Herbert strang editor (70 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: GOOD. First edition. A collection of short stories and poems - featuring children, as in the title story - or animals like Whiskers, the field mouse, or Merrilegs, the pony. Illustrated with black and white drawings. 77 pp. Very good in papercovered boards with a colorful illustration on the front cover, blue spine and back cover (usual toning to pages, some rubbing to covers).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. undated c1920 from cover illustration design. One of Mrs Strang's Unbreakable Books, contains 6 boards featuring 2 illustrations bound together at spine. Illustrators include Govey, Brock, Sowerby. Sadly although the board were indeed unbreakable the top edges have suffered a liquid spillage but does not impinge on pictures. Front cover generally clean, rear has scuffing. Various (illustrator).…

hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, mild foxing, pictorial paper covered boards, a very good tightly bound copy, brief gift inscription to a previous owner, the text otherwise unmarked, colour frontis, b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. viii, 320pp, eight colour illustrative plates (including frontispiece). Blue cloth-covered boards, black titles on front and spine. 8vo. Boards faded with some mottling and bumped at spine ends. Text block edges starting to tan. Map on front pastedown. Front free endpaper absent. Gutter stretching, binding still tight. Map facing page 161 absent else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. Undated, unpaginated. Pictorial paper-covered boards; illustrated endpapers; black and white illustrations throughout. 8vo. Rubbed corners and spine ends, paper worn through. Text block edges tanning and foxing. Free endpapers tanning. Git inscription on first blank page (dated 1926). Internally clean, neat, bright and tight, barring occasional foxing. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. Undated. 160pp, four colour plates (including frontispiece). Blue cloth-covered boards, tipped-in colour illustrations on front and spine, black titles on front and spine. 8vo. Wear to boards and spine. Bumped spine ends, cloth worn. Bumps to board edges. Corners bumped; top front cloth worn through, others cloth rubbed. Text block edges foxing. Presentation plate on front paste down (dated 1923). Endpapers tanning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring very occasional foxing.…

