Coloured Lands

Sheed & Ward, New York, 1938, Near Fine Hardcover / Good Dustjacket, 238 pages, 7.5" x 9.75", illustrated by author, edgewear on lightly soiled dustjacket, pencil gift inscription on ffep, otherwise tight and clean. A compilation of fairy stories, comic verse, satirical ballads and fantastic pictures. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (1874 - 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist,… Read more about this item

London : Sheed and Ward , 1938 . First Edition . VG/VG . 4TO . Written and illustrated in colour and black and white by Chesterton. Owner's name markered on front pastedown. Jacket edgeworn with several chips. Small tear on spine on both book and jacket.

New York: Sheed and Ward, 1938. First American Edition (NAP). Hardcover. near fine/very good+++. 238pp Fantastic color and black and white illustations by author. A beautiful copy in pictorial dust jacket. Jacket has a bit of rubbing at spine and small chip and taili of dj spine. In a brodart protective wrapper. "This book is crammed with the… Read more about this item

This is a collection of works by G. K. Chesterton, author, poet, artist and literary and art critic. As a mystery writer, he created the Father Brown series. This book contains, as stated inside the dust jacket, "...the things you would have got from Chesterton had you been his week-end guest. There are fairy-stories with his own… Read more about this item

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Small quarto. 238pp. Illustrations in both color and black-and-white by G.K. Chesterton. Light wrinkling on front fly, page edges lightly age-toned, cloth edges rubbed, very good in a very good dustwrapper with some wrinkling on front panel. A very handsome copy.

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. G.K. Chesterton. 238p. Green cloth. A hardcover book in good condition. Ex-library: mark from label on spine, label pasted on endpaper, stamp on endpaper and title page, mark from pocket on back endpaper. Cover dirtied and corners rubbed, otherwise pages clean and tight. Includes many witty illustrations by G.K. Chesterton,… Read more about this item

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1938. First American edition, 1938. Short stories, essays and poems illustrated in both color and in black and white. Green cloth with illustrated dustjacket. The book is very good with minor darkening to the outer edge of the covers, firm binding, clean pages with no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has some… Read more about this item

London: Sheed and Ward, 1938. First Edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition for its age. Jacket is scuffed, and edges are creased and nicked. Board edges, corners and spine ends are bumped, rubbed and marked. Page block is slightly blemished and tanned, as are the pastedowns and endpapers. Pages and illustrations are clear and bright throughout.… Read more about this item

London: Sheed and Ward, 1938 . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10" by 8". G. K. Chesterton. A fantastically illustrated collection of Chesterton's original stories and illustrations, complete with an unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of fairy-stories containing illustrations by the author to accompany his comic verse, satirical ballads and self-caricatures. This work was published posthumously.G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)… Read more about this item

London: Sheed & Ward, 1938. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 10" by 7.5". G. K. Chesterton. The first edition of this comical anthology of prose and poems by G. K. Chesterton, illustrated by the author. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Coloured Lands' is an entertaining and whimsical medley of stories, drawings, poetry,… Read more about this item

Crown Publishers. Good with no dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.. 1955. Hardcover. Has Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur; Ex-Library; 234 pages .

New York Sheed & Ward, 1938, hardcover. Some of the contents are lent from private collections for publication here. They include works from age 16, poems, stories, and drawings in color and black-and-white. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (cover soil but spine letters bright; endsheets foxed; corner bump; owner gift note; no jacket). -- Pages and artwork are… Read more about this item

Sheed & Ward, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Green cloth with red spine titling; cloth soiled and edgeworn, with foxing to rear panel. Spine square. Binding sound. Cover art of the jacket has been pasted in at inside front cover, and inner flap with the book description has been pasted in at inside back cover. No other part… Read more about this item

The Coloured Lands by G.K. Chesterton first UK edition hardcover Publisher: Sheed & Ward, 1938 Condition: book - Very Good dust jacket - Very Good-

London: Sheed & Ward, 1938. Book. Near Fine. Cloth-backed boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Yellow quarter-cloth over yellow/black/white patterned paper-covered boards. Some slight darkening to edges. "Withdrawn" stamp to front endpaper, from which a bookplate has been removed with almost no trace (apparently archivally attached). No other markings to book or dust… Read more about this item

NY: Sheed & Ward, 1938. First Edition; small 4to; cloth covered boards; hardcover; 238 pages; color and black and white illustrations; front cover has several small spots else a very good tight copy in a very good pictorial dust jacket.

NY: Sheed & Ward, 1938. Aged edges and gutters of end papers, else textblock is very clean and tight; Sunned and discolored spine, top and bottom edges, bumped corners and head and foot of spine. Clipped dust jacket, light moisture stain along front fold, moisture-stained spine; Jacket has chipped corners, worn spine tips, surface soil; Tall octavo; 238p.. Green Cloth.… Read more about this item

New York:: Sheed and Ward,, 1938.. First American edition.. publisher's green cloth in dust jacket.. A fine copy (ink gift inscription on front free endpaper) in a very near fine jacket with a few internal tissue repairs to short tears. Extremely attractive.. Large 8vo,. Illustrated by the author.

London: Sheed & Ward, 1938. 1st - Review Copy . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12. Chesterton, G.K.. 238pp.; HB quarter-bound; yellow/blk.design&yellow w/blk.; slight rub w/wear on corners; lt.dampstain,bttm.spine; slight bow & ripple w/clean,tight pgs. DJ brwn.w/blk.&red-pic.cover; some rub&darken; sml.chip,bttm.back; 7"fold,tp.edge. Fairy-stories, comic verse, caricatures, illus.of curious themes, etc. Includes Sheed &… Read more about this item

London:: Sheed & Ward,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. Illustrated by the author. First edition. Light spotting to boards, else very good in a very good dust jacket. ; 238 pages .