Ruth arkwright (9 resultados)

Condición: Poor. book has shelfwear, tearing to the cover on the bottom left corner and the left side of the jacket. Creasing and staining throughout the book. Content is readable but book can be listed no higher than acceptable.

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. No date, but c. 1910-24. Original stiff card covers with illustration set to front. Spine lost and covers loose, with illustrated endpapers present but loose. Sewn spine intact but somewhat loose toward front. Wear about edges. Old owner's name to front cover, and also, with gift inscription to front endpaper. Old dry tape stains near spine on a couple of leaves. Some fingering, toning and light foxing internally. Otherwise a respectably clean and unmarked copy of the wrappers issue. Complete with five mounted colour plates, all with guard sheets. 82[+plates]pp. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Music by J W Wilson. 82pp plus five pages of book advertisements. Illustrated boards with titles to front and spine. Neat ownership inscription to ffep. Covers lightly worn and bumped with small chips and tears to faded spine. Internally clean bright and tight.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. Music by J. W. Wilson, illustrations by Charles Robinson. Colorful decorative boards with brown titles on spine. Minimal shelf wear; this would be considered "near fine" except that someone in the misty past decided to color just one of the little drawings with crayon (see photo). Otherwise pages are intact. Five plays for children, with songs and wonderful line drawings and several color plates by Robinson. Plates are tipped in on heavy dark gray paper stock with titled tissue guards. Very scarce in this condition.…

Condición: Very good plus. First Edition. First edition of this uncommon Robinson title, a play about a woman, her grandson, and three brownies, with musical interludes. Robinson "helped create new canons of beauty and taste" in the early years of the Golden Age of Illustration, becoming "one of the most popular illustrators of children's literature during that prolific period spanning the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. It is right that his work should be remembered for the high degree of care and craftsmanship which went into it" (de Freitas, 30). 10'' x 7.5''. Original grey cloth with pictorial paste-on. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with 5 tipped-in color plates on heavy brown stock plus 35 in-text illustrations by Robinson. 82, [6] pages. Light soil to boards and a few margins. Front hinge starting but firm. Vivid and bright.…

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1910. Very good condition. Large format. Card wraps. Large pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour plates, mounted on brown stiff paper. Other b/w illustrations around text. Music is by J.W. Wilson. Creasing and some wear to covers. A little light scribble to front cover. Some foxing and page browning. Some grubby margin marks. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Robinson, Charles (ilustrador).…

Condición: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original plain white card wrap covers [soft back], deckle fore and lower edges. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains (viii), 88 pp. Near Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper adhered down the spine as issued with minor rubbing. Member of the P.B.F.A. FEMINISM & FEMINISTS.…

Condición: Good. Pictures by Charles Robinson. Original dec binding, illustrated endpapers, frontispiece & 4 plates (5 altogether), 4to (7 3/4 x 10 1/4'), 20 x 25 x 1,7cm. plus 35 illustrations in-text. 82pp, musical notation for songs by J. W. Wilson. small strip.

Unknown Binding. Condición: Very Good. spine cover taped over but main board excellent with marvellous illustration a very scarce and rare publication. Please ask for photos.