Eileen Mathias (17 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Pomposity Punctured and Other Tales This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Condition: Good. 1951. No Edition Remarks. 102 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. 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.

Condition: Fair. 1951. No Edition Remarks. 102 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper and pastedown. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor sunning to spine and edges. Unclipped Jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tape repairs to interior dust jacket. Moderate sunning to dust jacket.

Condition: Good. 1943. Reprinted. 93 pages. No dust jacket. Pink illustrated cloth covered boards. Illustrated by Barbara Moray Williams with a colour frontispiece and several in-text line drawings. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Sunning to spine and board edges. Book has a slight forward lean. Board corners are bumped.

Condition: Good. 1943. Reprint. 92 pages. Cream dust jacket with red lettering over pink cloth. This is a recycled jacket. Colour frontispiece with B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine ends. Unclipped dust jacket. Moderate wear, tear and loss to edges and corners. Notable foxing and soiling to DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1946. Blue cloth gilt rubbed at the edges. Pages age-browned, but very clean & tight. Previous owner's name & address on blank flyleaf. Illustrated with wood engravings by Beryl Thornborough. 123 pages plus a catalogue of books for the young from The Sylvan Press.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Beryl Thornborough (illustrator). 123 pages. No dj. Cover worn.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Beryl Thornborough (illustrator). 1st. First edition hardback, 1946, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - blue cloth boards rubbed to edges and title to spine have faded. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation - gift inscription to front endpaper dated 1946; toning to page-ends but text and woodcut illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Publisher - Sylvan Press, London, 1946. With wood engravings by Beryl Thornborough. 1st ed. Good condition, blue boards with gilt lettering, ffep removed, solid binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. This copy is in good condition with the spine and pages intact and clean, however the orange linen cloth boards are a little worn and washed out from age and the front cover three biro attempts t o spell 'Louise' by a child which are pictured. There is also a small neat inscription on the back of the front board from a previous owner. Why on Amazon do most sellers not describe their actual book? Buy with confidence and support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA(now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre. Size: 130 x 190 mm. 91 pages. Item Type: Book. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children; Britain/UK; 1940s; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 08577.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A hardback book with both book and jacket in good to very condition, First Edition dated 1951. Jacket is protected by a clear, loose-fitting, sellophane protective wrapper and has a couple of small chips to the jacket edges.A collection of original poems designed to be read, learned and listened to by Juniors and Infants.

Orange - Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 92pp. Numerous illustrations including a colour frontispiece by Barbara Moray Williams. Vignette to the front board. Slight fading to the spine of the book. Light shelf wear to the eges with a slight bump to one corner of the front board. Ink name and date inscription to the front end paper. Booksellers sticker has been partially removed from the front paste down. Light foxing to the fore edges and end papers. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jetta Vise (illustrator). First Edition. A hardback book with both book and jacket in good condition, First Edition dated 1948. Jacket is protected by a clear, loose-fitting, sellophane protective wrapper and has a couple of tiny chips to the jacket edges. Book has a little faint white mottling to the boards. A neat inscription on the first blank fep. Overall a very nice copy of this rare children's book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Barbara Moray Williams (illustrator). Second Printing. Hbk in dw, 8vo, Vg+/Vg; in remarkably good condition for age; in the series of Milly-Molly-Mandy books even though this isn't a MIlly Molly Mandy story; These stories were broadcast in Children's Hour; the frontis is a coloured plate; one picture is neatly coloured in, but the book as a whole looks very clean and much newer than it is. The dustwrapper is not price clipped (3/-) ; Milly-Molly-Mandy Books; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG- DW. Margery Colman (illustrator). 1st Edition. List inside of Nos 1-47 of which this is 46. First section slightly loose. Reasonably clean DW has half inch loss at base of spine and two smaller chips at top of front cover (removing the top of the f in "of" in the title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Jetta Vise (illustrator). First British edition. Light foxing on front and rear free endpapers, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear and age toning) dust jacket. ; 80 pages.