ISBN: 0340042281.
Octavo.
Green cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
119 pages.
The story of a displaced child brought up on a construction site.
Dustwrapper complete and undamaged, light wear to edges only.
Dustwrapper spine a little faded.
Faint mark where label removed from front endpaper.
Covers and contents otherwise VG.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

ISBN: 0340042281.
Octavo.
Green cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
119 pages.
The story of a displaced child brought up on a construction site.
Tape marks on covers and paste down.
Back panel of dustwrapper discoloured, edges chipped, and two closed tears at top edge.
Contents generally VG.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: high)

These essays and sketches previously appeared in Punch magazine.
Small octavo, blue cloth binding, gilt titling.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: high)

Translated by J. M. Cohen.
Paperback.
Covers worn at edges.
Pages tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: high)

Essays and stories about birds.
Small octavo.
Blue paper covered boards, pink spine.
Tissue guarded frontispiece.
Very Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Decorated covers.
Bevelled boards.
Gilt blocking.
Not dated.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Octavo.
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Black decoration on covers.
296 pages.
Black endpapers.
Full page engraving opposite title page.
Numerous smaller engravings in text.
A collection of short essays based on Biblical texts.
Spine worn at ends and edges.
Damp spots on upper and lower bevelled boards.
Light spotting on fore edge.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

ISBN: 273731514X.
Translated from the French by Paul Williams.
Quarto.
Pictorial laminated boards.
45 pages.
A few faint marks on rear endpaper and paste down.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Octavo.
Red cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
12cm x 19cm.
200 pages.
Minor wear to covers.
One or two small, faint, white flecks on front cover.
Spine strip sightly faded.
Gilt on spine faded.
Discrete name stamp ('Diana Green') on inside of front cover.
Contents almost pristine.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Bevilled dark blue pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Gilt decoration on covers.
18cm x 24cm.
328 pages.
Red edges.
6 colour plates, including frontispiece, "and upwards of eighty black-and-white drawings by J. Finnemore, G. H. Thompson and Archibald Webb".
Covers worn and scuffed.
Corners and spine ends bumped.
Spine strip faded, and appears to have been re-glued at edges.
Scuff where label removed from inside front cover.
Endpapers foxed.
Contents VG.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

A collection of descriptions of animals of the farmyard and woodland.
Large quarto.
Orange cloth-covered boards.
Dark blue lettering and decoration on front cover and spine.
Eleven plates, each inside a grey-green border.
One plate to illustrate each animal described.
First plate ("The Cat") doubles as frontispiece.
Large print text.
Light wear to covers and spine.
Small scrape at base of spine.
Spine strip sunned.
Boards unevenly faded at edges.
Faint pencilled dedication ('With love to Jennifer from Nan') at top corner of front pastedown.
Very good internally, with no marks and no foxing.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Octavo.
Dark green cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
All edges gilt.
13cm x 19cm.
Light wear to covers.
Corners slightly bumped.
Gilt on spine slightly dulled.
Light foxing on endpapers and pastedowns.
Contents clean.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Small octavo.
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on front cover and spine, gilt decoration on spine.
Name of previous owner on front endpaper.
Spine and corners slightly worn.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Blue cloth spine.
Black lettering on spine.
Black decoration on spine.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Stain at base of back cover.
Some slight soiling to edges of page block.
Binding sound.
Faint gift dedication on front pastedown.
Contents generally VG.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Red pictorial paper-covered boards.
Grey cloth spine.
Red lettering on spine.
Black decoration on covers.
18cm x 21cm.
1st UK edition.
Yellow pictorial endpapers.
Dustwrapper worn at edges, with 5cm loss at top corner of back panel, and 4cm los at base of spine.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Neat gift dedication, dated Christmas 1938, inside front cover.
A little faint, intermittent foxing.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Red embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
Dustwrapper worn at edges and a little faded.
Dustwrapper spine scuffed and soiled.
Covers clean and undamaged.
Gilt lettering and decoration bright.
Some light foxing to edges of page block.
Endpapers and prelims slightly tanned.
Contents generally clear.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Octavo.
Light blue pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
260 pages.
Light blue patterned endpapers.
Engraved frontispiece and title page, no other illustrations.
Spine strip has darkened with age.
Gilt blocking on spine is faded.
Name written on front endpaper.
Occasional semi erased scribble on text, would otherwise have been described as 'Very Good'.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Octavo.
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Dustwrapper worn at edges and creased, with some loss at corners of front panel and base of spine.
Dustwrapper neatly repaired and strengthened with pale-blue paper.
Small patches of fading on covers, where dustwrapper chipped.
Neat prize dedication on front endpaper.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Octavo.
Light blue pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Dark blue lettering on covers.
128 pages.
Five short stories plus sixteen
pages of publisher's adverts at the rear.
No authors credited.
Flower pattern on front cover and spine.
Gilt blocked titling on spine.
Patterned endpapers.
Black and white frontispiece.
Slight signs of wear at corner's and sides of spine.
Name and address opposite half title.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Octavo.
Blue embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Gilt decoration on covers.
159 pages.
16 pages of adverts at rear.
Yellow floral decoration on front cover and spine.
Covers worn at edges.
Some soiling and mug-rings to covers.
Gilt blocking a little rubbed.
Some marks to top edge and fore edge.
Prize label (1907) on front endpaper.
Prelims and first few pages foxed and fingermarked.
Remainder of contents clean, except for some occasional finger marks at page edges.
Hinges and binding tight.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Octavo.
Dark blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Dustwrapper a little worn at edges, with 4cm loss at base of spine and price-clipped.
Book itself close to VG.
Name in childish hand on front endpaper.
Neat gift dedication between front endpaper and half-title.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Maroon embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
13cm x 19cm.
103 pages.
Pink endpapers decorated with blue line illustrations.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Corners a little bumped.
Gilt on covers and spine bright and undimmed.
A small patch of foxing on front pastedown adjacent to the hinge, no other foxing apparent.
Half-title and reverse of final page tanned.
Contents otherwise clean and bright.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Translated from the French by Rose Fyleman.
8th book in Pere Castor's Wild Animal series.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Maroon cloth spine.
23cm x 21cm.
Light wear to covers.
Spine appears to have been neatly re-glued.
Neat gift dedication inside front cover.
Contents VG.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

A Breton family discover the capital city.
Large quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards with red cloth spine.
Spine professionally relaid.
Covers worn and scuffed.
Faint damp marks at corners of front cover (contents not affected).
Vertical crease on front endpaper.
Contents generally clean.
Some wear to page edges.
Small closed tears on the fore-edge of a few pages.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Dark blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
Top edge gilt.
Light wear to covers.
Gilt faded.
A few small marks on front cover.
Namr on half-title.
Contents slightly shaken.
Some intermittent finger-marking to page edges.
Tear on p51/52 was neatly repaired on both sides with Sellotape, which has subsequently browned
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)