Knight M Forster (22 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. A late 1960s PB collection of SF stories written in the late 1920s through the 1950s. MB 75-183. It contains stories by Robert Abernathy (Single Combat), Walter M Miller, Jr (Dumb Waiter), Henry Kuttner (Jesting Pilot), Robert A Heinlein ("It's Great to be Back!"), J G Ballard (Billenium), James Blish (Okie), C M Kornbluth (The Luckiest Man in Denv), E M Forster (The Machine Stops), Brian Aldiss (The Under-Privileged), Stephen Vincent Benet (By the Waters of Babylon), and Don A Stuart (Forgetfulness). "When man faces doom from outer space, he must choose between escape to other worlds or life in giant cocoons". Light edge wear to the covers. "Star" scribble in ink just below the title on the front cover. "Chesbrough" stamped in ink at the top of the verso of the front cover, the following page, the bottom of the title page and the fore edge of the pages. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, third printing # W 704 of this collection of 21 fantasy / horror short stories written by HG Wells, Rudyard Kipling, EM Forster, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lord Dunsay, F Scott Fitzgerald and more. Light chipping to tips of the spine. Light edgewear. Reading crease near spine. In Very Good Condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Original red cloth. Small area of fading at head of spine, birthday inscription in green ink, previous owner's name in pencil, cracked in one place, Good in Good Dust Jacket with one inch missing at head of spine and an inch missing all along the bottom of the front cover. Colored plate.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Knight, M. Forster (illustrator). First Edition. Tan covers a bit soiled. Backstrip slightly faded. Spine a bit slanted. Clean inside and out.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Spine is missing. Gift inscription dated 1944. Owner's address sticker.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. iv+68 pages. Illustrated, small bookseller's stamp, small tears to dust jacket spine and corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Knight, M. Forster (illustrator). 1st Edition. 154pp. HARDCOVER Moderate external wear/marks to external cloth. No inscriptions internally with clean endpapers.Binding remains secure. However.this has been a well-loved child's book and it shows that it has been read many times. Marks to a handful of pages, but mostly very clean. All line illustrations are untouched and have NOT been coloured-in as often happens! Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Knight, M. Forster (illustrator). Charming Children's story about 5 Children making friends with the wild animals in the woods. Lovely B&W Full-Page and In-Text illustrations by M.Forster Knight. Yellow Ochre cloth cover with Brown Lettering on front & spine. 8 1/2" Tall, 470g, 144 pages. Cloth a little rippled in places. Frontis illus. and First illustration coloured in. No inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Limited Edition. 128 pages, colour frontispiece and many b/w illustrations. Old name and date 1944 on front endpaper.

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. M. Forster Knight (illustrator). 71pp, hg, deco. endpapers, 6 x 10 inches, gift inscription, small burnmark on endpapers (probably from match or cigarette), o/wise is .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Very Good. First Edition. 128 pp. Original green cloth covers. Top corners and spine ends bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block. Inscription to previous owner on verso of front endpaper. DJ moderately soiled w/ mild chipping to corners and spine ends. Approx. 1/4" closed tear from top edge of front panel. Illust. w/ b/w drawings and a color frontispiece. Contents nice.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. M. Forster Knight (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition first printing quarto Hardback 68 pages illustrated with three colour plates and many black and white illustrations Qiuite a number of the latter have been hand coloured by a child (not all that inexpertly) Good condition.Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Irene Mountfort, Marian Allen, May Smith, Harry Rountree, Roy Meldrum, Hugh Chesterman (illustrator). 1st Edition. 4to. (25 cm.) [4]v-vii[1]1-247[1]p. Tipped in color frontispiece by Irene Mountfort, plus fivex tipped in color plates by Marian Allen, May Smith, Harry Rountree, Roy Meldrum, and Hugh Chesterman. Plus numerous black and white drawings throughout by Irene Mounfort, C.T. Nightingale, Marian Allen, Michael Lynn (the author, illustrating six of the items included), May Smith, Harry Rountree, Ruth Macnair, L.R. Brightwell, Harold King, each one illustrating the various stores & poems included in this book. Pictorial endpapers. Tan cloth with repeating pattern in blue over boards. Some wear to extremities with corners just barely worn through, all plates present and in fine condition, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. M Forster Knight (illustrator). 1st Edition. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to hard back book. 128 pages. Pages are clean and tight. No name or inscription.Green boards are excellent, minor foxing to f.e.p.Stamp on half title. Right side of f.e.p. missing.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (juvenile, fiction, animals) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. M. Forster Knight (illustrator). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1945. First edition. Good. M. Forster Knight. Fawn covers stained, corners bumped, first few pages with light creasing otherwise clean, ffep with ink and pencil juvenile signatures.

First Edition. Includes previous owner's inscription. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 128 p. ; 8º. Decorated endpapers. Subject; Fiction. Juvenile Literature. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

First Edition. Includes previous owner's inscription. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 128 p. ; 8º. Decorated endpapers. Subject; Fiction. Juvenile Literature. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1945 Country Life Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket. Wonderful jacket design, end-papers & illustrations by author as shown.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Knight, M. Forster (illustrator). First Edition. Signed on Signature plate to inner FEP. Signed by Author.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. M. Forster Knight (illustrator). First edition. Two very scarce works for children by Mary Forster Knight, both signed by the author. Two very scarce first edition works by Mary Forster Knight.Both volumes are signed by the author to the half-title.Two charming works for children, containing short tales and poems following animals on various magical and exciting adventures.'The Laughing Hour', published in 1937. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, two colour plates, and in-text illustrations throughout.'Laugh Another Day', published in 1938. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, two colour plates, and in-text illustrations throughout.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's quarter cloth bindings with paper to the boards. Externally, smart. Light rubbing to the extremities. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Only a few minor marks to the boards. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Signed by the author to the half-titles. Small closed tear to the half-title of 'Laugh Another Day'. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

Condition: Like New. Publisher: Country Life Limited, London, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in NEAR FINE+ dust-jacket. Two tiny closed tears the heel of the spine and one at the bottom of the DJ's rear panel, otherwise FINE. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.