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ALEXANDRA PUBLISHING CO. [Publishers]: Naughty Johnny and the Duck.
London: Alexandra Publishing Co. n.d. ca. 1920. An "Untearable" book. 4 coloured plates and uncoloured illustrations. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches), 8-pages. Original coloured pictorial card wrappers, wire-stitched as issues; central two leaves pulled away from staples.
£18.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11407
ALPHABET: An ABC of Toys.
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London: Nelson n.d. [1926]. Illustrated by Phyl. E. Webb. 4to, 16-pages illustrated throughout in colour. 4to, original coloured pictorial boards; backstrip and corners rubbed, small chip from headband. Generally good. With a later (1940) Wykeham House School, Fareham, prize label awarding this volume adhered to inside of front cover. £35.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7531
ALPHABET: Bible Picture Alphabet.
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London: T. Nelson & Sons, n.d. circa 1887. 24 coloured illustrations on 4 plates. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches), original coloured pictorial upper wrapper. Lacking lower wrapper, backstrip now handstitched, some foxing and browning. £35.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11409
ANDERSEN, HANS: The White Swans and Other Tales. Illustrated by Alice Havers.
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London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, circa 1887. Full-page coloured plates and sepia illustrations in the text. Oblong 8vo (9 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches), 48-pages. Original cloth-backed pictorial glazed boards gilt. Corners rubbed, inner joints cracked. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1887 on front free endpaper. £40.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11615
ANON: The Grandfather's Christmas Tale by the author of Verses for Children.
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London: Joseph Masters, 1853. Frontispiece with tissue guard. 12mo (5 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches), 16-pages. Original printed blue wrappers with woodcut border; an exceptional copy. Rare in any state; only one recorded on Copac (Lambeth Palace Library). £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15263
ANON: Motherly Ann and Treacherous Tommy, the Sad Story of a Soda-Water Bottle.
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No publisher, circa 1910. A six fold Christmas card illustrated with 9 captioned illustrations in red and black; with handwritten inscription; very good. £12.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No.13944
ANON: The Boys' and Girls' Book of Story and Tale.
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London: Strahan, 1881. Frontispiece and illustrations. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2), 376-pages. Original brown cloth decoratively blocked in black and gilt, all edges gilt. Headband and corners worn but generally a very good bright copy. Inscription on verso of half-title, smudge on title, some foxing. £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12018
ANON: The History of Switzerland [Designed for Young Persons] from the Conquests of Caesar to the Abdication of Buonaparte.
London: Harvey and Darton, 1825. Engraved frontispiece and extra engraved title. Small 8vo (7 x 4 1/4 inches), 316-pages. Original roan backed engraved pictorial boards. Boards dusty, headbands rubbed, lower cover marked. Lacking the folding map.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11063
ANON: The Wonderful History of Dame Trot and Her Pig. With illustrations by C.A.B.
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1883. Coloured pictorial title and 23 coloured plates. 4to, original cloth-backed boards; now lacking the backstrip, boards soiled, all plates loose. Short edge tear to one plate otherwise all in good order. The preface states that this work "was written and illustrated some half century ago". The date 1826 is printed on the cover. £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 6079
ANON: Two Little Stories "A Gipsy Day" and "Little Mother Margery". Told by V.H.F. Illustrated by I.M.J.
London: C. W. Faulkner, n.d. ca. 1920. Coloured illustrations. Tall 8vo (11 x 6 3/4 inches), 10-pages. Original printed wrappers with coloured illustration mounted to upper wrapper as issued.. Lower fore-corner of upper wrapper torn away. Binding creased and dusty, centre leaves detached from rusted binding staples.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11070
ANON: The Two Sisters; or, Ellen and Sophia. By the Author of Little Henry and his Bearers, Mary Anne etc.
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London: Religious Tract Society, 1831 Engraved frontispiece & woodcut illustrations. 12mo, pp.108, contemporary half roan, marbled boards; some foxing. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 207
ARTHUR, T.S: The Child's Own Story Book.
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London: Knight & Son, ca. 1855. Woodcut illustrations. 12mo, pp.vi:244, original blindstamped green cloth, spine pictorially blocked in gilt, a.e.g. - an exceptional copy. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 256
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BAYLEY, F.W.N; SMITH, ALBERT: Comic Nursery Tales: Blue Beard. With illustrations Humorous and Numerous.[bound with] Beauty and the Beast by Albert Smith. Illustrations by Alfred Crowquill. [bound with] Robinson Crusoe, with thirty illustrations.
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| London: Wm. S. Orr, 1844. General title "Comic Nursery Tales" listing all three works, printed in colours. Three works in one each with individual title-page, printed in colours, and separate pagination, each illustrated with plates on tinted backgrounds with tissue guards; the title-page of the second work with hand-coloured vignette. Small 8vo, pp.46:51:39, original elaborately decorated boards printed in red, blue and gold, all edges gilt; one and a half inch piece chipped from base of spine, headband chipped, boards rubbed. Decoratively printed endpapers in colours. |
The illustrations engraved on wood by Henry Vizetelly. The front board states that the illustrations are by Cham, Alfred Crowquill, & Leech. The separate title page to "Blue Beard" states Second Edition. Very rare.
