Sibyl Owsley (75 results)

Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear…

Condition: Fair. No edition stated. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated paper covered boards with white lettering. Black and white frontispiece. Pages are visibly tanned with notable foxing throughout. Heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil mark to front free endpaper. Small stamp to front pastedown. It is cheap e…

Condition: Fair. No Edition Stated. 248 pages. No dust jacket. Green pictorial cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with li…

Condition: Very Good. . . . . 8vo, hardcover. No dj. Vg condition. Possibly missing title page (no sign of removal); Covers moderately soiled /rubbed, contents clean, no marking or writing, binding square and tight. numerous illustrations, come color. literature children's juvenile illustrated Children's, Illustrated, Juvenile,…

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Blue patterned cloth boards with lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Minor cracking to gutt…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date. Circa 1950's. Pictorial boards depicting two children in snow. Yellow spine chipped with small piece missing and some light wear to edges. Previous owner's blind embossed details to front endpaper. Lovely colour frontis plus three further colour plates. Many black and white illustrations. Lot…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Undated edition, probably 1920s to 1930s. Firmly bound, illustrated boards, blue cloth spine. Crease, wear and marks on cover and spine. Child's scribbles in pencil on front end paper, title page and the first page. Marks mainly on the first few pages. Tears with sello tape support on a couple of page…

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Brown patterned cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. A Very Good hardcover without dustjacket. Book is in clean yellow boards with stamped thistle motif, bumped and rubbed to the spine ends and corners. Internally, gift presentation neatly written on the front endpaper, toned pages, a little tanned to the text-block edges - a nice,…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 96pp. HARDCOVER Printed boards. Clean copy internally. No inscriptions, although a fair bit of browning due to porous paper quality. I am somewhat confused by the pagination of this title, as the first page of chapter one is numbered as page 9. I can only imagine that there may be some…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1937 first edition Brownie annual, illustrated by Freeman. A digest of 18 highly moralistic stories for Brownies, including The Sign of The Three Owls, and The Eve of The Golden Hand in which two brownies who just happen to be in full uniform come across a boy who has fallen over and…

[no date]. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. iii, 219pp. 12mo. Illustrated brown cloth boards. Colour frontispiece. There is a personal inscription to the front free endpaper, dated 1925 and 1926. Both the front and rear free endpapers show mild discolouration. The spine is cracked in various places throughout, but remains…