Daphne Rusbridge (10 results)

Hard cover. rectangular picture book format; illust. color paper boards with red spine covering; unpaged; illust. end papers; color illust. throughout. distributed by Franklin Watts in the U.S. based on a Czech cartoon film "O Kehouticovi Slepicce."; originally published by Artia in Prague. Stunning illust. Very Good. No dust jacket. CLEAN, TIGHT, & ATTRACTIVE. MINOR RUBBING AT CORNERS & EDGES. 0.0. ZDENEK MILER (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hard cover edition. Condition: Very Good with light wear to Dust Jacket and no marks to text.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Near fine in decorated cloth-covered boards and dust jacket with substanial wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover cloth decorated boards with black lettering on the spine and b/w line illustrations with gilt border on the cover with illustrated endpapers. Includes color and b/w illustrations, unpaginated. The DJ is in Very Good (-) condition with the exception of wear to the extremities, protected in brodart.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First English edition, first printing. Octavo. Hardback. 296 pages illustrated. Good + condition in Good unclipped dust jacket (small loss at top and bottom of spine area of jacket). No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Second impression. Lovely copy with unusual wallpaper-style decorative cloth covers with gilt-edged inserts. Consists mostly of full page plates, with many in color. Clean well-kept copy. Cloth covers with a few faded or lightly stained areas on spine panel. Oversize.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1935. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> I, Bedrich Smetana, born in Litomy?l on Tuesday, March 2nd, 1824, at ten o'clock in the morning, am the son of Franti?ek Smetana, a master brewer, and of Barbora Smetana, n?e Lynek. I was not yet four when my father taught me how to keep time to music. At the age of five I started school, and I was taught the piano and violin as well. I was seven when I gave a performance of the Over-ture to "La Muette" at an academy in Litomy?l. In the summer of 1830, we went to Jindrichuv Hradec where my father leased the local brewery. Here I continued my studies, literary and musical. My teacher was Ikavec, the court choir master. In 1835 my father bought the Ru?kovy Lhotice estate to which we then moved. I was sent to the elementary school in Jihlava (Iglau). There I was taught music by Matocha. I was in my second term when my father took me home, desirous of sending me to the elementary school in Nemeck? Brod. The following year I attended the first form of the gymnasium with my brother Anton and I.…

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Quarto. 26cm x 25cm. Color pictorial boards. With color and black and white bold illustrations. There is a two inch closed tear at bottom of title page. Light rubbing to edges. After the cartoon film of the same title.

Small 4to; cloth backed pictorial boards; hardcover; pictorial endpapers; color illustrations; sunned and edgeworn boards with sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Cover. First Edition. Very Good Hardcover, color illustrations, text in English.