Lucy Laing (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair+. Topham, Inez Rowles, Lilian and Others (illustrator). Pictorial boards depicting two rabbits and a mouse fishing. Spine is reinforced with tape and corners a little bumped. Internally some light scattered foxing o/w good. Four lovely colour plates and lots of b/w illustrations. Contains 24 short children's stories. The first story is "On Guard". "The Pinnacle Series". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair - Cash. No Jacket. Heavy wear to cover, corners and edges, exposes the boards. Has soiling to cover and pages, with creases. Has a gift inscription. Scribbling, checkmarks, and stars on several pages and back cover. Spine covering peeled off. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Not dated (c.1940s). stapled booklet comprising a complete story of 16 pages including pictorial covers with adverts on the back. Near Fine. Postage will be reduced on this item.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 62 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrations throughout with colour frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking.

Condition: Good. 186 pages. No dust jacket. Blue pictorial cloth. Front endpaper has been removed. 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.

A very good booklet with illustrated cover: Country scene with a boy talking to a man holding a shovel (the sexton). No 65 in the Bouverie Series. 32 page fiction. 8.25 inches tall. No date (1930's or earlier).

Condition: Good. 96 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. 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. The clipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 96 pages, coloured frontispiece, 3 other colour plates, b/w illustrations, old inscription on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. blue cloth boards; some sun fading on spine minor edge wear .,pages lightly tanned o.w. a very good plus copy that apparently was hardly ever opened because of tightness and crispness of pages.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fair. No Description.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No Date. No dj, light green cloth with black spine lettering, spine slightly faded and marked, corners lightly bumped, 4 plates (signed Sutcliffe), slight remains of presentation plate on flyleaf, some foxing, vg. thick 8vo, 249pp.

Booklet. Condition: Good. The Lily Library No. 273. 15 p. 22 cm. Stapled booklet. Staples rusting.

Booklet. Condition: Fair. The Lily Library No. 131. 32 p. 22 cm. Spine torn. Ink stamp at bottom front.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by K (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of largely purple jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, some browning and offsetting to spine, back jacket and endpapers, not price clipped (10s 6d), small previous owner's name and some numbers to ffep and copyright page, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 255pp. A historical novel about Princess Charlotte Stuart (1753-89), Duchess of Albany, illegitimate daughter of Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) and his mistress Clementina Walkinshaw. By largely forgotten British author Janet Lucy Laing.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read and spine cover is missing, but still very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Pages are clean & clear; colour frontis plate not dated; presentation label on inside front cover dated 1933; tight binding; corner bumping; foxing mainly to page ends;

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A charming magazine with many short stories mostly by women authors, designed for women. Richly embellished with various plates throughout. A charming volume of this magazine for women by Dorothea Moore, Lucy Laing, and others.Containing various short stories and poems regarding women and their experiences with titles such as 'La Marquise Valerie,' 'Some Hints for Young Pianist,' 'The Magic Broom,' and others.With contributions by Dorothea Moore, Doris Pocock, Adela F. Orpen, Lucy Laing, Nora Pitt-Taylor, and many others. Illustrated with many plates, seven in colour.Lacking the title page and frontispiece. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and a slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. With P E Ramley's bookplate to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. With a minor spotting to the occasional leaf, particularly to the first and last few, otherwise generally bright and clean. Illustrated with various plates throughout, of which seven are in colour. Lacking the title page and frontispiece. Very Good. book.

Thomas Nelson London nd c 1930's. Pictorial stiff boards, illustrations, 63pp. School presentation plate, child's scribble pp3 & pp62, light foxing, a few pages dog-eared. Australian Tax on Low Value Imported Goods (LVIG) exempt.