Ruth Deane (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Cloth. Condition: Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this uncommon and charming volume of stories about the domestic lives of animals, with chromolithograph folding pop-up plates. The first edition.An uncommon work.A charming work exploring the lives of farmyard animals, pets, and their domestic lives with their families. With stories about the lives of rabbits, geese, pigs, cats, and more.Illustrated with five striking folding pop-up chromolithograph plates. Collated, complete.Text is by L. L. Weedon, Clifton Bingham, and Ruth Dean.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards. Externally, a little rubbed to the boards, with a small amount of loss to the extremities. Small tidemark to the fore edge of the front board, larger tidemark to the rear board. Light rubbing to the spine. A small amount of loss to the head and tail of the spine. Marks to the boards. Hinges are starting but firm. Tidemark to the rear paste down. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean. Pencil note to the first folding scene. Gift inscription to the head of the title page. One tab to the pig scene is detached to one side, otherwise all scenes are in full working order, with a couple of very small closed tears. Good Only. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to., oblong (24 x 29 cm.), 26 pp. Black-and-white text and illustrations plus 5 colored, three-dimensional folding pop-ups. The colored pictorial papered boards are lightly soiled; edges gently bumped rubbed, lower hinge tender, partially split on lower edge of spine. The pop-ups are comprised of a little girl drinking milk in the cow shed; a child looking out of a window at goats; a girl with a donkey and rabbits; the penultimate scene is of a peacock with pigs and chickens and the final is a girl feeding geese. The pop-ups are in very nice condition except for a few tabs that need to be re-glued and attached. The legs of the goat in the second pop-up are severed at the fold and the large goose in the final pop-up has been decapitated. Otherwise a much better example than usually found and except for the headless goose easily repairable. It is a very good plus copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Nister, Ernest (illustrator). First Edition. FIRST EDITION. Nister, Ernest (Illustrator, publisher). Happy Families and Their Tales: A Volume of Pictures & Stories of Domestic Pets. London, Ernest Nister: New York, E. P, Dutton & Co., circa 1890, Printed in Bavaria. Black and White Illustrations and 5 folding color Pop-up pages by publisher and printer Ernest Nister (1842-1909) who specialized in colored toy and movable picture books. In addition to the pop-up pages, the book contains Animal Stories by L. L. Weedon, Clifton Bingham, and Ruth Deane with pen and ink illustrations. No dust jacket. The colored pictorial boards are lightly soiled, have some scratches, and edge wear. The hinges on the front and back boards have been reinforced. All of the pop-ups are original and complete in excellent condition. Some of the tabs have been re-glued or, in a few cases, a new one added for a missing tab. Overall, a very nice copy of one of the classic, innovative animated books by the famous English publisher Ernest Nister. Books are Carefully Packed and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from a Dry, Smoke-Free shop.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Oblong quarto. (13)ff. Stories by Deane and Weedon and verses by Bingham are illustrated with line drawings. Five stories: the calves' tale, the goat's tale, the rabbit's tale, the goose's tale, and the pig's tale, also have glorious full-page colored pop-up dioramas. Evidence of professional hinge repair, else a clean copy, near fine in illustrated boards backed in cloth.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1883 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. Pages: 665 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: 665 Volume 1883-1929 Language: English.