Clover Magic by Victoria Stevenson (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pauline Baynes (illustrator). 1st Edition. Externally a very good copy. Front hinge tender and lacks FEP. Overall a good copy with 10 full page illustations by Pauline Baynes.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1944 first Country Life edition on rubbed blue cloth.

Condition: Good. 1944. First Edition. 88 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Mild foxing. Heavy rubbing and marking all over.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Pauline D Baynes (illustrator). 1st Edition. APPEARS LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to hard back book. 88 pages. Pages are clean and tight. No name or inscription.Pencil writing on r.e.p.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pauline Baynes (illustrator). 1st Edition. A fantasy story: Titania takes Elizabeth and Jane to meet the "great ladies of English history". Dust jacket, frontis and 10 plates by a young Pauline Baynes, later famous for her work with C. S. Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkien. Neat gift inscription to front free endpaper and very slight foxing to page edges. Page 71/2 has small tear to edge. Contents otherwise in near fine condition and blue cloth bright and clean.The dust jacket is very near complete, not price-clipped but chipped at edges and spine. Companion volume 'The Magic Footstool' also available. More photographs are available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. PAULINE BAYNES (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition 1944 with 'Book Production War Economy' shield to copyright page, very good clean firm interior for the age, no usage marks, crayoning or inscriptions, just some very faint age specks to e/papers and prelims, ten excellent black and white illustrated plates by Pauline Baynes, dulled to top page block, very good plus to near fine bright clean boards, just a tiny fade mark to top spine tip, all tight and firm; d/jacket has average usage signs, some faint shelf wear soiling to rear edge, small loss to top spine tip, approx 3 small edge tears and tiny nicks to corners/lower spine but with bright frontage and no large tears or loss - good-plus overall for the publish date, not price-clipped. Please email if more photos or further information required.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 88, 10 plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered dark blue at the spine. Elizabeth and her sister Jane meet the great ladies of English history, including Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale, thanks to Titania and the Magic Clover. Neat name on front endpaper, otherwise very good indeed.

1st edition. 1944 1st edition with B&W illustrations by Pauline Baynes; bound in light blue cloth with dark blue lettering to front and spine; boards have many discolouration marks, especially the back which has a prominent dark blue ring stain; top corners bumped; dents in cover fore-edge around halfway up. Internally, gift inscription on front free endpaper; foxing/discolouration marks on edges of several pages; otherwise, a good, clean copy. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 88pp. Blue cloth lettered in dark blue at the spine and upper board. With ten monochrome plates by Pauline Baynes - her first substantial book illustrations (she would of course go on to illustrate books by C.S.Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkien). A touch of bruising to the backstrip ends, and a small area of slight discolouration to the base of the backstrip where the dust wrapper is defective. Slight snagging to the two final text leaves where they have been very slightly mis-cut. The first plate has been very competently coloured by a former owner, and two further plates have also been partly coloured. A small area of loss to the lower edge of one text leaf (impacting no text), and that same leaf (only) sees a little coloured highlighting of small elements of the text. Nevertheless, this remains a lovely crisp copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, chipped with several inches of loss from the lower edge, and several smaller areas of edge-loss, and a little staining and soiling and several short tears. The book describes the adventures of two girls who encounter assorted historical figures including Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth Fry, Sarah Siddons, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Florence Nightingale, Boadicea, &c.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Baynes, Pauline D. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp 88. 10black & white plates. Original cloth. Slight cracking to inner front hinge. Small mark to rear board. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Country Life, UK in 1944. The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition with light pushing at the spine ends. Contemporary gift inscription to the front pastedown. Light toning to the text-block with a little offsetting to the blank end-papers. The lower front hinge is starting to ease. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good condition. Some loss at the spine ends, corners and the upper front edge. A closed tear to the lower front flap fold and a little tape reinforcement to the spine head to the verso. The wrapper artwork remains striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. The wrapper artwork and 10 B/W plates are by Pauline D. Baynes, the later illustrator of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. This early work was illustrated by Baynes whilst undertaking wartime work at the Admiralty in Bath and where she was able to gather a few commissions. This was her first for 'Country Life' and her first substantial book illustration. Very scarce - the first we have handled. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

FIRST EDITION, 10 monochrome plates with illustrations by Pauline Baynes, one or two faint spots, pp. 88, 4to, original light blue cloth, lettered to upper board and backstrip in a darker shade, juvenile ownership inscription to flyleaf, endpapers lightly spotted, very good. The book accompanies two girls as they encounter various historical figures - Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth Fry, Elizabeth Barratt Browning, Florence Nightingale, Boadicea, Queen Victoria, et al. - in the company of a host of fairies. It features early work by Pauline Baynes, the later illustrator of Lewis and Tolkien, then undertaking wartime work at the Admiralty in Bath and gathering a few early commissions - this is her first for Country Life and her first substantial book illustration, following some work on the Perry Colour Books in the previous couple of years. It is evidently early work, less assured in its composition, and with aspects of influence more apparent, but with plenty of touches characteristic of her accomplished later work.

First edition. Large 8vo. 88 pp. Publisher's light blue cloth, dark blue lettering to the spine and upper cover, dust jacket, early gift inscription to the front free endpaper with (presumably) the recipient's plain book label adjacent. 10 black and white plates. Wear and tear to the edges of the jacket with some losses, small old tape repairs at various points on the verso, the book generally very good. A very early work by the artist who later gained fame by illustrating the likes of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia.