Aberconway Christabel (64 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Marks on the boards. Fusty smell. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Maroon Backed Grey Boards. Condition: Very Good - See Description. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Whistler, Rex (illustrator). First Edition. Unnumbered pages, [3] tipped-in colour illustrations, [16] black and white illustrations by Rex Whistler. Delightful tale for children of all ages, Whistler's delicately coloured and delineated illustrations enliven a whimsical text. Hb, in maroon backed grey boards, gilt Mr Korah figure on lower corner of upper board, gilt lettering to spine darkened and difficult to read, fading to top edge of lower board, very slightly sprung, no dw, internally very good.

(38)pp. Illus. (partly color). 4to. Cloth. D.j.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 3 tipped-in color plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto. 7.75 x 10 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of artworks and tipped in color plates by Rex Whistler. Very good in original two-tone paper-covered boards, sticker ghost to front free endpaper and very good pictorial dust jacket, foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Michael Joseph, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 ½ x 10". 33 pp. Very good in a good dust jacket. The dust jacket is protected in mylar. Moderate rubbing and soiling to the dust jacket. The interior appears unmarked. The binding is solid.

Grey Cloth/Red Cloth Spine. Condition: Good/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Rex Whistler (illustrator). unpaginated, illustrated with black & white drawings and three full-page colour plates tipped in, all by Rex Whistler, occasional thumb smudges to pages, grey endpapers, grey cloth with small gilt illustration to bottom corner of upper board, faded red cloth spine with gilt spine lettering (dulled), no dust jacket. Size: 10 x 7.5 Inches. Children's - Illustrated.

Grey Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rex Whistler (illustrator). First Edition. 44 pages, tipped-in colour plates & b/w sketches. Grey cloth binding, with red spine. Minor wear, bumping to covers, contents fine, some edgewear, soiling to unclipped dustjacket. [14551/808] Size: 255mm. x 190mm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Rex Whistler (illustrator). 1st Edition. DJ in Mylar but dulled from age, some very minor foxing title page, but end plates clean Aberconway and Whistler were friends and when the author first wrote the book, the illustrator finished sketches along with him but the author did not decide to publish until "after the war (WWII". Sadly, Whistler had only completed converting three of the sketches to color plates for the story. Those three along with his original sketches illustrate the story beautifully. A real find and a great children's book. Unpaginated but has approximately 20 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Quarto. Illustrations by Rex Whistler. Fine in spine-toned and spotted good dust jacket with modest edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2nd impression. 4to. 466 pages. Text in English, French, and German. Red cloth, gilt spine titles on black label, gilt decorations; top edge dyed maroon; pictorial endpapers, black & white illustrations; buff dust jacket, not price-clipped, now protected in clear plastic. A very good plus copy in like jacket. Scarce to find in this condition with jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Rex Whistler (illustrator). Rex Whistler was a regular visitor to the young authors home where he challenged her to invent a story which he would illustrate with quick pencil sketches as she unfolded it verbatim. A year later in the early period of WW2 he suggested that he would like to make larger coloured drawings from the sketches so the story could be published after the war. He only finished three dying in action in 1944.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Quarto. Illustrations by Rex Whistler. Pages foxed, boards slightly bowed, corners lightly bumped, very good in a very good age-toned dustwrapper with modest edgewear.

First Edition. Grey cloth, red backstrip, gilt to backstrip and vignette to lower corner. No DW. Tipped in coloured frontis + 2 tipped in coloured plates with b/w plates and illustrations within text. Unpaginated. Boards sunned to margins with a few stains. Contents sl. thumbed with 3cm tear to lower margin of one page. Lower edges of some pages rippled slightly o/w VG.

Blue-green stiff printed wrappers. A bit of rubbing, or offsetting from adjacent books, light wear to corners, a clean very good copy. Illustrated with reproductions of pencil drawings, one folding. A privately-printed sequel to the 1954 book by Whistler & Aberconway, "The Story of Mr. Korah".

