Lanser Edith (6 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edith Lanser (illustrator). Presumed First Edition. No stated date but acknowledgments and foreword are dated 1950. Presumed first edition. 230pp., black and white chapter header illustrations and a map on the endpapers by Edith Lanser. Edwin Clement Hosking (1896-1966) was born in Adelaide, but his grandfather had been a Cornishman, and Clement's initial introduction to the traditional music of the British Isles was as a child listening to his father sing the songs and melodies which his own father had taught him. By the age of seventeen, he had decided on a musical career, but his ambitions in this direction were delayed by World War One. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in 1916, and after serving in Europe from September 1917 Hosking was discharged in 1919. While he was in the army he was able to spend some time in England and Wales, and he was impressed by both the sheer volume of traditional music surviving in the British Isles and by the wide range of styles. He later spent a summer just before the Second World War listening to and writing down the traditional songs and tunes sung by the people in the Western Isles of Scotland, and the greater part of this book is an account of his experiences in the Farthest Hebrides. There are descriptions of fascinating isles he visited; of interesting characters; and the words and melodies of songs as well as legends and stories he gathered. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with bumping to the spine ends and top corners and a dent on the top edge of the rear board. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with soiling and some light staining and the spine is sunned. The top edge and bottom rear edge are rubbed with some creases. About 1/4" is missing from part of the top of the spine, a larger piece is missing from the bottom of the spine, and smaller pieces are missing from the corner tips. There are small tears on the bottom edges of the spine and there is a tear of about 1/4" on the top rear edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Edith Lanser (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Large tears to spine with loss. Gift inscription. Sold with all faults.

Hardback oblong small quarto, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, full-page single-colour drawings, minor edgewear, small shop sticker, non-author written dedication. Unnum pp. A scarce Australian children's picture story. Hand-written text written in a large and variable font. The story of a small girl Caroline and her cocker spaniel Billy Boy. She sings songs based on everyday sounds around the house and garden. Muir 4097. ("Anthony Horderns, Famous for Books" sticker.).

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (in mylar). Line Illustrations; Half-Tone and One Colour Plates by Edith Lanser (illustrator). Reprint. Reprint of the New, Revised and Enlarged Edition of 1959. Retired library copy, stamped, stickered, labeled, marked and with rear card pocket on rfep; Age-toned end papers; Dust jacket flaps glued to end papers, else interior textblock is clean and tight. Library stamped bottom edge; Blue cloth binding bumped at the spine extremities, small divet along top rear board. Unclipped dust jacket, sunned and age soiled and worn, library label on foot of spine, inside library mylar with large chip to the mylar on front cover at the fore-edge, library label on back cover along upper edge, dust jacket flaps glued to end papers. 227p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 196 pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with dark blue titling on spine. Includes dust jacket. Good with sunning along spine and marginal toning; chipping to dust jacket. Black and white illustrations, including eight half-tone plates. Black and white frontispiece. Includes pen inscriptions on title page.