Brooks Ron Illustrations (7 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Square 12mo [approx 13 cm x 13 cm]. Fine Condition. An excellent copy. Illustrated in colour by Ron Brooks. Unpaginated. Winner of the Australian Children's Book of the Year Award 1978. A lovely story about how a sheepdog learns ot overcome his jealously when his elderly owner befriends a stray cat. An Australian classic. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Brooks, Ron (illustrator).…

Reprint. Hardcover. Small quarto. Top edge slightly foxed, o/w fine in like dustjacket. A series of fable-like stories, with the archetype of the jester at their centre. Illustrated with b/w drawings by Brooks. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $3 ($6 overseas), so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller.…

First edition. Hardcover. Fine in like dustjacket with a couple small professionally closed tears. A fine juvenile time-slip novel, where a 1970s Sydney boy is transported to Victorian London. Illustrated with b/w drawings by Ron Brooks. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $4, so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards before the order is processed by the bookseller.…

First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Long gift inscription on the front free endpaper, otherwise very good in a good dustjacket with some professionally repaired tears and chips (not affecting any lettering). A fine collection of stories, featuring many of the best authors of the time, with wonderful drawings throughout in colour and b/w by the talented Ron Brooks. This heavy book will cost more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted.…

First edition thus (by this publisher, using the same format as the 1973 Longman edition, but in pictorial boards only--no jacket issued). Hardcover. Square quarto-size. Fine in very good dustjacket with some rubbing at the edges and some professionally closed tears. "Late one night, for no particular reason, something stirred in the black mud at the bottom of Berkeley's Creek." A wonderful example of the 20th Century Australian picture book, illustrated in colour by Brooks (who joined with Wagner to produce 3 outstanding picture-books: this title which won Best Picture Book for 1974, and "Aranea: a Story About a Spider (1975), and "John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat" (1977)).…

First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Fine in fine dustjacket, and uncommon thus. A fine collection of stories, featuring many of the best authors of the time, with wonderful drawings throughout in colour and b/w by the talented Ron Brooks. This heavy book will cost more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted, most likely twice the default for economy air.…

First edition (first printing). Hardcover. Square quarto-size. Fine in very good dustjacket with some rubbing at the edges and some professionally closed tears. "Late one night, for no particular reason, something stirred in the black mud at the bottom of Berkeley's Creek." A wonderful example of the 20th Century Australian picture book, illustrated in colour by Brooks (who joined with Wagner to produce 3 outstanding picture-books: this title which won Best Picture Book for 1974, and "Aranea: a Story About a Spider (1975), and "John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat" (1977)).…