sad, shy, cross, reading etc., each with descriptive verse below, printed 1 side only. Boards a bit rubbed, lightly soiled and marked, corners worn and rounded, small chip to surface and small red stain to lower cover, small light stain to upper cover at lower edge, spine slightly worn at head and tail with tiny nicks to cloth, neat inscription on front endpaper, contents otherwise bright and clean. A good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Late 19th century (1875?). Rebinding has obscured part of board titles and decoration at front. Lighly foxxed. Herring and Landseer (illustrator).

First edition. Blind-stamped gilt decorated publisher's cloth, a.e.g. Miniature: 5.5x4cm. pp. 64. Near Fine. Gilt a bit dulled, internally fine. CHR117979.

pp. (iv), 124. Engraved frontispiece and title. Original cloth now much faded and a bit marked, the front joint weak and the lacking the front free end-paper, a working copy. *SCARCE - COPAC gives 2 locations : BL and Cambridge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Buffalo, NY: Breed, Butler & Co., 1862. 64 pp. Approximately 1 5/8 x 2 1/8". Brown pictorial gilt cloth with minor rubbing on edges, small spot on rear cover, old tape repairs on front and rear paste-down endpapers, all edges gilt, in very good condition. (Bradbury Antique: Breed, Butler & Co., 14)The Aunt Fanny and Aunt Laura series resulted in thirty miniature children's books, which are high spots in any miniatur book collection. Frances Elizabeth Barrow, the author of these books, was a popular children's book author of the time. All of the books are attractively found in highly gilt cloth. There are five series and each series has six titles. As each series was published, the books were smaller in size.…

FIRST EDITION (No. 17 in list of 17 on lower cover), circa 1868, small 4to, 266 x 230 mm, 10½ x 9 inches, pink card covers colour decorated, adverts to lower cover. 6 colour plates printed by Kronheim and Co., 6 pages of story in quatrains, all printed 1 side only. 1 of 4 brave St Bernard dogs meets his death on a rescue mission Christmas eve in the mountains with the monks. Spine expertly and invisibly repaired, restitched, top corner of upper cover slightly scuffed, margins slightly fingermarked, occasional slight foxing. Contents nice. A very good copy. Osborne I,84. Mrs Valentine was the general editor of Warne's publishing house and possibly wrote most of the verses for the Aunt Louisa series of books. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. London, no publication date stated, c. 1870; illustrated paper covers; mild corner and edge wear; spine reinforced with brown tape; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; text block hanging on by a tread; interior foxed; a total of 6 full-page color illustrations includes 4 single page and one double page (centerfold) illustration, chromolithographed plates by Henry Stannard; Previous owner's name on first page; Interior is clean and unmarked; not paginated.…

A very good Victorian binding. Gilt cover illustration and titles. Some wear, hinges carefully strengthened at some time in the past. Previous owner's name to top of title-page. 4to, [6pp.]/pp.5/[2pp.]/pp.6/[2pp.]/pp.6/[2pp.]/pp.6 + 24 chromolithographic plates. All pages linen backed. 27.0cm x 23.8cm x 2.1cm. James notes this is probably by EVB. Publication date from Osborne Coll. Comprising Little Dame Crump, Hush-A-Bye Baby, Childhood Delight, Tottie's Nursery Rhymes with Twenty-Four pages of illustrations printed in Colours and Gold From Original Designs by M. Tilsley. Date taken from English Catalogue of Books. Chromolithographed plates are with signatures: "MT" [i.e. M. Tilsley] and "EB". Plates are with guard sheets. "Aunt Louisa" was a pseudonym of Laura Valentine, general editor of Warne's publishing house. * Referenced by: Osborne Coll. p. 689 ** "Attributed to Laura Valentine and dated by the Bodleian Library." - See COPAC. *** "Laura Belinda Charlotte Jewry (married name Laura Valentine, pen names Mrs. S. Valentine and Aunt Louisa; 18141899), was an Victorian English writer primarily known for her children literature. Her work was often produced in children series including Aunt Louisa's Toy Books, Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series, and The Young Folk's Shakespeare Series. Her literature often was educational, told of travel, or described the London scene. As an adult novelist, Laura Valentine specialized in florid historical romance. Her main novels were Kirkholme Priory (1847), The Vassal (1850), and the Cup and the Lip (1851). Laura Valentine expressed an expertise in Shakespeare, editing "The Works of William Shakespeare" and creating a number of children's versions of Shakespeare plays including The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest. Professionally, Laura Valentine was one of the chief editors of Frederick Warne & Co and the sole editor of Girl's Home Book and The Chandos Classics. Most of Laura Valentine's work was published through Frederick Warne & Co and T. C. Newby. Laura Valentine's full maiden name was Laura Belinda Charlotte Jewry after her father Admiral Jewry who served in the English navy. She was born at the Victory in England but at an early age connected with the Lord Elphinstone family. She spent her maiden life in India till she married Reverend Richard Valentine, a clergyman of the Church of England. However within 12 months of their marriage, she was widowed. Laura Valentine died at the age of 84 still an active writer. She was survived only by her sister Mary Jewry for five or six years." - See Wikipedia.…

Softcover. Condition: Fair. No DJ. DESCRIPTION: Short colour booklet. Comprises six leaves of text printed to one side only, with six chromolithographic plates. Illustrations printed by Kronheim and Co. Language: English. Book Condition: Fair: Wear to corners with tape repair to spine. See photo. Toned covers with spotting to some pages. DJ Condition: No DJ Size: 26cm by 22.5cm. AUTHOR: Laura Valentine (1814 - 1899) was a successful childrens writer primarily under the nom-de-plume Aunt Louisa. She wrote a large number of simple stories for younger children published by Frederick Warne & Co. Her illustrations were usually printed by Kronheim & Co. , was a British printing firm, founded by Joseph Martin Kronheim who used an adapted form of the Baxter print process to produce chromolithographs of rich, dense colours. …