Lilian Timpson (9 results)

Condition: Fair. No Edition Stated. 216 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Front endpaper missing. Half title page detached but present. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Pen marks to front paste down. Both hinges cracked with netting visible, thus the boards are slack. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.…

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 216 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Prize plate to front pastedown. Black and white illustrations throughout. Minor thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with noticeable staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 216pp. Still well bound and in nice clean condition. gift inscription from 1922 on fep.

Condition: Fair. 1910. No Edition Remarks. 216 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated blue cloth covered boards. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. End-papers are more notably tanned. Previous owner's inscription to end-papers and paste-downs. Ex Libris plate to reverse of half title. Several plates are loose with small tears to edges. Binding is generally cracked throughout. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate crushing to spine ends, with splitting, fraying and loss to the head, tail and joints. Boards are bowed. Boards have minor damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean. Sunning to spine and board edges.…

Hardcover. Octavo, original red cloth with color illustration paste down to front board, color and black and white illustrations throughout by Charles Robinson. An uncommon fairy tale. Pencil markings to title page and rear end papers, ownership inscription to front paste down, offsetting to end papers, foxing to pages, both hinges weak, lacking illustration plate on page 130, rubbing and bumping to corners and ends of spine, soiling to cloth, else a good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Circa 1920's, good condition, age tanning, owners signature, minor marks, light wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Some marking and staining to boards. Some rubbing and slight fraying to cloth at ends of spine. 1/8" loss of cloth at lower corners of boards. Binding loose with spine mull visible between gatherings.; [vi], 216, [ii], pages + frontis + plates. Blue cloth boards with black illustration. Page Dimensions: 185mm x 125mm. "The princess knelt at the nursery window and stared thoughtfully up at the moon." - the opening sentence.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good to very good. No Jacket. [vii] 216pp. Decorated tan cloth bumped at corners and head and foot of spine w small raised mark to rear panel. With black and white illustrations which have been coloured-in in crayon. Otherwise contents clean and binding tight, a decent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp vii, 216. Frontis & 5 plates - all as called for. Original pictorial cloth, lightly marked. A very nice copy. Allen, Olive (illustrator).