nicholas fast moving diesel de ardizzone edward (30 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 3rd. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrateur). First published in 1947, this book is the 1980 edition." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrateur). 2nd Edition. Lemon yellow matte pictorial boards. This is an ex-library book and has pocket, stamps, and spine sticker. P.o. name on FFEP, corners worn to boards, and spine ends as well. Small diagonal chip on the bottom of a page near the back. Unpaginated. B&w and colour illustrations- one of which has been coloured in. Overall very clean and tight. The glossy yellow DJ is unclipped and has only very light shelf, corner, edge and and edge wear. A beautiful, bright and tight book! None of my books are ex-library, remainders or bce unless specified.

Etat : GOOD. First US printing. Originally published in England in 1947, this story by author/illustrator Edward Ardizzone tells of two young boys who save a train from crashing, after they have hopped on and the engineer suddenly falls ill. Illustrated by Ardizzone in both color and black and white. Unpaginated. Bound in blue-gray illustrated boards. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall good condition in a good unmarked dustjacket (some tape remnants to interior of dj, few small chips, but original price of 2.75 still present).

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. 3rd Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Full of Ardizzone's delightful illustrations - both colour and black & white. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Unpaginated. First published in 1947.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Edition Stated. Cloth Hardback w/ Pictorial DJ / Mylar, Ex-Library with some expected wear and faults, Pages are otherwise clean, tight & flat, Item Shrink-wrapped for additional protection.

Etat : Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0195202309. Hardback. Later printing. No dustjacket; bound in yellow pictorial boards. Very Good condition book with previous owner's bookplates on front pastedown and endpaper; minor wear to corners and edges; slight smudges on boards; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked. No Signature.

Quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (scruffy) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Repr. Hardback: illustrated in colour and b/w by the author, dj is lightly foxed, price clipped, colour pictorial covers (as dj) slightly rubbed on spine tips and corners, inscription and name on front endpapers, some light internal foxing, lower corner of back flyleaf creased, else vg. 4to, (46pp.).

HB PICTORIAL BOARDS FINE UNPAGINATED QTO Nicholas and a dog called Jack.

First U.S. edition hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covered boards. Quarto. 10¼'' x 7¾''. Contains [48pp] with monochrome and colour-wash illustrations throughout. The cloth around the spine has detached itself from the top front gutter, foxing to the end papers, no dust wrapper. From the private library and estate of Edward Ardizzone and SIGNED by him to the front free end paper 'Edward Ardizzone.' Member of the P.B.F.A. ARDIZZONE, Edward (1900-1979).

Hardcover. 1st. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and in color. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth with the title stamped in dark green on the spine and an illustration stamped in dark green on the front cover. The dust jacket has a small closed tear to the head of the spine and some minor chips at the extremities, otherwise very good condtion. The text is clean and bright.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Reprint. Near FINE hardback in Near FINE dustwrapper. 1959 Oxford University Press, reprint. NO inscriptions, NOT price clipped. Hint of sunning to spine of boards & wrapper & touch of marking to boards. Faint wrinkle to back of wrapper. NB. Regrettably NOT available to send to EU countries.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Illustrated By Edward Ardizzone (illustrateur). Second Edition. yellow, pictorial boards, unpaginated, (48 pp), light soil to dust jacket, light wear at corners, a very presentable copy, Two boys and a dog save a train from two serious accidents when the engine driver and a fireman become sick. written and illustrated by Ardizzone. Size: Folio, (27cm.) an Oxford reprint in the same style and format as the Tim books. All the original drawings are repeaated here in fresh versions and several new compositions are added to give a total of 21 colour-wash drawings and 25 pen drawings, title page in color hand-lettered by E. A.

