Denis cleaver (5 Ergebnisse)

Original Red Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 1946. First edition. 96pp., a colour frontispiece, 18 other full-page black and white and black and red illustrations, and other black and white in-text illustrations. This is a story for children who love dogs. Mr. Willis and Mr. Wallis are two pet dogs who live near Epping Forest. One day they meet a friend who suggests they are missing a lot by sticking so close to home - he even implies that they are afraid to run away. Mr. Willis and Mr. Wallis, with a certain amount of trepidation, decide to show him a thing or two. There is a circus in a near-by town and there the three dogs tangle with Pongo the Terrible, a French poodle member of the circus. Their instinctive dislike of the poodle is justified when Mr. Wallis almost becomes a snack for a fierce circus lion. The book is bound in the original red boards with white titling on the spine and a white illustration of two dogs on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and soiling to the boards and some black spotting to the front board. The spine ends are lightly bumped and the titling on the spine is worn. The contents are tight and clean with a few pages having marks from finger smudges, including the title-page. There is no inscription. G.W. Backhouse (illustrator).…

Zustand: Fair. 1947. No Edition Remarks. 95 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen markings to front pastedown. Pencil marks to some illustrations. Moderate tear to page 17. Minor cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edge wear with loss, chips, tears and creases. Visible wear and pen marks to spine and panels.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1947. Very good condition with no wrapper. Two dogs want to be radio performers. Red cloth. Colour frontis plus black and red illustrations. Gilt title darkened to spine. A couple of margin marks and one small edge tear to page 17 (not affecting illustration). Generally very clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Backhouse, G.W. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Another Willis & Wallis doggy adventure in which the friends take part in a BBC radio play. Beautiful colour frontis of W&W outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place, London and featuring Eric Gill's Prospero. Many other full page illusrations in text. Remains of gift inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise very good in a near complete wrapper, not price-clipped but small loss top and base of spine. G.W. Backhouse (illustrator).…

1949 1st edition with red, black and white illustrations and colour frontispiece by G.W. Backhouse; tightly bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decoration to front; very light wear to corners. Dust jacket not price-clipped with wear, tear and small losses to edges and corners; front panel has rectangle of surface removed, perhaps by a sticky label. Slight musty smell; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.…