Condition: New.
Published by Universal, 1988
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. A VGF or better 2-page screening program. Screening programs were distributed to attendees of special, often pre-release screenings and contain film credits as well as assorted other information. They can often be harder to find than other paper from the same film. Size: 11" X 14". Book.
Language: English
Published by Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, London
Seller: Amnesty Bookshop, Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Hardcovers. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Chloe Preston & G Howard-Vyse (illustrator). In beige hardcovers with a raised colour illustration on a white circle in front, with white raised titles. No dust jacket. Includes 8 colour plates and numerous drawings. Unpaginated. Book is good, clean internally. Four of the drawings have been lightly and neatly coloured in, and there is an inscription by the previous owner, and a small light yellow crayon scribble over a drawing on the title page. The front hinge is a little shaky, but binding is sound. The boards are reasonably clean, with very light soiling. The spine strip is missing, and there is light shelf-wear to the extremities. All proceeds from the sale of this item go to Amnesty International.
Language: English
Published by McLoughlin Bros., Massachusetts, 1929
Seller: AJ Scruffles, Leigh On Sea, ESSEX, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Chloe Preston (illustrator). Later American reprint with Preston's iconic illustrations. With b/w illustrations throughout plus six colour full page plates. Illustrated covers and endpapers. Some mild rubbing to edges. Tanning to page edges. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Contents clean and tight, Very good.
Language: English
Published by Richard Dennis Publications, UK, 1998
ISBN 10: 0903685663 ISBN 13: 9780903685665
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Chloe Preston (illustrator). Softcover. REAR COVER CORNER HAS A LITTLE CREASING. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref H25.
Language: English
Published by McLoughlin Bros., Spr, 1929
Seller: AJ Scruffles, Leigh On Sea, ESSEX, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No author or illustrated named but clearly another May Byron and Chloe Preston collaboration. 8vo. Rubbing to edges with tears to spine. Tanning to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Good overall.
Published by Shepton Beauchamp Richard Dennis, 1998
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION 1998, 230 x 225, 9 x 8¾ inches, colour illustrated shiny card covers, 84 pages. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white including books, china, postcards, figures and advertising items. Brief biographical details with some discussion of style and methods. No inscriptions, a few minute brown spots on top edges, not showing inside (see image). New unused Fine copy. Not issued in hardback, this is the first monograph devoted to this popular artist. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd., London
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
POSTCARD. Condition: Good Plus. Card 1526. Postally used with postmark dated 1930. Rubbing and light creasing to corners. [322A]. MANUSCRIPT.
POSTCARD. Condition: Good. Card No. 2015. Postally used with postmark dated 1932 but stamp removed. Rubbing and creasing to corners with light indentation marks to card; address crossed through to reverse. Excess overseas postage paid on postcards will be refunded when the item is processed. MANUSCRIPT.
Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
POSTCARD. Condition: Good. Valentine's Series Card 864. Postally used with unclear postmark. Rubbing and album indentations to corners. MANUSCRIPT.
Published by Shepton Beauchamp Richard Dennis, 1998
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION 1998, 230 x 225, 9 x 8¾ inches, colour illustrated shiny card covers, 84 pages. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white including books, china, postcards, figures and advertising items. Brief biographical details with some discussion of style and methods. No inscriptions, a New unused Fine copy. Not issued in hardback, this is the first monograph devoted to this popular artist. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Published by Shepton Beauchamp Richard Dennis, 1998
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION 1998, 230 x 225, 9 x 8¾ inches, colour illustrated shiny card covers, 84 pages. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white including books, china, postcards, figures and advertising items. Brief biographical details with some discussion of style and methods. No inscriptions, a New unused Fine copy. Not issued in hardback, this is the first monograph devoted to this popular artist. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Published by Shepton Beauchamp Richard Dennis, 1998
First Edition
FIRST EDITION 1998, 230 x 225, 9 x 8¾ inches, colour illustrated shiny card covers, 84 pages. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white including books, china, postcards, figures and advertising items. Brief biographical details with some discussion of style and methods. No inscriptions, a New unused Fine copy. Not issued in hardback, this is the first monograph devoted to this popular artist. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Language: English
Published by Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1919
Seller: AJ Scruffles, Leigh On Sea, ESSEX, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Chloe Preston (illustrator). First edition of The Peek-A-Boo Circus with Preston's iconic illustrations. With b/w illustrations throughout plus five colour full page plates (and one tipped in to cover). Covers are variously bumped and marked. Some cracking to joints. Slight loss from top of spine. Foxing to end-papers. Occasional marks within but generally clean. Binding sound. Good overall.
