Bertha Leonard (104 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pages slightly tanned. Name on front end page otherwise Good. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The copyright page has 'First Published 1927'. No additional printings are indicated. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Condition: Good. 1937. First Edition. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with lettering. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed with split to rear joint.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. E S Farmer (illustrator). 192pp. Fiction, probably originally intended for the female teenage market. A clean and sound book in a worn dust wrapper with some damage to the head of the spine. There is a gifting dedication dated 1941 at the head of the front free end paper. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK. 5"x7.5".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 250pp. Novel. Not dated but believed to be 1920s. In clean and sound condition, but with evidence of previous ownership on the front free end paper. Available for prompt dispatch from the UK. 5"x7.5".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd edition. Front end paper has been removed.

Condition: Good. Boards have some wear to edges. Content has heavy toning, pen front endpaper, 160pp, colour frontis. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No date - circa 1950's? Front covers depicts enemy plane and beach scene with men looking skyward. One scribble on front board. Covers are a worn and scuffed. Internally in Good overall condition other than endpapers a bit grubby. Excellent colour frontis with 3 further full page colour illustrations. First story is "The School of Missing Boys" 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Frontis: Leonard Weisgard (illustrator). 1st. stapled pictorial wraps; pp.386-501 clean, unmarked pages; library stamp; includes items by/about: Children's Literature; Editorial Elizabeth Yates "Lovely.and of Good rfeport"); Cynthia Harnett (From the Ground Upwards); Cecile Pepin Edwards (Horace mann as Seen By a Librarian); Leonard Everett Fishr (Artist's Choic); Asaac Asimov (Views on Science Books); William Beyer (Poem); Dahlov Ipcar (Making pictures on the Farm); Thomas John Carlisle (Poem); Mildren houghton Comfort (Fare-thhe-well, Downtown Book Lady, Della McGregor) ; Etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date but c. 1930. Collection of short stories, illustrated throughout in b/w and colour, with colour plates. 4to. Foxing to page edges and within. Toning to covers. Mild marking to spine. Binding sound. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Revised 4th edition. In gold boards.

Condition: Fair. 1927. First Edition. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated red cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. More pronounced to endpapers. Noticeable cracking to gutters. Binding is weakened, however text block remains secure. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate crushing to spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. W. Lindsay Cable (illustrator). 1st Edition. Unusual school story. First edition 1945. An American schoolgirl from Georgia comes to an English boarding school. Of its time! Very slight tanning to front endpapers otherwise fine with no inscriptions. In a bright near complete dust jacket, price-clipped and with small loss at corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 190pp, colour frontispiece, two-tone illustrations throughout. Laminated pictorial paper-covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. 4to. Moderately bumped spine ends, top portion (6cm) of spine cover missing, lamination at bottom front spine joint cracking. Text block edges moderately tanned. Neat previous owner's name on frontispiece verso. Internally pages are lightly toned otherwise clean, neat and tight.

Condition: Fair. 1928. No Edition Remarks. 240 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. First few pages partially detached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends with tear to spine. Water staining to rear board.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Frontis: Leonard Weisgard (illustrator). 1st. stapled pictorial wraps; pp.386-501 clean, unmarked pages; corner rolled a bit; includes items by/about: Children's Literature; Editorial Elizabeth Yates "Lovely.and of Good rfeport"); Cynthia Harnett (From the Ground Upwards); Cecile Pepin Edwards (Horace mann as Seen By a Librarian); Leonard Everett Fishr (Artist's Choic); Asaac Asimov (Views on Science Books); William Beyer (Poem); Dahlov Ipcar (Making pictures on the Farm); Thomas John Carlisle (Poem); Mildren houghton Comfort (Fare-thhe-well, Downtown Book Lady, Della McGregor) ; Etc.

Octavo hardcover (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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In blue cloth. Previous owner name.

