Wain Harry (29 results)

Hard cover. Bibliography: p. 392-396. Very good in very good dust jack.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Navy blue cloth boards with gold titling at spine. Boards very good with shelf wear and edge wear. Corners and spine tips bumped. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket good with moderate edge and age wear wear. Jacket has tattering along edges and age-toning. Dj protected in Mylar. Previous owner's name inked in cursive to ffep. Text block edges and front matter toned. Pages else clean. Text unmarked.

Very good in lightly edgeworn, lightly soiled dust jacket Cloth.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A small coffee-like stain on DJ front top corner and light cofee-like stain on bottom of DJ spine, elsewise a fine, clean, tight copy! AN IN-DEPTH, INFORMATIVE, REVEALING, AND ABOSORBING PUBLICATION. "Herein the author dramatically describes the disastrous plagues of the past and concludes with the miraculous story of modern medicine's conquest of contagion, compressing five thousand years of progress into a single easily-read volume. Mankind's medical, social and scientific advancements from the myths and magico-religious beliefs of antiquity, on through the pestilential ridden Dark and Middle Ages into the twentieth century and modern preventive medicine are colorfully portrayed." 407 pages. *NOTE: Due to weight of book additional shipping may be required for out-of-U.S. shipment in conjunction with destination. GG1.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. x, 407 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in dust jacket. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Pas de jaquette. Texte en anglais / text in english ! Médecine. 18x26 cm. 342 p. Reliure éditeur. Bon état. Plats légèrement défraîchis. Papier légèrement bruni. Anecdotiques rousseurs. Sans jaquette Fort in-4°.

1st ed. IX, 407 p. Very fine copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 Gr.-8°, original cloth-binding.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1965, 65 page stapled booklet | gently read copy - clean and bright, no creases and free of name, notes etc | dispatched within two working days by Royal Mail - with tracking for international orders.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Wain, Louis & Neilson, Harry B. & Helmer, Levine & et al., (illustrator). Very good condition with no wrapper. Pictorial boards. Front cover shows girl walking a large dog in the snow. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. First item is "Cheerful Conversation". 1 b/w Louis Wain illustration entitled "A bogus Father Christmas". Spine slightly bumped and grubby. Corners worn. Rear cover is slightly grubby. Endpapers have been professionally replaced. Contents are browned and foxed. One of the mounted colour plates has slight damage to a top corner and has been re-glued into place. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Theaker, Harry G. & Bernard, C.E.B. & Wain, Louis & Robinson, Gordon & Temple, Chris & et al., (illustrator). Good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial boards, front shows girl in green dress in foreground, boy in kilt and other girls behind. Colour plates, b/w and two-tone text illustrations. First story is "The Little Roundy Man Finds A Chimney". Spine bumped and slightly darkened. Covers are edge worn, rear cover is slightly grubby and scuffed. Pencil writing and doodles to front endpapers, crayon drawing and pencil doodles to rear endpapers. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Farmiloe, Edith & Neilson, Harry B. & Wain, Louis (illustrator). circa 1910. Good condition with no wrapper. Cloth spine, pictorial front board shows two children playing in a rock pool. Mounted colour plates plus full-page colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Cr 4to. 336 pages plus 4 page book list at rear. First story is "In the Days of Chivalry". Covers are edge worn, spine and corners bumped and spine slightly darkened. Fingermarks to page margins. Small stick sticker to front pastedown. Small corner crease to one of the mounted plates. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Wain, Louis & Neilson, Harry & Lambert, H.G.C. Marsh & et al., (illustrator). Circa 1912. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Pictures and Stories for the Little Ones. Large format. Red cloth spine. Pictorial boards. Colour frontis. Two-tone illustrations including dogs and cats by Wain. Spine and corners worn with a couple of small splits to spine. Some scoremarks to covers. Rear cover grubby. Fingermarks to page margins but generally contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wain, Louis & Lumley, Savile & Neilson, Harry & et al., (illustrator). circa 1923. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Red cloth spine with black title, pictorial front board showing children on tricycle with dog running beside them. First story is "The Young Adventurers" by Fielding. Colour plates plus b/w and two-colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, some slight wear to cover edges. Prize plate to front endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and torn and a little grubby on rear panel, tape repairs/reinforcements on verso. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

