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The Apple-Stone: Available Copies

Hbk in d/w; 3rd printing of the US edition with the Charles Keeping illustrations; purple covers; bronze lettering to spine; no names or other handwriting inside; slight tanning to pages; d/w not price clipped; ($6.95) ; a little rubbing and tiny nicks to d/w edges, but overall a vg copy; vg/vg-; fantasy; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

1965. First Edition. 191 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Illustrated jacket over brown cloth with blue metallic lettering to spine. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Illustrated in B&W by William Stobbs. Children's fantasy in which the characters find a talking stone which can 'animate the inanimate', with various unforeseen consequences ensuing. Pages have slight foxing and tanning. Slight gutter cracking. Shaky binding. A few dog-eared corners. Text block edges are a little tanned and foxed. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners, edges, and spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Slight paper fragments adhering to bottom edge. Book has a moderate forward lean. Lettering is bright. Unclipped jacket (priced 15s, recently extricated from plastic sleeve) has light edgewear with small tears, chips, creases. Approx 1cm patch of loss to rear panel. Subtle foxing to flaps, rear panel.

Ex library copy with 2-line stamp on tp, VG/VG, stated 1st edn, single small spot on pps 32-42, illustrated by Charles Keeping, price $4.95 on flap. tape residue ' Discarded' stamped on rear page, nice copy.

Dobson Books, 1965 - with dust jacket - light shelf/edge wear - sound and clean - VG+/VG. Photo available on request.

1965 Dennis Dobson London Hardback 1st edition 1st impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good unclipped dustjacket, dj has had some minor restoration at some time. Illustrations by William Stobbs. A clean bright copy, no stamps or inscriptions.

Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Cocked spine.

First edition. Illustrated by William Stobbs. Near fine with splash marks to the text block and a touch cocked in fine dust jacket. A children's story by the British writer Nicholas Stuart Gray, who has recently been rediscovered with the help of Neil Gaiman who called him "one of the most brilliant children's authors of the 20th century." Nearly all of Gray's books are surprisingly difficult to find, particularly when in the first edition and nice condition like this copy.