Paperback.
Pictorial covers.
Red cloth spine.
15cm x 7cm.
Light wear to covers.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: high)

Paperback.
"One of the London-in-your-Pocket books"
A 1930s guide to London for tourists.
Paperback format with a thin-card dustwrapper.
Minor wear to edges of dustwrapper.
"Xmas 1939" written neatly at top corner of front endpaper.
Near-fine in other respects.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
Brown cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
151 pages.
One of the 'Twin' series, which Lucy Fitch Perkins began writing in the 1930s to encourage children to appreciate other cultures.
Dustwrapper a little worn, old sellotape marks on flaps.
Library markings removed.
Endpapers renewed.
Pages lightly tanned.
Some creases and fingermarking at front of book.
Reading condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
Brown cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Some wear and spotting to dustwrapper.
Minor wear to edges of covers.
Light foxing to prelims and fore edge.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: high)

Red cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Minor wear to covers.
Spine slightly sunned.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: high)

Red cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Light wear to covers.
A little faint foxing on prelims and fore edge.
Otherwise VG.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: high)

Pale pink boards, a little faded on spine, corners slightly bumped.
Child has coloured in the picture on the front pastedown and written 'THE' on endpaper, name on half title.
The rest of book clear, the pages white and tight.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Octavo.
Light blue cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
183 pages.
Covers slightly worn.
Gift dedication on front endpaper.
Light spotting on both endpapers.
Pages lightly tanned, with occasional spotting.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Quarto.
Pictorial glazed boards.
Corners bumped.
Minor wear to covers.
VG in other respects.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Blue boards with dark blue lettering and decoration.
Spine strip faded, with some damge to top 5cm.
VG in other respects.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Quarto.
Pictorial laminated boards.
Omnibus edition, containing:
"Humbert, Mister Firkin & The Lord Mayor of London",
"Cannonball Simp", and
"Harquin, the fox who went down to the valley".
Light wear to covers.
Spine a little faded.
VG in other respects.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Paperback.
Covers worn at edges, and a little creased.
Pages tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Octavo.
Green cloth-covered boards.
Blue lettering on spine.
Colour frontispiece (unattributed) no other illustrations.
Dustwrapper worn and chipped, 5cm loss to spine, repaired with tape.
Pages tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Octavo.
Brown cloth-covered boards.
Blue lettering on spine.
Blue decoration on covers.
253 pages.
Pictorial endpapers.
A biography of Hans Christian Andersen.
Light wear to covers.
Spine a little soiled.
VG in other respects.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Green cloth spine.
Dustwrapper repeats cover design.
Undated, probably 1930s.
Dustwrapper worn, with some loss at edges repaired with plain paper.
Light wear to covers.
Pages evenly tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Duodecimo.
Red cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Light wear to edges of dustwrapper.
A little foxing to endpapers.
Generally VG in other respects.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Beige paper-covered boards.
Cream cloth spine.
Details on reverse of the title page, underneath the table of contents, read:
"Copyright 1898 by William Heinemann. All rights reserved, Entered at Stationer's Hall, London, England. Entered at the Library of Congress, Washington, U.S.A."
The final page of the book has advertisements for: "An Almanac of Twelve Sports", "An Alphabet" and "London Types".
Overall condition is close to 'Very Good'.
Edges and corners of covers are worn and and bumped, but not badly.
Covers have darkened with age.
Inner hinges are split, but binding is still tight.
Slight discolouration on the front endpaper.
Contents are otherwise clean and unmarked.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

ISBN: 0744537533.
Translated by Naomi Lewis.
Quarto.
Maroon covers.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Slight damage at top of dustwrapper spine.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Grey cloth spine.
Black lettering on spine.
16 colour plates.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Neat name on front endpaper.
Some faint foxing to prelims.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Olive-green embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Gilt decoration on covers.
Top edge gilt.
Picture onlay to front cover.
12cm x 15cm.
Covers faded, and worn at edges.
Rough-cut fore edge.
Edges of page block dusty and soiled.
Contents slightly tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Green cloth spine.
Black lettering on spine.
24 plates, 16 in colour plus 8 black and white.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Some light spotting to fore edge.
Pages faintly tanned.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Edited by W. K. Holmes.
Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Yellow cloth spine.
Covers worn at edges and a little scuffed.
Corners bumped.
Some light foxing to fore-edge, endpapers and prelims.
First four illustrations coloured-in, reasonably neatly.
Reading condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Quarto.
Blue pictorial paper-covered boards.
Red cloth spine.
Covers worn at edges.
Neat gift dedication inside front cover.
Corners bumped.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Originally published in 1939.
Colour frontispiece.
Black and white drawings in text.
Spine faded.
Top third of front endpaper cut away.
Front hinge cracked.
Intermittent spotting.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)

Translated from the Danish by H. W. Dulcken.
Octavo.
Dark green cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Two colour illustrations.
A number of engravings.
Wear at spine ends and corners.
Front inner hinge cracked.
Contents generally clean and tight.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: low)