Herbert Strang Editor (181 results)

196pp, (7x9 inches), illustrations. Fair condition, hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrated boards, worn and soiled, all edges and corners badly rubbed and frayed. FFEP missing, front hinge loose, cracked open at p181, some fingermarks to pages. 23 stories and articles, scouting lore and outdoor adventuring. Just a reading copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Kimber, Virginia (illustrator). Softcover binding soiled but secure and tight. Name ffep, store stamp on back cover. 46 pages with some smudges. Delicate b/w sketches illustrate this volume of poems for little children to be read aloud. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No date listed, 1910 best guess. Book has a slightly cocked spine, minimal shelfwear to edges and hinges, and light scuffing to the text block. Otherwise it is an attractive copy. Pages are unmarked, cover is attractive.

Condition: GOOD. First edition. A collection of short stories and poems - featuring children, as in the title story - or animals like Whiskers, the field mouse, or Merrilegs, the pony. Illustrated with black and white drawings. 77 pp. Very good in papercovered boards with a colorful illustration on the front cover, blue spine and back cover (usual toning to pages, some rubbing to covers).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Binding firm, interior lightly tanned with some foxing, clean and unmarked except for gift inscription on paste down. Cover has light soiling, edge wear and heavy corner wear. Color and B/W illustrations.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 62p, illus. Small mark on first page of text (see photo). Issued in the series: The little gay books. Ownership stamp to half-title: All Saints Infants School Pontefract.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. This book is in fair condition with mostly tight binding and clean text. The front cover is torn away from the staples but no pages are falling out. There is major wear and corner bumping. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good Plus. A good plus beige oversized hardcover with paste-on picture to cover and beige spine (cover: carriage full of babies and a rabbit wearing a green coat). 4 colour plates and black and white illustrations in text. 1919 reprint. Missing ffep. Writing on back of frontis.

Hardcover. Condition: VG/VG. Colour frontis by Mary S Reeve and articles and black and white illustrations by various authors and artists. Book is chipped at spine tail and has dent along top rear edge. Name inked out on FFEP. Matching pictorial jacket has a number of small chips and tears and some small ink scribbles on front. Unusual to find these in jacket and which has ensured the boards stayed remarkably bright. unpaginated.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Printed by R Clay & Sons. Stapled card covers. Covers are well worn, repaired split to lower spine. Pages are generally clean & sound 16 pages. Delightful colour illustrations.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Unpaginated. No date of publication, but an inscription on the recto of the frontispiece is dated 1927. Pages are heavy card stock, and print is large type. Backstrip missing. Edges rubbed and scuffed. binding is shaky, but nothing is loose. Has 18 color plates. The sub-title "Sunny days" appears on the front cover, The first item is the poem "Down by the sea." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, mild foxing, pictorial paper covered boards, a very good tightly bound copy, brief gift inscription to a previous owner, the text otherwise unmarked, colour frontis, b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Undated, unpaginated. Pictorial paper-covered boards; illustrated endpapers; black and white illustrations throughout. 8vo. Rubbed corners and spine ends, paper worn through. Text block edges tanning and foxing. Free endpapers tanning. Git inscription on first blank page (dated 1926). Internally clean, neat, bright and tight, barring occasional foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated. 160pp, four colour plates (including frontispiece). Blue cloth-covered boards, tipped-in colour illustrations on front and spine, black titles on front and spine. 8vo. Wear to boards and spine. Bumped spine ends, cloth worn. Bumps to board edges. Corners bumped; top front cloth worn through, others cloth rubbed. Text block edges foxing. Presentation plate on front paste down (dated 1923). Endpapers tanning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring very occasional foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. viii, 320pp, eight colour illustrative plates (including frontispiece). Blue cloth-covered boards, black titles on front and spine. 8vo. Boards faded with some mottling and bumped at spine ends. Text block edges starting to tan. Map on front pastedown. Front free endpaper absent. Gutter stretching, binding still tight. Map facing page 161 absent else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  .

