PICKLES by ALDIN, CECIL

London: Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. Hardback, cloth spine, pictorial front board. 29cm x 25.5cm. 24 colour plates. nd. [circa1909]. Spine ends a little frayed. Lower fore margins of boards are marked. Previous owner's details to front pastedown. A rather pleasing copy. (hall01). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Published by Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton. Hardback. Good/Good. Illustrated by Aldin, Cecil. Good condition in a good dustwrapper. Telling the story of Pickles the puppy who is always getting into a pickle! Large format. Brick red cloth spine, with gilt title. Green cloth covers with orange and gilt titles. 24 delightful colour plates. Spotting to covers. Bumping to covers. Some hinges are pulled; a few gatherings are detached/stitching is broken. Chipping to page edges; a little loss; foxing. Wrapper is badly creased and torn with some loss; most of picture to front is complete.

Published by Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Aldin, Cecil. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Telling the story of Pickles the puppy who is always getting into a pickle! Large format. Brick red cloth spine, with gilt title. Green cloth covers with orange and gilt titles. 24 delightful colour plates. Recased in original covers, joints professionally repaired and rear free-endpaper backed as some loss to edges. Some pages and plates slightly worn to edges where they were loose before repairs. Some creases to pages. Light browning mainly to margins of text pages, plates bright and clean. Inscription in ink and small newspaper clipping (about Peter the lost Budgerigar!) fixed with white tape to verso of front-endpaper. Musty odour to contents. Still a decent copy of a scarce title, now in sound binding.

London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, nd. ca. 1909. Hardcover. Good. 48 text pages with versos numbered to XXIV. 30 cm. 24 colour lithographs on olive green backgrounds. Illustrated endpapers and title page. Quarter red cloth and grey cloth boards. Worn corners, some spots to cloth. Christmas label on front free endpaper. Foxing on half title. Repair to rear free endpaper. A few small chips and tears, some thumbing. Larger tear at bottom of second plate. Pickles, a puppy with boundless energy, gets into loads of mischief when his mistress, Gwen, is out.

Published by Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Aldin, Cecil. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Telling the story of Pickles the puppy who is always getting into a pickle! Large format. Brick red cloth spine, with gilt title. Green cloth covers with orange and gilt titles. 24 delightful colour plates. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Very light mark to front cover else covers clean. Couple of tiny holes to spine. Front joint is partially cracked. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Some foxing, mostly to endpapers and prelims. Plates are bright and clean. Guards at gutter edges are worn in places and coming unglued. Plate XII has a green scuff vertically to verso (not affecting the illustration). Plate XVI is edge-worn. A few small closed edge tears to margins. Rear endpaper has been repaired at edges with magic tape and has one other closed tear. Despite faults this is a decent copy of a rare Aldin title.

London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering, Green cloth boards with red and gilt edged lettering to the front. Illustrated endpapers and decorated title page. Unpaginated, twenty four colour illustrations each preceded by a captioned page, with brief decriptive narrative text on the verso.10 X 11.25 inches. Brief pencil gift inscription dated "Xmas 1908" on the corner of the half title page. The book is slightly rubbed. A very good copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London and New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. Boards. Very Good +. Cecil Aldin. A handsome copy of the 1909 1st edition of this charming tale of the mischievous "Pickles" the puppy. Solid and VG+ in its wonderful pictorial boards, with very light wear at the flap-folds and at the tips. Inner hinges professionally --and tastefully-- re-inforced, otherwise no markings internally. Tall quarto, 24 full-page color plates (plus color-decorated title page). Especially appealing illustrations, done at the height of Cecil Aldin's artistic powers.

London:: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton,. Very Good. 1909. Hardcover. B006EKJ2OU . Twenty-four color plates illustrated by the author. First edition. Minor edge wear, brief gift inscription on half-title page, occasional foxing to text pages, else very good in illustrated boards with tan cloth along the spine. No dust jacket. .

London and New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. Very good.. Written by Aldin for his daughter and told from Pickles the puppy's point of view, an energetically illustrated story of the trouble Pickles causes when his owners are out; rear flyleaf supplied in facsimile. 11.5'' x 10''. Original cloth backed color pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers of puppies. 24 full-page color illustrations on heavy green paper.[104] pages. Repairs to spine and hinges, rear flyleaf supplied in facsimile, edges a bit worn.

ALDIN, Cecil. PICKLES. London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton [n.d. ca. 1909]. 48 text pages (versos numbered to XXIV); title page and 24 litho plates. The 24 lithographs are printed on an olive green ground in black white and several colors; the title page is printed in green and black on a white ground. 4to., reddish brown cloth spine stamped in gilt, green cloth boards stamped in gilt and red. Moderate shelfwear, spine sunned, a few small dark spots to front board. Overopened at lightly foxed half-title. Front flyleaf has a few small closed tears; edges of most plates with tiny nick to fore-edge, light foxing to edges of text pages. Delightful Aldin illustrations, all clean and bright, without foxing or any blemishes. Pickles, a boundlessly energetic white puppy, gets into a lot of mischief. Quite scarce.