Marton Gregory (37 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.5.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Wildsmith, Brian (illustrator). 1st Ed, 1st Prt. 1st prt. Terrific color DJ, endpapers & illustrations by BRIAN WILDSMITH- Greenaway medalist & NYTIMES BEST ILLUS. artist. Told with unforgettable intensity, this is the story of an orphan boy making his way westward from Budapest. Meeting another wayfarer, a woman heavy with child, he shelters her and finds her food, relying on his friend the blizzard to protect them while he leads her to the safety of the west and the summer sea beyond it. 126pp.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Wildsmith, Brian (illustrator). First Edition. Slight spine slant.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Very Good DJ. First edition. First edition, very good + hardcover shows just a touch of wear, in a very good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows touch of pencil shadow at top of flap next to price and edgewear that includes tiny closed tears and open chips. 126 pages illustrated by Brian Wildsmith. Still a pleasing copy of this ".story of an orphan boy making his way westward from Budapest.".

Condition: Good. 1962. 126 pages. Purple pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. 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 wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Wildsmith, Brian (illustrator). 1st. 1st ptg., small 8vo, black boards stamped with glittering metallic snowflakes full coolor endpapers and 2-color interior drawings by Brian Wildsmith. A boy and a pregnant woman cross Hungary to reach the west and the summer sea with the help of his friend the blizzard. 126pp. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. The Boy and His Friend the Blizzard. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Brian Wildsmith (illustrator). Firmly bound, decorated black cloth boards. Illustrated end papers. No jacket.

Condition: Good. 1962. Second Impression. 126 pages. Dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Notable foxing. Mild staining to panels. Heavy tanning to spine.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith. First edition. Trace foxing on fore edge, else about fine in a very near fine dust jacket that has a bit of minor edge wear at the extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Reprint. Hardcover. Lacks dustjacket. Edges and prelims slightly foxed, o/w very good in decorated boards. Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $2 ($5 overseas), so please disregard the site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Wildsmith (illustrator). First Edition. minimal library marks, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: edge wear, library sticker spine Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex Library.

First edition. Hardcover. Fore and bottom edges lightly spotted, o/w fine in very good price-clipped dustjacket. With dustjacket, endpapers and other illustrations by Brian Wildsmith. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $2 ($5 overseas), so please disregard the site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Brian Wildsmith (illustrator). Repr. Hardback: colour pictorial endpapers, b/w text illustrations with soft colour washes by BRIAN WILDSMITH, dj is lightly foxed on reverse, black boards with bright metallic stars on front and rear, silver spine lettering, slight foredge foxing, vg. small 8vo, 126pp. The boy is a war refugee trying to make his way through Hungary to the West.

Condition: New.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Brian Wildsmith (illustrator). First Edition. Black bds with coloured metalic snow flake design. very small rub to corners and a few very small chips to bottom edge of front board.Colour illustrated endpapers. Illustrations to text. Interior very good and clean. Dustjacket with inscription to front inside flyleaf, small losses to corners, very small chip to bottom spine end and 6mm and 8mm tear to top spine end.

Condition: Very Good. Wildsmith, Brian (illustrator). 1st. Black cloth-covered boards with snowflake pattern decoration in embossed coloured foil on front cover. Silver lettering on spine. Colour pictorial endpapers. Other illustrations two-tone brown and black. Some faint marks to back cover.

Condition: Good. Originele geà llustreerde hardcover, illustraties in z/w, 8vo.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Brian Wildsmith (illustrator). First Edition. 126 pages, text and endpapers colour illustrated. A clean, straight, unmarked book in a bright, complete dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover. Initial pages have staining at top margin. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 1962 J Cape hardback 2nd impression; near fine clean tight binding in near fine dust jacket; Excellent Brian Wildsmith illustrations and a beautiful jacket design.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Marton, Gregory. The boy and his friend the blizzard / illustrations by Brian Wildsmith. First edition. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Hardback, VG, in Good, unclipped dustjacket, bumped to corners with nicks to top and base of spine, in homemade protective transparent sleeve. Black cloth decorated with coloured snowflakes to front and back; gilt lettering to spine. 126pp., b/w/brown illustrations. Top edge of page block stained red. Light foxing to other edges. Contents clean and bright. Born in Budapest in 1924, Gregory Marton graduated as a lieutenant from the Royal Hungarian Military Academy in 1944. The following year he spent as a fighting soldier. He spent the next few years studying in Germany, emigrating to Australia in 1949. At first he earned his living by manual work, but was then employed as a Civil Servant in New South Wales. He devoted much of his time to writing, in Hungarian, verse, plays and stories; The Boy and His Friend the Blizzard was his first work in the English language.Brian Lawrence Wildsmith (22 January 1930 31 August 2016) was a British painter and children's book illustrator. He won the 1962 Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration, for the wordless alphabet book ABC. In all his books, the illustrations are always as important as the text. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION 1962, 8vo, black boards with metallic coloured snow flakes on both boards, gilt lettered spine, coloured pictorial endpapers, 126 pages. Line illustrations with 1 colour, some across double pages. Tragic story about a young orphan boy in Hungary. No inscriptions, minute bump to lower corner of lower board, otherwise a Fine clean copy in VG+ DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, just slightly worn at head of spine and top corners, spine lightly browned, spine edges very slightly rubbed, 10 mm (½") closed tear at foot of lower hinge). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Gebunden. Condition: New.