Edith M Edwards (8 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Front endpaper removed. Ex-Library.

Condition: Good. Boards are generally clean with minor edge wear and age darkening. Content is clean to main pages with a gift message dated 18905 to ffirst page - ffep removed. Stable binding. 128pp +Ads.

Condition: Good. 1896. No edition remarks. 159 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition hardback pictorial boards no DJ. 160 pages browning good and clean with clear print. Minor foxing on edge of pages. No date shown. Previous owners name inside front board, A small token of recognition of services rendered the Missionary cause 1916. Frontispiece: black and white sketched picture an old gentleman with a peg leg, a dog and two children sitting by the fire.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair ++/Good. No Dustjacket. Presumed First Edition. 96 pages. No dustjacket. Brick-brown background hardback with wear to boards' corners and spine-ends - some rubbing/marks to boards. Play to boards. as inner hinges are cracked but biniding otherwsie sound. Browning to free-endpapers an pages, page-edges lightly browned, some marks to pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. All pages intact, although shaken slightly in places. Inscription to ffep otherwise text appears unmarked. Lightly tanned and foxed text block edge. Boards show some wear with bumping and rubbing to corners, edges and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo; 190 pages; Clean and complete in 19th century dark blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine; short closed tear at edge of two leaves; original owner's name in pencil on the top edge of a few issues -- "Miss A. Aldis" A monthly magazine for young folks ; contains all twelve issues for 1883 January - December in original self-wrappers. Charming chromolithograph frontispiece depicting a young girl barefoot on the beach watching a crab scurry by with a starfish in the foreground and sailboats on the water in the background [Barclay & Fry Lithographers]. Contents include short stories, historical essays, nature stories, amusements, illustrations, poetry, songs, etc. for juvemile readers. Each issue ends with a wondeful full page picture puzzle (rebus puzzles). Filled with wonderful Victorian illustrations after engravings (full page and in text). There are separate illustrated essays on the production of coffee and the production of tea. Contributing authors include: Edith M. Edwards, Samuel Wray, 'Uncle Jonathan', Mrs. Fitzgerald, Thomas Champness, Mrs. Hutcheon, Nellie Cornwall, Mrs. R. A. Watson, Helen Briston, J. Colwell, Annie Frances Perram, Jane Middleton, Mrs. Llewellyn, J. Robinson Gregory, Lillie Wray, Mina E. Goulding, Evan G. Lynn, Mrs. C. D. Bates, et al. Illustrations by H. Prater, W. J. Gibz, W. J. Webb, et al. William James Webb (1830-1904) was an English Victorian painter and illustrator, known for his rustic, religious, and book paintings. After travelling to the Middle East in 1862 he painted many Biblical subjects in the spirit of Orientalism.…