Willis Grey (35 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Brundage, Frances; Grey, J. Willis (illustrator). JUVENILE. Circa 1910. 64pp + Tuck ads. Color frontispiece. Drawings.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. J. Willis Grey (illustrator). Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, Paris, New York. 1891 (based on advertisement on last page). Softcover/ Heavy Trade Wraps. Edition/printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good +; light wear to corners, spine, and textblock edges; heavy foxing to endpapers; light foxing to pages. No DJ. Pictorial heavy card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is secure in original string tied spine; text is secure in binding. Unpaginated (20 pp by count) 8vo. In hand tinted pictures on the wraps, in Sepia toned illustrations on the pages, five poems are presented; The Lady and the Cavalier, The Mistletoe Bough, I've Been Roaming, Gaily the Trubadour Touched His Guitar, and We Have Loved and Lived Together. All feature the topics, of love, relationships, sadness, and nature. A very presentable copy.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Jane Willis Grey (illustrator). No date given. No. 1111 of publisher's Artistic Series. Gold crown, staff, shield, flag, and pendant on textured brown cloth over beveled boards. Endpapers have vertical, raised, gold-touched lines and over-all pattern of urns. 16 chromolithographs. The pages have sepia tone lithographs and brown ink etchings. Printed illumination on initial letters has floral or leafed twigs, vines, or stems. Pages are bright and stiff. Decorative endpapers. Corners and portions of front edges of cover are faded.Top of spine is frayed. Endpapers are split over the hinges. Cloth is scraped away along bottom edge of back cover and in one spot an inch above the edge. Photos e-mailed upon request. International shipping will require extra cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Frances Brundage, J. Willis Grey (illustrator). VG- condition book with color frontispiece. Includes Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Pericles, and As You Like It. [1102] 0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrations by Frances Brundage, M. Bowley, Willis Grey, et al. (illustrator). New York: Graham & Matlack. Date not stated. 8vo (7" x 9.25"). Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Jacket has small chips and tears along edges. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper. Faint sign of moisture contact to lower fore corner of pages. Covers and pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Grey cloth-covered boards with pictorial color illustration on front board. B/w illustrations. 125 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. France's Brundage, M. Bowley, Willis Grey (illustrator). Book is in good shape but the first page is detached the rest of the binding is good.

Condition: Very Good. London, Paris and New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, No date but advertisement at rear suggests 1891. Softcover. 8vo. Very good. String bound illustrated stiff paper wrappers with title to front wrapper. Minor rubbing and scuffing to exterior. "Birthday, 1892" written on front free end paper. A few light smudge marks throughout though contents remains clean and bright. Binding is strong and tight. Unpaginaged. CHILD/060526. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: fair. J. Willis Grey (illustrator). 8.5" tall; brown cover with gilt lettering on fron & green, brown & white decoration; sepia plates & ils; heavy wear to extrems of cover & other cover wear; a bit of foxing on pp; soiling to endpages; string binding is broken and pp are disbound but present. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, soiling, and slight loss on the corners. Frontispiece detached, pages are tanned and clean.

Wraps. Condition: Good. no date, presumed late 1800s, early 1900s. Side sewn pebbled card stock covers, with illustration on the front cover. 12 pp. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. A collection of excerpted poetry and nursery rhymes for children, including Jack Frost, Dolly's Delinquencies, Fairy Land, etc. Includes illustrations by Helena Maguire and Jane Willis Grey, among others. GOOD condition. Front cover soiled and foxed, with some browning and very minor staining. Lighter wear to the rear cover. Extremities scuffed. Minor toning and faint foxing in the interior.

30pp. 8vo Illustrated in color and black and white Wrappers (oversized paperback) (broche, rustica) Replica edition. Includes Alladin and His Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Sailor, and Ali Baby, or the Forty Thieves Light cover soil: VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Undated; published ca. 1890. Large quarto volume bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation; all edges gilt. Color lithographs and monochrome illustrations. Condition: minor rubbing & fraying to spine ends and corners of binding; spine age darkened; inner hinges starting and weakening of the binding's sewing; slight toning to pages; else very good. Unpaginated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 16 Beautiful full-page chromolithograph illustrations. Numerous other sepia tone illustrations. Cover shows wear and has a line of white paint on front. Binding is loose. Endpaper and title page have light stain near top edge. Good candidate for rebinding although the chromolithographs are worthy of framing. Circa 1880's. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Unpaginated pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Grey, J. Willis (illustrator). Scarce. 10 colour plates and numerous sepia & white and black & white illustrations. A few pages have some small light marks and foxing, also a few very tiny closed tears to page edges. There is an inscription verso of a front endpaper. All is firm. The boards with cloth spine have edge wear, quite considerably to fore corners, a general scuffed appearance and a very tiny hole (a compass point?) to centre of front board ( which penetrates to p.14 but is fairly unobtrusive).

