Irving Constance (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Wiles, Irving R. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Wright III, No. 1502. Publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering and floral decorations. Rubbing. 224 pages with 7 plates, complete. Constance Cary Harrison (1843-1920) was a prolific writer who wrote under different names, including the pseudonym "Refugitta". This is a work of romantic domestic fiction.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. PUBLISHER: HUMPHREY MILFORD, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS * YEAR: UNKNOWN * ISBN/SBN: UNKNOWN * No OF PAGES: 31 * CONDITION: USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE BOARD COVER HAS SOME RUBBING AND BUMPING TO THE EDGES AND CORNERS, WHICH HAS EXPOSED THE UNDERNEATH IN PLACES. THERE IS SOME WATER DAMAGE TO THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER AS CAN BE SEEN IN THE PHOTO THIS HAS AFFECTED THE FRONT COVER AND FFEP, AS WELL AS THE BACK COVER. THE PAGES ARE REASONABLE BRIGHT, HOWEVER THERE ARE SOME MARKS AND LIGHT FOXING HERE AND THERE. THE BINDING IS FIRM. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS HARD TO FIND EDITION.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A wonderfully illustrated and beautifully presented children's book by author/illustrators Constance and W. Noel Irving, who seem to have published just this one book. Unpaginated, 32 pages, 13 full page color chromolithographs, heavy card stock, linen hinged, 9.5x14.875. The cover has wear, tearing and worn corners, some soiling, linen spine has tearing head/tail and on edges. Gift inscriptions inside front cover, dated 1921 (the only date in the book,) inside front cover offset to obverse of page in front. The story follows the course of a day through a young girl's day. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Undated (c1920s). 13 beautiful colour plates, in a most interesting style, with accompanying verses telling the story of a child's day. 32 pages on heavy card; original tan cloth-backed boards illustrated with a pendulum clock and dandelion flower "clocks" (remember as a child, you blow them until all of the seeds have gone?) design, with large red outlined white title lettering and author lettering in chocolate brown lettering. Book tight and generally clean. Very slight foxing to endpapers and first few/last pages. Corners are worn, board edges have some little rubbing/wear. Small 1/2 inch tear in spine which has been repaired, but spine is sound. The last board has partly detached from its 1/2 inch sleeve that holds it in on both sides and has now been repaired. Very slight and faint water-staining to top LHS of front board. The odd tiny small stain or mark on boards. Some discolouration to the right-hand front endpaper, on the back of which is a partly torn out owner's bookplate (without damaging the page), and a discolouration in the form of a "negative" of the facing title page. The text and plates are FINE. This is a heavy book and may require extra P&P.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Condition: Good; Tall hardcover, no dustjacket. Brown boards with cloth backstrip. Clock illustration on cover. No date but circa 1920s. The book is in Good condition with soiled and damp-stained covers, tears along backstrip and a shaken but still solid binding. The interior pages, including the 13 wonderful color illustrations, are in great condition. Photos upon request.

