London: Puffin Books. Very Good; Minor shelf and edge wear tiny sticker tear to base of spine. . ; Nice tight copy no names or marks inside. Cover artwork by Rod Holt. 1994. Reprint. Paperback. Eleventh Printing; B&W Illustrations; 253 pages; The Fossil children discover their true talents when they join the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training; 0140364595 . Puffin Books paperback
Referência livreiro : 20281 ISBN : 0140364595 9780140364590
London: Hurst & Blacket Ltd b/w plates. Original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering very good with a little general wear and slight rubbing to extremities. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions. A very good tight copy. Vol II only. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No dust jacket. Large 8vo 14 x 22cm. Hurst & Blacket Ltd Hardcover
London: T. J. Allman 1860. Title continues ".with the caterpillars and the plants on which they are generally found" No Date 1860; pp. vi 206. 62 hand-coloured lithographic plates of moths and their larvae and foodplants most with original tissue guards. In this copy the backgrounds are less extensively coloured but still very attractive plates with the colour of the moths vivid and often heightened with gum arabic. Original red pictorial cloth binding stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Binding very good with a little general wear and rubbing to edges spine somewhat faded and gilt dulled slightly marked and nicked to the head/tail of the spine. Contents clean and tight neat signature and address to front free end-paper; paper a little toned plate 35 slightly defective to top edge and top of fore-edge but not nearly affecting image. A very good tight copy. Bibliographical note: This book was also published by Paul Jerrard and Son and the Jerrard edition is superior with more extensive and detailed colouring than the Allman editions though the latter differs significantly from copy ot copy in both quality and degree of hand-colouring with some nearly all the background flowers are coloured and in others very few are coloured. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to approx. 18 x 27cm. T. J. Allman Hardcover