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Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
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VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. Spine of jacket sunned. 270mm x 220mm (11" x 9"). 60pp. Colour illustrations throughout. Illustrated hardback board cover. Seller Inventory # k1307
Title: Hold Fast By Your Teeth
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul Ltd, London
Publication Date: 1963
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First Edition.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Illustrated Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Colour illustrated by Edward Bawden throughout. Some damage to very top of spine; tearing/ small chips to dust jacket; odd marks to edges of pages. Amusing animal stories originally written for Bawden's own family, published with new, redrawn illustrations. 4to. Illustrated. Seller Inventory # 77173
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Mad Hatter Books, Auckland, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 9 stores, originally written for the author's own family, which are amusing and heartless. Hardback: illustrated in colour by the author, dj lightly foxed, slight wear on the spine tips and corners of the jacket and covers, price clipped, endpapers and foredges foxed plus some internally, flyleaves have darkened strips, else g. 4to. Seller Inventory # JF85
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: O'Connell's Bookshop Est. 1957, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bawden, Edward (illustrator). First Ed. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. Minor edge wear on DJ & some tiny edge tears; price clipped; small name on EP. A story about ants, with illustrations. Size: A4. Seller Inventory # 008976
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1963). First UK Edition. A near fine copy (slight foxing to the first and last few pages of the book) in like D/W. A nice copy. Seller Inventory # 355490717147
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Edward Bawden (illustrator). 1st Edition. The First UK Printing published by , London in 1963. 4to. Not paginated. [64pp] Bound in original pictorial paper covered boards with a dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in colour by Bawden throughout. Top of spine bumped, dust wrapper has two tiny brown spots. Inside very clean with the odd thumb mark/ fold from mishandling. A very good almost fine copy. A collection of Bawden's stories originally written for his own family, but were not previously published. Only the 'Take the Broom' story was privately printed previously for personal distribution by the author. Size 270mm x 220mm (11" x 9"). Seller Inventory # 6000562
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original pictorial boards. Bawden's first book for children, containing nine stories which he wrote for his family. Copiously illustrated in colour, the illustrations are among Bawden's best. Faint spotting to endpapers. Near fine in very good indeed, slightly marked dustwrapper with some light rubbing to head and tail of spine. Seller Inventory # BAWDENED015628
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United Kingdom
First edition. 4to., original illustrated paper boards. London, Routledge & Keegan Paul. A collection of short stories by Bawden, written originally for his own family but here published alongside illustrations in his own colourful and lively style, described as 'amusing and heartless' by the dust jacket flap text. Some very slight offsetting and a small stain to the first four leaves but otherwise a very good copy with very good dustwrapper, only slightly rubbed at the corners. . Seller Inventory # 221020
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom
London; Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1963. 4to. Original pictorial boards, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [64]; with pictorial title-pages and a profusion of other coloured illustrations throughout, including many full-page, all printed by autolithography; externally and internally near fine with tiny bruising and mild rubbing to spine ends and forecorner tips, without ownership marks or inscriptions, in a generally fresh, unclipped dustwrapper (18s) with rubbing to forecorners, a tiny closed tear (1cm) to bottom edge of lower panel, and an area of light brown staining to top edge of lower panel and spine (100 x 50mm) really only visible on the inside and resulting in mild rippling of the paper.First edition of Edward Bawden's first book for children. This is a collection of nine individual stories which were originally written and drawn for the artist's children. He eventually redrew the images for this publication. The tales are "amusing and heartless, such as any good father would like to be able to tell and to sketch if he had the ability" (dustwrapper blurb). Seller Inventory # 2117362
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Arthur and Paeony Sadler, with compliments of the season. From Edward Bawden, Christmas 1963." Quarto. Illustrated throughout by the author. Original pictorial boards, titles to spine and front cover black. With dust jacket. Endpapers lightly foxed; an excellent, bright copy in the price-clipped jacket, with a little rubbing to extremities. Seller Inventory # 107484
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and numerous coloured illustrations (a number full-page) throughout; pictorial boards, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. COPIES INSCRIBED BY THIS AUTHOR ARE EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE. Seller Inventory # 36743
Quantity: 1 available