tinker tailor childs guide professions di herbert (17 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 64 pages, illustrated by A. P. Herbert. Good condition with some edge wear, some spotting to the first few and last few leaves.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Morrow, George (illustratore). Covers have slight wear to the outer corners and spine ends and slight discoloration of the edges. Owner inscription on the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Geo. Morrow (illustrator) (illustratore). ex-library copy with usual markings, covers have heavy wear and soil, corners and ends of spine bumped and rubbed, binding tight, 84 pages, short poems on the dilemma of what to be when you grow up and some of the choices available in England at the beginning of the 20th century, bw illustrations Size: 6.75 x 8.5.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condizione: Good/Fair. Black & White Illustrations (illustratore). First American Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company. Good/Fair. 1923. First American Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. 8vo., 67 p., DJ rubbed, frayed, chipped, cove edges faded, corners bumped, pages lightly toned .

Condizione: Good. 1922. 63 pages. No dust jacket. Green pictorial boards with a cloth spine. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First American edition. 67pp. Black & white vignettes by Geo. Morrow. Corners worn through, endpapers lightly foxed and darkened, very good. Humorous poetry, covering 21 professions, regrettably spy not included.

Condizione: Fair. 1933. Second Edition. 54 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth. Ex-libris plate stuck to front free endpaper. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Light marks to boards.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. George Morrow (illustratore). First Edition. An amusing guide to such professions as Squire, Lord Chancellor, the Church, Sailor, Diplomat and King's Remembrancer. Herbert does not recommend becoming an author. Classic nonsense, reminiscent of Belloc at his finest. This copy is wornon the edges, and a bit stained -- it's a solid copy. Hours of amusement if you read it slowly, which it deserves.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. First Edition. Drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 67 pages; 1923 Doubleday, Page & Company. HC/DJ 1st edition. Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial, title lettered dust jacket with publisher's $1.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket a little sun faded at spine and with light toning to surfaces and light rubbing and a few shallow chips at edges. Light offset toning to front endpages where a clipping was laid in. Illustrated from drawings by George Morrow. VG+/VG-.

hardback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, green cloth backstrip with pictorial paper covered boards, a tightly bound copy but with foxing to both covers and contents, quite heavily to front pre-lims, not present on the endpapers & more sporadic and marginal to the text, illustrated throughout by Geo. Morrow, 64pp.

Illustrated by George Morrow. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1922. First edition. 63,(1) s. Richly illustrated. Publisher's cloth backed boards. 22 x 17 cm. [#\125570].

Hard. Condizione: Fair. Morrow, George (illustratore). 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Pages clean and bright. Ink stain to pages 60/61 (small). Partially disbound but still firm. Heavy foxing to endpapers. Previous owners (2) inscriptions to front endpaper. Small sticker to foot of front pastedown. Staining to front pastedown/endpaper. Slight lean. Heavy shelf wear. Size: 8vo.

George Morrow (illustratore). 1922 1st edition. Green cloth spine, pictorial green/black/white paper covered boards. Humorous verses by A.P. Herbert, illustrated in b/w by George Morrow. Most of these verses originally published in Punch. Condition: Good. Egdewear. Stains and surface tears to boards. Browning to feps. Inscription dated 1924 to ffep. Price sticker to ffep. Light scattered foxing, mainly to beginning and end of book. Size: 8.5x6.5in / 22x17cm. 64pp. Weight: 215g.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 82. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1923 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 82.

MORROW, George (illustratore). HERBERT, A.P. "Tinker Tailor." A Child's Guide to the Professions. Illustrated by George Morrow. Orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1922]. First edition. A near fine copy.

1st edition. Very good copy with cloth-backed, illustrated paper-covered boards in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Exceptional copy. Physical description; 63, [1] p. : ill. Subjects; Nursery rhymes. Occupations ; Juvenile poetry. MORROW, George. 3 Kg.

Cloth. Condizione: Good. George Morrow (illustratore). A.P. Herbert's early 20th century children's work about careers and professions, a signed presentation copy from the author to his acquaintance, the physician Dr William Hale-White. A collection of verses and poems about different careers and professions, intended for children. Including poems about being a sailor, chancellor, doctor, actress, banker, conductor, and more.Written by nineteenth-century English humourist, Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, and illustrated throughout by George Morrow.A signed presentation copy of this work from the author to his acquaintances Dr William Hale-White and his wife Jane Hale-White. Including an ink inscription from the author to Jane Hale-White on the front free-endpaper: 'Jane Hale-White, with compliments, from A.P. Herbert, Sept 30th 1922'.Also including a letter from A.P. Herbert to noted British physician and biographer Dr William Hale-White, attached to the front pastedown: 'Dear Hale-White, In spite of your prohibition, I must write and say how glad I was to get your nice note of congratulation. My wife and I send our thanks to you both. Yours Sincerely, A.P. Herbert'. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, some shelf wear to the boards and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. An ink inscription from the author to the front free-endpaper, and a letter from the author attached to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to the first and last few pages, otherwise pages are generally bright and clean throughout. Good. signed by author. book.