illustrated erick berry (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Erick Berry (illustrator). First Edition. red boards, black lettering, rubbing along spine & edges, binding very good, pages clean; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall DW6.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Illustrated by Erick Berry illustrations (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Light cock, light tone, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket tape reinforcement on back of spine, edgeworn, foxing, rubbed, wear. Solid hardcover. ; Best wrote a series juvenile adventure novels set in Africa, reflecting his experiences living in Nigeria. They were illustrated by Erick Berry, the pseudonym of Best's wife, Allena Champlin. Her earlier work on his book Garram the Hunter earned a Newbery Honor in 1931. First Edition, First Printing in Dust Jacket of this juvenile novel of African tribal politics and culture during the colonial era. ; viii, 295 pages.

Illustrated by Erick Berry. (illustrator). Near Fine/Good: Book is clean, straight, unmarked, nice pages, corners lightly bumped or rubbed; jacket has 1" chip at spne top and considerable rubbing, is in new mylar protector. Hardcover in jacket, 6.8x9", not paginated. . Children's Hardback. Illustrated by Erick Berry.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1939 edition. Hardcover is in very good condition, boards are straight, slight curling at corners. Spine is still well attached to the body. Some fraying on spine edges and title slightly faded. Edges and corners showing minor wear. Pages are slightly yellowed, as well as the inside front and back covers. Pages are unmarked or folded.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dj. Illustrated by Erick Berry (illustrator). First Edition. [light shelfwear, bumping to base of spine and bottom right front corner, vintage price sticker (from The White House, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket lightly edgeworn, a couple of insignificant edge-tears, a bit of soiling to rear panel]. (frontispiece drawing + illustrated endpapers) A lost-race tale about the discovery of an ancient Egyptian civilization in darkest Africa, by a British naturalist and film producer. "Vic Tempest and his chum, Podger Wood [go] to Africa to search for Vic's father who disappeared while hunting for The Secret People. Harrowing adventures become daily experiences." Per the jacket blurb, "many of the events and most of the characters in [the book] are real," and that the author "has explored Africa from the 'gold coast' to the heart of the central and eastern sections of the country [sic]." (He wrote at least two other books based on these experiences, including one specifically about his adventures in filming wild animals.) [NOTE that despite the "Illustrated by Erick Berry" credit on the title page, other than the frontispiece and the endpaper drawings, there are no other illustrations in the book.] NOISBN.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. Illustrated by Erick Berry illustrations (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Light wear; Dust Jacket large chipping at bottom of front panel, other small chips, rubbed, front flap clipped, wear. Solid hardcover. ; Collection of 22 "African" folk tales by fraudulent black performer Labogola, allegedly from Dahomey (Benin) and probably Joseph Howard Lee of Baltimore, Maryland. "These stories have their origin in the Ondo Bush in West Africa, and are the ones the author remembers hearing in his own childhood . The stories are mostly about animals, and are told very simply, directly, and dramatically, always with a moral lesson at the end." This book follows Knopf's publication of Lobagola's well-received autobiography, in truth a fantastical tale of his imaginary life. ; (viii), 199, (1) pages.

Penguin Books / Puffin Books. First edition, thus. 1941. No DW. Puffin Story book number PS4. Slim wartime paperback. Advert to rear cover. Spine sunned, pages browned. Biro price of 20p to first page. Slight signs of use otherwise a very clean and sound copy of a scarce item.