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Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since 3 January 1999
FIRST EDITION 1966. Story of an old Welsh pony written and illustrated by Keeping. Slim 4to, 250 x 205 mm, 10 x 8 inches, original publisher's pictorial colour illustrated boards and endpapers, (34) pages. Brilliant coloured illustrations filling every page. Simple text inset. Slightest rub to head and tail of spine and corners. No inscriptions, near Fine copy in very good plus DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, very slightly worn at head and tail of spine and corners, 10 mm (½") closed tear at head of spine, small neat paper repair on verso, very slightly darkened on spine, very small brown stain at foot of lower hinge and lower fold). The artist's second book, Keeping apparently felt unable to develop his story without a real animal so he acquired a 20 year old pony from a junk dealer and kept it in a stable in his garden. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Seller Inventory # 48791
Title: BLACK DOLLY the story of a junk cart pony.
Publisher: London Brockhampton Press
Publication Date: 1966
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Keeping, Charles. Black Dolly : the story of a junk cart pony. Sevenoaks: Hodder and Stoughton's Childrens Books, 1984 republication of title first published by Brockhampton Press in 1966. Hardback, VG. Illustrated boards. Binding strong. Unpaginated story book with full-page colour illustrations throughout and a few lines of text per page. Contents clean and bright. Charles William James Keeping (22 September 1924 16 May 1988) was an English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He made the illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he created more than twenty picture books. He also illustrated the complete works of Charles Dickens for the Folio Society. Keeping created 15 full-colour picture books for Oxford University Press. His former teacher and fellow illustrator Nigel Lambourne has described him as "one of the few great illustrators we've got. 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. Seller Inventory # ABE-1742761826563
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
Reprint (Re-issue by a new publisher; Brockhampton Press having done the first edition in 1966). Hardcover. Quarto. Fine in pictorial boards as issued (a few binding wrinkles on the laminate), Illustrated in colour by the author.Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $5, so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards before the order is processed by the bookseller. Seller Inventory # 29082
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Q's Books Hamilton, Hamilton, NSW, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Contains beautiful colour illustrations. The cover has some minor stains and creases but is otherwise in good condition. The binding is sound. There are no loose pages. The pages are clean and in good condition. Seller Inventory # 028976
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Secondhand Books 'n' Things, Ross Creek, VIC, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover first edition fourth impression 1972. This book is in very good+ condition. The dust jacket is in very good condition - price-clipped; mild edge wear; very small hole in back; very small patch of coloured surface removed on front. Seller Inventory # 002512
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 32. Original publisher's illustrated boards. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. One of the earliest books written and illustrated by Keeping. Fine in faintly creased, price-clipped, near fine dust jacket. Excellent condition. Seller Inventory # C86687
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION 1966. Story of an old Welsh pony written and illustrated by Keeping. Slim 4to, 250 x 205 mm, 10 x 8 inches, original publisher's pictorial colour illustrated boards and endpapers, (34) pages. Brilliant coloured illustrations filling every page. Simple text inset. Slightest rub to head and tail of spine and corners. No inscriptions, near Fine copy in very good plus DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, very slightly worn at head and tail of spine and corners, 10 mm (½") closed tear at head of spine, small neat paper repair on verso, very slightly darkened on spine, very small brown stain at foot of lower hinge and lower fold). The artist's second book, Keeping apparently felt unable to develop his story without a real animal so he acquired a 20 year old pony from a junk dealer and kept it in a stable in his garden. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Seller Inventory # 50223
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB., Cromford, United Kingdom
Book Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Brockhampton Press, 1966. 1st Edition . Very Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Book in VG condition in a good price-clipped jacket, with some wear and rubbing. Jacket now in removable protective sleeve and would be classed as VG apart from a child's name (?) scrawled across the front panel and a pen mark. Internally clean, illustrated throughout. Unpaginated. Seller Inventory # 12581
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Jane & John Kinnaird, Carlisle, United Kingdom
No page numbers. Double page illustrations throughout. Boards, corners and top and bottom of spine little bumped and scuffed. Small mark (5mm) on front of dust jacket, spine little faded, not price clipped. A clean and tight copy. 25x21cms. Seller Inventory # 2790
Quantity: 1 available