Illustrations Molly Blake (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Molly Blake (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback, red pictorial cloth 136 pages , 4 colour plates and many black and white illustrations, and endpaper maps. Extremities a little foxed otherwise Very Good condition No dust jacket No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / Second Print (first published in 1951). Hardback copy in orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine, black Muffin the Mule illustration to front boards, no dustjacket. 127pp. Colour frontispiece and plates, b/w illustrations within text, pictorial endpapers. Not library copy, ink inscription to ffep. (16/7).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Uncommon 1950s children's book. With classic 1950s-vintage b&w illustrations by Molly Blake. Includes wonderful full-colour frontispiece (see photographs). Wraparound dustjacket artwork. From inner front flap of dustjacket (in part): "Here is Annette Mills inviting all Muffin's friends, both new and old, to read the latest adventures of that lovable little Mule". Printed in England. Bound in original blue boards with small pictorial vignette design to front board, dark blue lettering to spine, illustrated front & rear map endpapers, in publisher's pictorial dustjacket. NOTE: A GOOD to VG COPY ONLY. Handling wear, mild marginal foxing, price-clipped dustjacket, bookplate remnants to ffep, small tape remnants to endpapers, former owner's ink lettering to fore-edge of book block, otherwise despite the minor faults still a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. The dustjacket is now protected in a removable clear mylar cover. 96pp. Scarce. SB-50.