Keeping Charles Illustrations (19 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Puffin Paperback Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 188pp. Not library copy, no creasing to spine, neat name in ink to inside front cover. (35/3).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by Charles Keeping (illustrator). 1st Edition. First collected edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping and short closed tears to top and bottom of jacket and spine, front flap stretched, some creasing to front jacket and inside flaps, not price clipped (£12.00), child's bookplate to title page, some grubby fingerprints to page fore edges, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 725pp. Three of Rosemary Sutcliff's best known historical novels for children. Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92), was born in Surrey, the daughter of a naval officer. Later in her life she lived in Devon and then Sussex. At the age of two she contracted the progressively wasting Still's disease, and hence spent most of her life in a wheelchair. Quite a scarce book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. original illustrations by Charles Keeping (illustrator). Firmly bound, gilt decorated navy blue artificial leather boards. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 1979 Batsford Hardcover 1st Edition. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ dustjacket. Fabulous jacket design with illustration by Charles Keeping. Edited by Charles Causley.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by Charles Keeping (illustrator). 1st Edition. First published in 1965, this is a second impression of 1967. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, small loss to top and bottom of spine, spine slightly sunned, price clipped and price replaced with publisher's sticker (£3.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 245pp. Phaedrus the gladiator wins his freedom after years of bloody battles in the arena. Soon he finds himself riding north towards the wilds of Caledonia on a strange mission. He is to assume the identity of Midir, Lord of the Horse People, to seek vengeance against the treacherous Liadhan, who has usurped the throne. Ahead of him lies more adventure and more danger than he had ever known in the arena. Classic Rosemary Sutcliff.

First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Very fine in pictorial boards as issued. Strong colour illustrations by Charles Keeping for one of Kipling's "Just So Stories".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Puffin Paperback Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 126pp. B/w illustrations. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no creasing to spine, light foxing to first/last page. (45/2).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket and illustrations by Charles Keeping (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear, creasing and short closed tears to top and bottom of largely orange jacket and spine, some tiny loss to top and bottom of spine, corners rubbed with tiny loss, some overall time staining and some dark sticky marks to jacket but overall jacket still quite bright and unfaded, some faint spotting to page fore edges, not price clipped (18s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 157pp, illustrated. The story of the Nibelungenlied, retold for children. Edith Martha Almedingen (1898-1971), was an Anglo Russian novelist, biographer, children's author and member of the Royal Society of Literature.

First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Pictorial boards. A few small stamps on the endpapers (from the Melbourne Kindergarten Teachers' College, in the early 1970s, but without any accompanying ex-institution nasties ), a bookseller's small label on the front free endpaper, otherwise very good, lacking the original dustjacket, but with an added clear archival jacket for this copy. Haunting colour illustrations by the author.

1975, 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 144pp. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Illustrations by Charles Keeping. (Religion).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket and illustrations by Charles Keeping (illustrator). 1st Edition. First published in 1962, this is a second impression of 1964. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, slight lean, not price clipped (15s), school prize certificate pasted to ffep, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy for its age, in exceptionally bright unfaded jacket. 241pp. The boy lay in the silence of the great battlefield, gazing at his own hand spread on the ground beside him. The hand moved and he realized, with something like surprise, that he was not dead. His name was Owain and further up the hillside lay his father and brother, both killed by Saxon warriors in that last great battle of Aquae Sulis. From that moment Owain knows that he must make his own way in the world and so begins his journey to face the many challenges that lie ahead. Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92), was born in Surrey, the daughter of a naval officer. Later in her life she lived in Devon and then Sussex. At the age of two she contracted the progressively wasting Still's disease, and hence spent most of her life in a wheelchair.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 107pp. B/w illustrations throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no creasing to spine. (21/2).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Heron Books, London, circa 1967 blue simulated leather lettered, ruled & blocked in gilt on spine & upper cover, patterned endpapers, pale blue silk ribbons 2 hardbacks, Vol.1 482p . Vol. 2 480p and original illustrations by Charles Keeping. 2 surface tears to rear board of vol I otherwise both books in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by Charles Keeping (illustrator). 1st Edition. First published in 1965, this is a sixth impression of 1973, with the fabulous blue variant jacket. Some edge wear, chipping and short closed tears to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine very slightly browned, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, price clipped, school prize sticker (Kingsmead School, M. Wells, Form 2R), to ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 160pp, illustrated. Part folklore, part adventure, and part fantasy, Alan Garner's Elidor is a modern children's classic. When Roland opens a door in a derelict church, he unleashes the wonders of Elidor and the grave challenges that this troubled world presents. Drawing on Welsh, Irish, and English mythology, the book chronicles the trials and hardships of a group of young teenagers as they attempt to fulfill a prophecy from another world, and fight a terrible evil. Quite scarce in this early impression.

