Search Results: bush holiday by stephen fennimore

Penguin Book, 1966. Paperback. Acceptable. 1966. Reprinted. 187 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Neat, clean, with heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Occasional thumbing throughout and cracking to hinges. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning. Book is slightly curled.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. 242 pp. No statement of edition. A tight, very good example with some fade about the edge sof the covers. In original dust jacket, price clipped, some wear at the head edeg of the spine strip and tips. Young adult novel set in the Australian bush country.

William Heinemann, 1948. Hardcover. Good. 1948. First Edition. 180 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Binding remains firm.Pages & illustrations remain bright with minimal tanning. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and spine is presentable with minimal crushing and tanning. Gilt lettering is darkened.

New York: Doubleday, 1949. 1st Ed. Stated . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good in a chipped dust jacket. Sticker on jacket says Prize Winner, Children's Spring Book Festival, New York Herald Tribune. Scarce in first edition. Jacket has various chips and tears, but is 90 percent complete, and is not price-clipped.

Doubleday, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1949. No Edition Remarks. 242 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and moderate crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm with tanning and sunning spots overall. Clipped jacket is split in two pieces with heavy edge wear, large tears and chipping, causing loss around edges and spine. Moderate tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking.

Harmondsworth: PENGUIN BOOKS / PUFFIN BOOKS / William Heinemann, 1958 An adventure in the Australian Bush. Puffin P/b. No PS 115. 187pp+ publisher adverts. Illustrated in line by Sheila Hawkins.First Puffin printing 1958. Good- Book- tanned pages, sound binding, no inscsp. clean throughout] med. Fox spotted Cover illus. front & back, shelf wear & colour rubbing/loss to spine. Penguin Books.180x110mm. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale

Garden City, NJ: Junior Literary Guild / Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. 2nd ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in fair dustjacket), black & white drawings, illustrated endpapers, pages lightly toned, edges uncut, large piece missing top spine jacket (slight loss top & bottom edges, missing corners replaced by tape & white paper backing reverse side, cover illustration complete), cover corners little bumped, some edgewear, autograph (written & dated dedication from illustrator front flyleaf), protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 241 pp. An Australian story for young adults by Stephen Fennimore about a boy from the United States named Martin Haddon who stays in Australia with people he does not know. Life at Tangari was full of adventures with daily expeditions into the bush, a beetle hunt, a 20-mile trek by horseback through blazed trails, and Penny's hidey-hole (the charming drawings on the endpapers were found on the walls of her cave).… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1948. Some creasing and small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, some bumping and shelf-wear to spine ends and corners of red boards, original owner's gift message (Xmas 1948) on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A childrens story dealing with an English boy travelling in the Bush country of the Great Dividing Range. A sequel "Bush Voyage" appeared the next year. The author's real name was Dale Collins, but he wrote several under the name of Stephen Fennimore. 180pp, 6 full-page b&w drawings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Hawkins, Sheila. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.