Rees Gladys (34 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Gladys M. rees. (illustrator). Animal Folk-Tales. Green cloth with black titles. Quaint illustrations. Scarce.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rees, Gladys M. (illustrator). Blue boards are rubbed on edges. Some pencil markings in text. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾".

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 85 pages. Dust jacket over paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Previous owner's inscription to half title page. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Book has forward lean. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine. Mild rubbing and marking all over.

Hardback. Condition: Good-. Gladys Rees (illustrator). First. Hard back children's book on the story of St. Francis of Assisi. Contains color pictures. The fourth volume of an original set of four books. Book in Good- Condition. The far edge of the book was stored in a way that a permanent bend/curve remains on the front and rear boards, as well as the pages.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Rees, Gladys M (illustrator). 1945 (1939) Reprint. 106pp. Good/Fair. Orange decorative cloth boards with minor rubbing/bumping to edges/spine, minor patchy fading, minor soiling. Contents clean and tight but for very minor soiling/browning. Nice DW with some rubbing/chipping to edges/spine, a few small tears/creases to edges, some soiling & spotting/browning. Decorative endpapers. Charming colour and B&W illustrations by Gladys M Rees throughout. A collection of stories for children originally broadcast on BBC's Children's Hour.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rees, Gladys M (illustrator). Reprint. Good Copy in orange cloth on boards with illustration and black titles on cover and spine. Cracks in front and rear hinges and some internal cracks which has loosened gatherings. Previous owners inscriptions on FFE, half title page and title page. Clean text with attractive colour and b/w illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by Gladys M Rees (illustrator). Eleventh Printing. Hbk in d/w; Vg/G; blue cloth cover; black lettering and trim; previous owners name & address on fep; nice clean copy; a couple of the b/w line drawings neastly coloured in; d/w not price clipped; loss to d/w spine - about 1.5 inches at top, and very small amount at bottom; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Unpaginated poetry book with decorated mauve paper covered boards and light blue cloth covered spine. Title label tipped to face and tiny version of same tipped to top of spine. Light blue colour to top page edges. Light toning to end papers and a few light spots on fore edge. No inscriptions. Delightful b/w illustrations throughout by the author. Ideal prayer and praise for a young audience.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rees, Gladys M. (illustrator). 'Cockle Button, Cockle Ben and Other Stories' by Richard Phibbs. Illustrated by Gladys M. Rees. Country Life. Undated, circa 1946. The book sits off square. Otherwise Very good in dust jacket with a piece missing from the front cover and a smaller piece missing from the rear panel. 0.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardcover, color-illustrated front board, 8 x 6 1/2 inches, 24 pp., illustrations. Near fine (modest warp to front board; slight ruffling, upper fore-edge corner of book block; pages clean and binding tight). (1722RO089).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1936 Sheldon Press first thus hardback, silver decorated boards, no dj; Good; some wear to covers, minimal age mottling, else clean inside; UK dealer, immediate dispatch Book of verse written and illustrated by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Gladys M Rees (illustrator). HB 1st published 1927 this 1st reprint 1927. Yellow cream cloth boards. Dark blue titles with blue border edge front. Dark blue titles spine. 19.8 x 13.8cm. 159 pages. f/c frontis. b/w illustd title page. b/w illusts. Starts with an intro: The Craft of the Story-Teller. Then 13 stories. Starts: The Dog-Brother of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Includes: The Tale of a Turnip. The Spindle, the Shuttle and the Needle. Ends: The Story of Mother Fox and the Tiger. Condition: Faint stains front cover & spine. Sunned on top front edge + right spine seam. Rubbed on spine + corners. Ghosting on e/ps. Slight foxing on opening and closing page edges. Internally clean, v little wear, tight binding, good colour. Good + condition.

Charming little pen and ink drawings by Gladys M. Rees grace the pages of this lovely little book. (illustrator). Thirteen stories listed in the Table of Contents. 11 pp Introduction to the Craft of Storytelling begins . . . This little book of stories is in part an attempt to furnish some fresh material for telling to children of about six to ten years of age. None of the stories claims to be what is known as original. All are founded on legends and scraps of folklore or history. I have re-told them because I enjoyed them - one of the very best of good reasons for telling a story - in the hope that others will enjoy them also. Spine slightly faded. A few spots on front cover close to bottom corner. Former owner's name on free front endpaper. Overall a clean, tight very good plus copy. 12 mo. Purple cloth covered boards stamped in gold. 160 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Gladys Rees (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback: attractive colour pictorial boards, corners slightly bumped, some foxing on back cover and endpapers, else vg. small format (202x165mm), 24pp. Ills in b/w + either blue or brown by GLADYS REES.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Gladys M. Rees (illustrator). Another Edition. This little book of stories is in part an attempt to furnish some fresh material for telling to children of about six to ten years of age. If you can get them away from the television. 160pp. Lots of nice illustrations. Wear to edges of spine and cover corners. Small mark on front cover. A little browning to front and back pastedowns and page edges. Size: 195mm Tall, 12mo. Book.

