Kate E J S Lay (13 results)

Condition: Good. 1936. Reprint. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Book II. Orange cloth. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Condition: Good. 1946. Reprint. 277 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. 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.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. String bound soft illustrated cloth binding, some marks and general handling wear.

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. 1946. No dust jacket. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers. A slight tan to the page edges. Contents clear and firm within. A good condition book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition hardcover orange boards showing title etc clearly on front board and on a sun bleached spine. 192 pages good with clear slightly larger print. Black and white illustrations throughout. Usual signs of wear to book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Ex library copy with stamp, stapled edition. Fading and small creases on cover. Minor creases in corners of pages inside.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Stapled edition with slightly rusty staples, light handling wear including some small corner creases, small tape marks inside the cover.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Owner's name to ffep. Lightly marked boards with minimal rubbing. Pages crisp and tight. Reference Book with 277 pages of text and some line drawings to describe and accompany the volume of plates.

Reprint, 1956. Book IIIA. Worn stapled paperback with light scattered foxing and browned mainal covers, with red and green decoration.School stamp on title page. Colour illustrations clean. Stapled rusted. Used - Good. Good stapled paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Limp cloth wraps, Good-, illustrations to front and rear by Raymond Sheppard, middle string to spine broken, a little rubbing to leading edge, crease to lower upper corner and top rear corner, contents clean and tight, lovely colour plates to centre, some top pge corners turned, pp127, neat name and address to inside upper wrap, pencil name and address to title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., Reference Book, H/B dark blue cloth bds, freckled with paler blue, VG, pp277, illustrated with many fine b/w drawings.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 128 pages including index. 16 pages of color plate illustrations. "My Book of Insects, Seashore Animals and Fish describes the habits and characteristics of sixty-seven insects, twenty-one common seashore animals and nineteen fish. With its beautiful paintings and lively text, the book is an encouraging and instructive reading book, and children will be eager to verify and increase the knowledge gained from picture-study and reading, by actual observation." - from preface. Bright and unmarked with minimal wear and sound binding.

Brochure/Pamphlet. Condition: Good. Kate Lay; J. S. Lay (illustrator). A very scarce booklet from Macmillan's Class-Books for Children of Eight series of reading and writing books. Macmillan's Class-Books for Children of Eight series. No. 7 My Book of Distant Lands. Very scarce work. With illustrations throughout. A collection of reading and writing tasks for children about different countries and their features. With reference to Eskimo, Australia, Palestine, Native Americans, Japan, China, Carolina, and more. Written and illustrated by Kate and E. J. S. Lay. In the original paper wraps. Externally, sound with rubbing and minor creasing to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges with the odd small mark to the boards. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small handling mark and minor age toning to the extremities. Good. book.