Grace Couch (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Grace Couch (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book has some bumping and slight wear to corners o/w good+; Dust jacket is price clipped, has wear to extremities with small tears and chips.

1st edition. Buff cloth with dark blue lettering; illustrations by Grace Gabler. A few spots of foxing on page fore-edge; buff cloth a little stained Used - Good. Good hardback (no dustjacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION with rubbed dust jacket + owners name - Rare and Collectable - will send out 1st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Couch, Grace (illustrator). Not dated, approx 1940s. very Good/None. Hard pictorial boards with minor rubbing to edges, minor soiling. Contents clean and tight but for minor soiling. Charming colour illustrations by Grace Couch throughout. the adventures of an adventurous little fish.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Lacks dust wrapper, slight rubbing and wear to boards with some light soiling but generally in good order.No inscriptions, illustrated, bright and clean internally with very little wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Grace Couch (illustrator). No date but probably late 1940s, Hardback, no dustjacket, Board covers, slightly bowed, Wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, Corners bumped and worn, edges chipped and worn, Most of spine missing, remainder chipped and worn, Internally in reasonable condition, some small marks and stains, edges lightly creased, a few small nicks and a patch of loss of surface stuck to opposite page.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 14 page oblong HB Thick printed card boards. VG with no previous ownership markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. William Lewis (Printers) Ltd, Cardiff, 1943. 1st Edition . Fair. Approx. 7'' by 5'', illustrated paper covered boards with cloth spine. Presumed first edition, no publication date circa 1940's. No. 2 in a series of 6 Spikey books, 'charmingly illustrated in full colour.' Spikey is a small hedgehog off to school for the first time & helped with his letters & numbers by caterpillars & fish. Binding a little loose, corners a bit bumped, obviously a child has read this book (probably more than once) & left a few marks (see pictures). Dedication on front pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Couch, Grace (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1947 1st edition. Very Good/None. Hard pictorial boards with minor rubbing/bumping to edges, minor scuffing/soiling, slight crease to front board. Contents clean and tight but for very minor browning. Charming colour illustrations by the author throughout. Mokey the donkey and Apricot the kitten help to reunite a baby sparrow with its parents after they migrate, but on the return journey, the anchor of their boat gets stuck and Mokey has to venture into the sea, where he meets lots of interesting characters.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Type: Book No date. Rubbing to edges and corners of boards and spine. Previous owners inscription to inside front board. (CHILDRENS).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Type: Book No date. Rubbing to edges and corners of boards and spine. Previous child-owners inscription to inside front board. (CHILDRENS).

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Type: Book No date. Content good however end quarter of front board has been detached and repaired using matt brown tape. Light rubbing to edges and corners. Previous owners signature to title page. (CHILDRENS).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Type: Book No date. Some rubbing to edges and corners.Boards a little marked with slight wrinkling. two tick marks in pen to rear cover. Previous owners signature to inside front board. (CHILDRENS).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, Hardback, no d/j. Light bumping to spine and corners, o/w good. Illustrations by Grace Gabler.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Couch, Grace (illustrator). Circa 1945. Good condition with no wrapper. A "Spikey" Book. Small oblong format. Orange cloth spine. Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Book has been bent in half at one point with creases to covers and light creases to pages. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Publisher - Collins, 1945. Written and illustrated by Grace Couch. Good condition oblong book with illustrated boards and fabric spine. Initials stamp to ffep. Fairly firm binding. Unclipped jacket in poor condition, extensively mended with tape, and missing part of rear panel and the flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Charming 1940s children's book, written & illustrated by Grace Couch. Illustrated in colour throughout. Thin oblong volume. Printed in Great Britain. Bound in publisher's original colour pictorial paper-covered boards backed by unlettered orange cloth spine, pale blue endpapers. No dustjacket. Slight handling wear, otherwise a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. Unpaginated (24pp). Uncommon. SB-11.

