King E H W Wingfield (5 results)

Condition: Good. Boards have some wear/handling marks to rear Content has light toning with a few marks - presentation sticker dated 1937 to front pastedown. No DJ.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Circa 1924. Good condition with no wrapper. As Told by Uncle Teddie. A little girl takes her kitten to the zoo where he has a strange adventure. Small format. Blue cloth, black title to spine & vignette of young girl & boy reading in a wreath. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. Covers marked. Neat inscription in ink to front endpaper. First gathering pulled exposing binding. Else contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Date. Hardback: b/w frontispiece + text illustrations, colour pictorial covers are dusty and marked, spine tips and corners bumped and rubbed, binding is loose between a few pages, prize plate (dated 1936) on the front flyleaf, internal and foredge foxing, frontispiece has been taped back into place, lower corner of title page lightly creased, about half the illustrations have some colouring in, fair. 8vo, 61pp. Published in 1924 according to the British Library catalogue.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Possible 1st. Nice hardcover in illustrated paper covered boards showing a dog and cat looking at a rolled up hedgehog on the cover, solid green paper covered rear cover. Tips bumped and rubbed w/color loss but not splayed or frayed. Backstrip of book is firmly attached and shows black title/author/publisher and a color illustration of an older woman in a long skirt with a flock of geese behind her holding a cat by the scruff of the neck next to a stream as if she's just rescued it. Prize note written on fep from a teacher to a student for their Nature study dated 1935. Book is illustrated with three full page b/w plates and many vignettes scattered throughout the *very* heavy gauge text. One of the plates has been colored by a child, and the spine is cracked at this page, but no loose leaves, no tears or major soil seen save for one finger smudge in one margin (text unaffected). A book that is part of 'The Happy Hours' series. It is a group of tales about these two animal friends and their escapades.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Publisher - Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, n.d. VERY RARE - no other copy known. SIGNED by author to title page, INSCRIBED by author to ffep with presentation inscription: 'To Beryl Franklin with the author's love 10th June 1944'. Attractive colour bookplate of Beryl Franklin underneath presentation inscription, with her name in childish writing. Very thick pages, colour frontispiece, four full page b/w line drawn illustrations, two of these partly coloured in with pencil, several smaller b/w drawings. Poor condition, colour illustrated front board, plain green back board, spine strip missing, rubbing and fraying to boards, front board detaching to webbing at title page, foxing throughout, all gatherings loose.…