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Gift inscription. inside 1st front page Very clean and firm D/J mended

Blue cloth slightly rubbed on spine tips, corners and top of spine a little bumped, a few light marks, 4 lovely colour plates + some chapter headings & tailpieces by FRANK WATKINS, slight internal and foredge foxing, else vg. large 8vo, 135pp.

Cassell, 1945. Second Australian Edition . Cloth. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Frank Watkins. Very Good with light handling wear to the cloth PP135, colour frontis, 3 plates

Very Good with light handling wear to the cloth PP135, colour frontis, 3 plates Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London, Cassell and Company, Ltd, [1920s, abridged]/ [1910]. Octavo, 96 pages with numerous illustrations (several full-page) by Helen Jacobs. Blind-stamped cloth slightly flecked and rubbed; spine lightly sunned; gutters slightly discoloured; pencilled ownership signature; overall an excellent copy. Happy Hour Stories series.

94 Seiten altersbedingt guter Zustand, Unterstreichungen und Notizen mit Bleistift in begrenztem Ausmaß Herausgeber: Kaysel, J. bo113452 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 150

complete with all plates and pages. early edition. the boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn. some foxing. all pages clear and legible. a few inscriptions.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

The Sun's Babies by Edith Howes With four illustrations in colour by Frank Watkins. Publisher: Cassell and Company, 1945, Second Australian Edition. Blue cloth hardback in lovely condition. Minor edge-wear. Gift inscription dated 1945 to ffep. Pages lightly tanned but very good. A little foxing to page edges. All 4 illustrations in very good order.

154 pp, 7 1/2" H. No date, but probably c1940 with the 'wartime' paper of that era. Medium green boards with black lettering on spine and front board, dust jacket with pastedown illustration. 4 colour plates (including frontispiece) - all present. A charming collection of stories and poems by the New Zealand author and educator, mixing fairy fantasy with tales of the natural world. Contents include: The Sun-Man's Babies; The Snowdrop Baby; The Apple Fairy; Daffodils; May Fairies; Billybuzz the Drone; Spinny Spider; The Mosquito Babies; Sally Snail's Wanderings; Milly Mushroom; The Leaf Fairies; Bunny-Boy; The Hill Princess; Urchins in the Sea; Wher White Waves Play; Fanny Fly; The Wheat People; The Disobedient Sunbeams; A Trip into the Country; The Season Fairies; etc., etc. Light browning to pages and endpapers, light edge wear at corners and top/bottom of spine, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, moderate browning to edges of text block, small bump at top corner of both boards, tiny dent on front board. Dust jacket has a few small chips - mainly at top of spine and top of front flap fold, closed irregular tear on spine, spine/flap folds are slightly darkened, some foxing on rear panel, light edge wear/wrinkling and one or two small edge tears, protected in a mylar sleeve.

in-8, cartonnage toilé bleu de l'éditeur, V-154 pp., 4 jolies compositions en couleurs hors-texte de Frank Watkins. Bel état.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1911 reprint of 1910 First Edition, with four, full plate, illustrations in colour by Frank Watkins. Boards are clean with minimal corner bumping. Spine a little faded still with bright, gilt titles and motif. Foxing to prelims and occasional throughout, though all plates are clean and bright. Tissue guard before title page still present. A good+, sound copy of this quite scarce, very early edition.

1st edition original boards Good octavo 236pp., col. frontis., tissue-guard, col. ills., With 4 illustrations in colour by Frank Watkins. Colour illustration mounted to front board. Some scuffing at edges o/w nice copy

Complete with all plates and pages. early edition. the boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn. some foxing. all pages clear and legible. a few inscriptions. [SK]

THE BOARDS ARE LIGHTLY RUBBED. THE SPINE IS FADED. THERE IS FOXING TO THE PAGE EDGES. THERE IS A STICKER TO THE FFEP. THERE IS A SPLIT TO THE BINDING BY THE TITLE PAGE. THERE IS MILD FOXING THROUGHOUT. THE REMAINDER OF THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Complete with all plates and pages. early edition. the boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn. some foxing. all pages clear and legible. a few inscriptions. [SK]