Search Results: the bird talisman an eastern by wedgwood henry allen

. Hardcover. UsedGood. Dust Jacket: Good condition, small stain on front cover, mild shelfwear, bookvery good condition spine shows some wear from reading but is still tight

D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1965. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1965. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. First Edition of the Nostrand reprint. A Very Good copy in a Good dustjacket. DJ has edgewear, creases, small stains, rubbing, bumped corners, and scattered nicks. Book has edgewear & white stains on edges of boards, a former owner's stamp on the front endpaper, and shelfwear to covers. Interior is tight & bright.

Princeton: D. Van Nostrand,, 1965. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Gwen Raverat. Henry Allen Wedgwood. The Bird Talisman: An Eastern Tale. Illustrated by Gwen Raverat. Princeton: D. Van Nostrand, no date. Reprint edition. Originally published in 1939 by Faber and Faber, when Gwen Raverat, great grand-niece of the author, illustrated it with color and black and white drawings. The story had been published privately for the Wedgwood - Darwin families only. This is an undated (circa 1965) reissue of that 1939 publication. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt decorated spine, 70 pages, color and b/w illustrations throughout by Gwen Raverat. Condition is VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: book has slight rubbing to spine extremities, fait stain to top page edge, appears unread; jacket has slight edgwear, a few faint stains to rear panel. A lovely book, a charming tale about a little princess and the magic ring which made her able to talk to birds.

Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. c.1965. Later Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 70 pages; Reissue of the 1939 edition, the dust jacket and book are both well taken care of. .

D. Van Nostrand Company. 1965. Hardcover. UsedVeryGood. Hardcover; illustrated by Gwen Raverat; light fading, light shelf wear to t he cover; otherwise in very good condition with clean text and tight bindin g. Dust jacket shows light fading and shelf wear, and inside front corner i s clipped. .

Illustrated by Gwen Raverat. Faber. London. 1965 (Reprint). 8vo, 70pp. In protected d/w; text in ex cond. Story about a princess and a magic ring which enabled her to talk to the birds and was written over 140 years ago and not intended for publication.

D. Van Nostrand & Company. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Gwen Raverat. This charming story was written over a hundred years ago for the Wedgewood and Darwin families, was and not intended for publication till 1939 in Britain.

Faber, London, 1965. Fourth Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Gwen Raverat. Size: Quarto. 70 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Illustrator: Gwen Raverat. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children; India; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 28632. .

Faber and Faber Limited, 1946. First . Hardcover. Very Good. Raverat, Gwen. 1946 Illustrated by Gwen Raverat. Hardback very good dust jacket good minus. Book bright and clean with tanned edge paper, dust jacket good minus with little lost to the spine, small tears to edges price clipped. U5B19.

(London: Faber and Faber: 1965) Reprint of the Second Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. x, 70 (216 x 160 mm). Illustrated by Gwen Raverat. A near fine copy in like price-clipped dust-jacket.

Faber, London, 1939. First Thus. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Gwen Raverat. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 70 pp. Front hinge reinforced with tape. Previous owner's inscription in ink. Edges browned. Covers wrapped in protective paper, glued in place. Believed to be a proof copy, though not explicitly stated as such. Illustrator: Gwen Raverat. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Myths, Legends & Folklore; India; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51519. .

London : Faber and Faber, 1965. Second Edition, Reprinted. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: vii, [1], 69 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. Plates are printed in black, red, blue and brown/yellow. Previous edition: 1939. Bound in blue cloth, with spine blocked in pink, lettered and with decorative border in gilt. Illustrated dust jacket. Subject: Children's books - England.

London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1964. Second edition. Very Good +/very good +. This charming story about a little princess and the magic ring which made her able to talk to birds was not intended for publication and remained for many years a private and treasured possession of the Wedgwood and Darwin families, loved by generation after generation of children. hardback, clothbound; mylar dust jacket; staining pp.12-13;clipped corner from frontispiece First Edition AB54

London: Faber & Faber , 1964. SIGNED by Janet Lunn on the ffep (Canadian children's author). 70 pages in very good, clean condition. Lovely illustrations in colour and b/w. Blue hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Light wear on corners and edges. Illustrated grey DJ with black titles. Lightly soiled, light wear on corners and edges. VG+/VG. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG. Illus. by Raverat, Gwen.

First thus edition. Colour frontispiece and seven plates as called for and numerous b/w illustrations. Pink/black marbled boards with green blocked spine with gilt titles. Binding firm. Some small dints to boards, fading to edges, slight chipping to spine ends. Light foxing and marks throughout. Not ex-library. No names, notes or inscriptions. 70 pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.

UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated 2nd edn, reprinted. [First printed,published 1852 then privately printed 1887 by the sister of the author. This publisher Faber & Faber Limited first published it with these illustrations by this illustrator in October 1939 and then reprinted it in 1947. A 2nd edition appeared in 1964 which was then reprinted in 1965 - this listing.] FINE-/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright and generally clean with very minimal blemishes,wrap-around,matt,pale grey background with pictorial colour + b/w artwork illustrations by Gwen Raverat to front+rear panels of dw/dj respectively.Front of dw/dj with capitalised black lettered part-title and other black lettered sub-title; author and illustrator capitalised black lettered names; spine/backstrip with black lettered title,author and illustrator names and publisher's name to foot of same, rear panel of dw/dj with a black+grey illustration and no text and 'ghosts' of a pair of small adhesive labels,now no… Read More

London: Faber. London, Faber, 1939. First Thus. Hardback. A near fine copy. A lovely edition, preceded by the 1852 and 1887 issues, both printed privately. Illustrated by Raverat. Jacket a little worn and marked, a couple of short tears. Illustrations by Gwen Raverat [9825, Hyraxia Books]. . Near Fine. Hardback. 1st Thus Edition. 1939.