Gregorson Edith Ray (9 results)

Condition: Good. 1947. First Edition. 48 pages. Dust jacket over paper covered boards. 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 wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Notable foxing. Heavy rubbing and marking all over. Mild water staining to rear panel.…

Condition: Good. 1947. First Edition. 48 pages. No dust jacket. Beige pictorial boards with a cloth spine. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st. Good in slightly torn and frayed dustwrapper.48pages. illus. Peter Scott (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Hardcover in acceptable condition, cocked. Grubby jacket is worn at edges, leading corners and spine ends, with a few nicks and creases. Large tears and areas of loss on rear, repaired with white paper and tape. Boards are marked, and kinked at ends of spine; leading corners are bent. Marks on FEP. Pages remain clean, and content is clear throughout. First. TS. Scott, Peter (illustrator). Used. …

1st edition. Slim royal 8vo. 48pp. B/w. illustrations by Peter Scott. Bookplate to front f.e.p., original cloth backed boards with some slight foxing to boards, d/w. rubbed and torn with slight loss. US$15.

A children's story about Lemuel, the tree kangaroo. The interest in this book is in the early monochrome illustrations by Peter Scott. Hardback book, decorated boards, some foxing on exterior boards, but none on inside pages. Dustjacket: some loss to top front edges, & top of spine areas, fron & rear; dustjacket grubby (now protected). …

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original ivory paper covered boards with peacock blue cloth spine, drawing of Lemuel to the front cover. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 48 printed pages of text with sepia and monochrome illustrations throughout. Some tan age spots to the ivory panels and early pages. Near Very Good condition book in Poor condition dust wrapper with 65 mm piece of paper missing to the foot of the front panel, shelf rubs to the rear panel, not price clipped 7/6. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. The story of Lemuel, the tree kangaroo. White boards with blue cloth spine. Small brown vignette and title to front. Simple brown text illustrations throughout. 48 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to covers and a few light fox spots to contents. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped, loss to top edge of front panel and grubby. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Scott, Peter (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Approximately A5 portrait format hardback lacking dustjacket. No print date shown but other sources quote 1950. The artwork certainly looks from that period. Edith Ray Gregorson (1914-1983) was an English literary agent, and children's book author, who played a pivotal role in helping to get Rev W Awdry's Railway Series published. The illustrator, Barbara Jones (1912-1978), was a painter, mural designer and writer. Studied art at the Royal College of Art, becoming an associate in 1950. In 1954 she became a fellow, then vice-president in 1968, of the Chartered Institute of Designers; was chairman of the Society of Mural Painters, 1957-61; a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1960; and a governor, Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1956/7-1963/4. The text is based on the scrapping of tramcars, probably based on London and appears aimed at the younger reader. Lacks dustjacket, some signs of aging to the bindings but no actual damage. The contents are in good clean condition. The book seems very scarce according to another seller. Jones, Barbara (illustrator). …