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Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Description: Hardback. 10" x 8". No dust jacket, green boards with gilt decoration. Book is in Very Good condition, no inscriptions. C losed page edges browned. 12 tipped in tissue protected illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith. 240pp. Securely packaged.
Seller: Gemini-Books, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in publisher's green cloth, with gilt decorated cover. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 240 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Twelve tipped-in color plates, with captioned tissue guards.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$76.92 + shipping
Description: 240 S. Mit Buchschmuck und 12 farbigen montierten Tafeln. // C.Kingsley, Holne, Devon 1819 - 1875 Eversley, Hampshire, war ein englischer, anglikanischer Geistlicher, Theologe und Schriftsteller, Er gehörte zu den prägenden Gestalten des sogenannten "Christian Socialism". Er stand zeitweilig als Kaplan im Dienste von Königin Victoria und des Prinzgemals Albert. Sein bekanntestes Werk, der grosse Kinderbuchklassiker `Die Wasserkinder`, handelt sich um ein phantastisches Kinderbuch, das sowohl religiöse als auch soziale Fragen auf humorvolle Weise thematisiert./// Am Schnitt wenig stockfleckig. Untere Ecke bestossen. ****Die Versandkosten können wegen dem Gewicht der Bücher abweichen----Shippingcosts might be lower or higher by weight of the book. Kein Versand nach Frankreich**** Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 950 26 x 21 cm. Orig.-Leinenband, illustriert, goldgeprägt.
Seller: Antiquariat Gerber AG, ILAB/VEBUKU/VSAR, Basel, Switzerland
Price: US$192.31 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: First Edition thus, as good as new. The Water Babies Special Collection by Charles Kingsley; Jessie Willcox Smith. Published by Hodder And Stoughton N.D. 1920 in 1920. Hardcover. 12 tipped-in colour plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. occasional light spotting. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
W. Heath Robinson. Bill the Minder. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1920.
Price: US$200.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A beautifully illustrated children's book by the notable English cartoonist and illustrator W. Heath Robinson. William Heath Robinson began his career illustrating notable children's texts such as Hans Christian Andersen's 'Danish Fairy Tales and Legends' and Charles Kingsley's 'The Water-Babies' among many other works, before writing and illustrating his own texts. This work, 'Bill the Minder' is commonly regarded as the start of Robinson's preoccupation of depicting unlikely machines that later became a staple of his artistic style. Indeed, his work is commonly identified through the depiction of whimsically elaborate, some might say ridiculously complicated, machines designed to achieve simple objectives, with his name 'Heath Robinson' even being entered into the popular language during First World War as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance. 'Bill the Minder' was later converted into a television series produced at Bevanfield Films for Central Independent Television and shown on ITV. The story tells of the adventures of a 15-year-old boy and his cousins Boadicea and Chad. In the process of their adventures they meet many strange people and help solve their unique problems with the use of fantastic machines which Bill is very capable of crafting in a short time. Bound in cloth with pictorial boards. With numerous black and white illustrations and sixteen tipped in colour plates including frontis. Some of the black and white illustrations have been hand coloured as can be seen in one of the photographs above. In a pictorial cloth binding. Externally very smart. Some mild wear to extremities, including some bumping and some discolouration. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean with the occasional mild spotting. Tipped in inscription to the front free-endpaper. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Beautiful Golden Age of Illustration-era edition of the Victorian fantasy novel, one of the best illustrated interpretations of the classic. . Quarto. 9.75'' x 7.5''. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in cloth with underwater design after Smith's illustration. Illustrated by Smith with 12 tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards and in-text images printed in green. x, 240 pages. Light foxing primarily to first and last few leaves as well as text block edges. Spine lean, a couple spots of rubbing to boards. Gilt bright.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.