Braine Sheila E (43 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers and spine, appears nearly new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 278 pages with b&w photos and illustrations. Sections include: London law courts, Fire brigade, Athletic London, Italy in London, Musical London, Bank of England, Oriental London, Terminus London, royalty in. Clubs for women, Midnight . Artistic London, Evicted London the Thames Police etc. Keywords: London law courts, Fire brigade, Athletic London, Italy in London, Musical London, Bank of England, Oriental London, Terminus London, Royalty in. Clubs for women, Midnight . Artistic London, Evicted London the Thames Police.

Condition: Good. 1908. No edition remarks. 127 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white frontispiece. 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 mild marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. Boards have some wear. Content has light age tone. Owner name to end paper.

Hardback. Condition: incomplete. Alice B. Woodward (illustrator). ND [1896] Owners inscription dated 1897. Lacks last 3 pages and end-paper.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Grey pictorial paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Light marking overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Not dated, approx 1912. 108pp + 4pp catalogue to rear. Good/None. Hard pictorial boards with minor rubbing/chipping to edges, minor scuffing/soiling, a little scratching to back board. Contents clean and tight but for minor soiling/spotting. Prize label inside front cover. Colour plate at frontis, B&W illustrations throughout. Short adventure stories for children. Illustrators include P Sumner, E S Hardy, W H C Groome, Victor Venner & A E Jackson. Nister publication No 3397.

Condition: Fair. No edition remarks. 224 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white plates. Colour frontispiece. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 7 pages. The Strand Magazine (1891-1950) was a literary powerhouse, bringing readers gripping mystery, adventure, and intrigue every month. It became legendary for publishing Sherlock Holmes stories, skyrocketing the detective's fame and cementing its place in literary history. Beyond Holmes, it featured thrilling fiction, fascinating articles, and stunning illustrations, captivating audiences with tales of crime, exploration, and the unknown. With its bold storytelling and iconic artwork, The Strand shaped popular literature, inspiring generations of writers and readers alike. A true treasure trove of imagination, it remains one of the most celebrated magazines of its time! This is a genuine, original article, carefully extracted from an historic volume, not a reprint or reproduction! A rare chance to own a true artifact from the past. Size: 16 x 22 cms. Category: Strand Magazine Articles; All Under £15; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Condition: Fair. 224 pages. No dust jacket. Green pictorial cloth. Insert to front pastedown. Heavy surface tears to front pastedown. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been heavily rub worn with heavy shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a heavily frayed and spine ends are crushed, with some small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. ND, 1800s era. Green cloth-covered pictorial boards with ornate cover art. Gilt lettered spine and gilt-edge page block. 171pp., no added writing. +75 illustrations by Alice Woodward.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition ?. wear to covers and cover edges,no date but probably 1930's, slightly loose in covers, front endpaper removed, otherwise book clean and sound Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

First Edition. Good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 128, 8 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates: illustrations; 19 cm. Publisher's advertisements: 17-32 p. at end. Subjects; Children's fiction. Conduct of life. Adventure stories, English. 3 Kg.

Good decorated maroon cloth hardcover. No dj. 128p. with 8p. of ads. Award plate attached inside front cover partly removed and inscription on front free endpaper. Cynthia - all arms and legs - is sent to the country to fatten up.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Aris, Ernest A. & Bowley, A.L. & Blomfield, Elsie (illustrator). Good condition with no wrapper. Pictorial boards. 4 colour plates plus two tone illustrations. Endpapers are adverts. Spine bumped and worn, showing webbing, with 2" split to bottom. Corners bumped and worn. Board edges scuffed. Some surface paper damage to rear cover which is a little grubby. Front cover slightly bowed and a bit grubby. Endpapers browned. Some foxing. Messy crayon colouring/scribbling to many pictures. Pencil drawing to verso of one plate. Faint scribble to a couple of pages plus some grubby marks. A reading copy. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Illustrierter Oln. 1.Aufl. Pictures by G.F. Christie. ungez. Seiten. Band mit Gebrauchsspuren ( Einband , Textseiten und Bilderseitenränder gebräunt und fleckig (Illustrationen im Buch guter Zustand), Einbandkanten berieben und 1 Ecke mit Knickspuren). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 900.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Various (illustrator). Large 8vo; paste on oblong colour illustration to front cover, as produced; some browning to pages; a few of the b/w illustrations nearly coloured in; 4 full page colour plates; Vg- ; Children's Friend Annual 1914 Containing Monthly Parts for 1913; LIII; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Blackie and Son Ltd.; Undated. Hardcover. Beige covered boards with decorative picture to front and black detailing to spine. Corners bumped and rubbed. Forward leaning. Top and bottom of spine a little crushed. Book plate to front paste down. Tanning to FFEP and rear end papers. 128 pp. Couple of thumb marks. Binding tight and text clean.

