Margaret Beech (39 results)

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. What's that sound? asks the little boy, wondering about the calls of bayou birds. From the "who-ah-who-o!" of mourning doves to the barred owl's "Who-cooks-for-you? Who-cooks-for-you-all?" nightly call, take a bird watching walk alongside the bayou with your own little one and sing along. Ta…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. No date stated, but stated 6th printing. Foreword by Lord Baden Powell. Orange cloth boards with black lettering. Boards are excellent, there is offset browning on all endpapers but pages are remarkably clean with the odd printer's crease. The DJ has corner and s…

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 220 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing a…

Condition: Fair. No Edition Stated. 220 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shel…

Condition: Good. 1956. 6th Printing. 224 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to sp…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. NO DUST JACKET. 1st Edition. VG++/NO DUST JACKET. 1st Edition. An educational reader for children of 15 to 17. Orange boards. Book has spine fade (from orange to deep yellow), soil marks on front and rear boards. No corner bumps, no ink names, stamps or other markings. Bookseller's label stick…

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Good +/++. No Dustjacket. First Printing. No dustjacket. 214 pages. Clean green hardback binding (small mark to front, spine colour-faded to yellow). Black titles to spine. Some wear to spine-ends & boards' corners. Page-edges lightly yellowed, ink writing and scribbles to flyleaf, p.94 coming lo…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Undated (circa 1930s). 220pp, [iv] index. Orange cloth-covered boards; black titles on front and spine. 12mo. Sun-faded spine. Lightly bumped and rubbed spine ends, board edges and corners; very minor fraying at mid-lower spine. Ring stain on front board. Slightly cocked. D…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dustjacket. First Printing. No dustjacket. 256 pages. Darker green, age-dulled hardback binding with black title to front board and spine (spine is colour-faded and blotched) and boards are damp-blothed. Page-edges lightlly browned and greyed, impressed cross marks to flyleaf which goes through to…

8vo, 224pp. Original cloth in illustrated dustwrapper, very minimal signs of any wear whatsoever. A beautiful copy in fine condition. First edition. Description on blub reads as thus: "Dr. Burne and his young nephew and neice discuss many things, including animal instinct and intelligence, the evolution of man, the soul, sex, so…