The Nest of the Scarecrow by ATKINSON M E - 1944

John Lane The Bodley Head, 1944. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1944. First Edition. 214 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is darkened. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket. Dust jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Heavy loss to spine and edges. Moderate tape repairs, tanning and wear marks to jacket.

London: John Lane the Bodley Head. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. 214pp, illustrated , decorated endpapers, bound in red cloth with non price clipped dustwrapper [ the dustwrapper has been printed on the back of another title, wartime reuse]; Octavo .

John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Illustrator: Stuart Tresilian. Good, tight and sound copy. Dust jacket is worn and torn with loss to top edge and corners, dust soiled on rear panel. 214 pages, illustrated. Approx. size 8" by 5". Illustrator: Stuart Tresilian. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 27485. .

Published by John Lane The Bodley Head, 1944. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good/Good. Illustrated by Tresilian, Stuart. Good condition in a good dustwrapper. An exiting adventure involving a remote and lonely bungalow and a cruel sea. Dark red cloth, black titles to spine. Blue pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations. 214 pages. Bumping to spine and corners. Boards damp stained and a little bowed. Some pink staining to bottom of front pastedown where colour has seeped through from cloth. Name and date to front endpaper. Rear endpapers browned. A little foxing mainly to page edges. Pages are wrinkled. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some tears and small area of loss to top and bottom of spine. Spine and top of rear panel browned. Rear panel is grubby.

Published by John Lane The Bodley Head, 1944. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Illustrated by Tresilian, Stuart. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. An exiting adventure involving a remote and lonely bungalow and a cruel sea. Dark red cloth, black titles to spine. Blue pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations. 214 pages. Spine bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is worn and torn with loss to spine and front corners, slightly grubby to rear panel.

Published by John Lane The Bodley Head, 1944. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Illustrated by Tresilian, Stuart. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. An exiting adventure involving a remote and lonely bungalow and a cruel sea. Dark red cloth, black titles to spine. Blue pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations. 214 pages. A little bumping to spine. Small hole to spine cloth. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Wrapper has some tears, with a little loss to top of spine and 1" hole loss to spine. Wrapper is also marked with some scuffs.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1944. Book. Illus. by Stuart Tresilian. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo. First impression, 'FIrst published 1944' on copyright page. Original red cloth, black title to the spine, pictorial endpapers in blue/black/white. Illustrated throughout the text. Not price clipped dust jacket in near fine condition, minor soiling on cover and spine slightly sunned. Previously owner's bookplate. Edges slightly tanned and foxed. A handsome copy. .