Agnes frome (5 risultati)

Condizione: Fair. 1928. Reprinted. 94 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with coloured lettering. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Contains black and white illustrations. Binding remains firm. Pages are prominently tanned with foxing throughout. Colour pencil marking to page 44. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedowns. Noticeable tanning and foxing to text block edges. Pen inscription to front free end paper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Boards have mild shelf-wear. Book has a slight forward lean.…

London, Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, [ 1936]. 21 S. Mit 7 tls. zweifarb. Illustr. von C. E. Broek (= Strang's Penny Books, C 7). 18 cm. Geheftet. Für Kinder von 8-11 Jahren. Mit Anhang von Fragen u. Übungen zu Text u. Illustrationen. - Agnes Frome (1887-1932), Autorin von "Dreamstories", die das Magrische und Fantastische in der Alltagswelt der Kinder schilderten. - Herbert Strang (i.e. George Herbert Ely, 1866-1958, u. Charles James L'Estrange, 1867-1947). Die beiden Autoren schrieben vor allem Abenteuerbücher für Jungen, stark beeinflusst von Jules Verne, gaben aber auch zahlreiche Serien u. Anthologien unter ihrem Pseudonym heraus. - Gutes Exemplar.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No date. circa 1940's/50's. Buff Cardboards with blue tone picture of boy and girl pretending to be pirates. Spine missing hence binding a bit loose.Boards a little grubby and worn. Blue/buff and Green/Buff illustrations throughout. Two tri-tone colour illustrations. Thick cardboard pages. First story is "The Boy who Wouldn't Get Up" 127 pages of stories and .poems for younger children of the time. Cicely Englefield; Newnham; Cora Paterson Ethel Guy - Baker; E. M. Overnell (illustratore). Book. …

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good +. 1st Edition. Hardback, blue cloth. 18cm x 14cm. 96pp. Colour frontis. Illustrated. 1st edition 1931. Spine slightly faded and worn. Gift message to front pastedown. A decent copy. (a8).

Hard. Condizione: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, small previous owner inscription dated 1928 on front endpaper, light foxing on endpapers, partially cracked gutter at page 17, some shelf wear and rubbing to boards with light tanning to spine, but overall neat. Size: 12mo.