Mrs Herbert Strang Editor (71 results)

Condition: GOOD. First edition. A collection of short stories and poems - featuring children, as in the title story - or animals like Whiskers, the field mouse, or Merrilegs, the pony. Illustrated with black and white drawings. 77 pp. Very good in papercovered boards with a colorful illustration on the front cover, blue spine and back cover (usual toning to pages, some rubbing to covers).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Binding firm, interior lightly tanned with some foxing, clean and unmarked except for gift inscription on paste down. Cover has light soiling, edge wear and heavy corner wear. Color and B/W illustrations.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 62p, illus. Small mark on first page of text (see photo). Issued in the series: The little gay books. Ownership stamp to half-title: All Saints Infants School Pontefract.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. This book is in fair condition with mostly tight binding and clean text. The front cover is torn away from the staples but no pages are falling out. There is major wear and corner bumping. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good Plus. A good plus beige oversized hardcover with paste-on picture to cover and beige spine (cover: carriage full of babies and a rabbit wearing a green coat). 4 colour plates and black and white illustrations in text. 1919 reprint. Missing ffep. Writing on back of frontis.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG/VG. Colour frontis by Mary S Reeve and articles and black and white illustrations by various authors and artists. Book is chipped at spine tail and has dent along top rear edge. Name inked out on FFEP. Matching pictorial jacket has a number of small chips and tears and some small ink scribbles on front. Unusual to find these in jacket and which has ensured the boards stayed remarkably bright. unpaginated.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. undated c1920 from cover illustration design. One of Mrs Strang's Unbreakable Books, contains 6 boards featuring 2 illustrations bound together at spine. Illustrators include Govey, Brock, Sowerby. Sadly although the board were indeed unbreakable the top edges have suffered a liquid spillage but does not impinge on pictures. Front cover generally clean, rear has scuffing. Various (illustrator).…

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, mild foxing, pictorial paper covered boards, a very good tightly bound copy, brief gift inscription to a previous owner, the text otherwise unmarked, colour frontis, b&w illustrations.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Unpaginated. No date of publication, but an inscription on the recto of the frontispiece is dated 1927. Pages are heavy card stock, and print is large type. Backstrip missing. Edges rubbed and scuffed. binding is shaky, but nothing is loose. Has 18 color plates. The sub-title "Sunny days" appears on the front cover, The first item is the poem "Down by the sea." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good -. No Jacket. Anthology of 28 short stories and poetry sections featuring female heroines. Richly illustrated with B&W line drawings and (count not listed) full color plates. Pages are not numbered. 16 popular authors listed with some of the other works not attributed to any particular author. The illustrations are also from different people not identified except for their signatures on illustrations. Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of two English authors, George Herbert Ely (1866¿1958) and Charles James L'Estrange (1867¿1947). They specialized in writing adventure stories for boys, both historical and modern-day. Both men were staff members of Oxford University Press, which published their books, giving them a patina of social status and approval for the parents of their intended audience. That pseudonym was also employed for several series of anthologies, works "edited by Herbert Strang" that included The Big Book of School Stories for Boys and The Oxford Annual for Scouts. There was in addition an anthology series for girls by "Mrs. Herbert Strang", who was also given as the author of some adventure books for girls including one of the stories in this collection. The full color illustration pasted to the cover was the illustration from the story "Winona" attributed to Mrs. Herbert Stang. It is signed by the artist "G. Clark", who I assume, was George Merritt Clark (1853-1904) although nothing in the text confirms this assumption. Hardcover has decorated green paper boards with green cloth spine, white lettering on spine & front, and one of the full color illustrations pasted on front cover. Spine torn along rear, stabilized with tape. Text appears complete with the illustration matching the front cover torn out but laid in. Rear facing end-paper torn out, front facing end paper has prior owner name & info, but text tightly bound, clean and unmarked. Last page discolored from newsprint no longer there. No copyright, printing or edition dates. Other books for sale at this time date this edition to prior to 1920 based on inscriptions, awards laid-in, etc. 1900 is in line with fashions in illustrations and condition of this copy. A reprint edition circa 1934 has cloth boards & DJ. The edition for sale probably was not issued with a jacket. Of course, no ISBN, LCCN nor MSR. Prior Owner Name No Value.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 62p, illus. Issued in the series: The little gay books. Ownership stamp to half-title: All Saints Infants School Pontefract.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 18 cm. Fairly sound binding in illustrated, paper-covered boards. Upper hinge and gutter are partially split. Spine ends and corners worn. Text block edges are foxed. Shelf rubbed with some light soil. Inside pages have occasional light soil. Title page has some foxing. A collection of children's stories published as part of The Little Giant Books series. Cover artwork is signed with what appears to read Mel Everett. Illustrated in black and white.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Damaged book in pictorial board covers; backstrip has been re-glued in place; a little faint writing to front edge and surface rubs. Internally fair; end papers tanned; a note to verso of flyleaf; front hinge very tender; text block sound; no foxing; stories by Alice Massie, Jessie McAlpine, Dorothea Moore et al. No date c 1933.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Tight Firm Clean Copy Of Childrens Book Dated 1929. 21 Stories. Black And White Line Drawings Throughout And A Number Of Full Page Colour Illustrations. Appears Free Of Child Markings But Does Have A Loose Child Drawing/Painting Of Flowers Inside On A Seperate Piece Of Paper Dated 1928 By Previous Previous Owner Mildred Harpham. Gift Inscription Dated Xmas 1930 To Mildred Harpham On Internal Ffp. Laminated Pictorial Hard Card Cover With Some Slight Edge Wear And Rubbing. Nice Copy For Age.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Square and solid with tiny tears in binding at top and bottom of spine, otherwise the covers are bright and show light wear. Pictorial covers and spine, part of publisher's Little Giant Books series. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very good book in pictorial board covers; rubbed at spine ends. Internally very good; neat dedication to verso of frontispiece; very well illustrated; binding tight; a few faint foxing spots to prelims but little elsewhere. Cicely Englefield, Angusine MacGregor, May Smith et al (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. illustrated board covers, giflt inscription dated 1930, spine has been repained with tape, also inside front hing repaired with tape, , brown spotting to ffep and edges, clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover Published by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932, pictorial covers some light wear to edges, some foxing to page edges, crossword has some penciled entries, Good copy. VARIOUS (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First. 4to. creased & ridged spine slight tear top page in Yellow Gown. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good only, with cracked hinges, foxing, worn boards, rubbing, light soiling, bumped, worn corners, and edgewear. Lovely color plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1930 1st edition. Good/None. Hard pictorial boards with some rubbing/scuffing, a little splitting to spine. Contents generally clean but for minor soiling/browning, some splitting. I think the front board may have been replaced, but I can't be sure. Charming B&W illustrations throughout by Cicely Englefield. Bingo the baby polar bear visits the other residents of the zoo to tell them about his woolley coat. A scarce book from a scarce series of miniature books. Englefield, Cicely (illustrator).…

