Published by Collins Clear-Type Press, London & Glasgow, 1927
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by Kate Elizabeth Oliver. Previous owner's ink inscription. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1900 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 100 Language: English.
Published by British Books Ltd, London
Seller: Stirling Books, Stirling, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Kate Elizabeth Olver (illustrator). Book Is Undated. Spine Worn At Top And Tail, Board Corners Bumped Binding Tight And Secure Pages Clean And Bright Throughout.
Published by Collins, London, 1946
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by A. H. Watson (illustrator). First Thus. This collection of classic favourite verses for children first appeared in 1885 under the title 'Penny Whistles' and has been reprinted many times. This is a first new edition thus, first impression. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, 1" loss to top of spine, and small loss to bottom of spine and corners. Some slight darkening to spine, some slight overall time staining, not price clipped (7s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 223pp, illustrated. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession, but was allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted strongly against the Presbyterian respectability of the city's professional classes and this led to painful clashes with his parents. In his early twenties he became afflicted with a severe respiratory illness from which he was to suffer for the rest of his life, it was at this time that he determined to become a professional writer. The effects of the often harsh Scottish climate on his poor health forced him to spend long periods abroad. After a great deal of travelling he eventually settled in Samoa, where he died on 3 December 1894.
Condition: Fine in very good plus box. Lovely and scarce edition of Stevenson's classic poems, one of the better known works illustrated by portrait painter and children's artist Kate Olver. This copy has been gorgeously preserved by its retained box, also in a vivid indigo shade. 9.25'' x 7.25''. Original full indigo leather stamped in pictorial gilt. Top edge gilt. Blue silk ribbon bookmark. In original publisher's indigo box with pictorial paste-on. Pictorial endpapers. Four color plates and additional black and white illustrations by Olver. 191, [1] pages. Faint foxing to fore-edge and scattered faintly throughout. Unobtrusive corner repair to box and hint of sunning to edges.