Here Comes Mumfie, First Edition (9 results)

Katharine Tozer (illustrator). Illustrated boards (pink, blue and white) with pink cloth spine: rubbing to edges and corners. White endpapers are somewhat foxed: penciled names of previous owner from Hespeler, Ontario. Two-tone (pink & blue), illustrative frontispiece plus another plate toward rear. Top of page edges dyed red. Text block is clean, sound with light lean: stitched binding is secure but weakened. B&W illustrations throughout. 196 pages. Heavy book: additional shipping may be required.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Katharine Tozer (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition fifth printing hardback pictorial cover 176 pages Colour and black and white illustrated Very Good condition in Good price-clipped dust jacket ( spine of jacket part faded, some nibbles at the corners) Original gift inscription on front end paper.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. 196pp. Original red quarter cloth over illustrated boards with black spine titles. Covers with some wear, rubbing, and marks, splitting to backstrip at lower spine hinge and slightly chipped at ends, a couple of small marks to contents, otherwise very good. No jacket. Gift inscription to endpaper. 1936 1st edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tozer, Katharine. Here comes Mumfie / illustrated by the author. First edition. London: John Murray, 1936. Hardback, Good, no dustjacket. Red illustrated front board, sunned to edges, bumped to spine. Illustrated white board on reverse, age-discoloured to top edge with a few marks and stains. Red cloth spine, split along front hinge with some damage to top and base; black lettering. Binding good. Ownership signature to ffep. Light foxing to endpapers. Colour frontispiece. 196pp., colour and b/w illustrations. Katharine Tozer was born on July 31, 1907 in Barnstaple, Devon. She was a children's writer, known for Here Comes Mumfie and Magic Adventures of Mumfie, the adventures of an elephant She was married to Robert James McCallum Tozer and died on August 6, 1943. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edn. Illus. with b.w. and cold. drawings. by the author. 8vo. cl. backed pict. bds. Bds. stained, inscr., generally good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 22.5 x 15 cm. 196 pp. Pictorial boards with cloth spine: bright; some rubbing to lower rear board. Owner's bookplate to FEP. Clean throuhout and entirely well bound. Beautifully illustrated by the author throughout: colour frontis and further plate near rear. Red dye to top of text block. Very slight lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Katharine Tozer. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 196 pages, with colour and black and white plates throughout, illustrated paper boards with a pink cloth spine, embossed titles in black, boards a little rubbed and light fade lines just seen, slight lean out-of-true, no inscriptions,*Note: The illustrations shown to be by the author are mostly signed "Jimi"? Octavo. Very good.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover book , First edition in dustjacket. 196 pages with illustrations by the author. The second Mumfie book. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. Light foxing to front and rear paste downs and rear end-paper. Very light staining to rear cover with a couple of small indentation marks to front. Dustjacket price clipped and lightly worn to edges with some staining to rear . Front clean and bright. No inscriptions. Scarce . Pictures available.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Katharine Tozer (illustrator). First edition. A charming first edition of this much loved children's story, in the original scarce dust wrapper. The first edition of the work. In the scarce original decorative unclipped dust wrapper. With a loosely inserted promotional leaflet issued by the publisher John Murray advertising Mumfie books and other 'charming works for children'. With charming illustrations by the author throughout. Collated complete. Here Comes Mumfie is the second work in the charming series of novels by Katharine Tozer, based around Mumfie, an elephant who lives in a cottage in the woods. In the original pictorial publisher's binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear to the extremities. The odd spot to the rear board. Dust wrapper is smart with chipping and closed tears to the extremities. Sunning to the spine and the odd spot to the reverse of the wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just the odd spot, heavier to the fore edge. Offsetting to endpapers. Very Good. book.