Uncle Dick Editor (5 results)

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, small quarto, plum cloth etcetera gilt to the spine, tightly bound and with a clean and unmarked text. This copy has been rebound preserving the original front cover which has been laid to the front pastedown. Illustrated throughout, 207pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. "Magnificent Colour Plates, Dozens of Stories, and Scores of Adventures of Wilfred, the most Famous Baby Rabbit in the World". Contains many politically incorrect images, stories, such as Golliwogs, a poem entitled "Seven Little Sambos". Full colour frontis. Coverboards have wear, mainly around edges, and are slightly bowed. Some light staining on rear board. Pages are yellowed and a few have some small tears/chips. A couple of illustrations have been neatly coloured in. An interesting feature of this copy of the book is that a previous owner has pasted three small silk flags on the rear pastedown endpaper. The flags are the British Empire Trinity House Masters Flag, British Empire State of Perlis State Flag, and British Empire White Ensign with the header "Kensitas Cigarettes". The flags were promotional give-aways included in packages of Kensitas cigarettes in 1934. Brings to mind images of a young child puffing away on a cigarette while reading the Wilfred's Annual! Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 175 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. the pictorial boards are a little shelf worn. plain brown spine (no label)yellow boards with a rabbit in bed surrounded by all his Christmas presents. no inscriptions and well bound. remarkably good condition for a children's annual of this age. no scribbles and except for the expected age related small imperfections this book has been very well cared for. this is Wilfred's 6th annual. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards, strawberry cloth spine. Quarto. 10'' x 8''. Contains 208 pp with colour plates, single-tone, double-tone and monochrome illustrations throughout. The characters Pip, Squeak and Wilfred were created by Bertram Lamb, a journalist on the Daily Mirror, who was born in Islington, London, on 14 May 1887 and died in Switzerland in 1938. He never drew the cartoons, but thought up the idea of the characters which were drawn by Austin Bowen Payne. Colour Prize Plate to the front free end paper, light rubbing to the corners, spotting to the end papers, else in Very Good smart condition, the rear blue line illustration on white paper to the rear is very clean and fresh. Member of the P.B.F.A. ANNUALS & YEARBOOKS.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Nina K. Brisley, Charles Folkard, L. Church & others (illustrator). 1st Edition. 208 pages of this annual the 2nd year of publication, the main characters of Pip, Squeak and Wilfred are drawn by A. B. Payne either plain or tinted in various coloured strips, 4 full page colour plates by various artists, lovely clean covers with the illustrated glazed paper cover by Nina K Brisley, cloth spine, not worn or splitting, minor corner bumps, small unfilled "library archive label?" inside front board, just says 6/- and code B4? A really fresh clean copy. Quarto.