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CYRIL BONHAMY V MADAM BIG
Written by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1401220
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1981.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Hilarious department store mystery for children. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0224019910. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to text block. Previous owner's ink stamp to title page. Pencil annotations to first few pages. Wrapper is foxed and edge worn and the spine is faded.
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
NICOLA BAYLEY'S BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES
No author listed.
Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
Stock no. 1307490
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1975.
Very good condition.
Nicola Bayley's first book. Favourite nursery rhymes illustrated by glorious full-colour pictures. Dark blue glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 0224011731. Spine and corners bumped. Some erased pencil writing to top margin of title-page. Some very light foxing. Contents clean.
THE PICTS AND THE MARTYRS
Written by Arthur Ransome.
Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 2106037
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1943.
Very good condition.
Green cloth, gilt title to spine, blind title to front cover. Pictorial endpapers depicting map for the book. B/w illustrations throughout. 303 pages. 8 x 5.5". Bumping to spine. Name in ink to half-title page. Foxing/brown markings to outer page edges.
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THE PICTS AND THE MARTYRS
Written by Arthur Ransome.
Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 1804578
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1943.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Green cloth, gilt title to spine, blind title to front cover. Pictorial endpapers depicting map for the book. B/w illustrations throughout. 303 pages. 8 x 5.5". Pale grease stain to lower edge of spine & boards. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Pale grease type stain to lower gutter edge of pages at rear half of contents. Pictorial wrapper is lightly worn at corners with slight loss, browned at spine and rear panel.
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MISSEE LEE
Written by Arthur Ransome.
Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 1205811
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1941.
Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.
Green cloth, gilt title to spine and embossed title to front cover. Pictorial endpapers of Miss Lee's Islands. B/w illustrations. 335 pages. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. In later dustwrapper which is torn with large section of loss to top edge of rear panel.
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- CHILDRENS
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OXUS IN SUMMER
Written by Katharine Hull; Pamela Whitlock.
Illustrated by Pamela Whitlock.
Stock no. 1205240
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1939.
Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.
Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Endpapers are maps of 'Country Round Peranwisa". B/w illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped. A very few scattered foxspots to endpapers. Contents clean. Pictorial wrapper is edge-torn with slight loss, browned to rear and internally repaired with tape. Scarce in wrapper.
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- CHILDRENS
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ASK DOCTOR PETE
Written by Peter Rowan.
Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1204337
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1986.
Fine condition.
Glazed pictorial boards, b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0224028693. SIGNED by author 'To Alexander for a very happy christmas 1993 love Dr Peter. I've written in the book my favourite parts - which are yours?' Small annotations by the author throughout the text.
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- CHILDRENS
THE AVENGERS
Written by Rich Cohen.
Stock no. 1204308
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
2000.
Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
A Jewish war story. This book tells one of the great untold stories of the Second World War. ISBN: 0224060015. Small nick to base of wrapper spine.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- WORLD WAR II
AUGUST ADVENTURE
Written by M.E. Atkinson.
Illustrated by Harold Jones.
Stock no. 1204166
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1936.
Very good condition.
Green cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Five children in a caravan, and a horse between its shafts, in pursuit of an absent-minded aunt whose address they didn't exactly know! A story of the Lockett family. Edges are worn. Corners are bumped. Some foxing.
THE ROAD TO VERDUN
Written by Ian Ousby.
Stock no. 1601461
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
2002.
Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
France, Nationalism and the First World War. 304 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0224059904. Wrapper is lightly edge creased.
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR I
- HISTORY
- FRANCE
ARTHUR RANSOME AND CAPTAIN FLINT'S TRUNK
Written by Christina Hardyment.
Stock no. 1304165
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1984.
Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.
An essential companion to the Ransome books. Dark blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photo plates and illustrations. ISBN: 0224089894. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Dustwrapper is just a little creased at edges and foxed on flaps. Printed price on front flap has been folded over causing a crease to the lower corner.
ONE OLD OXFORD OX
Written by Nicola Bayley.
Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
Stock no. 1203725
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1977.
Very good condition.
A counting book featuring a tongue-twister and lovely colour illustrations for each number from 1 to 12. Glazed pictorial boards. Unpaginated. 10 x 7. 5 inches. ISBN: 022401353X. Spine faded. Some foxing.
Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960.
Cape and his business partner Wren Howard set up the publishing house in 1921. They established a reputation for high quality design and production and a fine list of English-language authors, fostered by the firm's editor and reader Edward Garnett. Cape's list of writers ranged from poets including Robert Frost and C. Day Lewis, to chi...
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