Kitty Laverty (14 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean and bright contents, endpapers toned, no inscriptions, 128pp, colour frontis.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Stated. 122 pages. No dust jacket. Blue pictorial cloth. Inscription to front pastedown. Pages are heavily tanned and thumbed at the edges. Heavy foxing throughout. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked.Pages very tan. End paper is loose. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing.Stains on front cover. Binding is tight, strong. Previous owner's name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. K ( Kitty ) ( Catherine ) Laverty (illustrator). 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.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. K ( Kitty ) ( Catherine ) Laverty (illustrator). 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Kitty Laverty (illustrator). 1st Edition. Light green cloth on boards, with darker green lettering to spine and front cover with line decoration to front. Bumping and rubbing to extremities. Illustrated wit black and white plates, by the author, one of which has fallen out and been poorly re-installed with tape. A scarce item by the prolific author and illustrator of childrens' books.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. K ( Kitty ) ( Catherine ) Laverty (illustrator). 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition, small octavo, orange printed cloth, faint foxing to edges and occasionally internally, gift inscription on front free end paper (dated Christmas 1929), 122 pages. [QP],

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Small octavo, orange printed cloth, prize plate to ffep dated 1934, otherwise contents unmarked throughout.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. K ( Kitty ) ( Catherine ) Laverty (illustrator). 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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Owner's name on the flyleaf dated 1932. 28pp. Orange brown cloth covered boards illustrated with a scene of Red Indians in black. Colour frontispiece illustration. A fox mark to the corner of a couple of pages, otherwise Internally clean. Adventure for children, set among the Red Indians.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Date is approximate. Internally mostly well-preserved, apart from some light foxing to scattered pages, and some light toning to page edges commensurate with age. Edges also bear general light thumb-marks, browning and knocks. Covers are a little worn, with knocks and abrasions to surface and edges, but cover illustration remains attractive and binding is firm and secure. Why on Amazon do most sellers not describe their actual book? Buy with confidence and support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA(now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre. Size: 200 x 260 mm. 200. Item Type: Book. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Children; Britain/UK; 1920s; Inventory No: 48830.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Undated : circa 1930. Pictorial hard boards: 25x19cm. All 5 listed colour plates are present. Front board has rubbing at the corners. Spine is complete. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. First story : "The Princess Passes" by Alice Massie. Dispatched "Royal Mail Tracked 24" next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref hm. Janet A Carruthers, Kitty Laverty, Alice Massie, Isa M Jackson, Ethel Talbot and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. No dustjacket. 122 pages. Marked orange hardback binding with black titles and pictures of native American figures on front and spine in black. Wear to spine-ends and boards' corners, small scuff with loss to top spine-junction at front. Colour frontispiece which is detached, Page-edges lightly yellowed and slightly foxed o/w pages clean. No date but prize label pasted to flyleaf with scribbled out name dated 1929.