Under Window, Signed (6 results)

Author (illustrator). Book in very poor condition but also very scarce. Suitable perhaps to repair another. Covers card overcovered in printed paper with wear to edges and corners. Spine fabric surprisingly ok. Pages mostly unbound with a number missing. Others defaced by crayon or pencil scribbles. Stain to most pages from spine but not extending to pictures. Numerous chips and tears to edges of pages. Ends at p60 with p47/8, 31/4, parts of up to p26 missing P43/4 botton third missing. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Just a poor book hanging on to life.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. nice copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback green cloth gilt viiii + 212 pp illustrated Very Good condition Signed and inscribed by the author for a family member. About the life of a WW2 ARP Warden in Birmingham. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Kate Greenaway (illustrator). First Edition. Original quarter green cloth over pictorial boards, (9.5 x 7.5 inches). No Date [1878]. [4], 64 pages; illustrated in color. True First Edition/First Printing, with "End of Contents" on page 14 and the three illustrations on pages 21, 35 and 63 which were omitted in later printings. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans. INSCRIBED by author on front endpage, "Dear Willy, with Katie's Love. Oct. 1st, 1879." This is the book that made Greenaway famous, advancing her career to become one of the most influential women artists of her age. A binding a bit shaken as typical, showing general wear and rubbing to exterior, internally clean and bright. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "Under the Window" by Kate Greenaway. George Routledge, 1878 first UK edition. Signed by Greenaway on the half-title, ownership stamp of her brother Alfred on front free endpaper, first and last few leaves lightly foxed, publisher's pictorial boards, corners rubbed. Signed by Author.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Greenaway, Kate (illustrator). Greenaway, Kate. TWO ORIGINAL GRAPHITE, INK AND WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS BY KATE GREENAWAY PUBLISHED IN HER BOOK "UNDER THE WINDOW". London: George Routledge & Sons, [1878]. Two beautiful watercolor drawings, each measuring approximately 7-1/2" x 9" (5-1/2" x 7-5/8" sight) and matted to 11" x 14"; both drawings signed "K.G." to left of drawing. The first drawing features five small children walking down a village road, and illustrates the poem beginning "You are going out to tea to-day, So mind how you behave; Let all accounts I have of you Be pleasant ones, I crave." from p. 31 of the first edition of the book. The second drawing features a young lady walking across the tiled rooftops of an unnamed town, and illustrates the poem beginning "What is the way to Somewhere Town? Oh, up in the morning early; Over the tiles and the chimney-pots, That is the way, quite clearly." from p. 38 of the same. The condition of the first drawing is NEAR FINE with two short closed tears to bottom margin and a chip to bottom left corner, all confined to the margins and under the mat. The condition of the second drawing is FINE. Sold with a FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE [Schuster & Engen 201: 1) a] copy of "Greenaway, Kate. Under the Window. Pictures and Rhymes for Children. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1878]" in FINE condition where both of the drawings were originally published. This is a wonderful and unique offering of two large-scale, original watercolor drawings by Kate Greenaway that were published in the first book that she both wrote and illustrated, the work that would firmly establish her reputation as one of the preeminent children's book illustrators of the Victorian era, along with a FINE copy of that book. Signed by Illustrator(s).