Atkinson Leslie Illustrator (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. 1950 Falcon Press Limited Edition. Hardcover lacking the fragile acetate dust jacket. Condition is Very Good: small (2 x3 mm) blemish front cover (see image), pencil note of prior bookseller, no other markings or problems. This edition is notable for the excellent illustrations on fine paper. Publisher states this is limited to 2000 copies but there were no copies with limitation pages. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: Defoe was 5 years old (in 1665) when the events he describes took place. This is best viewed as history or historical fiction not straight up primary source material. Of course there is an argument about this so feel free to disagree. First edition was published in 1722 as "Memoirs of the Plague." See Furbank 216.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. 1959 Hardcover Interior clean; binding tight. Boards have some fading on edges. Dust jacket protected in mylar sleeve.

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. vi+250pp, colour frontis, 9 b/w illustrations, SIGNED by the author ( using the pseudonym & his real name wich reads 'To Miss Eileen McGuinness with the very best wishes of the author 11-2-1953' ). Spine of the dustjacket a little sunned & worn with a little loss along the edges, cloth a little rubbed a nice copy. A Cumberland set story about an Alsatian who is mistaken for a dog who is up on the moors killing sheep & the efforts of two children to save their new canine friend. Their solution to take the dog to a remote island on a lake in the fells. The author wrote several books with a canine hero, and himself owned a German Shepard. 400 grams.…

Very good green cloth hardcover with very good clipped dustjacket. 214p. Alec Macdonald isn't at all keen on having two 'cissy English weans' to stay at his mother's house. But through adventures and mysteries, storms and ship-wrecks, the visitors, Peter and Margot, prove themselves every bit as plucky as the Scots lad.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Aurora, 1970. Hard cover, reprint of 1948 edition. VG condition in VG dust jacket; a nice clean copy. Atkinson, Leslie (illustrator).