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Published by Hutchinson
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. Photograph available on request.
Published by Michael Joseph, 1954
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. Unpaginated. Blue dust jacket over red and grey cloth. Contains colour illustrated plates throughout by Rex Whistler. Pages are mildly tanned with moderate foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Moderate tanning to spine and to board edges. Mild crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over. Notable scuffing to spine.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1954
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Grey Cloth/Red Cloth Spine. Condition: Good/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Rex Whistler (illustrator). unpaginated, illustrated with black & white drawings and three full-page colour plates tipped in, all by Rex Whistler, occasional thumb smudges to pages, grey endpapers, grey cloth with small gilt illustration to bottom corner of upper board, faded red cloth spine with gilt spine lettering (dulled), no dust jacket. Size: 10 x 7.5 Inches. Children's - Illustrated.
Published by London (Michael Joseph), 1954
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.
(38)pp. Illus. (partly color). 4to. Cloth. D.j.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto. 7.75 x 10 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of artworks and tipped in color plates by Rex Whistler. Very good in original two-tone paper-covered boards, sticker ghost to front free endpaper and very good pictorial dust jacket, foxing.
Published by Michael Joseph, 1954
Seller: Unique Books, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 3 tipped-in color plates.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1954
Seller: Beaulieu Books, Pinellas Park, FL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Rex Whistler (illustrator). 1st Edition. DJ in Mylar but dulled from age, some very minor foxing title page, but end plates clean Aberconway and Whistler were friends and when the author first wrote the book, the illustrator finished sketches along with him but the author did not decide to publish until "after the war (WWII". Sadly, Whistler had only completed converting three of the sketches to color plates for the story. Those three along with his original sketches illustrate the story beautifully. A real find and a great children's book. Unpaginated but has approximately 20 pages.
Published by Michael Joseph Ltd, London, 1954
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rex Whistler (illustrator). First Edition. Very good book in light blue cloth covers with red linen strip carrying dulled gilt titles to spine; narrow fade line to upper and lower edges. Internally fine and free of inscriptions; copiously and delightfully illustrated with three tipped-in colour plates and numerous line drawings; binding tight; no foxing.The dust jacket is very good- and not price clipped; slight darkening to spine; rub to spine top.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1954
Seller: Trinders' Fine Tools, Clare, Sudbury, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Maroon Backed Grey Boards. Condition: Very Good - See Description. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Whistler, Rex (illustrator). First Edition. Unnumbered pages, [3] tipped-in colour illustrations, [16] black and white illustrations by Rex Whistler. Delightful tale for children of all ages, Whistler's delicately coloured and delineated illustrations enliven a whimsical text. Hb, in maroon backed grey boards, gilt Mr Korah figure on lower corner of upper board, gilt lettering to spine darkened and difficult to read, fading to top edge of lower board, very slightly sprung, no dw, internally very good.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, United Kingdom, 1950
Seller: Small World Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Red boards with cats in gilt on spine. Light shelf wear and aging to covers. Jacket shows moderate shelf wear, loss to tips and spine ends, large chip at front bottom tip. Now in protective mylar sleeve. Interior is age toned with limited mild soiling in margins.
Published by Michael Joseph, 1954
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. Unpaginated. Signed by the author. Dedicated to John Sander on front endpaper. Blue dust jacket with red lettering over grey boards. Colour and B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Minor sunning to spine and board edges. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear and tear to edges and corners. Notable foxing and tanning to spine and edges, minor staining and soiling to DJ.
Published by Michael Joseph Ltd, London, 1954
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Rex Whistler (illustrator). 1st Edition. (40 pages), 3 tipped in colour plates and black and white illustrations in the text by Rex Whistler, good/very good condition in publisher's boards, spine faded, boards browned, text and illustrations in very good, clean condition, no dust-wrapper.
Published by HUTCHINSON, LONDON, 1966
Seller: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Boards rubbed and lightly marked. Clean throughout. Very good.
Published by Michael Joseph, 1954
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. 1954. Michael Joseph. First. Hard Cover. Book- VG. DJ- VG, protective covered. 10x7.5. Tipped-in colour frontis and profuse tipped-in colour plates and b/w illus by Rex Whistler.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1966,, 1966
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st edition, hardback, largw 8vo, 176pp, illustrated, light foxing on page edges, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, discoloured patches on spine, Good condition in rubber and slightly frayed dustwrapper, not price-clipped.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1954
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Quarto. Illustrations by Rex Whistler. Fine in spine-toned and spotted good dust jacket with modest edgewear.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Rex Whistler (illustrator). Rex Whistler was a regular visitor to the young authors home where he challenged her to invent a story which he would illustrate with quick pencil sketches as she unfolded it verbatim. A year later in the early period of WW2 he suggested that he would like to make larger coloured drawings from the sketches so the story could be published after the war. He only finished three dying in action in 1944.