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Near Very Good. Undated Edition, Presentation Label on front free endpaper dated 1934. Exciting stories for gilrls Illustrated with some full page colour plates and B&W In-Text Ink Drawings. Colour Frontis shows 2 girls, one dressed as a Red Indian and the other as a nun. First Story is "The Bronze Man" by Brenda Girvin. 3/4" Tall. Slight edgewear and a few chips to cover. Pages and pictures in very nice, clean condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. unpaginated, coloured title page, 3 other preliminary pages have colour illustrations, one colour plate and several b/w text illustrations, lacks spine, several pages loose. Rare.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 60p, illus. Library stamp to title.

192 pp, illustrated end-papers, colour plates, b&w illustrations, some flecking to boards, end-papers browned, top of spine pulled, else good copy in illustrated, papered boards.

Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Good+. Delightful bookof Illustrated Stories for Children. Frontis has a full-colour full-page Illustration of King Charles speaking to 2 boys from the New Forest. Title Page illustrated with Children feeding Birds. Light Blue paper-covered-boards illustrated on front with Children in a tug-of-war. Children in a stilts race on spine. 14 Short Stories & Verses with lovely Illustrations, 6 Full-Page Colour Plates & B&W In-Text Drawings. Undated Edition, gift inscription on ffep dated 1936. Some wear to corners of boards and a closed tear (2" long) at bottom right edge of spine. Hinges sound. Binding strained by one colour plate, otherwise firm. Pages in very good, clean, crisp Condition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

FIRST EDITION 1931, miniature book 84 x 71 mm, 3¼ x 2¾ inches, frontispiece, title vignette and 28 illustrations, 7 full page, (76) pages, bound in original publisher's blue stiff boards, cut flush, coloured illustration on both covers, lettered white, double page list of Teeny-Weeny Books inside upper cover, vignettes of nursery characters on rear endpapers. Little stories about rabbits, a little cat, a bear. No inscriptions, board edges, head and tail of spine and corners slightly worn, surface eroded on illustration on lower cover (see image), a couple of inner joints slightly cracked, binding tight and firm, occasional very slight faint foxing. A good plus clean copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION dated 1933 on reverse of title page, miniature book, approximately 80 x 65 mm, 40 mm thick, 3 x 2½ inches, 1½ inches thick, pink and white illustrated boards, illustrations of nursery characters and toys on endpapers, (184) pages, illustrated throughout in black and white, some full page, some by May Smith. SPINE MISSING, child's name on front endpaper, contents clean. Acceptable copy of scarce miniature title. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Hardback annual, 1926, with no jacket as issued. In overall good used condition with some minor signs of age, handling and storage - paper-covered boards rubbed to edges and slightly darkened to spine with chips to paper at spine head. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - school prize plate to second front endpaper dated 1927; toning to page-ends and the odd spot of foxing here and there but text, illustrated endpapers and illustrations bright and clear throughout - several of the black and while illustrations have been neatly coloured in. Photographs available. Not an old library book.…

Publishers Illustrated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Undated but circa 1918. 27 subjects, mainly stories by various authors including, Angela Brazil, Alice Massie, Beatrice Tilly and Bessie Marchant. Illustrated throughout in black and white plus numerous full page colour plates. Pages unpaginated. Inscription to front end paper dated 1918. Decorated green cloth with pictorial onlays to cover and spine in remarkably good condition. Size: 230x185mm. …