Doris Davey (34 results)

PF. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Paper Boards. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Lacks characters. Front covers depicts girl climbing over a wall. Binding shot and very worn, foxing evident, spine sprung and taped in places. A poor reading copy only. Size: 8vo.

Hardback. Full colour boards with purple cloth spine Pages are entirely illustrated with fold out sections Marginally lose binding wear to the extremities No pagination after 12 Fair overallnbsp. book.

Hard Back. Condition: Good. First Edition. 8 page booklet and characters ( cut out and now in an envelope ( complete ).Children's Book from the 1920s designed to be played with like a doll's house. Landscape Format, 11 1/2" Wide X 9" Tall. All gates and doors are working. Front cover illustration is missing. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With 6 moveable characters. By Doris Davey after Helen Waite Rare and collectable.

Hardback. First Edition. First edition hardback with cloth spine and printed pictorial boards Illustrated throughout Cover rubbed with some chipping to edges Colours are still nice and bright Title page a little grubby with some spotting Pages otherwise clean and bright if a little toned to the edges with occasional spotting Colours are vivid Overall very good condition 12 lii pp Beautiful book a precursor to popups. book.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in colour printed pictorial boards, featuring girl in red dress climbing a wall, pursued by nursemaid, this 1921 hardcover First Edition is FAIR. 12pp (text);plus 25 double-page colour plates all of which have moveable elements, and are unnumbered. Size of book is 12" x 9". Several faults as follows: Spine is rubbed, chipped and split at edges. Corners and edges worn and rubbed. Five percent of front panel paste-down is missing, a further ten percent is rubbed.Fixed front endpapers followed by title page. Crack at hinge where text ends (12pp). Several closed tears to illustrations, which have been repaired with clear tape, but moveable elements remain complete. One hinge is supported by clear tape. Rear fixed endpaper also supported at hinge with white tape. Text block is slightly loose at hinge and gatherings are uneven at fore-edge. Cheap copy of this desirable book, described as Fair/Good.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Margarethe Stannard (illustrator). First edition. A brightly illustrated first edition of this charming folding book for children. First edition. Illustrated with fifty-two brightly coloured pages with folding features to most pages, including doors, gates, cupboards, and more. Lacking the two sheets of pop-out colour dolls to the pocket at the rear of the text, though it is very scarce to find these intact. A charming folding story book for children exploring Priscilla the dolly's new home with a young girl named Betty on her birthday. Written by Doris Davey and Helen Waite, British children's book writers. Illustrated by Margarethe Stannard, a British artist and illustrator, noted for her children's books. In the original quarter cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and minor chipping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Minor loss to the board tips. Hinges starting but generally firm. Internally, generally firmly bound with some pages loosening. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting to the story pages. The odd small spot to the illustrated pages. The odd small closed tear to folding features. Sympathetic repairs to one page at the hinge with tape. Good. book.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Stannard, Margarethe (illustrator). Circa 1920. Very good condition with no wrapper. Oblong format. Cloth spine. Pictorial front cover. Story is followed by full colour page scenes to put your dolls in and play - many doors/windows to 'open'. Corners worn. Contains figures in rear pocket: 3 umbrellas, Nurse, Alice, Anne, Mummy, Daddy, Babbs (young boy), cook, rickshaw, fir tree, palm tree, door and archway. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. Wide octavo, 9 in. x 11.6 in., pp. 12, [52], [4] (paper dolls). Illustrated with 52 pages of color lithographs with mechanical doors. Front pictorial paper board over burgundy cloth spine; gray paper to back board. Light shelfwear to edges. Pocket at rear pastedown for dolls to be kept when cut. Light spotting to endpapers, and an occasional spot to the text pages. Hinge split mid-book, but threads and mull holding. The two sheets of paper doll figures are fully intact, and there are no tears to the mechanical doors. There are 8 pages of text followed by vibrant color lithographed scenes which follow the text of the booklet. As each different part of the story is described, the reader uses the corresponding paper doll figures to re-enact the story as it progresses from outside the house into the various rooms of the house. The rooms have doors and cupboards that open up into hiding places for the dolls, and each room is finely detailed with stylish furnishings of the era.

, 12 pages, followed by 23 double-page colour scenes, including rooms of a house, and outdoor scenes, some with flaps to open door etc, complete with uncut two sheets of colour dolls at the rear, pocket at rear pastedown for dolls to be kept when cut First Edition , covers lightly rubbed at edges, some light spots to front and rear pages, internally nice and clean with moving pieces all in good working order, book in very good condition , pictorial boards with purple cloth spine oblong, 23 x 30 cm Hardback ISBN:

FIRST EDITION. Oblong 4to. 11.75 x 9 inches. [10] pp. letterpress. Bound in stiff pictorial wrappers. Light wear to extremities, but otherwise a very good copy. 1923 gift inscription on front pastedown. Illustrated by 6 line drawings in letterpress pages and by 52 chromolithograph plates, one uncut page of three paper servants. The second page of figures has been cut and some of these are now missing, with the remainder being in the pocket at end. Plates are transforming pictures, which have moveable window flaps, which lift to reveal hidden contents. Attractive doll's house book, with introductory story, and including outbuildings and grounds, with moveable flaps to lift up, and cut out figures to place in the scenes. ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS CHILDRENS CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS.

First Edition. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Color pictorial paper-covered boards, light brown cloth spine. With preliminary eight pages of text (Betty's Adventure, The Story of My Dolly's Home) followed by 50 full-page illustrations by Margarethe Stannard, showing various internal and external scenes of the house with flaps to open doors, a gate, stove, armoire, etc, and with 8 original cutout figures contained in a pocket (as issued) to rear pastedown, gutter reinforced in places, renewed front inner pastedown. Occasional wear, a few minor tears internally, rear hinge cracked, front pastedown mended, but a clean and nice copy of a wonderful action cutout book with movable parts. Scarce with cutout figures in pocket.