Search Results: Children's Literature, Authors & Illustrators from Jenny Wren Books

Cambridge University Press, 1991. Card covers; 259pp. Light rubbing to cover edges; tanning to pages; couple of pages have pen underlining/annotation.. Reprint.. Paperback. Good.

Oxford: Lennard Publishing, 1989. Black cloth boards in b/w pictorial dustwrapper; 138pp; b/w ills. Light bumping to corners; previous owner details (Early Years Team) on sticker to front endpaper. Unclipped dustwrapper is rubbed to edges with light crease to rear panel. By the son of writer and artist Mervyn Peake.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Very Good.

Cambridge University Press, 1970. Second edition. Green cloth boards in grey matt printed dustwrapper; 367pp; eight b/w plates; intro by Kathleen Lines. Cloth rubbed to corners and spine ends; occasional mark/small ink smudge to pages. Price clipped dustwrapper is tanned and lightly stained to spine with chips and splits to corners and vertical line of surface lifting to spine edge of front flap. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Good.

Richard Dennis, 1998. Glossy pictorial card covers; 84pp; b/w and colour ills. Light rubbing to cover edges and corners. A guide to the life and works of Chloe Preston including a bibliograhy of books and postcards. [122: T3]. Soft Cover. Very Good Minus.

London: Diamond Publishing Limited, 2001. Pictorial boards; 367pp; b/w ills. Rubbing and bumping to corners; occasional mark to pages. Over 12,000 listings of first editions and values. . Hard Cover. Good Plus.

London: Carlton Books Ltd, 2003. Glazed pictorial boards. Light bumping to spine ends. Foreword by Terry Pratchett. As this book weighs over 750g additional postage will be required for international delivery, please email for a quote.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 272pp.

London: John Murray, 1983. Black cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 336pp; b/w ills. Light bruising to spine ends; light offset tanning to endpapers with crease to front pastedown. Dustwrapper is sunned to spine and more lightly to upper edge of rear panel, light rubbing to edges with couple of small nicks to head of spine; light tanning to inner flaps. A comprehensive reference work on 20th century book illustration in Britain. Additional postage will be required for international delivery, please email for a quote. [L1]. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Very Good.

London: Boxtree Limited, 1987. Red cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 159pp; colour and b/w ills. Toning to pages, which are a little musty. Unclipped dustwrapper is also toned with light rubbing to edges and laminate just starting to peel to upper edge. As this book weighs over 750g additional postage will be required for international delivery, please email for a quote.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1981. Large format brown cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 288pp; 465 ills of which 33 are in colour. Slight warp to boards; light crinkling to frontis. Dustwrapper has light edgwear with sunning to spine and spine edges. A survey of the book as art throughout history. Additional postage will be required for international delivery, please email for a quote. [K1]. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 245mm x 305mm.

Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 1981. Ex-library copy with associated stamps and labels. Pictorial boards; 211pp. Boards are rubbed, bumped and worn to edges, corners and spine ends; sticker removal has caused colour lifting to surface. Includes annotated bibliography of futuristic novels for young readers.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Good.

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.

Guild Publishing, 1990. Book Club edition. Green cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 243pp; b/w ills. Toning to pages; light foxing and smudging to page block edges. Dustwrapper is rubbed to edges with light sunning to spine.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Academy/Harmony, 1976. Large format pictorial card covers; 68pp; over 90 b/w and colour ills. Light rubbing to cover edges with light creasing to corners; tanning to pages. Reference work on the illustrator Kate Greenaway, including bibliographical checklist.. Soft Cover. Near Very Good.

London: G.Bell & Sons, 1959. Green cloth boards in matt pictorial dustwrapper; 183pp; b/w ills by Whittam. Slight lean to spine; boards lightly bumped to corners and spine ends; previous owner name and small patch of surface abrasion to front free endpaper. Unclipped dustwrapper is chipped to corners and spine ends with couple of small tears to edge of front panel and mark to rear panel. A book of short biographies of six famous writers: Samuel Johnson, Captain Marryat, Charles Dickens, George Borrow, Anthony Trollope and Lewis Carroll.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

Manchester Polytechnic Library, 1988. Black cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 203pp; b/w ills and colour plates. Light bumping to corners. Dustwrapper lightly bumped and rubbed to corners. As this book weighs over 750g additional postage will be required for international delivery, please email for a quote.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Liss Fine Art, 2010. Pictorial card covers; 142pp; colour ills. Very light scuffing to cover surface.. Paperback. Near Fine.

The University of Reading, 2000. Stapled pictorial card covers; 31pp. Light scuffing to corner. Issued by the Reading and Language Information Centre.. Paperback. Very Good.

London: Pavilion Books, 1988. Third impression. Glossy card covers; 170pp; colour and b/w ills. Toning to pages.The story of Britain's longest-lived children's comic character, Rupert Bear.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Magpie Press, 1972. Limited edition. Printed card covers, no glassine wrapper; 58pp; b/w ills. A Lewis Carroll miscellany containing original studies of his life and work together with some scarce Carrolliana now first reprinted and a poem never before published.. Paperback. Fine.

London: George G.Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1976. Brown boards in portrait dustwrapper; 200pp; b/w ills. Unclipped dustwrapper is rubbed and nicked to edges with small patches of surface lifting. A biography of the author of 'Anne of Green Gables'.. First UK Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.