G Vernon Stokes (33 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. VERY NICE LOOKING DARK GREEN COVER, YELLOW AND BLACK DESIGN WITH BIRDS AND TREES FRONT, YELLOW PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, BUMPS ON CORNERS ON FRONT, INSIDE FRONT AND BACK LIGHT BROWN FROM AGE, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, NICE AND TIGHT. 12 VERY NICE ART ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. CONTENTS INCUDE 12…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1947 (1944) 3rd printing. Good/Fair. Hard pictorial boards with cloth spine, some rubbing/bumping/chipping to edges, minor patchy fading to top and bottom of spine, minor scuffing/soiling. Contents generally clean and tight but for minor spotting/soiling. Gift inscription…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very nice copy. Tiny bit of foxing round edge of dust jacket, to edge of endpapers and a touch on the fore edge. None inside block however. Pages clean and bright. All our books at the moment are reduced so the price you see reflects a 33% discount.…

Pictorial Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None. 244 pages and publisher's adverts. White, brown, red and black pictorial cloth with front cover depiction of elephant and camel (with riders) and pair of bullocks; heavy horse and attendant on spine. Eight full-page illustrations in colour. Very bright covers with minimal wear; some f…

First edition (per "First published in 1930" statement upon title page verso). viii, 92 pages plus sixteen unpaged b/w plates with tissue guard sheets. Hardcover: H 28.5cm x L 22.5cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Tan cloth with light soiling and staining; light scuffing/bumping at spine ends and board corners; spine's gilt let…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. 112pp, index, bw ills, 2 tipped in col plates. Or green cloth in jacket. Endpapers and prelims heavily foxed, some light foxing throughout. Jacket edgeworn with tear and chip at top of front panel, 8cm tear along rear flap fold and large (7x7cm) piece…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting,…

Condition: Assez bon. Livre SEWELL (Anna). Black Beauty. The Autobiography of a Horse. Illustrated by G. Vernon Stokes and Alan Wright. London: Jarrold & Sons (s.d.). In-8, 296 pages, pleine percaline, plats illustrés. Etat: Quelques frottements d'usage. Premières pages tachées. Second plat taché. Couverture rigide/couverture re…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition Nd. c. 1912. With tipped-in colour plates by G. Vernon Stokes. page edges slightly dusty and foxed. Some very light foxing in places. Contents generally very good and clean. Publishers green cloth with a coloured plate of a retriever laid on the front cover. Cloth…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition Nd. c. 1924. Wonderful clean bright copy in publishers full colour pictorial boards. Dustwrapper has six small chips to the edges, a few small tears and some creases. Light rubbing in places and some light marking. Generally very good and un…

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large paper limited edition, number 49 of 250 copies. Signed by both the author and the illustrator. Lacking jacket. Brown cloth binding with rubbing and slight marking, small nick to head of spine. Good solid binding. Light foxing to page edges. Very clean text throughout. Overall condition is…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition Nd. c. 1920's. A wonderful copy in near fine bright crisp condition, very slight rubbing in places, else very good in slightly darkened and very lightly rubbed dustwrapper, bottom of spine very slightly chipped and one other chip to the…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edit. [46] pages. 6 full-page colour plates, and other coloured and black and white illustrations. Ownership inscription on the front endpaper. Original cloth [fresh and bright] in much torn although most of the front cover is present, now protected by a loose c…

Cloth. Condition: Good. A very scarce illustrated collection of short stories for children on animals and dogs. A very scarce work.In the original hardback pictorial board binding.A collection of short stories for children on the subject of dogs and animals, with titles such as 'Polly and Peter', The Chow', 'Percy the Pug', 'The…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Edition. The 1930 1st trade edtion. Clean, tight and VG+ in its beige cloth. And in a bright, price-clipped, Good+ only dustjacket, with a 3"x3" chip along the front panel's lower tip, light chipping and creasing to the panel edges and light soiling along the re…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good; some rubbing/bumping and a touch of fraying to extremities; minor soil/stain to cloth; tarnish/soil to gilt top edge of pages; tanning to endpapers; else Fine. Hinges sound, spine straight, pages clean and bright. No dust jacket. First Edition. G. Vernon Stokes (illustrato…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blobbs at the Fair , G. Vernon Stokes & B. Parker, c.1920, W. R. Chambers Limited, London and Edinburgh, 1st edition. Quarto (310mm x 250mm), unpaginated. Illustrated by the author in colour and black and white throughout. Fully colour illustrated paper covered boards with some sligh…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. Large 4to. Original publisher's illustrated boards showing a dog looking down on a hedgehog. No date (1924). Lettering slightly rubbed and slightly chipped at spine, corners slightly rubbed, inner hinge slightly broken- overall bright VG-minus copy. Neat no…

(2),(54),(2) Pp. 10 colour plates by G. Vernon Stokes Extreme wear to the edges and spine of the covers with pieces of the paper missing from the spine. Inner hinge cracks and light soiling to covers. One gathering in the rear just pulling showing the rusted stapled binding Original pictorial paper covered boards. G. Vernon Stok…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edit. 54 Pages. 10 Colour Plates By G. Vernon Stokes. One Gathering Just Pulled Apart Showing The Rusted Stapled Binding. One Short Closed Tear To A Text Page. Original Pictorial Paper Covered Boards Slightly Knocked At The Head Of The Spine Otherwise In Bright…

, unpaginated [56 pages], colour illustrated title page with colour decorative titles, 10 full-page colour and black-and-white illustrations throughout First Edition , slight bumping and creasing to spine and corners, foxing to endpapers, occasional marking to some leaves, lovely clean bright cover, volume in good condition , fr…