Thatcher Billy (20 results)

Condition: Good. 1952. First Edition. 126 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. Colour frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Heavily tanned tape repair to one page. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some mild to moderate sunning and tanning, particularly to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. blue boards with titles to spine, minor bumping to spine ends and corners, minor marks, spine cover faded, frontispiece, 125pp, pages clean, overall good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rowell, Kenneth (illustrator). 1st Edition. Foreword by Gilbert Harding. Clean pale blue cloth boards, black titles and illustration on spine. No edge wear. Speckled cut edges. Tanned 'shading' on endpapers from jacket. Clean textblock. Fine colour illustrations including frontispiece. Binding solid. Wear and tear to illustrated colour jacket, price clipped. Protective polythene sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by Janet & Anne Grahame-Johnstone (illustrator). First Edition. This book is in excellent condition and very clean. There is a previous owner's bookplate inside. There is no writing, no highlighting, and no marks. ; Color and B & W Illustrations; 8.1 X 5.3 X 0.6 inches; 126 pages.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. Kenneth Rowell (illustrator). 1st Edition. 125pp. HARDCOVER. Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. Ffep not present. Clean throughout with little sign of use. Strong binding. D/w is complete but with slt. edgewear top/bottom. D/w will be improved where possible & supplied in protective sleeve. Will appear smart when work completed. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

First Edition. With a foreword by Gilbert Harding & illustrations by Kenneth Rowell. Gift inscription on front free end paper; a few spots of foxing; binding tight; slight fading at head & foot of spine with dulled gilt. Dust jacket worn at edges, with small losses; red biro doodles on back panel Used - Good. Good hardback in Fair price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very good condition, light age spotting on end papers, light wear and marks. Dust wrapper - Good condition, minor tears and loss to edges, some wear and marks, spine faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Kenneth Rowell (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback: illustrated in b/w on pastel background by KENNETH ROWELL, dj is a little rubbed on edges, a few tears and some creasing on lower back edge, short split on front flap fold, 3 small holes on spine, lightly foxed on reverse, price unclipped, blue covers with black spine vignette & lettering, spine tips a bit faded, front edge slightly bumped, light foredge foxing and flyleaves discoloured, else vg. small 8vo, 126pp. Tai-Lu is a distinguished Siamese cat who, with Ivor the Welsh cat and Gwladys a Cockney cat, and with tortoise and toad, flies away in a balloon in search of adventure.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rowell, Kenneth (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1955. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Blue boards. Full page b/w illustrations on coloured paper. Further adventures of the noble Siamese Cat, Tai-Lu. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Browning to endpapers, foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge chipped, lightly foxed to spine. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. KENNETH ROWELL (illustrator). Vg clean crisp interior with a colour f/p and several colour illustrations throughout, inscription to front e/paper, toned line-marks to front and rear e/paper, faint foxing specks to closed-edge of pages, Foreword by Gilbert Harding, excellent clean firm boards; d/j of vg-plus bright clean appearance with just a few tiny nicks to top front edge, covered with a new removable sleeve-protector, price-clipped neatly to inner flap./.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: dw. Rowell, Kenneth (illustrator). Blue cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Dustwrapper chipped and heavily worn. Light wear and some fading to edges of covers and spine. Prize label and some erased writing on front endpaper. Contents VG.

Soft cover with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Janet Johnstone and Anne Grahame-Johnstone (illustrator). Proof Copy. Soft cover proof copy with what appears to be the dustwrapper for the hard cover. No internal markings. Minor tears to extremities of dustwrapper as it is too big for the paperback. 126 pages with numeraous black/white illustrations. Illustrator: Janet Johnstone and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Fiction; Cats; Myths, Legends & Folklore. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 000201. This booklet or book is lighter than a standard-size book, and may involve a lesser shipping cost than that quoted by this site. If that is the case, you will be charged the lesser rate when your order is processed, not the rate shown here.

First edition. 1st edition. Red cloth with white. Illustrations by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. Gift inscription on front free end paper; text clean; binding tight;' dust jacket not price-clipped, but worn at edges with short tears, & faded & scuffed spine Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original powder blue paper covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 125 printed pages of text with two-tone illustrations throughout. A little wear to the spine ends and edges, ghosting to the end papers, ink message dated 1958 to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with nicks and chips to the upper spine end, not price clipped 6s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.

Condition: Very Good. Tai-Lu Talking, by Shelagh Fraser and Billy Thatcher, illustrated by Janet Johnstone and Anne Grahame-Johnstone, published by William Heinemann Ltd, Great Britain, 1952. 126 pages. Red cloth hardcover volume with white depiction of Princess Tai-Lu on front cover, and white lettering on spine. Very clean, and tightly bound. Some rubbing and wear on dust jacket, as well a coupe of minor rips along edges, virtually as good as new otherwise. Overall very good condition, please see photos to confirm. Beautifully illustrated vintage children's book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition first printing Octavo hardback 126 pages, Illustrated Very Good condition in Near Good + price-clipped dust jacket (dust soiled and with some closed edge tears). No inscriptions. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 1955 Chatto & Windus Hardback 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket. Wonderful jacket design & illustrations by Kenneth Rowell.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 1952 Heinemann Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression :Very good in very good unclipped dustjacket with wonderful 50's Jacket design & illustrations.

, 48 pages with colour illustrations throughout First Edition thus , spine ends slightly bumped, boards a little curved but clean, owner's prize bookplate on front pastedown, internally nice and clean, book in good+ condition , laminated pictorial hardcover 21 x 17.5 cm Hardback ISBN: