caroe gwendy (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. xi 180p hardback with dustjacket, very little use, pages clean with plates throughout, excellent copy Language: English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is a little marked, and edges are somewhat creased. 'Worshipful Company of Clothworkers' nameplate on front pastedown. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Nora S. Unwin (illustrator). First edition. A first edition copy of Lucy and the Little Red Horse and other stories, with colour plates. A first edition copy of this collection of children's tales by Nora S. Unwin and Gwendy Caroe.The stories that appear in the collection are Lucy and the Little Red Horse, Mrs Mouse & Family, Lucy & the Fairy Feasts.With eight colour illustrations and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original hardback binding. Externally, very smart indeed. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original brown cloth with the unclipped dust-jacket. 212 pages; portrait frontispiece. With a signed note from the author loosely inserted plus an inscription on the half-title page, "by his daughter Gwendy Caroe". A Fine copy. Caroe was born in 1907 in Adelaide, where her father was professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University. In 1923 William Bragg, son of a yeoman farmer from Cumberland, was appointed director of the Laboratory at the Royal Institution and, as such, Gwendy became the first child to be brought up at the institution. She later married Alban Caroe, a conservation architect with strong roots in the Arts and Craft movement and played an important social role at the institution, enjoying lectures by Leonard Woolley and Ernest Rutherford. Signed by Author. Book.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Gwendy Caroe (illustrator). A smart fourth impression of this illustrated study of garden life from English botanist and ecologist Sir Edward James Salisbury. Fourth impression. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with seventeen plates, one of which is folding, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed guide to the science behind a growing garden, pointing out the many wonderful things happening under our eyes in the garden as an opportunity to both educate and delight the reader. With chapters on soil, sunlight and shade, cold and warmth, propagation, germination, weeds, and more. Written by Sir Edward James Salisbury, an English botanist and ecologist. Illustrated by Gwendy Caroe, an Australian artist and illustrator. In the original full green cloth binding. Externally, excellent with minor shelf wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the panels. Sunning to the spine and panel edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers. Near Fine. book.