Lady Kitty Ritson (36 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear, spine mildly sunned. Book has clean and bright contents, pen front endpaper, 148pp with B&W illustrations.

Condition: Good. 1956. Reprint. 95 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with yellow lettering over orange cloth. Illustrated by W. Neave Parker. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Notable tanning to endpapers, with light foxing to page edges. Presentation plate to front endpaper. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with marking to boards. Boards are slightly bowed. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and loss to edges and corners. Minor soiling and marking to covers.

Condition: Good. 1938. No Edition Remarks. 212 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

Condition: Good. 1955. First Edition. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Parker, W. Neave (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Orange hardcover cloth binding square and tight, minimal soiling, Sunday School award plate fep. 96 pages with foxing. DJ has many chips, tears, pieces missing from back of dj. Protected from further damage in clean Brodart. Front flap price-clipped. Story of a boy and the pony he rescues from hardship and misery. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright, pen ffep, front gutter split to webbing, 119pp with B&W ilustrations. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Condition: Good. 1940. First Edition. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Red illustrated cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Top textblock edge dyed grey. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Atkinson, Leslie (illustrator). 1st Edition. Blue hardcover cloth binding has cocked spine, name ffep, and lots of foxing. Interior clean and tight. 191 pages. Tessa has to leave her pony Avsa in England and go to South Africa with her father. Ponies are hard to come by there, but she finds it very beautiful and a sad little dog named Happy needs her care.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprint. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a price clipped dustjacket which is chipped and creased, worn at edges and has small loss at bottom of spine. 180 pages, 4 colour plates and illustrations in the text.

Brick Red Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Harold Moore of Copthorne (illustrator). 153pp, illustrated with black & white photographic plates, some foxing to edges and front and rear matter, brick red cloth with black-lettered spine, spine a little sunned, no dust jacket. Size: 8.5 x 6.5 Inches. Dogs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Leslie Atkinson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Second printing, 1953. Top of page edges slightly foxed otherwise in near fine condition with no inscriptions. In a bright dust jacket, price-clipped but otherwise complete.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Gee Denes (illustrator). 1st Edition. Picture story illustrated with colour and b&w photographs by Gee Denes. One of a series of John & Jennifer books. Slight damage to spine ends but no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Harold Moore of Copthorne (illustrator). 152 pp. Brown cloth boards w. blk title to spine. Dust-wrapper w. small b&w photos, chipped & torn but basically complete. Slight age-toning to endpapers. B&W frontispiece of Lady Kitty Ritson w. Rin-Tin-Tin. Acknowledgements. Foreword by Lorna, Countess Howe. Contents. List of illustrations. Based on an idea conceived by Harold Moore of Copthorne who produced the portrait studies, with the exception of the Frontsipiece, the Shetland Sheep-dog, the Scottish Deer-hound and the Welsh Corgi puppies. Delightful b&w photographic plates. List of Championship dog-shows at rear. Expert information about housing, feeding and training, covering eighteen of the most popular breeds.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. The jacket is a bit marked and torn but has suffered little paper loss. Internally clean and tightly bound. Some light foxing. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Atkinson, Leslie (illustrator). Light blue hardcover binding clean,square and tight. Lots of foxing to interior pages, but secure and tight - clean. FFEP is corner clipped. DJ has shelfwear, corner clipped, but not price-clipped. Light soiling. Front cover shows a girl in pigtails reading a book about the Arab with illustrations of four other ponies surrounding her. Tessa has a pony named Dusty - her father shows her how to groom, train and ride the pony so he can be entered in shows - during Dusty's training, Tessa learns much about riding because she has the opportunity to ride many fine ponies. 248 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 2nd Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Sheila Rose (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, 1957. Bookplate with handwritten name on front free endpaper and same name on half-title. Otherwise in very good-fine condition in bright dust jacket with some loss to corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Wrapper is price clipped, chipped and rubbed, with a thin small open tear to the top of the front of the wrapper and a slightly larger one up to the publisher at the heel of the spine. Boards lightly marked. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. Clean throughout. Good. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Crown8vo, 40 p. Original cream light card covers, printed red and black, stapled. Slight rusting of the staples, three columns of addition on the lower cover otherwise a VG copy. Scarce, WorldCat locates only one copy. First edition. Light book. Postage will be reduced on processing the order.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd. reprint. the boards are scuffed about and edge worn. foxing and markings throughout. a few inscriptions. text remains clear and presentable. fair condition. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illlustrated (illustrator). Reprint. Hardcover,cloth with dj. 95pp with 6 very nice full page illustrations and others in text, by Neave Parker. The story of a small boy and the pony he rescues from hardship. Name and address in childs writing on f.pastedown, two v.small spots lower pa rt of first three pages and dj flap ( very minor ), dj clipped, worn at extremities, two small tears 1/2 inch, one front,one back, nice bright dj and internally clean and bright. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: Good. 1st Thus. Covers worn and creased. Pages tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Beautiful copy in like dust jacket, which has not price clipped, 10/6 net. Book has blue cloth boards with black titles. Minimal wear. 191 pages with a color frontispiece and many b/w illustrations by Leslie Atkinson. Gift inscription on ffep. The scarce dust jacket is very nice with minimal wear to the tips.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Fair / Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Illustrrated By Sheila Rose (illustrator). First Edition. No dustjacket. Lightly marked light red hardback binding, some wear to spine-ends & boards' corners. Titles faded to spine. Child's scribble in red crayon to flyleaf, ink name and date also. Light marks to endpapers and page-edges and early andf late pages o/w contents clean and tidy. Colour frontispiece and B&W illustrations.

1st Edition. Hardback. Fair in poor, worn, torn, faded on spine, stained and plastic protected, d/w. Spine cocked and bumped, edges and corners bumped, boards bowed and marked, pages browned with some foxing and grubby in places, edge of pages marked. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hutchinson. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Boards are clean, contents unmarked, dust Jacket is in similar condition and is not price clipped.

Hard Back Decorated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Gee Denes & Q Durov (illustrator). First Edition. A scarce book in the Jennifer & John series see more on our websitevanessaparkerrarebooks.com.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrations by Cecil G. Trew (illustrator). 1st Edition. Edge ruffled pictorial, price-clipped dust jacket in mylar cover. Tight binding, solid boards with sharp corners, bright black lettering to spine strip, light foxing to edges and pages not affecting text, otherwise unmarked throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. W. Neave Parker. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 96 pages with charming woodcut black and white illustrations inc 6 full page and others in the margins and around the text. Salmon red cloth, motif of pony on cover, lacks the wrapper, some light or minor handling, Very Good. Tall slim octavo. 1940 *Scarce war-time production. The 2nd edition of 1956 has an orange cloth and is more common.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original brick red cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xvi] 177 printed pages of text with seven pages of monochrome photographs. Foxing to the text block edges. Very Good condition book in scarce Good condition dust wrapper with pieces of paper missing across the top and bottom edges, not price clipped 5/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. DOGS (Pedigree Pets).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hutchinson. Hardcover. First Edition. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clean, sharp boards with fresh, unmarked contents, free from previous owner's names or inscriptions. Inner front flap corner cut, otherwise in Very Good condition.