Search Results: gum tree brownie by tarella quin

George Robertson & Co N/D (c.1918?). APPEARS TO BE SECOND ISSUE OF 1910, SOME IMAGES HAVE BEEN COLOURED WITH PENCILS, oblong super octavo, orange buckram boards, blank spine but red lettering plus fairy illus to front board, frontispiece, illus full title page, 184pp, illus, scruffy (heavy scuffing & deep surface loss to board edges & extrems, moderate scuffing & soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front eps, heavy cracking to gutters, boards shaky but still firmly attached, aforementioned colouring pencil to some of the illustrations, 1cm loss to lower page corners)

Melbourne: George Robertson, 1925. OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul. With a foreword by Ethel Turner and delightful illustrations by a nineteen-year old Ida Rentoul (later Outhwaite). "The subject matter was still that of fairies, elves and children... Although this was a world of the imagination there were some Australian motifs such as spider-orchids, monk-hoods, or blow-fly grass which she had seized on for their qualities" (Muir, 'The History of Australian Children's Book Illustration'). Third Edition. Oblong small quarto, original pictorial papered boards with red cloth backstrip, plates and vignettes throughout; light scattered foxing, a very good copy.

By Tarella Quin / Illustrated by Ida S. Rentoul. Melbourne : George Robertson, 1925. Oblong quarto, original illustrated papered boards (edges rubbed, slight loss to paper), cloth spine, 165 pp, illustrated throughout, binding firm, a very good copy. Muir 1905.

Melbourne: George Robertson, 1910. Book. Illus. by Ida S. Rentoul [Ida Rentoul Outhwaite; Ida Sherbourne Rentoul; Ida Sherbourne Outhwaite]. Very Good. Orange Cloth. Oblong. 184 pages, many b/w illustrations by Ida S. Rentoul. No publication date, assumed 1910. Old school prize label dated 9th December 1912 on front endpaper, covers bright and clean, light wear on spine ends. Classic Australian children's book. 2nd issue with text corrected to "A ride on a comet" on p. 53..

Published by Robertson & Mullens Ltd., 1925. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul. Good condition with no wrapper. Oblong format. Pink cloth spine, patterned boards. B/w illustrations throughout by Ida S. Rentoul. Spine and corners bumped with wear to corners. Edges rubbed. Covers a bit grubby. Tiny booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned, foxing to contents. Quite a number of the illustrations have been very neatly coloured in. A very scarce book.

Gum Tree Brownie and other Faerie Folk of the Never-Never. Illustrated by Ida S. Rentoul. Melbourne: George Robertson [1910]. Second edition. Oblong quarto, illustrated orange cloth (marked and rubbed), 184 pp., inscriptions to endpaper, foreword by Ethel Turner, illustrated throughout, internally clean. The third book illustrated by Ida Rentoul, first published in 1907 (a third edition was published in 1925). The second edition is quite scarce. Muir 1904.

Melbourne: George Robertson & Co. [1907] Muir 1903 and 1904. Oblong Octavo Size [approx 22.8 x 18 cm]. Very Good condition. Some light rubbing to corners and spine ends and edges. Appears to have acquired new endpapers at some stage. Previous owner's name to half-title page which has the fore edge neatly cut. A couple of light marks to boards. Black & white frontispiece and 30 full page black and white drawings and in-text black & white drawings by Ida S. Rentoul (later Rentoul Outhwaite). Foreword by Ethel Turner. 2nd issue of the first printing with the corrected 'Ride on a Comet' on page 53. 184 pages. Contains 8 stories. Tarella Quin [1877-1945] was a highly successful writer of Australian fairy stories. She later published under her married name of Tarella Quin Daskein. Ida Rentoul, later Ida Rentoul Outhwaite was the famous Australian fairy illustrator. . 1st Edition, 2nd printing. Hardback.

george robertson 1907. first edition oblong super octavo illus green cloth boards, marbled eps, [1907], 184p. 1 page of plates. 1st issue - The first print has a caption error on page 53 A8ride on a coment instead of A ride on a comet. and the error is present in this copy.VG+ sl soiling, small closed (near invisible) cut to top spine edge, owners details in inkto first page. A very nice copy of a RARE true first edition

Published by George Robertson & Co., 1907. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul. Slightly better than very good condition with no wrapper. Green cloth covers with bevelled edges, red title to front with illustration of a Brownie swinging in a cobweb. Marbled endpapers. Packed with charming pen-and-ink illustrations, many full-page. A typically stylised Outhwaite fairyland. 184 pages. Oblong format. Spine bumped and rubbed at top and tail. Corners slightly worn. Two small dents to cover foredges, Contents near fine with just the occasional very pale mark. A super copy of this rare fairy book.

Illustrated by Ida S Rentoul (Outhwaite) George Robertson & Co. Melbourne. N.D. [1907] (Ist Edition). Ob 4to, 184pp. In or green cloth, a little rubbed on extremeties and binding shakey, mottled eps, repair to one page o/w text in vg cond. This was the author's first book and the illustrator's third and marked the beginning of a folklore that was truly Australian. Full page b/w line drawings and other drawings throughout. Foreword by Ethel Turner. Muir 2 [1:1903]