t c e c jack e p dutton (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition thus (no additional printings listed). Original blue and stamped gilt pictorial cloth (art nouveau arabesque with birds) , approximately 4 ½ x 6 inches, 64 pp. Illustrated with 4 color plates. Hardcover, very good, no dustjacket. Corners and head and foot of spine rubbed, shelf scuffed, light soil on cloth, spine a bit tanned. Internally, previous owner's signature and calling card pasted onto front endpaper, foxing on endpapers, 1/4x2 inch water(? ) stain at top edge of frontispiece, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and never read, with several unopened leaves. Christmas; literature; poetry; poems.

Hardcover. Condition: As Described. No Jacket. Olive Allen (illustrator). Nathaniel Hawthorne - Tanglewood Tales Told to the Children by C. E. Smith with pictures by Olive Allen. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Hardback, undated but circa 1905 and containing prize-giving bookplate from 1918. Octavo gatherings but more like a sextodecimo in size. Measures around 4 3/4" by 5 7/8" by 5/8". Pagination: 107 pp. Reddish cloth binding, black lettering to front board and spine, pictorial plate to front board. Quite worn, with scuffing, rubbing at edges and on hinges, some tearing to head and tail of spine. Some marking. Bumped and torn corners. Slackness to binding, a little cracking to inner hinges. Deckled page edges, uncut and unevenly opened at lower edges. Some toning, staining, foxing and other marking to page surfaces throughout but no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information. 107 pp. Circa 1905. n.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Luard, L. D. (illustrator). Brick colored cloth cover with gilt titles and color paste-down. Some cloth chipping to the board corners and spine ends, cover is soiled. U3.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Allen, Olive (illustrator). Light purple cloth cover with gilt titles and color paste-down. Some cloth chipping to the board corners and spine ends, cover is soiled. Previous owner's name on the front end paper, last two pages are torn. U3.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Cameron, Katherine (illustrator). Greenn cloth cover with gilt titles and color paste-down. Some cloth chipping to the board corners and spine ends, some cover soiling. Previous owner's name on the front end paper, small paper residue on the title page. U3.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Allen, Olive (illustrator). Cream colored cloth cover with gilt titles and color paste-down. Some cloth chipping to the board corners and spine ends, some cover soiling. U3.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. Luard, L. D. (illustrator). Tan cloth cover with gilt titles and color paste-down. Some cloth chipping to the board corners and spine ends, cover is soiled. Previous owner's name on the front end paper. U3.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. W HEATH ROBINSON (illustrator). Rounded corners, sunned spine, some marks to back board. Endpaper inscription. Foxing to edges and throughout, otherwise clean. Good. 0. Book.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. A fair copy in the original decorative binding with a pasted picture and black titles to the front board. Part of the Told to the Children series - undated but circa 1910. With colour frontispiece and 7 further colour plates of 'little actors from photographs'. The binding has fading to spine and board edges together with a little pulling to the spine. Many text pages are unopened. One play (Uncle Tom's Cabin) has been read and occasionally annotated in pencil. Occasional spotting but generally clean.

broschiert/Taschenbuch. 48 S. (15,5 cm) OBrosch-OU. (Seitenränder unbeschnitten). 1. Aufl. d.Ausg. Schutzumschlag Randgebräunt; sonst guter Zustand. Auflage: 1 Der bläuliche Umschlag ist symmetrisch mit jugendstilig stilisierten Rosen verziert. Sprache / Language: Englisch.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. F M B Blaikie (illustrator). A good copy in the original decorative binding with 8 colour illustrations by F M B Blaikie. Part of the Told to the Children series - undated but circa 1910. The binding has some bumping to corners and the spine is a little faded with some pulling. Internally contents are bright and clean. The front endpaper has been cut out. Last page and half title page have brown toning.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Robinson, W. B. (illustrator). Brown cloth cover with gilt titles and color paste-down. Some cloth chipping to the board corners and spine ends, some cover soiling. Previous owner's name on the front end paper, some loss to the rear end paper. U3.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Robinson, W. B. (illustrator). Dark Green cloth cover with gilt titles and color paste-down. Some cloth chipping to the board corners and spine ends, some cover soiling. Previous owner's name on the front end paper. U3.

Leather Bound. Condition: Good. Dadd, Frank (illustrator). No date given in text. Brown leather cover with gold stamp design, and color paste-down illustration. Full color illustrations tipped in. Bumped corners, and some scuffs. Clean text. S13.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. W Heath Robinson (illustrator). 140 grams. Edited by Louey Chisholm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Overall good plus condition. 110 pages, 8 coloured illustrations.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Stewart, Allan (illustrator). No publication or edition year stated. Red cloth soft cover with black title and illustration, it is soiled creased and rubbed, front cover is only the cloth, cardboard missing. The inside is unmarked but the pages are soiled and age-toned. The corners are creased and rubbed. Color illustrations and frontispiece.

Hardcover. Illustrated by L. D. Luard (illustrator). Vintage Copy. Very Good in boards. Owner personalization inked on FEP. Front and rear hinges starting.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Presumed 1st edition. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 113 pages; [1906] T. C. & E. C. Jack; E. P. Dutton. Small format HC soundly bound in original pale olive green cloth with art nouveau decorative designs and titles in gilt to cover and spine. Color pictorial plate from art by Olive Allen mounted to the front board. Trace evidence of a bookplate removed from the front pastedown; light shelf tapping and rubbing to boards at corner tips. Of the 8 color plates executed for the work by Olive Allen, there is one plate misssing - the frontispiece. Expected mild toning to page stock. Generally VG or perhaps a little better, but graded down to reflect the single missing color plate. G++.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Iluustrated By 200 Coloured Drawings and Numerous Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. Wheat cloth w/ 2 spine title plates. nice clean copy. 540 pgs. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall nice copy.

