Rees Margaret Illustrator (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Fair. 43 pages. WORN.Grimy yellow background dustjacket has small chips to spine-ends, corners and edges, light brown staining to front-edges and some darkening. Book has creasing to rear hinge-side and bottom edges due to repeated handling, boards out fo true, wear to spine-ends/corners & bumps to bottom edges, small dark spots to front. One or two damp marks to text, generally quite clean. Very attractive colour and two tone illustations in nice condition. Undated - 1950s. Senior, Margaret (Illustrator) (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title. Rees, Margaret (illustrator).

1st ed. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, good plus condition (in good dustjacket), paper-covered boards, full-page colour drawings, colour endpaper map, few edge tears jacket (small loss fold ends, few toned spots reverse side), tape scuff mark front endpaper (pastedown little bubbled), pages lightly toned, some edgewear, bookshop sticker, protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 44 pp. A children's story by Leslie Rees about baby Kurri Kurri the kookaburra who lived in the bush with his family in eastern Australia. One day after he had learnt to laugh, but before he could fly, Kurri Kurri and his friend Karloo were kidnapped by men. They were taken all the way across the country as pets to Blackswanland [Western Australia], which had no kookaburras at the time. This story tells how Karloo and Kurri Kurri eventually escaped into the bush and started a family of their own. And so, that is how kookaburras came to flourish in Western Australia! The beautiful illustrations by Margaret Senior will delight. First edition. (No date, but 1950, Trove. Muir 6297. Sticker of Farmer's Bookshop.).…

Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), pictorial cover, full-page colour drawings (including endpapers), light toning reverse side jacket (front flap not price-clipped, light foxing flaps), some edgewear. 43 pp. A wonderful classic children's picture story by Leslie Rees about a koala, Australia's favourite native animal, and how important it is to care for koalas. Two-Thumbs was named as koalas have opposable fingers so they can secure a better grip on high gum-tree branches, thus making up for the curious lack of a proper tail. Illustrated by Margaret Senior. (Originally published by John Sands, 1953. This copy: No date, about 1968, Trove. No ISBN in book. Decimal price 1.25 on jacket flap, thus later than 1966.).…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Softback. 12mo. 16 x 19.5 size. White card, black lettering + line around edges, black illustration down both sides Roman beauties in at a drawing class. Neat ink name " : Leonnie Margaret Rees" entered in " This is to Certify that " box. Slight foxing + slight damp mark to one certificate, 2 smalls cuffs to another, small crease top corner third else very clean & unchipped. Clean unrubbed copies. VG. …