cabrelly (2 résultats)

First edition, scarce, 4to., unpaginated, pictorial beige cloth, black lettering to spine, colour illustrations, colour frontispiece, pictorial endpapers; light foxing to endpapers, stitching of spine slightly visible at hinge of endpapers, all contents firm, a very good copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has light creasing along front upper margin, with two closed tears to front upper margin and another to front lower margin, slight chipping along extremities, light chipping to head and foot of spine, light surface soiling to rear, otherwise very good.

Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Thomas Eckersley (illustrateur). First edition. A scarce work for children on the nature of animals, the first edition of this work strikingly illustrated, and signed, by Tom Eckersley. The first edition of this scarce work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Signed by the artist to the recto of the front endpaper.'Animals on Parade' is a charming children's volume, a tale exploring many different animals and their behaviour and lifestyles.Illustrated in colour throughout, by Thomas Eckersley, a poster artist who produced posters for London Transport, the BBC, Shell-Mex, the Ministry of information, Gillette, and more.Text by E. A. Cabrelly. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. A few light marks to the cloth. Dust wrapper is edge worn, with loss to the head of the spine and front wrap, smaller amount of loss to the tail of the spine. Wraps are a little age-toned and spotted, with a few light handling marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. signed by author. book.