Collins' Children's Annual

Lindbergh, Col.; Cobham, Sir Alan (contributions): Collins' Aircraft Annual, London & Glasgow Collins' Clear-Type Press ; fester Einband / hard cover
Very Good Fully Illustrated - Colour & Black & White

No date - Bright yellow Collins' Aircraft Children's Annual on heavy card stock with paste down of an early airplane and blimp on front pastedown remain in Very Good condition. There is wear to edges of pastedown but the colour remains bright on the drawing by S. Drigin. Contributions to the Annual have been made by Col. Lindbergh and Sir Alan Cobham. The coloured frontispiece is of an early propellar small engine plane. The Contents include - When Aeroplanes Are As Common as Cars by Sir Alan Cobham and Aeroplanes of the Future by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. A well preserved and interesting copy of an early Children's Annual. The book weighs over 2 kgs and will require additional postage. Costs will be providd on request. 192 pages. No Dustjacket as Issued Hard Cover 7 3/4" By 10 1/2" By 1 3/4" 192 Pages Juvenile-Children's Annual

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Various: Collins' Girl Guides' Annual, London and Glasgow Collins ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover
Reasonable Various

810 g.; VI, 208 pages, list of illustrations. Coloured illustrated frontispiece, by D.Osborne. The text is illustrated with five full coloured illustrations, by various artists and three halftone photographs. Along with the above mentioned illustrations, there are numerous black-and-white line drawings throughout the book. Illustrated front cover by Mills, showing a young girl guide with flags and another Girl Guide lying on her stomach, with yellow and blue titles to the front panel and black titles to the back strip. 1/4 orange coloured back strip with illustration and 3/4 illustrated boards. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the back strip, the top front board edge, the lower front board edge and quite a significant bump to the front fore edge of the front panel. Light browning and foxing to the text block edges. Browning, offset tanning and very faint boxing to the endpapers. Light age toning to the internal pages. Pages 39-42 have come away from the sewing of the text block. That same set of pages has quite noticeable browning and foxing to the top edge. Illustrated dustwrapper, same illustration as for underlying board with yellow and blue titles to the front panel and grew to the back strip. The illustration on the dustwrapper back strip is an older woman in girl guide uniform. This dustwrapper is in its component parts. The front fold over, front panel and back strip in one piece but the back dustwrapper panel and rear fold over have become detached, from the front section and from each other. Heavy rubbing and chipping, with loss to the front corners of the dustwrapper and to the top and bottom edges of the back strip. Numerous small tears, creases and chips to both the top and bottom edges and there are creases that run the full-leng and horizontally across the front dustwrapper panel. Rubbing and marking is also visible. The rear dustwrapper has two distinct pieces, one larger than the other, and together they make an almost complete panel. The panel is crumpled, creased, rubbed and generally shows a lot of wear. There are two major tears to the top and bottom in dustwrapper edge is measuring 1.25 " to the top edge, and 1 " to the lower edge. The rear fold over panel is somewhat brown and soiled. A children's annual, put out in the 20s-30s [ given the style of illustrations and dress ], specifically for girls and more specifically those with a Girl Guide background. Contributors to the book include Oliver Pike, E.E. Cowper, Freda Isabel Noble, Ethel Talbot and others. Digital image available upon request. *** PLEASE NOTE: This book weighs more than 1 kg [ 2.2 lbs ] and postage WILL be more than quoted, outside Australia. Please contact with the bookseller for correct postage rate. Not Stated Atrocious 1/4 Board and Illustrated Bds 4to - up to 12" tall - Quarto Children's Annual; Not Stated

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COLLINS CHILDREN'S ANNUAL, London Collins
About Very Good

No Date. Pictorial boards with Santa driving early motorcyle with bag of presents on the back, red illustrated endpapers, "The Little Train Chug-Chugged Along" frontispiece, with first story "The Rabbit Who Did Not Eat His Vegetables, Picture Stories, Poems, and Puzzles and Features. Crayon name "This Book Belongs To" page, and a couple of other pages with crayon entries; however, generally clean and unblemished. 128 pp. Hard Cover Small 4to

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Collins Children's Annual, London Collins
Good

Children's Christmas Annual Three children singing caroles outside decorated window in snow. Hard Cover SEE OUR GREAT POSTAGE RATES

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