Appleton Honor Illustrator (23 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 1st edn. Hb. Cloth. G. Spine sunned, corners bumped, covers showing signs of damp, owner's ink inscription on ffep. In "The Story-Teller's Series". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Early Reprint, title page dated 1939 with no additional printings listed. Wide World Story Books - No. 4. Tightly bound in red cloth with gilded titles and imagery. Minor dust staining along the bottom edge and at the spine head, remains Very Good. The contents are clean and unmarked and include four full page color illustrations. The scarce original dust jacket is smudged and has edge wear and chipping, remains Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Original quarter vellum and brown boards with color pictorial pastedown and black titles. Undated as usual in Blackie titles, but as the style is of the author's Josephine books of the 1910's period, we are assuming it belongs to that period, and its rarity (no copies on ABE) would indicate a single printing. Moderate edgewear, else solid, clean and bright in an archival Mylar jacket. Very scarce.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 54 pages. 5.50x0.25x8.50 inches. In Stock. Appleton, Honor C. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 74 pages. 7.00x0.25x10.00 inches. In Stock. Appleton, Honor C. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Lovely turn-of-the-century (c. 1900, no date in book) edition of 14 beloved fairy tales by Andersen, most complemented with a full-page watercolor plate (11 total - all intact), + a full-color Frontispiece by acclaimed British children's book artist Honor C. Appleton (1879-1951). In 179 pages, with lovely duotone endpapers also illustrated by Ms.Appleton, as well as many of her pen-and-ink drawings throughout. Oversized (quarto) hardcover has brown cloth over boards with embossed black lettering to front & spine. Condition is Good: generally quite clean, with perhaps a random spot or smudge.The plates are . all intact & clean: only one has any edgewear.The frontispiece, however, seems to have been torn close to the binding & taped; remnants of old Scotch tape in that crease & some wrinkling to opposite side; image is still lovely! Other flaws: mild corner bumping, slight rubbing, some surface spotting & soil to both boards. All in all, a decent copy of a gorgeous edition with lovely illustrations Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" image of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time) ship that same day; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. SORRY: book is too large for any expedited domestic or international shipping without preapproval of extra postage. Appleton, Honor C. (illustrator).…

Reprint very good orange cloth hardcover with very good dustjacket. 64p. with 1 col. plate. Past owners name on endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. SECOND EDITION circa 1930, 140 x 100 mm, 5½ x 4 inches, red matt boards, decorated and lettered black, colour plate mounted on upper cover, colour illustrated endpapers, 95 pages printed 1 side only, 24 pretty colour plates. A little boy dreams of adventures with his hobby horse and finds a house full of cats. Small splits neatly stuck at tail of spine, slight wear and tiny splits at head of spine, corners slightly rubbed, a horrid child has scraped the face of Towlocks on the upper cover with the point of a compass or some such (this plate repeated inside), neat inscription on blank leaf before half-title, contents otherwise bright and clean. A very good copy. First published in the Dumpy series by Grant Richards in 1903. When Grant Richards filed for bankruptcy in 1905, the publishing rights to the Dumpy books were sold to Chatto and Windus who reissued this title in their Sambo series, our title being No. 9. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Large octavo. 64 pages. 8 colour plates and 13 black and white illustrations complete. No date of publication but war economy production standard. No foxing. No damage. No marks of previous ownership. Jacket priced 3/6 and now protected in removable film sleeve. Honor C. Appleton (illustrator).…

1st edition orange cloth hardcover. No dj. 255p. includes bibliography and music list. Short stories to read to children with accompanying music and movements.

Condition: Good. 2nd edition.. Cloth spined boards, F. 63pp, colour frontis & 7 colour plates by Appleton, many b/w line illustrations by Appleton, a nice copy, image on upper cover bright, no inscriptions or scribbles, board edges a bit grubby. Endpapers are plain, so not a first edition. The second Josephine book, About the young girl & here dolls. 500 grams.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (13 x 8cm), pp.96. Publisher's green cloth blocked in dark green. Embellished with twenty-three charming colour plates. Mostly clean inside, toned to edges. Some marks to cloth. Very good. Number 20 in the Dumpy Books for Children series.…

FIRST EDITION 1940, DATED ON REVERSE OF TITLE PAGE (LACKING DUSTWRAPPER), small 4to, 250 x 190 mm, 10 x 7½ inches, cloth backed buff boards, large coloured plate on upper cover, 64 pages. 8 pretty colour plates and other black and white illustrations, all of a little girl and her collection of dolls and Teddies. Head and tail of spine and corners very slightly worn, a few very slight fingermarks, occasional slight foxing. VG+ copy of the FIRST EDITION, lacking dustwrapper. Undated copies are reprints. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…

Reprint circa 1944 (dated from dustwrapper titles, the first edition is dated 1931), small 4to, 250 x 190 mm, 10 x 7¼ inches, cloth backed cream boards, large colour plate onlaid, 64 pages, 8 pretty colour plates and other black and white illustrations. Tiny bump to top corner of upper cover, bookseller's tiny pale stamp on front pastedown, very slight rippling to inner margin of frontispiece, 3 minute worm holes in inner margin of page 47 at the fold, no inscriptions, very clean bright VG+ copy in VG DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, chip 25 x 20 mm (¾" x 1") to top corner of upper panel, top edge of upper panel slightly chipped, 20 mm missing at head of spine, tail of spine and corners slightly worn, very slight creasing to lower corner of upper panel, lower panel very slightly dusty). The coloured illustration on the dustwrapper does not appear in the book. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED. …

Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION 1931, small format, 160 x 120 mm, 6½ x 4½ inches, buff boards with large colour plate onlaid (a boy runs away from a large dog, clutching a rabbit), repeated inside, spine plain, line illustrated endpapers, coloured frontispiece and 3 pretty colour plates, black and white vignette to title page, black and white drawings in the text, 56 pages. Tiny splits at top and bottom of hinges, tiny graze to edge of onlaid plate, free endpapers faintly browned, small piece missing at edge of rear pastedown causing a light mark to free endpaper. A very good clean tight copy of an uncommon Appleton title, possibly often thrown away as parents did not want their children to try to dye their baby brother or sister BLUE. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…

FIRST OR VERY EARLY REPRINT circa 1920 (format exactly as first edition which was published undated in 1920), 255 x 190 mm, 10 x 7½ inches, cloth backed buff boards, large EXTRA colour plate to upper cover showing the 2 children sitting on the floor, Josephine teaching the puppy to beg, ILLUSTRATED ENDPAPERS blue on white, 64 pages. 8 pretty colour plates and other black and white illustrations. Head and tail of spine very slightly worn, 2 tiny splits to lower hinge, lower corners slightly worn, faint browning to endpapers, tiny closed tear to lower inner corner of title page, neatly repaired. A very good clean copy, lacking dustwrapper. The illustrated endpapers and the extra plate on the upper cover were omitted from later reprints. Without the dustwrapper it is difficult to date with certainty. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

FIRST EDITION 1929, small 4to, 230 x 168 mm, 9 x 6¾ inches, blue cloth, gilt lettered and decorated spine, large repeat colour plate on upper cover, 287 pages. 8 very good colour plates and numerous line drawings all by Appleton. Wide-ranging stories: myths and legends, domestic animals, fabulous monsters, magic, animals in literature and history. These are stories about animals, not fables. Spine faded (gilt bright), several tiny scrapes to plate on upper cover, no inscriptions, contents bright and clean. A very good plus copy of the first edition, lacking dustwrapper. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

FIRST EDITION dated 1903, 12mo, 125 x 77 mm, 5 x 3 inches, green striped cloth, 94 pages, 24 pretty colour plates. A little boy dreams of adventures with his hobby horse. Expertly recased and restitched, spine very slightly darkened, small light stain to top corner of upper cover, very slight wear to head of spine and corners, endpapers slightly foxed, no inscriptions, three 10 mm (½") closed margin tears, neatly repaired, otherwise contents nice. A very good plus copy of the first edition (last in list of 20). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…

SECOND ISSUE (1912), dated from adverts at rear, 8vo, 210 x 155 mm, 8¼ x 6 inches, red cloth, gilt lettered upper cover and spine, repeat colour plate mounted on upper cover, gilt decoration and rules to spine, plain endpapers, pages: xvii, (3), 49 + 16. 12 beautiful colour plates by Appleton. Decorated title page printed red and grey, grey decorated borders to all text pages. Book leaning very slightly, spine very slightly faded, spine gilt slightly dull, tiny 'crush' to head of spine, tiny bump to top corner of lower cover, neat name and date 1918 on front endpaper. Occasional very slight pale foxing, not affecting plkates. A very good copy. The first issue was published by Herbert & Daniel undated in 1911 in cream cloth gilt with no coloured onlay and with illustrated endpapers. It was republished by Simpkin Marshall circa 1920. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. …

FIRST EDITION circa 1920, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, small 4to, 210 x 175 mm, 8¼ x 6¾ inches, blue cloth, lettered gilt on upper cover and spine, top edges gilt, pages: (2), 57. Coloured frontispiece and 3 attractive colour plates by Appleton (3 plates are of children). 6 curious fairy stories. Spine slightly darkened, fore-edge of upper cover and lower cover very slightly unevenly darkened, contents very clean, no owner inscriptions. A very good plus tight copy of an uncommon Appleton item. Inscribed on the front endpaper in October 1922 by the author to her mother. No copies listed on Copac, no copy in the British Library, 1 only on Worldcat. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

First Edition. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.63 [1]. With 10 illustrations by Appleton, including four colour plates. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and decoration in black, white and pink to upper. Line-drawn illustrations quite tastefully and neatly coloured-in. Gently toned throughout. Spine rubbed and sunned, with some fraying to head and tail. Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The Bower Book of Simple Poems for Boys & Girls (Honor C. Appleton, Illustrator) A firm square copy with rubbing, and faint spotting to the cloth and prelims. Honor C. Appleton(Illustrator) Letty and Ursula Littlewood(Editor) (illustrator). Green pictorial cloth. 10 color plates. BOOK.…

FIRST EDITION (1920), dated from titles on dustwrapper, this is the 5th Josephine title, small 4to, 253 x 185 mm, 10 x 7 inches, cloth backed buff boards, large extra coloured plate onlaid showing the 2 children sitting on the floor, Josephine teaching the puppy to beg, ILLUSTRATED ENDPAPERS blue on white, 64 pages. 8 pretty colour plates and other black and white illustrations. Corners slightly worn, endpapers faintly browned, neat name on half-title, a few very pale fingermarks. Near Fine in very good DUSTWRAPPER (dw: 20 mm (1") missing at head of spine, 10 mm (½") missing at tail of spine, 20 mm chip at lower edge of upper panel, several short closed edge tears, slight creasing at top corner of upper panel, couple of tiny ink spots on lower panel). The illustration on the dustwrapper and upper cover does not appear inside the book. The illustrated endpapers were omitted from the reprints and the colour plate on the cover of the reprints is a repeat of one inside, not an extra plate. 5 Josephine titles only on lower panel of dustwrapper with our title listed as Josephine and Johnny. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…