Pictorial Cloth. Condition: Good. C. E. Brock; Frank Gillett, Cyrus Cuneo; N. S. Pitcher; Montague Dawson; F. H. Mason; L. Mosley (illustrator). Green cloth; a pastedown illustration is on the spine and on the top end of the front board; the front board's illustration continues onto the bottom end with brown and black print on the cloth. 208 pages; 25 stories/articles; 8 color plates on dark green mat; numerous b & w illustrations and vignettes (on the page corners for each story). Illustrated endpapers have horses in brown ink. Frontal matter has browntone illustrations. The text block ends are dark green. Cover: ends of spine are softened; one corner is rubbed through to the board; front joint is faded; a third of the the back board has a stain; the illustrations have rubbed spots; shelf wear soiling. The endpapers are cracked over the hinges; the hinges have been repaired, but it is difficult to see the type of repair. Three of the color plates each have a 1/8 in. rubbed spot on an edge. Several pages have fingerprint soiling. Scans e-mailed upon request.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Faded spine. Previous owners presentation plate on front free end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good -. No Jacket. Anthology of 28 short stories and poetry sections featuring female heroines. Richly illustrated with B&W line drawings and (count not listed) full color plates. Pages are not numbered. 16 popular authors listed with some of the other works not attributed to any particular author. The illustrations are also from different people not identified except for their signatures on illustrations. Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of two English authors, George Herbert Ely (1866¿1958) and Charles James L'Estrange (1867¿1947). They specialized in writing adventure stories for boys, both historical and modern-day. Both men were staff members of Oxford University Press, which published their books, giving them a patina of social status and approval for the parents of their intended audience. That pseudonym was also employed for several series of anthologies, works "edited by Herbert Strang" that included The Big Book of School Stories for Boys and The Oxford Annual for Scouts. There was in addition an anthology series for girls by "Mrs. Herbert Strang", who was also given as the author of some adventure books for girls including one of the stories in this collection. The full color illustration pasted to the cover was the illustration from the story "Winona" attributed to Mrs. Herbert Stang. It is signed by the artist "G. Clark", who I assume, was George Merritt Clark (1853-1904) although nothing in the text confirms this assumption. Hardcover has decorated green paper boards with green cloth spine, white lettering on spine & front, and one of the full color illustrations pasted on front cover. Spine torn along rear, stabilized with tape. Text appears complete with the illustration matching the front cover torn out but laid in. Rear facing end-paper torn out, front facing end paper has prior owner name & info, but text tightly bound, clean and unmarked. Last page discolored from newsprint no longer there. No copyright, printing or edition dates. Other books for sale at this time date this edition to prior to 1920 based on inscriptions, awards laid-in, etc. 1900 is in line with fashions in illustrations and condition of this copy. A reprint edition circa 1934 has cloth boards & DJ. The edition for sale probably was not issued with a jacket. Of course, no ISBN, LCCN nor MSR. Prior Owner Name No Value.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated. Unpaginated, many black and white and black and red illustrations, a few colour illustration plates (inc. frontispiece). Quarter-bound with tan cloth-covered spine over pictorial paper-covered boards, black titles on front, red illustrations and titles on spine. 8vo. Some small scratches and scuffs to boards. Spine ends lightly rubbed with some split in the cloth at head. Edges heavily rubbed with paper worn through, corners rounded. Text block edges tanning, top and fore edge foxed. 'This book belong to' filled in on front pastedown endpaper, gift inscription on front free endpaper (dated Christmas 1923), light soiling on front endpapers, heavy tanning and heavy creasing along length of rear free endpaper. Hinges stretched. Tanning on last page mirroring fold in rear free endpaper. Moderate foxing throughout, heaviest towards very beginning and end of volume. Children's stories for boys.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. (estimated approximate date [1916]). A childrens' book in form but the content rather more grown-up. Quarto-size, unpaginated but gathered in 4s, the last signature being T, so 320 pages, more or less, plus half-tone and colourtype plates; publisher's blue paper-covered boards backed in cloth of a similar shade with a colourtype plate laid on as front cover. Good. no writing, mark-up, labels or other defacememts, clean and pleasant; no jacket. Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Pages are slightly darkened with age but clean and tight. Page edges have light age spotting. Cover is faded and soiled. 192 pages. Illustrated.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Red cloth titled in black on spine and front board, mounted colour illstn on spine and front board, pictorial endpapers, colour frontis and plates by W.R.S. Stott. Tidy, slightly faded at spine, light foxing in edges and prelims, prize inscription on blank fly. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Illustrated Boards. Condition: Fair. Various (illustrator). Early Edition. the 1926 edition of this book with all-round pictorial cover featuring "The Record" (A High Jump attempt by a lad watched by his entire school & set against an azure sky) Illust. endpapers, B/W.iIllust. throughout plus full page col. fronti. & 1 other. Stories, facts, & things to do from various contributors. Wear at sides of spine, some bumping of corners & edges, cover with end-papers adrift from book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. spine detached. Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Children. Inventory No: CHD00019.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Howard K Elcock (illustrator). Good book in pictorial board covers; repaired split and rubbing to the edges at the top of a slightly darkened spine. Internally very good and free of inscriptions; very well illustrated; binding sound; some light foxing spots to end papers but little elsewhere.

First Edition. Good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards; title-blocked cloth spine. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat edge-nicked and dust-toned as with age. Hinges starting. Remains well-preserved overall. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; unnumbered pages, 22 cm. 3 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. W.R.S. Scott (illustrator). Reprint. Very Good With Tight Binding And White Pages. Aqua Cloth Has A Faded Lower Edge And Bumped Corners. Jacket Is Tatty. The Pioneer Series Pp 320, Colour Frontis, And 7 Colour Plates. 2 Maps Missing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated but circa 1910 (presentation inscription on front free endpaper, dated 1913). Unpaginated but circa 100pp, plus colour plate frontispiece and three further colour plate illustrations, and numerous line drawings in text. In red-paper covered boards, linen backstrip and tipped in illustration on front panel; black titles on spine, cream decorations and lettering on front panel. 8vo. Boards worn and faded, rubbed at edges, shelf worn with a few mild marls. Front hinges cracked making the volume a little loose. Presentation inscription, from 1913, on front free endpapers. A collection of stories including The Last Fight of the Revenge, Waring and the Wilsons by Meredith Fletcher, The Assault of Badajos by Sir William Napier, and the Black Sheep - A Tale of a Tasmanian Sheep Station by Capt Charles Gilson. Very hard to find volume of adventures stories, with stunning colour plate illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 254pp. In decorated cloth-covered boards with blue lettering front and spine (boards are strong, square and straightly; gently rubbed at corners and spine ends, soiled and faded in margins). Internally neat and clean, barring some mild toning on endpapers. A companion volume to the more common Treasury of English Verse, a selection of extracts of English prose designed to stimulate the interest of students of English literature, drawing extensively on contemporary writers.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Hardback. Dated from inscription. 1913. No dust jacket. Bumping to spine.Spotting to pages. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Chunky volume that describes Zoo animals in a lively accessible way. With b/w illustrations and colour frontispiece. Sunning to spine. Foxing to page edge. Contents clean and binding sound. Good.