Louisa Aunt (81 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good+ Book rubbed and bumped at spine ends and corners, with minor rubbing on cover. Writing on front endpaper. Little brown spots on some pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. H/b; illus boards; vg+; 4to; 1st ed; From Aunt Louisa's Toy Series; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Oficial. Condition: Excellent condition.

Condition: Near Fine. Revised edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 19cm), c. 60pp. 8 colour plates (the frontispiece is signed "Lorna Adamson", two other plates are signed "B Butler" and "Lilian Buchanan", the other plates are unsigned). Original green cloth spine, laminated boards, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is good (rear panel rubbed, 1-inch tear to the front panel, price-clipped).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean large format hardback book, binding pulled, cloth spine, pictorial boards, endpapers tanned, gift inscription dated 1931 on frontispiece verso. Unpaginted, 8 colour illustrations on plates, some by C. P. Shilton and Savile Lumley, black & white illustrations in the text. …

Pictorial Boards/Cloth Spine. Condition: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. Undated Circa 1940's/50's. Content Very Good.The front cover illustration shows a girl and a boy holding christmas crackers and a black dog with a hat on. Worn boards. .Please e-mail for further details. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Line Drawings Throughout (illustrator). Not Inscribed or Signed. …

Rev.ed. Prize bookplate (1944); pictorial paperboards with cloth spine; boards a little worn at edges; dj rather tatty, with loss at foot of back panel & small loss to front panel top edge. With 8 colour plates. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Fair dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Fair dustjacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Large 8vo. No date (c.1890) 94 pp., two colour plates (as stated on title page), numerous b/w illustrations. Part 1: Animal Stories; Part 2: Natural History. Edges and endpapers age-darkened; gift inscription neatly written in pencil ffep. Red/grey illustrated boards show edge wear, scuffing and darkening. Hinges split but binding intact.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcover, staple-bound. The covers rubbed with chips to the lower fore-corners; marginal stains.

Wraps. Good, light soil, spine tattered, shaken, pages toned. 6 chromolithograph plates. Series: Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books #10 25.7x22.4 cm. no pagination.

Condition: Good. Good plus, some wear to corners. back strip soiled, small (.5x1.5 inch) piece missing at center spine of front cover. 6 chromolithograph plates. Series: Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books #33 25.7x22.4 cm. no pagination. Pictorial wraps with cloth back strip.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'Comprising Puss in Boots, Jack and the Beanstalk and The House that Jack Built'. Collection of stories by the prolific victorian children's author. With numerous full page colour illustrations by b/w drawings within the text. 4to. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Previous owner's inscription to ffep, with small tear and loss to bottom corner. Mild occasional foxing within. Binding sound. Good.…

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This SOFTCOVER with thread-binding has a 1 inch tear near the center of the upper cover, and some mild foxing on the pages, else in GOOD condition. Beautiful, detailed illustrations. tan/office desk (filed under Louisa) 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Decorative Boards. Condition: Good. First Edition. Undated. Gift message on half-title page dated 1912. Boards are a little worn with a triangular piece of the surface missing from the bottom front corner and some surface discolouration to the rear cover. Corners rubbed and a little frayed. The hinges are quite slack although the binding seems to be reasonably secure. Pages a little browned but otherwise unmarked. Illustrated throughout in black and white. No jacket. Believed to be a first printing.…

paperback. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. paperback, two story books, both in poor condition and joined at the spine by a pasted paper backstrip. The first being a Christmas number of Aunt Louisa's London Toy books, with eight colour chromolithographs. The second title is a Thomas Nelson number, The Three Good Friends with six full page colour chromolithographs. The illustrations are mostly good but the first image in the Robin's Christmas has a surface abrasion with some small loss. Priced for sale with all faults.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Slightly better than very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Cloth spine. Pictorial front cover shows children giving a dog a bath. With 8 plates in colour. Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. 'Property Room' ink stamp to verso of frontis (publishers file copy). Some page browning. Wrapper is price-cut with large tear to base of spine and some creasing; also grubby. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date listed, guessing circa 1880-1890. Corners are scuffed and rounded and showing boards at tips, spine is rubbed but readable, scuff to lower right of spine, back is rubbed moderately, small dampstain at lower part of hinge affecting a small area of last few pages. . otherwise front cover is quite bright and attractive, binding is solid, pages are very clean. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 16mo(6"tall)Green cloth black and gilt embossed designs to cover. All edges gilt. No Date but 1869. Good but for heavy stains to front pastedown and first free endpaper bleeding into recto of frontis. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Textblock is shaken with some signatures just holding. RARE IN ANY CONDITION.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good Plus. Revised Edition. Pictorial boards with blue cloth spine, no dustwrapper; eight colour plates plus b/w ills to text. Slight lean to spine with rubbing to board edges and corners; foxing to page block edges; previous owner gift inscription dated 1952 to front pastedown; small nick to lower edge of one plate. [1120: K3].…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Date is a guess, Good only as wear to covers, linen pages repaired in spots, six pages of chromoliths with 11 illustrations, a few pencil marks.

