F E Weatherly Introduction (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. No date circa 1890's. Printed in Bavaria 636 pop up book. Glossy paper covered boards with red cloth backing depicting children, fairies and small robbins having tea in a bird's nest. 4 pop ups present.Two signatures have separated from stapled binding to include one with a pop up that is in excellent condition. The third pop up that depicts cats on bicycles has lost the standing cat standing figure to the far right and the cat holding the basket on the left has separated from the pop up mechanism. Child's gift inscription on verso of front flyleaf. Rear cover with soiling and shelf wear. Unpaginated. PayPal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. With 5 colored double-page three dimensional scenes (Pop-Ups); no published date (1897); with 21 illustrations with poems (printed in brown); 9 pages of text in English, Introduction by F. E. Weatherly, other poems by Clifton Bingham, F. Gray Severne, L. L. Weedon, Hope Myrtown; some of the illustrators: Ernest Nister, E. Stuart Hardy, H. Robenson; original illustrated paper over hard boards and cloth spine; printed in Bavaria "853"; unpaginated, patterned end-papers; size: 10 x 12-5/8in (32 cm x 25.5 cm), published in New York by the firm of E.P. Dutton who set up an exclusive arrangement with Ernest Nister to distribute and sell his books in the United States; book is tight; colors of the pop ups are still bright; all the pop-ups open up fully; Only one of the pop-up has some damage: a boy's head is missing alone with part of his fishing pole; previous owner's short "Merry Christmas" inscription & signature on front endpaper and they dated it "1897"; rubbing and small nicks to the board's edges especially the back; the pop-up with the children on bicycles have a few small circles on top edge but not near pop-ups; one of the text pages has a small tear to bottom edge; a little browning to text pages; for the period and nature of the pop-up illustrations this is one of the best copies we have seen in sometime; over all the interior and pop-ups in GOOD COND.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Boards rubbed and worn with some loss of paper at margins. Gutters split at hinges, with spine mull visible. Lacking front free endpaper. Contemporary owner's inscription on title page. First and third pop-up scene each with tear across main lower part of scene. A fairy in the second scene has lost her right hand. Unfortunately most of the central character Jack is missing from the fourth scene, only his legs remaining. Fifth scene has hinged tab on facing leaf becoming detached, and with tears to the scene itself where the tab is attached, this scene thus lying flat rather than popping up. No repairs or restoration attempted. Overall the sixth scene is the only one in very good working order, the first and third scenes are close to VG, but each have a tear without loss. The second and fourth have some pieces actually missing, a small piece on the second scene, a large one on the fourth. The fifth has tears and lies flat rather than popping up. ; No date [1896]. 14 leaves + 6 chromolithograph pop-up scenes. Illustrated papered boards with green cloth spine. Page dimensions: oblong 348 x 268mm. Pop-up book. Printed in Bavaria. Cover title: "Peeps Into Fairy Land". The six scenes are titled: The Procession of Nursery Rhymes; A Visit to the Snow Queen's Palace; The Fairies' Lake; Jack running away from the Giant; The Queen of the Bird Fairies; The Babes asleep in the Wood.

Pictorial boards. Condition: Very good. The first edition of Peeps into Fairyland: A Panorama Picture Book of Fairy Stories, with an introduction by Frederick Weatherly. (illustrator). First Edition. Oblong quarto, [28pp]. Illustrated paper boards, green cloth spine. Floral endpapers, with small bookseller's label on front pastedown. Complete with six chromolithographed pop-up illustrations, the "framed scene" variety, each with two cloth strap opening mechanisms. Bound with both green and red cloth spines, no priority established. Notable wear to both illustrated boards, bumped corners, light soiling along edges. Generally clean within text block, a few thumbprints along fore-edge. Stable binding, an attractive Victorian Era pop-up book, scarce in any condition. This collection of six fairy tales includes: Jack and the Beanstalk, The Babes in the Wood, Fly-away Flock, The Fairy Fir-cones, Naughty Noel, and Peeps into Fairyland. This work by F.E. Weatherly was a precursor to his more famous narratives in the Beatrix Potter series.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No date of publication on title page [c.1895]. Oblong 4to, orig pictorial boards on original cloth spine. 6 full page, coloured fold out stand up scenes, one to illustrate each story. The illustrations are in remarkably good condition with no obvious loss or restoration ( although the head of the wand in ' Fairy Lake' is slightly creased). A little thumb marking and rubbing to boards and some pages but a delightful example of a charming book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 4to. Unpaginated. 5 double page "pop up" chromolithographs. Illustrations in the text. Original cloth-backed, pictorial glazed boards. A little rubbing and wear to edges and corners.A fragile item in unusually and particularly nice condition.

Condition: Good. Doublepage pop-up scenes (5) full of children - blind man's buff, boating, bicycling, farmyard etc. Folio cloth spine pictorial boards (spine possibly renewed) 31pp Three ducks have facsimile heads re-attached and 2 other heads are repaired (on back of pop-up only). A few wrong folds are strengthened on back (invisibly) but all sorts of other fragile pieces such as arms with raised whips, ribbons flying, outstretched fingers etc are all intact. The text page edges have fared less well with some edge loss now skillfully repaired but never affecting any print. The pop-up leaves are on thicker and better quality paper and have edge rubbing but no tears to edges. Some of the struts may have been reglued or repaired (invisibly). The pages have been resewn and the book is now fully stable and all pop-ups work (MONTANARO 335). *The pop-up scanned is one with repair to part of a head but also allows you to see the detailed complexity of the pop-ups that have survived beautifully. 1 volume. Hardcover.

Condition: Good. Doublepage pop-up scenes (5) full of children - blind man's buff, boating, bicycling, farmyard etc. Folio cloth spine pictorial boards (spine worn to head & foot/covers edge worn) 31pp. Titlepage torn without loss but with old cellotape marks, gutters of 3 leaves reinforced with newer linen tape, a few edge tears never touching printed or pop-up areas but 3 with old tape removal marks (less than 1" into margin). The pop-ups are all complete and in working order with only part of one stag's horn in facsimile. One pony's tail re-attached from the back & a few wrong folds strengthened on back (invisibly). All sorts of fragile pieces such as duck heads, ribbons flying, fingers etc are all intact. The text page edges have fared less well with some edge fingering and some edge chips but never affecting any print. The pop-up leaves are on thicker and better quality paper and have edge rubbing but no tears to edges (MONTANARO 335). 1 volume. Hardcover.