Nesbit edith 1858 1924 (29 risultati)

Audiobook Edition. Audiobooks; 2 Cassette Tapes, in a good, if slightly cracked, hard plastic case. Physical description: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 165 min.): analog, Dolby processed. Subjects: Children's fiction. Juvenile literature. Juvenile audiobooks. Audiobooks. 1 Kg.

Audiobook Edition. Audiobooks; 2 Cassette Tapes, in a good, if slightly cracked, hard plastic case. Physical description: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 165 min.): analog, Dolby processed. Subjects: Children's fiction. Juvenile literature. Juvenile audiobooks. Audiobooks. 1 Kg.

PF. Condizione: New.

CD Audiobook Edition. Audiobook; 3 CDs in near fine case. Physical description: 3 sound discs (ca. 3 hr.): digital, stereo. ; 4.75 in. Notes: Abridged and produced by Mellie Buse. Summary: "The five children are Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother. But what is 'It'? It is the Sand-fairy known as the Psammead, and it lives in the gravel pit where purple and yellow wildflowers grow. It is furry and fat with hands like a monkey's - and has the power to grant wishes. The children discover that wish-making is fun at first, but sometimes, when wishes come true, fun can soon turn into trouble."--Container. Subjects: Children's literature. Children's fiction. Children's audiobooks. Audiobooks. 1 Kg.…

1st Edition in this form. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 285 pages; Physical desc. : 285 p : ill. ; 24 cm. Facsimile reprint. Originally published, (New York) ; Hertel, Jenkins & Co. , 1907. Subjects: Drama - Shakespeare - Juvenile Fiction 1 Kg.…

CD Audiobook Edition. Audiobook; 3 CDs in near fine case. Physical description: 3 sound discs (ca. 3 hr.): digital, stereo. ; 4.75 in. Notes: Abridged and produced by Mellie Buse. Summary: "The five children are Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother. But what is 'It'? It is the Sand-fairy known as the Psammead, and it lives in the gravel pit where purple and yellow wildflowers grow. It is furry and fat with hands like a monkey's - and has the power to grant wishes. The children discover that wish-making is fun at first, but sometimes, when wishes come true, fun can soon turn into trouble."--Container. Subjects: Children's literature. Children's fiction. Children's audiobooks. Audiobooks. 1 Kg.…

1st Edition in this form. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 285 pages; Physical desc. : 285 p : ill. ; 24 cm. Facsimile reprint. Originally published, (New York) ; Hertel, Jenkins & Co. , 1907. Subjects: Drama - Shakespeare - Juvenile Fiction 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Subjects: Nesbit, E. (Edith) 1858-1924 Childhood and youth ; Juvenile literature. Authors, English 19th century ; Biography ; Juvenile literature. England Social life and customs 19th century Juvenile literature. 1 Kg. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Rústica comercial. Condizione: Aceptable. With illustrations by Cecil Leslie. -- 282 p., il. bl. y n. -- Puffin Books, 122. -- Muy usados, lomo rozado.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Subjects: Nesbit, E. (Edith) 1858-1924 Childhood and youth ; Juvenile literature. Authors, English 19th century ; Biography ; Juvenile literature. England Social life and customs 19th century Juvenile literature. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description:vii, 324 pages, 19 cm. Notes: Print version record.Contents: The unfaithful lover. -- Rounding off a scene. -- The obvious. -- The lie absolute. -- The girl with the guitar. -- The man with the boots. -- The second best. -- The holiday. -- The force of habit. -- The brute. -- Dick, Tom, and Harry. -- Miss Eden's baby. -- The lover, the girl, and the onlooker. -- The duel. -- Cinderella. -- With an E. -- Under the new moon. -- The love of romance. Subjects: Literature; Literary Criticism; Literary Theory; 19th Century. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description:vii, 324 pages, 19 cm. Notes: Print version record.Contents: The unfaithful lover. -- Rounding off a scene. -- The obvious. -- The lie absolute. -- The girl with the guitar. -- The man with the boots. -- The second best. -- The holiday. -- The force of habit. -- The brute. -- Dick, Tom, and Harry. -- Miss Eden's baby. -- The lover, the girl, and the onlooker. -- The duel. -- Cinderella. -- With an E. -- Under the new moon. -- The love of romance. Subjects: Literature; Literary Criticism; Literary Theory; 19th Century. 1 Kg. …