Condition: Good. 1928. No edition remarks. 240 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages are moderately tanned with visible foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and endpaper. Notable water stain to rear pastedown. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Notable bleaching marks and stain to rear board. Book has forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized green pictorial paper covered bds, yellow cloth to spine, a little bumping in places, sl. rubbing otherwise VG, no dust jacket, no names etc., colour frontis., contents fine and tight, b/w illustrations, unpaginated. Short stories by various authors - Wings of Adventure; The Secret of El-Arba; War Against the Waters; "Bully" Billy; Wolves of The Western Sea; Forlorn Hope; Grey Bob; In The Bandit's Lair.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated. 140pp, 2pp of period advertisements, a few colour plate illustrations (inc. frontispiece). Quarter-bound with orange cloth-covered spine over pictorial paper-covered front board; some black and white illustrations. 4to. Boards worn and rear board lightly soiled. Spine foxed, heaviest towards head, spine ends moderately rubbed with cloth starting to wear through at heel. Heavy shelf wear to edges with corners heavily rubbed and rounded; paper loss. Heavy tanning and foxing on text block edges. Quite cocked. Previous owner's name filled into 'This book belongs to' on front free endpaper. Heavy tanning and foxing throughout, heaviest towards beginning and end of volume. Internally, neat, clean and tight. Collection of children's stories.

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Not dated, c.1940's. Size 9.75" x 7.25", 156 pages. Pictorial hard cover with red titles and a picture of a girl with brown hair and a red cardigan holding her dog. Condition very good, corners, edges and small piece on front rubbed, front endpapers grubby and marked, a few grubby marks in the margins else contents clean. With a colour frontispiece "The mobile policeman lay pinned beneath his motor-cycle" and further black and white illustrations throughout. The first story is "The Lights of Lambermere" by Bertha Leonard.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Undated, circa 1920s. Unpaginated, with 4 colour plates, illustrations, some in colour. Original colour pictorial boards & red cloth spine, light edge wear, but clean & bright. Internally, the title page is foxed, otherwise pages & plates are generally clean & bright. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Corners bumped and rubbed, some shelf and edge wear with some ink marks to covers, two names to inside front cover, pencil sketches of Second World War aircraft to inside rear cover, tape repair to front gutter, some pencil crayon colouring inside, light foxing. ; Satin finish pictorial boards. Reading copy only. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; B&W Illustrations; 128 pages; Collection of short adventure stories.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date. Circa 1950's. " Nelson's Bumper Books " series. Vintage Children's Story Book. Boards are a bit grubby and some wear to corners but nothing really major. Neat previous owner's name inside and one neatly rubbed out. Fantastic colour frontis plus many black and white illustrations to the stories. 10 stories by various authors (see above). Vintage's book. children.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 'Daphne the Day Girl' by Bertha Leonard. Cassell and Company 1927 first edition. Inscription. Slight corner bumps. Very good condition.

Childrens magazine. Condition: Very Good+. A Childrens Magazine in really lovely condition for its age. There is a hint of foxing at the very edge of the cover (see picture on our own site and abe) , but this magazine really deserves a better grade than just vg for surviving in such lovely condition for over 65 years. It contains childrens stories and activities, none of which have been touched, and there is no handwriting inside; ; The Kiddies Magazine; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. P.B. Hickling (illustrator). Undated edition, the front cover shows a girl holding two spaniel type dogs, and the first story is Father Time and his Pattern Book. Illustrated card boards, red cloth spine. Some marks and handling wear including wear on the corners of the cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Fred Spurgin, Cora E. Paterson, Joyce Mercer, Joyce Plumstead, Nora Annie Birch et al (illustrator). 1st Edition. 188 pp 4 colour plates, numerous bw illustrations, quarter blue cloth , colour illustrated cover by Nora Annie Birch. Corners scuffed, endpapers spotted with prize label, pages tanned with a few marks - solid copy . Date from prize label.

Hardback. Condition: Good. 188p hardback, blue cloth with floral design in black, spine faded, Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School prize bookplate with Art Deco rose design, colour frontispiece, many pages foxed, scarce title Language: English.