blackie son limited london and glasgow uk (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Cloth Covered Boards/Hard Back. Condition: Book Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustcover. 224 pages. Book has light green boards with dark green titles to front and spine. Some darkening to spine, boards have areas of darkening, small marks/finger marks due to use. Slight darkening and light signs of foxing to end papers and rear inner hinge.Undated copy- we estimate 1940's. Inscription in ink to inner front board. Text is very clean. Nice condition.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Book Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 256 pages. Red binding with black lettering & decoration, spine has an ink splot & is lightly colour-faded. Light wear to spine-ends. Contents very clean.

Cloth Spine/ Pictorial Boards. Condition: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. In red ink is written on the first end page Mrs. Gribbell. Title page. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES AND FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY).Please e-mail for further details OR TELEPHONE us direct on 01822 810108. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signature - Mrs. Gribbell.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good. Dunlop, Gilbert (frontisprece by) (illustrator). First Edition. 156 pages. Blue boards, some wear to spine ends, light wear/very slight fading to edges and corners of boards. Page edges/end pages anlittle yellow with age. Dustcover has wear to edges and snags, 1.5cm missing from bottom of spine, but is otherwise complete. Undated copy, but a snall rubber stamp 24th Nov 1954 is on the flyleaf. Text is clean and unimpeded.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good +. Brock, C.E. (Frontispiece By) (illustrator). 208 pages. Flyleaf removed. Dustjacket has small splits to spine-ends/corners under protective sleeve. Book has light wear/slight creases to spine-ends, slight marks to half-title page. B/w frontispiece. Text is very clean & in nice sound condition.

Pictorial Board. Condition: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. Illustrations By Arthur A. Dixon. (illustrator). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Signed by A Previous Owner.(Sa.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good/Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Fair++/Good. Pictures By E. W. Haslehust (illustrator). 63 pages. Dustjacket has small tears/splits to top & bottom edges, top edge creasing, some darkening. Book has a very clean grey/greenish binding with dark green titles to front and spine. Lovely colour plates, single plate per sheet. Undated - looks about 1910. Contents very clean.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair ++/Good. First Edition - Softback. 30 pages. Shiny softback covers, a light crease to front, tiny creases to corners, bottom of prelims have some damp-marks and light waviness to bottom of pages. Page-edges darkened, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. 192 pages. No dustjacket. Orange boards with black titles to front and spine. Light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners, a few light marks. Light foxing to page-edges, light marks to end-papers, Church Prize sticker to inner front board dated 1941- only date on book. One B&W plate missing. A few brown marks to pages which o/w very clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Illustrated by W. R. White (illustrator). No dustjacket. Child's crayon marks to some pages, ink writing to flyleaf dated 1959. 32 pages. Pictorial hardback binding - half of the spine is missing. Heavy wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Colour illustrations.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Illustrated By E.W. Haslehust (illustrator). 56 pages. Lovely colour plates by E. W. Haslehust. Smells moderately musty. No dustjacket. Very clean beige hardback binding with dark green titles to front and spine. Ink writing to flyleaf dated 1958 o/w very clean pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good. First Edition. 64 pages. Ex-library, unclipped dustjacket with minimal wear inside polythene sleeve. Hardback binding has stamps/sticker to flyelaf and title-page, sellotape marks to end-papers and overlapping to surface of board-ends, light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners, light edge-fading. Page-edges a little yellowed o/w pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair / Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Webb, Arch. (Illustrator) (illustrator). 336 pages. No dustacket. Fully illustrated front board and spine, undated but gift inscription dated Xmas 1930 to end-paper in ink. Wear with small splits to spine-ends, light reading creases to spine, light wear to boards' corners. Light handling marks to back board. Some browning to end-papers o/w page-edges a little age-darkened. Three B&W plates plus fontispiece present as listed.

