Spratling Emily (19 results)

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 156 pages. No dust jacket. Blue illustrated cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Label and scuffing marks to front pastedown. Moderate cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair / Good. No Dustjacket. 96 pages. No dustjacket. Brown hardback book covers have a picture to front in blue a, black and pink of two ladies in a rowing boat. 2cm split to top front hinge, wear/small frays to spine-ends, small wear to boards' corners. Paper-crack showing cloth to inner front hinge, Sunday School label to inner frotn board dated 1913. Browning to end-papers, 16 page publisher's advert section at rear yellowed, main text in not yellowed but has some darkening to page-edges.…

hardcover. 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. A good hardcover reading copy without dustjacket. Slight forward lean. Shelfwear to corners and spine ends. Faded titles. Light foxing to prelims, otherwise contents are generally clear and unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Blue Cloth, Decorated Front Cover ( Man, Woman, Train Station), 96 Pages Plus [16] Of Publishers Ads. Presentation Inscription Dated 1919 (But Obviously Rather Older Than This). The Title Page Is Missing, Foxing Throughout. Overall Only "Poor".

First edition hardback, illustrated, 96 + 16 pages. The pictorial cloth binding has some light wear, it is sound. The endpaper has a prize plate. There is some light foxing in places throughout, the text is unmarked. Scarce.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 126 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over decorative red cloth. Undated but pen inscription to front pastedown states 1929. Bookseller stamp to rear pastedown. Minor foxing and tanning to pages. Much more prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and staining to gutters and hinges but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has similar sunning with soft crushing to ends. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Prize sticker on front end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very rare title, dating from 1905 - main interior in very good-plus clean condition, contains a black and white frontispiece and a further illustration, toned to front blank pages, inscribed small presentation bookplate to front e/paper, decorated boards of very good-plus bright appearance for the age with only very slight usage signs. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In a red cloth hardcover with red titles on a yellow background and black decoration to spine and black and yellow titles and black, red, green and pale blue illustration to front. No dust jacket. 128 pp. plus 16 pp. of book adverts. Black and white illustration to frontispiece and more minor illustrations throughout the book. The book is in very good condition with only very minor shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover and some fading of the spine. The binding is tight. There are two minor marks to the end end papers and very slight foxing to the fore edge, otherwise the pages are clean and unmarked.…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Exciting & Inspirational Christian children's story. Illustrated with a Monochrome Plate and Decorative Headers. Blue cloth cover Illustrated on the front in Black, Yellow & Light Blue with a boy looking at an unconscious girl lying by her bicycle. Gilt Title above. Black Floral design and Gilt ground to title on spine. Endpapers have floral decoration. 128 Pages + Illustrated publisher's adverts. 7 1/2" Tall, 270g. Some edge wear to cloth. Hinges firm. No inscriptions. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Colour illustrated paper boards. Frontispiece (wrinkled) matches cover. Mrs. Graham has been feeling poorly, so she calls on her sister-in-law to care for the four children until she gets her strength back. Under Aunt Chrissie's care the children mature into more helpful, expressive individuals. Much evangelical discourse ! 96 pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Author (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Undated circa 1880s. 156pp with frontis illustration. The story of Winnie, born in Australia and orphaned as a baby. The Victorians seemed to die at the drop of a hat but never the less with a happy ending.Prize plate to the front paste down.

Pictoral HrdCvr, no dj, cover has slight wear and scuffing particularly around the edges, spine cover is missing and therefore spine is loose but book is intact and complete, 12mo, 96 p.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo Size. Very Good condition. Decorated red cloth boards. Some very light marking to boards. Corners lightly bumped. Presentation inscription to the front free endpaper [ffep]. Black & white illustrations. 128 pages. How orphaned Ida copes with life and finds happiness.…

London: Robert Culley, 1904. 96p. plus 16p. catalog of books. Bookplate of Wesleyan Methodist Sunday Schools on endpaper. Juveniles.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. No DW. Green pictorial cloth. Black and white frontispiece. Owners inscription on front endpaper, hand dated 1916. Small hardback.

FIRST EDITION. Front. & 1 plate, 16pp cata. Orig. dark pink pictorial cloth; a little dulled & marked. 'This is not the place to decant upon "Woman's Rights". We have no sympathy with the "Shrieking Sisterhood". But we do claim as a right for our girls that if a man has no honourable intention of winning a maiden's love, at least he should not trifle with her.'.…

FIRST EDITION 8vo clothbound hardback with gilt and decorated bevelled boards. AEG. Sunday school prize book-plate inside front cover dated 1907, name scratched out. Black & white frontis., 2 plates plus small vignettes as chapter headings. Slight fading and light wear to top and bottom of spine, else VG. (Shelf 45). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 96, 16. Original publishers illustrated blue cloth, lettered gilt on spine and yellow on front cover. Prize label on the front endpaper. From the collection of illustrated juvenile fiction (1890- 1930) of Brian Mills (ÕThe DreamerÕ) (1939- 2011). He left no signs of his ownership but they are distinguished by their excellent bright condition in a genre that often shows up rather wornÉhe was known to constantly upgrade his collection. Only 5 copies found at WorldCat (OCLC) the worldÕs largest library catalogue. No date, WorldCat suggests 1907. Slight rubbing, otherwise very good indeed.…