Guy Bousfield (8 results)

Condition: Good. Boards have some wear. Content has light toning. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Scarce 1st Edition hardback in very good condition, nice square boards, tightly bound with clean pages, inscribed and signed by the author to half title page, a synopsis page from a children's book feature (which mentions this title) has been loosely adhered to front free e/paper, also has a few label marks to facing front e/paper as shown in photos, no usage marks to interior, contains a frontispiece by Biro plus numerous illustrations, faint tone to page block, faint marks to front as shown but very good clean firm boards mostly for the age. Please email if more photos or further information required. B. BIRO (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. [1949]. Small 8vo. No jacket. Grey cloth. 169 pp. B/w illustrations. Gift inscription to ffep, else clean. GOOD+.

Condition: Good. 169 pages. Illustrated red and white dust jacket over yellow cloth with black lettering to spine. Believed to be initialed by author on title page. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings by the artist 'Biro'. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Light tanning and foxing to pastedowns and endpapers. Illustrations remain bright and clear. Boards have moderate edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Moderate crushing to spine ends. Bumping to corners. Moderate tanning and foxing to textblock. Unclipped dust jacket has heavy wear to edges, with chips and tears to spine ends and corners. Moderate tanning to front, rear and spine. …

C. & J. Temple Ltd. 1949. First edition. Small 8vo hardback in DW. Illustrated. Neat gift inscription otherwise a clean and sound copy in a very attractive (and scarce) wrapper that is rubbed along extremities and chipped to head and tail of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. "Undated but published in 1949. Signed by the author to his friend "Clarence Winchester With apologies!, Guy Bousfield, May 22nd 1963. Prior owner, Clarence Winchester added a biography to the inside of the front cover, and an inscription below the original signed by the author. Hardback good condition with discolouration to covers, bright and clean inside. Illustrated by B. Biro. A continuation of "Alice's adventures in Wonderland", first written during WW2 according to the foreword "I had no intention of publishing it. The idea was purely to amuse my small boy during our period of enforced separation due to Hitler's war".". B Biro (illustrator). Signed by Author.…

C.& J.Temple. London. [1949]. First edition. Hardback, no DW. original yellow cloth,slightly soiled. VERY FRIENDLY PRESENTATION COPY FROM AUTHOR, "To my good friend and Bro Savage Gordon West. From an amateur to a professional - with all due diffidence. The second is perhaps less bad than the first - but please read 'The Beginning'. Yours again, Guy Bousfield. Dec.1957." Illustrated by Biro, with possible apologies to Tenniel! Pages browned otherwise a clean and sound copy.…

Condition: Acceptable. Used - Acceptable. Spinal cover is detached from the front cover (still attched to the back). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library with wear and barcode page may have been removed. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…