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Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946
Seller: Neo Books, Sidcup, KENT, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners bumped and a little worn, top and bottom of spine bumped and worn, slight lean to spine, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, previous owners name on front end paper.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1946. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Yellow cloth. Colour title-page which is double spread. Numerous b/w illustrations. Yellow cloth boards are foxed especially rear board, spine lightly browned. Top edge of text block foxed. Contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1946. Almost very good condition in a dustwrapper in fair condition. Yellow cloth. Colour title-page which is double spread. Numerous b/w illustrations. Browning to top and tail of spine. Bumping to corners. Grubby marks to endpapers, outer page edges and a few page margins. Wrapper is faded to a couple of edges; torn with some loss; scuffed. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1946. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Based chiefly on the Bohn collection of 1884 for which Andrew Lang wrote the introduction, but a few stories from other versions included. 56 b/w illustrations & 5 coloured plates including double-spread title page. Yellow cloth boards, blue titles. 303 pages. Text block browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and edge-rubbed, spine heavily faded and also rear panel at spine edge, a few edge-chips and scuffing. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1946. Very good condition in a dustwrapper in fair condition. Yellow cloth. Colour title-page which is double spread. Numerous b/w illustrations. Spine bumped with slight browning to top and tail. Some foxing else clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn withs ome loss, uneven fading to panels (spine looks like it may be faded but was actually printed like this). Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1946
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Square octavo, 56 drawings in black and white in the text and five color illustrations (including double-title page) on inserted plates by Mervyn Peake, publisher's decorated yellow cloth stamped in black. First printing of this edition. Text largely based on the 1884 Bohn edition of HOUSEHOLD TALES, translated by Margaret Hunt, This edition was edited by Vivien Bartley. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with wear at edges, several internal tape mends, and clipped price. (#160065).
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946., 1946
Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
1st Edition. Bright yellow cloth. Fine in price clipped dust wrapper faded on the spine and with some minor wear and a few very small chips but a better than usual copy for this title which is prone to severe wear on the edges of the spine. PiP B10a.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946., 1946
Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
1st Edition. Bright yellow cloth. Very Good very slightly worn and chipped dust wrapper. PiP B10a.