£200.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 3744
BEARD, LINA & BEARD, ADELIA B: Indoor and Outdoor Handicraft and Recreation for Girls.
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London: George Newnes, 1904. Pictorial title, numerous illustrations throughout. 8vo,pp. xii:357, original pictorial blue cloth, all edges gilt. Binding dulled and a little edge rubbed, half-title edge chipped and smudged, some thumbing . Inner joints cracked here and there but firm. |
A Toy Colonial Kitchen, Hallowe'en Revels,Finger Plays,Open-Air playhouses, An Indian Encampment, Modelling in Tissue-paper, etc. etc.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10479
BENNETT, C.H; DOYLE, RICHARD; LEAR, EDWARD; UPTON, BERTHA & FLORENCE & Others (see below): The complete set of 35 facsimile editions of English illustrated children's books from the Osborne Collection, as under. Including: Goody Two Shoes, Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, In Fairyland, A Book of Nonsense, Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls.
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London: The Bodley Head, 1981. The complete set of 35 facsimile editions of English illustrated children's books from the Osborne Collectiion, Toronto Public Library. These beautifully produced facsimiles bound in either cloth, boards, or wrappers, each contained in the original slipcase; some of the slighter works share a slipcase as issued. Sizes 12mo to folio. Extremely fine in every respect. Thirty-five volumes, as under. Together with the companion volume, "English Illustrated Books for Children. A Descriptive Companion to a Selection from the Osborne Collection. Edited by Margaret Crawford Maloney, Toronto Public Library" - " .... the selections chosen for this series of reproductions from the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books reflect important landmarks and representative styles that have advanced the technique and quality of illustrative art". |
The 35 titles are: Orbis Sensualium by J.A. Comenius (1777); Goody Two Shoes (1766); A New Years Gift for Little Masters & Misses. Illustrated by Bewick (1777); The Birth-day Gift or the Joy of a New Doll by E.B. Upton (1796); The Death and Burial of Cock Robin (1806); The Moving Adventures of Old Dame Trot and Her Comical Cat (1807); The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feats by William Roscoe, Illustrated by Mulready (1807); The Peacock 'At Home' by C.A.T. Dorset, Illustrated by Mulready (1808); The Mansion of Bliss, a New Game for the Amusement of Youth by T. Newton (1810); Diamonds and Toads or Humilty Rewarded, and Pride Punished (ca. 1810); Scripture Histories; from the Creation of the World, to the Death of Jesus Christ (ca. 1825); Jack and Jill, and Old Dame Gill (ca. 1830); A Visit to the Bazaar (1818); The Ocean and its Inhabitants, with their uses to Man (1844); The Traditional Faery Tales of Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast & Jack and the Beanstalk. Illustrated by Thomas Webster (1845); The Gallant History of Bevis of Southampton. Illustrated by Frederick Tayler (1845); A Mournfull Ditty on the Death of Fair Rosamond. Illustrated by John Absolon (1845); The Sweet and Pleasant History of Patient Grissel. Illustrated by John Franklin (1845); Hop-O'My-Thumb and the Seven-League Boots by George Cruikshank (1853); Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties by C.H. Bennett (1858); The New Picture Book being Pictorial Lessons ... for Children under Seven Years of Age by Nicholas Bohny (1858); The Dog's Dinner Party (ca. 1870); In Fairy Land, a Series of Pictures from the Elf World by Richard Doyle (1870); Sing-Song by C.G. Rossetti, Illustrated by Arthur Hughes (1872); The Alphabet of Old Friends by Walter Crane (1875); Puss in Boots by Walter Crane (1897); A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear (1875); Under the Window by Kate Greenaway (1878); Kate Greenaway's Calendar (1884); Cinderella with Five Set Scenes and Nine Trick Changes (ca. 1880); The Diverting History of John Gilpin by William Cowper, Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott (1878); The Babes in the Wood by Randolph Caldecott (1879); The Nursery 'Alice' by C.L. Dodgson, Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel (1889); The Baby's Own Aesop by Walter Crane (1887); The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls by B.H. Upton, Illustrated by F.K. Upon (1895).
£800.00
Enquire - please quote Item No.11392
BERQUIN [ARNAUD]: L'Ami des Enfants. Nouvelle edition tres-complete.
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Paris: Didier, 1849. Two volumes. Engraves frontispieces, title vignettes, and plates. 8vo (7 x 4 3/4 inches), pages: 404 & 358, contemporary green binder's cloth. Light foxing to prelims. else very good.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17040
BERQUIN, M. [ARNAUD]: Le Petit Grandisson. Traduction Libre du Hollandois.
