From Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 19 November 1998
3rd. Very good condition with no wrapper. Third Edition. With fifteen colour plates and over three hundred illustrations. Red cloth spine with black title and vignette of Britannia, pictorial paper board to front shows soldiers of the Empire. 264 pages. Spine faded to top and bottom. Rear board scuffed. Board edges rubbbed. Name in ink to lower edge of front pastedown. Contents browned. All plates present. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!. Seller Inventory # 1825919
Title: THE WONDER BOOK OF EMPIRE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Publisher: Ward Lock & Co Ltd.
Binding: Hardback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated reprint. c1920s. Pictorial front board, gilt design to rear, green cloth spine, illustrated endpapers by Thomas Maybank. 15 colour plates and over 300 illustrations. Condition: G. Edgewear. Boards rubbed/scratched in places. Prize bookplate inside front board. Ffep browned with offsetting. Binding firm. Pages age-toned. Size: 10x8in/25x20cm. 264pp. Weight: 1.2kg. Seller Inventory # ABE-1701976595915
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
first edition, col illustrated boards with cloth spine, 264pp illus, G-(lacks ffep, 5 plates missing, boards scuffed & worn, rubbed & soiled, internal seperation at front & rear, text discoloured with foxing spasmodically throughout, foxing & soiling to ep's). Seller Inventory # 6804hg25
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 256 pages. Yellow pictorial dust jacket over gold pictorial boards with a green cloth spine. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Light tanning to spine and edges. Seller Inventory # 1694172965CAB
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
10th edition. Undated but 10th edition c. 1933 with numerous colour and B&W illustrations; tightly bound in laminated pictorial boards and green cloth spine with black lettering; edges and corners worn. Dust jacket has tears and losses to edges and corners. Page fore-edges darkened. Internally, half-title discoloured; page edges yellowed; otherwise, a good, tidy copy. Used - Good. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket. Seller Inventory # BOOKS304030I
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: The Berwyn Bookshop, MOLD, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good. An undated 10th edition. Pictorial covers on cloth boards. Age related wear. Previous owners name to FEP. 256pp. Seller Inventory # 1755
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 264 pages. White pictorial dust jacket over gold pictorial boards. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Seller Inventory # 1696956621ABS
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
4to (10 x 7 1/2 inches), 256-pages. Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards; corners rubbed, overall very good. Seller Inventory # 20077
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition. Good copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges bumped and rubbed as with age. Series: Wonder books (Ward Lock & Co.). Suggested date of publication. Physical description: 264 pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour), photographs, plates (colour), tables ; 25 cm. Illustrated endpapers, by Thomas Maybank. "With fifteen coloured plates and over three hundred illustrations."; Subjects: Commonwealth of Nations - History ; Juvenile - literature. Imperialism - History ; Juvenile - literature. 2 Kg. Seller Inventory # 302366
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. End papers by Thomas Maybank (illustrator). 10th Edition. 10th edition. Undated: circa 1936. Pictorial hard boards: .25x18.5cm. 256 pages. 8 colour plates with nearly 300 illustrations. Green spine is complete & intact. Board edges are rubbed. Neat inscription on the reverse of the front end paper is dated 1936. Clean & tight. Flat pages. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 5TR6/26. The Wonder Book of EMPIRE for Boys and Girls -- TENTH EDITION. Published by Ward Lock & Co, London. Seller Inventory # 036586
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Quarto, 256pp, illustrated. Very good original boards in good dustwrapper. Ink gift inscription inside flyleaf. Seller Inventory # 212052
Quantity: 1 available