Turner Ethel 1870 1958 (7 results)

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. A. J. Johnson (illustrator). Fourth Edition. rubbing and bumping of the corners of the boards, handling mark/grubby marks, front hinge cracked exposing webbing, with the half title page partially unglued. Rear hinge starting to go. Edges of the pages lightly age toned, internally clean, with 3 black-and-white plates, and numerous black-and-white drawings within the text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 343, [9] pages, in original green cloth over boards, blind stamped illustration gilt filled on the spine, and blind stamped illustration of a young boy sitting on a table at the lower right hand corner of the front panel. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: A. J. Johnson. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 0241743.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated (illustrator). Edition Unstated. Black and white illustrated frontispiece, with an light aged and foxed tissue guard with 15 other black and white illustrations within the text. Dark blue coloured end pages. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed decoration along with gilt coloured titles and illustration to the front panel and back strip. A series of short stories the children published early in the 20th century. The book is showing age and use. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges with rubbing, a little bumping and fraying of the book corners. Rubbing of the lower book edges and a little to the panels stop light tanning and foxing to the text block edges with age toning of the pages. The front hinge has cracked between the half title page and title page. Some of the illustrations have become detached from the text block and consequently have creasing along the front edge. Gift inscription to the half title page and original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the same page stop a previous owner has scrubbed out some notes to the verso of the free front end page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [4], 5 - 342, [10  further titles than publishing house] pages. please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Teens & Young Adult; Short Stories; Caulfield Bindings; Australia; Fiction. Inventory No: 0289214.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Arthur Buckland & J MacFarlane & Francis Evans etc (illustrator). First Edition. there is a presentation plate from the Presbyterian Sunday School at Morwell dated 1903 and presented to Genna Rintoull. in addition to the title story, the book includes the stories Thomas, If Not the Rose, Caesar's birthday, a rogue locomotive, and the museum at Koonawarra. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 309, [1], [10] pages in original blind stamped and gold filled cloth covered boards, slightly rubbed at the head and tail of the spine, with age-related darkening and foxing of the edges of the pages. There is no damage to describe. The tissue guard is clean. An exceptional copy for its age. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Arthur Buckland & J MacFarlane & Francis Evans etc. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; children. Inventory No: 0250797.

Illustrated by Harold Copping. London, Melbourne and Toronto : Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, n.d. [circa 1910]. Octavo, gilt-decorated pictorial blue cloth, foxing to edges and preliminaries, black and white frontispiece, pp. 316, black and white plates and text illustrations, one plate loose, a very good copy. Scarce edition Reference : Muir 7516; Burnet 6.3 (variant publisher's catalogue).

Illustrated by Harold Copping. London, Melbourne and Toronto : Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, n.d. [circa 1917]. Octavo, gilt-decorated pictorial cloth, foxing to edges and preliminaries, black and white frontispiece, pp. 316, black and white plates and text illustrations, a very good copy. Scarce edition Reference : Muir 7515 - 7519 this edition not recorded); Burnett 6 (this edition not recorded). A single example of this edition recorded in Australian libraries (State Library of South Australia).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Frances Ewan and others (illustrator). Reprint. sound in original dark red/brown cloth, wine stamps decorations on spine with gilt infill and title, repeated on the front panel, with an oval blind stamped wreath encompassing a gilt image of a young girl with hands on hips. All edges gilded. Bevelling of the edges of the board, slight softening of the head and tail of the spine. Presentation annotation dated 1900 on the front free end page. No other damage of notes although there is a fingerprint at the bottom right hand corner of page 11 and traces of foxing on pages 114, and 115. Frontispiece by Frances Ewan and 15 illustrations all reproduced in black-and-white by Harold Copping, Frances Ewan, Baueple, Edith G Reynolds, and others. Not in Muir; Copy held in NLA, wrongly attributes d.o.p. to (191?) 1st published as a serial in the Queenslander between 24 September 1898 and 22 October 1898 "A New Story by Ethel Turner. Our next serial story, to begin publication on the 24th instant, will be an attractive tale of mining life, by Ethel Turner (Mrs. Curlewis). Miss Turner's stories are always appreciated, and we do not go too far in saying that " The Camp at Wandinong" is one of the prettiest that has come from the pen of the gifted author. Humour and pathos are judiciously blended, and our readers will find their sympathies enlisted on behalf of the hero and heroine from the first."  from the Queenslander Saturday, September 17, 1898 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (2), 286, (2) pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Frances Ewan and others. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Australia; Children. Inventory No: 0238952.

Arranged by L.T.T. With foreword by Coulson Kernahan. London, Melbourne and Toronto : Ward, Lock, & Co., 1910. Duodecimo, gilt-lettered crushed green morocco, edges lightly rubbed, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, presentation inscription dated November 1910 to preliminary blank, portrait frontispiece, pp. [190], calendar with quotes from Ethel Turner's published works, a few spaces filled in manuscript with friend's names, text block a little shaken, else a very good copy. The second recorded copy of the 1910 edition of the rarest Ethel Turner book. Probably the rarest work associated with Ethel Turner. Three copies are recorded of the 1909 edition (British Library; State Library of New South Wales; Deakin University) and a single copy of the 1910 edition (National Library of Australia). No copies recorded at auction, a single copy traced in the trade (the 1909 edition, Berkelouw Books, New Acquisitions No. 359, item 350, p. 40, $2,000) Muir 7585; Burnet 103 (both listing the 1909 edition, not mentioning the 1910 edition).