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: high, Confidence: high)

Red boards.
Black lettering and decoration on cover.
Lengthy, but neat, dedication on front pastedown.
Spine strip slightly sunned.
Generally VG in other respects.
Contents clean.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Blue cloth-covered boards.
Maroon lettering and decoration on covers.
Covers a little worn.
Spine strip soiled.
Neat dedication on front endpaper.
Spotting to prelims.
Contents generally good.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Blue boards with red lettering and decoration and gilt lettering on spine.
Oval picture only front cover.
Spine strip a little soiled.
Title page and one plate loose.
Close to VG in other respects.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Orange boards with black lettering and decoration.
Dustwrapper price-clipped and badly chipped. Loss at both ends of spine strip, upper corner of front panel, and upper edge of back panel.
Contents unmarked except for neat gift inscription on reverse of f.e.p.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Red cloth-covered boards, beige cloth spine strip.
Gilt lettering on front cover and spine.
Decorated endpapers, black and white line drawings.
Spine strip rather soiled and darkened.
Contents clean, but with occasional spotting.
Very Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Red cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Gilt decoration on covers.
Top edge gilt.
Covers heavily worn at edges.
Corners bumped.
Spine strip darkened.
Inner hinges cracked, and contents shaken.
Neat gift dedication on front endpaper.
Pages slightly tanned.
Reading condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Pink blind-embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
360 pages.
Covers a little worn at edges, and slightly soiled.
Spine strip sunned, and gilt on spine dimmed.
Neat gift dedication at top of half-title.
Pages faintly tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Octavo.
Red paper-covered boards.
Black lettering on spine.
255 pages.
Colour frontispiece.
Four black and white drawings in text.
Light wear to covers.
Small nick on front edge of spine strip.
Spine strip faded.
Pages tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Red cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering and decoration.
Pictorial endpapers.
Colour frontispiece.
Other illustrations black and white.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Spine strip darkened and slightly soiled.
A small amount of faint foxing to prelims and fore edge.
Contents clean and unmarked, but slightly tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Red leatherette boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Second impression, April 1948.
Covers worn at edges.
Corners and spine ends heavily bumped.
Spine strip faded.
Lower 8cm of rear edge of spine strip split.
Edges of page block soiled.
Binding sound.
Name and address on title page.
Pages tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Octavo.
Dark green embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Silver decoration on covers.
All edges gilt.
350 pages.
Six (of eight) black and white plates present.
Covers heavily worn at edges, and a little soiled.
Corners bumped.
Spine strip worn at edges and ends, and somewhat darkened.
Gift dedication dated 1883 on reverse of front endpaper.
Endpapers and prelims foxed and tanned.
Contents shaken, and some pages coming loose.
Occasional foxing to page edges.
Some foxing in gutter, where staples in the binding have rusted.
Reading condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Quarto.
Pictorial glazed boards.
Dark blue cloth spine.
Black decoration on spine.
20cm x 28cm.
192 pages.
Illustrated with a mixture of black and white drawings and coloured line drawings.
Colour frontispiece.
Covers worn at edges.
Corners bumped.
Ends of spine bumped.
Spine strip split down front edge.
Neat dedication on front endpaper.
Some of the black and white drawings have been reasonably neatly coloured-in by a child.
Plate entitled 'The Visitor' has been neatly attached to the back pastedown using adhesive fabric tape.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Red cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Black decoration on covers.
Covers worn at edges and a little soiled.
Corners bumped.
Spine strip faded and stained.
Prize label on front endpaper.
Contents good, but slightly tanned.
Reading condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Cloth-covered boards.
Cream spine.
Blue and yellow decoration on covers.
Blue decoration on spine.
Pictorial endpapers.
Dustwrapper missing 5cm strip at top of rear panel and chipped at top edge of spine.
Book itself generally VG.
Neat gift dedication on reverse of front endpaper.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Quarto.
Beige cloth-covered boards.
Red lettering on covers.
Nine colour plates.
Thirty-five black and white drawings in the text.
Two full page black and white line drawings.
Dustwrapper worn at edges, with loss along spine strip a large piece missing from the back panel, and two smaller pieces missing from lower edge.
Dustwrapper repaired with tape and some paper backing.
Book itself generally VG.
Covers clean and undamaged, with some minor wear at spine ends.
Neat gift dedication on front endpaper.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

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: medium, Confidence: medium)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Blue cloth spine.
Light yellow lettering on covers.
Black lettering on spine.
Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white.
Boards worn and edge-chipped.
Spine strip in good condition.
Name and date on front paste down.
Front endpaper missing.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Orange blind-embossed cloth-covered boards.
Dark blue lettering on spine.
Covers worn at edges and a little soiled.
Spine strip darkened.
Foxing to fore edge and prelims.
Prize label on front pastedown.
Pages slightly tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Corners bumped.
2cm loss at base of spine strip.
Neat gift dedication in top corner of reverse of front endpaper.
Name in Belongs To box.
Contents clean, but slightly tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Red covers.
Black lettering on spine.
Covers worn at edges.
Spine strip worn and darkened.
Various ticks and writing on the list of other titles by this author.
Loops of "B", "D", "P" and "R" coloured red on title page.
Contents otherwise good.
Pages slightly tanned.
Reading condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Quarto.
Orange cloth-covered boards.
White lettering on spine.
174 pages.
A collection of humerous poems describing animals, with accompanying illustrations.
Four colour plates.
Numerous line drawn illustrations, both full-page and within the text.
Covers worn at edges and corners slightly bumped.
Spine strip faded and soiled.
Front cover discoloured.
Close to VG internally.
Pages slightly tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

"Ace" series.
Blue covers.
Black lettering on spine.
12cm x 19cm.
223 pages.
Sundial logo at base of spine.
Dustwrapper creased and heavily worn, with some loss at spine ends.
Covers clean and unmarked.
Some wear to spine strip.
Binding sound.
Faint foxing to prelims, and intermittently to page edges.
Neat gift dedication, dated 1939, on front endpaper.
Pages slightly tanned.
Very Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Light blue cloth-covered boards.
Red lettering on covers.
Red decoration on covers.
Dustwrapper worn and creased, and faded on spine.
Covers soiled, unevenly faded, and worn at edges.
Corners bumped.
School library stickers on prelims.
Pages tanned, but contents otherwise generally good.
Reading condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)

Octavo.
Light grey paper-covered boards.
Black lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
155 pages.
Second story 'The sisters of Trenton Manse' at rear of book.
Dustwraper chipped at corners and top of spine.
Covers close to VG, but 1cm split at top of spine strip.
Neat prize dedication on front endpaper.
Inner hinge cracked between frontispiece and title page.
Pages tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)