Eileen Mathias (15 results)

Condition: Good. 1951. No Edition Remarks. 102 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. 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 w…

Condition: Fair. 1951. No Edition Remarks. 102 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper and pastedown.…

Condition: Good. 1943. Reprinted. 93 pages. No dust jacket. Pink illustrated cloth covered boards. Illustrated by Barbara Moray Williams with a colour frontispiece and several in-text line drawings. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boa…

Condition: Good. 1943. Reprint. 92 pages. Cream dust jacket with red lettering over pink cloth. This is a recycled jacket. Colour frontispiece with B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine ends…

Hardback. Condition: Good. 1st. First edition hardback, 1946, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - blue cloth boards rubbed to edges and title to spine have faded. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation - gift inscription to front endpaper…

Orange - Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 92pp. Numerous illustrations including a colour frontispiece by Barbara Moray Williams. Vignette to the front board. Slight fading to the spine of the book. Light shelf wear to the eges with a slight bump to one corner of the front board. Ink name and date inscription to the f…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1946. Blue cloth gilt rubbed at the edges. Pages age-browned, but very clean & tight. Previous owner's name & address on blank flyleaf. Illustrated with wood engravings by Beryl Thornborough. 123 pages plus a catalogue of books for the young from The Sylvan Pr…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. This copy is in good condition with the spine and pages intact and clean, however the orange linen cloth boards are a little worn and washed out from age and the front cover three biro attempts t o spell 'Louise' by a child which are pictured. There is also a small neat inscription on t…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A hardback book with both book and jacket in good to very condition, First Edition dated 1951. Jacket is protected by a clear, loose-fitting, sellophane protective wrapper and has a couple of small chips to the jacket edges.A collection of original poem…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A hardback book with both book and jacket in good condition, First Edition dated 1948. Jacket is protected by a clear, loose-fitting, sellophane protective wrapper and has a couple of tiny chips to the jacket edges. Book has a little faint white mottling to…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Hbk in dw, 8vo, Vg+/Vg; in remarkably good condition for age; in the series of Milly-Molly-Mandy books even though this isn't a MIlly Molly Mandy story; These stories were broadcast in Children's Hour; the frontis is a coloured plate; one pictur…