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrateur). 1966. Almost very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. This edition partly re-written and entirely re-drawn. Yellow pictorial boards with red spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Light finger creases/marks to endpapers. Some foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly creased. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

hardcover. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

1st [1947] Nicholas and the Fast Moving Diesel EDWARD ARDIZZONE VG DJ Eyre & Spottiswoode Date of publication from the British Library Catalogue 35 pages & a Dust jacket - Small Folio -Colour illustrations Text in script as written by the author Two boys and their dog Jock save a train from two serious accidents when the engine driver and fireman become sick. Illustrated boards, bowed slightly, corners scuffed. Spine covering split to lower part aorund 1/5 th Block is split. Page 10 loosening and splitting from block.Lower parts of the pages are losening and some splits Text and pictures are very good Dust jacket - poor Many chips and losses, previous tears and splits with a tape repair to front and many archival repairs to back several marks and discolouration Please ask any questions.

4to. Second edition. First published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. Original illustrated paper boards. Printed by W. S. Cowell, Ltd. 46 illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, including 21 watercolours and 25 pen drawings. Bookplate of Andrew Murray on the flyleaf. Unclipped d/w a little rubbed along the top edge, with a very short closed tear to the top corner of the front panel and ten ink date stamps to the bottom of the back panel, '10 DEC 1960'. Fine in near fine d/w. Redrawn, and with some additional illustrations, to match the postwar 'Tim' books.

First edition in this format hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards. Quarto. 10¼'' x 7¾''. Contains [48pp] with monochrome and colour-wash illustrations throughout. Light spotting to the end papers. Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with similar spotting to the paper and finger soiling to the edges, not price clipped, 10s 6d. From the private library and estate of Edward Ardizzone and 'Bound Proof Only' indigo stamp to the front free end paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ARDIZZONE, Edward (1900-1979).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. ND but I believe this to be the 1st edition.35 pp with text printed in Ardizzone's hand with colour illustrations throughout Spine cover is gone but book is still tight,corners slightly bumped and apart from browned ep's book is very clean and bright with no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrateur). 1st Edition. [1948] First Edition, first printing. Small folio. 35pp. Bound in pictorial paper covered boards. Comprises a title-page and thirty-five pages of text and coloured lithographs, the whole thing a reproduction of the author's manuscript. Boards rubbed at tips of corners, lightly spotted and chipped at spine ends with short tears to gutter extremities, lower spine and corners bumped. Inside endpapers are lightly spotted and discoloured from the dust wrapper; inscription in ink on front end paper, else, save for a few light finger marks to the occasional leaf margin, there is a small inner tear on one page and a segment has cracked a little. The bump to lower spine continues throughout the book in the text. With the pictorial dust wrapper, un-clipped, somewhat soiled, dusty, heavily foxed; edge worn with several fairly small portions of loss. A scarce and typically delightful Ardizzone volume, published the same year that he joined the teaching staff of the Camberwell School of Art and Crafts and was elected Fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists. Alderson 23. Size 13 x 9 inches (35 x 23cm).

Folio. First edition. Original illustrated paper boards. Printed by W. S. Cowell, Ltd. Illustrated by the author with colour lithographs. Text hand-written by the author in a cursive script (with 'medecine' at the top of page 5). Short cracks to the paper at the head of the spine and some very light foxing to the boards. Ink presentation on the flyleaf. Contents clean and fresh. Unclipped d/w has a publisher's label giving the price as "3/6 net" stuck over the original price of 9s. The d/w is dust-soiled and foxed (especially on the front panel), with rubbing to the edges, short closed tears to the head of the spine and a larger tear, with some loss, to the top corner of the back panel. Very good + in good + d/w. The "spirited and amusing pictures [.] have been drawn directly on the stone by the famous artist who is perhaps best known to children by his 'Captain Grimes and Lucy'". Eyre & Spottiswoode have mangled 'Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain' and 'Lucy Brown and Mr. Grimes', both published by Oxford University Press, and did not correct the author's spelling of medicine.

