Boy Red by Violet Needham (28 results)

Condition: Good. 1948. No edition remarks. 254 pages. Yellow cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Joyce Bruce. 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 we…

Condition: Good. 1948. No edition remarks. 254 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over yellow cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout by Joyce Bruce. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have mild shelf wear wi…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Not Stated Presumed First Edition. 255 pages. Red lettering on the spine. Corners are bumped. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart, it has several large closed tears and is shipped along the edges. A very good copy of this story featuring Maurice St. Annalands, page to…

First Edition. Library copy. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Boards stained; foxing to prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Minor library marks remain. Physical description: 254, [2] p. : ill ; 20 cm. Subjects: Children's stories; S…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 248pp. Frontispiece and further line drawings in text by Joyce Bruce. Book has the appearance of a 1st edition, but the dust wrapper is in the 'Crown Library' style. Yellow cloth covered boards, a little worn, rounded on corners, slightly compressed at sp…

yellow cloth. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Binding sound and tight, yellow cloth boards clean and bright with clear red titling. First ed/st ptg with ownername/date to front flyleaf, pencil annotations, no interior markings, on epage cornerfold, no spotting or such. DJ whole and unclipped in polyth…

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, yellow cloth lettered red to the spine, knocked to the bottom leading corner of the upper board, the binding remains tight and the text is clean and unmarked. The price-clipped pictorial dust jacket is rubbed to the extremities. Illustrat…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 254 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. In 1968, At The Age Of Seventeen, A Young Blonde Schoolgirl From Melbourne Qualified As The Second Fastest 200 Metres Athlete In The World When She Gained Si…

Hardback. Condition: Good. It was in a picturesque house in Holland that Violet Needham first saw the Boy in Red. He stood in an old picture, debonair in a scarlet tunic, with a falcon on his wrist and a pheasant's feather in his cap. The picture left a haunting impression on Miss Needham's imagination, and gradually she wove ar…

First Edition. Library copy. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Boards stained; foxing to prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Minor library marks remain. Physical description: 254, [2] p. : ill ; 20 cm. Subjects: Children's stories; S…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (8s 6d). Illustrated by Joyce Bruce. Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, crease to front inner flap, one hole/scrape near middle of spine, few small marks, few tears, little patchy loss (m…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. True first British printing. No jacket. Illustrated by Joyce Bruce. Yellow boards with red lettering to spine are very good with a few small marks, a little pushing/bumping to corners, minor foxing, a little patchy browning (including to spine), the odd small bump/rub to e…

Yellow Cloth. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Vivid unfaded yellow cloth, no wear to speak of. Binding tight, owner name address unusually in turquoise crayon to flyleaf, no other markings. DJ tight and unfaded with moderate cornerwear, loss 5mm at spine top removing two words of title. small edg…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, no inscriptions just some general age toning/spotting to paper. Dust Jacket Condition: Good - two large chips to spine (see pictures) . 1st UK Edition 1st Printing. 248pp. Frontispiece and further line drawings in text by…

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 254, [2] p. : ill ; 20 cm. Subjects; Children's literature. Children's magazines. 20th century magazines. Magazines for boys and girls. 3…

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 254, [2] p. : ill ; 20 cm. Subjects; Children's literature. Children's magazines. 20th century magazines. Magazines for boys and girls. 1…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Circa 1948. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. The Boy in Red is Maurice St. Annalands, page to William the Silent, the heroic leader of the Netherlands in the fight for freedom. Pink cloth covers, blue titles to spine. B/w illustrations. 254 pages. 7…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1948. Almost very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. The Boy in Red is Maurice St. Annalands, page to William the Silent, the heroic leader of the Netherlands in the fight for freedom. Yellow cloth with red title to spine. B/w il…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1948. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. The Boy in Red is Maurice St. Annalands, page to William the Silent, the heroic leader of the Netherlands in the fight for freedom. Yellow cloth with red title to spine. B/w illustrat…

First edition. pp.256 Original yellow cloth, red titles to spine. VG in an original, now highly scarce, unclipped first issue dust-wrapper. Light foxing to the outer page-edges, light rubbing to edges. Dust-wrapper is showing some chips. marks and general wear, with a chip to the foot of spine. The dustwrapper is housed in prote…