Published by Brentano's, NY no date
Seller: Reflection Publications, Madison, NH, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: good. 30 cute songs for children, beautiful illustrations. 8 1/2" x 11" hardcover with torn & soiled dust jacket; otherwise very good condition.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good green boards with black lettering to front and spine, 8.0 x 6.5 inches approx. , 3 silhouettes of children to front board, some wear to extremities, in the form of rubbing, corners mildly bumped, a hint of a background crease to front board, 119 pages followed by publisher's advertising, coloured frontispiece, 3 other coloured pictures, text illustrated with black silhouettes.
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1929
Seller: Lion Books PBFA, Kidderminster, WORCS, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Margaret W. Tarrant (illustrator). First Edition. Inscr to front paste-down, tanning and light foxing to text block edge, light rub to spine ends and around some corners of bds, dw has wear to extremeties, with small loss and a few tiny chips, and surface marks to rear cover. In removable book film. ; 190x130mm; 60 pages.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. London: The Modern Art Society Ltd, 1920. Undated, ca. 1920s. VERY worn but with six tipped on color plates in very good condition. Petite book (just over 6 inches tall) , light brown hardcover with color illustration on the front cover. Spine covering chipped away, covers stained, hinges reinforced with clear tape that has yellowed, erasure hole in front free endpaper, text block not tight but with no detached pages, one inner margin tape repair, pages themselves in good condition, plates very good, name inside front cover, no other markings. Hard Cover. Fair. 24mo - 5" - 5¾" Tall.
Published by George G. Harrap (1928), London, 1928
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Tarrant, Margaret W. (illustrator). First Edition. Owner's signature. Some water marks to head of front board. Some spotting to page edges. ; (58) pages + colour frontis + 3 colour plates. Papered boards. Page dimensions: 185mm x 120mm. "I've drawed a little paper house,/ An' Mother's cut it out./ I've drawed it with a chimley-pot,/ An' windows all about./ I've drawed the paper people that/ Will live inside, you see,/ An' little paper cups an' plates/ For them to have their tea." - from the poem The Paper House. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Pictorial Dustwrapper. Illustrated By Margaret Tarrant with Four Colour Plates as Listed (illustrator). First Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All dustwrappers are film protected. PayPal accepted. Spine darkened. Dustwrapper is scarce and creased and nicked but very attractive.
Published by George G Harrap, 1926
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated with Four Colour Plates By Margaret W Tarrant, black and White Illustrations By Dorothy Newsome and Music By Ida Sargent (illustrator). 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. Original pictorial pasted on boards. Quarter bound. A little marked on rear cover and some corner wear.
Published by The Medici Society, London, 1932
Seller: Sue Lloyd-Davies Books, CARMARTHEN, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant (illustrator). Fourth Impression. Pale green paper-covered boards, with darker green titling to the spine and fairy illustration to the front board. The board edges have a little discolouration and the head/tail of the spine are bumped/a little crushed due to storage and the fragility of the type of publication, but overall corners are sound, and the covers are tight and clean. In the original dustjacket, but the dustjacket is a little grubby, with some loss to the spine ends and the corners, and there is a further triangular area of loss to the top edge of the front panel (the 'H' from SEA-SHORE is missing, and parts of the surrounding 'S' and 'O'). See Images. The original printed price on the spine and on the back panel is 2s, and both prices have been crossed out in red and changed to 1s 6d, (faint on the spine) , this was done by the printer at the time of production. The dustjacket has been neatly repaired/preserved to the reverse of the d/j with clear archive tape, and is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks quite good. Internally there is a previous owners' location neatly blind-stamped onto the front free endpaper, and a couple of indented numbers from old pencil marks now erased. Apart from this there are No Inscriptions or other marks, other than some foxing (light yellowy brown) spotting to the page fore-edges and here and there throughout the book, as usual more spotting/patching at the beginning and end of the book. The colour plates are very clean. 6 lovely tipped-in (affixed on one edge only) colour plates of 'sea-shore fairies' and also 20 in-text illustrations in greeny-blue and white, all delightfully illustrated by Margaret Tarrant. Each text page decoratively bordered in greeny-blue. Contains six poems: - "The Shell on the Mantelpiece; Miss Letty; The Littlest Fairy; Once there was a Starfish; The Seaweed Dress, and Dropping Stitches." . All poems relate to these lovely fairies so charmingly depicted by Margaret Tarrant. Overall generally Clean, Tight and Bright copy in the original, if flawed, dustjacket. See IMAGES. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.
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).