Derek Mcculloch Ed (29 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hutchinson & Co. (illustrator). Condition is Good. There is some writing in the front, but the text pages are clean. Hinges are split but holding. Green boards have general wear and soiling. Sunned spine. 156 pages.

Condition: Good. 1935. No Edition Remarks. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Plates are bright and clear. Binding remains firm. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Condition: Good. Boards have some minor wear. Content has light toning. No DJ.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 125 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over identically illustrated paper covered boards with cloth to spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. 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. Clipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Condition: Very Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. Unclipped DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents, some age-spotting to endpapers and page ends, no inscriptions, 168pp with sepia frontis, in-text illustrations and 6 full-page colour plates.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright with no markings, 157pp, colour illustrations. Poor DJ with some edge wear and creasing/loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No markings. Corners and edges bumped and worn. Small tear to bottom spinecap. Mildly scuffed and soiled surfaces. Red buckram spine, pictorial boards. Illustrated endpapers. Duo-tone illustrations by various artists such as Willett, Norman Meredith, and J. N. A. Rignall. Clean, bright, tight. 125 pp. Derek McCulloch better known as Uncle Mac of the B.B.C. This is Uncle Mac's own selection of his favourite stories which have been broadcast on Children's Hour, with some true stories and puzzles by famous people who have given talks over the air to children. Stories written by various authors such as Ken Francis, Norah Lewis, Olive Dehn, Geoffrey Dearmer, and Lieut.-Commander R. T. Gould.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First American edition. Hardcover. 122 pp. with discography, index and works and general index. Frontispiece portrait and with musical examples. First American edition. Translated from the German. Fine in near fine dust jacket. The first of its kind to appear in nEnglish, a book that introduces the reader to the full range of the works of Heinrich Schultz (1585-1672): the Christmas Oratorio, the famous Passions, and many other works not belonging to any specific collection. The text includes music examples.

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition with PICTORIAL LAMINATED cloth - 2nd class tracked post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Undated but either 1948 or 1950, according to OLIS. Includes stories by Alison Uttley & Barbara Euphan Todd. First story is 'King Arthur's Tree'. Pages browned; boards bright & clean; triangular loss in dust jacket front panel at bottom edge. Used - Good. VG hardback in pictorial paperboards with cloth spine in Fair dust jacket Used - Good. VG hardback in pictorial paperboards with cloth spine in Fair dust jacket.

1st ed. 1st story is 'The Creaky Caravan'. Gift inscription dated 1954 on half-title page; binding tight; a little wear to board edges. Used - Good. Good hardback in pictorial paperboards with cloth spine Used - Good. Good hardback in pictorial paperboards with cloth spine.

1st ed. Undated - c.1950. First story is 'King Arthur's Tree' by Alison Uttley. Pages yellowed; binding tight; boards edges a little worn. Other contributors include Modwena Sedgwick, Antonia Ridge, Barbara Euphan Tood, Barbara Sleigh & Barbara Leonie Picard. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in paperboards with cloth spine Used - Very Good. VG hardback in paperboards with cloth spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Barbara C Freeman (illustrator). 4to hbk in d/w; Vg/Vg-; Ca lovely book, not filled in at all and with lots of interesting information from all year round. Olour frontis and 16 pages in full colour plus nearly 200 line drawings; Derek McCulloch includes a 'pen portrait' (ie writes about) Arthur Ransome - recalling that he used to read a chapter from Swallows and amazons every Friday on BBC childrens Hour every Friday, and how lucky he was to have known him personally. He described him as being a bit like Ratty in The Wind in the willoiws as he loved messing about in boats. It is quite a nice little article for Arthur Ransome enthusiasts. The book also contains a lovely double page spread by Barbara C Freeman of the Nativity. Also some very attractive nature illustrations.

First Edition. Prize bookplate on verso of front free endpaper. All illustrations checked and present. Light scattered foxing. Blue cloth with a few light stains; black lettering on front board and spine; light wear. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

First Edition. Blue cloth with black lettering. First story is 'The secret of Longwater'. Text generally clean; slight shelf-wear at head & foot of spine Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardback. Condition: Good/fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Various (illustrator). Annual sized book with picture boards and fabric spine. Undated but first story is 'Bill Aylesbury at the Circus'. May have inscriptions.

Hardback. Condition: Fair reading copy. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Various (illustrator). Annual sized book with picture boards and fabric spine. Undated but first story is 'King Arthur's Tree' loose pages, spine top damage, foxing.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Various (illustrator). Annual sized book with picture boards and fabric spine. No DW and worn, I will send best first. Undated but first story is 'King Arthur's Tree'.

Hardback. Condition: Fair reading copy. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Various (illustrator). Annual sized book with picture boards and fabric spine. Undated but first story is 'Summer in the Canadian Arctic' Some colour plates. May have inscription or loose pages.

Hardback. Condition: Good/fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Various (illustrator). Annual sized book with picture boards and fabric spine. Undated but first story is 'The Creaky Caravan'. I have a bunch of these, they have different coloured spines but are all fairly similar in condition, I will pick best first so may have inscriptions, please specify preferred elements.

Hardback. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Various (illustrator). Annual sized book with picture boards and fabric spine. Undated but first story is 'The British Private' Some colour plates.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: dw fair only. Various (illustrator). Annual sized book with picture boards and fabric spine. Dw worn or torn, I will send best first. Undated but first story is 'King Arthur's Tree'.

Hardback. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Various (illustrator). Annual sized book with picture boards and fabric spine. Undated but first story is 'Summer in the Canadian Arctic' Some colour plates. May have inscription or loose pages.

Hardback. Condition: Good/fair. Dust Jacket Condition: dw fair, some loss o/w good. Various (illustrator). Annual sized book with picture boards and fabric spine. Undated but first story is 'Snow White and Red Rose'. No inscriptions, with DW.

Hardback. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: dw good, some loss. Various (illustrator). Annual sized book with picture boards and fabric spine. DW good apart from a block of loss top back, Undated but first story is 'The British Private' Some colour plates.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1950s. Chinaman, mermaids, pirate on cover. Inscription of owner on title page. Excellent copy with slightest edge rubbing.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1950s. Children grouped round "father", clock behind. Excellent copy with slightest edge rubbing.

Hardback. Condition: Good/fair. Dust Jacket Condition: dw fair, some loss. Various (illustrator). Annual sized book with picture boards and fabric spine. 1935, DW worn some loss.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: G+ DW. 1st Edition. Very good clean text pages but clean, bright covers have slight edge wear. DW is worn and chipped along top edge, with small loss.