Published by Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1947
Seller: Amolib Books, Oxford, OXON, United Kingdom
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Poor. Jones, Laurian (illustrator). A reading only copy. Orange penguin no, 232. Foxed cover and page edges, cocked and backstrip just starting to peel away at the ends.
Published by William Morrow & Co, USA, 1935
Seller: ABOXABOOKS, Bristol, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Laurian Jones (illustrator). 1st Edition. Assumed first edition. No jacket. Covers faded, edges worn and corners bumped. Especially worn top and bottom of spine. Cover layer over the spine is beginning to separate from the spine. Text pages in good condition.
Published by Readers League of America, New York, 1935
Seller: Weatherby Books, West Pawlet, VT, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Good. Laurian Jones (illustrator). The dark red cover has the title in gilt and the title on the spine is gilt. The corners are only lightly bumped, there is a black spot on the cover and the spine is sunstruck. The endpapers are lightly aged with a former owners name in ink; the page before the title page has the same person's name twice in ink. Although the inside is aged yellow, it is very clean and readable.303pp with author's notes on one page.
Published by William Morrow, New York
Seller: Capricorn Books, Oakville, ON, Canada
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Laurian Jones. (illustrator). Reprint. 303 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H). B&w drawings. "(Velvet Brown's) passion in life was horses. And so, when she won a notorious and unwanted piebald in a village lottery, (she) began to dream. And, since the breathless imagination of youth sees no obstacles as insuperable, Velvet's thoughts turned to the greatest race in the world - the Grand National. The Piebald (was) part carthorse, part Arab. Because he preferred sociable village life to lonely fields, he learned to jump fences. When Velvet took him on, he looked like a newly painted rocking horse. When he appeared at Aintree, the crowd looked at him and hooted. Enid Bagnold's clear, pungent style gives this joyous and captivating tale a rare flavor. It is rich with the comedy of life and character and poignant in its realization of the eager, indomitable trust of youth." Minor wrinkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wear/wrinkling, two tiny edge tears, two soft creases at bottom of front panel.
Published by Penguin - Peacock, Middlesex, England, 1962
Seller: Klanhorn, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Jones, Laurian (illustrator). Reprint. VG, Edgewear, creases, staining, browning. Classic horse drama. Peacock PK1. Photo on request.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd., C1930, 7th Printing 1960, 1960
Seller: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by the author and Laurian Jones (illustrator). Octavo, hardcover, VG in lightly edgeworn dj. Tells the story of three traveling children, with charming illustrations. 172 pp. Has brief gift note on front endpaper. White pictorial boards on book. Book.
Published by Michael Joseph, 1948
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1948. First Edition. 196 pages. Green dust jacket with B&W lettering over blue cloth. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine and board edges. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Minor tanning and soiling to DJ.
Published by Michael Joseph, Uk, 1948
Seller: EbenezerBooks, Tynewydd, RCT, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. blue cloth boards, with shelf wear, some wear to edges and corners, minor scuffing to spine, fading to spine, a good clean tight copy.the story of Prince Leopold of Germany and Anna, their meeting, falling in love and the war that seperated them for so long. Book.
Published by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1951
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Softcover. Condition: Good. Laurian Jones (illustrator). Reprint. The text is illustrated with black and white line drawings by Laurian Jones. Black and white photograph of author to the rear book panel. Plain text paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Mi Taylor, a former jockey mentors a young girl, Velvet Brown, to groom a wild horse to win England's Grand National steeplechase, in a time when girls / women weren't allowed to be jockeys. Minor creasing of the book corners with chipping of the backstrip corners; with a small, 0.25", split to the lower edge of the rear panel. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with sunning also present. Tanning of the textblock edges and pages. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 254, [2] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Laurian Jones. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Teens & Young Adult; Horse Racing; Illustration; Inventory No: 0129855.
Published by William Morrow,, NY:, 1980
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Laurian Jones (illustrator). Made into the 1944 film. A recent book club facsimile of the 1935 edition. Light foxing on top edge, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Hardcover. Laurian Jones (illustrator). Book Club edition.
Hardcover. Laurian Jones (illustrator). 1st Am. ed.
Published by Peacock, 1973
ISBN 10: 0140470018 ISBN 13: 9780140470017
Seller: The Children's Bookshop, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Jones, Laurian (illustrator). Reprint. Light wear to edges of covers. Pages tanned.
Published by William Heinemann, [London], 1930
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
172 pp. Illustrated by the author and Laurian Jones. 8vo, publisher's decorated white cloth. New Impression, October 1930. (First published August 1930.) 1931 ink gift inscription; spine slightly tanned and cloth slightly dust-soiled; tight and sound.
Published by Morrow, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1935
Seller: Trench Books, Hudson, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Laurian Jones (illustrator). First Edition. Wear to edges and corners, slight lean, clean and unmarked. Jacket quite worn at corners and edges, chips to top of spine (affecting title) and bottom of back, not price clipped.
Published by Peacock 1962, 1962
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1935. First edition, 1935. Black and dark pink cloth printed in silver gilt, no dustjacket. The book has some light shelf rubbing, uneven fading to the pink cloth good hinges, sound text block, name in pencil at top of front free endpaper, no other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1951
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Laurian Jones (illustrator). Reprint. Some marks to the card covers. Firmly bound with some pulling at the front.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Laurian Jones (illustrator). Reprint. Mimics the look of the original trade edition. Pretty nice book, jacket well chipped at spine ends, and the spine is sunned.
