Aunt Louisa (78 results)

Condition: Near Fine. Revised edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 19cm), c. 60pp. 8 colour plates (the frontispiece is signed "Lorna Adamson", two other plates are signed "B Butler" and "Lilian Buchanan", the other plates are unsigned). Original green cloth spine, laminated boards, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; t…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean large format hardback book, binding pulled, cloth spine, pictorial boards, endpapers tanned, gift inscription dated 1931 on frontispiece verso. Unpaginted, 8 colour illustrations on plates, some by C. P. Shilton and Savile Lumley, black & white illustrations in the…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Large 8vo. No date (c.1890) 94 pp., two colour plates (as stated on title page), numerous b/w illustrations. Part 1: Animal Stories; Part 2: Natural History. Edges and endpapers age-darkened; gift inscription neatly written in pencil ffep. Red/grey illustrated boards show edge wear, scuffing and darke…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'Comprising Puss in Boots, Jack and the Beanstalk and The House that Jack Built'. Collection of stories by the prolific victorian children's author. With numerous full page colour illustrations by b/w drawings within the text. 4to. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Previous owner's inscription to ffep, wi…

Decorative Boards. Condition: Good. First Edition. Undated. Gift message on half-title page dated 1912. Boards are a little worn with a triangular piece of the surface missing from the bottom front corner and some surface discolouration to the rear cover. Corners rubbed and a little frayed. The hinges are quite slack although th…

paperback. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. paperback, two story books, both in poor condition and joined at the spine by a pasted paper backstrip. The first being a Christmas number of Aunt Louisa's London Toy books, with eight colour chromolithographs. The second title is a Thomas Nelson number, The Three Good Friends with six full…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Slightly better than very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Cloth spine. Pictorial front cover shows children giving a dog a bath. With 8 plates in colour. Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. 'Property Room' ink stamp to verso of frontis…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date listed, guessing circa 1880-1890. Corners are scuffed and rounded and showing boards at tips, spine is rubbed but readable, scuff to lower right of spine, back is rubbed moderately, small dampstain at lower part of hinge affecting a small area of last few pages. . otherwise front cover is quit…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 16mo(6"tall)Green cloth black and gilt embossed designs to cover. All edges gilt. No Date but 1869. Good but for heavy stains to front pastedown and first free endpaper bleeding into recto of frontis. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Textblock is shaken with some signatures just holding…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good Plus. Revised Edition. Pictorial boards with blue cloth spine, no dustwrapper; eight colour plates plus b/w ills to text. Slight lean to spine with rubbing to board edges and corners; foxing to page block edges; previous owner gift inscription dated 1952 to front pastedown; small nick to lower edge of…

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, undated but we think about 1875, Pictorial red cloth lettered gilt, 10 3/4" x 9 1/4", Mild stain to the top right of the upper board and also at the foot, barely visible but having affected the gilt lettering of 'Dogs', showing also at the foot of the front and rear endpapers. Sign…

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, undated but about 1875, small quarto measuring 11 1/2" x 9 1/2", re-cased at some point with blue cloth over bevelled edge boards, original cloth laid over, lettered gilt to the spine, and with new endpapers. The untearable Gift Book series consists of the paper being backed o…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to (261 x 220 mm.), publisher's maroon cloth, decorated in blind and gilt. 24 pages of chromoxylographic illustrations, 2 per page, printed by Edmund Evans, each page corresponding to a page of text, the whole interleaved with blanks. Sometime very neatly rebacked, retaining spine…

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, quarto, 10 1/2" x 9 1/8", red cloth gilt. Comprises four tales, Sing a Song o' Sixpence, Robin's Christmas Eve, Robin Hood & His Merry Men & The Sea Side. Rubbed to the extremities of the cloth and mildly darkened to the bottom left of the upper board, the binding tight and the con…

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition with no wrapper. Pictorial boards, red cloth spine. 3 b/w text cat illustrations illustrating "The Egg Pie" by Wain. Colour frontis. Packed with b/w illustrations by various artists. Covers worn and grubby. Spine worn. Joints cracked, sellotape repairs to rear joint. Inscripti…

Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Front Boards highly decorated with title and the figure of a man on horseback embossed in gold relief. Boards rubbed and corners bumped with some fraying to spine. Large Format. Not Inscribed. Internally cracked with fronticepiece ,title and early pages loose. There are twenty fou…