Gatty alfred editor (13 resultados)

paperback. Condición: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condición: With All Faults (W.A.F.). No Dustjacket. New Edition. 112 pages. There is a mould reaction to hinge area internally, inner front hinge has FAILED. Worn appearance, paper cocering to spine has teras at hine edge & is pulled back ffrom surface (total 5cm), wear with very small losses to spine-ends. Wear through to card at corners, some darkening to surfaces. Text is very clean & in nice condition with attractive b/w illusstrations. Browne, Gordon (Illustrator) (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Dustjacket. First in This Edition. 203 pages. No dustjacket. Clean red hardback binding, black lettering to spine (latter somewhat faded), corners of boards lightly bumped, page-edges age-browned, as too endpapers. Internally clean and tidy. 12 B&W etchings by Mrs. Allingham. Illustrated by Mrs. Allingham (ilustrador). …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Dustjacket. Herbert Strang's Library Edition. 248 pages. No dustjacket. Stamp on flyleaf stating "With Compliments Oxford University Press". Colour frontispiece. Marked beige hardback binding with dark green lettering to front and spine. Some wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Light foxiung of page-edges, deep crack to inner front hinge but binding o/w sound. Pages clean.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. Wear to top and bottom of spine and corners, spine and boards darkened due to handling. No dustjacket. Decorated red hardback binding in black and gilt, illustration in text B&W drawings. Flyleaf missing, some light foxing and small finger marks and thumbing to text, otherwise unimpeded. Undated, but estimate 1870-1880.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Dustjacket. xiii+384 pages. No dustjacket, Brown ornate printed/decorated hardback binding with foliage design, brown cloth the hinges and spine with faded gilt titles. Wear to spine-end with small frays, heavy wear to boards' corners which are worn round and through to card below. Wear/rubbing to edges, page-edges are a little darkened with age. Ink name to flyleaf, end-papers a little browned. Ex libris sticker to rear inner board. Light paper cracks to inner hinges. A few slight foxing marks to some page-margins, but pages overall are clean. Binding sound. A nice copy despite the wear, may be 1884 or after, looks late Victorian.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good ++. No Dustjacket. 184 pages. No dustjacket. B&W plates & B&W ilustrations in text. No date or edition given but ink initials dated 21 Dec. /92 so about 1892 which looks right for the age of book. Book has an RAF blue coloured binding with white, light brown and black illustrated front board - looks like fairies dancing in reed lined pool and fairy on black bird with moon behind in top-left corner of front. Some light spots to front board, light marks to back board, spine-ends and boards' corners rubbed. FLYLEAF HAS BEEN REMOVED. Light browning to endpapers & prelims o/w contents clean and in nice condition. Illustrated By A.W. Bayes, Gordon Browne Etc (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. No Dust Jacket. Rear spine edge is approx. 3/4 split. Covers have light wear to the outer corners and front spine edge. Light foxing to endpapers. Internally very good. ; Includes two tales, The Comet & Story of the Seasons, by Hans C. Andersen. Three quarter leather binding.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. First Edition. Original cloth stamped in gilt and blind, beveled edges. Spine and edges sunned, corner wear. Eps toned. One illustration ( leaf 129/130) detached and laid in. Scattered foxing.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 380 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Octavo vii 759pp. Black and white illustrations by H Patterson, F Grisley, A W Bayes, A W Cooper, Petherick. Purple cloth, titles and decoration blocked in black and gilt to front and spine, blind to rear. Brown endpapers. aeg. Spine fading, ends of spine and corners rubbed, one or two marks on boards, school prize label on front pastedown, very light foxing to top margins of first few pages, text and illustrations clean. …

Half-Leather. Condición: Good. Internally very good with slight browning, greeting (dated 1907) on fep, front hinge rather strained but holding, cover rather scuffed and worn. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Half-Leather. Condición: Good. Internally very good subject to some markings to the first and last few leaves, greeting (dated 1907) on fep , front hinge strained but holding, cover rather worn and scuffed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Half-Calf. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 2 volumes boud as 1. 1st volume "Christmas" has VI pp + 378 pages & 35 woodcut illustrations and plates the May-Day volume has Iv pp + 380 pages & 32 illustrations, contents are clean and good + or better, the half calf leather binding is discoloured and worn in appearance, but all firm, the plain cloth boards are handled, endpapers show boards at gutter. Octavo size. *NOTE* These 2 volumes have an article and a 1st printing story by Lewis Carroll, one on "Croquet for 4's "Castle Croquet" and is a 1st printing as is "Bruno's Revenge" in volume 2, this was expanded into the book "Sylvie and Bruno" of 1889 and is a lovely fairy-story. Other 1st edition tales are by Hans Christian Andersen, (lots of fairy and fairy-land stories by him and others) Agnes Strickland, Caroline Peachey (Sometime translator of Hans Andersen), nature articles by the Rev J. G. Wood (Of whom I was once told by a member of the "World About Us" BBC team his description of the diving bell spider was spot on with his descriptions and they had spent 6 months filming in soggy wet marshes getting the same information over 100 years later). An article on the Round Chess-board of Tamerlane the Great and how to play, etc, etc. "(2 works in 1). L. Frolich, Pasquier, F. Gilbert & Others (ilustrador).…