Maltby Peg (87 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Maltby, Peg (illustrator). Third Impression with Amendments. Australia: The Bird Observers Club, Melbourne, 1971 88 pgs. B/W and color illustrations. Text clean, bright, tigtht and unmarked. Owner's signature on endpaper. DJ a little scuffed. Now in protective mylar. Third Impression with Amendments. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Maltby, Peg. 7.5" x 9.75.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A little reading wear to blue cloth hardcover. Dust jacket has edge wear and tape repaired tears, but is intact. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. B/w and color illustrations. 32 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. No Jacket. Covers a little rubbed and corners of boards bumped, but overall quite good. Abrasion near spine rear panel. 0.

hard cover with dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Previously published as Ben and Bella, Ben and Bella in the hills, Ben and Bella at the beach and Ben and Bella in the gardens. Illustrated with drawings in colour and black and white. 30 cm. 63 pages VG/G. Very good book with gift inscription and name whited out on front endpaper in good dust jacket with edge wear, short tears.

Hard Cover. Condition: Book good. Peg Maltby (illustrator). Second impression. 86 pp. Coloured illustrations. B/w maps by Alex Stirling and Reg Johnson.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover special gift edition published in 1976. This book is in good+ condition - edge wear to boards; crease in ffep. The dust jacket is in good condition - edge wear with some chipping and rubbing; one and a half inch closed tear on front bottom right; small loss at bottom of spine; one inch tear at back bottom. Photos available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair to good. Reprint. Book very good with Maltby's illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket has closed tears which have been repaired on verso. This book may require a freight adjustment.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Maltby, Peg (illustrator). Blue hardcover binding clean square and tight with just slight rubbing at corners. Interior clean bright and tight - no writing tears or marks. Unpaginated. Adventures of two pixies named Ben and Bella and their adventures. Fabulous full page, full color artwork throughout along with lots of black and white sketches. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Peg Maltby (fairy images) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Published by Australian Artist Publishing, 1995. This book is in very good+ condition - mild edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair to good. Spiral bound illustrated boards in very good condition (name whited out on award plate front pasted endpaper, light stain base front fore-edge corner), in scarce jacket. Jacket has wear at top and tail of spine, and stain at bottom fore-edge corner of front panel.

Hardback small folio, dustjacket, good condition reading copy (in good dustjacket), blue cloth boards, full-page colour drawings, black & white drawings (some full-page), tiny split front cloth cover spine (small sticker repair front endpapers), some creasing & small edge tears jacket (archival tape repairs reverse side), some edgewear. 64 pp. Full title: 'The Adventures of Ben and Bella'. A delightful classic childrenâs selection of picture stories, written and illustrated by Peg Maltby, published by Angus & Robertson in 1982. Follow the adventures of two happy pixies, They meet a lost mermaid, build a bush house to escape the summer heat, they help a mother bandicoot find her lost baby son, and they are not rescued from the water by a duck who was too interested in dressing properly. Previously published as four separate books by Murphett, Melbourne from 1947 to 1951: 'Ben and Bella', 'Ben and Bella in the Hills', 'Ben and Bella at the Beach', and 'Ben and Bella in the Gardens'.

New, reprint ed. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), colour drawings (mostly full-page), illustrated endpapers, minor edgewear jacket (reverse side light foxing), spine ends lightly rubbed. 32 pp. This delightful Australian children's story by Peg Maltby has been reissued for a new generation. A little old lady Nutchen lives in a beautiful forest and looks after and rescues the wild birds and animals. The large drawings, also by Peg Maltby, will charm any age. A collectible Australian children's picture story. (Originally published 1945: this is the new 1977 edition by Angus & Robertson, reprinted in 1983.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Large format, illustratrd card covers, faint stamp base front panel.

undated, quarto, illus light card wrappers, illus eps, 15pp, illus, VG (light wear, light discolouration, small holes penetrating book).

