Willis Hall Quentin Blake (7 results)

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. G, Ex-Library, usual markings, tape stains to boards, shelfwear, bump, browning/G, Edgewear, small chips, tears, tape stains, label stain to spine. Children's comic adventure. Expanded condition report/scan on request. Blake, Quentin (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 1st edition hbk in d/w; ex-library copy; pages browned, mainly at edges; fep has damage where sticker removed; usual library stamps; Vg-/Vg; 1 page has thumbnail size piece torn out from margin - text unaffected; d/w complete except for being clipped, rear of d/w slightly grubby;; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; With Jeff for York Book Fair - Sept 2026. Illustrated by Quentin Blake (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 134 pages. 325 grams. Book is in good lightly marked ex-library condition with associated wear and attachments. Dust jacket is in good condition enclosed in library clear protective covering. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrator: Blake, Quentin. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction, Children's.; ISBN: 0434942006. ISBN/EAN: 9780434942008. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 004402. Blake, Quentin (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition hbk in d/w; unusually this is NOT an ex-library copy; d/w has slight wear to spine ends - but this is minimal; pp very lightly browning - again, minimal; Quentin Blake designed the cover and the 22 line drawings in the book; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Shelved under juvenile - H. Illustrated by Quentin Blake (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. 8vo. 135pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a title page decoration and twenty-one line drawings in the text. Some tanning to the lesser-quality paperstock, else a very good copy in tanned, marked and spotted non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, designed by Blake. A story for children by the noted playwright and co-author of 'Billy Liar'. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original dark plum paper covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6'' 135 pp. ISBN 434942006. 22 monochrome illustrations throughout. Cheap paper browning to the page edges, bookplate removed from the front free end paper, the word 'Shelf 2a' written to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with very minor creases to the spine tips, not price clipped. Dust wrapper without any tears or chips and supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects 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. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Heinemann, London in 1975. The BOOK is in near FINE condition. Light pushing to the spine ends. Clean and free from inscriptions with early tanning to the page edges. The WRAPPER is complete and is in near FINE condition although the pink colouring to the spine has faded as usually encountered with this title. The wonderful Blake designed wrapper artwork looks very striking in the removable Brodart archival protector. This is a review copy and is accompanied by a Heinemann Young Books Review Slip which is in FINE condition.The book has been Signed (without dedication) by Sir Quentin Blake to the title page. A copy of the ticket for the signing event accompanies this title as provenance. The wrapper design and 22 B/W line drawings are by Quentin Blake. The story is based on Willis Hall's play 'Kidnapped At Christmas'- The story of Crosby and Gilbert, two convicts on the run who had to escape because they couldn't face the prospect of yet another Christmas dinner in jail. Most copies have ended up in libraries. Very scarce with such attributes. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Illustrator(s).…