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G. W. Backhouse (illustrator). Very good dustwrapper, book has bookplate on the front paste down and has split between ffep and the half title but the book is still tight. Another Willis & Wallis doggy adventure in which the friends take part in a BBC radio play. Beautiful colour frontis of W&W outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place, London and featuring Eric Gill's Prospero. Many other full page illusrations in text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book has slight wear to cover corners and along bottom edges. Faint cock to spine. 2 small bumps along top edges. Otherwise, pages are clean and crisp. Binding is strong. Boards are sturdy. Dust jacket has light wear to corners and along most edges. 0.5, 1.25, and 1.5 inch rips to front top edge; 0.75 and two 0.25 inch rips to front bottom; 1 inch total rip to back bottom near flap. Slight sunfading to spine. Otherwise, jacket is intact. No other major wear or markings. All text and imagery bold and bright. Now in protective mylar cover. Photos upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Good. G.W. Backhouse (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first printing octavo hardback.96 pages Colour frontispiece and numerous two-colour illustrations. Good condition White titles and cover illustration very clear Several contemporary inscriptions on front free end paper and half-title (by the donor of the book and the child recipient).

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. No Jacket. Backhouse, G. W. (illustrator). Yellow hardcover cloth binding quite soiled. Name in ink ffep, lots of smudges, binding secure. Illus throughout in red, black and white. 96 pages. Cute story told from dogs' point of view. Mr. Wallis and Mr. Willis are two dogs who live in a house who meet up with Jacko, a gypsy's terrier who has a feud with a circus poodle known as Pongo the Terrible. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. G. W. Backhouse (illustrator). Early Printing. neat little dog story.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Backhouse, G.W. (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1947. Very good condition with no wrapper. Two dogs want to be radio performers. Red cloth. Colour frontis plus black and red illustrations. Gilt title darkened to spine. A couple of margin marks and one small edge tear to page 17 (not affecting illustration). Generally very clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Condition: Fair. 1947. No Edition Remarks. 95 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen markings to front pastedown. Pencil marks to some illustrations. Moderate tear to page 17. Minor cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edge wear with loss, chips, tears and creases. Visible wear and pen marks to spine and panels.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. G.W. Backhouse (illustrator). First Edition. Another story about Mr Willis & Mr Wallis, Pongo & Peter and many other dogs, this time acting in a film. No dj, red cloth with dogs vignette & spine lettering in gilt (a little tarnished), frontispiece missing, small light stain at top of title page, else vg. 12mo, 95pp,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. G.W. Backhouse (illustrator). 1st Edition. Another Willis & Wallis doggy adventure in which the friends take part in a BBC radio play. Beautiful colour frontis of W&W outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place, London and featuring Eric Gill's Prospero. Many other full page illusrations in text. Remains of gift inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise very good in a near complete wrapper, not price-clipped but small loss top and base of spine.

Condition: GOOD. 1969 Library rebind w/no DJ. Green bds have lt wear on edges/corners. Clean but handled pages.X-library w/ front pocket & indicators on title page. A portion of the DJ has been clipped & glued to FEFF. A.

Paperback. Condition: New. Android Jones, Howard Chaykin, Sidney Sime, Denis Zilber, Philip Mendoza, Ron Murphy ('Arty Freeman') (illustrator). Soft Cover. Book Palace Books Autumn 2015. The sumptuous ART quarterly presenting the world's finest illustrators. 1st Edition. Book condition: New. Full Colour illustrations. Artists featured in issue 12 include: Android Jones the inspirational and redemptive worlds of this extraordinary artist; Howard Chaykin the vices and virtues of a comics legend; Sidney Sime the unsettling realm of one of the UK's weirdest artists; Denis Zilber his photo-realistic work reveals charm, wit and manic energy; Philip Mendoza the latter years of this artistic giant; Ron Murphy meet Ron's alter ego 'Arty Freeman' whose work is literally off-the-wall plus our regular features including The Bookshelf and Letters. More like a book than a magazine, illustrators is the art quarterly devoted to the finest illustration art ever published. With its unique blend of art and insight, it guides you through the stories behind the artists and their art, with features written by some of the leading authorities on this important art form. As well as building into an indispensable reference library, illustrators gives readers an insight into the creative process, from the initial idea to the image potentially seen by millions. Truly fabulous artwork abounds in every issue, much of the art taken from scans of the original work. A Book Palace Books publication. 96 pages. Size: 9" x 11" (216mm x 280mm). ISBN: 9781907081316. (0.7 ILLUSTRATORS12).

Hard. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor Plus. Jacket has open and closed tears, chipping rubbing and loss. C/E suffering some wear, PP clean and tidy Size: 8vo.

1949 1st edition with red, black and white illustrations and colour frontispiece by G.W. Backhouse; tightly bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decoration to front; very light wear to corners. Dust jacket not price-clipped with wear, tear and small losses to edges and corners; front panel has rectangle of surface removed, perhaps by a sticky label. Slight musty smell; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. G.W. Backhouse (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition. Full colour frontispiece and numerous illustrations in b/w and black and red. Original red cloth with gilt vignette of the two dogs to front, gilt titles to spine. Binding firm with light pushing to spine ends. Slight fading to spine ends where jacket missing. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Very light fox spotting to fore-edge. Content clean and bright with no markings. Jacket clipped, losses to spine ends and top of back panel, tears and creases to edges. Not ex-library. 95pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Collins, 1949. First Edition in pictorial dust jacket. Book Condition: Very Good ++ (Almost Near Fine). Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Light wear to boards. Previous owner's name and address to ffep, otherwise contents clean and bright and unmarked throughout. Dust Jacket is chipped to edges, some minor loss to foot of spine, not price clipped.