Cynthia Editor Asquith (40 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. This 8 x 10 hardcover has 166 pages. The color illustrations are tipped in. Includes Milne's "Tigger Comes to the Forest." Gift inscription, cover soiled. A few pages have tears. Illustrated (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Tan cloth boards with light soil, bumped spine ends and corners, and slightly cocked spine. Minor soil to text block. Binding shaken and cracked in some places, and frontispiece is loosening, although hinges are sound. Text unmarked. Interior toned. B/w illustrations. Bookshop label to rear pastedown. Gift inscription and bookplate to ffep. Not ex-library.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 198 pages.…

Yellow Cloth. Condition: Good. First American Edition. Color frontispiece and three color plates. A fairly clean but worn copy, fraying at corners, some b/w illustrations are colored in by previous owner; bookplate, owner's inscription. Color and B/W Plates (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Charles Scribner's Sons January 1926 Binding: Hardcover spine is shaken. ffep through frontispiece is detached but present. hand soiling to boards.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Beagle Books #95018, 1970. Stated first printing. Very Good condition. Crease along the front spine seam. Crease along the spine. Rubbing to the front cover. Dust soiling to the rear cover. Tanning to the covers' versos. Contains stories by Lord Dunsany, Walter de la Mare, L.P. Hartley, and others.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Undated, but probably about 1933. Original publisher's white cloth covers with silver and blue cover and spine lettering and decoration. The white covers are soiled, and there is a spot on the bottom of both the title page and the facing portrait of a young Princess Elizabeth (not affecting any printing or the color portrait of Elizabeth). The spine is leaning slightly. Pages six and seven have small printed drawings of children, and a previous owner neatly colored those. The rest of the contents are clean and unmarked. ; Color & B&W Illustrations; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 224 pages.…

Cloth Hardback. Condition: Fair. With numerous b&w illustrations through out (many are full page) and with 3 colored tipped in plates by A. H. Watson; 166pp, cloth over hardboards, size: 8 x 10-1/4in; some of the LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS of poetry or stories: Ianthe Jerrold, Laurence Binyon, H. Belloc, Mary Webb, Cynthia Asquith, Algeron Blackwood, A. E. Phillpotts, and more; book is tight; first title page has been colored by a previous owner, foxing thru out; numerous edges of the page have been trimmed/cut by previous owner; rubbing and nicks to the boards; sold as is.; interior in FAIR COND. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 166 pages, cloth. Anthology of stories & poems by such writers as Milne, Buchan, Belloc, Lofting, Fyleman, etc. Several plates tipped in. Cover cloth is soiled & worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto, 198 pages, pictorial beige cloth soiled, one front signature repaired. The American issue. Short pieces by Algernon Blackwood, Mary Webb, P. G. Wodehouse, A. A. Milne, Katharine Tynan, Walter de la Mare, and J. M. Barrie's "The Blot on Peter Pan". Illustrationis by Rex Whistler, Hugh Lofting, H. J. Ford, Stephen Tennant, Josselin Bodley, H. A. Riley, Harold Earnshaw, Daphne Jerrold, A. K. Macdonald, Enid M. Chadwick.…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 166pp, lacks dust wrapper, not price clipped, gift inscriptions and previous owners name to front end papers, book is undated but has a gift inscription date of Christmas 1929, illustrated, all tipped in plates are present although there is slight creasing to corner of one plate. Boards slightly rubbed especially to corners, and top and bottom of spine are more significantly worn but no fading. Nice condition internally with little wear, no loose or turned over page corners, there is very slight spotting to edges of text block but very little internally. Heavy book, please inquire for postage outside the UK.…

