Search Results: Dimsie Goes Back by Dorita Fairlie - Bruce

Spring Books, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 204 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Spring Books, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No edition remarks. 204 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are moderately tanned with visible foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Notable liquid marks to title page. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Notable tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends.

Spring Books, 1111. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 204 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Book has a forward lean. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Spring Books, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No edition remarks. 204 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are moderately tanned with visible foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking and foxing to boards. Moderate sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Boards are mildly warped.

Oxford University Press & Humphrey Milford, 1935. Hardcover. Good. 1935. Reprinted. 277 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Ring mark to rear board.

Spring Books, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 204 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Top textblock edge dyed green. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1931. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Reeve, Mary S. 1931 reissue. Jacket rubbed with a few chips and creases to edges. Board edges lightly rubbed, page ridges lightly foxed, pencil gift note on front paste-down endpaper. viii, 277 pp. Color frontispiece by Mary S. Reeve. A tale for girls telling the story Dimsie.

Oxford University Press, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1949. Reprinted. 277 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Boards are bowed. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

London: Spring Books Blue cloth titled in black on spine, pictorial endpapers, colour frontis and b&w illstns. Undated. Tidy, slight wear to boards, very light toning in prelims. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1949. Reprint . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Firmly bound, faded blue cloth boards with some light handling wear. Foxing on closed page edges. Jacket not price clipped with scuffing and small tears internally repaired with strips of white tape.

Melbourne: Geoffrey Cumberlege/Oxford University Press, 1947. 277pp. Red coth in jacket. NOT price clipped. A couple of letters written on front flap, spine toned, short tears to jacket spines folds at top and bottom with minor tape stains, light even toning to page edges/margins. Nice English schoolgirl story. . First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

(London: Oxford University Press: 1927) First Edition. Pictorial cloth pp. viii, 277. Illustrated by Mary Strange Reeve. First Edition. Light scattered foxing to the edges otherwise bright very good copy.

London : Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1935. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Type: Book Appears unread.

Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1925. vg+. vg+ solid clean hb 1st? Oxford University Press/ Milford 1927? no date lists 7 books last one Dimsie Goes back illus boards girls head beige cloth no dw ex Tatham collection Wiltshire Libraries In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

London: Humphrey Milford. Bound in red cloth with black decorative titling to spine and front board, this hardback volume is VG. 277pp with 26 chapters, 4 black & white illustrations and 1 colour at frontispiece. Some foxing to fore-edge. Otherwise overall condition is VG. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1927.

Published by Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1927. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Fair/Poor. Illustrated by Reeve, Mary Strange. Very good condition in a dustwrapper in fair condition. Beige cloth with gilt titles and brown vignettes to spine and front cover. 277 pages. Colour frontis plus 4 b/w plates. Spine bumped. Erased pencil writing to front pastedown. Name in pencil to front free-endpaper. Foxspots to page margins and textblock. Scarce dustwrapper is grubby and worn with loss, large section of loss to lower front panel.

Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Reeve, Mary Strange. 1931 Reprint. Book in very nice condition. Jckt poor but intact, not price clipped, white with colour illustration on front, suffers tears and chips. Hardcover: grey cloth, black lettering and patterning.. Internally very clean, no foxing, no inscriptions. Binding tight and square. No broken hinges. Colour frontis and 4 full page b& illustrations by Mary Strange Reeve. 277 pages

London: Oxford University Press, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London; Oxford University Press 1927). Publisher's light brown cloth with black portrait and gilt titles to front and spine. Mary Strange Reeve illustrator. Colour frontispiece with 4 other full page black and white plates. A tiny bump to the top right- hand corner of the front board otherwise a near fine copy which is solidly bound with no inscriptions and no foxing. The scarce original first issue dustwrapper has minor fraying/rubbing at the spine ends (un-necessarily reinforced with scotch tape on the verso by a former owner) and is faded to the spine but is unclipped (no price shown). In exceptionally good condition for its 90+ years! The last school story in the Dimsie series. Very uncommon in dustwrapper (indeed the first we have handled). At the time of listing we can find no Dimsie first editions in dustwrappers available for sale on the web. Photographs/scans available upon request