Copies of this wonderful title are rare, but to find a copy in such wonderful condition as this is almost too much to hope for. Book is clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear and a minor bump to the upper back corner of the backstrip. Dust jacket is clean and unmarked with light wear and no chips or tears. Dust jacket is not price-clipped and is now preserved in a clear protective sleeve. Original price on each flap of dust jacket has been overlaid with what may be a distributor's small sticker stating a new price of 4'- net. Truly a premium copy. View More...
71 pages. Book clean and unmarked with lean to spine and moderate wear. Short openings and sunning at each end of backstrip. Dust jacket in protective mylar is sunned at spine and missing chips at spine ends. Jacket bears several short tears and appears to have a hairline opening the length of backstrip at backboard. Overall, a worthy copy of this precious work. View More...
64 pages. Book clean and unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. Price-clipped jacket bears average wear and soiling. Dust jacket price-clipped with small price-sticker upon front flap. A sturdy copy. View More...
72 pages. Moderate wear. Slight bow to front board. Top half inch of backstrip open but present. Unmarked. Moderate foxing to endpapers and edges. A quality copy of this most charming work. Detailed photos available upon request. View More...
Average wear to unmarked book. Binding sound. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket which bears faint child's marking to front panel and is now preserved in a clear protective sleeve. Sound first edition copy. View More...
Light external wear to clean, unmarked book. Binding sound. Moderate wear to dust jacket which bears half-inch opening where front panel meets top of spine. A quality first edition copy. View More...
First Edition. Above-average wear. Lower half of backstrip missing. Some lean to spine. Hinges intact. 1" x 2" scrape to back board. Name inside front board. Gift greetings on back of front free endpaper. Child's writing on back of half-title page. Damage to fore-edge of several pages but text and plates unaffected. Rare first edition copy. View More...
Above-average but not excessive wear externally. Binding intact. Prior owner' name and small bookshop stamp upon front endpaper. Prior owner's name atop title page and foreward. No other markings. Sound copy. View More...
Prior owner's name and date (1952) on back of front free endpaper else unmarked. Average wear. Modest openings at each end of backstrip. Binding sound. Decent first edition copy. View More...
Very fresh in appearance with slight wear overall. Prior owner's name neatly atop front free endpaper else clean and unmarked. Dust jacket price-clipped. A remarkably well-preserved copy from the first printing. View More...
Very rare first printing copy of Alison Uttley's second book. Reading copy only. Average wear externally with backstrip missing. Child's lead pencil scribbles and lettering upon front board else unmarked. Average wear and soiling to contents. Back hinge open. One-inch openings at head and tail of front hinge. Hairline opening in binding at page 48. With restoration this copy will be a prized possession. View More...
78 pages. Hinges and binding intact. Backstrip partially worn at ends but intact. Above-average external wear. Spine slant. Three inch tear to top edge of page 20. A child has coloured part of back endpaper with green pencil crayon - otherwise unmarked. Worthy first edition copy of this charming tale. View More...
92 pages. Average external wear. Backstrip fully intact. Contents pleasingly clean and unmarked. A quality first edition copy of this typically charming Alison Uttley tale. View More...
Somewhat above-average wear externally. Backstrip professionally replaced in light blue cloth. Binding sound. Contents unmarked aside from a faint half-inch mark upon title page. Moderate foxing to contents which also bear the occasional fingerprint or bit of soiling. Ultra-rare first edition copy. View More...
A remarkably well-preserved first printing copy of this wonderfully illustrated Christmas tale. Aside from light external wear, the only defect is a narrow one inch opening between top of backstrip and front board. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. A copy of such high quality is rare indeed. View More...
103 pages. Average wear externally. Top inch of backstrip missing. Small chips from bottom of backstrip. Gift greetings, dated 1939, upon half-title page else contents clean and unmarked. Exquisitely illustrated in colour. A sound first printing copy of this most wonderful Christmas work. View More...