Language: English
Published by Henry Frowde, 1915
Seller: Johnston's Arran Bookroom, Isle of Arran, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Chloe Preston (illustrator). 1st Edition. A very scarce children's propaganda story book from WW1. The Peek-a-boo characters join up and go to war. Colour frontis and eight other plates plus line drawings in text. This is a fair copy only: covers rubbed, base of spine missing, binding shaky in places. Unpaginated but there may be a page missing in Chapter VII. A few pages tanned but the book is generally bright especially the plates. There are no inscriptions but some very small library stamps towards the end of the book.
Published by Henry Frowde nd (ca 1911, London, 1911
Seller: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Poor. First Edition. An uncommon large format Peek-a-Boos book. A disreputable copy of a scarce book. MISSING the title page and preliminaries including the frontis. Nevertheless there are still 17 wonderful full page (34x21.5 cm) printed on brilliant white stock. A number of the plates have finger smudges and the last three are dampstained. Covers very worn, binding split at several locations.
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1925
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Wood, Lawson & Preston, Chloe & Studdy, G.E. & Woolley, Harry & Hart, Frank & et al., (illustrator). Circa 1925. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. For all Boys and Girls who are Good Chums. Edited by Chisholm. Pictorial cloth spine, pictorial front cover shows Punch and Judy show. 16 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 287 pages. Spine is faded, with some scuffing. Bumping to corners, with a bit of chipping. Inscriptions to front endpaper, with tape mark. Some foxing and page browning throughout. All plates present. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Wood, Lawson & Preston, Chloe & Studdy, G.E. & Woolley, Harry & Hart, Frank & et al., (illustrator). Very good condition with no wrapper. For all Boys and Girls who are Good Chums. Edited by Chisholm. Pictorial cloth spine, pictorial front cover shows Punch and Judy show. 16 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 287 pages. Spine bumped and worn. Corners worn and lightly bumped. Covers slightly grubby, rear cover a little rubbed. Corner, including two words text, almost torn off page 239. Puzzles completed. Just an odd mark to contents. All plates present. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., 1923
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Preston, Chloe & Mercer, Joyce & Wain, Louis & Cooper, Phyllis & et al., (illustrator). Circa 1923. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Red cloth spine with black titles and vignette of children reading. Pictorial front board showing children with balloons. Colour plates plus b/w and two tone illustrations by many illustrators. 112 pages including book list. First story is Birds and Bubbles. Board edges rubbed & worn. Boards scuffed and scratched. Cloth spine faded but title still bold. Browning to contents. Bookplate to front pastedown. Inscription in ink dated 1923 to free front endpaper. Plate facing page 56 is detached. Colouring, and pencil scribbles to some b/w illustrations. Hinges pulled, binding is worn but holding. Musty odour present. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Published by McLoughlin Bros. & Co., Springfield, MA, 1929
First Edition
Hardcover. Color Illustrations (illustrator). First American Edition. Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros. & Co. Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1929. First American Edition. Hardcover. 4to., (28 pp.) . Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET.
Condition: Acceptable. Hodder & Stoughton New York boards are soiled and stained. corners and edges rubbed. crack to juncture of spine and both boards. spine missing. hinge cracked at rear board.
Language: English
Published by Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910
Seller: Johnston's Arran Bookroom, Isle of Arran, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Chloe Preston (illustrator). 1st Edition. The first Peek-a-Boos book. Undated but c.1910. Covers bright and clean with spine intact. All 12 plates present, 8 complete but some are torn at edges with small loss. Two plates bound next to wrong rhymes and one plate loose and trimmed down (image not affected). Front free end paper missing but half-title and title page in place. No inscriptions. More photos available on request.
