Ashton Agnes (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Trevor Stubley (illustrator).

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 156 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to half title page and last page textblock. Top textblock edge dyed blue. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.…

Condition: Good. 1959. First Edition. 119 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. …

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Missing jacket. The dust jacket of the book is missing. Trevor Stubley (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. 1961. First Edition. 152 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Missing front free endpaper. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. …

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 60 p., 24 cm. Contents; The enchantress of the Gle?nan Isles.--The changeling of Le Drennec.--St. Corentin and the fish.--The legend of Mont-Saint-Michel.--Clovis and the north-west wind.--Perig's fortune.--The king has horses' ears.--The flight of Tryphina.--How the winds came.--The werewolf. Subjects; Bretons ; Folklore. Tales France Brittany. Folklore France Brittany. 1 Kg. Trevor Stubley (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Pages are toned. DJ has edge wear and some marks, price clipped.

Condition: Good. 1st Ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with a presentation incription to ffep. Good DJ with some edge wear and toned to rear.

Condition: Good. 1961. First Edition. 152 pages. Illustrated jacket over cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 60 p., 24 cm. Contents; The enchantress of the Glénan Isles.--The changeling of Le Drennec.--St. Corentin and the fish.--The legend of Mont-Saint-Michel.--Clovis and the north-west wind.--Perig's fortune.--The king has horses' ears.--The flight of Tryphina.--How the winds came.--The werewolf. Subjects; Bretons ; Folklore. Tales France Brittany. Folklore France Brittany. 1 Kg. Trevor Stubley (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good. First Edition. 156 pages. Blue boards, some wear to spine ends, light wear/very slight fading to edges and corners of boards. Page edges/end pages anlittle yellow with age. Dustcover has wear to edges and snags, 1.5cm missing from bottom of spine, but is otherwise complete. Undated copy, but a snall rubber stamp 24th Nov 1954 is on the flyleaf. Text is clean and unimpeded. Dunlop, Gilbert (frontisprece by) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1959 First Edition hardback with clipped dustjacket. Five short stories for older children, all of which have happy endings, set variously in Normandy and a circus, the marshes, London and The Smallest Pony. Sunday School prize label inside front covers and ex pencil price mark, otherwise clean interior and all pages tight within binding. Dustjacket very clean, small tear at top of spine.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. Both book and dustwrapper are in very good condition. The d/w is just a little edgeworn. Dunlop Gilbert (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. 1956. Hardcover. Very good copy in good dustwrapper. DW has light nicks. Price clipped, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 60 pp illustrated HB, A VG copy in a complete dust jacket. Trevor Stubley (illustrator).

First edition, Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Condition: Very Good. 1956. Hardcover. Very good copy in good dustwrapper. DW has light nicks. Price clipped, remains very good. . . . .

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Minor creasing and a couple of small tears to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to top end of spine of blue boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this historical novel for older children. The story, set in England in the mid nineteenth century, deals with a family of ship-owners and with the efforts of Samuel Plimsoll to end the practice of overloading ships. 152pp, 12 b&w drawings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ian Armour-Chelu (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. The Calgary Alberta author of these 141 pages of poetry was awarded the Governor General's Silver Medal in 1941 fir one of her poems. Three of her pieces, for flavour, are : `Invocation to the Muse', `Water Witching' and `Irony '. UNillustrated. Her Alberta residence was called Tanglewood. (Book printed in England, the country of Hill's birth.) Cond ; Reddy-brown covers with gilt lettering at spine. White end-papers. Cream coloured dust jacket with black lettering - no graphics. D.J. is UNclipped. Tight in binding. No names nor marks. Minimal soiling. Decidedly collectible ! ! QUote (p. 123) : " Five whitetail deer flashed in mercurial flight Across a clearing, on a winter's night" Size: 12mo. B/W Photograph (frontispiece) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1975 Blackie Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in Very good+ unclipped dustjacket . Beautiful jacket design and illustration by Trevor Stubley. Trevor Stubley (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A hardback book with both book and jacket in good to very good condition, neat inscription on the first introductory page. Jacket is protected by a new, clear, loose-fitting, sellophane wrapper. Gilbert Dunlop (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Epworth Press 1960 paperback ,1st thus, good reading copy , clean tight binding , cover has some wear.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 152 printed pages of text. Light foxing to the page edges, without any ownership markings. Very Good condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with two short closed tears to the spine edges, not price clipped 10s 6d. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A hardback book with both book and jacket in very good condition, dated 1975. Folk-Tales of Brittany. Illustrated by Trevor Stubley. Trevor Stubley (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. For older children with imagination. An odd elusive title for an imaginative collection of five long-short stories of the present age. Cover design by Douglas Relf. 7.5" * 5.0". 13 illustrations including frontispiece. Edges of jacket a little rubbed. Back of wrapper with some slight staining, blue cloth binding and interior crisp and clean. Now in loose clearcover wrapper guard. Miles, Jennifer (illustrator). …

Condition: Very Good. Original stapled illustrated souvenir theatre programme 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 24 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs of the cast and illustrated advertisements. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

Card covers. Condition: Very good in wraps. 17 x 21cm 48pp very good card-covered exhibition catalogue, covers slightly browned with a text by Dore Ashton and the text of a lecture given bt Agnes Martin at Yale University on 5th April, 1976: 'We are in the Midst of Reality Responding with Joy'.