Search Results: gum nut babies by gibbs may

Australia: Angus and Robertson. Paperback. Fair.. Brown paper cover with paste down illustration of gum-nut babies peeping from behind leaves, string binding. No publication date stated. Light soiling. First illustration is loose and a large tear has been repaired with tape.

Sydney, Angus & Robertson. N.D.. 0. 8vo. Brown paper covers with string tie binding.Colour frontis, b./w illus. Good, missing Picture on front cover, foxed, cover chipped. .

Sydney, 1914. A folding greeting card, the embossed gilt greeting on the front cover on highly textured dark green card stock; with a laid on color illustration of two seated gum-nut babies in bright green caps sipping with straws from the same cup. Stylized printed May Gibbs signature. Color, bright and fresh, very good condition. 4 1/4 x 3"

Sydney, 1914. A folding Gum-nut babies greeting card with the gilt greeting on the front cover on textured card stock; with a color die-cut gum-blossom baby dressed in yellow fuzz clinging to a slender branch , framed by a gilt edged cut out window. Below is the stylized printed May Gibbs signature. Color, with one small area of fox spotting, o/w very good condition. 4 1/4 x 3"

Sydney: Angus & Robertson Ltd, 1917. Fine.. A lovely fantasy of the humanized GUM-NUT BABIES and how they interact with the other residents of the Bush. 8.75'' x 5.75''. Original string-bound wrapper with color pictorial paste-on over wood grain pattern. Eleven full-page sepia-colored illustrations with one color frontis and pictorial title page. [28] pages. Ink inscription to front leaf dated 1917. Small spot to paste-on, else clean and vibrant example of a fragile production.

Angus & Robertson Ltd (nd, circa 1917 - owner inscription dated 01/18). Octavo, stitched brown light card wrappers, black lettering and mounted illus to front cover, frontispiece, 24pp (unpaginated), illus, VG- (disbound - thread missing, some creasing to covers, v slight soiling to covers, 4cm tear to lower spine, 1cm tear to upper spine, owner's insciption to f.e.p., v v light foxing, slight tanning to page edges)

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1917. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Brown grain wrappers, yellow string binding, colour illustrations on front cover, colour frontispiece, 11 sepia tone plates. The To ... From ... page is dated Xmas 1917. A very tidy copy of a very early printing of this Australian classic..

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1918. Paperback. Fine. Charming illustrations of gum nut babies with caps on their heads, which were inspired according to the author, by "memories of West Australia's flowers and trips to Blackheath." (from a taped interview with May Gibbs produced by Hazel de Berg for the National Library of Australia). Pamphlet ca 1918, in fine unused condition the color illustration at front wrapper in fine condition. 8vo, unpaginated, 28pp, color frontis, 11 sepia ills. Pictorial tan wood grain paper wraps, with color illustration of gum-nut babies clinging to a cluster of leaves laid on, title at lower right corner; bound with golden cord. Muir 2736.