Williams Elma (48 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Edge wear. Rubbing and fading to covers. Spine creases. Tiny chips along edges of covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Edge wear. Some rubbing and fading to covers. Spine creases. Former owner's name on front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Albert Whitear (illustrator). Heavy green cloth on boards, gilt stamping on straight spine. DJ, now in mylar, has chip & minute tear to top DJ spine. Heavy paper pages are clean throughout, illustrations very sharp. Paul, an animal friendly boy, is not appreciated by his cousins. Paul is miserable and lonely. Then he meets Stella, an animal friendly circus kid. ; 8.50 X 5.55 x 0.75 inches.

Condition: Good. 1963. First Edition. 192 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white plates. Signed by the author with dedication to Mollie and Margaret and front free endpaper. Clean pages and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Heavy water staining to top edges textblock. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Heavy tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Condition: Fair. 1963. First Edition. 191 pages. Signed by the author. Beige pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Front endpaper has been signed by the Author and dedicated. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Light tanning to spine and edges. Considerable water marks to edges and corners.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ex-lib. Usual marks. Author's 2nd novel. Scarce.

Condition: Good. 1970. First Edition. 143 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Woman's Weekly Library No. 584. Light red line and price sticker on front cover.

Condition: Fair. 1966. First American Edition. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. White marks and scratches to boards. Textblock is shaky.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First American Edition. Text is clean. Cover shows normal shelfwear. Dust jacket shows edgewear, closed tear to front panel, tape repair on exterior of front panel. DJ price clipped. States First American Edition, 1966.; 192 pages.

Condition: Good. 1963. Second Impression. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine. Mild rubbing and marking all over.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. A wonderful copy of Valley of Animals by Elma M. Williams. In an undisturbed corner of mid-Wales is the valley of Pant Glas. Here Elma Williams lives with an assortment of animals, hens, dogs, cats, goats etc., each with their own distinct personalities and characters. Accompanying the text are photographs of the stars of the small stories. Title: Valley of Animals Author: Elma M. Williams Publisher: Hodder and Stroughton Publication Date: 1963 Format: Hardcover Condition: This book is in good condition for its age apart from some signs of wear, there are age spots throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good. Reprint. 192 pages. Dustjacket has 2cm loss to bottom spine-end, wear/chips to top spine-end and top corners. Hardback binding has darkening to bottom spine-end, light wear to top spine-end and boards' corners. Page-edges foxed. Pages are clean and in nice condition.

Condition: Poor. Light scuffs & scratches to the jacket, nicks & tears to the edges. Wear & bumps to the board edges & corners. Leaning spine. Faint marks to the edges of the textblock, foxed endpapers. Name written & glued to the title page. Content is in very good, clean condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First of the author's books describing the animal sanctuary she had established on a farm at Pant Glas, Tre'r Ddol near Machynlleth, Wales.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very Good in a Good jacket with 1/2" by 1" chip at top spine. 1st U.S. Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. H/B blue cloth bds, VG, in Good+ d/w, one or two small closed tears at edges, contents crisp and tight, neat name and date on ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. 192pp. HARDCOVER. NOT SIGNED. Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. D/w is present, but with some edgewear & v.slt. loss. D/w will be improved where possible & supplied in protective sleeve. Will appear smart when work completed. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 192pp. HARDCOVER Very clean copy internally. No inscriptions. In protected VG d/w. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Good + dj. First Printed. 192 pages.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 192pp, illustrated, edges browning, text clean and sound, Good condition in rubbed and slightly frayed dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club Edition. Foxing on closed page edges. Tears, creases, scuffing and dust spotting on jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Whitear, Albert (illustrator). Clean, tight, unmarked; green cloth covers with gilt title to spine; dust jacket is bright - light wear to corners and spine extremes - price clipped; personal gift inscription on ffep; otherwise minimal wear; This is a book about animals - for how could animal lover Elma Williams write any other kind? But it is also about a boy's thrilling adventures among animals; a boy who did not think he was brave at all. Yet when the moment of deadly danger came, he alone knew what to do. The fine and sympathetic pictures for this unusual story have been drawn by well-known illustrator Albert Whitear.

First Edition. B&W illustrations. A little scattered foxing; dust jacket not price-clipped, but a little shelf-worn Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1963). 1963 1st edition. 8vo (138 x 210mm). B/w photograph plates. Yellow-flecked, salmon pink cloth, gilt titles to red spine-label. Slight use, browning to end-papers and edges, smells slightly musty, good. Cup rings and stains to rubbed dust-wrapper. The numerous photograph plates of the Hodder and Stoughton editions do not appear in the contemporary Book Club edition. "The valley is Pant Glas, an undisturbed corner of mid-Wales overlooking the Dovey Estuary. The animals are a thriving domestic assortment of hens, dogs, cats, cobs, goats, cocks and a sheep. And this is Elma Williams' true account of life with them in one ever increasing, always changing family." .

1st ed. 1st edition, 1967. No inscriptions or annotations; binding tight; dust jacket slightly worn at edges, but not price-clipped. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The jacket is rubbed and marked.One inscription. Laminated.Light damp marks.Excellent binding.[R.M]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1963). (1963) 1963 Book Club edition. 8vo (133 x 203mm). Unillustrated. Yellow cloth, spine titled in black. Slight use but very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. The photographs which appeared in the first edition were omitted from this Book Club edition. That said, the dust-wrapper of this Book Club edition is worth the price by itself. "The valley is Pant Glas, an undisturbed corner of mid-Wales overlooking the Dovey Estuary. The animals are a thriving domestic assortment of hens, dogs, cats, cobs, goats, cocks and a sheep. And this is Elma Williams' true account of life with them in one ever increasing, always changing family." .

2nd impression. 8vo. [192pp.] B/w. illustrations. Original boards. Pictorial d/w. lettered in black, spine lightly tanned, slightly rubbed. US$10.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Albert Whitear (illustrator). First Edition. Paul can't compete with his athletic cousins, but when it comes to animals . dj (unclipped) a little frayed on edges, illustrated by ALBERT WHITEAR, light foredge foxing, else vg. 8vo, 144pp.