Search Results: the emerald crown by needham violet

Collins, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Minor foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Slight chipping to page edges of 221-224. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with visible staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft staining and crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Collins, 1970. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1970. No Edition Remarks. 253 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with tears and creasing. Jacket covered with a non removable protector.

A very good- Hardcover (cloth-bound) with very good- DJ, minor signs of wear on DJ as in image, text/block tight clean. 253p. 20x14cm. 400gr.

London: Collins, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. The interior of the book is clean and tight, showing no marks or signs of use. The green tweed covers are fresh, with a few small marks and light wear to tips and corners. The gilt spine lettering is still shiny. The dust jacket is price-clipped, and is in very good general condition. It has been encased in plastic since manufacture so there is none of the edge wear generally expected. However, there is a narrow glue mark running parallel to the bottom of the cover, and a patch (about 2 x 3 inches) of plastic is missing from the back cover. The attached The attached scans gives a better idea of condition. The jacket is now in a protective mylar cover. Synopsis: "Young Pixie Trollac believed her grandmother's prophecies about the restoration of the Emerald Crown, the lost Crown of Valens. She and Alexander, a strange young boy newly arrived from England set out to find the Crown and restore a King to the vacant throne.

Collins, 1946. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1946. Third impression. 253 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout by Anne Bullen. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

Collins, 1944. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1944. Third Impression. 253 pages. Dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Light foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Mild sunning to spine and board edges. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Heavy foxing. Heavy tanning to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over. Sticker to rear panel.

London: Collins. Good in Good dust jacket. (1970). Hardcover. Dampstain to lower margin of front board. Dust-jacket laminated in clear plastic.; Reprint edition. 253 pages. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 127mm. Children's novel. "But Pixie was more immediately concerned with the arrival of the strange boy from England - Alexander. What was the mystery surrounding him? Why did the people around the castle react so strangely when they saw him? [. . .] Violet Needham tells a thrilling tale, set against the romantic background of Trollsgarde and the kingdom of Flavonia." - from dust-jacket blurb. Dust-jacket design by Gavin Rowe. .

Bath: Girls Gone By Publishers, 2005. Paperback in very good condition, as unread. LW. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Bullen, Anne. Used.

London: Collins, 1944. Second impression. Green cloth boards in matt pictorial dustwrapper; 253pp; b/w ills. Cloth sunned to spine and outer edges with bumping to corners and lower edge; occasional spotting and light marking to pages. Unclipped dustwrapper is chipped to corners and spine ends, rubbed to edges with some surface lifting and light sunning to spine. A stirring tale of a boy and girl in the Kingdom of Flavonia.. Reprint.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by BULLEN, Anne.

London: Collins, 1946 Book. Illus. by Anne Bullen. VG+. Hardcover. 3rd Printing. inscribed, a VG+ copy with a small sunned patch at spine base, in a VG unclipped d/w, lightly crushed/sunned at spine base (please see image), a nice copy.

Collins, 1940. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 1st impression 1940. A VG copy. No writing inside but 4 illustrations have been neatly coloured by a previous owner. Very clean boards and pages with text. Complete slightly rubbed dust jacket is now protected by removable brodart shield.

London: Collins, 1944 . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Anne Bullen. A smart early printing of Violet Needham's children's work, with illustrations throughout by Anne Bullen. An exciting, ruritanian piece of fantasy set in the Kingdom of Flavonia.Written by Violet Needham, an English writer known for her children's works.Complete with a clipped dust wrapper.With in-text illustrations throughout by Anne Bullen.An early edition, with the first edition published in 1940. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with a clipped dust wrapper. Externally generally smart, with a little discolouration to the cloth at the edges. Dust wrapper is a little worn to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are just a touch age-toned. Very Good

London: Collins, 1940. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Anne Bullen. A very good copy in the original green cloth. In a very good dustwrapper which has a little wear and tear at the top of the spine. The wrapper is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. Gift inscriotion on front free end-paper. 253 pages. 20 black and white illustrations including frontispiece. The author's second book. Photographs available on request.

London: Collins,. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1940. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1st edition hbk in d/w; emerald green cloth cover , cloth whitening at spine ends, and wearing at very corners of covers; gift inscription, not authors, on fep; pages nice and clean; d/w not price clipped (6s) ; a little loss to bottom of spine; some creasing and a little wear/chipping to d/w edges - see picture on our own website; vg-/G+; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London : Collins, 1944. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 3-253 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Notes; Originally published 1940. Subjects; Children's literature. Adventure - literature. Stories for children. Young adult literature - 20th century.