Search Results: Titles starting with C from Mabel Winifred

In the Carey family historical series. Map.
Prize label on front fixed endpaper.

Carey family history series. Map. Family tree.
Oxford Children's Library edition.

An exceptional picture book by ceramic artist in which a beautiful carpet tells its life story.

Well illustrated trade catalogues of this vintage are scarce and in this superior condition exceedingly so. Sociological insight into the male leisured classes and, increasingly, all Australians.

'The Vine Clad Hill' and 'Black Forest' advertised on rear flap of dust-jacket

According to the foreword, what results from volcanic and 'racial convulsions on the defenceless continent of Australia'.

Top edge tinted.
Illustrated with coloured frontispiece and four black and white plates.

Herald Library No. 4. Appears to be unillustrated, but the pagination suggests that once there may have been a frontispiece.

'The First Adventure of the Cherrys' printed at the foot of the dust-jacket spine and the first ten titles in the series listed on the rear panel of the jacket.

Stories told in panel form, partly in colour. Illustrators include John L. Curtis who illustrated 'Wayambeh the Turtle', 'How the Southern Cross was formed' and 'The Brolga'.

With a very good copy of the unnumbered first Wonder book which has a gift inscription dated 1948, no dust-jacket and includes the W.E. Johns story 'A Matter of Observation'.

Top edge tinted. The pictorial cloth has a light tide mark to its lower edge, but the book is otherwise in excellent shape.

Translated from the French by Dorothy M. Prescott.
Gift inscription on front fixed end-paper. Head and foot of spine rubbed and corners of boards worn; a few biro marks to front board; internally very good.

This 'nostalgic and warm-hearted story' follows on the success of 'Longtime Passing' and 'Longtime Dreaming'.

The words 'First Impression, June 1912' appear on verso of title page.

Muir 4319 gives this official date, but it was released in 1922 in time for the Christmas market.
The first book publication of Pixie O'Harris's fairy illustrations. These proved almost irresistible to youthful colorists and it is unusual to come across copies such as this, completely untouched by coloured pencils, pastels or paints.
An ownership inscription, in an adult hand 'John Liston Perry Jan 31st/1924' on half-title.

Source of hours of fun for the schoolkids of the day as they wrote off for free project material, encouraged by the visually alluring advertisements (often in panel format) with which the businesses promoted their wares.

Illustrated with coloured plates additional to pagination. 'Modern Cooking'.

Muir 6129. Pictorial maps of Sydney Town 1832 on end-papers.