Z a R Nesbit (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st. Gray/green hardcover pictorial binding shaky but firmly intact. Hinge crack at title page showing threds. Light soiling to covers. Yellowing pages, another hinge crack at pages 16/17. 1921 gift inscription ffep. A few marks and general wear. Reading copy only. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Language: ENG. Illustrated (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket (as published). 96pp. A collection of children's stories mainly with an animal theme. Although this copy is not dated the publisher, style and form of title would suggest that this is from the mid-1920s. Decorated boards. A clean and tidy copy, some shelf wear to the edges of the boards and some light foxing to the pages. There is a presentation plate pasted to the front free end paper. Orders processed promptly and dispatched from the UK. Please email with any queries that you may have about this book. A Scott Rankin (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Near VG hbk bound in green pictorial boards, brown title lettering. Bookplate on the front endpaper. Front inner hinge weakening. 22132.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (childrens stories) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No date but neat gift inscription dated 1918; the plates are dated 1909. 95 pages + adverts; 8 full-page colour plates (all present and correct), artist not credited. Red cloth boards with decoration and gilt lettering, colour on-lay to the front board; binding very good with a little general wear and light rubbing to edges, corners slightly knocked. Contents clean and tight, patterned end papers. A very good copy. Part of the Nelson's Fireside Library. Size: Large 8vo (15.5 X 19.5 cm). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 94 pp. plus 8 full-page color illustrations. No date, but previous owner's name with "Christmas 1930" is written on the second free endpaper. There is a bit of erasure on the title page. Otherwise fine in a tight binding with hinges intact. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. loc scaninavia,notxlib, cover of spine missing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Not dated but prize sticker dated 1918 on front paste down. Blue cloth with coloued picture of squirrels on front cover. Front endpaper is missing. A.Scott Rankin (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover. No date. Illustrated by D. Travers Pope. Pages brown. Missing rear endpaper. Corners worn down. Book is slightly bowed. Shelf rubbing to cover. Edges of spine bumped.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Circa 1914. Good condition with no wrapper. Big Book For Little People. Green cloth spine. Large format. Pictorial front cover showing dog digging at rabbit burrow. Rear joint broken. name to front endpaper. Corners worn. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition with no wrapper. Big Book For Little People. Green cloth spine. Large format. Pictorial front cover showing dog digging at rabbit burrow. Edges and corners worn. Spine bumped. Rear cover grubby. Neat writing to front pastedown. Last page browned. Slight foxing to outer page edges. A few marginal marks. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Colour pictorial paper covered boards; red linen spine; eight colour plates and line illustrations throughout; pp.[32]. No date, circa 1920s. Shelf worn with scuffs and the like - please refer to pictures. A beautiful children's book. Montefiore, E.B.S; Silver, F.S. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hbk; 8vo; blue cloth boards with dark blue illus on front & spine; apart from fep, which has browned, contents are lovely & clean & bright with 8 coloured plates by assorted artists, but who include Dulac (2 plates including colour frontis ) Feeding the birds & Mollie B Thompson (1 plate - The Spring Fairy) ; Vg; ; Nelson's Fireside Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac; Mollie B Thompson (illustrator). …

Hard. Condition: Good Minus. No Jacket. Boards rubbed in places, spine browned, corners and spine ends bumped, presentation bookplate to fep dated July 1931, colour frontispiece, light spotting to reading edge of title page, 8 stories, large print, 96 pp clean, binding sound. Size: 12mo. A. Scott Rankin (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 96. Part of Nelson's Fireside Library Series. Circa 1925; no date given. Book plate on front paste down: London Count)y Council Tennyson St. PD School Prize awarded to Francis Green for good work & conduct. from C. Dawson Follett Head Teacher April 1926. Original publisher's cloth binding in blue, lettered Black and featuring illustration on the upper board and front of dust jacket of three figures chasing after their hats in a gust of wind. Large print. Story for very young children. Dust jacket in ivory, lettered black with a list of Other Volumes in The Same Series on the rear cover. Charming black and white illustrations scattered through the text. Edmund Dulac frontispiece in colour of a lady in traditional costume feeding the birds in winter. Colour plates by Gilbert James, Edmund Dulac. Short stories include 'How Gyda helped Muldvarp the Mole; The Story of Peck-Away, The Young Sparrow; The Skylarks Fright; 'The Story of how Goldilocks and the Chipper made a new kind of harpoon.'/Edmund Dulac (1882Ð1953) was a French-British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse, he studied law but later turned to the study of art at the cole des Beaux-Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Bront' Sisters. Very good indeed in very good minus jacket. Dust jacket soiled and chipped at edges with minor loss.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Circa 1915. Very good condition with no wrapper. Red boards, gilt titles; colour pictorial onlay to front cover. 8 colour plates and b/w illustrations. The Fireside Library. American Edition. Bumping to spine and a couple of corners. Some darkening also to spine. A few marks to covers. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. All plates present. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Dulac, Edmund & James, Gilbert & et al., (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. on pictorial cloth.