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Grey, Jane Willis (illustrator). 1st Edition. Not dated, presumed 1894 1st edition. Good/None. Brown decorative cloth boards with elaborate gilt title, a little rubbing to edges/spine, slight fraying to spine ends, minor scuffing/soiling. Contents generally clean and tight, slightly cocked, minor splitting to hinges, minor soiling/browning. Decorative endpapers.16 chromolithographs plus sepia tone lithographs and brown ink etchings by Jane Willis Grey. King Robert of Sicily, was a significant figure in Italian politics during the 14th century. Upon his father's death in 1309, Robert became the king of Naples. His reign was marked by a period of relative stability compared to his father and grandfather's reigns, but it was also characterized by conflicts with Germanic powers in northern Italy and the House of Barcelona in the western Mediterranean. Longfellow poem is a fictionalised narrative that captures the essence of the king's pride and the divine intervention that ultimately leads to his downfall. The story is a blend of historical events and fantastical elements, creating a tale that is both entertaining and thought-provoking. A sumptuously illustrated edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Jane Willis Grey illustrations (illustrator). Random foxing, light edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid sewn hardcover. ; Undated; circa 1890-1891. [36] unnumbered illustrated pages. Printed by Fine Arts Work in London. Decorated cloth cover. All edges gilt. Contents include "A Bunch of Primroses" by George R Sims.; [36] pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. J. Willis Grey (illustrator). The Lady and The Cavalier, The Mistletoe Bough and Other Poems. Illustrated by J. Willis Grey. Undated but there is an advertisement at the rear which would suggest the year is 1891. Soft cover. A 20 page booklet bound with cord. Size: 8 x 6 inches. On the front a chromolithograph of a lady at a window. Within a collection of poems decorated by images in sepia tones. Condition: The edges of the cover are a little soft with one tiny tear at the right edge and a mark at the top edge. There is a little loss at the base of the spine, and the whole is a little grubby. The pages within are a little marked in places, but un-thumbed and generally clean. Two inscriptions are on the end paper and another has been rubbed out.

Condition: Good. First thus. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. Minor marks within. 300mm x 220mm (12" x 9"). [50pp]. Chromolithograph plates and b/w illustrations within text. Decorated blue cloth boards with bevelled edges.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Grey, Jane Willis (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1895. Good condition with no wrapper. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt vignette and titles to spine. Patterned endpapers. Colour, sepia and b/w illustrations. 11.5" x 8.5" Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers marked including some white marks to rear board. One hinge broken showing stitching beneath and another badly cracked. Small patch of surface paper damage to title page and page opposite. Endpapers and some pages internally lightly browned. Small bookseller's label to front pastedown and initials in ink to rear pastedown. Some foxing and grubby marks. A few small tears to inner margins. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Frances Brundage M Bowley J Willis Grey (illustrator). HB. Illustr. (Titania and the Clown) paper-covered boards with maroon cloth backstripe. Boards edges and corners rubbed, corners worn; in a decrepit state in that hinges gone. But contents clean. Gift inscr. dated 1896 on title page. 96 pages of 12 of Shakespeare's stories, with numerous b&w illus. some full page + 9 wonderful coloured plates (y Frances Brundage), one of which has a tear reinforced on the back with sellotape; a couple have been tipped-in with sellotape.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover volume. Brown cloth boards with ornate gold stamping on front and title on spine. Boards show only the slightest shelf wear to edges and corners. Gilt page edges. Binding is strong, pages are clean and unmarked. Jane Willis Grey's beautiful, color-illustrated plates throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. JANE WILLIS GREY (illustrator). GIFT INSCRIPTION ON FRONT ENDPAPER DATED 1894. NO PUBLICATION DATE LISTED IN PUBLISHER CREDENTIALS.

