Fraser Cicely (10 results)

First Edition. Very good in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 31 pages; Description: 31, [1] p. Illus. 21 cm. Illustrations on p. [2] and [3] of cover. Series: Britain advances, [1]. Subjects: Child welfare --Great Britain. Day care centers. World War, 1939-1945 --Children 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 31 pages; Description: 31, [1] p. Illus. 21 cm. Illustrations on p. [2] and [3] of cover. Series: Britain advances, [1]. Subjects: Child welfare --Great Britain. Day care centers. World War, 1939-1945 --Children 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. EILEEN SOPER, CICELY STEED, PETER FRASER, WOOLLEY, ISABEL VEEVERS (illustrator). First edition. Attractive cloth backed picture boards of children at a birthday tea by Cicely Steed. Lovely colour plates and well illustrated throughout, including wonderful Eileen Soper, unique to this book. One page has slight tear. A sweet book, very much of its time. Boards rubbed as always,

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Neat, bright, unread. A lovely biography of this enigmatic and frequently retiring artist.

Condition: Good. 1957. 101 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Illustrated by Maurice Wilson. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front pastedown. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Harrow, Kenneth; H. M. Brock; Peter Fraser; Chas. Howarth; Dorothy Wheeler; Laurie Taylor; Margaret oO. McNeal; Frank Hart; Harry Rountree; Cicely M. Barker; Geo. W. Leech; B. Butler; Joan Passmore; Philip Plimlott; Diana Rourke; Dudley Tennant (illustrator). Good+ condition, quarto, quarter tan cloth, pictorial front and press comments on rear, tile in black with pictorial spine, moderate wear, faint cup stain on front, neat gift inscription on front free end paper, illustrated end papers, illustrated throughout with colour plates and tinted drawings in text, not paginated. Long and short stories and verse. A good example. [QP].

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. 1? Edición. Phaidon Press and Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1985. Texto en inglés. Arte. Profusamente ilustrado. 96 pp. 28 x 22. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Buen estado de conservación. ISBN: 9780714824000.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rountree, Harry & Barker, Cicely Mary & Fraser, Peter & Harrow, Kenneth & et al., (illustrator). Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Beige cloth spine with dark titles. Pictorial front cover shows four children at a campfire. Colour plates plus colour and b/w illustrations. Marks to spine; splash mark to top. Scuff marks to covers. Wear and bumping to corners. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Foxing and some grubby margin marks. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

FIRST EDITION w/Original Contract. Fraser-Simson was the wife of Cyril Fraser-Simson who best remembered as the composer who first set A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh poems to music. She had previously published some crime novels as far back as the late 1920s. This is seemingly more of a romance novel, concerning a young woman named Gale Fenton who escapes to London after a tragedy occurs near her country home. Offered with an original contact for the novel, addressed to Fraser-Simson at her home in London, and a note from her literary agents, A.M. Heath & Company Ltd. The contract is initialled and signed by Robert Hale, as managing director. The contract goes through differing royalty arrangements for various editions of the book ('The British Library Edition' Standard Edition, Book Society Editions, Export Editions, Cheap Editions, Remainders]. Fraser-Simson was paid an advance of £50 for the book. BOOK: Blue cloth boards a little faded to extremities, corners bumped, bookplate to ffep, bite to bottom of title page. DJ: Unclipped jacket with 9/6d to inner flap, a little worn and faded to extremities, some loss to head of spine and a spot of loss to middle of spine with 'F' of Fraser missing.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition book. No Dust Jacket. Faded spine. A good copy.