Holmes Winifred (30 results)

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Owner's name on front free endpage. (biography).

Hagg, Arthur (illustrator). 0 175. Very good in very good dust jacket. moderate shelfwear.

Condition: Good. 1941. First Published. 215 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. 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.

Condition: Fair. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 175 pages. Illustrative jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Minor marks to boards. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Some tanning to spine. Visible rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

Condition: Good. 1959. Reprinted. 206 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition book. Slight cracking at the rear hinge. A good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. No edition stated. Publication of 175 pages. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, chipped pieces and small closed tears along the edges. The boards are in good condition. The pages are complete and the text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Good. 1933. Limited Edition. 48 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Green cloth. Limited edition of 300 copies. No.42. Flat signed by author to title page and with dedication to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. UK1ST.EDITION.1ST.IMPRESSION.A VG HARDBACK.UNCUT PAGES.22 Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng.

First Edition. Fine condition. No dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Owner inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good - / --- B/w illustrations. Dark green titles to spine and decorations to upper cover on grey cloth boards. Boards are worn and slightly soiled. Outer casing (covers and backstrip) are detached from the text block which is skewed. Page edges tanned. Interior is clean. Owner's name on front fep. OK as a reading copy only.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Pbk, one of the larger sized Sunny stories edited by Malcolm Saville ; Vg-; small split in spine; contains a Jays story; ; Sunny Stories; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. "Sampe copy" ink stamp on front wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp 175 D/J.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. J. S. Goodall (illustrator). 1st. First edition hardback, 1953, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition in a good dj with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dj rubbed to edges with repair to spine tail (now protected); blue cloth boards a touch faded to edges but remain overall clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotations - brief gift inscription to ffep dated 1953; toning to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. ~ Limited edition: #113 of 250 signed by author. Signed by author twice. Inscribed: "To Ruth Pitter, from Winifred Holmes, Sept 1933". Bookplate stating: "From the Library of RUTH PITTER, 1897-1992". Dustwrapper browning around spine & edgeworn but protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. Size: 48pp. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. J. S. Goodall (illustrator). Illus. by J.S. GOODALL; 206pp. orig. cloth,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good blue cloth with gilt lettering at spine. Moderate rubwear & toning at pagination edges. Binding cracked but intact. Name boldly penciled at front endpaper & light soil at interior else unmarked. A sound copy yet of a scarce volume. (C2BR).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Limited Edition. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on upper board and spine; 8vo; pp. 48. Number 49 from a limited edition of 300 copies (50 of which are HC). Signed by Holmes on the limitation page. Cloth faintly foxed; gilt oxidized; spine and corners a little scuffed and bumped. Endpapers faintly toned from the adhesive; bottom corner of text block a little dog-eared; contemporary inscription on FFEP.

Condition: BUONO USATO. IED. INGLESE Volume brossurato in cartoncino rigido telato, con titolo e fregio al dorso. Sovraccoperta illustrata con alette. Pagine in buonissimo stato, con numerose illustrazioni, nel testo e fuori, a cura di Arthur Hagg. Numero Pagine 175.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reeve, Mary S. & Lodge, Grace & Harrison, Florence & Brock, C.E. & Millar, H.R. & et al., (illustrator). 1923. Very good condition with no wrapper. Pictorial front cover shows three girls sitting on grass, one reading a book. First story is "The Influence of Anne" by D.F. Bruce. 6 colour plates, b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Cover edges worn. Some slight chipping to edges of onlay to spine. Name plate to front pastedown. Endpapers browned. Foxing and some fingering to page edges and margins. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Presumed First Edition. Book has blue boards with a faded spine, and dark blue lettering and design to spine. P/o inscription on inside of front board. Light tanning and spotting to page edges. A smashing copy of a rare book.

Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. - Presentation copy from one of the contributor poets Winifred M. Gill dated October 1930 - Boards rubbed and age-stained to edges - Corners chipped - Spine toned w/ ends bumped - Edges of text block tanned - Endpapers tanned w/ bottom corners and rear free endpaper foxed - Content toned throughout w/ the majority of the early section foxed - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight - 93 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 92 pp., sewn in glazed stiff pictorial wrappers. Light age toning and shelf wear, good copy. About Ronald Searle, match-box label design, Art and Nature, Coventry Cathedral Windows and more. 30 x 23 cm.

Original souvenir theatre programme 10'' x 8'' with colour illustrated front cover. Contains 4 printed pages of text with some illustrated advertisements to the lower cover. In near Very Good condition with a little age soiling to the edges. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

Soft cover. Condition: FINE+, Near New. Limited/Numbered. 18 pages with covers. (40 grams) >> Limited & number (#103 / 500 ); "This special limited edition of of The Philosopher, which contains the orignal appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Polaris," is printed from an orignal copy kept in the Lovecraft collection of the John Hay Library of Brown University. Special thanks are due John H. Stanley, curator of the Lovecraft collection, whoprovided a copy of the original of The Philosopher, and Ed Shunney, who undertook the printing of this fascimile. " >> Minor scuffing to corners. Right lower corner of book has minor bumped corner . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: FINE+, Near New. Limited/Numbered. 18 pages with covers. (40 grams) >> Limited & number (#103 / 500 ); "This special limited edition of of The Philosopher, which contains the orignal appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Polaris," is printed from an orignal copy kept in the Lovecraft collection of the John Hay Library of Brown University. Special thanks are due John H. Stanley, curator of the Lovecraft collection, whoprovided a copy of the original of The Philosopher, and Ed Shunney, who undertook the printing of this fascimile. " >> Minor scuffing to corners. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. First Edition. First Edition. Cloth. Winifred Holmes, born Winifred Alice Young on 7 April 1903, was raised in India where her father worked for the Indian Civil Service. Educated at schools in Tasmania and England, she became a nursery teacher but soon abandoned this as a career to take up journalism as a nursery correspondent for the Evening Standard. After the war, Winifred directed a number of film documentaries, including A Cruel Kindness (1948), Consider the Carpet (1948) and A Brother for Susan (1953) as well as scripting others. She wrote a number of children's books and the 'Simon and Sally' strip in Robin. She also contributed to the first 9 editions of Robin (1953-61) and may have contributed to later volumes. She also wrote books on Indian art and Asian films, and this extensive study on four powerful and noble women in Egypt. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Minor wear, rubbing and chipping to head and bottom of DJ, minimally toned, clipped. First pp crease. Bright blue cloth, 8vo, 175pp. Illus. (b/w). Very Good in Very Good (Price-Clipped) DJ.

24pp., 8vo, paginated 161-184. In fair condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. Roberts contributes 'The Cult of Sherlock'; Frank Swinnerton, 'Holmes - World Figure'; Darwin, 'The Great Holmes Joke'; Howlett and Pointer, 'Holmes on Stage and Screen'; Paget, 'He made Holmes real' ('In this article Winifred Paget writes of her father, Sidney Paget, whose drawings, says Frank Swinnerton on another page, made Holmes "the most universally familiar imaginary figure in two hemispheres'.