Backhouse G W (53 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1955 reprint of 1951 edition. Red cloth boards with black lettering and illustration of Alice. Boards in good conditions, corners a bit bumped. Tanned cut edges and staining to the front edge that has leached into some of the pages. Tanning and foxing to the endpapers, prelims, last couple…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No date - circa 1950. Presumed first edition. Trigesimo-secundo (32mo) hardback (smaller than an octavo!). Unpaginated [24 pp]. Colour illustrated throughout. Very Good condition in Very Good, unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions. Have many others…

Hard Back. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Small Square H/b.[4""x4""] 100x100mm. 28pp . A Pixie Book. Colour illustrated end papers and Colour illus.to all pages. Undated. c. 1950's [ some first editions are undated] lovely animal tales for the younger child. The Naughty Puppy, Little Dutch Puppy, Tinker and the El…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good dustwrapper, book has bookplate on the front paste down and has split between ffep and the half title but the book is still tight. Another Willis & Wallis doggy adventure in which the friends take part in a BBC radio play. Beautiful colour frontis of…

Hardcover. Condition: Good-to-Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair to Good. 1st Edition. Main interior in very good clean condition, no marks, contains a black and white frontispiece and several further illustrations, some faint foxing to e/papers, name neatly inscribed to front e/paper, good-plus clean firm boards with light…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book has slight wear to cover corners and along bottom edges. Faint cock to spine. 2 small bumps along top edges. Otherwise, pages are clean and crisp. Binding is strong. Boards are sturdy. Dust jacket has light wear to corners and along most edges. 0.5, 1.25, an…

Original Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1946. First edition. 96pp., a colour frontispiece, 18 other full-page black and white and black and red illustrations, and other black and white in-text illustrations. This is a story for children who love dogs. Mr. Willis and Mr. Wallis are two pet dogs who live near Eppi…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. 3/4 inch thick. NO DUSTJACKET. No obvious date bu looks 1960s.Colour illustrations. A dictionary for children. Light age-dulled red hardback binding with light bowing to boards. Light wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. A couple of light marks to page-edges o/w pages clean and tidy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fairly Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Red boards with white printing. Boards and endpapers a little marked, name on flyleaf, spine ends a bit bumped. Colour frontis and numerous other illustrations. The main flaw is that someone, on nine early pages, has altered the first letter of the word "dog" to someth…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing octavo hardback.96 pages Colour frontispiece and numerous two-colour illustrations. Good condition White titles and cover illustration very clear Several contemporary inscriptions on front free end paper and half-title (by th…

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. No Jacket. Yellow hardcover cloth binding quite soiled. Name in ink ffep, lots of smudges, binding secure. Illus throughout in red, black and white. 96 pages. Cute story told from dogs' point of view. Mr. Wallis and Mr. Willis are two dogs who live in a house who meet up with Jacko, a gypsy's terrier…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: n No Jacket. y First Edition. London: George Newnes Ltd, 1944. Book. Illus. by G W Backhouse. Good. Blue Cloth Boards. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Story about four children who run away when their father breaks the news that they are going to have a step-mother. 1…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback, colour dust jacket is present but chipped with missing torn patch approx. 2cm by 4 cm on front. The book itself has a mid-blue "Seagull Library" cover with silver logo on the front, boards show some fading and bumping around the edges but the binding is stil…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 255x205x20mm+554g . . 500g Postage Incorrect see below for 1kg . . Collins. . 1955. . . . Pp128. Red cloth hard boards; . Foxing to front and back few pages. Contains 4 full colour plates and numerous black and white line drawings by G W BACKHOUSE. This: Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK:…

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. No date, no statement of print (circa 1950, possible first edition), unpaginated, approximately 36 pages, colour illustrations, stapled binding. Light soil to outer edges, light creasing from page handling and the top staple is pulled a bit from the binding (small tears to th…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1947. Very good condition with no wrapper. Two dogs want to be radio performers. Red cloth. Colour frontis plus black and red illustrations. Gilt title darkened to spine. A couple of margin marks and one small edge tear to page 17 (not affecting illustration). General…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Another story about Mr Willis & Mr Wallis, Pongo & Peter and many other dogs, this time acting in a film. No dj, red cloth with dogs vignette & spine lettering in gilt (a little tarnished), frontispiece missing, small light stain at top of title page, else vg. 12mo, 95pp. G.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Another Willis & Wallis doggy adventure in which the friends take part in a BBC radio play. Beautiful colour frontis of W&W outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place, London and featuring Eric Gill's Prospero. Many other full page illusrations in t…

G (no dj, lightly soiled yellow cloth with black titles spine and facsimile signature front board, small amount of crayon scribble top of back board and grubby marks front board, ink signature front fixed endpaper and pencil signature back fixed endpaper, internally the pages are clean and bright and the binding firm) 12mo 91pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 300x225x12mm+571g . . 500g Postage Incorrect see below for 1kg . . Collins. London Glasgow. . . . . Pp60. Undated. Hard cloth boards in original dust jacket. Name in 'This book belongs to'. This book is clean; tight and the pictures bright; ; jacket has small tear on back…