Ardizzone edward text (9 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Full of Ardizzone's delightful illustrations - both colour and black & white. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Unpaginated. First published in 1947. …

First UK paperback edition. Fine. Illustrated in b/w by Ardizzone, with a colour cover. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $2 ($5 overseas), so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller.

First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Lacks jacket, and back panel a little unevenly faded, otherwise very good. Chosen by Reeves (the tales are: The Cat and the Mouse/ Sir Gammer Vance/ The Strange Journey of Tuflongbo), tall nonsense tales surreal, but fun, and illustrated in colour (lithographs) by Edward Ardizzone.…

First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. A gift inscription on the fly-leaf, endpapers just a touch foxed, o/w very good in fine price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated in b/w and colour by the author. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $3, so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller. …

First edition. Hardcover. Edges and endpapers very slightly spotted, o/w very good in pictorial boards, a little rubbed, with abrasion mark on rear cover. Book 5 in the Young Reader's Guides to Music series. Illustrated in b/w by Ardizzone. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $3 ($6 overseas), so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards before the order is processed by the bookseller.…

SOFTCOVER. Condizione: NEW. Condizione sovraccoperta: Issued without a dustjacket. 1st Edition. This copy signed by Sarah Lawrence on the title-page (no other marks or inscriptions). 4to in colour printed stiff card covers, 127pp on stiff art paper, illustrated in colour throughout . [CONDITION: NEW unread and unmarked copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

First edition. Hardcover. Prelims a little foxed, with a prize book-plate on the fly-leaf, as well as a small bookseller's label, o/w very good in good price-clipped dustjacket with a few professionally closed tears and a couple small restored chips. A juvenile suspense novel, set in Italy in the closing days of the Second World War. Illustrated in b/w by Edward Ardizzone.…

Third printing (the first & second were in 1960 & 1971, with pictorial papered boards and jackets, but this third printing was published with laminated (glazed) boards and I suspect, as usual for the time, with no dustjacket). Hardcover. Quarto-size. Endpapers noticeably foxed (not extending to inner pages), otherwise very good. Wonderful colour illustrations by Ardizzone for this story (one of his less well-known ones) of a small boy ("clever at making things.") and his parents and disbelieving peer group (except for a little girl his age), and most local shop-keepers and tradesmen, all of whom are downright rude and discouraging about Johnny's plan to make a grandfather clock, from scratch. Last laugh goes to the bright and dogged child! And hoorah to the blacksmith who helped.…

FIRST (and only) EDITION 8vo. (approx. 23.5 x 15.5cm) hardback with paper-covered spine and boards printed in red and black with lithographic illustration to upper board. xvi, 51pp., illustrated with 14 full-page and 1 double-page original colour lithographs by Ardizzone (printed one side only). All plates present but do not quite follow binder's instructions for placement. Light foxing to prelims, otherwise clean and bright. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Very slight vertical bowing. Covers somewhat foxed and soiled with some light browning to edges (please see photos). Overall a GOOD+ COPY of this scarce title (plates and unsold copies were lost in a fire at the publisher's during the war). (Shelf 2) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.…