Condizione: Usado - Bueno. Llorente, Fernando (illustratore).

dj. [Children's Fantasy] NEW EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 274 [2]. With wood engraved plates by Millar. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 12/6. Charming gift note to flyleaf, jacket a little edge worn and slightly sunned. A very good copy. The first impression of this reissue, which is apparently quite scarce in jacket. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. HBDJ, HC, EX-Library USUAL WEAR ENDPAPERS SCUFFED ETC, No Publ. Date. Looking Glass Library #18. GOOD in VG dj in mylar. AS-IS, Corners & spine ends bumped & frayed. Bottom board edges rubbed. Pages tanned, but PRETTY clean. pages firmly bound , 5 Children come across Old Friend for sale in Pet Shop, Psammead, captured and put up for sale! It Helps them Obtain 1/2 of Amulet which has the Power to Transport Them into the Past, Soon they have Gone Back to Ancient Egypt & Babylon & see Lost Continent of Atlantis.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, 1948, 1st Edition THUS, VG- Condition WITH TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS WEAR gold paper covered boards with title and image on front and spine. SPINE CVR TINY CHIPS WEAR, No jacket. . Many B/W illustrations. Pages are age tanned FOX. Text is free of marks. Page binding is good. A VG- reading copy.LITELY worn at the heel and the crown. The 5 children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb - are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with the ability to grant wishes are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with the ability to grant wishes.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. ,HBDJ Book and Dust jacket in VERYGood- condition. DJ shows minor chippings around edges. Strong binding. 319pp VG/VG, AS-IS, Hardcover published circa 1960, NO Date Given by Looking Glass Library. No. 18. Pictorial blue/green boards with orange design on front and back covers. Boards have light soil, corner and spine wear. Unclipped dust jacket with price of $1.95 have moderate shelf wear and soil on front and back covers, edge and corner wear, small tear on front cover top edge. Good clean interior, some age toning. Firm bindng. Not ex-library. approx. 5" x 7.5", 319 pages plus list of Looking Glass Library titles END WITH SPIDER'S PALACE, 5 Children come across Old Friend for sale in Pet Shop, Psammead, captured and put up for sale! It Helps them Obtain 1/2 of Amulet which has the Power to Transport Them into the Past, Soon they have Gone Back to Ancient Egypt & Babylon & see Lost Continent of Atlantis.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1st Edition, EARLY ISSUE, VG/VG, AS-IS, Hardcover published circa 1960, NO Date Given by Looking Glass Library. No. 18. Pictorial blue/green boards with orange design on front and back covers. Boards have light soil, corner and spine wear. Unclipped dust jacket with price of $1.95 have moderate shelf wear and soil on front and back covers, edge and corner wear, small tear on front cover top edge. Good clean interior, some age toning. Firm bindng. Not ex-library. approx. 5" x 7.5", 319 pages plus list of Looking Glass Library titles END WITH SPIDER S PALACE , 5 Children come across Old Friend for sale in Pet Shop, Psammead, captured and put up for sale! It Helps them Obtain 1/2 of Amulet which has the Power to Transport Them into the Past, Soon they have Gone Back to Ancient Egypt & Babylon & see Lost Continent of Atlantis.…

[Children's] THIRD IMPRESSION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.325 [1]. With 48 in-text illustrations by Millar, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Top edge gilt, others trimmed. Endpapers quite heavily browned, with neat repairs to split hinges. Slightly toned internally, otherwise clean. Moderate general wear to cloth, with some toning also to spine. Very good. The second instalment of the adventures of Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb. As opposed to the first story, the children find magic and wonder in central London, rather than the removed countryside of Kent. First published in the Strand Magazine in the summer of 1903.…