[circa 1890s]. (stiff paper covers) Very good. Not paginated. String bound illustrated covers. Illustrated title page, tinted sepia illustrations . The spine is lightly worn, and there are small stains on the front cover near the spine as well as on the back cover near the outside edge. Illustrations by . Willis Grey. (Poetry).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Jane Willis Grey (illustrator). First edition. A beautifully illustrated work by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow titles 'King Robert of Sicily'. First edition. In the publisher's original binding, this charming volume is profusely illustrated throughout by the artist, Jane Willis Grey. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poems are known for their musicality, with his work often including mythology and legends. Born in Portland, Maine in 1807, Longfellow became one of the most popular American poets of his day, and later gained success overseas. With an ink inscription to the reverse of the front endpaper that reads 'To Dolly, With love and best wishes for a happy and bright New Year, 1925'. In the publisher original cloth binding. Externally generally smart. Light bumping to head and tail of the spine and extremities. Light mark to the tail of the front board. Internally generally firmly bound, though strained in place. Ink inscription to the reverse of the front endpaper. Pages are generally clean with light spots mainly to the first and last pages. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Grey, Jane Willis (illustrator). 16 full page colour lithographs and sepia lithographs and line drawings within text. Gilt edged pages. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt decoration/titles and beveled edges. Decorative endpapers. Binding is slightly loose/pulled but all is still firm and intact. There is a neat inscription on the first blank page but otherwise this is a very clean copy inside and out. Minor edge wear to fore corners of boards and top and base of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good -. Baynes, Hiram; Hambridge, Jay; Goodwin, C. L. (illustrator). Binding tight; interior clean other than gift inscription (dated 1909) in pencil on ffep. Red and cream half-bound boards with gilt lettering and design; heavy wear and bumping at corners. A collection of stories, poems, and activities for children by various authors. Illustrated in black and white. Full-color frontis. Unpaginated, but approx. 94pp.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Brundage, W & F. and Grey, J. Willis (illustrators) (illustrator). Fine condition paper wraps with exquisite full color front and rear cover illustrations and additional black and white and full page illustrations throughout the volume. This is a replica of the antique original. Three of the most famous Arabian Nights stories are included in this volume: Aladdin & His Wonderful Lamp; Sinbad the Sailor; and Ali Baba, or the Forty Thieves. Preserved in acid free archival quality Platinum Ultra-Pro pamphlet protector. "Replica of the antique original" "Queen Scheherazade possessed a gift for relating stories and she was threatened with death. She convinced the Sultan to sare her life by relating a story to him. For a thousand and one nights she told him stories until his displeasures were forgotten. These stories are known a theArabian Nights and three of the most famous are included here: Alladin & His Wonderful Lamp; Sinbad the Sailor; and Ali Baba, or the Forty Thieves." Protected in an archival quality acid free plastic encasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A G 4to hardcover in no dust jacket as issued. No edition / printing / date stated, but part of the publisher's 'Artistic Series.' per a logo on the title page near the spine tail. Tender but holding hinges and gold flowered end papers with shadows along the edges. The free front end paper is loose with some edge chips. The initial gathering is also slightly shaken. Still, the somewhat age-tanned contents with numerous illustrations and eleven (11) color plates by Frances Brundage otherwise appear clean, complete, fully legible and without any loose or severely shaken pages or plates. All gilt edges. Gold cloth on beveled edge boards, with gilt and/or black lettering and decoration on the spine and upper board. Rubbing, light bumping, and/or erosion is some corners, on the spine tail, and in the spine head and tail edges. Some soiling/staining (plus a patch with color fading from an aborted clean-up effort) on the lower board. No ex-library markings!

[circa 1890]. (stiff paper covers) Very good. Not paginated. String bound, color illustrated covers . Illustrations. There is very light wear along the spine. Illustrations by J. Willis Grey. (Poetry).

Hardback. Condition: Good. Frances Brundage; Harold Copping; J. Willis Grey; Edith Scannell (illustrator). A charmingly illustrated copy of this collection of stories for children, produced by Charles Dicken's granddaughter, Mary Angela Dickens. Published as part of Father Tuck's "Golden Gift" series (Book 2)In the original illustrative boards.Mary Angela Dickens, the oldest grandchild of novelist Charles Dickens, produced this series of children's stories based on his writings. Stories include 'The Blind Toy-Maker' and 'Little Nell'.Illustrated throughout with vignettes, as well as two colour plates.With a contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper, dated "Xmas 1899". In the original illustrative boards. Externally, worn with scattered marks to the boards and rubbing to the extremities. Front hinge is tender but firmly attached. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are age toned with the odd spot. Good. book.