Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1926
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1926. Reprinted. 47 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown illustrated paper covered boards and lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.
Published by George G. Harrap, 1914
Seller: A.O'Neill, Basingstoke, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Margaret W.Tarrant (illustrator). 1st Edition. Scarce First edition of this famous children's book illustrated by Margaret Tarrant. Front board appears to have had an attempt at cleaning see photos.
Published by George G. Harrap & Co London, 1914
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second impression. NO DW. Slim 4to. Colour frontis., tipped in + 3 colour plates, all tipped in. Grey illustrated cloth, white lettering to spine. Boards are rubbed, worn and soiled. Inner hinge cracked, endpapers browned, ownership inscription to verso of frontis, which has slightly offset to verso of half-title, grubby marks and foxing to contents o/w GOOD only.
Published by George G. Harrap, London, 1918
Seller: Bounteous, Buckingham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair - Good. Margaret W. Tarrant (illustrator). First Edition. Gilt title to the cover, with rubbed title to the spine; spine damaged to bottom third; corners bumped and edgeworn; missing front free endpaper; neat inscription to the Title page; any illustrated pages have been removed.
Published by George G. Harrap, London 1914, 1914
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. Second impression. Hardback. Original cloth slightly worn and marked, slight offsetting from plates and light marks to a couple of pages from pressed flowers, otherwise very good. With 4 tipped-in colour plates. Inscription to endpaper. No dust jacket. 2nd impression.
Published by George G. Harrap & Company, New York, 1914
Seller: Somerset Books, Glastonbury, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Margaret Tarrant (illustrator). 1st Edition. VG / Fair First printing of first UK edition. Beautiful colour and b/w llustrations by Margaret Tarrant. 4 colour illustrations tipped in on greyWhite titles to spine on olive green cloth boards. Binding is very firm and tight although there is a very slight skew to the spine. Slight wear to spine ends and fading to lower half of the upper cover where part of d/j is absent. Tanning and a little spotting to page edges and end papers. No inscriptions. Not ex-library. Unclipped pictorial d/j is rather grubby, rubbed and has quite a few tears and chips. Large chips at the foot of the upper cover.
Hardback. Condition: Good. Early Edition. Early printing, hardback with printed titling to spine and gilt titling and silhouette to upper board. 19 × 13cm, 46pp. This copy has been signed by Italia Conti, the actress and founder of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. She has signed "Dorothy Secker with love from Italia Conti / Victoria Palace "Where the Rainbow Ends", New Years Day 1920 / In memory of the 'Tiny Fairy'". Dorothy Secker was an actress in the play, Where the Rainbow Ends. It was during an earlier production of this play that the theatre manager Charles Hawtrey asked Conti to train the children, which led to the foundation of her acting school. Illustrated with four colour plates by Margaret Tarrant, this is a collection of poetry for children presaging A A Milne's verse in style and content. Condition: The book is quite worn, with heavy rubbing to the corners. The pages are lightly foxed throughout and one plate is detached. However, Italia Conti's signature is quite a rare one. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Frederick A Stokes, New York
Seller: E. M. Maurice Books, ABAA, Torrington, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First American Edition. [1914]. Beige boards stamped in gilt, blue and white, minor rubbing to extremities, gift inscription. Nursery poetry with 4 pretty, mounted color plates. Size: Small 4to.