Millard Edith E (10 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No date. Circa early 1950's Large thick children's book. Pictorial boards depicting two children in bed unwrapping presents of a toy soldier and toy rabbit. Worn and bumped around edges. Red linen spine is a little faded and softened. Binding a bit loose revealing backstrip inside. A collection of stories, games, poems, crafts, toys to make, outdoor and indoor activites. 2-tone and black and white illustrations and diagrams. Size: 4to.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. The Pixie Cobbler and Other Stories. Collins Clear-Type Supplementaries Grade 1, Number 7. Seven stories by various authors - Cecily M Rutley, Margaret Dobson, Edith E Millard, John Lea, Violet M Methley and Dorothy Pocock. Published by Collins-Clear Type Press. Fifth Impression - 1948. Size: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Page number: 32. Soft cover. Red covers with darker red printed images, black, white illustrations within and end papers that advertise road safety. Condition: Fine. The booklet has not been used and is almost as new. No jacket at issue.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Children's reader / primer. 12 short stories. 96 pages. Illustrations to text in black and white. Very Good Condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Bobby Bunny and Other Stories. One of Collins Clear-Type Supplementaries. Grade 1, Number 8. With 7 stories by Helen Cummings, Doris Wood, Cecily M. Rutley, Olive Chandler, Alice Foster, M. G. Rhodes and Edith E. Millard. Published by Collins in 1948. Size: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Page number: 32. Soft cover. Red boards with darker red decoration. The end papers are illustrated with a road safety pattern, the pages within with black and white images. Condition: Near Fine. The book has not been used. The covers and pages remain clean, un-worn and un-thumbed. There is a small marks where something has been erased on the title page and one faint mark on the cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. The Snappy Dragon and Other Stories. Eleven stories by various authors: Barbara E. Todd, Katherine Oldmeadow, Mary Cedar, Elsie M Saunders, Christine Chaundler, Margaret Gibbs, Edith E. Millard and Cecily M. Rutley. One of Collins Clear-Type Supplementaries. Grade 2. Number 1. Published by Collins in 1949. Size: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Page number: 48. Soft cover. Red wraps with decoration and lettering in blue. The end papers are decorated with road safety images. The stories are illustrated with black and white pictures. Condition: Near Fine: The booklet has not been used. There is one tiny mark on the cover. It is otherwise unmarked. The pages within are clean and un-thumbed. No jacket at issue.

Undated but gift inscription on verso of frontispiece gives 1938 date; first item is 'The Summer House by Edith Millard and cover shows four children and a dog; tightly bound in pictorial boards; light wear to spine edges, top corners slightly bumped. Wear and tear to edges and corners of dust jacket has been neatly mended on inside. Page fore-edges yellowed. Internally, a little yellowing and discolouration to edges; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

Cover has illustration of two children dressed as jester with mask and ballerina with balloons. Illustration also to spine. Boards have bumping, fraying, tear to spine, wear to edges. Prize bookplate to front paste down dated 1930. Tanning to half title page. Verso of this page has b/w ill. Colour frontispiece. Many more b/w ill, many full page, and two further colour plates. Many stories including 'The elf who would not get up', 'The nest by the porch', 'A queer customer', 'Tommy Tucker', etc. Thick pages, with foxing to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL PAPER COVERED BOARDS, ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT WITH FULL PAGE PLATES & AMONG TEXT IN BLACK & WHITE. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 12 x 10 INCHES WITH 59 PAGES. MINOR WEAR TO EDGES OF SPINE, FEW MARKS TO BOARDS MOSTLY ON REAR, CORERNS BUMPED, INSCRIPTION DATED 1934 TO FRONT ENDPAPER, VERY OCCASIONAL MINOR SEPARATION AT INNER MARGINS WITH ALL PAGES WELL ATTACHED, VERY OCCASIONAL CREASE OR MINOR MARK TO PAGES. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY WITH BOARDS WELL ATTACHED & MOSTLY CLEAN INTERNALLY. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK BOX.

66 unnumbered pages on thick brownish paper, first and last sheet serve as softcover-binding (string-binding without spine); sm-4to.(ca. 25,5 x 19 cm). *** [FRÜHLINGSVERKAUF-Endspurt, noch bis Montag den 25.05.2026 / Ultimate SPRING-SALE, only until Monday May 25th 2026: um fast 50% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of almost 50%; ehemaliger Preis / previously EUR 165,-] --- EARLY - IF NOT FIRST - EDITION OF THE - LATER CLASSIC - CHILDREN'S ABC-BOOK. - Some illustrations and the capital-letters of 'ABC' coloured with crayon-pencils. --- Left corner of frontcover slightly spotty, last sheet foxy and with scratch as well as a small tear-out at bottom; else a very copy of the fragile publication.

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. Harry B Neilson (illustrator). [1927], per British Library. White paper boards illustrated and titled in black ink, some foxing, moderate wear to corners, edges and folds, a few cracks in binding but holding well, clean text and images. A fairy story told in verse about an elf-like cobbler who lives in a tree. Amusing illustrations in line by Harry Neilson, appearing as full- and partial-page. Scarce, with only a handful of institutional copies located, not in Baumgarten. Size: Folio.