herbert uncle (10 Ergebnisse)

0 366 p. Includes illustrations. Good. moderate shelfwear, slit to right side of spine covering all the way down.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Hardcover. Illustrated paper-covered boards of four figures beside two elephants and red cloth-covered spine. Red lettering on front cover and gilt stamped lettering along spine. Boards are quite worn, especially along edges where they've been exposed. Color illustration remains handsome, if rubbed. Front board is attached by two threads. Binding otherwise is secure. Endpapers are smudged and a portion is missing from rear attached endpaper. Child's scribbles on half-title page, but the rest of the interior remarkably remains clean and in good reading condition. Heavily illustrated. Please email with questions or to request photos.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. This book is in acceptable condition and is a reading copy. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Softcover. Zustand: Good+. Edited by Uncle Herbert. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., (c. 1878). 8vo. 22 pages plus covers on linen, stitch sewn and printed in b&w. Covers moderately worn and soiled, slight fraying of the threads at cover's edges; interior clean, very good condition, alphabet and engravings in rich black and white illustrating instructional stories. Online we found the Publisher's Weekly text for August 17, 1878, listing this book as a new publication. ; Illustrated; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 22 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Uncle Herbert's Speaker and Autograph Album Verses: A Choice Collection Carefully Selected and Arranged" by Uncle Herbert. Sold by subscription only. J.A. Ruth & Co, Philadelphia and Chicago, 1887. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 416 pages. Brown cloth boards, black front titles, gilt spine titles; scrolled wraparound borders. Brown decorative endpapers. Rubbing to board edges and light scuffing to boards; text block is in fine condition without marks, tears or folds, very light toning. ".Nothing that could in the slightest degree prove objectionable has been admitted. All the pieces are pure in language, lofty in sentiment, pithy, bright, sparkling. None dull or prosy. Beginning with the short simple pieces for the "little prattlers", the book gradually runs into those for older children, thus about one-third of the Speaker is given to pieces suitable for children under eight years of age, one-third for children from eight to twelve years old, and the remainder for older ones." This was especially designed for school or parlor recitations and also for fireside amusement. Many of these selections were also chosen with use in autograph albums under the headings: Dedicatory, Sentiment, Love, Humorous, Remembrance, and Miscellaneous. Some of the selections for the recitations and readings are: Beauty Everywhere, Bright Little Dandelion, Flea Powder, Burial of Sir John Moore, Be Pleasant, Good Night, I'm Very Young, It's Not Worthwhile to Hate, Little Brown Bushy-Tail, Katydid, Lake of the Dismal Swamp, The Counter Sign, Make Your Mark, Miss Tidy, Mr. Socrates Snooks, Mamma's Boy, Popping Corn, Presentation Speech, Marco Bozzaris, Sally in Our Alley, The Little Dreamer, Song of the Camp, The Violet, The Oyster Man, The Love of Country, The Lost Doll, A Visit From Saint Nicholas, The Modern Belle, What a Leaf Said, Useful Little Words.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good condition copy for age. Tired in appearance, rubbed and scuffed. Pages pulling and loosening with some attempted repair, darkened with marks. Good reading copy. Good condition is defined as: a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Owner inscription on front fly, decorated boards. Good only. Spine cover worn with some chipping, spine ends and corners and edges rubbed.

Zustand: Gut. unpaginiert, [25 Bll.] mit zahlreichen Abbildungen; Einband stark berieben und bestoßen. Seiten vereinzelt leicht fingerfleckig. Insges. guter Zustand. /vitrine Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100 gr. 8°; gebunden, illustrierter Orig.-Pappband;

Cloth. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. New York: Lippincott, 1877. First edition. 8vo. 96 p. Illustrated. Cloth spine and pictorial paper covered boards. A charming children's book with engraved illustrations on nearly every page. Arranged in "chapter" sections with stories and poems of 1-3 pages long. Hinges cracked and first 18 pages are loose in binding. Pages 14-15 missing. Several pages have small tears. Boards soiled and worn and corners rubbed. Extremely rare. Good.

First edition (stated) hard back binding in publisher's original vivid orange cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 9½'' x 6½''. Contains 267 printed pages of text with 4 full-page single-sided colour plates as called for, small monochrome illustrations throughout. 'This book belongs to' filled-in, couple of small fox splashes to the rear pages. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper which was protected in brown paper, now removed, with only small tears to the spine ends, priced 5/-, spine not faded or discoloured. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.