Published by Triangle Books/The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia, PA
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Laurian Jones (illustrator). (1945) 304 pp. Original brown cloth covers, lightly soiled. Top corners and spine ends bumped. Leaves age toned. DJ moderately soiled and rubbed w/ wear to edges. Approx. 3/4" closed tear to top edge of rear panel. Light chipping to corners and spine ends. Illust. w/ b/w drawings.
Published by Heinemann, London, 1930
Seller: Mad Hatter Books, Auckland, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Laurian Jones (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardback: illustrated in b/w with pink touches by the author and LAURIAN JONES, portrait frontispiece of Laurian Jones, no dj, book is bound in cloth which is dusty, spine repaired, remains of presentation label on flyleaf, front inner joint split in two places, slight foredge foxing, else g. wide 8vo, 172pp.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Laurian Jones (illustrator). First Edition. 173pgs. Green patterned boards. Prev. owner name on the front free endpaper. A blank preliminary page has been excised. Covers are soiled and the spine is darkened. This is a charming picture book recreating the Jones's family life with some humour and exaggeration but full of cooks, governesses and nurses as well as 'Fortnum jerseys' details which make it unacceptable today. The illustrations were by Enid together with some by 9 year old Laurian, Size: Octavo.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The Author and Laurian Jones (illustrator). Reprint. Children's adventures in the author's town of Rottingdean, near Brighton, nicely illustrated in a folk style by the author & a local child. Bagnold is best remembered for National Velvet. Hardcover in jacket as poictured. Light wear to book; corners bumped, edges lightly faded; jacket shows some chipping, short tears, some scuffing & tanning to spine; bookplate, a few stains to a few pages, upper page corners lightly creased. Text clean; [8], [174] pages; line drawings tinted in pink & olive, b/w frontispiece photo of the illustrator. Size: Octavo.
Published by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1940
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Laurian Jones (illustrator). Reprint. This very good copy is bound in orange Penguin card covers as issued. The text block is tight, bright and square, there is some light age toning to the page edges typical in an eighty year old copy, but this does not affect the text. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. First published in 1935 the first Penguin edition was published in 1939. National Velvet is the story of a 14-year-old girl named Velvet Brown, who trains and rides her horse, named The Piebald, to victory in the Grand National steeplechase. The novel focuses on the ability of ordinary people, particularly women, to accomplish great things. Velvet is a teenager in the late 1920s, living in a small English coastal village in Sussex, dreaming of one day owning many horses. She is a high-strung, shy, nervous child with a delicate stomach. Her mother is a wise, taciturn woman who was once famous for swimming the English Channel; her father is a butcher. The novel was made into a more or less faithful, highly successful film version in 1944, starring twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney, with Donald Crisp, Anne Revere and a young Angela Lansbury. In 2008 the film was voted the ninth best American film in the sports genre Ref GG 4.
Published by Michael Joseph, 1948
Seller: High Street Books, New Mills, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. No dust jacket, spine a bit faded, page edges tanned. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday.
Published by William Morrow and Company, New York, 1935
Seller: Joy of Books, Etobicoke, ON, Canada
First Edition
Buckram. Condition: Good. No Jacket, as Issued. Laurian Jones (illustrator). First Edition. Octovo. First Edition of this beloved classic. Russet boards, black spine and binding, silver imprint lettering. Lively drawings of horses on endpapers, chapter headings and throughout. 305 pages with Author's note. Book is in quite good condition, spine intact, one slight near-crack at page 234; normal yellowing and foxing, but clean. Cover is faded, edges and corners a bot stained and wear worn from loving reading, but overall good condition. Wants to be read and loved again.
Published by London: W. Heinemann, 1930
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 171, [1] pages: frontispiece (portrait), color illustrations; 22 cm. Subjects: Families Great Britain; Fiction.Stowaways; Fiction. 20th century fiction. 1 Kg.
Published by Heinemann, 1930
Seller: The Children's Bookshop, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Jones, Laurian (illustrator). Light grey cloth-covered boards. 17cm x 21cm. Covers worn at edges and somewhat soiled. Corners and spine ends bumped. Writing erased from front endpaper. Contents close to VG, but som occasional fingermarking at page edges.
Published by Michael Joseph, 1948
Seller: Lincolnshire Old Books, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. Blue boards with silver gilt titles. A very good copy. Some lightening to spine. No other marks to boards. Internally very clean and complete with no inscriptions. A very good copy of the first edition.
Published by William Heinemann Limited, London, 1952
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Author & Laurian Jones (illustrator). Reprint. 172 pages, preface by author. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of Laurian Jones (author's eldest daughter ). The text is copiously illustrated with two toned illustrations by the Author & Laurian Jones. White coloured boards with pink and black star design on the book panels and title and illustrations placed within a box on the front panel. Black writing and pink illustration of a ship and three fish on the spine. A book by the author of " National Velvet " and illustrated by herself and her eldest daughter about the adventures of three travelling children. Nice copy of the book, no annotations, clean stop dust jacket ragged, with tears and chips best to refer to the attached image to get an idea of both. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Author & Laurian Jones. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: children; Inventory No: 0271774.