Chandler Olive (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. DW WORN.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Color Frontis (illustrator). First Thus. In green cloth with gilt titling and pictorial device to upper cover, 4to, unpag. A vintage collection of classic children's stories. (Minor light sunning and toning to extremities; bookplate to inside cover). Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 16mo. 62 pp., colour frontis and b/w illustrations throughout by Gordon Robinson. No date (c.1925). "The Little People's Library." Previous owner's name and date (1933) on front paste-down endpaper. Backstrip missing, front cover and three signatures detached, but book is complete. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Green and beige hardcover. Moderate wear to the cover, corners rubbed, spine ends chipped, protective cover over the title page, colorful illustrations, clean unmarked text, tight binding. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very decent clean copy of the first impression with no owner inscriptions and clean pages throughout, albeit a tiny bit of toning to the end papers. The cloth boards look nice and fresh with crisp title lettering on the spine. The dust jacket is clean and not price clipped, albeit with a little light edge wear.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Shelf wear to Edges of D/J. Since earliest recorded history the unmarried woman has, apart from courtship for marraige, met with exploitation, frustration, ridicule, contempt and pity and, when her achivements have surmounted these social denigrations, with astonished admiration. Her story through the ages is told in these pages by extract from the works of illustrius philosophers, writers and by contemporary comments. This selection, rich in contrast, literary excellence and wit, presents a price of social history of remarkable authenticity. 190 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic, Scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Message to previous owners to inside cover. Inside cover page clipped. Wear to D/J. Sunned spine to D/J. Price clipped. Since earliest recorded history the unmarried woman has, apart from courtship for marraige, met with exploitation, frustration, ridicule, contempt and pity and, when her achivements have surmounted these social denigrations, with astonished admiration. Her story through the ages is told in these pages by extract from the works of illustrius philosophers, writers and by contemporary comments. This selection, rich in contrast, literary excellence and wit, presents a price of social history of remarkable authenticity. 190 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic, Scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Rubbed and stained boards, worn cloth spine. Rfep removed. Gift annotation to stained ffep. Pages crisp. No date. Some colouring-in of illustrations.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Bobby Bunny and Other Stories. One of Collins Clear-Type Supplementaries. Grade 1, Number 8. With 7 stories by Helen Cummings, Doris Wood, Cecily M. Rutley, Olive Chandler, Alice Foster, M. G. Rhodes and Edith E. Millard. Published by Collins in 1948. Size: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Page number: 32. Soft cover. Red boards with darker red decoration. The end papers are illustrated with a road safety pattern, the pages within with black and white images. Condition: Near Fine. The book has not been used. The covers and pages remain clean, un-worn and un-thumbed. There is a small marks where something has been erased on the title page and one faint mark on the cover.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cowell, Cyril & Adams, Frank & Tempest, Margaret & Cobb, Ruth & Cowham, Hilda & et al., (illustrator). circa 1927. Good condition with no wrapper. Pictorial boards show children stroking horse to front cover, both riding horse to spine, yellow titles. 8 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. First story is Joan Visits a Farm. 128 pages. 8.5 x 7". A chunky volume of stories and rhymes. Covers darkened and grubby. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Front edge of spine cracked. Large ink inscription to verso of frontis. A few hinges cracked so binding feels weak. Some light foxing and an odd mark to contents. One plate is MISSING and one partially detached. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition (Presumed). Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards with cloth spine. Corners a little rubbed and some scattered foxing to edges. Previous owner's details to half-title page. Three colour plates and numerous black & white illustrations. The plates are by Harold Earnshaw, Charles Robinson and Dorothy Rees. One of the full-page black & white illustrations has been neatly coloured in by previous owner. Unpaginated. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. Octavo xiv 190pp. Foreword by Dame Flora Robson, Introduction by Baroness Seear. Red cloth, gilt. Light shelf rubs to ends of spine and very light browning to front pastedown and free endpaper. Red pictorial dustwrapper, designed by Leonora Box, not price clipped. Edges rubbed with creases, small chips and closed tears. Triumphs and Tribulations of the Single Woman. An Anthology chosen by The National Council for the Single Woman and her Dependants.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 9'' x 6'' 190 printed pages of text. ISBN 850430151. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with minor rubbing to tips and corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 850430151 FEMINISM & FEMINISTS.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 9'' x 6'' 190 printed pages of text. ISBN 850430151. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with minor rubbing to tips and corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 850430151 FEMINISM & FEMINISTS.

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1st ed. Spine a little browned & creased. Used - Very Good. VG paperback.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rees, E. Dorothy & Anderson, Anne & et al., (illustrator). circa 1930. Good condition with no wrapper. Pictorial boards, cloth spine. Contains numerous short stories, b/w illustrations throughout, 4 colour plates. Spine rebacked with blue cloth (not very professionally as it is coming away from the front board). Covers are edge worn and there is a damp stain to the edge of the rear cover. Inscription in ink to half-title. Front joint has been neatly repaired. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover, paper covered bds, illust. by Frederick Barker or Parker, with 3 children forming a ring with a doll in the centre, Fair, scuffed at edges, spine paper missing, contents sound with b/w illust.s, some of which have been coloured in neatly, neat inscript. to front pastedown dated 1942, occas. soiling through text, pp96. A lively book of short stories. A scarce title.

Condition: Very Good. Color frontis by Rene Cloke + another color plate by B.Sporr + many text illustration Large octavo black cloth spined pictorial boards of girl in swim suit under beach umbrella to both covers (corners bit worn/sl.marked but bright and neat) 128pgs Stories include Trapeze of gold by M. Holden (a circus story + school & historical stories] not paginated but [66p] Ownership page filled in and dated 1933 half title with owner's name stamp to blank area. A neat tight clean copy 1 volume. Hardcover.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Undated and without edition remarks, with 16 coloured plates. Wear and chipping to the pictorial boards. Light foxing but otherwise with, clean, clear contents. Binding is cracked but all holds together for reasonable handling. A fair reading copy.

First edition, first printing. Small format. Very good, detached back strip most of which laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Circa 1930? From "The children's Hour" Series. 96pp. Lacks rear end paper. Copious black and white illustrations by various artists including M. Curry, Doris Burton, L. Baker, M Board, M.L.P and coloured frontispiece plate. Cloth and paper covered boards worn at edges. Binding sound. One or two grubby finger marks and very occasional foxing spot, otherwise clean. Binding stitching loosening but intact. Rare.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. N.D. [C1920] Royal8vo, pp,55, illustrated with coloured plates by Rachel Marshall, green pictorial cloth with beige titling to the top cover, neatly rebacked with paper label to the spine, a little bumping and wear to the corners of the boards, a delightful item not often seen.