Pictorial Cloth. Zustand: Good. Green cloth; a pastedown illustration is on the spine and on the top end of the front board; the front board's illustration continues onto the bottom end with brown and black print on the cloth. 208 pages; 25 stories/articles; 8 color plates on dark green mat; numerous b & w illustrations and vignettes (on the page corners for each story). Illustrated endpapers have horses in brown ink. Frontal matter has browntone illustrations. The text block ends are dark green. Cover: ends of spine are softened; one corner is rubbed through to the board; front joint is faded; a third of the the back board has a stain; the illustrations have rubbed spots; shelf wear soiling. The endpapers are cracked over the hinges; the hinges have been repaired, but it is difficult to see the type of repair. Three of the color plates each have a 1/8 in. rubbed spot on an edge. Several pages have fingerprint soiling. Scans e-mailed upon request. C. E. Brock; Frank Gillett, Cyrus Cuneo; N. S. Pitcher; Montague Dawson; F. H. Mason; L. Mosley (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. Undated. Unpaginated, many black and white and black and red illustrations, a few colour illustration plates (inc. frontispiece). Quarter-bound with tan cloth-covered spine over pictorial paper-covered boards, black titles on front, red illustrations and titles on spine. 8vo. Some small scratches and scuffs to boards. Spine ends lightly rubbed with some split in the cloth at head. Edges heavily rubbed with paper worn through, corners rounded. Text block edges tanning, top and fore edge foxed. 'This book belong to' filled in on front pastedown endpaper, gift inscription on front free endpaper (dated Christmas 1923), light soiling on front endpapers, heavy tanning and heavy creasing along length of rear free endpaper. Hinges stretched. Tanning on last page mirroring fold in rear free endpaper. Moderate foxing throughout, heaviest towards very beginning and end of volume. Children's stories for boys.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. Undated but circa 1910 (presentation inscription on front free endpaper, dated 1913). Unpaginated but circa 100pp, plus colour plate frontispiece and three further colour plate illustrations, and numerous line drawings in text. In red-paper covered boards, linen backstrip and tipped in illustration on front panel; black titles on spine, cream decorations and lettering on front panel. 8vo. Boards worn and faded, rubbed at edges, shelf worn with a few mild marls. Front hinges cracked making the volume a little loose. Presentation inscription, from 1913, on front free endpapers. A collection of stories including The Last Fight of the Revenge, Waring and the Wilsons by Meredith Fletcher, The Assault of Badajos by Sir William Napier, and the Black Sheep - A Tale of a Tasmanian Sheep Station by Capt Charles Gilson. Very hard to find volume of adventures stories, with stunning colour plate illustrations.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 254pp. In decorated cloth-covered boards with blue lettering front and spine (boards are strong, square and straightly; gently rubbed at corners and spine ends, soiled and faded in margins). Internally neat and clean, barring some mild toning on endpapers. A companion volume to the more common Treasury of English Verse, a selection of extracts of English prose designed to stimulate the interest of students of English literature, drawing extensively on contemporary writers.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Red cloth titled in black on spine and front board, mounted colour illstn on spine and front board, pictorial endpapers, colour frontis and plates by W.R.S. Stott. Tidy, slightly faded at spine, light foxing in edges and prelims, prize inscription on blank fly. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Chunky volume that describes Zoo animals in a lively accessible way. With b/w illustrations and colour frontispiece. Sunning to spine. Foxing to page edge. Contents clean and binding sound. Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. Unpaginated, black and white illustrations and illustrated plates throughout and a colour plate illustration frontispiece, illustrative printed endpapers. Pictorial paper over cloth-covered boards; black and yellow titles on front, black titles on spine. 8vo. Wear to boards. Spine has some reading creases, spine ends heavily rubbed with some <2cm closed tear at the head and <12cm closed tear at the heel. Edges worn, corners heavily rubbed and rounded with paper worn through. Text block edges heavily foxed. Gutters stretched throughout. Gift inscription in pen on first page. Foxing and light soiling throughout. 10 children's adventure stories.…

First Edition. Good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards; title-blocked cloth spine. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat edge-nicked and dust-toned as with age. Hinges starting. Remains well-preserved overall. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; unnumbered pages, 22 cm. 1 Kg.…

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Hardback. Dated from inscription. 1913. No dust jacket. Bumping to spine.Spotting to pages.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. 160pp. Colour frontis and plates. nd. [circa 1920]. Extremities a little bumped. Edges foxed, with some foxing to fore margins. Previous owner's name to back of frontis. A decent copy. (bs51).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Pages clean, no markings, wear to edges. Complete with numerous illustrations. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Printed Boards/Cloth Spine. Zustand: Very Good. Contributions from all the best boys writers of the day. A particularly interesting article on Submarines, past and present, by Lewis Spence well illustrated with photographs and diagrams. 176pp illustrated throughout together with colour plates by various artists. Size: 260x195mm.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1930 1st edition. Good/None. Hard pictorial boards with some rubbing/scuffing, a little splitting to spine. Contents generally clean but for minor soiling/browning, some splitting. I think the front board may have been replaced, but I can't be sure. Charming B&W illustrations throughout by Cicely Englefield. Bingo the baby polar bear visits the other residents of the zoo to tell them about his woolley coat. A scarce book from a scarce series of miniature books. Englefield, Cicely (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First. 4to. creased & ridged spine slight tear top page in Yellow Gown. Book.