hardcover. 1st. Tall 8vo, 342 pp. Nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No Additional Printings. Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. No Additional Printings. Hardback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 342 pages; from the Introduction: " 'The Story Behind the Word' consists of an alphabetical compilation of over five thousand seven hundred derivations of medical terms, giving the origin and history of each term along with brief biographies of great personalities of medicine. To most people the languaage of medicine seems to be a purposefully difficult jargon designed to impress and confuse. At first glance medical terminology seems to be a hopeless hodgepodge of Latin and Greek. However, medicine, like a nation has a language of its own and there is a "story behind each word." " Book condition: Spine cover is faded only a bit; owner's signature, in ink, is on the front fly--and "1958", in ink, is written at the bottom of the title page; two tipped-in clips of book ads (including this book), clips circa 0.5 inch wide x 5 in. long, are placed at the top of the rear inside cover. Otherwise, book is in nice condition.

Condition: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards, faded navy title lettering to the blue cloth spine, 'Recaps' advertisement to the rear cover. Quarto 10'' x 8''. Contains printed pages of text with colour frontispiece by Louis Wain 'A Surprise For All', one other colour plate by Harry B. Neilson, red and black plates and monochrome illustrations throughout. First story is 'The Young Adventurers' by Nellie Fielding. Cheap paper browning to the edges, corners bumped, one repaired tear and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ANNUALS & YEARBOOKS.

First Edition. First edition, sm 4to, pp. viii, 342; early owner's name on front paste-down, very good in original blue cloth in a lightly worn and toned dust jacket. "The imagination and romance behind the language of medicine," (dust jacket).

