Firelight Tales by Nesbit (5 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (childrens stories) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. loc scaninavia,notxlib, cover of spine missing.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Nice old book of childrens' stories. No date, circa 1920. Spine loose. Pages spotted . Pres plate to ffep.96pps. Col frontis.& blk & white illust throughout.Stories inc. 'How Gyda helped Muldvarp the Mole', 'Gyda's Pet', 'Naughty Frisk', 'The Story of Peck-away, the Young Sparrow', 'The Skylark's fright', 'The Story of Carl the Sailor Boy and the Arctic Fox', 'The Story of How Goldilocks the Chipper made a new kind of Harpoon'. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Dulac, Edmund & James, Gilbert & et al., (illustrator). Circa 1915. Very good condition with no wrapper. Red boards, gilt titles; colour pictorial onlay to front cover. 8 colour plates and b/w illustrations. The Fireside Library. American Edition. Bumping to spine and a couple of corners. Some darkening also to spine. A few marks to covers. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. All plates present. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 96. Part of Nelson's Fireside Library Series. Circa 1925; no date given. Book plate on front paste down: London Count)y Council Tennyson St. PD School Prize awarded to Francis Green for good work & conduct. Signed C. Dawson Follett Head Teacher April 1926. Original publisher's cloth binding in blue, lettered Black and featuring illustration on the upper board and front of dust jacket of three figures chasing after their hats in a gust of wind. Large print. Story for very young children. Dust jacket in ivory, lettered black with a list of Other Volumes in The Same Series on the rear cover. Charming black and white illustrations scattered through the text. Edmund Dulac frontispiece in colour of a lady in traditional costume feeding the birds in winter. Colour plates by Gilbert James, Edmund Dulac. Short stories include 'How Gyda helped Muldvarp the Mole; The Story of Peck-Away, The Young Sparrow; The Skylarks Fright; 'The Story of how Goldilocks and the Chipper made a new kind of harpoon.'/Edmund Dulac (1882Ğ1953) was a French-British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse, he studied law but later turned to the study of art at the cole des Beaux-Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Bront' Sisters. Very good indeed in very good minus jacket. Dust jacket soiled and chipped at edges with minor loss.