Published by Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Preston, Chloe & Govey, Lilian A. & et al., & Aldin, Cecil (illustrator). Good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial onlay to front cover. Edited by Strang. Colour plates, b/w and two-tone illustrations. One corner of onlay to front cover has been torn off. Spine is faded with damp stains spreading to both boards. Bumping and wear to covers and corners. Some foxing throughout. Colour plates are still very good. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Language: English
Published by HENRY FROWDE & HODDER & STOUGHTON, LONDON, 1915
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. PRESTON, CHLOE (illustrator). 1st Edition. BOUND IN BROWN CLOTH HARDCOVERS WITH COLOURED CIRCULAR PANEL TO FRONT BOARD SHOWING PEEK-A-BOO SOLDIER AND NURSE WITH UNION FLAG. STORY BY MAY BYRON AND 12 FULL-PAGE COLOURED PLATES BY CHLOE PRESTON IN 11 CHAPTERS OF TEXT. EACH CHAPTER HAS TWO B/W CARTOON DRAWINGS TO COMPLEMENT THE LARGER COLOURED PLATES. ENDPAPERS ALSO HAVE SOLDIER DRAWINGS AGAINST MOUNTAINS IN BROWN PENCIL OUTLINE. SPINE IS DECORATED IN BLACK WITH TITLES AND FIGURES. CONDITION VG.
Published by McLoughlin Brothers Inc, Springfield MA, 1929
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Card Covers. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. First US Printing. Board book cut to the shape of a boat, pages on heavy paper, unpaginated. top of ship sail scuffed, front and back corners also scuffed. Weakened spine replaced with new green bookcloth (blends well with the green sear), one page has 3" tear taped. ; 8 x 11 1/2 ".
Language: English
Published by Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1916
Seller: Librairie du Cardinal, GRADIGNAN, France
rigide. Condition: Bon. Told by May Byron, Illustrated by Chloë Preston, 1 vol. 8vo, hardcover, Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, London, s.d. [circa 1916 ] Good (spine slightly rubbed, otherwise a VG copy). Langue: Anglais.
Language: English
Published by London, Humphrey Milford o. J. [um ], 1920
Seller: Antiquariat Weinek, Salzburg, Austria
Condition: Gut. o. Pag. [8 Bll.]. OPp. Ebd. berieben, leicht fleckig (ein durchgehender Fleck im "Kopfbereich", Gbrsp. - Cover rubbed, signs of use, spot in the "region of the head". In engl. Sprache. - Ebd. berieben, leicht fleckig (ein durchgehender Fleck im "Kopfbereich", Gbrsp. - Cover rubbed, signs of use, spot in the "region of the head". - Gestanztes Kinderbuch - Formbilderbuch.
Language: English
Published by Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton, London
Seller: C & J Read - Books, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Preston, Chloe (illustrator). Not dated (c.1915). 74 thin card pages (not paginated) illustrated with a frontis. and 14 full-page colour plates.and with black and white drawings by Chloe Preston. Pictorial grey endpapers. Pictorial embossed paper-covered card covers with coloured illustration of three Peek-A -Boos in the street. Gilt title on red cloth spine. Some light wear to corners and edges of boards and rear board grubby. A 4cm tear to top edge of front endpaper and a 9cm creased tear to lower edge of rear endpaper. Some occasional light yellowing to pages but overall a good, tightly bound copy of this scarce children's book. Heavy book which will require extra overseas shipping.
Language: English
Published by Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, London
Seller: Vortex Books, Teddington, MIDDX, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Chloe Preston (illustrator). 1st Edition. Undated, inscribed for Xmas 1913 on half title. Binding firm, faint foxing spots. The cloth spine has parted along one edge and been lightly stuck back.
Language: English
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, New York
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Chloe, Preston (illustrator). 4to. Hardcover. Tan, embossed, pictorial boards. 1st edition. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 12 wonderful, full-page color plates by Chloe Preston. No date. Covers edge-worn, with surface worn off at spine folds. White lettering on front cover somewhat worn off. Interior very good. Pictures available. Quite scare.