Condition: Good. Rees, Gladys M. (illustrator). Reprint. Quarto. Cream cloth-covered boards. 95 pages. Six short stories. Numerous black and white illustrations. Colour frontispiece missing. Five remaining colour plates all in place. A few light marks on covers. Neat gift dedication on title page. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good -. Hard cover with light blue decorated cloth bds, some wear to cloth at corners and some discoloration, inky blotch to rear btm edge, Good-, no dust jacket, two three-line underlinings in Introduction, btm corner torn away at contents (does not affect text), neat name to ffep, a few poems in the contents list have a very small pink mark against them, lovely b/w illustrations by Rees, occas. age-marks through text, pp100, with exercises to rear. Including poets such as: R Bridges; Lord Tennyson, Lord Byron, H W Longfellow; Lord Macaulay; C Patmore; R Browning; A Noyes; R L Stevenson; W H Davies; W Canton; W Sharp; F G Percival; O Goldsmith; L Carroll; F W Harvey; J Bunyan; Lady Nairne etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good -. Hard cover green cloth bds, some fading, spine ends a little worn, corners bumped, pp156, foxing to pge edges, rear ep missing, neat name to ffep. A sound reading copy fo this lovely book filled with short stories and rhymes.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. GLADYS M. REES (illustrator). Boards rubbed and marked, pencil inscription to front pastedown, prelims lightly foxed, some illustrations coloured in and some ink marks to some pages otherwise clean. Good. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. No Date (1952). A book of general knowledge, given simply in the form of stories, verses and many pictures and covering a wide range of subjects. Hardback: illustrated in colour and in line by the author, dj (price unclipped), jacket is worn and chipped, tape repairs on the reverse, lightly foxed on reverse, colour pictorial boards (as dj), spine tips repaired with tape, corners a bit rubbed, front flyleaf is slightly creased, names on half title, some light foredge foxing, page edges slightly finger creased, a few small internal marks, still vg. 4to, 85pp.

Hardback. Gladys M. Rees (illustrator). a small tear to top edge of the spine of the dustwrapper. book.

Illustrated Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. First Edition. Yellow cloth illustrated with embossed red animals, and embossed black lambs with black title and author printing. Illustrations are charming colored block prints in red, green, yellow and black, with like map endpapers of "This picture shows the way that Loosey and Lankey went on their adventures". Some of the page signatures are trimmed to be bound into the book slightly shorter than others, apparently an error or defect in printing and binding. Page 30 has a header that says "Loosey and Lankey---4---Page 30, and headers appear on a few other pages, with what I assume are signature numbers. Hinges starting. Smudged crayon name in child's hand to title page. Cloth cover has some soiling. 56 pp. Children's, fiction, picture, animals.

Cloth Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rees, Gladys (illustrator). Heavy damp markings to spine, moderate wear to boards overall. Ink markings to flyleaf, light foxing throughout, PP clean and tidy Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hard cover green cloth bds, black lettering to upper bd and spine, light cup stain otherwise VG, no dust jacket, contents nice and tight, occas. age-speckles, pp159, neat school stamp to top of front pastedown. Filled with tales such as: Why The Woodpigeon Builds An Untidy Nest; Why the Owl Does not come Out in the Day Time; Why the Cuckoo Builds No Nest; The Fox and The Geese; How the Robin Got His Red Breast; The death of the Little Hen; The Hen Who Went to Tell the King The Sky was Falling; The Pea, The Bean and the Twelve Goats; The Snail's Wedding;Marusia and the Cat; The Little Brown Pony etc. Games such as: Fox and Goose; Hen and Chickens; Tiggy, Tiggy Touchwood; Rhyme for See-Saw; Rhyme for Leap-Frog; Shepherd and Sheep. Rhymes such as: Cuckoo; Goose; Hen; Bat; Bee; Cats; Frog etc.

1st edition. Date is suggested. Physical description: 86 p. : colour ill. ; 25 cm. Notes: "A new alphabet, early lessons and eighty nursery rhymes." Counting, time, measurement, prayers, coinage, etc. Subjects: Counting ; Juvenile literature; Children's books; Maths and Science for Children. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Gladys M. Rees. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 95 pages with 6 full page colour plates and 5 full page black and white woodcut plates + 62 black and white illustrations. Beautifully illustrated endpapers and colour illustrated cloth cover in light beige. Slim small quarto. Condition; All clean with a small neat inscription to top corner of verso of endpaper "Elizabeth. With Love + Xs from Aunty Cecy? Xmas 1940". Very Good. * The other stories on various people and places inc; The title story of two hens, Kitty Alone (A Kittens adventures), Mary Luz and Mary Sol (two Spanish girls in the Civil war period), Jack a'Nory (a poor old man), The Mist Woman Of The Mountain (Irish tale of the Mist-Woman), The Roll of Red Flannel, (two shops and Father Christmas in Bradford on Avon). The woodcut illustrations are in the style of Joan Hassell and Robert Gibbings. *Gladys M Rees was elected ASWA in 1927 & SWA in 1939, painted landscapes and was a competent etcher with lots of variety. She illustrated and worked in scraperboard, did posters and illustrated approximately 9 books from 1922-1952 and in the reference work by Brigid Peppin & Lucy Micklethwaite 1983, this work is not listed.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rees, Gladys M. (illustrator). Circa 1948. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. In addition to a new rhyming alphabet, the nursery child's first introduction to numbers, coins, measure, time, the days, months and seasons and even some first prayers. Black pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. 86 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped, cover edges slightly worn. Some light foxing. A light musty smell to contents. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed, slight loss of surface paper to top corner of rear panel. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Cloth. Condition: Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Rees, Gladys M. (illustrator). Reprint. Loss to head and foot of spine, a few tears and creases, else clean and bright. Some light wear to boards and spine, mainly to edges and head and foot, ink inscrips. to front endpapers, colouring in of many of the black and white illus., else pp clean and bright. Size: 4to.

Book Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Robert Hale, 1948. 1st Edition . Good/Good. Book and dust-jacket in good only condition, with wear and rubbing. Staining to inner edges of jacket, probably where old sellotape has been removed. Illustrated throughout. 86pp.

1st edition. Date is suggested. Physical description: 86 p. : colour ill. ; 25 cm. Notes: "A new alphabet, early lessons and eighty nursery rhymes." Counting, time, measurement, prayers, coinage, etc. Subjects: Counting ; Juvenile literature; Children's books; Maths and Science for Children. 1 Kg.