Animal Stories by De La Mare, Walter (editor) - 1940

Scribners, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Faber and Faber Limited, 1959. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1959. Fourth Impression. 420 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages throughout. Noticeable water staining to top text block edge; text remains legible. Previous owner's inscription in pencil to front free endpaper. Sticker to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear. Spine has light sunning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped dust jacket with moderate tanning and scuffing overall. Moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges.

1 . hardback. Good. chosen, arranged, and in some part rewritten by WdelaM. 1st ed. L.(Faber) 1939. Tip of spine a bit worn else a very good copy.

London, UK: Faber and Faber, 1959. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, fourth impression. lvi, 420pp. Red cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine and board edges; lettering on titles faded. Bumped extremities; cloth worn at edges and corners. Cocked. Dusty top text block edge, remaining edges just starting to fox and tan. Front free endpaper missing. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Hinges cracked at endpapers. Ex-lender's copy with usual stamps and markings on pastedown and endpapers, title page and copyright page. Internally neat, clean and bright. Dust jacket has general wear; multiple closed tears; minor loss, sun-faded spine; shelf label; chipping to edges; mirrors book damage; not price clipped. Black and white chapter headpieces and vignette.

London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Book. Good. Hardcover. Repr. Hardback: b/w illustrations taken from a seventeenth-century book, dj is chipped on the spine tips and corners, a few tears, spine is a little faded, some foxing, price unclipped,lower corner of the back flap is creased, book is bound in cloth (which is a little faded), some foxing on the foredges and the first and last pages, else g. 8vo, 420pp. Old fables, traditional tales, some new stories, and a hose of scarcely-known old rhymes and jingles..

Atheneum, 1940. Library Binding. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Faber and Faber Ltd., 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. A clean, tight copy. Jacket missing. Light wear to the edges. Includes black and white illustrations throughout. First edition.

Faber & Faber, 1959. Red cover has corners bumped & rubbed, top & base of spine rubbed, slight marks, slight edgewear. Inside clean & tight, ink name on fep. Fourth Impression. Good/No Jacket. M. Hardback.

London: Faber & Faber, 1939 Size: Approx 5" Wide and 8" Tall

Faber & Faber, 1954. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.