First Edition. [Children's] SECOND IMPRESSION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 301 [3]. With 46 illustrations by Millar including a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Title page lettered in red and black. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and pictorial decoration to upper and spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Moderate spotting to edges and endpapers. Very occasional spotting, otherwise internally clean. Moderate general wear to cloth, with sunning and toning to spine. Very good. Originally published in the Strand as 'The Psammead,' this is Nesbit's beloved tale about the misadventures of five young protagonists and It, an ancient wish-granting sand fairy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1948, 1ST EDITION EARLY ISSUE, VG+/VG- Very good. Condition: Very Good-: Very Good+++ picture cover hardback with Very Good- DustJacket WITH TINY CHIPS TO EXTREMITIES, INTERIOR PGS FOXED in new Brodart, YELLOW DECORATED C LOTH MATCHES THE DJ ILLUSTRATION.253 PGS ,Text is clean and unmarked. Yellow Binding with Blue & black & BrownIllustration on Front cvr is tight. Hinges are tight. Spine is straight. The story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. The five children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb - are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with the ability to grant wishes are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with the ability to grant wishes.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1948, 1ST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE, VG+/VG+,AS-IS, In yellow pictorial boards with bumped top corners, some wear to spine ends and puncture to bottom of rear spine gutter. COLOR STICKER LABEL GLUED ONTO ENDPAER SAYS FIVE CHILDREN & IT Page ends have been tinted brown covering "library copy" stamps with some staining to top and bottom insides of spine, cover of more contemporary paperback copy of title has been affixed to front pastedown, and part of ffep has been clipped off with new endpaper affixed. Interior and covers nice and clean. Scarce jacket is unclipped ($1.95) with a couple of 1/2 inch closed tears to top and botttom of front panel, one inch closed tear to top of rear spine crease, puncture to bottom of rear spine crease and a few nicks. A few marks/spots - Very Good +. Yellow Binding with Blue & black & BrownIllustration on Front cvr is tight. 251 PGS + ADS ,It is the Psammead, a Pre-Historic Sand-Fairy. When it Grants them a Wish a Day, the Consequences are frequently Awkward. They become as Beautiful as the Day. & R Locked Out of Their Own Home. They get Wings & Nearly have to Spend the Nite on a Church Tower. Robert Becomes a Giant. Lamb grows Up in a Matter of Seconds. & Red Indians Invade the English Countryside.…

First Edition. [Children's novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; 402; [2], ads. Publisher's burgundy cloth, pictorially blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, t.e.g. Illustrated with plates (all present) and one drawing in-text. Clean throughout. No inscriptions, light toning to endpapers, covers fresh. An exceptionally bright copy. Fantasy adventure from the author of The Railway Children. The 'three C's', being the children Caroline, Charles and Charlotte, are spending the summer holidays at their Great-Uncle's Manor House, where they discover secret passages which lead to a lost garden.…

First Edition. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; [2]; 296; [2]; [2 of advertisements]; [8 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's blue-green cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt. Illustrated with seventeen plates. Contents clean, owner's stamp to flyleaf, binding shows some shelfwear, spine rubbed/darkened. A very good copy. The first book in the Bastable family adventure series. The Bastable books were a big influence on C.S. Lewis and Arthur Ransome, among others.…

First Edition. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.352 [2]. With 47 engraved illustrations by Millar, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original publisher's gilt-decorated red cloth over boards. Top edge gilt. Toned and a little thumbed to edges. Light occasional spotting and minor marks throughout. A clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Three children can't bear the thought of being stuck all summer with a prim maiden aunt, and so end up instead at a half-closed-up girls school where they discover fantasy and adventure out on the estate, complete with a magic ring which grants wishes.…

First Edition. [Children's fantasy trilogy] FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes, complete. Octavos (21 x 14 x 11cm), Each with illustrations by Millar including a tissue-guarded colour frontispiece to 'Phoenix'. Publisher's red or blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, top edges gilt. Some mild toning and spotting, free endpaper of each book neatly replaced using similar paper, covers lightly worn, spine sunned to first title, child's charming ownership to third title. Overall an attractive, presentable set, seldom encountered. Originally published in the Strand as 'The Psammead,' this is Nesbit's beloved tale about the misadventures of five young protagonists and It, an ancient wish-granting sand fairy, and their subsequent encounter with a phoenix, a magic carpet, and a magical Egyptian amulet. Several elements in these tales were borrowed by C. S. Lewis for his Narnia series, and Tolkien's Roverandom paid homage, featuring a wizard named Psamathos Psamathide, described as a 'Psamathist', from an order of 'Psammeads'. Rare as a complete set (no others listed at time of writing).…

Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardback. Condizione: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.