Hardback. Etat : Very Good Indeed. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrateur). First edition. The first edition of Edward Ardizzone's charming tale written for his son, about a boy and a diesel train, with Ardizzone's classic coloured illustrations, and in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing.Illustrated with Edward Ardizzone's charming coloured lithographic illustrations throughout.A children's tale written and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, being a reproduction of the author's hand-written manuscript, with cursive script. The story was written for the author's son, and follows a boy, his friend and their dog as they go to work on a train and save the passengers onboard.Undated, dated by copies held institutionally.In the publisher's original pictorial hardback with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original pictorial hardback with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart with minimal edge wear, and cracking to the joints, though they remain firm. Light offsetting to the endpapers with owner's signature to the front. The wrap has marks, closed tears and chips to the extremities, slight loss to the head and tail, closed tear to the joint of the front fly leaf, owner's signature to the front and tape repairs to the verso. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with the odd handling mark. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Nicholas and the Fast Moving Diesel, by Edward Ardizzone, Pub. Eyre & Spottiswoode. Folio 330mm x 235 mm. 35 pp. Illustrated, paper-covered boards with very slight 'tide mark' from pale waterstain to top edge of front board. Tiny crack to paper at top of spine. Jacket is unclipped, with mild grubbiness, couple of short, closed tears at edges and similar stain to top edge and rear panel of jacket. Internally very fresh and bright with no inscriptions or blemishes. End papers with tanning from inner flaps. Now in protective acid-free acetate removable cover. Calligraphic text. The story concerns two boys (and their dog) who help a train avoid, not one, but two disasters after the driver and stoker fall ill from drinking bad tea. The illustrations in typically charming Ardizzone style. Ardizzone [1900-1979] was born in what is now Vietnam when his father, a French pied noir had been working there. He did not come to England until he was five years old, and was then raised by his grandmother while his mother returned East. He had been a commercial illustrator since his late twenties, and during WW2 was a distinguished war artist. His subdued, watercolour technique suited the genre of gentle childrens' work he tended to illustrate, either written by himself or others.

FIRST EDITION (1948), slim folio, 335 x 225 mm, 13 x 9¼ inches, original publisher's pictorial colour illustrated boards, 35 pages. 40 coloured illustrations in chalk and line, text in cursive script by the artist. Two boys and their dog Jock save a train from two serious accidents when the engine driver and fireman become sick. No inscriptions, edges of boards very slightly faded, head and tail of spine very slightly worn, corners just very slightly rubbed, endpapers very slightly age-browned, 5 mm (¼") closed tear to 1 lower margin (repaired). Contents very nice. DUSTWRAPPER: Not price clipped (9s), faint foxing all over, 5 mm (¼") missing at head of spine, 10 mm (½") chip to top edge of upper panel next to spine, several small closed edge tears, corners slightly chipped. A very good copy in very good DUSTWRAPPER. In his first Preliminary Hand-List of Ardizzone's books Brian Alderson dated this work (1947), but he has revised this to (1948) in his recent full length Bibliography, pages 54 and 59, No.23.1. The book was reissued in 1959 in smaller format. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Ardizzone, Edward. NICHOLAS AND THE FAST MOVING DIESEL. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1947]. FIRST EDITION. Folio - 9-3/16" x 13-3/16". Color pictorial paper covered boards with no wear at all for what is a magnificent copy of the book. Color pictorial priced (9s. net) dust wrapper with light foxing but no wear at all for what is a beautiful copy of the wrapper. Plain endpapers with browning to both front and back free endpapers. 35 pp. The story of two boys, Nicholas and Peter, and Nicholas' dog Jock that save a train from two serious accidents when the engine driver and fireman become sick. Calligraphic text and color illustrations by Ardizzone on every page. The condition of the book is FINE. The condition of the dust wrapper is NEAR FINE. Only six copies located on OCLC/WorldCat. RARE, especially in such nice condition. An incredible copy of an important book.

Illustrated by the author. First edition. 4to., original pictorial boards, lacking the dust jacket. London, The Bodley Head. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Boards slightly spotted, offsetting to endpapers, otherwise an excellent copy.