Cockle Button Ben (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Cockle Button, Cockle Ben This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No date, a gift inscription on the front illustrated endpaper is dated 1941. Pictorial card covers a little age-darkened. Pages clean & tight. Superbly illustrated by Gladys M. Rees. 95 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rees, Gladys M. (illustrator). 'Cockle Button, Cockle Ben and Other Stories' by Richard Phibbs. Illustrated by Gladys M. Rees. Country Life. Undated, circa 1946. The book sits off square. Otherwise Very good in dust jacket with a piece missing from the front cover and a smaller piece missing from the rear panel. 0.

Condition: Good. Rees, Gladys M. (illustrator). Reprint. Quarto. Cream cloth-covered boards. 95 pages. Six short stories. Numerous black and white illustrations. Colour frontispiece missing. Five remaining colour plates all in place. A few light marks on covers. Neat gift dedication on title page. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Undated, but 1940's. Children's stories, charmingly illustrated by Gladys M Rees. Illustrative boards a little worn and sunned, illustrative end-papers, inscription to half title verso, occasional grubby marks, tight and sound, good in chipped, edge-worn, mended, good DJ. 95pp 0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Gladys M. Rees. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 95 pages with 6 full page colour plates and 5 full page black and white woodcut plates + 62 black and white illustrations. Beautifully illustrated endpapers and colour illustrated cloth cover in light beige. Slim small quarto. Condition; All clean with a small neat inscription to top corner of verso of endpaper "Elizabeth. With Love + Xs from Aunty Cecy? Xmas 1940". Very Good. * The other stories on various people and places inc; The title story of two hens, Kitty Alone (A Kittens adventures), Mary Luz and Mary Sol (two Spanish girls in the Civil war period), Jack a'Nory (a poor old man), The Mist Woman Of The Mountain (Irish tale of the Mist-Woman), The Roll of Red Flannel, (two shops and Father Christmas in Bradford on Avon). The woodcut illustrations are in the style of Joan Hassell and Robert Gibbings. *Gladys M Rees was elected ASWA in 1927 & SWA in 1939, painted landscapes and was a competent etcher with lots of variety. She illustrated and worked in scraperboard, did posters and illustrated approximately 9 books from 1922-1952 and in the reference work by Brigid Peppin & Lucy Micklethwaite 1983, this work is not listed.

Cloth. Condition: Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Rees, Gladys M. (illustrator). Reprint. Loss to head and foot of spine, a few tears and creases, else clean and bright. Some light wear to boards and spine, mainly to edges and head and foot, ink inscrips. to front endpapers, colouring in of many of the black and white illus., else pp clean and bright. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. 95 pgs, cloth. 80pgs. Rees illus these 6 stories for young children. 6 charming full color plates. VERY GOOD+ in lightly chipped dustjacket.