alice orton (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. No Edition Stated. 155 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Zustand: Good. No edition remarks. 155 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Prize plate stuck to front endpaper. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing, heavy to endpapers. Notable cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Book has forward lean. Mild crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild tanning to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Unknown; Steven Spurrier; Arthur Twidle; Unknown (illustrator). Four volumes of scarce children's literature written by female authors, including the popular Rosa N. Carey and L.T. Meade, including colour plates. Four volumes of scarce editions of children's literature, all written by female authors.In the publisher's original cloth, with Craddles, Molly and Little Miss Muffet containing pictorial covers and publisher's original advertisements to the rear of the book.Published in the early twentieth century, between 1909-1915, towards the end of the coined Golden Age of children's illustration, when such books were deemed popular gifts and were particularly celebrated unlike before.- Craddles, an adventure story set at the seaside, written by Alice Orton. Contains a frontispiece, and four other plates, as well as numerous in-text illustrations. (Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1909).- Molly, a story following a young woman in a fishing village, written by Mary Bertha Synge. Contains a colour frontispiece by British war artist Steven Spurrier, and one other colour plate. (Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1911).- Little Miss Muffet, a charming edition of the curious story that plays on the rhyme of the same name, written by novelist Rosa N. Carey. Contains a frontispiece by Arthur Twindle, famous for illustrating Sherlock Holmes books. (Published by The Office of Girl's Own Paper in c1915, first published in 1894).- The Beauforts, a story following a gentile family, written by popular and prolific writer of stories for girls Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, who wrote under the pseudonym L.T. Meade. (Published by Henry Frowde Hodder and Stoughton in c.1915). In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, smart, with the odd small mark to boards, a little more frequent to Molly and Craddles. Slight bumping to the heads and tails of the spines, and to the extremities. Slight edgewear, and rubbing to joints, heavier to Craddles and to rear joint near head of spine of Muffet. Offsetting to free end papers of Muffet and Craddles, with the small odd spot to end free end papers of the latter. Previous owner's ink inscription to front paste down of Craddles, and rear free end paper of Molly. Internally, generally firmly bound, with wear to hinges between the occasional leaf of Craddles, and plate adjoining p.112 loosening. Signs of wear to hinge between front free end paper and half-title of Beauforts, leaves pp.208-209 of Muffet, and pp.68-69, 116 and plate, and 132-133 of Molly Pages are generally bright and clean, with minor age toning, and the odd faint spot. Good. book.