First Edition. Good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 128, 8 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates: illustrations; 19 cm. Publisher's advertisements: 17-32 p. at end. Subjects; Children's fiction. Conduct of life. Adventure stories, English. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. J. B. Greene (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Undated. 2nd edition. Circa 1903. Hardback. Clean & tight book. FRONT END PAPER HAS BEEN NEATLY REMOVED. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail TRACKED 24 next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref F9191. The Kings "Blue Boys". A Tale of the Giant Grenadiers of Prussia by Sheila E. Braine. Illustrated by J. B. Greene.Published by Jarrold & Sons, London.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Robinson, Gordon & Heatly, E. & Bowley, A.L. & Attwell, Mabel Lucie & Cowham, Hilda (illustrator). Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Stories and rhymes. Cloth spine, pictorial front cover shows two children sat on a rock fishing. 10.25 x 7.75". Colour frontis, two-tone and b/w illustrations. Unpaginated. Spine a little bumped. Corners bumped and worn. Board edges scuffed. Bubbling to paper at top of front board. Boards are grubby. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Couple of hinges are cracked. Some page browned. Foxing and light fingering to some pages. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A hardback book with blue pictorial boards and in very good condition, dated 1908. School template on the inside boards dated 1911. A Story for Girls.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. E. Stuart Hardy (illustrator). Blue cloth with line drawing. Probably c1900. Names of owners at front of book. Text block shows minor signs of browning mostly at edges.

(1897) Or.pictorial buckram. 171pp. Many delightful b/w plates & ills. Very good copy. 1st ed.

Hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper front cover, green cloth spine, plain white rear cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 144 printed pages of text with 4 single sided colour plates, monochrome illustrations throughout. Cheap paper slightly browning, spine a little sun faded and in clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued?). Alice B. Woodward (illustrator). 1st Edition. Moderate general wear to cloth. Some fraying to head and foot of spine. Lean to spine. Gilt edges to page-block. Front and rear hinges are torn but the binding remains very firm. Name to ffep and corresponding mark to front pastedown. Significant foxing to preliminaries and last few pages. Some other occasional foxing to page margins but text and plates really quite clean. 171pp Delightful illustrations. Size: 150mm x 205mm. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. Woodward, Alice B. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Black & white illustrations. All page edges gilt. Green cloth covered boards. Pale green decoration and titles to front board and gilt decoration and titles to spine. Very slight browning to inner page edges all else extremely clean inside. All firm. Minor edge wear to boards and one tiny black mark to back board.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardy, E. Stuart & Petherick, Rosa C. & Wain, Louis & et al., (illustrator). Very good condition with no wrapper. No. 5081. Chunky format (4cm thick). Red cloth spine, pictorial front board shows girl whispering in boy's ear. First story is "Peace With Honour" by Geraldine Glasgow. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations (including one Wain cat plate accompanying a verse called "All Afloat" by Clifton Bingham. Reprint, no date. Minimal bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Contents lightly browned with some foxing and an odd mark. One hinge cracked. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Woodward, Alice B. (illustrator). circa 1902. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Green cloth with gilt title to spine and light green title and vignettes to front cover. B/w illustrations throughout. All edges gilt. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spine darkened and gilt dulled. Covers slightly grubby. Front joint and a few hinges cracked. Prize plate to front endpaper. A couple of corners creased. Some grubby marks to contents, most to pages near front of book. Some browning and a few fox spots. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Condition: Poor. 8vo. hardcover. illustrated blue cloth.224pp. b/w frontis, illus. a little wear to cloth on front edge, foxing. The Girl''s library.

First Edition. No DW. All edges gilt. 171pp. Original green illustrated cloth, gilt. Frontis. + profusely illustrated throughout. Boards lightly soiled and bumped. Inner hinge cracked, gift inscription to front free endpaper, prelims very lightly foxed o/w VG.