Olive Dehn (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hughes, Shirley (DJ) (illustrator). 1st Edition. NEAR FINE IN NEAR FINE DJ (not price-clipped). Illustrated by SONIA MARKHAM (author's daughter)with charming b/w illus at the beginning & end of each chapter, including several delightful mole, pig & chicken drawings. Color DJ by Greenaway Medalist SHIRLEY HUGHES, shows young 1st prt- scarce. Philip in a gipsy caravan with a mouse, a corgi & a little mole popping out of a box. A young boy escapes from his ordered life in Manor House into the countryside with a gipsy caravan where he befriends a bold, blind mole. Very scarce. Filled with humor, tragedy & a satisfying conclusion as we see the boy come to understand the mole & the world around him.

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. Bisby, Harold (illustrator). 1st UK Paperback Edition. G+, Edgewear, tear, creases, binding stretched at copyright page, light browning. Children's adventure. 'A Grasshopper Book'. Expanded condition report/photo on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Publication of 187 pages. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. Internally some pages are colored in, there are minor marks and scribbles. The text remains clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. In very good, unmarked condition. Cover starting to fade. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Ed. Light wear to boards but a 'Boots Booklovers Library' sticker to front. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some tears and loss.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Very Good; firm binding; contents very good. Soft Cover HappenStance 2006 Poetry.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Very Good; firm binding; contents very good. Soft Cover HappenStance 2006 Poetry.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback, Good, small amount of label residue to upper wrap, contents clean and tight, pp62.

Pictorial Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Harold Bisby (illustrator). First Edition. Pictorial soft covers. Pp 62. A square, tight, brigh, smooth, clean copy with only very light shelfwear ; contents bright and clean with no previous names, markings etc.; A very sound example of a scarce publication.

hard cover with dustjacket. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Sonia Markham (illustrator). Illustrated with black and white drawings by Sonia Markham. 160 pages G/G. Ex-library copy, overall good book in good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Charles Folkard (illustrator). 1st Edition. Some light browning and spine lean. A couple of thumb marks to the contents which are otherwise tight and clean. VG Hardcover. D/w not present.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated by L R Brightwell; Irene Mountfort; Marian Allen; HarryRountree;mary Baker; Roy Meldrum Et Al (illustrator). Heavy thick 4to book; patterned cloth hardback; gift inscription (not author) on half title page; 0ccasional small mark, but generally decent clean copy; only 3 of the 6 lovely tipped in colour plates are still present; sadly many of these books are found with plates removed; excess P&P required outside UK due to weight. ; Joy Street; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Stapled Card. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8.2 x 5.9 x 0.15"; 42 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Kathleen Gell (illustrator). 1st Edition. Good in cloth with green decorations, Come In Olive Dehn Kathleen Gell 1946 First 1st Edition Hardback. A brilliant feminist "howl of rage" disguised as a children's book. Olive Marie Dehn (29 September 1914 - 21 March 2007) was an English children's writer, anarchist, farmer and poet who was active from the 1930s to the 2000s. She began her writing career with a satirical poem in German, and wrote stories for the BBC Radio programme Children's Hour. Dehn moved into children's literature and into farming at her home in the Ashdown Forest. In 1960, she became a member of the Committee of 100 to take non-violent direct action against nuclear power, and successfully campaigned with her husband David Markham for the release of the Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Fontana. covers bright. sticker around spine bottom. corners creased. pages browning. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Very Good; firm binding; contents very good; minimal wear. Soft Cover HappenStance 2006 Poetry Poems.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clark, Dorothy (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1961. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Brown boards, black title to spine. 124 pages. Two-tone text illustrations. Bumping to spine. Browning and a few marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with a few small chips and tears; foxed, but minimal loss. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 247 p. 25 cm. 6 tipped-in colour plates. Numerous b&w illustrations. Grey cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Large chip and tear in front cover and in top of spine. Both affect the lettering/design. Also a chip to rear top corner. Other tears and light soiling. Boards slightly warped. A bit of thumbing to text block edge. Tiny chip to front free endpaper at top near hinge.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Previous owners name & address stamped inside front cover. Brown cloth boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Dampstain to tail of spine. Abrasion to front endpaper. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 160 pages. Turquoise boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 197 x 128mm. Children's novel. Illustrated by Sonia Markham. "Gipsy caravans rolled through the village and Philip Hayward longed to escape from his history lesson." - from dust-jacket blurb.