Cloth Covered Boards/Hard Back. Condition: Fair +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustcover. Holloway, Cyril (illustrator). First Edition. 256 pages. NO DUSTJACKET. Age-dulled green hardback binding with titles in black to front and spine.Moderate to spine-ends, spine-edges and boards' corners, some wear to edges, Back board has a light cup mark and some brown marks, spine has a couple of small brown marks and cloth to backstrip is wavy and not taut. Page-edges are foxed, flyleaf and back end-paper are missing. Foxing to half-title and title page and last two pages of text. Both inner hinges are cracked showing cloth 4mm and back inner hinge has adjacent paper missing, but both holding strong. Copy is undated-probably 1930s. A few pages have some light finger marks in margins, otherwise pages are clean.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 160 pages. No dustjacket. Flyleaf has been removed, no date at all on book, I estimate 1910. Owner's name on frontispiece rear which has the top (margin) corner clipped. Orange hardback binding, simple black patterning to ends of boards top & bottom, slight suirface marks but generally of nice appearance for its age. Page-edges a little yellow with slight marks. Contents very clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Stanley Lloyd (illustrator). Undated edition, probably 1950s. Firmly bound, grey cloth boards, red titles. Dust and ink spotting on covers. Small top corner of front end paper is torn away. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Illustrated b Rene Cloke (illustrator). Presumed First Editon. No dustjacket. Child's pencil writing to inside of front board and first page with ink stamps and Linda pencilled in on back of first page. Binindg split between pages 16 and 17 but pages holding. 30 pages. Pictorial hardback binding - spine and boards' corners and edges rubbed and worn. Some fairly light thumbing to pages.Colour illustrations by Rene Cloke.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. James Russell (illustrator). Scuffing on the spine, crease on top corner of cover, dust spotting on back cover. No jacket, firmly bound illustrated boards.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Probable 1950's or 1960's edition. Firmly bound and clean sting bound booklet.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 320 pages. Red binding with black titles to spines. Spotting to front board, a few to the back board. Spine-ends & boards' corners lightly worn. Award certificate to flyleaf. Page-edges lightly browned o/w contents very clean. B&W frontispiece by H. J. Draper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by Dudley Pout (illustrator). Undated, probably mid 20th century, tightly bound blue boards, a little rubbing on the corners and the top and base of the spine, a couple of small inscriptions, a sticker, and an embossed address stamp inside.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. xviii + 460 pages incl index + periodic table pull-out to rear. Bump to top of rear board means board & index pages are a little out of true, slight curl to part of upper edge. Dark blue binding, bright gilt titles to spine, wear with small frays to spine-ends, light/moderate wear to corners which are slightly curled. Ink name/address & browning to end-papers, page-edges slightly darkened. One pull-out diagram. Text is very clean & in very nice condition.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: With All Faults (W.A.F.). Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Second (Revised & Enlarged) Edition. xxxi + 521 pages , pp523-1104 incl. index. Spine covering missing to vol II , 30% missing with remainder falling off to vol I, needs repair. Deep maroon boards with frays to cornes, rubbed green leather to hinges, light foxing to title-pages, end-papers a little darkened. Age-browning to marbled page-edges. Binding very sound, excellent b/w illustrations & plates, some in attractive colour, unusual pop-up type layaered illustrations to rear board of each volume, one of rubcage, the other of abdomen with detachable stomache section ! Binding very sound in each, set merita a repair.

Hard Back/Hard Covers. Condition: Good / Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Dixon, Arthur A. (illustrator). 70 pages approx - unpaginated. No dustjacket. Dark beige hardback binding with some foxing spots to front and rear, colour illustrated picture to front, wear with rubbing/creases to spine-edns and corners and a 1cm tear to bottom front hinge. Light foxing to page-edges, end-papers and some margins of text, ink Sunday School inscription to inner front board dated 1914, otherwise undated. Number of plates unlisted but 12 excellent colour plates in clean condition with no marks to margins, presume complete. Size: 9" Tall By 7" Wide Approx.