4to. Dustwrapper slightly darkened and worn at spine, and a little frayed. Inscribed by the author to Rex Whistler's future biographer Mirabel Cecil, "For Mirabel from Christabel April '69"; loosely inserted a photocopy of a typed letter signed from the author to Rex Whistler's brother Laurence, 9 February 1954, relating the history of the project. Christabel Aberconway (née Macnaghten, 1890-1974, married 1910 Henry McLaren, whoho succeeded 1934 as second Baron Aberconway) was a friend of Whistler's through Cecil Beaton and William Walton.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat stained and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: book plate or Roderic Hill. Physical description; 40 unnumbered pages color frontispiece, illustrations (part mounted color) 26 cm. Subjects; Whistler, Rex 1905-1944. Illustration of books. Illustration (process). Illustration of books Great Britain. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat stained and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: book plate or Roderic Hill. Physical description; 40 unnumbered pages color frontispiece, illustrations (part mounted color) 26 cm. Subjects; Whistler, Rex 1905-1944. Illustration of books. Illustration (process). Illustration of books Great Britain. 1 Kg.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Whistler, Rex (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Grey cloth with red spine. Gilt vignette to lower front corner. Delightful tipped-in colour plates and b/w drawings. How Mr. Korah is taken captive by an octopus but lives to tell the tale. Spine and corners bumped. A few light foxspots to textblock. Faint whiff of tobacco to contents. Dustwrapper is just a little grubby. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Red hardcover, 466 pages in very good condition, lfaint rubbing to cover edges, a few bent page corners. . No jacket. Gold illustrations of cats on spine, Illustrated endpapers, Illustrated throughout the book. Hundreds of entries from famous writers and other notables about their cats, from the 15th century B.C. to the 20th century A. D. Assumed 1st edition states " First published by Michael Joseph LTD. 26 Bloomsbury Street London, W.C. 1 1949" no other dating in book.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, Hardback with Unclipped Dust Jacket, (176pp), Photographs, Top & Bottom of Spine & Corners Bumped, Few Light Marks to Cloth, Jacket has some edge wear and chipping to edges & corners, Few Marks to jacket, Overall, A Very good Copy in good - Very Good Jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Undated paperback pamphlet in overall very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - covers rubbed to edges. Stapled binding sound. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Black and White illustrations by Rex Whistler, as well as 3 tipper-in colour plates. Very Good in Very Good (â") Dust Jacket. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy, undated and privately printed, six tipped in illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rex Whistler (illustrator). First Edition. vg dj (price clipped) a little dusty, a few very short tears, light grey boards with red spine, gilt front vignette & spine lettering, top edge a little faded, 3 mounted colour plates + many sketches in the text by REX WHISTLER, light foxing internally and on foredges, vg. 4to, unpaginated. The story was told around 1940 by Christabel to her friend Rex Whistler, who made lightning sketches at the time. He wanted to redraw the pictures in colour for publication after the war but he was killed in France in 1944. He had only completed 3 colour drawings, also some of the pencil sketches were lost.

Hardback, 10 x 7.5 ins. Half bound in red and grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt illustration to front corner. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (DW some handling marks, rubbing to spine and ends, small nicks to corners. Not price clipped. With protective sleeve.) Some slight fading to edges of boards. Endpapers clean, no inscriptions. Some slight minor foxing to top of halftitle page else pages and plates all very clean and bright throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 38pp. Illustrated with 3 tipped-in colour plates, and b&w illustrations by Rex Whistler.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rex Whistler (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1954, 1st UK. Thin Quarto. Illustrated with tipped-in colour plates and line drawings by Rex Whistler. Original quarter red cloth over grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Fading to extremities, bump to head of front board. In the pale blue dust wrapper, a little spotted and rubbed with some score markings to front and rear. Contents in good clean order. Overall a 'Good' copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION 1954, 4to, 255 x 190 mm, 10 x 7½ inches, grey cloth with red cloth spine, gilt vignette to upper cover, gilt lettered spine, (44) pages. Mounted coloured frontispiece, 2 further mounted coloured plates, some black and white illustrations. No inscriptions, near Fine in very good DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, very slightly marked, slightly darkened on spine, slightly worn at head of spine with minute chips, tiny nick at tail of spine, top corners just very slightly worn). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Booklet. Condition: Very Good. 8p staple-bound book, turquoise card cover, minimal wear, light marks around cover edges, pages clean and neat, prints are excellent reproductions of original drawings, a very good copy of a rare privately-printed edition Language: English.