Sylvia Venus (52 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Not dated. Edition and printing not known. In fair pictorial paper covered boards, featuring rabbit fishing and ywllow titles, and red cloth spine. The boards are flat and quite clean; edge-worn and with collapsed hollow and very loose from pages. Lightly tanned free end papers. The text bl…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 210x140x18mm+253g . . George Newnes Ltd. . 1951. 2nd Edition. . . Pp160. Hard red boards; . Illustrated by Sylvia I Venus: Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK: Book and or Jacket may have names. dedications. marks. tears. foxing. browned pages. creasing and losses unless ot…

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Not dated but owner's inscription on front end-paper is dated July 1926. Size quarto, unnumbered pages. Pictorial Boards with picture of a boy with a large scale toy sailing boat to front cover, illustration by Caroline Hall. A Young Child's compendium of short stories, rhymes, p…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition and printing. In good navy cloth boards, gilt titles to front and spine (faded). The boards are marked around the edges, flat and a little loose; spine ends bumped and frayed. Lightly tanned end papers; printed name and address and name and address in pen on front…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Circa 1935 Usual rubs to edges and bumped through to corners some rubs to spine. Internally inscription to fep pages clean binding tight slight grubby marks to contents page no colour complete and Good. Illustrated B & W Hilda McGavin Illustrated in colour by Ernst Aris & Sylvia I.Venus (…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Issue. Number 2. 22/01/1937. A very scarce little magazine, being the second issue in the series. The painting competition is untouched, but the illustration on the back cover has been coloured. There is a little discolouration to the bottom of a few pages, and ancient clear tape to spine, but…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. circa 1920's, some illustrations in full color, red spine cloth with black lettering, girl driving antique car in snow on front cover. Some edge wear and light staining on boards, no writing or coloring on pages. A good copy and Rare . M. Bowley, A.L. Bowley, Hilda Cowham, Sylvia Venus, Louis Wain (il…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Undated c1935. Large hardback copy with pictorial boards by Ernest Aris, blue cloth spine with black lettering, no dustjacket. 256pp. Colour frontispiece, 2 colour plates, b/w illustrations, both full page and within text. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no children's s…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Undated c1935. Large hardback copy with pictorial boards by Ernest Aris, blue cloth spine with black lettering, no dustjacket. 256pp. Colour frontispiece, 2 colour plates, b/w illustrations, both full page and within text. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no children's s…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Enchantingly picture boards by Miss Soper, 5 charming stories and pretty illustrations. Tape to spine, otherwise V.G. A charming little book. Eileen Soper , Gorgeous Eileen Soper colour picture boards plus other colour plates from Hilda McGavin, and b/w, including Sylvia Venus, Eile…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Pictorial hard boards. Spine is intact with bold black lettering. Dated "Christmas 1935" on the rear board. 24.5x19cm. 256 pages. All 3 listed colour plates are in place. Black & white illustrations throughout. PAGE BLOCK TOP EDGE IS MARKED Previous owner stamps on the front paste-down & on the f…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pictorial paper over card hardcovers. Rubbing and some soiling to bds. Heavy rubbing to corners. Frays to spine ends. Bindings split to front endpaper hinge. Pencil drawings to fep. Ffep and colour frontispiece present but detached.2 colour plates to text (1 detached, 1 partially detached.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 205x140x15mm+246g . . George Newnes Ltd. London. 1946. First Edition. . . Pp160. Red hard cloth boards; . Illustrated by SYLVIA I. VENUS. Name on front free endpaper. This; clean; tight and no scribbles. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_With…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Very good. 2nd Edition. First published 1954; this second edition 1955. Pretty jacket and other illustrations by Sylvia I Venus. Frontispiece carefully coloured in in pencil, else book very good. Inside jacket flap reattached to front panel. A few chips and closed t…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 1st Edition. 160pp. Red cloth-covered boards, black titles on front and spine. Sun faded spine, bumped ends. Corners lightly bumped and mottling to boards. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. 8vo. Amelia Jane is…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. 160 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: George Newnes, London, 1958. Eighth Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Spine has mild fading. Edges of pages ar…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. Nos 399-425 (07/02/47-05/03/48) - Come to the Circus!, first printing in 26 parts (401 & 402 were combined), preceding the book publication of July 1948, illustrated by Joyce A Johnson, including plenty of chapter-heading illustrations not used in the book and packed with many ot…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. Nos 470-491 (25/11/49-15/09/50) - In the Fifth at Malory Towers, FIRST PRINTING in 22 parts, PRECEDING THE BOOK PUBLICATION of September 1950, with 2-5 illustrations per issue by Stanley Lloyd that DO NOT APPEAR IN THE BOOK (he re-drew all the illustrations for the Methuen first…