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Mass market paperback, 17.5 cm x 10.5 cm, 223 pp. This copy has some wear on the front cover on the bottom. The spine is unbroken and without creases.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 198pp A book of prose and verse edited by Lady Cynthia Asquith One of the colored plates is loose and front hinge is cracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. undated c1920s ; large format hardback book for older children. Illustrators include Hugh Lofting, Rex Whistler,Henry Ford, etc. Authors include AA Milne, Herbert and Cynthia Asquith, J M Barrie, P G Wodehouse etc. Interior has ex pencil price mark otherwise clean with no writing, mark or tears and all pages tight in binding. Brown cloth covers generally clean and usncuffed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No jacket. Putnam, 1932. Hardback, 4to, xi,232pp, illust. Owner name, ink price, patchy foxing. Original blue cloth, worn and marked. A fair reading copy. /0.8uk.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition. Originally published in hard covers by Hutchinson in 1931. The spine has surface wrinkling. The top corner of the front cover has a two inch crease. Some browning to the rear cover. Browning and a little spotting to the page edges. The pages are browned with yellow spotting at the front and back of the book. One inch creases to the top corners of two pages but the pages are generally otherwise unmarked. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. VG- first edition. Blanchard C53. A collection of stories and poems for children written by well-known writers of the day including John Buchan,AAA Milne, Mary Webb and Hilaire Belloc. 230pp Red cloth; black lettering; illustrated in black line drawings on spine and front; illustrated endpapers; numerous illustrations; 4 tipped in colour illustrations. Bright but the cloth on the front board is slightly rippled. The extremities are rubbed and the front joint is partly split. The rear lower corner has the surface varnish worn away. Internally very bright with just some spots on the first 3 or 4 leaves.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. 7 3/4 x 10". Red cloth over boards with black stamped lettering and design, bookstore stamp on inside free endpaper, various illustrators with Daphne Jerrold being the most prominant, both black and white illustrations and tipped-in color illustrations, no dust jacket, corners bumped and a little worn, otherwise in very good condition. A collection of stories and poems from the time, mostly romantic in nature. The Treasure Cave contains a nice mix of male and female authors, with Rafael Sabatini being perhaps the most well-known.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Hardcover. Minor wear to the covered dust jacket. No cover wear. Clean unmarked text. Tight binding. ** WE SHIP DAILY (Mon-Fri) ** Free Tracking Information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VG- A collection of poems and stories for children including contributions by John Buchan, Laurence Binyon, Hillaire Belloc, Mary Webb and others. 166pp Large format; grey cloth with black lettering and illustration; numerous line drawings; 2 colour plates tipped onto brown textured paper; pictorial endpapers. The spine is lightly sunned. Some brown spots on the text block edges and occasional light foxing. A nice, solid copy.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition. Originally published in hard covers by James Barrie in 1955. The spine has chipping at the top and bottom, edge rubbing and reading creasing. The top and bottom corners of the front cover are creased and the corners of the pages towards the front of the book are a little dogeared. Some discolouration to the front and rear covers. Browning and a little spotting to the page edges. The page edges are browned but generally otherwise unmarked. Cover illustration by Rex Archer who signed his covers Rex A. First printing. Archer, Rex (Rex A) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VG first edition. Blanchard C53. A collection of stories and poems for children written by well-known writers of the day including John Buchan, AA Milne, Mary Webb and Hilaire Belloc. 166pp Red cloth; black lettering; illustrated in black line drawings on spine and front; illustrated endpapers; numerous illustrations; 4 tipped in colour illustrations. Bright and clean throughout. Some rubbing at the extremities and the outer edges of the covers have a 2-inch abrasion. Scarce.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Ist Printing of First Edition. 144 pages. Colour plates individually mounted on blue board, plus other b/w illustrations. All colour plates in mint condition. Book is showing its age, but binding firm and straight. Daphne Jerrold, A.H. Watson, A.K. MacDonald, Denis Machail. (illustrator).…

Pictorial Laminated Card. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. A good copy, for its age, of the 2nd edition (5th printing) of this collection of Ghost Stories. No Dust Jacket. Cover: pictorial laminated card with colour image of a graveyard and white and black lettering to front, white lettering to spine, and red and black lettering to rear; bright and clean; some rubbing to all edges commensurate with age and use, some darkening to spine but overall good for its age. Internally: clean and tightly bound; no markings inscriptions or book plates; darkening to page edges but overall in good condition. 224 pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Very good. 1st Edition. Stories by Elizabeth Bowen, Walter de la Mare, V.S. Pritchett, L.P. Hartley, Rose Macaulay and Lord Dunsany. Book has light foxing on endpapers and edges. Price clipped dust jacket has a few chips and closed tears at edges, and foxing on rear jacket panel.…

Condition: Good. Reading content is in clean and readable condition. Crease to the spine and slight tanning to the edge of the pages.

Important supernatural and mystery anthology. Third edition. Covers faded and covered with adhesive film (non removable) Some foxing throughout particularly to prelims and endpapers. A Good+ reading copy of a scarce anthology.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very rare original vintage 1953 first American edition of the Cynthia Asquith edited "A Book of Modern Ghosts," which was first published in the UK under the title "The Second Ghost Book." The book is overall in near fine condition with just some minor signs of wear and age. It retains its original dust jacket which is in very good condition with some tiny chips and tears, a few crease line wrinkles, some mild scuffing, and other minor wear. The jacket comes in a protective removeable mylar wrapper. The actual cloth cover of the book only has some minor wear. The binding is good and sound. The book still retains its original laid in "Editorial Copy" slip. The interior is lightly toned from age but is mostly crisp and clean, though there may be the very occasional page with a light bit of foxing, grubbiness or some kind of other very minor imperfection. The book measures approximately 8 inches by 5 1/2 inches and is 296 pages long. Please look at all of the photos to further note the condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Pictorial tan cloth. 4to. 166pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated. An anthology of stories for children with contributions by A.A. Milne- "Tigger Comes to the Forest", Hugh Lofting, Algernon Blackwood, Hilaire Belloc, Katharine Tynan and others. There is a color frontispiece by A.K. Macdonald and three tipped in color plates by A.H. Watson. There are also many black & white illustrations in the text. A very good copy with some light wear to the spine tips. The text is very good with minor wear. There is some foxing to the front blank, the frontispiece mount and facing page and to the top of the title page, else the contents are very good with some occasional light foxing. The scarce jacket is chipped and worn with over half of the rear panel lacking. It is chipped at the spine tips and the front panel has some soiling and edge-chipping.…

Hard. Condition: Good. Pages bright with occasional light spotting, spotting on closed edges, one of the picture plates has detached from the spine but is still present, light foxing on endpapers, binding firm, some shelf wear and rubbing to boards. Size: 4to.