Macalister Edith (6 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 392pp, blue cloth, DJ spine darkened and worn at spine ends, portrait frontispiece, appendices, index, owner's bookplate in front, signed by the author, includes three pages of a handwritten letter by the author, a two page hand written letter by Mary Walker?, a greeting card and a short note signed by the author, several clippings and a photo of "Barrmore", Cambridge. biograph of a Scottish physican and educator,

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 392pp, blue cloth, DJ spine darkened and worn at spine ends, portrait frontispiece, appendices, index, owner's bookplate in front, signed by the author, includes three pages of a handwritten letter by the author, a two page hand written letter by Mary Walker?, a greeting card and a short note signed by the author, several clippings and a photo of "Barrmore", Cambridge. biograph of a Scottish physican and educator.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (1926), small 4to, 255 x 190 mm, 10 x 7½ inches, cloth backed yellow boards, silhouette illustration of children to upper cover, pages: x, 76, 35 humorous line illustrations in the verse text by the author. Cautionary tales in verse for naughty young children. Covers and corners slightly worn, upper cover slightly rubbed, lower cover dusty and damp stained along lower edge, inner paper hinges neatly strengthened, tiny worm hole to lower margin of title page and next 3 leaves, occasional pale marks to margins, 3 upper margins faintly foxed, small closed tear to 1 lower margin. A good copy. The stories owe something to Wilhelm Busch's Die fromme Helene, translated into English in 1872 as Pious Jemima. 8 items are about Maria, titles include Maria and the Inks; Maria and the Paints; Maria and the Scissors; Hilda Manners; Oliver Day (who almost drowned). Listed in Baumgartner Volume II, I, No. 131 and in Ruhle No. 596. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. vii, 392 pgs, frontis; a short note from the author gifting the book as a christmas present is tipped to the front free endpaper. dust jacket is stained.; 220 x 140mm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Royal8vo, pp,x,76, embellished suitable illustrations by the author, blue cloth-backed pictorial boards which have some edge-wear, browning to the free endpapers.

First Edition. With Chapters By Sir Robert Rait And Sir Norman Walker. Biography of the physician and academic and member of the Cambridge Apostles. Signed with a gift inscription by the author to the front endpaper. VG in poor dustjacket which is worn and split to the side. Scarce.