BROOKES, AMELIA (6 resultados)

Hardcover. 158 pgs. Illustrations by Jscob Bates Abbott. Very good hardcover copy in brown cloth. Previous owner's signature. "It was Saturday and Peter had been digging weeds out of the lawn ever since he had finished breakfast." Corners and ends worn, minor cover soiling, but overall an excellent copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. No Jacket. Abbott, Jacob Bates Ilustrador. 1st Edition. Mustard colored hardcover cloth binding has minimal soiling, bumped corners with boards showing through at tips, overall square and tight. Illustrated endpapers, hinges good. Interior clean with no writing and only a few smudges. 158 pages. Interior just lacks crispness. Peter knows a lot about ants, and one day when he wonders what it would be like to see inside an ant hill, just like in Alice in Wonderland, he becomes smaller and smaller and the ant hill bigger and bigger! Now it is no longer an ant hill but a Castle! wonderful full page color illustrations throughout.

Tan Cloth. Condición: Good+. No Jacket. Jacob Bates Abbott Ilustrador. Wear at corners, covers quite soiled; 1" chip to bottom of page 41, some pages have finger smudges, sound copy. While this copy has no writing in it, a few of the B&W illustrations have been colored by a youthful owner; color plates are untouched. The artwork is great, especially the one of the "ant nurses" delivering some ant hatchlings. Popular children's book in it's day.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Jacob Bates Abbott Ilustrador. Beige cloth, brown titles, illustrated pastedown/endpapers, color frontis, & several mostly color illustrations in the text; A very good copy; 158 pages. Size: 7.5"x9".

Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Jacob Bates Abbott Ilustrador. Quarto, hardcover, teacher's name on endpaper and title page else VG with light edgewear and light wear to spine extremities in tan pictorial boards with dark brown lettering. No dj. Interior clean and tight. Bright color illustrations and many b & w drawings too. Endpapers show ant colony in cartoon fashion. Very scarce juvenile title by Amelia Brookes, her only publication. (particularly in this VG conditoin) The educational adventure of a young lad who visits a city in the civilization of army ants, richly illustrated by Jacob Bates Abbott, whose style will be particularly nostalgia-producing for those who grew up in the '40s and '50s. Plenty of full-color and black and white illustrations, and a cute story too. 158 pp. Book.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Jacob Bates Abbott Ilustrador. First Edition. Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1941. First Edition. Illustrated, in color and in black & white, by Jacob Bates Abbott. Tall octavo,158 pp. Beige linen boards, dark bown imprinting at cover and spine. Pictorial endpapers by Abbott. Small areas of soiling on the covers, though relatively little for the notoriously dirt-attracting true linen cloth covering. Small wear at corners, and the name "Christa" has been neatly printed on the verso of the ffep. See scans. A strong Very Good. Very scarce juvenile title by Amelia Brookes, her only publication. The (somewhat) educational adventure of a young lad who visits a city in the civilization of army ants, richly illustrated by Jacob Bates Abbott, whose style will be particularly nostalgia-producing for those who grew up in the '40s and '50s. Plenty of full-color and black and white illustrations, and a thorough story as well at 158 pp. Quite scarce, particularly in this condition. See scans. LT23.