Search Results: Authors starting with F from Jenny Wren Books

New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001. Matt pictorial boards in matching dustwrapper; b/w and red ills. Tanning and thumbing to pages. Unclipped dustwrapper is rubbed to edges with a wrinkle to head of spine. Olivia tells her class about her trip to the circus when she saved the day.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Puffin Books, Penguin, 1979. Pictorial card covers; 256pp; b/w ills. Light rubbing to cover edges; previous owner name inside front cover. A tale of adventure and smuggling set in 18th Century Dorset. [420: V3]. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by EXELL, F.R..

London: Oxford University Press, 1962. Oxford Children's Library No.28. Red cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper by William Stobbs; 176pp; b/w ills. Previous owner details to half of front pastedown and again in large blocked lettering to front endpaper; occasional foxing to outer page edges; occasional dog-eared corner and small tears to page edges; one leaf has missing corner tip. Price-clipped dustwrapper has light edgewear and tiny nicks to head of spine. From the play of the same name, based on the Cinderella story, by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon. [320: F2]. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Illus. by SHEPARD, E.H..

Michael Joseph Ltd, 1943. Pink cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 93pp; b/w frontis. Lean to spine with bumping to corners; dusty page block edges; creasing and crumpling to p67/8. Unclipped dustwrapper is rubbed and creased to edges with a number of chips and tears resulting in rather ragged edges. From the library of the late Marianne Gourary, a New York collector who amassed a vast selection of cat related books during her lifetime.[1119: W3]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair.

London: Michael Joseph, 1958. First combined edition. Red cloth boards in matt grey pictorial dustwrapper; 174pp; b/w ills. Boards bumped to corners; foxing and browning to endpapers. Unclipped dustwrapper is browned to spine and outer edges with light marking; rubbing and small chips to edges. A collection of 72 poems in one volume, being 'Cherrystones', 'The Mulberry Bush' and 'The Starry Floor'.. First Edition Thus.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by SALE, John & Isobel Morton.

Oxford University Press, 1966. Red cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 102pp; b/w ills. Significant splay to boards; prize plate to front endpaper; foxing to page block edges.and endpapers. Price clipped dustwrapper is a little crinkled with rubbing and creasing to edges; line of surface removal to reverse of upper edge and old tape to reverse side of lower edge. Every evening, if the children had been good, the Old Nurse would sit and tell them stories about the children she had nursed in the yeasr gone by. [123: S3]. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by ARDIZZONE, Edward.

New York: J.B.Lippincott, 1990. Glazed pictorial boards in matching dustwrapper; colour ills. Toning to pages. Unclipped dustwrapper has light toning to inner flaps. The cats in Eleanor Farjeon's poem sleep anywhere they want! From the library of the late Marianne Gourary, a New York collector who amassed a vast selection of cat related books during her lifetime.[1119: K3]. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Illus. by JENKINS, Mary Price.

Red Fox, 2002. 40th Anniversary Edition. Pictorial card covers; 198pp; b/w ills. Light creasing to covers; toning to pages. When Charlotte wakes up at boarding school she has slipped back forty years. . Reprint. Paperback. Very Good Minus. Illus. by CONNOR, Chris.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1961. Blue cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 160pp; colour frontis plus b/w ills. Slight splay to boards; front endpaper removed. Price-clipped dustwrapper is rubbed, nicked and chipped to edges, corners and spine ends. Set in Culross on the Forth in the early 17th Century when Barbara Ruthven is seized as a witch, to be burnt without question. [123: K2]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Minus/Good Plus. Illus. by WHITTAM, Geoffrey.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1954. Burgundy cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 172pp; colour frontis plus b/w ills. Foxing to page block edges and endpapers; lightly scattered to pages. Unclipped dustwrapper is rubbed, creased, nicked and chipped to edges and corners with small losses to head of spine and light sunning to spine; front flap has large tear to fold which has repaired to reverse, with other tape repairs to reverse. The third of Kathleen Fidler's 'Heritage' series with notable incidents from the history of the Midland counties. [123: K2]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/Fair. Illus. by RELF, Douglas.