Small 4to, pp. viii, 342; text printed in double columns; original pale grey dust jacket printed in black and red; spine and edges toned, minor wear to edges, else a very good, sound copy. Consists of more the 5,700 derivations of medical terms, "the origin and history of each and brief biographies of great personalities of medicine" - jacket upper cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small 4to. [6], vii-viii, [2], 3-342, [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A glossary and a reference on medical etymology, with brief histories of famous doctors and nurses. Jacket has a few small spots of discoloration on its rear panel.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Bowley, M. & Marsh, H.G.C. & Wain, Louis & Neilson, Harry B. & et al., (illustrator). Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Red cloth spine. Pictorial front board shows children in a snowy scene on toy horses. First story is Three Little Sabots. Colour and b/w illustrations. Spine bumped. Corners worn, cover edges slightly rubbed. Joints cracked and endpapers browned. Foxing and some grubby marks to page margins. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Joints worn with loss of paper along joints. 25mm chip to paper at lower corner of front cover. Binding shaken, some leaves coming loose. School prize label dated 1918 partly removed from front endpaper.; Scarce. No date [1911, Spectator review]. Pages unnumbered. [60] pages. Papered card covers. Colour illustration on front cover, looks like it is by Harry B. Neilson. Page dimensions: 235 x 192mm. Numerous black-and-white illustrations, some full page. With 11 illustrations by Louis Wain. The Louis Wain illustrations are of cats (2); dogs (2); cats and dogs (2); owls (2); fox (1); toad (1); elephant and monkeys (1).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Various (illustrator). First edition. An varied collection of works on the literary giant Samuel Johnson, including illustrated titles and first editions. An engaging and varied selection of works contemplating the literary legacy of poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, consider the 'most distinguished man of letters in English history', Samuel Johnson.All in original dust wrappers. Predominantly unclipped, with the exception of volumes 4 and 7.Volumes 1, 2, 4, 11 feature a monochrome frontispiece, and volumes 7, 11 and 12 feature illustrated endpapers.Includes several first editions: volumes 1, 2, 4, 9, 10, 11 and 12, which is the first American edition.Volume 7 features 4 double sided monochrome plates, and a double page vignette map. Volume 10 features 8 double side plates. Volume 12 features8 double-sided, vibrantly colour plates and frequent vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.Volume 9 features 8 unlisted double-sided monochrome plates. Collated from a copy held by University of Oxford Libraries, complete.Volume 11 features a charming gilt motif illustration to front board, and frequent vignette illustrations. All in original pictorial boards, with original dust wrappers. Externally, in lovely condition. Small marks to vol4 and 9 text block fore edge. Occasional sunning to dust wrapper spines. Occasional mild chipping to dust wrapper extremities. Chipping to vol4 and 7 dust wrappers. The occasional closed tear to dust wrappers. Owner's ink inscriptions to vol6 front paste down and to vol7 front blank. Small closed tear to vol6 dust wrapper head. Small scuff to vol10 dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Very slight strain to vol10. Pages generally bright and clean. Vol4 fine except pp.xv-2 loose and slotted inside. Bookplate of an Arthur G. Rippey to vol11 front blank. Occasional light spotting to text block edges. Near Fine 8.5" by 6"; 9" by 6"; 8.5" by 5.5"; 8" by 6"; 10" by 7"; 9.5" by 6.5"; 10" by 8". book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated By Harry Rowntree and Louis Wain (illustrator). Brown boards with illustratd card cover by Louis Wain pasted to front. The soiled and faded yellow spine with faded black lettering and decoration has been professionally rebacked and its top and base strengthened; hence tight and secure binding. Internally vertical lines down margins of pastedowns as consequence of rebacking; gift inscription to ffep; foxing to half title, black and white frontis, title page and first three pages of text only; remaining contents clean and unmarked. Illustrated, with 6 colour plates, all present. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Wain, Louis & Neilson, Harry B. & Shepherd, J.A. & et al., (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1908. Very good condition with no wrapper. Pictorial boards. Front cover shows Fox with cockrel. B/w illustrations throughout. Some cats by Wain. Spine and corners slightly bumped and worn. Front cover illustration is still bright. Some slight chipping of paper covering to spine. Small binding error of crease in paper to rear cover. Inscription in ink to verso of title-page (dated 1909) and one name crossed out and replaced with another. Some slight foxing and fingering to contents. Light tobacco smell to contents. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Wain, Louis; Harry B. Neilson; Elsie Blomfield; and others (illustrator). 1st Edition. (Wain, Louis) illustrator. ANIMAL HAPPYLAND. Pictures by Louis Wain, Harry B. Neilson, Elsie Blomfield, and others. Verses and stories by A. W. Ridler. London: James Clarke & Co., [1913]. 8vo - 7-7/8" x 9-1/2". Color pictorial glazed paper covered boards with light wear to the head and tail of spine, board corners and board edges; light soiling to the upper board; advertisement for additional children's books published by James Clarke & Co. on the lower board for what is a nice copy of the book. [60] pp. A delightful collection of stories and verses for children, illustrated with monochromatic drawings on every page, including fourteen full page drawings, five of which are by Louis Wain. Drawings within text on all other pages, many of which are also by Louis Wain. The condition of the book is VERY GOOD. Only three copies located in OCLC/WorldCat. RARE.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Wain, Louis & Rountree, Harry & Lambert, H.G.C. Marsh & Neilson, Harry B. & et al., (illustrator). Good condition with no wrapper. Brown cloth spine with dark brown title and illustration, pictorial front board. Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations (mostly Wain but others also). Spine is grubby. Covers are edge worn and also grubby, a couple of small scratch marks to front cover. New endpapers. Some light foxing. Some colouring to some of the b/w illustrations and some erasing as well. There is a musty (tobbaco?) smell to the contents. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Charles C. Thomas: Springfield, IL (1958). 10 x 6.5", cloth, 342 double- col pp, vg in discolored dw.

First edition. Original red cloth over color pictorial front board and advertisement on rear board, advertisements on endpapers. Corners and board edges a little worn. Large quarto (10 3/16 x 7 11/16 inches; 259 x 195 mm.). Pictorial title-page printed in blue, 92 unnumbered pages and six full page color plates. Numerous other mono-color and black & white illustrations throughout the text including six by Louis Wain. Ink inscription on verso of color frontispiece dated Xmas 1910. A good copy of a very scarce book, in fact the first time that we have ever seen this title. The Louis Wain illustrations in this delicate book include the following: How Pride Betrays. (three 0ne-third page, printed in brown) When the Cook's Away. (full-page, printed in blue) Tubbing the Kitties. (one-third page, printed in green) "You Naughty Kitties!" (full-page, printed in green).