Nesbit Edith Millar H R Illustrator (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: Interior is excellent. Minimal wear to cover and jacket.

paperback. Condition: New. Millar, H. R. (illustrator).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. 1st thus 1996. NF. Slight peeling on covers and remainder mark on bottom edge. Flat and tight. Illustrated by Millar, H. R. (illustrator) (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. First Thus. Designed for a YA audience (ages 9-12), this is a magical children's tale about a young English boy who builds a magic castle in his home & ends up being transported there for a series of adventures. In 333 pages, with lovely pen-and-ink sketches by H. R. Millar throughout. Orig. published in 1906, this is the 1958 reissue from this new publisher (First, thus). Octavo has bright red cloth-covered boards, stamped with bright gilt lettering to spine. Condition is VG: completely clean & bright, corners crisp, text block sturdy, but rear hinge is cracked as is the gutter at the half-title page. Pages white & unmarked. The price-clipped DJ is Good+, with fading & a bit of edgewear, including mild creasing & tiny chips, rubbing to extremities; protected by former owner in nonreflective mylar. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Millar H. R. (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. unabridged edition. 156 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock. Millar, H. R.; Fell, H. Granville (illustrator).

dj. [Children's Fantasy] NEW EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 274 [2]. With wood engraved plates by Millar. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 12/6. Charming gift note to flyleaf, jacket a little edge worn and slightly sunned. A very good copy. The first impression of this reissue, which is apparently quite scarce in jacket. …

[Children's] THIRD IMPRESSION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.325 [1]. With 48 in-text illustrations by Millar, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Top edge gilt, others trimmed. Endpapers quite heavily browned, with neat repairs to split hinges. Slightly toned internally, otherwise clean. Moderate general wear to cloth, with some toning also to spine. Very good. The second instalment of the adventures of Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb. As opposed to the first story, the children find magic and wonder in central London, rather than the removed countryside of Kent. First published in the Strand Magazine in the summer of 1903.…

First Edition. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.352 [2]. With 47 engraved illustrations by Millar, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original publisher's gilt-decorated red cloth over boards. Top edge gilt. Toned and a little thumbed to edges. Light occasional spotting and minor marks throughout. A clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Three children can't bear the thought of being stuck all summer with a prim maiden aunt, and so end up instead at a half-closed-up girls school where they discover fantasy and adventure out on the estate, complete with a magic ring which grants wishes.…

First Edition. The Final Book in the Bastable Family Adventure Series NESBIT, Edith. Oswald Bastable and Others. Illustrated by Charles Brock and H.R. Millar. London: WellsGardner, Darton & Co., Ltd., [1905]. First edition of the final book in Nesbit's much-loved Bastable family cycle., First state with number on page 96 transposed as 69. Octavo (8 x 5 5/8 inches; 203 x 143 mm.). x, 369, [1, blank] pp. [advertisements 9+1 blank]. Frontispiece and vignette title-page included in pagination. Twenty photogravure plates and one line drawing in the text on p. 103. Publisher's maroon cloth, front cover and spine pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt, neat ink inscription on front paste-down, spine faded. A very good copy. This concluding volume finds Oswald Bastable and his siblings once again plotting schemes and adventures in their quest for fortune and glory. Like its predecessors (The Story of the Treasure Seekers, 1899, and The Wouldbegoods, 1901), the tale is narrated in Oswald's spirited first-person voice, with a mixture of comedy, mischief, and moral lessons. The Bastable stories were enormously influential on later children's literature, shaping the voice and structure of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons. Nesbit's blend of realism, imagination, and anarchic humor helped establish the modern adventure story for children, and her Bastable books remain central to her enduring reputation.…