Selected Bab Ballads

Allen Lane, 1955. 1st Edition Thus. HARDCOVER. This is one of the publisher Allen Lane's annual Christmas book. 8vo in black cloth with ornately printed blue and gilt decoration to the front cover. 120pp text with illustrations in text, plus an additional illustrations at rear. One of 1,500 copies, some of which (including this one) have a folded… Read more about this item

not stated: not stated, 1955. Hardcover. Very good. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean, no wear. Binding tight. Endpapers foxed, text clean. Poet. Stax.

(Oxford): (Oxford University Press), 1955. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo, 113pp., illustrated, plus Appendix. A near fine copy, crisp and clean, with the spine gently sunned. This copy with the original Christmas greeting card laid-in, SIGNED by both Allen Lane and H. F. Paroissien. One of 1500 limited copies.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955. Hardback, gilt title to spine. 22cm x 14cm. 120pp. Illus. Limited edition of only 1500 copies. Spine slightly faded. A little spotting to end-papers. A pleasing copy. (ac12). Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Good +.

Very Good. Very good decor. black cloth, bright lettering, pictorial light blue and gilt cover with frolicking gilt figures, with a Christmas Card laid in and SIGNED BY the publisher, Allen Lane, and H F PAROISSIEN, whose cover bears those same frolicking figures, in blue on white) , in no Djacket. Pages remarkably clean, tight, bright. B/w illustrations… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Limited edition . Very good/ No dusat jacket. 120pp with an introduction by Hesketh Pearson and a note on Gilbert as illustrator by Philip James. Black covers with gilt embossed illustration cartoons on blue background in panel on upper cover. Gilt tile on spine. .