Ant Antics de CAVE, Estella - 1933

John Murray, 1933. Hardcover. Good. 1933. Reprinted. 115 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards with cloth spine. Colour and black and white illustration plates by author. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and rubbing to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Boards are slightly bowed.

London: John Murray, 1933. Presented and illustrated by Estella Cave with accompaniments by Stanley Baldwin, et al. Reprinted in November 1933. 115p., colored and b/w illus., original half cloth with printed boards.

John Murray, 1933. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. boards are worn, bit chipped and a bit insect damaged. foxing and marks. gift inscription. fair copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: John Murray, 1933. First edition of this charming collection of ant stories for children. Octavo, original cloth. With contributions by Stanley Baldwin, Basil Cave, Baden-Powell, Beverly Nichols, and Rudyard Kipling. In very good condition. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907.

Hardback. Good/Very Good. Cave, Estella. John Murray, London, 1933, first edition; small quarto, pp 115; green paper boards and spine, slightly discoloured under the dustwrapper which is itself slightly frayed at the edges, but still a good to very good copy. As the dust wrapper comments "For many years Lady Cave has taken a special interest in the high character and domestic virtues of the ant. She has acquired much quaint information about them, and her enthusiasm has impelled some of her friends to break out at her behest into (often most unaccustomed) verse. Prime Ministers and Professors, Men of Business and Men of Leisure, all contribute to this very real ant-hology." Contributors include Rudyard Kipling, Julian Huxley, Beverley Nichols, James Barrie, Owen Seaman, Stanley Baldwin, Laurence Housman, Baden-Powell and Humbert Wolfe. Estella Cave was the wife of George, later Viscount Cave, a lawyer and a Conservative MP, Home Secretary under Lloyd-George and also Lord Chancellor.

With Accompaniments by Stanley Baldwin, Jack Spratt, Tom, Dick and Harry, Basil Cave, Baden-Powell, Beverley Nichols, Lord Tom-Noddy, Lord Love Us!, Rudyard Kipling, and Others. (London: John Murray: November 1933) Reprint. Quarter cloth pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 116 (220 x 177 mm) The illustrations include twelve handsome colour pictures. A gift inscription at head of front free endpaper. Spine is moderately sunned; head and foot of spine and lower corners of boards rubbed; a generally very good copy.

London/New York: Juhn Murray/Dutton. 1933. VG+, even spine fade, light ep foxing, small corner wear, no dj .

London: John Murray, 1933. Green pictorial paper-backed boards with green cloth spine in matt pictorial dustwrapper; 115pp; 12 colour ills plus 16 b/w ills by the author. Boards sunned to spine ends with very slight lean to spine and small bump to lower edge; previous owner inscription to front endpaper; significant foxing to endpapers, more scattered throughout. Price clipped dustwrapper is chipped to corners and spine ends, rubbed and lightly creased to edges, browned to spine with scuffing and small hole to front panel. An 'ant-hology' of work about the admirable ant, with wonderful illustrations.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/Good.

London: John Murray,, 1933. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by the author on endpaper. Original illustrated quarter green cloth over green boards. Light wear and fading to covers, slight spotting to endpapers and fore-edge, otherwise very good in a slightly used and edge-chipped, unclipped dust jacket.

London: John Murray, 1933. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Neat Association Copy. Second Printing [same date, November, 1933, as the first]. Square 8vo., publisher's cloth-backed green boards decorated with marching ants. Humorous prose & poems about [ANTZ] ants. A very good copy sans dustwrapper but with a 2 pp. als from one of the contributors, Commander Charles Evans who has written about his friendship with the author, Estella Cave, who asked him to contribute some light verse for this volume [printed here on pg. 27]. Evans goes on to say that th i s volume ".went immediately into a second edition". Evans has also penned a presentation inscription on the ffe. Recipient's bookplate on the front pastedown. Other contributions by: Barrie, Kipling, Beverly Nichols, Baden-Powell, Jack Spratt & T om , Dick & Harry. Numerous monochrome & colour illustrations throughout. Entertaining.