The Tale Of Mr Tootleoo

London: The Nonesuch Press N.d. [1925]. Oblong 8vo.Illustrated. Unpaginated [45 leaves, including 22 full-page colour illustrations]. Original light brown paper-covered boards, with red decoration to the spine and corners, and a large embossed red medallion of 'Mr Tootleoo and the Cockyolly Birds' to the front board. Boards clean. Internally clean. No ownership names. With twenty-two full-page colour illustrations. A nice… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Nonesuch Press Book. Illus. by Uncredited. Good. Hardcover. 7 1/2 x 10 Oblong. Mr. Tootleoo is a sailor who suffers shipwreck but doesn't drown. "Close at hand, upon my word, he found a Cockyollybird." It goes on to tell of the cockyolly chicks, a whale, a seagull who takes an egg to our hero, and finally, the Cockyollybird… Ler mais sobre este item

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. First editions. Illustrated in color by Elinor Darwin. 2 vols. Oblong 8vo. Original decorated paper over boards, fine copies, IN ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS, Volume II with loss, and Vol. I VG. First editions. Illustrated in color by Elinor Darwin. 2 vols. Oblong 8vo. In Dust Jackets. Dreyfus 27, 45

London: The Nonesuch Press [1925]. Oblong 4to. n.d. [1925] . unnumbered. 45 leaves, including 22 splendid full page colour illustrations. In the original light brown paper cover boards, with red decoration to the spine and corners, and a large blind stamped red medallion of 'Mr Tootleoo and the cockyolly birds' ' six shillings'. The head and tail of the spine… Ler mais sobre este item

London: The Nonesuch Press,, [1925]. First edition, first printing. The first Mr. Tootleoo book. Bernard Darwin (1876–1961) was the grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He and his wife collaborated on their children's books, with Bernard providing the text, and Elinor the illustrations. With a handwritten note on the publisher's stationery loosely inserted, apparently unconnected to this copy. Oblong… Ler mais sobre este item

The Nonesuch Press, London., 1925. First edition. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. A children's story in rhyming couplets by Bernard Darwin illustrated in colour and in Edward Lear style by his wife Elinor. Decorated boards with relief coin panel on front.Near fine in very good, slightly nicked dustwrapper torn and chipped at head of spine and faded at the edges.

London: Nonesuch Press, n.d. [presumably 1925]. First Edition (presumably). Publishers’s paper-covered boards with a relief medallion-like title on the front board; 1928 gift inscription; very good. [With] Tootleoo Two. London: Nonesuch Press, n.d. [ca. 1925 or later]. First Edition (presumably). Publisher’s paper-covered boards; owner’s initials on the front free endpaper; very good.