Jack Giant Killer (4 results)

Paperback. 16mo. Stiff beige printed wrappers. (1p), 23pp. Near fine. Faintest of age toning to outer wrappers (only). Scholarly book distributor Abel introduces this facsimile reprint of this undated but apparently 18th century pamphlet published in Salop, England by one J. Eddowes -- one of many retellings of this Arthurian folk tale. Handsomely printed by noted San Francisco printer Lawton Kennedy (1900-80) and his younger brother Alfred. Interesting Christmas keepsake printed for distribution to this firm's friends, customers and employees. Laid in is the business card of that firm's vice president.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator). 96pp, very well-illustrated throughout by the author in colour, hardcover, 8vo, bound in blue cloth, gilt decorated front board and spine, front board has a coloured illustration inserted, gilt lettering, pictorial endpapers, very good condition (literally just taken out of publisher cellophane to catalogue), David Campbell Publishers Limited, London, 1999. * part of the Everyman's Library Children's Classics series.

Illus. Orig. stiff wraps, printed in brown. v.g. A facsimile of the edition printed in Shrewsbury by J. Cotton, & J. Eddowes (c.1760), with a new introduction. The original not in ESTC.

Oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with illustrated title and full-page coloured illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Facsimile of original 'Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured'. SCARCE.