Condition: Gut. 18.3 cm x 24.8 cm. Frontispiece, 246 pages. Black and white and several tipped-in colour-illustrations. Illustrators include Harry Rountree, C.T.Nightingale, Maria Wolff, Mary Baker, Audrey Teago, Josephine Leslie etc. Original Hardcover. Decorative cloth boards. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns. Good+ condition. Binding a little shaky but holding with endpapers intact. Minor wear and rubbing to cover. Moderate foxing to edges. Minor foxing to pages throughout. Many previous owners names in ink to half-title and title pages. A few colour markings throughout. Pages separating from book block in places. Includes for example the following stories: The Nixie From Rotterdam by Olive Dehn / Spikey Toes by Madeleine Nightingale / The Wolf, The Hare and The Hedgehog by Valery Carrick / The Stairs That Kept On Going Down by Compton Mackenzie / Seven For A Secret by Hugh Chesterman / The House-Book by Malcolm Taylor / Annabel in Africa by Josephine Leslie etc.

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

H/B green cloth bds, Good-, bds sl. bowed, some white marks to top of upper bd and two at rear, contents nice and tight, one puzzle completed and a little writing to margin of pge, elongated address to front pastedown and various pieces of writing on front and rear endpapers, neat name dated 1947 on frontis. verso, the first story is The Price of Shrimps by Olive Dehn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Boards in blue, decoratively patterned cloth (a bit darkened along edges). Gift inscription on half-title page dated 1935. Foxing to edges of text block. Complete with six color tipped-in plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Dust jacket chipped at head of spine, numerous short closed edge tears; moderate soiling; in an archival mylar sleeve. [8], 247, [1] pages. Uncommon in dust wrapper. Includes stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eleanor Farjeon, Laurence Housman, Olive Dehn, Rose Fyleman, and others. Color illustrations by L. R. Brightwell, C. T. Nightingale, Harry Rountree, Irene Mountfort, Marian Allen, and Roy Meldrum. Joy Street was an popular children's annual. Number Twelve was published in September 1934 and features the Algernon Blackwood story, ''The Fruit Stoners,'' which is totally different from the story as it appeared in his book The Fruit Stoners, published the following month by Grayson & Grayson.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Brightwell, L R; Meldrum, Roy; Allen, Marian; Nightingaele, C T; Carrick, Valery; Maker, Mary; Chesterman, Hugh; Rountree, Harry; Mountfort, Irene; Knight, Mary (illustrator). Not dated but c 1920. 248pp, six full colour illustrations tipped-in. Dozens of black and white illustrations, some in-text, others full page. Blue cloth-covered boards with blue lettering and illustrations. Rounded spine ends. Light foxing throughout, but not affecting illustrations. Previous owner's inscription, dated 1934, on half title page. In its original dust jacket (a little rubbed in places with minor loss at spine ends. Glorious children's annual with tales & poems including The Fruitstoners by Blackwood and Kings of England by Laurence Housman. Dust jacket now protected in an archival-quality Mylar wrapper which is not adhered to the jacket or book in any way. Overall al lovely example with gleaming colour plates, scarce with dust jacket. 4to Brightwell, L R; Meldrum, Roy; Allen, Marian; Nightingaele, C T; Carrick, Valery; Maker, Mary; Chesterman, Hugh; Rountree, Harry; Mountfort, Irene; Knight, Mary Illustrated Books, children's books, stories, annual.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rountree, Harry & Baker, Mary & Watson, A.H. & et al., (illustrator). 1936. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Green decorated cloth and endpapers. Tipped-in colour plates. B/w text illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Uneven fading/browning to covers. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is browned with edge-tears and chips; some tape repairs to verso; small pieces of loss. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Good blue hardcover with inset col plate on cover of boy with lobsters. 31p. Spine rubbed, slight tear at base, front hinge weak, 2 school stamps and number written on endpapers, number written on back cover.