Joan Davids (5 results)

Condition: Good. 1946. First Edition. 167 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Illustrated by Francis Gower. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Notable sunning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Book has a forward lean.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ has some light edge wear and creasing. Prize label to endpaper.

Condition: Good. 1946. First Edition. 167 pages. Pictorial dust jacket (photocopy of original?) over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations by Francis Gower. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering is dulled. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gower, Francis (illustrator). 'World Favourite Library for Boys & Girls' hardcover in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is scuffed and marked. Edges are creased and nicked, with small tears and chips noted. Board spine, ends, edges and corners are bumped and faded. Spine is slightly cocked, and page block is tanned and blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Francis Gower (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. 1st edition; 8vo; hbk in d/w; blue cloth covers with a few spots of fading right on cover edges; small neat name of previous owner (not author) on fep; ; nice clean copy; d/w price clipped; a few tiny nicks at spine edges and fold edges, but the d/w generally has survived very well for its age; vg/vg-; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.