Pictorial Boards/Cloth Spine. Condition: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. Revised Edition. The lower parts of the board edges and the bottom corner of the pages are nibbled but this does not affect the text or illustrations. . .Please e-mail for further details. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". With 8 Colour Plates By 1 Lorna Adamson , (illustrator). Inscription By a "Teddy Xmas 1.…

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, undated but we think about 1875, Pictorial red cloth lettered gilt, 10 3/4" x 9 1/4", Mild stain to the top right of the upper board and also at the foot, barely visible but having affected the gilt lettering of 'Dogs', showing also at the foot of the front and rear endpapers. Signature of a previous owner to the title page, the body of text unmarked, minor foxing. Twenty-four chromolithograph plates by Herring and Landseer, printed by J Butterfield.…

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, undated but about 1875, small quarto measuring 11 1/2" x 9 1/2", re-cased at some point with blue cloth over bevelled edge boards, original cloth laid over, lettered gilt to the spine, and with new endpapers. The untearable Gift Book series consists of the paper being backed onto linen. Minor pencil scribble to the verso of the final leaf. Illustrated with brightly coloured plates. A pleasing copy.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition with no wrapper. Pictorial boards, red cloth spine. 3 b/w text cat illustrations illustrating "The Egg Pie" by Wain. Colour frontis. Packed with b/w illustrations by various artists. Covers worn and grubby. Spine worn. Joints cracked, sellotape repairs to rear joint. Inscription in ink to half-title page, the free-endpapers are possibly missing (if there were any). Small piece torn from top inner corner of half-title. Contents are foxed and browned but generally clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Wain, Louis & Groome, W.H.C. & et al., (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to (261 x 220 mm.), publisher's maroon cloth, decorated in blind and gilt. 24 pages of chromoxylographic illustrations, 2 per page, printed by Edmund Evans, each page corresponding to a page of text, the whole interleaved with blanks. Sometime very neatly rebacked, retaining spine and original endpapers. Gift inscription on first free endpaper dated 1867. Very clean throughout. Occasional minor offsetting onto blanks. Generally a very good copy.…

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, quarto, 10 1/2" x 9 1/8", red cloth gilt. Comprises four tales, Sing a Song o' Sixpence, Robin's Christmas Eve, Robin Hood & His Merry Men & The Sea Side. Rubbed to the extremities of the cloth and mildly darkened to the bottom left of the upper board, the binding tight and the contents clean and unmarked. Twenty four leaves of chromolithograph plates in oils by Kronheim and Dalziels. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [1947]. 4to. Colour pictorial jacket. Eight colour plates and b/w illustrations throughout, mostly by B. Butler, but pastedown illustrations front and rear are by Harry Rountree. Book and jacket beautifully clean. No inscriptions. VG+ / VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Fairly good condition for year.

Cloth. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Rubbed and soiled red cloth boards with pictorial front. Wear to ends of sunned spine. Binding cracked and loose with some pages seperate. Some pages missing, others torn. Sixeen colour plates remain, of which half have no damage to the picture area. No date.

Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Front Boards highly decorated with title and the figure of a man on horseback embossed in gold relief. Boards rubbed and corners bumped with some fraying to spine. Large Format. Not Inscribed. Internally cracked with fronticepiece ,title and early pages loose. There are twenty four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Kronheim. ( two are loose with one torn) There is uniform light foxing throughout. A Fair copy only.…