Small oblong hardback, approx 7 x 4.5 inches. Halfbound with red cloth to spine and illustrated paper covered boards. In very good condition. Some handling marks to cover, corners a little bumped and rubbed, slight crease to boards. No previous owners inscriptions or marks. One rubbed area on page 8. Else pages clean and tight. 16pp. (Unpaginated.) Colour illustrations throughout by Grace Couch.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Couch, Grace (illustrator). Circa 1945. Very good condition with no wrapper. Small oblong format. Cloth spine. Colour pictorial boards. Delightful colour illustrations. A "Spikey" Book. Corners slightly worn. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Couch, Grace (illustrator). Circa 1945. Very good condition with no wrapper. Small oblong format. Red cloth spine. Colour pictorial boards. Delightful colour illustrations of Potto the baby Hippo. A "Spikey" Book. Minimal wear to corners. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Written & illustrated by G. Couch. (illustrator). In the original illustrated paper covered boards. Clean and square condition, blue backstript, minor marks, not affecting the appeal.Free of any inscriptions and tightly and securely bound. A very good survivor. 24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 17 x 24 cm.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Couch, Grace (illustrator). Circa 1945. Very good condition with no wrapper. A "Spikey" Book. Small oblong format. Orange cloth spine. Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Corners slightly worn. Cover edges slightly rubbed. Covers slightly grubby. Neat inscription ink to front pastedown. A couple of light grubby marks to one of the last pages, light crease to one page corner tip and some light foxing to textblock. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Collins Publishers for the Children. 1945. First edition. DW. Slim landscape 8vo. Colour illustrations to every page. Boards are a little worn and rubbed and is split along tail of spine. Small neat gift inscription to front pastedown o/w contents are clean and fresh. The wrapper is NOT price clipped, but is a little soiled and rubbed, it lacks 1½ inch portion from tail of spine and has a large closed tear to front cover near head of spine, not affecting text. Smaller closed tears and light creases to both front and rear covers. SCARCE in wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. William Lewis, Cardiff. No date but 1945, First Edition. Size 12 x 18 cm. 8 leaves. Oblong format. Illustrated in colour by the author. Book Condition: Good. Boards rubbed, a little soiled, interior age-toned, a very small pen scribble to one page only. Remainder almost Very Good and free from previous owner¿s names. Scarce title.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Grace Couch (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce first edition of this delightfully colour-illustrated children's tale. First edition. Very scarce. In the publisher's original quarter cloth with illustrated paper boards. Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library. Delightfully illustrated throughout in colour. A lovely children's tale, following the adventures of Spikey, the abandoned hedgehog. Written and illustrated by relatively unknown author Grace Couch, who published a number of tales in the "Spikey" series. In the publisher's original quarter cloth with illustrated paper boards. Externally, very smart with minor shelf wear, resulting in slight rubbing to the spine tips, and a few marks to boards. Internally, generally firmly bound. A bright and clean edition with only the odd spot and mark. Good. book.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Couch, Grace (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1947. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Oblong format, 6.5 X 9". Green paperboards with pictorial front board. Orange cloth spine. Delightful colour illustrations throughout. The underwater adventure of a little toy donkey. Some light foxing to rear cover. Small white mark to lower edge of front cover. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Small brown marks to top edge of most pages. Stitching has been pulled causing contents to be loose. Dustwrapper is edge worn with small tears, some light browning and foxing and verso very browned. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Couch, Grace (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1945. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Apricot the kitten gives Mr. Chirrupy Chirpy (a chaffinch) a great shock andd suffers a penalty which stops him bouncing for good. Oblong format, 6.5x 9". Pale blue boards with picture to front. Orange cloth spine. Colour illustrations throughout. Spne and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly slightly with edge creases and two larger tears to front spine edge. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60149195: 1947. In-8. Cartonné. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos fané, Papier jauni. Environ 30 pages. Texte en anglais. Deux jaquette passables. Quelques rousseurs. Nombreuses illustrations en couleurs, in texte. Avec Jaquette. . A l'italienne. Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Grace Couch (illustrator). 1st Edition. 28 pages with colour illustrations by the author throughout, dustwrapper about fine, light fade marks to tips of the boards near spine, endpapers and contents unaffected, contents also near fine, boards themselves also near fine, small oblong quarto. *Scarce, especially in this condition. Story of a cat and a donkey called Mokey who go into the sea.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Colour cover + titlepage + text illustrations throughout by Grace Couch. Oblong 8vo paper-covered boards, light yellow cloth spine, rear cover with list of Six Spikey Books (this is #3) Charmingly illustrated in full colour. Tips bumped, slight edge-rubbing, [16]pp collated complete. Hardcover.