GUM-NUT BABIES by GIBBS, MAY

Paperback. Very Good.

Australia: Angus and Robertson. Paperback. Fair.. Brown paper cover with paste down illustration of gum-nut babies peeping from behind leaves, string binding. No publication date stated. Light soiling. First illustration is loose and a large tear has been repaired with tape.

Australia: Harper Collins, 1992. Softcover. Good +. Gibbs, May . A facsimile edition of the 1916 first edition. Slim paperback with pictorial card covers, unpaginated. A little wear to the cover, some minor marks, generally nice and clean inside. This includes the leaf bookmark, so often missing. Handwritten gift dedication on front endpaper. A page of text faced by an accompanying picture all about the gumnut babies who live in the trees, in a similar vein to the well known flower fairies.

Angus & Robertson Publishers. Very Good+ in Very Good- dustjacket. 2003. Hardcover. The dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable archival sleeve. ; "Brought together here for the first time, the storybooks of May Gibbs's Gumnut babies, the adventures of Nuttybub and Nittersing, and those two inquisitive little Gumnuts, Chucklebud and Wunkydoo, will delight young and old alike." Illustrated in b/w and full color. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" ; 253 pages .

Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: HarperCollins Publishers, 2016 The dust jacket a little wear. The page edges are lightly foxed, as are the first and last few pages. 264 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson Publishers. Very Good+. (1917). First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Wrappers lightly rubbed and creased at corners. Light foxing. One small repair with archival tape; Original sewn brown wrappers with colour pictorial onlay; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 28 pages .

At head of title: 'Words and pictures by May Gibbs'. Sydney : Angus & Robertson Ltd, [between 1917 and 1919]. Tall octavo (220 x 142 mm), publisher's printed brown wrappers with pictorial onlay to front (some silverfishing), original ties; inside front wrapper with later ex libris, pp [28], first page with early gift inscription dated 1919, colour frontispiece, with 11 additional full page sepia illustrations; a good copy of the cheaper one shilling edition. Muir 2736. May Gibbs' charming and whimsical creations have become icons of Australian children's literature. First published in 1916 as a 2/6d edition, Gumnut babies was reprinted as a smaller and cheaper edition, uniform with Gum blossom babies, eight times between 1917 and 1920: in 1917, 1918 (twice), 1919 (twice), 1920 (three times). 'By the end of 1920 over thirty-two and a half thousand copies of this reprint had been sold' (Muir).

Sydney: Angus & Robertson Ltd, 1917. Fine.. A lovely fantasy of the humanized GUM-NUT BABIES and how they interact with the other residents of the Bush. 8.75'' x 5.75''. Original string-bound wrapper with color pictorial paste-on over wood grain pattern. Eleven full-page sepia-colored illustrations with one color frontis and pictorial title page. [28] pages. Ink inscription to front leaf dated 1917. Small spot to paste-on, else clean and vibrant example of a fragile production.

Angus & Robertson Ltd (nd, circa 1917 - owner inscription dated 01/18). Octavo, stitched brown light card wrappers, black lettering and mounted illus to front cover, frontispiece, 24pp (unpaginated), illus, VG- (disbound - thread missing, some creasing to covers, v slight soiling to covers, 4cm tear to lower spine, 1cm tear to upper spine, owner's insciption to f.e.p., v v light foxing, slight tanning to page edges)

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1917. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Brown grain wrappers, yellow string binding, colour illustrations on front cover, colour frontispiece, 11 sepia tone plates. The To ... From ... page is dated Xmas 1917. A very tidy copy of a very early printing of this Australian classic..