dora barks (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. No Edition Stated. 23 pages. No dust jacket. White pictorial boards with a green cloth spine. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

Original Card Hardback. Zustand: Good to Very Good. Dora Barks (illustrator). Presumed First Edition. No date c1935. Presumed first edition. 46 pages including the illustrated front board and black and white illustrations, both full-page and within the text. This is a story for the younger reader, set in the fictional land of Ockoloopoo where the people were so fond of hunting that nothing else mattered to them. In the winter they hunted foxes, and in the summer butterflies. But one day the Hunt Master was asked for a Moa and an Auk. The book is bound in the original paper covered card boards with yellow titling on the front board and spine and a colour illustration on the front board. The book is in good to very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling on the board and the spine ends and corners are rubbed. The paper on the spine edges has some wear and there is creasing across the bottom corner of the rear board. The contents are secure and clean although the pages are browned with age. A newspaper atricle about the Dodo and the Auk has been pasted onto the inside of the front board and an illustration facing the first page of the story has been coloured in with crayon.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. This is a hardback book; 4to; cloth spine; illustrated covers which are very worn at edges; the cover is scratched; faint gift inscription inside cover; frontis partly detached, but still secure, as are some of the other gorgeous colour plates; there are 8 colour plates in all - all very clean and bright. It is a story of geese and ducks that decide to go on a fox hunt, and the pictures show the ducks in full hunting regalia, riding on gooseback, They were saved from the wily fox by Marco the dog, also in full hunting regalia. There are even pictures of ducks smoking cigarettes whilst in hunting gear! I have dated the book from COPAC. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Dora Barks (illustrator). 4to. 22 pp. 8 pls, COPAC locates only B.L. copy which collates on 4 plates, pages foxed and some browning throughout, pages thumbed, upper inner hinge cracked but sound, good in original quarter cloth and paper covered pictorial boards, extremities worn, boards scuffed and a little grubby, faint trace somebodys pencil sums on rear board, small modern circular sticker upper margin upper board, otherwise good. please see photos. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.

First Edition. Worn copy bound in quarter cloth over decorated paper boards. Some wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; 24 pages. Notes; No clear publication date given. Subjects; Children's Books. Children's Cartoons. 3 Kg.