First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Fine in very good (price-clipped, with publishers re-price sticker) dustjacket with a few small professionally closed tears along the top edge. Illustrated in colour by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fine colour illustrations by Charles Keeping. (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition 1975. Very fine colour illustrations throughout by Charles Keeping. The book looks to be ex library although there is not much evidence of this. The dustwrapper was at one time sellotaped to the binding which has left small marks to the covers and a couple of rubbed areas. The endpapers have the brown marks from old sellotape down them. A couple of small rubbed arease to front pastedown. The dustwrapper is very slightly browned and lightly rubbed around the edges. Not price clipped. A superb production with very period illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by Charles Keeping (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear and slight chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (17s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy in bright unfaded jacket. 245pp. Phaedrus the gladiator wins his freedom after years of bloody battles in the arena. Soon he finds himself riding north towards the wilds of Caledonia on a strange mission. He is to assume the identity of Midir, Lord of the Horse People, to seek vengeance against the treacherous Liadhan, who has usurped the throne. Ahead of him lies more adventure and more danger than he had ever known in the arena. Rosemary Sutcliff was born in Surrey, the daughter of a naval officer. Later in her life she lived in Devon and then Sussex. At the age of two she contracted the progressively wasting Still's disease, and hence spent most of her life in a wheelchair. Sadly Rosemary died in 1992 at the age of 72. Classic Rosemary Sutcliff, now quite scarce in this first impression.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Charles Keeping (Colour dustwrapper and interior black and white illustrations) (illustrator). First Edition. A scarce uncorrected advance reading proof copy that, precedes the publication of the true first edition - rare to find complete in the original publisher's colour-illustrated dustwrapper (trimmed by the publisher to fit the proof copy - which is a smaller size than the hardback first edition). The author's third book. Colour dustwrapper illustration by Charles Keeping. Black and white illustrations in the text also by Charles Keeping. ***Very good in pale blue 'cloudy sky' marbled thin card wrappers. No inscriptions. Light foxing to the fore-edge and outer margin adjoining fore-edge of text-block. Hint of unobtrusive sporadic foxing to prelims and to wrappers. No tears. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 13s. 6d. net. Extremities and corners of dustwrapper slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased. Rear panel of dustwrapper foxed to outer edge and top edge. No tears. No fading. Spine and front panel of dustwrapper bright. 210mm x 144mm. 160 pages. ***'With his first two books, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath, Alan Garner's vivid imagination and powerful writing won from the critics praise rare for a new writer of children's fiction. --- This is Alan Garner's strength: his ability to treat magic in a contemporary setting without any of the whimsy usually associated with this subject. In this, his newest book, the contemporary nature of the story is even greater than in the first two. Four ordinary children living in Manchester are suddenly and seemingly inexplicably thrown up against forces far stronger than any ever conceived by a writer of science fiction. ***The originality of the story and the power of its telling sweep the reader along from the first page to the last, and Charles Keeping's drawings perfectly complement the narrative. ***It is a book that to describe would give away its secrets. It demands to be read.' (Quote from inside dustwrapper blurb). ***Preceding the publication of the true first edition, this is a rare advanced reading proof copy of Alan Garner's third novel. Extremely hard to find, especially complete in the attractive colour-illustrated proof dustwrapper. A scarce item as only a handful of these proof copies are likely to have survived, and not many of these would retain their dustwrappers. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.