J R Monsell (130 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Used-Acceptable. J.R. Monsell (Jacket Based on Design by) (illustrator). BCE - Book Club Edition. 246 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear and clean text. Dj shows heavy cuts and tears all around.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. J.R. Monsell (illustrator). Book Club Edition. A brilliant novel about the life of Queen Elizabeth 1. Fine in a lightly worn, unchipped jacket.

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Good. J. R. Monsell (illustrator). Edgewear. Front paste-on bright. End papers tanned. 93p. No markings. Tight copy. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Hard cover. Condition: Fair. Title Page and front endpaper Missing; front hinge cracked. Some fraying to corners and edges. Quite scarce in any condition. John Robert "Jack" Monsell (15 August 1877 ? 20 March 1952) was an Irish illustrator known for children's books.

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Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Music and verse with duotone illustrations. 4to. Mark to covers. Rubbing to edges with slight fraying to top of spine, Toning to covers, light foxing to page edges. Good overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. No Jacket. c.1933. Presents very well.Webbing exposed gutter. 0.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Monsell, J R (illustrator). 1st Edition. Yellow boards possibly smoke damaged, as per image. corners slightly bumped and spine ends rubbed. Small insc at top of fep. Slight foxing to title and other pages but generally clean, firm and vg with dusty smoke stained edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Colored pictorial boards with red cloth spine; 95 pp; 24 full page color illustrations throughout. Printing stated "September, 1901". A colorful tale of the Pink Knight who goes in search of a dragon who has just eaten the King's cook, and, if successful in slaying the dragon and bringing back the beast's heart, will be granted the King's beautiful daughter as a bride. The boards show some staining and scuffing along with some child's pencil scribbles; cover corners bumped and scuffed, and the edges of the boards are scuffed and worn; binding is firm, but there are a few cracks in the gutter of several signatures. Former owner's name in ink on front flyleaf; old accession # on top of page 51. All of the color plates are present and are bright and clean; book overall is in VG condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. J R Monsell (illustrator). Pale blue cloth boards with gilt to front and spine. Boards grubby. Spine bumped at top and small splits. Inscription to ffep. Otherwise contents very clean bright and tight. Please contact us for pictures and/or further details - only too pleased to help!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. J. R. Monsell (illustrator). 1st Edition. Contents very good+ paper boards age worn and edges and corners rubbed with a little surface loss, splash marks on rear board, slim small folio. Undated, c1925. Written and illustrated by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Compact volume. With colour illustrations throughout. Toning to covers, mild toning within with slight spotting. Otherwise sound. Fair+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Illustrated by J. R. Monsell (illustrator). 106 pages. No date indicated. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Illustrations still bright, and text is clean. Cover shows some light wear, including a couple spots on spine.; 5 5/8 x 7 3/8".

Condition: Fair. 1901. No Edition Remarks. 94 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Colour illustrated plates. Light foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters and hinges, exposing netting and causing some noticeable looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. J.R. Monsell (illustrator). Ex libris label with name inside. Firmly bound, gilt decorated blue cloth boards. Small scuffing on cover and spine. No jacket.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 27 pages, illustrated. Pages browned & some foxing. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Harmsworth London Magazine; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Very good= book with light rubs to spine edges. Unused book plate to fep. Very clean internally. Slight puckering to frontispiece. Dust jacket has 1.5x1" loss to spine base with small chips and nicks elsewhere. It is not price clipped and is otherwise very good=. Nd, mid-1950's[?] A re-telling for children of Margaret Irwin's historical novel 'Royal Flush'.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Monsell, J R (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1928 1st edition. 56pp. Fair/None. Hard pictorial boards with some rubbing/chipping to edges, some soiling, minor creasing/scuffing. Contents fair with a little soiling, occasional splitting, one page reattached with tape. Charming colour illustrations by the author throughout. A charming little book featuring a collection of nursery songs in French & English, each with attractive illustrations. Polichinelle is the French version of Pulcinella, the character from the Italian Commedia Dell'Arte, usually known as Mr Punch in England. One of the songs included is about that character.

Pictorial Boards. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Color Plates, B & W Illus. (illustrator). Boston, MA: Dana Estes and Company. G/No Dustjacket. ca 1910. . Pictorial Boards. 12mo., 107 pp., rubbed, bumped, frayed, page toning .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair - Cash. No Jacket. Surface and edge wear to the cover. The corners have been bumped. The boards are showing and beginning to fray in the corners. There are tears in the corners of the spine that are peeling the cover away, and revealing the binding. The cover has some soiling, scuffing and discoloration on the back cover. There are several cracks in the spine throughout the book. Some of the cracks reveal the binding and netting. The pages show reader wear. Previous owner's name inside. The binding is lose, but pages are still secure. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. London: Humphry, 1928. In French and English, published 1928. Verse and music presented with pictorial color borders throughout. Pictorial orange and black hardcover with black cloth spine, 56 pages. Covers a bit scuffed with heavy rubbing to the extremities, good hinges, sound text block, personal bookplate on front pastedown, pages clean and unmarked. Hard Cover. Good. Oblong 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. J.R. Monsell (illustrator). First Edition. Large octavo, 7.5 x 9.5 in., p. 111. Illustrated with several full-page plates in orange/blue/black and many color drawings. Illustrated paper cover over orange cloth spine. Rubbing to extremities. Chips to corners and fore-edge; one corner bumped. Spotting to edges. Neatly inscribed as a school-won prize on front free endpaper, dated 1928. Light age-toning to pages. Spine is tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. J.R. Monsell (illustrator). 8 colour plates, cloth with gilt titles & vignette, rubbed & sl worn on edges (particularly spine), some foxing, else vg. 8vo, 205pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. J. R. Monsell (illustrator). Illustrated edition of Thackeray's satirical fantasy novel. With 12 colour tipped in colour plates by J. R. Monsell and b/w illustrations within the text. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Rubbing and fraying to spine. Cracking to inner hinge. But binding holding soundly, contents clean. Fair+ A decent copy with some terrific illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Collection of French songs, with the music, original French lyrics, English translation and illustrations done by Monsell. No date but c. 1910. Rubbing to edges, mild bumping. Contents bright and clean. Good+.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Book condition: fair; pulled to front inner hinge; held at rear; some wear at spine-ends; edge-rubbed; no dust jacket; Fiction.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. MONSELL, J R (illustrator). 1st. Blue cloth and brown card boards with gilt lettering to spine and front. Boards are a little watermarked. Corners are slightly bumped, edges slightly worn. Spine is age darkened with bumping to ends. Age discolouration to endpages. Colour frontispiece with tissue protection intact. 7 further colour plates. Textblock is in good condition, clean and tight. Just the odd spot of foxing here and there. 88 pp. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 789g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 034884:14b) Size: 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" Tall Language: ENG 789 G. Book.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Monsell, J.R. (illustrator). First Edition. Fifth impression from 1950 of a book first published by Chatto in 1944. Purple boards have a patches of fading at the top and bottom of the spine and bump to the bottom front corner but are otherwise unmarked. Page edges are browned with two small dark marks to the fore edges. Gift message to the original owner name on front free endpaper - this was Elizabeth Cockcroft (Liffie), daughter of Sir John Cockcroft the Nobel Prize winner. Pages are a little browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. The price-clipped jacket chipping to the corners with some loss at the top and bottom of the spine which is faded and two small closed tears to the top edge of the front panel. Jacket illustration by J.R.Monsell.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. Unpaginated. Colour illustrations throughout by J. R. Monsell. 1st edition 1934. Boards slightly darkened in areas. A little foxing. A pleasing copy. (ar15).