Olive Stuart (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. **YOUR PURCHASE SUPPORTS A SMALL BUSINESS!!**.

Hard Boards. Condition: Good. HARDBACK. Undated: circa 1930. Colour frontispiece plus 2 colour plates, one of a Girl Cricketer catching the ball. First story: "A Partner for Pat". Spine is intact. Rear cover matches front cover but has a little staining. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref Ofbmilln. Best Book for Girls. Contributors include: Beryl C. Lawley; Irene Mossop; R. S. Lyons; Violet M. Methley; Olive Stuart; Josephine Elder; Norah Cameron; B. Gibbs; D. Dixon. The New Century Press, London.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 32 Pp + 2 Pp Ads At Rear. Grey-Green Covers Printed In Red And Black, Covers Are Ribbed Paper And Folded Over The Interior Plain Card Covers. Ownership Signature Of California Author Olive Percival In Ink At Top Of Front Cover. Oversize Title Page Is Loose, Spine Edge Of Title Page Is Straight But Oversize Foredge Is Creased And Chipped In The Area Which Overlaps The Page Block, So Perhaps Never Bound In Properly; Otherwise Near Fine, No Other Wear And No Soiling, But Two Very Small Chips On Spine (Only).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Petherick, Rosa C. & Hardy, E. Stuart & Thompson, G.H. & et al., (illustrator). circa 1910. Very good condition with no wrapper. 22nd year of publication. Cloth spine, pictorial front board shows a boy and a girl sledging. 6 colour plates, b/w illustrations throughout. 131 numbered pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Small indentation to edge of rear cover. Prize plate to front pastedown. Light page browning throughout, some grubby marks to margins and some light foxing. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. [6], 5-45, [1]. Illustrated throughout with monochrome photographs. Quarter maroon cloth with paper-covered pictorial boards. Slightly bowed; spine rubbed at tips and boards showing wear at edge. Rear white panel lightly surface soiled. Contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Scarce photographic survey of the post-war scene in London, including Petticoat Lane market, the bookshops on Charing Cross Road, Waterloo Bridge and many familiar street-scapes. Eileen Olive Deste (1908-1986) was born in Croydon but emigrated to New Zealand for many years, becoming the official photographer for the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition before returning to London in the 1940s; much of heer work is in the Historic England Archive.