Boards. Zustand: Good Plus. No Jacket. Circa 1910. Front pastedown is an illustrated bookplate which bears the inscription "Prize for proficiency and good conduct Dec 22/10." Unpaginated. Coloured frontis. by Cyrus Cuneo. Other colour plates and black and white illustrations in text. Cloth backed boards. Front cover illustrated. Wear to edges of boards. One page bears a small repair to a small tranverse tear, otherwise internal condition is very good. Hinges are weakened but good plus condition for an obviously fairly well-read boys' book of 1910.…

FIRST EDITION 1931, miniature book 84 x 71 mm, 3¼ x 2¾ inches, frontispiece, title vignette and 28 illustrations, 7 full page, (76) pages, bound in original publisher's blue stiff boards, cut flush, coloured illustration on both covers, lettered white, double page list of Teeny-Weeny Books inside upper cover, vignettes of nursery characters on rear endpapers. Little stories about rabbits, a little cat, a bear. No inscriptions, board edges, head and tail of spine and corners slightly worn, surface eroded on illustration on lower cover (see image), a couple of inner joints slightly cracked, binding tight and firm, occasional very slight faint foxing. A good plus clean copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION dated 1933 on reverse of title page, miniature book, approximately 80 x 65 mm, 40 mm thick, 3 x 2½ inches, 1½ inches thick, pink and white illustrated boards, illustrations of nursery characters and toys on endpapers, (184) pages, illustrated throughout in black and white, some full page, some by May Smith. SPINE MISSING, child's name on front endpaper, contents clean. Acceptable copy of scarce miniature title. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No date stated, ca. 1910's. (great britain army, military history) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Hardback annual, 1926, with no jacket as issued. In overall good used condition with some minor signs of age, handling and storage - paper-covered boards rubbed to edges and slightly darkened to spine with chips to paper at spine head. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - school prize plate to second front endpaper dated 1927; toning to page-ends and the odd spot of foxing here and there but text, illustrated endpapers and illustrations bright and clear throughout - several of the black and while illustrations have been neatly coloured in. Photographs available. Not an old library book. …

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Undated hardback, edition in the Herbert Strangâs Library series, c. 1930s, with no jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - tan cloth boards boards slightly darkened. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - neat ownership signature to front endpaper and to leading edge of page-block; text, colour frontispiece and illustrated chapter headings bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION dated 1930 on reverse of title page, miniature book, approximately 71 x 60 mm, 2¾ x 2¼ inches, green stiff card covers cut flush, coloured illustration of golliwogs on covers, No.7 in list of 8 titles in the series facing title page, illustration of toys on endpapers, no pagination (circa 40 thick pages), vignette on title page and verso, plus 19 illustrations, 5 full page. The Golliwog features throughout, plus dolls and Teddy Bears. Some closed tears to spine paper now glued down, head and tail of spine slightly worn, neat name on front pastedown, child has partially filled in a couple of toys on front pastedown, some pale foxing to contents. A good plus copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

Publishers Illustrated Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Undated but circa 1918. 27 subjects, mainly stories by various authors including, Angela Brazil, Alice Massie, Beatrice Tilly and Bessie Marchant. Illustrated throughout in black and white plus numerous full page colour plates. Pages unpaginated. Inscription to front end paper dated 1918. Decorated green cloth with pictorial onlays to cover and spine in remarkably good condition. Size: 230x185mm. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION 1938, miniature book, approximately 85 x 68 mm, 3¼ x 2½ inches, green stiff card covers cut flush, coloured illustration to both covers, frontispiece and last page of text as pastedowns, (44) thick pages, frontispiece and 14 illustrations in the text. No inscriptions, spine just slightly darkened, first gathering held only by lower stitch, 2 inner joints partly cracked, binding otherwise sound. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

FIRST EDITION 1932, miniature book, approximately 83 x 72 mm, 3¼ x 2¾ inches, grey stiff card covers cut flush, coloured illustration to both covers, nursery characters to rear endpapers, list of titles in the series to front endpapers, (69) pages, frontispiece and 26 illustrations, 4 full page. Little stories about 2 children and their pet dogs and cats. No inscriptions, head and tail of spine just slightly rubbed, minute chip to bottom of lower hinge. A very good plus clean copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. …