past eight o' clock de Aiken, Joan

Jonathan Cape, 1986. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust jacket which is now protected in a non-adhesive clear film sleeve, the text is clean and unmarked. Illustrate din colour and b&w by Jan Pienkowski, 128pp.

Jonathan Cape. Hardback. 128pp. First Edition. A collection of eight stories united by themes of sleeping and waking, dreams and bedtime. Illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski 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 . Hardback. First Edition. 1986.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London : Cape, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 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.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1986, hardcover, 128 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket price-clipped, light rubs, slightest edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. Eight original stories about sleeping and waking, dreams and bedtime. Beautifully illustrated throughout with 11 full-page color illustrations and numerous smaller black-&-white works by Jan Pienkowski. Red boards pictorially stamped in gold, color pictorial endpapers. ISBN 9780224028561