Lost Dog Stories by Hope Ascott (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. This book is bound in bright blue & green decorative boards with yellow dogs & birds on the front cover & gilt boxed letters on the spine. there is light wear on the cover corners, spine tips & along the edges. There is a prize plate inside the front cover date 1905. There is age browning on the endpapers & a little in the text. The contents are clean, the binding is tight. Frontispiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Uncredited (illustrator). First Edition. HB n/d circa late 1800 early 1900. Presumed first edition. Blue cloth boards. Tipped in colour illust front. Blue titles above on darker frame. Dark blue titles + decoration on spine. 18.2 x 12.5cm. 128 pages + 16 further pages of publisher listings. Contents: The Lost Dog. The White Rat. The Scandal-Mongering Magpie. A Fish Out of Water. The Learned Pig. One f/c plate illust. Condition: Wear on spine, edges + corners. Boards age and handling discoloured, see pic. o/p seam cracked at top, binding holding firm. Presentation label on paste down dated 1914-1915. Half title page owner name in pencil top right corner. Outer page edge collectively age discoloured and dusty. Illust loose. Some grubby marks + few corner folds. Binding holding. Text clear but obviously a book that has been well read and cherished at some point. End paste down owner name and info repeated in pencil. Readable copy Fair + condition.