Ed Mrs Herbert Strang (66 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Not dated, edition and printing not known. In good pictorial boards, with two girls with black horse by a gate to front and red titles and with image of girl to spine with pale titles. The boards are flat and also wobbly with collapsed hollow. The spine, spine edges and the board edges are…

Condition: Fair. No Edition Stated. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Blue pictorial boards with white lettering. Colour frontispiece with B&W illustrations throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to bo…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pictorial matte cover with yellow back. Unpaginated, lists to self. Some light foxing here and there, and on textblock edges. Slight spine lean, spine ends soft, only one corner bumped (top back), rest are nice. Light wear and handling soil to covers and edges. Colour fron…

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Paper covered boards. Pages and binding are presentable with minor defects. Some issues present such as moderate cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some li…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Lilac decorated boards with purple spine and applied oval colour illustration under decorative title box. Illustrated eps with the owner's plate filled in. B&w and colour illustrations. Pages tanned and foxed. No date, but book is very early and lists to self. Corners rounded a…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket (as published). A collection of short stories probably intended for a teenage readership. Illustrated. Not dated but probably from the first quarter of the 20th century. The "belongs to" page has been filled in and there is evidence of previous ownership on the front free end paper. Availabl…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Large 8vo. 256 pages. Oatmeal cloth boards; illustration in blue on front; titles in blue on spine. Numerous monochrome and partially coloured illustrations, mostly in the text, some full page. Boards lightly soiled; rubbed, especially along edges; corners heavily bumped; tail of spine torn; front boa…

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards with turning wheel illustration. Black and white line drawings. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper, dated 19…

Hardcover. Condition: G-. First Thus. 4to. nd. and unpaginated. A good reading copy in illus board covers with girl and younger child standing on a beach, another girl holding feed bowl above head with two dogs at her feet on spine, which has been taped on with brown paper tape. Front inner hinge cracked. First story is Geoffrey…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean hardback tightly bound in pictorial boards with black and red titles, boards bumped at spine ends and rubbon back board, name and address stamp on frontispiece verso. Unpaginated, colour frontispiece by May Smith other illustrations by Cicely Englefield and An…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Seven stories with four full-page colour plates. Stories are The Edge o' Heaven by Alice Massie; A Girl Who Loved Animals by Amy Barnard Lla; Housekeeper Jack, as told to Esmee Rhoades; How to Form a Country Club by L.C. Hobart; The Minotaur by Nathaniel Hawthorne; A Handful of Silver and G…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. No Jacket. Original pictorial boards. Backstrip worn and repaired by gluing; cloth hinges exposed. Covers worn all round, not affecting text block. Text generally clean and unmarked, with one page finger-spotted. Colour frontispiece and lots of b/w drawings throughout. Several short stories an…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean, large format, tightly bound hardback book, pictorial boards, spine worn at ends, gift inscription dated 1934 on front endpaper. Unpaginted, black & white illustrations in the text. Book not dated but assume 1934 from inscription. Includes stories by Dorlita Fairli…

Condition: Good. 1927. Reprinted. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Colour frontispiece. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Bin…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Undated, c.1930. Stories by Dorita Fairlie Bruce (The School for Scandal), Winifred Darch, Josephine Elder and Evelyn Simms. For full list of stories see photographs. Four colour plates by E. E. Brier, M. D. Johnston and Beryl Irving. Numerous line drawings in text. Endpapers and som…

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Fair. Reprint. The Little Gay Books. Number 7 in the series. Uncommon children's book. Contains 11 short stories. Edited by Mrs Herbert Strang. Illustrated in b&w. Classic 1920s-vintage illustrations. First printed 1926, this copy is the 1941 reprint. Printed in Great Britain. Small volume. Thin stapl…