Talking Parcel by Gerald Durrell (15 results)

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Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Reprint. F-/VG+. 8vo. original aquamarine boards gilt (a trifle rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper (price-clipped by publisher (£3.50 replacement label), two discreet closed tears, neat repair on reverse); pp. 190. A very good copy. A children's fantasy novel by the popular natural history writer.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Johnson, Pamela (illustrator). First US Edition. G : in good condition with marked, chipped and edge-torn dust jacket in clear protective wrap. Cover rubbed and discoloured. Foxing to page edges. Spine lean. 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 191pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Johnson, Pamela (illustrator). Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Pamela Johnson (illustrator). 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. near fine in near fine jacket. scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Johnson, Pamela (illustrator). Stated First American Edition. Oversized Green cloth with orange lettering. Minor bump to head and heel of spine. Soil spot to lower edge of spine. Text is clean and bright, no marks. Wonderfully illustrated thoughout with drawings by Pamela Johnson. Clipped DJ shows rubbing to all edges, three strips of tape to reverse side of jacket along the top edge, light general soil. "The big brown parcel that washes up on the beach seems perfectly ordinary, that is, until it begins to speak and sing, and not in one voice but two! And the talking parcel is only the beginning of the amazing adventure of discovery that takes Penelope, Peter, and Simon from modern Greece to Mythologia, where flowers never die, where there are four different sunsets every day, and where all the famous (and infamous) mythological animals now live, ruled by absent-minded magician H.H. Junketberry." (from the jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Johnson, Pamela (illustrator). First Edition In U. S. Fine, clean and tight, scarce first printing of Gerald Durrell's wonderful fantasy for the young adult reader. Sharp bright apple green cloth boards, spine stamped with orange titles, dusting of light speckles to the top text-edge, else fine, the vividly illustrated wrap-around pictorial dust jacket with price intact, light edgewear mostly at tips, two very tiny incipient closed tears to bottom edge of front panel. The author was widely known for his studies of animals, his work to protect them, and his many fine books. This charming, complex children's fantasy adventure is set in Mythologia; 'peopled' by the legendary beasts. This is a beautiful, collectible first printing protected in a new, clear Brodart cover.

slight spine discolouration, VG.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Pamela Johnson (illustrator). First Edition. A crisp, lovely copy of the 1975 stated 1st American edition. Clean and Fine in a bright, price-intact ($6.95), Near Fine to Fine dustjacket. Octavo, nicely illustrated throughout in line-drawn black-and-white by Pamela Johnson. Truly a collector's copy.

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 190. Original light blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial dustjacket. Edges of dustjacket a little rubbed with slight loss to colour. The third work of fiction by the naturalist best known for ?My Family and Other Animals? and his other autobiographical writings. Preceded by a young-adult novel (The Donkey Rustlers) and a work of comic fiction (Rosy is my Relative), this is his first work of outright fantasy: the plot concerns a group of children travelling to a mythological land to quell an uprising of cockatrices.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH ORIGINAL PRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 190 PAGES. FEW MINOR CHIPS & CREASES TO EDGES OF JACKET, OVERALL A LOVELY COPY IN VERY GOOD PLUS CONDITION. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. A delightful, fast-moving fantasty which is a delicioous blend of adventure and lovely Durrell humour. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 190 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Pale browning to endpapers. Dustwrapper is edge worn with a few small tears at top edges. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. JAMES Liza (illustrator). 2nd Edition. 190pp. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine in unclipped dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Boards very lightly worn at extremities. Dustwrapper lightly worn at extremities with some chips and marks in biro to verso of front flap. Closed edges and eps lightly spotted. Textblock clean and tight.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A lovey first edition, first impression of this fantasy novel by Gerald Durrell, complete with the strikingly illustrated dust wrapper designed by Liza James. The first edition, first impression of this book by Gerald Durrell. A fantasy story following the adventures of some children who are transported to Mythologia to save it from cockatrice. The book was translated into numerous languages. Complete with the strikingly colourful dust wrapper designed by Liza James, unclipped. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. The dust wrapper is unclipped and very smart with minor shelf wear and a minor chipping to the head of the spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Fine. book.