Canham Doris (15 results)

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Prize plate to front pastedown. 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 light marking and sunning.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Binding slack, worn and marked, fraying to edges, names in pencil written to early leaves . Prize plate to front free endpaper. Not a pretty copy but all there for reading.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Green cloth boards; slightly bumped corners; fading top and bottom edges; author, title and publisher on spine. Front & back free and pasted down endpapers lightly foxed & tanned. Text block tight; edges tanned with slight foxing. Some pages have a few marks. Illustration opposite the title page. Dustjacket is chipped with wear along the creases. Protected by a plastic sleeve. Price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition ? No date c. 1937? Hardback octavo. Light blue cloth, black titles. Black and white frontispiece. 160 pp. Lacks front free end paper Good + condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light even toning. Fair DJ with loss to the front and some chips/tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'Jill of Gateway School' by Doris Canham. Epworth Press circa 1951. Coffee ring to cover. Bookplate. G. No dust jacket. 0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Coloured frontis. and others (illustrator). 1st Edition. 192pp. Bound in coloured pictorial boards with title and similarly the spine with small rubbed damage to head and tail. Illustrated with one ooloured plate in addition to the frontis and others in black and white. Front free end-paper removed. The book belongs to completed in pencil but otherwise only a former owner's name to the front paste-down. Tightly bound and good for its age.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. no dj, beige cloth a little spotted on spine, black titles, frontispiece, presentation plate of front flyleaf, light foredge foxing, vg. 8vo, 160pp.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Frank Dickson (Cover); Anne Rochester; (illustrator). 4to softback; ; spine very good; articles on fashion and cookery (not much in this one) , as well as 'What books mean to me'; 'On the over-conscientious mother'; 'A Breton Peasant's Home'; 'Some pleasing work in plaster'''A cat; s contempt'; making the small home seem larger'plus - usual lovely period adverts including a full page colour advert on the rear cover for Birds custard and a full page colour one inside for McDougalls flour ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xvi] 300 printed pages of text with monochrome frontispiece. Ink ownership marking, spine sun faded, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR GIRLS.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. some wear to covers and cover edges, presentation certificate front endpaper, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Good. "Modern" Schoolgirl story with a romantic and historical setting (modern meaning 1930s), with the inspiring theme of friendship. Green cloth cover with black lettering to front and spine. Frontispiece has a Monochrome Illustration of Jill and 2 other girls in a chapel. 159 Pages. 350g, 7 1/2" Tall. Gift inscriptionhj on ffep. Jacket has edgewear and a few small closed edge tears, also a few tiny pieces mising at spine ends and tips of corners. Clipped. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1936. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Pale blue cloth with black titles and vignettes. Colour frontis. SIGNED by author, with inscription. Spine is browned; edges of covers are foxed. Bumping to corners. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched! SIGNED - please see description for details.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. With Jeff for offering to David McGowan - 22 Jan '26 ; Hardback with picture boards and cloth spine; Slight wear to cloth spine ends. Small split down side of clothspinePaper picture pasted on spine is a little discoloured and small corner missing. Edges of picture boards rubbed. Small names inside cover. Occasional foxing/brown marks to prelims. Previous owner's name (not author) in name box; occasional small foxing spot. Nor brown mark on pages. Foxing in margin of last couple of pages. 2 colour and 4 b/w plates, 1 detached. One Of the scarcer books in this set of girls school omnibuses. This book's main story is Lynnette of Carisgate - 23 chapters. Accompanying it are 2 other shorter stories by Doris Canham. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1920s - 30s. Clean and tidy book with all 4 plates present, with clean dustwrapper, slightly torn to top and bottom edge, but presentable. Unusual to find in a wrapper! Book.