THE TWINS IN CEYLON. Signed by Woolf, Bella Sidney (Lady Southorn) - 1909

Collins' Clear-Type Press, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 302 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Tape marking to endpapers and pastedowns. Sticker to rear pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Water staining to spine and front board. Wear marks overall.

Collins, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Noted. 302 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Bookplate to front endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends.

Great Britain: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Cover. P.B. Hickling. this copy has a tight binding and the interior is clean of marks but has some foxing to some pages.....Sunday School bookplate pasted to the back of the front cover and one crayon mark on the FFEP, undated but the date 1923 on the Bookplate, so assumed first edition, blue clothe covers with black and yellow design and lettering

Cassell and Company Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 248 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated green cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown, with scuffing to edges. Binding is slightly shaky. Cracking to front hinge with exposed binding, causing board and first few pages to be loose. Boards have heavy edge wear with bumping to corners and rub wear all over. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Book is slightly forward leaning. Some dark rubbing to boards. Rubbed indent across front board.

London: Thomas Nelson Book. Illus. by Rosa Petherick. Good. Hardcover. No Date. Hardback: colour frontispiece + 5 b/w plates by ROSA PETHERICK, bound in red cloth with series pattern decorated on front and spine, spine is faded, corners slightly bumped and rubbed, inscription on flyleaf (dated 1927), some foxing, one page corner creased, else g. 8vo, 140pp. Published in 1922 according to the British Library catalogue..

London: Cassell. 1900. Octavo, original pictorial cloth boards, b&w plates, pp 190 plus publisher's catalogue. School prize stamp ffep. Foxing to outside edge of text block not affecting text, very good condition. 1st edition. Boards.

Duckworth, London, No Date., 1910. Hardcover. Good. No additional printings noted. This copy appears to be circa 1910. 140 pp., colour frontis plus 5 colour plates in text, 5 black & white plates in text, colour paste-down label on front board, illustrated endpapers, cream paper-covered boards with red titles/decorations.Ex-church library copy with one small stamp on ffep, pocket in rear. No other markings. Spine has been repaired with brown "library tape". Complete copy with VG contents, hinges a bit tender. Scarce children's book.

Paperback. New.

Hardback. New.

London, Duckworth, (1912).. Edition unknown circa 1912, 8vo, blue cloth, lettered navy blue, repeat colour plate mounted on upper cover, 140 pages. 6 pretty colour plates and 5 charming black and white plates by Rosa Petherick. Delightful story tells how an impoverished hardworking mother and her 2 sweet little boys find a long lost rich grandfather. Spine faded, corners, head and tail of spine and hinges slightly rubbed, some foxing and slight soiling. No inscriptions, near very good. (Reprinted by Nelson in 1923). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.