Mackintosh Mabel Editor (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Not dated, approx 1920s. Fair/None. Hard pictorial boards with cover illustration by E Harries. Some rubbing/bumping to edges/spine, some soiling. Contents fair with some soiling/spotting. Middle pages are loose, but all are present and correct. Prize label inside front cover. 3 charming colour plates. B&W illustrations throughout by the like of Louis Wain and Ernest Aris. Short stories for young children, including a tale about a cat called Tom the Foolish by Louis Wain. Scarce.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Undated but circa 1925 (prize presentation plate dated 1930). Unpaginated but circa 80pp, with colour plate frontispiece, six further colour plate illustrations and many full page drawings and drawings in text. Pictorial paper-covered boards with canvas over spine. Grey endpapers. 4to. Covers are worn and a little faded, rubbed at edges, bumped on corners and ends of sunned spine, shelf worn. Text block edges a little toned. Prize presentation plate on front paste down. Front free endpaper has a little offset toning. Some faint and occasional spotting else internally neat and clean.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. A charming collection of children's stories, with illustrations throughout. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven colour plates, and numerous in-text images. A charming collection of stories for young readers, including: The Toboggan, The Brownie's Smile, A Naughty Trick, Looking for a Horse, A Wolf Cub, and many more. Edited by Mabel Mackintosh, a British writer of children's fiction. In the original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, sound with rubbing and light chipping to the extremities resulting in minor loss. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with the title page detached but present. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Further spotting with minor age toning to the endpapers. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 196 pages and 8 full page colour plates and illustrations to every page, glazed paper boards, illustrated cloth spine, some light rubbing along bottom edge and corners a little rubbed, ink inscription on endpaper "To dear little Joey on her eighth birthday with love from auntie Sophie. Aug 1929." Quarto. *A bright copy of this thick paper nursery books for infants and with none of the myriad of line drawings coloured in (miraculously). A couple of the tales use words that may offend, due to views of the time.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Mackintosh, Mabel, editor. Somebody's darling : stories and pictures for the little ones. London: John F. Shaw s.d.,[1928]. Hardback, Good. Illustrated boards with red cloth spine with black illustration and lettering. Front board is rubbed and soiled with age discolouration to the white background, but the picture remains bright. Rear board is in plain grey with a few small marks. Spine a little crushed to head and base. Boards are bumped and scuffed to corners. Binding good but not strong. Frontispiece colour illustration and 7 further colour plates, some detached from the text block but all intact. Unpaginated sequence of stories with b/w in-text illustrations. Contents clean and bright. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…