Published by Michael Joseph, 1954
Seller: Hall of Books, Shropshire, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rex Whistler (illustrator). 1st. First edition hardback, 1954, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket a touch tanned to spine with a couple of small marks (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation - gift inscription to reverse of front endpaper dated 1991; text, b&w drawings and tipped-in colour plates bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.
Published by Christabel Aberconway, 1954
Seller: Hopton Books, Ludlow, SHROP, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Undated privately published booklet by Christabel Aberconway with illustrations by Rex Whistler. Interior is in lovely condition including the fold-out illustration. Owners name palte inside front cover. Cover has curled and scuffed corners but otherwise clean and firm.
Condition: 7. RELIE ENVOI DE CHRISTABEL ABERCONWAY A MADAME CHARLES DE POLIGNAC.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1966
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo. pp 176. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering at spine. Illustrated with black and white plates. Pages toned, light foxing at fore edge, front hinge a little loose but still holding and with no paper splits, boards a little spotted, else clean inside. Good in rubbed, chipped with small loss at spine ends and corners, sunned at spine, good minus dust jacket.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1954
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Quarto. Illustrations by Rex Whistler. Pages foxed, boards slightly bowed, corners lightly bumped, very good in a very good age-toned dustwrapper with modest edgewear.
Published by Michael Joseph, 1949
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Condition: Good. 1949. First Edition. 466 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Signed by the author with dedication to half title page. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean pages with faint tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Mild chipping to front hinge. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1954
Seller: William Glynn, Reydon, United Kingdom
First Edition
Grey Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rex Whistler (illustrator). First Edition. 44 pages, tipped-in colour plates & b/w sketches. Grey cloth binding, with red spine. Minor wear, bumping to covers, contents fine, some edgewear, soiling to unclipped dustjacket. [14551/686] Size: 255mm. x 190mm. Book.
Published by Hutchinson & Co, London 1966.1st ed., 1966
Seller: Page After Page, Box Hill, VIC, Australia
H/C with D/J, 23.5x15cm, 176 pages including index, b&w photos throughout, d/j has wear and tear, small d/j tears and scuffs to edges and corners, crude price clip.
Published by London Hutchinson, 1966
Seller: The Old Station Pottery and Bookshop, Wells-next-the-Sea, NORFO, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st edn. Hardback in d/w. 176pp. B/w photo frontispiece + 19 b/w illustrations. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Gift inscr to front free endpaper, otherwise Near FINE, in G++ unclipped d/w with small chips and 2 closed tears to extrems.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1954
Seller: Mad Hatter Books, Auckland, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rex Whistler (illustrator). First Edition. vg dj (price clipped) a little dusty, a few very short tears, light grey boards with red spine, gilt front vignette & spine lettering, top edge a little faded, 3 mounted colour plates + many sketches in the text by REX WHISTLER, light foxing internally and on foredges, vg. 4to, unpaginated. The story was told around 1940 by Christabel to her friend Rex Whistler, who made lightning sketches at the time. He wanted to redraw the pictures in colour for publication after the war but he was killed in France in 1944. He had only completed 3 colour drawings, also some of the pencil sketches were lost.
Published by Michael Joseph Ltd, London, 1954
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rex Whistler (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1954, 1st UK. Thin Quarto. Illustrated with tipped-in colour plates and line drawings by Rex Whistler. Original quarter red cloth over grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Fading to extremities, bump to head of front board. In the pale blue dust wrapper, a little spotted and rubbed with some score markings to front and rear. Contents in good clean order. Overall a 'Good' copy.
Published by Michael Joseph, 1968
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Fair. 1968. First Edition Thus. 466 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over red cloth. Library copy, with removed inserts and inscriptions. Pages are mildly tanned. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Missing half title page. Pencil inscription to title page. Heavy tape staining to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards are assumed in good condition as are covered with taped on jacket. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Notable rubbing and marking all over. Sticker to rear panel.
Published by Private Printing, 1954
Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy, undated and privately printed, six tipped in illustrations.