Editor E Nesbit (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Without dust jacket. First Edition. Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, xxvi + 336 pages plus 12 pages of biographical and interpretative notes; gilt title on back strip. A very good minus, generally clean hardcover first edition with moderate shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, paper moderately yellowed. Without dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 336 pages. 5.08x0.67x7.80 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stephen Snider; (illustrator). First Printing - First Thus. 307 pp. (viii) Trade paperback with French flaps. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Wraparound cover art by Stephen Snider. This anthology contains: Dulse by Alice Munro; True Trash by Margaret Atwood; An Adventure on Island Rock by Lucy Maude Montgomery; Poaching with My Old Guy by Paul Quarrington; The Little White Girl by Joyce Marshall; The Rooted Lover by Laurence Housman; Shellfish for Monsieur Chabre by Emile Zola; The Thrill of the Grass by W. P. Kinsella; Storm Glass by Jane Urquhart; Mouche by Guy de Maupassant; Shoo Fly Dyck by John Kooistra; The Book of Beasts by E. Nesbit; The Country by Ivan Turgenev; The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde; Viper's Bugloss by Janice Kulyk Keefer; The Town of the Little People by Sholom Aleichem; Moon Prayer by Roch Carrier; Patio Talk; and Vines by Lesley-Anne Bourne; Telemachus Friend by O. Henry; The Circus by Katherine Anne Porter; Why I Stick to the Farm by Peter McArthur; A Girl's Story by David Arnason; Oranges by Alphonse Daudet; The Old Old Story of How Five Men Went Fishing by Stephen Leacock; The Mysteries of Radio by Robert Benchley; and Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Sarah Silcock; (illustrator). First Edition. Red leatherette with a silver pictorial and silver decorations on the front panel; lettered in silver on the spine; red endpapers; headband. Dj art by Sarah Silcock. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a short tear on the lower left of the front panel; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Escape to the Emerald City by L. Frank Baum; Particle Goes Green by Helen Cresswell; A Ring of Stones by Alan Garner; Riddles in the Dark by J. R. R. Tolkien; The Cats, the Cow, and the Burglar by E. Nesbit; By Caldron Pool by C. S. Lewis; The Way Out by Mary Norton; Harriet's Hairloom by Joan Aiken; The White-haired Children by Ruth Ainsworth; Doctor Dolittle's Reward by Hugh Lofting; Warriors in the Mist by Ursula K. Le Guin; The Truth About Pyecraft by H. G. Wells; The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster; The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater; and Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bihn, Max (illustrator). Text clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Boards have light wear. Edges of pages have light wear. Dust jacket has light wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bihn, Max (illustrator). 5th printing. Text clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Boards have very light wear. Edges of pages have light wear. Dust jacket has very light wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Bihn, Max (illustrator). Front Hinge Is Releasing A Bit. No Markings, Bright Cover That Has Wear Through To Boards On Bottom And Fraying To Spine Tips. Back Cover As Some Soiling. Nice For A 109 Year Old Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. E. Nesbit (illustrator). The Young Folks' Treasury, Volume IV: Modern Tales and Animal Stories. Edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie, with Daniel Edwin Wheeler as assistant editor. New York: The University Society, Inc., 1909. Hardcover, 8vo. Original textured brown cloth decorated in black and green on the front board, with gilt title and pictorial knight motif on the spine. Decorative Art Nouveau-style endpapers depicting family reading scenes. Contents include contributions by E. Nesbit, W. H. D. Rouse, Sheila Braine, Joan Barrett, Maggie Brown, Emily Bennett, and a full retelling of Undine, among many other stories. Features a mix of full-color plates and finely rendered black-and-white illustrations throughout. Condition: Very Good. Cloth shows light rubbing and a touch of wear at crown and corners; hinges lightly stressed but still sound. Pages show gentle age toning with occasional faint handling marks, but remain clean and supple overall. Illustrations bright and well-preserved. A solid and attractive example of this early volume in the classic 12-book Treasury set. Edition/Printing: Copyright 1909; no later printings indicated, early printing, consistent with the period's standard practice of issuing undated reprints within the same year. Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846-1916) was an influential American essayist, critic, and editor whose work shaped early 20th-century approaches to children's literature and moral education. As a long-time editor at The Outlook, Mabie promoted accessible literature for young readers and curated numerous anthologies that blended storytelling with cultural enrichment. His editorial leadership defined The Young Folks' Treasury as one of the most respected juvenile collections of its era.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Cracked at front hinge; No DJ as issued, Illustrated boards with clear protector; Boards are worn at edges and stained; Age toned; Gilt fore-edges ; 35.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Copyright 1910. No jacket. Edges rubbed. Pages toned and foxed. 72 pp. Color frontispiece, monochrome and black-and-white illustrations throughout. A collection of poetry and stories for children.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'Being a Collection of stories of Apparitions, Witchcraft, Werewolves, Diabolism, Necromancy, Satanism, Divination, Sorcery, Goetry, Voodoo, Possession, Occult, Doom and Destiny'. Sixth printing of Summers' popular anthology. With numerous short stories by Charles Dickens, Richard Barham, Bram Stoker et al. No DJ. Spine cocked. Previous owner's name to ffep. Tanning to page edges, else clean. Good overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Michael Pollard (illustrator). First Thus. Very good book in fresh clean orange cloth covers with bright gilt titles to spine; repaired tear along spine top edge and tiny split to base. Internally very fine and free of inscriptions; attractively illustrated. The bright dust jacket is very good and not price clipped; closed tears and associated creasing; edge rubs but minimal loss.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published In 1992 : 1st. Edition : Magna Books : No D / J Supplied With This Edition : Glazed Dark Green Boards With Illustrated Panels On Both Covers : This Copy Is Right At The Top Of Like New : Just A Very Small Amount Of Faint , Shallow Face Indentations To The Front Cover : Otherwise , As New Throughout : Still Reasonably Crisp & Tight , With No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text & Illustrations : Overall , A Very Nice Book :

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Fine dust jacket. First Thus. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 223pp. Red cloth in dust jacket. Originally published in 1988, this first Ash-Tree printing limited to 500 copies done in 2000 and expanded with 7 additional stories for a totla of 21. The boards are cocked.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Louis Wain and others (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition Quarto Hardback 132 pages 6 chromolithographic plates and many two colour plates plus many other illustrations including two colour end papers by Louis Wain Good condition. Edges worn School prize label on inside cover.

Condition: Good. color frontis and 8 blue or red or green page illustrations + line illustrations to every page. lg 8vo pictorial boards [spine chipped to head and foot/edges rubbed but cover neat, lower cover with others in the series of Father Tuck's Welcome Gift Series] [32pp un numbered but including pastedown illustrations.] ownership to pastedown and gift inscription to verso of frontispiece. Four illustrations neatly colored. There are two Fairy tales of 9 and 10 pages,one by Edric Vredenburg the other by E.Nesbit plus some poems interspersed. Endpapers sl.foxed and pages tanned and quite stiff throughout. A nice later Tuck item. 1 volume. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pictorial cloth. Illustrated throughout. Contains the E. Nesbit story of the Bastable children, "The Enchanceried House". Chipping to the spine ends. Wear to the corners, sunning to the spine. An owner name and date of 1905 to the half title. Light foxing to the endpapers. Very tight. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 96 pages.