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Aldin, Cecil. Pickles. Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1909.
Price: US$224.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback, cloth spine, pictorial front board. 29cm x 25.5cm. 24 colour plates. nd. [circa1909]. Spine ends a little frayed. Lower fore margins of boards are marked. Previous owner's details to front pastedown. A rather pleasing copy. (hall01)
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Aldin, Cecil. Pickles. Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
Price: US$249.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full page coloured illustrations. Decorative endpapers. There is a small name inscription to the free front endpaper and slight loosening to some inner hinges but all else is clean and firm inside. The cloth covered boards with red/gilt titles are firm and clean with minor edge wear. The dustjacket has a 6cm x 3cm loss to lower edge of front panel, other wear and nibbles to edges and several old tape repairs verso to closed tears etc
Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Aldin Cecil. Pickles. Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1909.
Price: US$307.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback. 4to. 1909. Red cloth spine lettered in gilt shows a few smallish patches of fading. Green cloth boards with upper board lettered in red (edged in gilt). No ownership inscription and not foxed. 24 attractive full-page colour plates in very good condition. Decorated end-papers and title page. The story of a mischievous puppy. An uncommon early Aldin title. Photograph available on request.
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Aldin, Cecil. PICKLES. Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
Price: US$362.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1909. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Telling the story of Pickles the puppy who is always getting into a pickle! Large format. Brick red cloth spine, with gilt title. Green cloth covers with orange and gilt titles. 24 delightful colour plates. Recased in original covers, joints professionally repaired and rear free-endpaper backed as some loss to edges. Some pages and plates slightly worn to edges where they were loose before repairs. Some creases to pages. Light browning mainly to margins of text pages, plates bright and clean. Inscription in ink and small newspaper clipping (about Peter the lost Budgerigar!) fixed with white tape to verso of front-endpaper. Musty odour to contents. Still a decent copy of a scarce title, now in sound binding. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Aldin, Cecil. PICKLES. Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
Price: US$428.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1909. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Telling the story of Pickles the puppy who is always getting into a pickle! Large format. Brick red cloth spine, with gilt title. Green cloth covers with orange and gilt titles. 24 delightful colour plates. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Very light mark to front cover else covers clean. Couple of tiny holes to spine. Front joint is partially cracked. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Some foxing, mostly to endpapers and prelims. Plates are bright and clean. Guards at gutter edges are worn in places and coming unglued. Plate XII has a green scuff vertically to verso (not affecting the illustration). Plate XVI is edge-worn. A few small closed edge tears to margins. Rear endpaper has been repaired at edges with magic tape and has one other closed tear. Despite faults this is a decent copy of a rare Aldin title. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
ALDIN, Cecil. Pickles. Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton nd. ca. 1909, London, 1909.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 48 text pages with versos numbered to XXIV. 30 cm. 24 colour lithographs on olive green backgrounds. Illustrated endpapers and title page. Quarter red cloth and grey cloth boards. Worn corners, some spots to cloth. Christmas label on front free endpaper. Foxing on half title. Repair to rear free endpaper. A few small chips and tears, some thumbing. Larger tear at bottom of second plate. Pickles, a puppy with boundless energy, gets into loads of mischief when his mistress, Gwen, is out.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Cecil Aldin. Pickles. Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1909.
Price: US$569.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red cloth spine with gilt lettering, Green cloth boards with red and gilt edged lettering to the front. Illustrated endpapers and decorated title page. Unpaginated, twenty four colour illustrations each preceded by a captioned page, with brief decriptive narrative text on the verso.10 X 11.25 inches. Brief pencil gift inscription dated "Xmas 1908" on the corner of the half title page. The book is slightly rubbed. A very good copy
Seller: Jacques Gander, Fairford, United Kingdom
Children's - Aldin, Cecil. Pickles. Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1909.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to. Charming illustrated children's book with illustrations by Aldin. N.D., but circa 1909. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering. About very good condition with general light soiling to covers. With 24 full page color illustrations.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
ALDIN, Cecil.. Pickles.. Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton,, London:, 1909.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Twenty-four color plates illustrated by the author. First edition. Minor edge wear, brief gift inscription on half-title page, occasional foxing to text pages, else very good in illustrated boards with tan cloth along the spine. No dust jacket. B006EKJ2OU
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.