Edinburgh: Canongate Kelpies, 1993. Pictorial card covers; 158pp; b/w ills. Light surface creasing to cover; light foxing inside front cover. Turk is sent away to finish his sheep-dog training but tries to find his way home.. Reprint.. Paperback. Near Very Good. Illus. by DINSDALE, Mary.

University of London Press Ltd, 1943. Green cloth boards in pictorial wraparound dustwrapper; 180pp; colour frontis plus b/w ills. Boards bumped and sunned to extremities; light foxing to pastedowns. Unclipped dustwrapper is rubbed and chipped to edges, folds and corners. Maritime adventures of the bold navigators who ventured into unknown waters 'beyond the ocean rim'. [720: K2]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by SHEARLOCK, E.A..

University of London Press Ltd, 1945. Green cloth boards in pictorial wraparound dustwrapper; 192pp; colour frontis plus b/w ills. Boards bumped and sunned to extremities; foxing to upper edge of page block; previous owner gift inscription to reveerse of front endpaper. Unclipped dustwrapper is rubbed, nicked and chipped to edges with small loss to head of spine, tanning to spine; tape repairs to reverse side. A collection of adventure stories of seafaring merchants laying 'the foundations of British trade in foreign lands'. [720: K2]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by THOMAS, E.H..

London: The Shoe Lane Publishing Co Pictorial boards with red cloth spine, no dustwrapper; 60pp; colour frontis by Florence Hardy plus b/w ills. Boards rubbed to edges, bumped and worn to corners; tanning to pages. As well as the title story this includes 'Rosemary and the Road-Sweeper' by Enid Leale, 'Disbelieving Dolly' and 'How the Thistle's Prickles Came'. [1120: K3]. Hard Cover. Good Plus.

Doubleday, 2003. Burgundy cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper;140pp; b/w ills. Tanning to pages. Unclipped dustwrapper has small wrinkle to head of spine. It's Christmas and the relatives are descending!. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by ALDOUS, Kate.

Manchester: World Distributors, 1971. Glazed pictorial boards; 77pp; colour and two-tone ills. Faint indentation scratches and toning to front cover; price page unclipped; couple of the puzzles have been completed. [1319: Q3]. Hard Cover. Good.

Nelson/Bowmar, 1973. Bowmar Nature Series. Pictorial boards; 43pp; colour ills. Light marking to boards and rubbing to corners. When two children miss their breakfast they go out and discover what the animals eat.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by GAULKE, Gloria.

Abelard-Schuman, 1961. Grey cloth boards with red vignette of Tilly to front in matt pictorial dustwrapper; b/w/colour ills by the author. Previous owner name in child's handwriting to front pastedown; occasional small mark and light thumbing to pages. Price-clipped dustwrapper is rubbed and creased to edges with a number of large chips, splits and tears, including curved 10cm tear to front panel; author and publisher to front panel have been embellished with biro. Tilly is determined to go up in Professor Pennycake's beautiful, big balloon despite not having the money to pay for a ride.[320: D2]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair.

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1964. Second impression. Ivory cloth boards in matt pictorial dustwrapper; 188pp; b/w ills. Light bruising to head of spine and upper edge; school prize plate to front endpaper. Price-clipped dustwrapper is rubbed and lightly wrinkled to spine ends. A collection of animal stories with contributions from Rudyard Kipling, Gerald Durrell, B.B., Jack London, Beatrix Potter and more. [519: F3]. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by WILSON, Maurice.

Brockhampton Press, 1964. Second revised and enlarged edition. Orange cloth boards, lacking dustwrapper; 416pp; b/w ills. Bump to upper edge of rear board; previous owner gift inscription to front endpaper; browning to endpapers.. Hard Cover. Near Very Good.