Stevenson Mabel M (21 results)

Wraps. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Vol. 4, No. 1. Edited by Boucher & McComas. Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Includes "The Big Holiday" by Fritz Leiber; "The Footprint" by Mabel Seeley; "Perfect Creature" by John Wyndham; "The Mask of Demeter" by Martin Pearson & Cecil Corwin [Donald A. Wollheim & C. M. Kornbluth]; "New Ritual" by Idris Seabright [Margaret St. Clair]t; "When the Devil took the Professor" by Kurd Lasswitz (Translated by Willy Ley); "The Last Magician" by Bruce Elliott; "The Isle of Voices" by Robert Louis Stevenson; "Recommended Reading"; "Joy Ride" by William Campbell Gault; "What Shadows We Pursue" by Russell Kirk; "The Chocolate Coach" by Doris Gilbert. Minor creasing; first page wrinkled with tears; tanning. Magazine.…

Hardcover. 1st thus. A good copy green illustrated boards with boy and girl on swing, blank red cloth spine. Corners and edges of boards bumped. pos on front pastedown. Page edges browning a little, with minor foxing. Closed tear to tail of frontspiece, 2 other colour illustrations pulling away from binding edge and with minor tears. Large book, may incur additional postage charge. Immediate despatch from the UK. 8vo Large. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Illustrated paper covers (Stapled Paperback) 245 x 185 mm approx. [16 ] pp illustrated in line. Poem + Three bedtime stories The New Home, Always Merry and Bright, Myra's Step-Mother by Mabel M Stevenson and The Lost Kitten. Illustrator not credited and undated . Circa late 1940's/ 1950's .Published in Dean's Story Books Series , No 22. Trade advertisements for Hayward's Military Pickle and Sauce and Ovaltine to rear cover. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good (Moderate shelf rubbing to covers with dust soiling especially to bottom margin, No previous owner name or insc. Poor quality paper of book block significantly tanned, staples a little tarnished. No other notable defects).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No date. Circa 1940's. Pictorial boards depicting a boy and girl with a green telephone. Some edge wear but in overall Fair+ condition. Previous owner's name filled in inside. Lovely colour frontis of a dog and some ducks plus three further full page colour illustrations. Many 2-tone and b/w illustrations to text. First story is "Pansy Porker's New Hat" plus many other stories for young children. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Humstead, Joyce; Paterson, Cora; and Others (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First. 4to. A good copy with a liner on the front and fairy related stories inside. Nothing before title page. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Undated. 140pp, 2pp of period advertisements, a few colour plate illustrations (inc. frontispiece). Quarter-bound with orange cloth-covered spine over pictorial paper-covered front board; some black and white illustrations. 4to. Boards worn and rear board lightly soiled. Spine foxed, heaviest towards head, spine ends moderately rubbed with cloth starting to wear through at heel. Heavy shelf wear to edges with corners heavily rubbed and rounded; paper loss. Heavy tanning and foxing on text block edges. Quite cocked. Previous owner's name filled into 'This book belongs to' on front free endpaper. Heavy tanning and foxing throughout, heaviest towards beginning and end of volume. Internally, neat, clean and tight. Collection of children's stories.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 188 pp 4 colour plates, numerous bw illustrations, quarter blue cloth , colour illustrated cover by Nora Annie Birch. Corners scuffed, endpapers spotted with prize label, pages tanned with a few marks - solid copy . Date from prize label. Fred Spurgin, Cora E. Paterson, Joyce Mercer, Joyce Plumstead, Nora Annie Birch et al (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Probably circa 1930. Green cloth spine and paper covered boards with a coloured illustration of a smiling girl to the front board. 140 pp, the paper browning a little with age, 4 colour plates and b + w illustrations. Gift inscription to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. 12 adventure stories for girls. Sutcliffe, G W Goss, H Mostyn (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. H/b; illus front cover, cover corners rounding and rubbed , & edges rubbed; green cloth spine faded & marked; g++; 4to; 124pp; plates; some pages a little marked and a few pictures coloured in. Full page colour plates and b/w line drawings; ; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Illustrated by H M Talintyre; Swales; Edgar Norfield; Twig; (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No date. circa 1940's/50's. Buff Cardboards with blue tone picture of boy and girl pretending to be pirates. Spine missing hence binding a bit loose.Boards a little grubby and worn. Blue/buff and Green/Buff illustrations throughout. Two tri-tone colour illustrations. Thick cardboard pages. First story is "The Boy who Wouldn't Get Up" 127 pages of stories and .poems for younger children of the time. Cicely Englefield; Newnham; Cora Paterson Ethel Guy - Baker; E. M. Overnell (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 4to Hbk; no d/w; cream spine; illustrated board covers- 3 on swing reading whilst dog lies at their feet; prize plate inside dated for year 1938 - 1939; frontis entitled 'keeping cool'; quite a well worn but still intact copy; 6 colour plates by a variety of illustrators; 1, although not signed, looks very much like an Eileen Soper illustration; the text pages are worn and foxed, but the illustrations are in nice condition; ; Blackie's Books for Children; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Illustrated by Cicely Steed; Eileen Soper; (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. circa 1929. Good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Cloth spine, front board shows boy and girl in snow (girl carrying parcels). Full-page colour and b/w text illustrations. First story is "How Toby Came To Tea" by E.S. Spine bumped and frayed. Corners bumped and worn. Board edges worn. Front board is scratched and rear board grubby. Some hinges cracked. Inscription to front endpaper plus '1 Hedges' stamped in ink. A second inscription plus name and address in belongs to box. Foxing to endpapers and page edges. Neat colouring to some b/w illustrations. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Brisley, Nina K. & Hart, Frank & Rees, E. Dorothy & et al., (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: VG-. No DW. Not dated but Inscription of owner at start of book dated 1935. Three children playing instrumewnts on cover. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Undated [probably c.1930s]; B.L. does not hold a copy. Hard boards show boy and girl making a snowball. Pp 140 with colour frontis and 3 other full-page colour illustrations [one by G.W.Goss] and many b/w illustrations in the text. A square, tight copy; extremity bump to boards. Contents clear and clean. Image, firther info. available upon request.…

Hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covers with girl in Indian head-dress to the front cover, russet cloth spine. Quarto 10'' x 8¼'' 188 pp. Colour frontispiece, monochrome illustrations throughout. General rubbing to edges and corners, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR GIRLS.…

Soft cover. 4to. pp 24. Original publisher's illustrated colour covers showing a dog in a yellow jacket bringing food back to his family. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. No date, [1945]. Slight soiling along the top edge, otherwise very good.

Soft cover. 4to. pp 24. Original publisher's illustrated colour covers showing a giraffe playing a trumpet and two puppies playing a flute. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. No date, [1943]. Very good.

, unpaginated, [50] pages, with colour frontispiece and 3 full page illustrations, plus black and white text illustrations First Edition thus , school prize bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise internally clean, covers scuffed and darkened around edges, rear cover stained, book in good condition , quarter red cloth, paper covered boards, with colour illustration of a child painting 28 x 21.5 cm Hardback ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. c1930; extremely scarce, with no copies in the British Library. Illustrated by A. J. Shackel. Publisher's paper covered boards, the edges a little worn and sullied, the spine with wear and losses at the ends and a little toned. Gift inscription to the front endpaper. Binding rather strained at page 9, the plate opp. page 13 loose but present. Leaves occasionally foxed and toned at the edges. Illustrated with seven double-sided colour plates. A very scarce early 20th century work for children. A. J. Shackel (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. First. 4to. A copy of a rare book 76pp cover has Bonzo blowing his own trumpet on a horse . First story Bonzo's Picnic. with splits down side of spine and a little loss to surface of spine. browning pages crossed out inscription. Book.

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HBNODJ, No date, Vintage 1933, 1st edition, Color Pictorial Boards of Pink Bird & Green Frog & back Cover Wonderful Peacock, Cover some rub wear Extremities, Spine has numerous chips up & down along backstrip, NF/G, AS-IS, NODJ, Interior Nice, Tight Clean & Very High Quality Heavy Grade Paper, Pop-Ups Fabulous Condition.…