E V Lucas Verses (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. This old children's book is clean, solid and in great shape! The book is undated but is circa 1900. Verse and full-page, full-color illustration of 24 professions. Most are timeless (builder, farmer, carpenter) while others have evolved or obtained new names (clockwinder, bird stuffer, the Dame). Dark blue cloth with illustrated front cover paste-on with title, 52 pages, 24 full-page illustrations, illustrated title and contents pages. This is a hardcover book awesome color illustrations. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling or writing. There is a dog eared fold mark at the very bottom corner of a few pages. The covers and front paste on illustration are in nice shape with just a hint of edgewear. This old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box.…

Grant Richards. 1898. First edition. Large landscape 4to. Green hesian spine, illustrated paper covered boards. Illustrated throughout in colour. Each page has a blank verso - probably to allow plates and verses to be framed. A book version of Disney's "It's a Small World" Ride. Front free endpaper torn out. Light foxing and spotting. Inner hinge visible but holding. Generally clean and sound.…

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards, gilt title lettering to the olive cloth spine. Landscape 9½'' x 12½''. Contains printed pages of text to one leaf with full-page colour illustration opposite. At some stage the pages had worked loose and been taped back-in, this old tape has now been removed and the books pages have been re-glued to the spine, this has stabilised and made the book more presentable, but has left old tape shadows to some of the inner margins, rubbing to the edges of the covers, ink ownership marking to the front free end paper, a little finger soiling to the some pages. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION ONE OF ONLY 15 COPIES. 1 vol., 8-7/8 x 7-1/4", this being copy # 7 signed by Lucas and Shepard, printed on Japan vellum, bound in the original white vellum, yap edges, title and author gilt to front cover, unopened, with the original card slipcase, the book is FINE and the original card slipcase is VERY GOOD. Published the year before the publication of "Winnie The Pooh". Signed by Author(s).…

8vo., 96pp., printed on quality Japanese vellum paper, finely illustrated throughout by Ernest H. Shepard, original, bound in fine cream vellum boards with title and author's name printed in gilt on upper cover. A remarkably fine bright clean copy. This is the superior SIGNED LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION OF ONLY 15 COPIES, signed by both E.V. Lucas and Ernest H. Shepard and printed on Japanese vellum. A charming collection of poetry and verse by the prolific Edward Verrall Lucas with Ernest H. Shepard's wonderful illustrations. Shepard is best known as the illustrator of books by A. A. Milne, including Winne the Pooh.…

First Edition. Oblong octavo (23.5cm x 32cm); brown cloth spine over pictorial paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; [n.p.]; illus. Tipped in note to half-title: "The pictures in this book may also be uncoloured, in a cardboard portfolio, for the use of children who might like to colour them. The price of this portfolio is Two Shillings". Shelf-wear and soil, with rubbing and peeling to corners and board edges, and offsetting to endpapers; Good. Collection of children's songs, with each verse having a titled illustration, including "Gipsies / Nearly Dinner Time", "Paris / Primness in the Park", "North America - I / The Red Man at Home", and "Morocco / A Young Orator". [84932].…