Vedder Simon Harmon Illustrator (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No edition/printing/date stated. Part of the For Boys and Girls series printed for the publisher in Great Britain by Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. A VG 8vo hardcover in NO dust jacket (if issued). Blue cloth with black lettering and decoration, and on the upper board, a pasted color illustration. Boards have lightly rubbed corners and edges, the spine is sunned, and the cover illustration has some very light rubbing. The ffep has a penciled Christmas 1926 non-author gift inscription and penned collector notes (from 1980) by a prior owner. Includes a frontispiece and seven additional color illustrations, which along with the title/publication page, are on paper with considerably less age-tanning than the text pages. Remaining contents, 196 pp. + prefatory materials, are somewhat age tanned and have some light foxing, but are otherwise mark free, fully legible, and securely bound. The pages' edges have some dust staining and the bottom edge has a small reddish stain. NOT an ex-library copy.…

4to(25.8x18.8) 1st edition 64pp with tipped-in water colour illus. Mauve paper covered boards with gilt lettering and Vedder water colour design-minimal wear-v.good++.Neat inscr to fep with 1917 date & reference to a hope for peace , very light age discolouring else near fine. (380g).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Way & Williams, 1897; stated Third Edition, August 1897, no later printings indicated; [ix], 351pp. + map frontispiece and 10 b&w illustrated plates. Black cloth binding with Art Noveau-inspired red and yellow lettering and sabretooth tiger design by the great Will Bradley, gilt top edge. Binding is firm and fully intact; moderate amount of wear to edges of boards, a few small pen-head indentations in spine; titling/design remains bright and bold. A very presentable copy.…