Leinen. Condition: gut. Erste Aufl. Kleinformatiger fadengehefteter Ganzleineneinband mit goldgeprägtem Rücken- und Deckeltitel, goldener Rücken- und Deckelprägung, montiertem farbigem Deckelbild und Goldkopfschnitt. Der Einband leicht berieben und leicht fleckig, Schnitte und (Text-) Papier altersgemäß nachgedunkelt, einzelne Seitenränder dezent stockfleckig, ansonsten guter Erhaltungszustand. In englischer Sprache. 119, (5), 8 [plates] pages. Klein 8° (120 x 150mm).

Cloth. Condition: Good. S. R. Praeger; Percy J. Billinghurst (illustrator). A scarce curated set of Edwardian adaptations of Aesop for children, colourfully illustrated, in a custom clamshell. A curated set of three scarce Edwardian renditions of Aesop, presented together in a custom cloth clamshell, made by Eric Sweet in April 2008. Clamshell is in a fine condition.All in this set have been "told to the children" by Lena Dalkeith, Jeanne D'Orge, an American poet, artist, and patron of the arts.Aesop's Fables is a selection of fables, generally attributed to the Ancient Greek storyteller Aesop, who lived around 620 BCE-564 BCE. The fables are moral tales that guide in religious and secular aspects of life, following adventures of many different creatures.This set includes:'Aesop's Fables Told to the Children', two copies of variant bindings. Illustrated by S. R. Praeger. Both are illustrated with a colour frontispiece and twenty-three plates. Collated, complete.'Beasts Shown to the Children', illustrated by Percy J. Billinghurst. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and forty-seven colour plates. Collated, complete.All edited by Louey Chisholm.All volumes are undated, dated from Jisc from copied held at the British Library.Bound by Eric Sweet, a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art, before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies, later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking, reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style. Two volumes are in the original publisher's cloth binding, the third is in the original publisher's paper covered boards, in a custom cloth clamshell by Eric Sweet. Externally, generally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. The cloth bound 'Aesop's Fables Told to the Children' is a little worn and discoloured with marks and rubbing, spine is faded. The paper covered bound 'Aesop's Fables Told to the Children' is a little rubbed with some marks, spine is faded, with small tears and loss to the joints, with an ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Marks to the rear board of 'Beasts Shown to the Children', with a small amount of cockling to the tail of the front board, front hinge is starting but firm. Internally, the cloth bound 'Aesop's Fables Told to the Children' is firmly bound, paper covered bound 'Aesop's Fables Told to the Children' and 'Beasts Shown to the Children' are generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Clamshell is in a fine condition. Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. early printing. Color Plates ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Circa [1910]. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack / New York: E. P. Dutton. A handsome pair of early printings from the celebrated "Told to the Children" series both retaining their original dust jackets with tipped-on color pictorial onlays matching the cover designs a deluxe feature of these early Jack issues, and now seldom encountered. Square 12mo volumes. "Stories from The Odyssey" bound in original gilt-pictorial brown cloth, with color pictorial onlay to upper board; top edge gilt. Jacket priced "1/6 NET", as per publisher's ad for cloth binding. "Stories from The Iliad" bound in paper-covered boards with matching pictorial onlay; jacket priced "1/- NET", corresponding to the paper boards option noted in the publisher's ad copy. Each volume illustrated with 8 mounted color plates by W. Heath Robinson. "Stories from The Odyssey": Cloth bright and clean with vivid gilt; binding sound. Jacket worn, with chipping and losses to spine panel and edges; old tape repairs to spine verso, with more recent archival paper mends to rear panel. "Stories from The Iliad": Paper boards bright and sound; jacket edgeworn with chipping and spine wear, as typical; tipped-on pictorial onlay intact. A split to the front jacket spine fold has been archivally mended to the verso with Japanese paper. Dust jackets on early Jack printings of the series especially with tipped-on pictorial onlays are notably scarce. Pairs of these companion Homeric titles in correct jackets and bindings are rarely offered. VG++/G both volumes.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None; Not Stated; Monro S. Orr (illustrator). A charming and varied selection of works diving into a range of ancient tales, with a focus on Norse and Greek mythologies. A very smart selection of 7 unusual mythological titles.Each volume in this set offers valuable and distinct insight into the mythological legacies or a range of cultures, primarily focused on Norse mythology.Volume 3 features charming vignette illustrations throughout, depicting a variety of scenes from Greek mythology.Volume 6 features an original book ribbion, a vibrantly coloured frontispiece, and 7 further colour plates, to accompany Macgregor's engaging retelling of Viking tales. Collated, complete. Bound in original cloth and paper. Externally, very smart. Mild shelf wear. The odd marks to boards. Fading to vol3 spine. Sunning to vol2 covers. Occasional age toning to endpapers. Front hinges of vols 1 and 2 starting. Front hinge of vol3 slightly starting. Some leaves of vol2 unopened. Bookseller sticker to rear paste down of vol3. Mark to vol4 rear board. Rubbing to vol4 spine. The odd handling mark. Attempted removal of presentation sticker to vol6 front paste down. Tear to p.81 of vol6. Possible removal of vol7 front free endpaper. Very Good Indeed 5" by 3"; 7" by 4.5"; 6" by 4.5"; 6" by 5"; 6.5" by 5.5". book.