Karroff (5 results)

Condition: Good. No Jacket. Margery Colman (illustrator). Not paged, 7 x 9 inches, Board.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Colman, Margery (illustrator). First Edition. Original paper coverd boards, hinges a little fragile.

Margery Colman (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Colman, Margery (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1943. Very good condition with no wrapper. Brown pictorial boards. Two-tone illustrations throughout. Some browning to covers. Couple of corners are bumped. Name in ink to front endpaper. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Condition: Good. Phiz [Hablot K Browne]; J. G. Sowerby, H. H. Emmerson; Margery Colman (illustrator). First edition. Three charming illustrated children's books containing both nursery rhymes and wholesome stories that are bound to put a smile on the reader's face. Three charming examples of illustrated children's books, published between 1878-1943.- Aunt Effie's Rhymes Set to Music, written by British hymn writer Jane Euphemia Saxby, including various nursery rhymes of the period such as The Spirit of the Wine. Scarce early edition, first published in 1876. In the publisher's decorative original red cloth, with a colour frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations from Phiz, the creator behind many Dickens illustrations. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. (George Routledge & Sons, 1878).- Afternoon Tea, an illustrated collection of verses, written by British painter and illustrator John George Sowerby, including In the Meadows and The Runaway Ring, amongst many other nursery rhymes. First edition. In quarter cloth, with pictorial paper boards. Contains numerous in-text and full page colour illustrations throughout, by both Sowerby and fellow accomplished painter Henry Hetherington Emmerson. (Frederick Warne and Co., 1880).- Stiggles, a lovely little children's book about two children and their donkey, written by K.K. de Karloff and illustrated by Margery Colman. First edition. In grey pictorial paper boards. Contains colour illustrated pages throughout. (Faber and Faber Limited, 1943). In the publisher's decorative original red cloth (Saxby), quarter cloth with pictorial boards (Sowerby) and grey pictorial paper boards (Karloff). Externally, mostly smart, with slight fading to the spine and to the extremities, a little heavier to Karloff. The odd mark to boards of Sowerby, and signs of browning. Slight edgewear, and rubbing to joints of Sowerby and Saxby. Offsetting to free end papers of Saxby and Sowerby, heavier to Saxby, with the odd spot and minor browning to end papers of Karloff. End paper hinges have failed to Sowerby. Internally, generally firmly bound, with leaves pp.17-40 disbound from Sowerby and hinge between leaves 32-33 loosening. Pages are bright and clean, with minor age toning, and the small faint spot to first couple leaves of Saxby. Good. book.