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Past Eight O'Clock: Available Copies

Past Eight O'clock: Goodnight Stories: Past Eight O'clock; Your Cradle is Green; Pappa's Going to Buy You a Mocking Bird; Bye,Baby Bunting; Oh Can Ye . Top; Four Angels to my Bed (Puffin Books) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Ex-library; clean text

Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

An Ex-Library copy with commonly found imperfections.

1st/1st. remainder mark. DJ has store sticker on back. First pub in Gr Brit by Jonathan Cape. Eight stories for children about sleeping and waking, dreams and bedtime. Illustrated by Jan Pienkowski.

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Faint toning to page edges, else fine in near fine dust jacket, in mylar cover

: Viking Kestrel, c1987. first printing. 128pp. Color, black and white illustrations Jan Pienkowski. Tall 8vo. Remainder mark lower edge of textblock, else fine bright hardcover, Very Good d/j with only minor shelfwear.

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First Printing Hardbound Good+/Good+., DJ Jan Pienkowski, illus. 8vo, 128, General wear to book and DJ. Remainder mark bottom page edges. DJ is not price clipped. ISBN:0-670-81636-1

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A collection of stories by the celebrated Young Adults author woven around the theme of bedtime, and superbly illustrated by the Polish artist Pienkowski. A pristine copy save for a minor small ink line at the bottom foreedge.

Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover to prevent further damage.

First edition. Hardcover. Royal octavo-size. A Christmas gift inscription on the half-title page, otherwise very good in fine dustjacket (sterling price intact). Wonderful bedtime stories (older readers) beautifully illustrated in colour and b/w, in silhouette form by Jan Pienkowski.

8vo(26.2x16.8) HB 1st edition. 128pp illus by Jan Pienkowski. Scarlet cloth boards with gilt design to front & gilt lettering to spine-fine. Brown Illus unclipped dust jacket with white lettering-fine. Internaly mint. (480g)

Red card covers. Clean pages. Firm binding . No inscriptions. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers.

First edition. Hardback. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. Illustrated byJan Pienkowski. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.

First edition. Hardback. 10" x 7". Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. Illustrated by Jan Pienkowski. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.

Hardback. 128pp. First Edition. A collection of eight stories united by themes of sleeping and waking, dreams and bedtime. Illustrated by Jan PieÅkowski in his distinctive black and white silhouette design. Illustrated endpapers. Red boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt silhouette design to front are very clean and bright but has a slight bump to top edge. Colour illustrated dust wrapper is clean but slightly edge worn, with tiny area of loss to tail of spine and small tear to fore-edge, and slightly surface scuffed. Creasing on both flaps. Not price clipped. Good+, sound copy in like dust wrapper Good+, sound copy in like dust wrapper

First PB edition. Light shelf wear to extremities.

128 pages. Black/white illustrations. A clean, straight, unmarked book.

PAST EIGHT O'CLOCK Goodnight Stories. Joan Aiken Illustrated by Jan Pienkowski. Jonathan Cape, London. 1986 First edition ISBN 02240258561 128pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is in fine condition bright, white, tight and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in fine condition and has been covered in clear removable protective film. Joan Aiken has taken traditional nursery rhymes and written enchanting stories based on them, elevating the familiar into the magical. The stories are complemented perfectly by Pienkowski's stunning silhouette drawings which beautifully balance the stark black on white with bright colour details, such as on the playing cards in the title story 'Past Eight O'Clock' Ref CC6

Paperback proof copy with no inscriptions, bright and tidy. [abeb]

FIRST EDITION 1986, large 8vo, 255 x 170 mm, 10 x 6¾ inches, bright red boards, gilt illustrated and lettered, coloured illustrated endpapers, 128 pages. 12 full page wonderful colour plates with silhouettes, plus lots of other silhouette illustrations and decorations in the text. No inscriptions, a Fine crisp clean copy in Fine DUSTWRAPPER, not price clipped. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Contents: Past eight o'clock -- Your cradle is green -- Pappa's going to buy you a mocking bird -- Bye, Baby Bunting -- Oh, can ye sew cushions? -- Lullay, lulla -- Hushabye baby on the tree top -- Four angels to my bed. Subjects: Short stories; Dreams ; Fiction; Sleep ; Fiction; Lullabies ; Fiction. 3 Kg.

1st edition, a mint copy in mint dust jacket