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Past Eight O'Clock: Available Copies

Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.

Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Ex-library; clean text

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CONDITION: Near Fine in Very Good jacket; remainder mark, scuffed dw; unclipped 14.95. Juvenile hardback. A collection of stories which are all concerned with sleeping and waking, dreams and bedtime, illustrated in silhouettes and brilliant colour. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /Jan Pienkowski, illustrator.

1st/1st. remainder mark. First pub in Gr Brit by Jonathan Cape. Eight stories for children about sleeping and waking, dreams and bedtime.

Tall 8 vo. 128 pp. Color plates, black silhouette illustrations Jan Pienkowski; red paper-covered boards/gilt figure front cover; 1st printing. Small remainder dot bottom edge, dent bottom edges cover, very good, interior fine; very good dust jacket.

: 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.

Jonathan Cape, 1986. Hardback, d/j, 4to, 128pp, illust. A good copy. 0224028561/0.5uk

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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.

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 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

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.

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

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

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)

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

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.

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

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

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 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. 1 Kg.

[Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.128. With frequent in-text silhouette illustrations by Pienkowski, some in colour, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt decoration to upper, and illustrated endpapers. With the brown illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £7.95. A lightly handled copy with a few minor marks. Near fine. A collection of eight short stories for children about sleep and bedtime.

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. 1 Kg.