Kennington Anne (4 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Brown pictorial boards. Brown and white text illustrations. 40 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Endpapers and outer page edges foxed. Brown pictorial wrapper is edge-worn. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Gordon, C. Conway (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. A Fairy story. Illustrated with drawings by C Conway Gordon. First edtion. 4to. Original pictorial cloth, marked on end papers. Dust wrapper slightly nicked around edges. Complete with original price. All books outside sent airmail. All books sent tracked. All dust wrappers are film protected. PayPal accepted. C Conway Gordon (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Brown pictorial boards. Brown and white text illustrations. 40 pages. SIGNED by author, with dedication. A few marks to covers. Wrapper has a few marks and is edge-chipped. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Gordon, C. Conway (illustrator). SIGNED - please see description for details.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A signed presentation copy of Anne Kennington's very scarce children's tale, inscribed to the prolific theatre director and early suffragette Edith Craig. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Inscribed to the front free endpaper: 'To Edith Craig in appreciation of her great service to the theatre, from Anne Kennington'. Dated March 1947.Craig was a prolific theatre director, producer, costume designer and early pioneer of the women's suffrage movement in England. She lived in a ménage à trois with the dramatist Christabel Marshall and the artist Clare 'Tony' Atwood from 1916 until 1947.With vignette illustrations throughout from C. Conway Gordon.With the bookplate of Nicolas McDowall to the front pastedown. McDowall was an artist and the founder of the Old Stile Press, a private press that produced its first book in 1981.A charming children's work. In the publisher's original paper covered boards, and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with bumps to back strip head and tail. Bookplate to front pastedown, with inscription to front free endpaper. Small closed tear to head of dust wrapper rear wrap. Small ink spots towards tail of rear wrap. Back strip a touch age toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. C. Conway Gordon (illustrator). signed by author. book.…