Illustrated Boards. Condition: About Good. 1st Edition. No date (1921). Verse describing the hours in a child's day, w/13 full-colour plates illustrating same. Unpaginated (36, including pastedowns), in-text illustrations. Considerable wear/fraying to corners/spine ends, tears to spine edges, soil, scuffing, neatly written Christmas gift inscription to previous owner (dated 1920, although all available sources indicate the publication date to be 1921). Externally no better than G, but internally more pleasing. Heavier than the average book, so additional postage may be required to get it to there from here. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. London: Humphrey Milford Beautifully illustrated book of child's verse accompanied with splendid colour illustrations, not dated but around 1920s. Contains 32 pages in overall clean condition just a few light marks and very light foxing, NO dustwrapper, outer boards are a little worn on edges and some light marks. HEAVY BOOK 1.9Kg with sound packaging EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED FOR OVERSEAS. A pleasing example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Illustrated Boards. Good Plus/No Jacket. 14¾ x 9½ Inches. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. A hardback book with pictorial boards. Damage and wear to the outside boards but internally in good condition. No date in the book but inscription on the first blank introductory page of the book dated Christmas 1926.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this early twentieth-century children's work narrating the day in the life of a child, colourfully illustrated throughout. A charming children's book of verse, narrating the day in the life of a child. Including a foreword, and verse for morning, school-time, arithmetic, drill, noon, dinner time, afternoon school, needle-work, freedom, father's return, stories, bed-time, and night.Written by Constance and Noel Irving.The first edition of this work.In the publisher's original paper boards with the pictorial pendulum clock and dandelions.Illustrated with thirteen large plates in colour, collated and complete. In the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper covered boards. Externally, bumping to the extremities and significant bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Cloth is lifting at the tail of the spine. Age-toning, some spotting, and a few stains to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Some offsetting to the verso of the front free-endpaper, and a few handling marks to the pages, which are otherwise clean throughout. Good. book.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Circa 1920. Good condition with no wrapper. 13 full-page coloured illustrations, many other illustrations to text. Printed on thick card, linen-hinged. Tall folio measuring 15 x 9.5". Cloth backed pictorial boards. Delightful rhymes featuring the hours of the day from morning to school-time, dinner time etc. Beautifully illustrated and unusually bound. Heavy wear to covers; scuffing, bumping. Some page creasing. Browning and grubby marks to pages. One of last pages has surface paper damage/lifting. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Circa 1935. Good condition with no wrapper. 13 full-page coloured illustrations, many other illustrations to text. Printed on thick card, linen-hinged. Tall folio measuring 15 x 9.5". Cloth backed pictorial boards. Delightful rhymes featuring the hours of the day from morning to school-time, dinner time etc. Beautifully illustrated and unusually bound. Corners bumped. Edges worn. Some scuffing to covers. Front endpaper MISSING. A little foxing. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921. Unpaginated. 37 x 24 cm. [1921]. Brown quarter cloth with illustrated paper covered boards; contains nine unnumbered cardboard leaves with text and seven leaves with color illustrations on ivory coated paper pasted on cardboard leaves; all leaves hinged with brown cloth. Some light bumping to spine ends, with some nicking to tail of spine. Rubbing to edges of boards, with some light chipping to tail edge of boards. Small stain to tail of front board. Light foxing to white paper covered cardboard leaves, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. Binding sound, although front joint is a bit soft. Due to the size and weight of this book, additional shipping may be required for expedited and international orders. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition with no wrapper. 13 full-page coloured illustrations, many other illustrations to text. Printed on thick card, linen-hinged. Tall folio measuring 15 x 9.5". Cloth backed pictorial boards. Delightful rhymes featuring the hours of the day from morning to school-time, dinner time etc. Beautifully illustrated and unusually bound. Spine bumped with slight fraying to top, small nick to side of spine. Corners worn. Covers a bit grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing and some fingering to plate margins (actual pictures not affected). A nice copy of a scarce book. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Cordrey, Earl (cover);Hiesen, Herman; Brown, Elmore; Vickery, John; Arnold, Harriet; Schmidt, Al; Beall, C.C.; Peskin, Hy; Karger, George; (illustrator). First Edition. 86 pages. Articles: The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins, part 1 - he wanted to be President; God's Underground in Russia - Priests work in secret to keep Christian faith alive; Open Letter to Jimmie Fidler - spotlighting the man who tells Hollywood how it should behave; Teen-age talent - winners of Collier's fourth annual high-school art contest; Flying High - the role the kite has played in sport and aviation; Go to Sleep - unusual theories about somnolence and insomnia. Fiction: Custom of the Country; Rich Girl, Poor Man; The Far-off Bugle; Shakespeare should drop dead; Ham and cheese on Rye; Shadow of Fu Man Chu - part 4 of 6. Ads include; Douglas shoes; Ocean City Reels / Montague Rods; De Beers Diamonds - portrait of Miss Caroline B. Johnston of Baltimore, MD; Philco phonographs; Dodge trucks; Pennsylvania Railroad; Chevrolet (color centerfold); Canada tourism; Fortune shoes; "Homecoming" movie staring Clark Gable and Lana Turner; Great Northern Railway; Holland-Racine Shoes; Buick cars; City Club shoes; Wilson Brothers; Black Flag insect spray (very nostalgic); Fox Head beer; Winthrop shoes; Clark's Tendermint Chewing Gum; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows young ladies with soda jerk. Unmarked with average wear. A nice vintage copy.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 25cm), unpaginated, printed on 16 thick card leaves with 12 fine chromolithographic plates. In publisher's quarter tan cloth with tan paper-covered boards. Titles and clock illustration printed in colour to upper board. With rare original dust-jacket, mirroring upper board. Very light wear to upper fore-edges. Jacket heavily browned, as expected, with some significant chipping to edges, especially upper rear cover edge and the top and bottom edges of the spine, which feature some larger losses. Very good indeed; arguably a near-fine copy considering the rarity of the jacket.

Illustrated throughout in color. Folio, publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards. First edition. Ink ownership signature; some very minor shelf wear; very nice.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. N.d., circa 1920. Folio, 37.5 by 24 cm. Unpaginated, 16 heavy card leaves. Twelve color plates. Charming text illustrations besides, to illustrate the verse that covers a child's progress through the day. Slight darkening to top of cover. Light wear otherwise. Hardcover. Paper pastedown on boards.

From John Cunliffe's library but originally from Constance Irving's collection, a third impression bound in blue publisher's cloth with gilt lettering to upper board and spine. Embossed symbol to lower right of lower board. In good condition with fading and bumping to spine and white circular mark to lower board [pictured]. Dusting to top edge. Cunliffe (1933-2018) is best remembered as the creator of Postman Pat. Constance Irving (1879-1964) was a textiles artist who exhibited work in the second Post-Impressionist and Cubist exhibition which took place in Liverpool between March and April 1911 alongside Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso - her large bookplate appears on the front pastedown. Cunliffe's ownership plate is located on the upper flyleaf. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.