mary thwaite (30 resultados)

Condición: Good. 1st American ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First US Edition. Bump to the bottom front edge of the book. ; The dustjacket features a protective mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good/Good. First. First American edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Verry Good. First Edition. Quarto, 10 " tall, grey cloth, illustrated endpapers, 340 pages; b&w illustrations. A near fine, clean neat hardcover edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, with slight soiling at top fore-edge. In a very good moderately worn dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good+. First American Edition. Crisp, bright, clean pages; no owners' marks; square, securely sewn binding, the full cloth hard cover showing only a little softening at heel and bottom right front corner; dust jacket has a short, closed tear at the spine head, modest sunning along the spine, and shallow edge wear at corners, otherwise well-kept, the jacket now protected in a clear sleeve. x, 339pp. incl. index.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Horn Book January 1972 Binding: Hardcover.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 97 pages. Mary Sullivan (Story); Karel van het Reve (Unofficial Russia); Erich Heller (Man Ashamed); henry Gifford (Andrey Sinyavsky); poetry (Jenny Joseph, D.J\. Enright, Pphilip Larkin, Roy fuller, Frank Ormscy, Charles Causley, Alastair Reid, Peter Porter, Laurence Lerner); Flaus Mehnert (From Mao to Marcuse to Marx); M. van Creveld (Beyond the Finzi-Cotini garden); allan Rodway (There's a Hole in Your Beckett) John Bowle (Emile Durkhein), other book reviews; David Markish (Where China begins); Helmut Schelsky (German Dilemma); political pollsters; letter from Sidney Hook, Hans Habe (Thoughts on the Nobel Prize.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New dust jacket. First American edition (so stated). Boston, Massachusetts: The Horn Book, Inc., 1972. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. PERFECTcondition. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First American edition (so stated). This is the U.S. issue of the 1972 Revised British Edition. Thwaite worked under Edgar Osborne, whose world famous collection of children's books now resides in Toronto. A readable, usefully detailed work. Chronological table. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped gray cloth. From the dust jacket: "The Horn Book is proud to publish FROM PRIMER TO PLEASURE IN READING in the United States, knowing that it will add immeasurably to the study of children's literature in this country." Haviland 59. First American edition (so stated). Hardcover. New/New dust jacket. x, 340pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

2nd edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ii-x, 340 pages illustrations, facsimiles 26 cm. Notes; Illus. incl. end-papers. Illustrations listed p. ix-x. With appendices, including chronological table and bibliography. Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-313) and index. Subjects; Children's literature, English History and criticism. Children's literature Publishing England History. Children Books and reading Great Britain History. Children Books and reading. Children's literature, English. Children's literature Publishing. Children's literature History and criticism to 1914. 3 Kg.

quarto, cloth in dust jacket. Condición: Very fine. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. x, 340pp. The Horn Book, First American Edition which was taken from the revised British edition. For this revised edition the author has added material dealing with children's books in other countries than England so that the section " Children's Books Abroad" deals with titles published in the United States, Canada, Australia, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, and Scandinavia. Illustrations include reproductions of covers or title pages of outstanding children's books, and there are extensive chapter bibliographies. Price clipped, else very fine.

cloth, dust jacket. Children's Books Ilustrador. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. x, 340 pages. First U.S. edition, from the second British edition. Study of the history of children's books in England from the beginning of printing up to 1914. Illustrated. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.

2nd edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ii-x, 340 pages illustrations, facsimiles 26 cm. Notes; Illus. incl. end-papers. Illustrations listed p. ix-x. With appendices, including chronological table and bibliography. Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-313) and index. Subjects; Children's literature, English History and criticism. Children's literature Publishing England History. Children Books and reading Great Britain History. Children Books and reading. Children's literature, English. Children's literature Publishing. Children's literature History and criticism to 1914. 1 Kg.

Original publisher's gray cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine, dustjacket, 4to: pictorial endpapers, frontispiece, x, 340pp., illustrated, footnotes & references, list illustrations, chronological table, general bibliography, index. Spine dustjacket lightly discoloured. Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 2nd Edition. 'From Primer to Pleasure in Reading' by Mary F. Thwaite. The Library Association 1972 second edition. Very good in chipped torn and quite tatty dust jacket.

Condición: Collectible; Very Good. First American Edition. Hardcover - nearly new in dust jacket with faint shelf-wear. Traces of what appears to be starting of foxing(?) to fore-edge.

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:0853654654.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 2nd Edition. 'From Primer To Pleasure In Reading - An introduction to the history of children's books in England from the invention of printing to 1914 with an outline of some developments in other countries' ~ by Mary F. Thwaite; pub by The Library Association - 2nd edition 1972; 4to, with jacket, blue cloth boards, 350pps, various b&w illustr; jacket worn with marks & snags; books has a few pencil marks on inside front page and some spotting on top edge, otherwise book in good clean condition.

Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A most handsome first US edition/first printing (from the second UK edition) in Fine condition in alike dustjacket; An introduction to the history of children's books. Based on the 1963 British edition and expanded to include material dealing with children's books in countries other than England. Illustrations include reproductions of covers or title pages of outstanding children's books. Appendix includes extensive chapter bibliographies. Good index. Mrs Thwaite began her career in Sheffield, England as a children's librarian and became known as one of the leading county librarians in the country ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 96 pages. John McGahern "Parachutes" (story) / George Urban in Conversation with Daniel Bell / Mary Kenny "In the Driver's Seat" / Mary Midgley "Duties Concerning Islands" / Roger Scruton "The Real Stoppard" / Dannie Abse "A Meeting with Robert Graves" / Malcolm Bradbury "Struggling Westward America & the Coming of Modernism (II).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Octavo. 518 pages. Cloth. With the dustwrapper. Ex-library, but with no markings, other than a cold stamp on the title-page.

Condición: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condición: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Hardback, 19.5x25.5cm, 340pp. Very good condition, in good dustwrapper (light wear and scuff marks; sunned spine). ISBN: 087675275X.

Condición: Good. Program. 21 x 33 cm. Loose Sheet, Very Good with creasing. Noted British poet Thwaite reads his own work along with contemporaries such as Larkin.

Condición: New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back.

Condición: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 349 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

First Edition. Pp. x+340, frontispiece, text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, appendices, index; cr. 4to; dust wrapper, edges faintly rubbed, tiny chip to head of backstrip; The Horn Book Inc.,Boston, 1972. First U.S. edition. *Originally published in 1963; this edition has been revised and extended.