Mrs C Bowen (33 results)

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 96 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red illustrated cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Minor tanning to free endpapers due to dust…

Condition: Fair. No Edition Stated. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Green pictorial cloth with gilt lettering. Prize plate to front pastedown. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wea…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Undated but circa 1910 (and definitely not the first edition of 1868). 128pp, with colour plate frontispiece. Red cloth-covered boards with printed illustration on upper panel, printed decorations on spine. 12mo. Boards rounded at corners and spine ends, slightly sunned ove…

fester Einband. Condition: Gut. Hardcover, 17,5x12 cm, 64 Seiten plus 32 Seiten Verlagswerbung. Cover etwas fleckig. Papier nachgedunkelt Vor- und Nachsatz etwas stockfleckig. Es gibt ein neueres Ex-Libris, insgesamt guter Zustand//Hardcover, 17,5x12 cm, 64 pages plus 32 pages of publisher's advertizing. Cover has some stains, F…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 10th Edition. 96 pages + a publisher's supplement of 16 pages. This is the Tenth Edition as indicated on the title page. Not dated but reckoned to be 1895 as there is a prize dedication on front free end paper dated "Jany 1896". For its age, the book is in very good condition - minimal…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition red cloth boards with a 7 1/2 inch by 5 1/2 inch color illustrated front cover pastedown and gold spine lettering. Includes Preliminary Page Quote by Washington Irving; List of Illustrations; Illustrator Dedication and Introduction; Acknowledgments; Author Index; Title…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. W Partridge & Co. Ltd, London, 1897, twenty-fifth thousand. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good minus. No Dust Jacket. Name and date (1897) written in faint pencil to fep. Else unmarked. Pages edge-browned with age, some cracking to hinge but binding sound, slight lean, covers a little gr…

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book follows Ben, an inquisitive young boy, as he grows into a responsible and compassionate man against the backdrop of adversity. The author paints a vivid picture of Bedford, England in the Victorian era, contextualizing Ben's journey within the hardships many people faced at t…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A nice rare copy of this moral tale (orphaned children returning from Australia to England on board the Hesperus!) Presumed early 1900s Good condition illustrated red boards, line illustrations (two of which have been hand-coloured neatly). Pages are slightly tanned. Binding is…

Decorated Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Published. First Edition. A VERY ATTRACTIVE EXAMPLE OF LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY BOOK PRODUCTION. First edition, 172pp, engraved frontispiece illustration, two title pages, one with illustration and titled The Blind Girl A Swedish Story, ink Sunda…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Forty-sixth Thousand. No date, but c 1900. Original green binding with red titles and green/black cover illustration of two girls and a boy. 128 pages. B/w illustrations throughout. Neat Sunday School Award certificate on ffe. A very nice clean, tight, straight, virtually undamaged copy. Scan ava…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition, Probably. Crown, decorative cloth original on turquoise background , a trifle dull & sl. wear at edges, and whole a bit shaken, frontis, no dj, 64 pp.,fingermarked throughout but in original shape. The book is itself anon but probably by Mrs C E Bowen, and probably als…

Paperback. Condition: Good. A charming Christmas poem in toy book form, printed by German engraver and lithographer Joseph Kronheim. A charming toy book edition of The Robin's Christmas Eve, a children's poem written by children's author and poet Mrs. C.E. Bowen, part of the Alexandra series. In the publisher's original pictoria…