32pp. 4to. Original, cloth backed, boards in dustwrapper, black and white illustrations and colour plates. A very good copy. Originally published in 1945.

stiff card. Condition: Good in rubbed wraps. colour and b&w illustrations (illustrator). Classic nursery rhymes with the illustrations of Peg Maltby, being full-page colour and b&w text illustrations; Simple Simon, Little Bo Peep, Jack Sprat, Jumping Joan, Little Miss Muffet, Wee Willie Winkie, etc; no publishing date (Trove states '1945?'); colour illustrations to front and rear covers; generally good throughout, with some foxing, and tanning to edges of pages, wraps rubbed and with tanning/toning to edges all around. . unpaginated (16pp). 37 x 25cm). Good in rubbed wraps.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Maltby, Peg; Stirling, Alex (maps) (illustrator). Third Impression. 88pp, index, 12 col plates, map. Or tan cloth in jacket. Slight damp rippling at top edge with light tide mark to jacket. Presents the honeyeaters of Australia. Size: 4to.

Hardback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Good Condition. Corners and spine ends a bit worn. Previous owner has lightly inked name and several numbers to front cover. Gift inscription to title page. Gift inscription to title page. 4 full-page and 4 half-page colour illustrations and sepia toned drawings by famous Australian illustrator, Peg Maltby. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 32 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardback: illustrated in colour & mono, thick colour pictorial card covers are dusty, corners are worn and bumped, part of the black cloth spine strip is rubbed away, neat inscription (dated 1945) on inside front cover, page corners bumped and the edges are slightly finger creased, some foxing and a few short tears, lower corner of one page torn off (affects a colour illustrations), fair but still worth preserving. small 4to, (32pp). Probably the 1945 1st edition. The third 'Pip and Pepita' title.

(1945) Pictorial boards. 32pp. Decorated title page. Decorated title page. 8 full page colour illustrations and b/w drawings. Lacks spine covering else a Good copy. 1st ed. Muir 4749.

8vo. [16pp.] Original pictorial wrappers, slightly chipped, previous owner's inscription and childish self-portrait inside f/c, otherwise a very good copy. 8 full-page colour illustrations and b/w illustrations throughout. Muir 4765. First edition.

32pp. 4to. Colour plates and black and white illustrations. Original ring bound, worn and soiled pictorial boards, a good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Maltby, Peg (illustrator). 1st Edition. No publishing date (1944), gift inscription dated 1945. The book suffers from a multitude of issues: the red spine strip is detached at the head the front hinge is cracked, causing the body of the book to be partially detached, though still firmly held in place by the back one; a small section the spine is unravelling towards the head, where it is also fraying and the boards are chipped at the edges; there are intermittent short tears throughout the book. The book has clearly been loved and frequently read. In its favour, the illustrations are still sharp and the pages clean. ". Peg's Fairy Book, first published in 1944, sold more than 180,000 copies in the 1940s and 1950s.".

soft cover. No Jacket. Maltby, Peg (illustrator). Illustrated with black and white drawings by Peg Maltby. 17 cm. 125 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear and edge wear to covers, small chip to lower front near spine.

4to, 32pp. Black & white illustrations. A marked hardback copy with bumps to corners.

Boards. Quarto, pictorial boards, colour plates, b&w illus, pp 32. N.d. (1945) Rubbed to front board, several small closed tears, fair condition.

Paperback square quarto, no jacket (missing), good condition, thick pictorial board covers, full-page colour drawings, black & white drawings, spiral binding (covered by olive cloth spine as issued, worn, notably spine ends), covers corners creased, scuff mark rear cover, some edgewear, all drawings colored by child, non-author written dedication inside front cover, copy 2. 32 pp. First & only edition. A collectible Australian children's picture story about Paul and his adventures with Archie Cobbledick the gnome. Muir 4656. (No date, 1948, Trove. The scarce dustjacket is missing. Exists in three states: this one has the scarcer olive or green-grey cloth spine. ).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Maltby, Peg (illustrator). First Edition. Not Dated [1945 NLA]. Peg Maltby (1899-1984) Peg and her husband George migrated to Australia in 1924 and lived in Victoria all their lives during the depression to supplement her income she started painting chocolate boxes. Her talent as a flower painter caught the eye of the publishers Murfetts who commissioned fifteen paintings of fairies and gypsies in woodland settings, which became her first book, Peg's Fairy book in 1944. This work was overwhelmingly successful and she followed this success with the Pip and Pepita series about a family of mice. CONDITION 32 pages with 9 beautiful colour illus, small sepia sketches to pages without colour illus. Stapled heavy card, red cloth spine, edges slightly rubbed, internally very nice with sl finger smudges to page edges. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

HB PICTORIAL BOARDS INSCRIPTION VERY GOOD PP32 SMALL QTO Illustrated by the author.