K Laverty (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Yellow and brown pictorial card covers. Stapled booklet (staples rusting). School stamp on cover and inside. List of playlets at end. (B96).

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A group of three 'Playlets for Children' produced by Frederick Warne. Undated early editions in pictorial card covers. These editions were priced at 9d each. Each playlet comprised of 20 pages. All secured by staples, and are clean and tidy, and firm, throughout. Kitty Laverty was born in Lancashire in 1884. She attended art college in Liverpool in the 1920s and taught at various schools throughout the country. She wrote and illustrated many short stories, which were published in various children's magazines and annuals, mainly in the 1930s and 40s. She also wrote and illustrated a number of children's books, mostly with a Native American ('Red Indian') theme. K ( Kitty ) ( Catherine ) Laverty (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Blue and white card covers with blue and white lettering. Originally secured by staples, the pages have apparently become loose, and have been repaired by a previous owner, using tape. Ink written note at the bottom of the title page, indicating the author's address. An author's note states 'This is a story of a family of merry children and their adventures in their home playground, a Pine Wood, where they meet Red Indians, Pirates, Brownies, eytc.,all of which however, eventually prove to have a natural explanation'. An unstated and undated edition with a price of 1/6 (d). The original was first published in 1943. . Kitty Laverty was born in Lancashire in 1884. She attended art college in Liverpool in the 1920s and taught at various schools throughout the country. She wrote and illustrated many short stories, which were published in various children's magazines and annuals, mainly in the 1930s and 40s. She also wrote and illustrated a number of children's books, mostly with a Native American ('Red Indian') theme. K ( Kitty ) ( Catherine ) Laverty (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A group of three 'Playlets for Children' produced by Frederick Warne. Undated early editions in fawn and pale green card covers, with black lettering. These editions were priced at 6d each, whilst the later editions had pictorial card covers and were priced at 9d each. Each playlet comprised of 24 pages. All secured by staples, and are clean and tidy, and firm, throughout. Kitty Laverty was born in Lancashire in 1884. She attended art college in Liverpool in the 1920s and taught at various schools throughout the country. She wrote and illustrated many short stories, which were published in various children's magazines and annuals, mainly in the 1930s and 40s. She also wrote and illustrated a number of children's books, mostly with a Native American ('Red Indian') theme. K ( Kitty ) ( Catherine ) Laverty (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pictorial green card covers. Edges of car covers lightly rubbed. All clean and tidy throughout, with no inscriptions.No. 1. is dated 1936. The other four are undated. No editions stated, but presumably all first editions. Kitty Laverty was born in Lancashire in 1884. She attended art college in Liverpool in the 1920s and taught at various schools throughout the country. She wrote and illustrated many short stories, which were published in various children's magazines and annuals, mainly in the 1930s and 40s. She also wrote and illustrated a number of children's books, mostly with a Native American ('Red Indian') theme. K ( Kitty ) ( Catherine ) Laverty (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 4to hardback; cream cloth; illustrated board covers; edges of boards rubbed; cover slightly grubby; frontis is a coloured plate of Hansel & Grethel by Rene Cloke; other pages browning; quite an uncommon book produced on war time economy standard paper. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Illustrated by Rene Cloke (illustrator). …

Wrappers. Condition: Good. None. Not dated but 1950s publication. Wrappers. 20 pages. Warne's Playlets for Children No.16. 15 main characters, 3 simple scenes. Ages 8-9. Departmental stamp to front cover. A couple of annotations in text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good book in clean fresh pictorial board covers with 1/4 blue linen strip to spine; a very little edge rubbing. Internally very good; inscription to flyleaf; binding tight and front hinge strengthened; free of foxing; very slight tan to page edges; illustrated with coloured frontispiece and b/w text drawings. No dust jacket. No date but c 1938. Savile Lumley [Frontispiece] (illustrator). …

Softback. Condition: Very Good-. Softback with stapled spine; ( 1 staple, a bit rusty) ; splitting in spine, otherwise in lovely condition; landscape small 4to; scarce 123 book; K Laverty has done drawings and rhymes ; Oblong Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. Illustrated by K Laverty (illustrator).