A First Bible Story Book
hard cover. An excellent introduction to the Bible for very young children. Charmingly illustrated.
hard cover. An excellent introduction to the Bible for very young children. Charmingly illustrated.
London: Ward Lock & Co. Cloth. pp 254. Coloured frontis. Undated. Inscription to ffep dated 1969. Very good red cloth binding with v/g dustwrapper. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel.....
London: Dean and Son. Card. pp 124. No date. Coloured frontis., illustrations. Bright pictorial card covers with cloth spine. Some rubbing to edges.
USA: Public Affairs. paperback. In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as it looks from a new perspective: with the evolution of the Muslim community at the center. His story moves from the lifetime of Mohammed through a succession of far-flung empires, to the tangle.....
London: Gale & Polden. Original Pictorial Wrappers. pp. [16]. Illus, 2 colour plates. Stories from Grimm's Fairy tales retold and illus by Lois Tanner. Original brightly coloured illus card covers, worn at edges, else good.
Soft cover. A series of stories including... interleaved with coloured images of Shirley Temple illustrating the different stories. A very good example of this illustrated story book by the world's leading child actress in 1935-1938 0.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1977. Original Cloth. pp 211. Plates and illus. Very good in vg d/w. AD REF 111.
hard cover. Familiar favorites offer a glimpse into the richness and beauty of Chinese culture. The Chinese explore self sacfrifice, wisdom, gentleness, vanity, greed and ambition, the negativities which those of all cultures must try to eliminate if they are to understand the truth of human existence.
London: Joseph, 1948. Original Cloth. pp 269. Illus. The story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton and more.
MA: Candlewick Press, 2008. LeUyen Pham. With warmth and humor, Archbishop Desmond Tutu distills his philosophy of unity and forgiveness into a picture book for the very young. Archbishop Desmond Tutu has a vision of God's dream, which he shares here with the youngest of listeners. It involves people.....
London: Longmans, Green, 1896. First Edition. Quarter cloth and Boards. pp 62. Complete with all colour illustrations. Pages loose but in good condition. Original pictorial boards with cloth spine, edgeworn and with some age darkening.
London: Frederick Warne. Pictorial Boards. Coloured frontis, b&w illustrations throughout. Pictorial boards with cloth spine. Some staining to front and back endpapers. Front hinge begnning to loosend. Internals slightly age darkened, else good.
London: The Amalgamated Press Ltd., 1952. Various contributors. Quarter bound cloth, paper pastedowns on boards. Colour frontispiece. Black and white illustrations throughout. Comics, short stories, puzzles, games.
London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Ltd., Undated. Stanley Lloyd, W. Spence., R. G. Campbell and various. Hardback. Clothbound with pastedown full-colour illustrated paper on front board. The whole laminated, likely at a later date. Colour frontispiece by Stanley Lloyd. Title page illustration by W. Spence. Black and white paintings.....
London: The Amalgamated Press Ltd., 1956. Various contributors. Quarter cloth with full colour illustrations on paper pastedown on boards. Issued in Christmas 1956. Collection of comics (predominantly black and white; some in colour) and short stories. Three-colour endpapers. Full-colour frontispiece.
London: Dean & Son, Ltd., 1971. Mabel Lucie Attwell. Hardback, paper bound, laminated. Annual by famed British illustrator, Mabel Lucie Attwell.
London: Dean & Son, Ltd., 1972. Mabel Lucie Attwell. Hardback, paper bound, laminated. Annual by famed British illustrator, Mabel Lucie Attwell.
London: Renwick of Otley, Undated. Various contributors. Quarter bound cloth, paper paste downs on boards. With a number of superb colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations.
London: Brockhampton Ltd., 1964. Leslie Stead. First. Yellow cloth with coloured dust jacket. 184 pp. Dust jacket in a fair condition. Extensive wearing, fading, and some creasing/tearing. The contents are good, with some fading, but no foxing. There is a half-plate colour illustration within the front page.
London: Oxford University Press, 1947. Mendoza. First Australian. Orange cloth with yellow dust jacket. 157 pp. Dust jacket in a good condition with minimal tearing and fading. The contents appear heavily aged and discoloured. The previous owner's name is inked into the front cover.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1952. Leslie Stead. 5th. Grey cloth with dust jacket. 182 pp. This is an ex-library book with multiple stamps on it. The dust jacket is in fairly average condition, as it has been chipped and battered over the years. The contents are largely good. There.....
London: Deans and Sons Ltd., 1965. Green cloth with coloured dust jacket. 183 pp. Dust jacket in good condition, apart from a chipped piece on the front cover. There is minimal fading, with only slight creasing. The contents are in extremely nice condition, with no foxing, discolouration, or fading.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1947. Howard Leigh. First Australian. Maroon cloth with coloured dust jacket. 256 pp. The dust jacket has some fading as well as creasing. There are also some tears. The contents are faded. The previous owner's initials have been stamped into the front cover. There are various.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1950. Leslie Stead. First. Blue cloth with black and white dust jacket. 189 pp. Dust jacket is in really good condition, due to plastic sleeve enveloping it. There is some slight tearing and chipping, but no discolouration. The contents appear to have been read only.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1947. Terrence Cuneo. First. Turquoise cloth with dust jacket. 191 pp. Dust jacket has some chipping, but not much tearing or ripping. There is some fading and discolouration however. There is a reasonable amount of fading and discolouration to the interior contents of the work.