Language: English
Published by Doubleday & Company, New York, 1950
Seller: Joes Books, Lombard, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. P.M.W. (illustrator). 1st Edition. The Junior Literary Guild, $2.50 Publishers Dust Jacket Price Intact, Decorated End Pages, B/W Illustrations, Tightly hinged Binding with No Owners Markings a Clean Copy, Very Much Edge Wear to the Dust Jacket, small scotch tape residue piece on the 4th front end page.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by Junior Literary Guild /Doubleday, NY, 1950
Seller: Browsing Is Arousing, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Priscilla Warner (illustrator). Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a light stain to rear panel. Decorated endpapers, B/W Illustrations by the author, 215 pages. A tale about a young English farm girl and her love for her pet donkey, Biddy Christmas, and a little gray pony, Pip. Pencil name on blank prelim page, otherwise clean. Record # 378754.
Published by Collins, 1964
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Condition Notes: Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with loss at the spine ends and several short tears elsewear. Boards faded at the extremities. Pages deeply tanned by age; Hardback. Dust wrapper over blue boards with silver titles to the spine; Measures 7½" x 5" (0.4 kg); pp 256; In the Seagull Library series; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #156319 ||.
Language: English
Published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1951
Seller: Johnston's Arran Bookroom, Isle of Arran, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Priscilla M. Warner (illustrator). 1st Edition. By the author and illustrator of Biddy Christmas, Embroidery Mary and Tessie Growing Up. Bridget lives above the family bookshop in a small town and dreams of the perfect country cottage she would love to live in. Tan cloth slightly spotted but contents in very good condition with no inscriptions.
Language: English
Published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1952
Seller: Johnston's Arran Bookroom, Isle of Arran, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Priscilla M. Warner (illustrator). 1st Edition. Published in US as Tessie's Caravan. By the author of Embroidery Mary and Biddy Christmas. Corner cut from front free endpaper unfortunately losing some of the illustration. There is very slight chipping at edges of dust jacket spine and one closed tear. Both book and jacket are otherwise bright and clean with no marks or inscriptions. Scarce in any condition and this is a beautiful copy.
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Language: English
Published by Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1948
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland
Condition: Sehr gut. 14 x 20.5cm. (Frontispiece), 205 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original clothbound hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Some signs of wear to dustjacket, slightly foxed edges, otherwise in very good condition with boards and spine solid and clean. A story about a ten-year-old girl, her donkey, Biddy, and a Christmas message. Jan Martin is overjoyed when her father buys a pretty grey donkey for her to ride on the Martin farm. From the housekeeper she learns the lovely Bible legends about donkeys and after a mysterious dream conversation with Biddy on Christmas Eve, she discovers the true meaning of Christmas and gives her dearest possession, Biddy to a young friend. Biddy, however, would soon have been too small for her to ride on, and since she inherits her brother's pony, her Christmas happiness is complete. [Kirkus Review].
Language: English
Published by Harrap, London, 1948
Seller: Johnston's Arran Bookroom, Isle of Arran, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Priscilla M. Warner (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, 1948. Mary learns the arts of embroidery and patchwork with her aunt in the West Country. By the author of "Embroidered Pictures and Patchwork" . Illustrations and diagrams by the author, gorgeous "sampler" endpapers and 4 colour photo plates of designs a child can make from the inscructions in the book. In very good condition with one small inscription to top of front free endpaper. in a bright dust jacket, not price-clipped (12/6) but with small loss at ends of spine and some tape mending on reverse. A very scarce title especially in jacket.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: good +. first american edition. 6 x 8 in. Gray paper boards. B&W frontis and text plates. Very scarce in UK or US edition. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers very clean, minimal shelf wear. Binding tight. One early pg has a small stain on lower margin, otherwise text and endpapers unmarked and very clean. DJ is GOOD+ ;not clipped ($2.50) very clean, spine sunned. Mild edge wear with some minor chips, spine tail has a small closed tear, rear has 2 larger closed tears with some old tape discoloration. In a new Mylar wrapper. Chil. RGR.
Published by Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1948, 1948
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Children's Story] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.205 [3]. With numerous in-text woodcut illustrations by the author, and a colour frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper. With the colour illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 6s. Blue ink gift inscription to half-title, otherwise internally clean. Some mould staining to boards and strong damp scent. Jacket a little toned to spine, with moderate general wear and some closed tears to edges. Very good.