Simple Simon Friends (8 results)

Glossy Pictorial Boards. Condition: Very Good Contents Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition of This Edition. Please email for further details Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hilda Offen (illustrator). Not Signed or Inscribed.

Board book. Condition: Very Good. Simple Simon and Friends 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.…

Board book. 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: Good. Landscape folio. No date, circa 1906. This copy inscribed 'Xmas 1912'. With 12 colour illustrations by Charles Crombie. Published by the cornflour makers, Brown & Polson, with 'Copyright Brown & Polson' on the plates, and a recipe in the corner of the text pages. The last 2 pages have further Brown & Polsen advertisements. Printed card covers. Out of its covers, lacking front and rear free endpapers, a little fingered here and there. Good only.…

Oblong-Folio. 13 leaves with 12 full-page colour illustrations and 1 leaf adverts. with half-page colour illustration. Orig. half cloth with title in red to front cover. Binding a bit dusted and with a few light scratch marks. Upper front corner bent and rubbed. Title-page and last leaf with spotting, else very good.…

Hardback. With 12 Plates Undated but circa 1904 previous owners pencil inscription dated Xmas 1904 Contents include Simple Simon The Queen of Hearts Little Jack Horner Little Tom Tucker Patacake Georgie Porgie King Pippins Hall Girls and Boys Come Out to Play HotCross Buns Wonderful colour illustrations Bound in blue cloth with blue paper covered boards Red lettering to upper board Blue cloth spine is a little worn and discoloured Staples are a little rusted to rear page Hinges a little weak With original brown paper envelope Red lettering to front cover Envelope is worn and torn with age toningdiscolouration and some loss Images available on request. Charles Crombie (illustrator). book.…

Hardback, Oblong folio. approx 18 x 12 inches. Black paper covers with red lettering to front. Black cloth bound spine. In very good condition. Some light rubbing to boards with minor nicks to corners. Inscription to front endpaper and partially deleted inscription to corner of title page ?North St. School, Plaistow, presented to xxxx for good work, signed R. Cooper, xmas 1910.? Some mild foxing to pages, some heavier foxing to title and last pages. Else clean and tight. 12 very nice colour plates. Each with accompanying text page. 2 advert.pages ( 1 with colour ill.) Simple simon, Queen of Hearts, Jack Horner, Tom Tucker, Pat-a-cake, Georgie Porgie etc. …

Condition: Near Fine. With very scarce original dust jacket! Oblong 4to. 29 by 45 cm. Unpaginated, 27 pages -- after title page, two or four pages per nursery rhyme, one with the verse, the facing page, with the peerless Crombie color illustration, and two pages of promotion for Brown & Polson's flour. The nursery rhymes are among the most familiar: Simple Simon, of course, The Queen of Hearts, Little Jack Horner, Little Tom Tucker, Pat-a-Cake, Georgie Porgie, King Pippin's Hall, Girls and Boys Come Out to Play, and Hot-Cross Buns. The Crombie illustrations are within the aesthetic movement tradition, or Queen Anne-style, as also associated with Walter Crane or more loosely, William Morris or the contemporary of Crombie, Maxfield Parrish. They generally have a Medievalist feel to them, as is very appropriate with an ancient tradition stretching back to a vague mythical past of kings, queens, knights and pages as so many nursery rhymes do, although a few of the illustrations evoke the more recent Georgian or Regency past. The book is unusual inasmuch as it appears to have been issued by a food processing company as a promotion of sorts -- we do not think the ad in the back is an incidental insert. As evidence of this is that Brown & Polson held the copyright to the illustrations -- they all have fine lettered captions underneath to this effect. While we have come across this book from time to time, we have never seen the dust jacket before! Ours is also overall a beautiful copy, exception some soiling on the cloth spine, mostly from the rusting of the staples used in binding the text block seeping through, and two tiny pinprick holes on the rear of this cloth strip. The title page has light foxing; otherwise, we would say pristine. The dust jacket is dampstained and chipped but nonetheless essentially intact. Crombie was a commercial and editorial artist, best known today for his illustrations for "The Rules of Golf" and its sequel, "The Rules of Cricket".…