tinker tailor childs guide professions von a p herbert (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1922. 63 pages. No dust jacket. Green pictorial boards with a cloth spine. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Zustand: Fair. 1933. Second Edition. 54 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth. Ex-libris plate stuck to front free endpaper. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Light marks to boards.

hardback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, green cloth backstrip with pictorial paper covered boards, a tightly bound copy but with foxing to both covers and contents, quite heavily to front pre-lims, not present on the endpapers & more sporadic and marginal to the text, illustrated throughout by Geo. Morrow, 64pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition. Drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 67 pages; 1923 Doubleday, Page & Company. HC/DJ 1st edition. Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial, title lettered dust jacket with publisher's $1.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket a little sun faded at spine and with light toning to surfaces and light rubbing and a few shallow chips at edges. Light offset toning to front endpages where a clipping was laid in. Illustrated from drawings by George Morrow. VG+/VG-.

Illustrated by George Morrow. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1922. First edition. 63,(1) s. Richly illustrated. Publisher's cloth backed boards. 22 x 17 cm. [#\125570].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First American edition. 67pp. Black & white vignettes by Geo. Morrow. Corners worn through, endpapers lightly foxed and darkened, very good. Humorous poetry, covering 21 professions, regrettably spy not included.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. George Morrow (illustrator). A.P. Herbert's early 20th century children's work about careers and professions, a signed presentation copy from the author to his acquaintance, the physician Dr William Hale-White. A collection of verses and poems about different careers and professions, intended for children. Including poems about being a sailor, chancellor, doctor, actress, banker, conductor, and more.Written by nineteenth-century English humourist, Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, and illustrated throughout by George Morrow.A signed presentation copy of this work from the author to his acquaintances Dr William Hale-White and his wife Jane Hale-White. Including an ink inscription from the author to Jane Hale-White on the front free-endpaper: 'Jane Hale-White, with compliments, from A.P. Herbert, Sept 30th 1922'.Also including a letter from A.P. Herbert to noted British physician and biographer Dr William Hale-White, attached to the front pastedown: 'Dear Hale-White, In spite of your prohibition, I must write and say how glad I was to get your nice note of congratulation. My wife and I send our thanks to you both. Yours Sincerely, A.P. Herbert'. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, some shelf wear to the boards and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. An ink inscription from the author to the front free-endpaper, and a letter from the author attached to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to the first and last few pages, otherwise pages are generally bright and clean throughout. Good. signed by author. book.