Shield Arnold (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Children's story of a small rowing boat used as a ferry in a small harbour. Complete and intact. Full page orange, grey, black and white illustrations throughout. Hard illustrated hard card cover with blue cloth spine. Illustration of fish on rear and Boat, harbour and house to front. Black and orange titles to front. Slight edge wear. Slight traces of rubbed out boys signature on rear. Read condition. Some slight grubby age marks to front and rear cover. Gift inscription (neat) on ffp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket, in good condition. Boards are scuffed and marked. Corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is cocked. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Frederick Muller LTD. 1948. First Edition in Hardback. Slim landscape, Pictoral boards. Illustrated throughout in colour. Spine frayed and extremities worn with light foxing to front and rear covers. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Pages lightly browned. Otherwise a lovely clean and tight copy.

Size: Three volumes in one. Oblong folio. [i (title)], 38, [iii (title, introduction)], 40 (lacking pp.39/40 supplied here in facsimile)], 5pp. Quarter leather (very worn), limp boards (worn). Title-page designed by Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-1785). Engraved. Rosina: a re-issue of Napier's edition from 1783, an extremely popular work performed over several decades and reprinted more than 30 times until ca 1810. Three volumes in one. Oblong folio. [i (title)], 38, [iii (title, introduction)], 40 (lacking pp.39/40 supplied here in facsimile)], 5pp.