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London: Vernor, Hood (& others), 1810. Engraved frontispiece and plates. 6mo (5 5/8 x 3 /1/2 inches), 251-pages, contemporary unlettered marbled tan calf, spine gilt ruled. Some rubbing to spine and corners, some foxing to the plates; upper hinge cracked and board held on cords. 1817 prize presentation inscription to a Miss Bartholomew for "uniform good conduct" on front free endpaper. £35.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16560
BESTALL, ALFRED: More Adventures of Rupert.
London: Daily Express, 1986. Limited edition (Number 2728) facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1937. Illustrations in red & black throughout. 4to, pp.123, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Corners a trifle bumped but generally a fine copy and free from inscriptions.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 6273
BESTALL, ALFRED [Illustrator]: Rupert Annual 1944 - Rupert in More Adventures.
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London: Daily Express [1944]. 4to (9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches), softback. Original coloured pictorial light card wrappers. Headband pulled back, 2-inch split to upper joint at base, joints and corners with rubbing, crease to lower wrapper. Internally excellent and not price clipped. "This book belongs to" panel filled out in pencil. Generally an extremely good copy. £200.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11623
BESTALL, ALFRED: Rupert Annual 1949: Rupert.
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London: Daily Express, 1949. 4to (9 1/2 x 7 inches), 120-pages. Coloured illustrations throughout. Original coloured pictorial wrappers. 1 1/2 inch of backstrip at base lifting and creased (could be re-laid), some edge rubbing but generally sound. The "This book belongs to" page filled-in (in pencil), this leaf with some marking and soiling otherwise internally very good. £40.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14916
BINGHAM, CLIFTON: The Wangleboo Book. With Pictures by John Hassall. In "the Langham Series for Children".
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London: Siegle, Hill & Co. n.d. ca. 1905. Coloured pictorial title and 28 coloured plates. Oblong 12mo, pp.61:(1, coloured pictorial advertisement for No. 2 in the Langham series "the True Story of William"), original boards lettered in red and black and with applied coloured illustration, as issued. Contemporary gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper. A very good copy. Rare. £70.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10273
BIRN BROS. (Publishers): The A.B.C. Book.
London: Birn Brothers, c. 1950's. Two colour illustrations throughout. 4to (10 x 7 1/2 inches), 92-pages. Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial glazed boards, endpapers tanned else very good. Gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17721
BLANCHARD, AMY E: My Own Dolly. With Original Illustrations in Colour by Ida Waugh.
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New York: E.P. Dutton & London: Griffith & Farran, n.d. circa 1880's. Chromolitho. frontispiece, pictorial title and plates. Square 8vo, pp.64, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Binding dusty, corners bumped, edge-rubbed, marginal tear to one leaf of text with some loss but not affecting text. £35.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 5217
BLYTON, ENID: The Adventurous Four.
London: George Newnes, 1958. Seventh edition. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 192-pages, original red cloth; very good in slightly edge rubbed dust jacket. Foxing to edge of text block. The jacket not price clipped.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17718
BLYTON, ENID: The Queen Elizabeth Family & The Saucy Jane Family, two 50-page stories contained, with other material in 2 issues of "Little Dots Playways Annual"London:
London: D.P.A. 1950's. Two volumes small 4to (8 1/2 x 7 inches), each 160-pages. Coloured plates, illustrations. Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards, both with very clean backstrips. The "Saucy" volume edge rubbed and with a number of the illustrations coloured-in with crayons, quite well. The "Elizabeth" volume very good indeed; the Christmas tree plate has had ornaments attached as per instructions.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17717
BLYTON, ENID: Five Fall into Adventure.
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951. First edition, 2nd impression. Illustrations. 8vo, original cloth; damp mark on lower margin of upper cover else good in edge chipped price clipped dust jacket. £10.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17111
BLYTON, ENID: Five Go to Smuggler's Top.
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951. First edition, 5th impression. Illustrations. 8vo, original cloth;good in edge chipped dust jacket which has a few short splits. Gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper. £35.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17113
BOUILLY, J. N: Contes afferts aux Enfants de France. Les Jeunes Eleves.
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Paris: Louis Janet, c. 1840. Frontispiee, title vignette and plates. 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches), 384-pages, contemporary fine grain green binder's cloth. Frontispiece with contemporary hand-colouring. Very good.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17041
BOWEN, R. SIDNEY: Dave Dawson in Libya.
London: Hutchinson [The War Adventure Series] n.d. Coloured frontispiece. 8vo, original red cloth, corners bumped, lean to spine else good. In the poor torn and creased dustwrapper with loss.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14145
BRUCE, CHARLES: Little Katie a Fairy Story.
Edinburgh: W.P. Nimmo, n.d. ca. 1912. Frontispiece, illustrations. Small 8vo, pp.98, original green cloth pictorially blocked in colours. Small splash mark to spine, corners a little bumped but generally an attractive copy. Prize label dated 1914 on front pastedown.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10241
BUCKERIDGE, ANTHONY: Jennings and Darbishire.
London: Collins, 1954. "First Printed in this Edition". Coloured frontispiece. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), 256-pages, original red cloth. Tanning to endpapers, some foxing to prelims. else excellent in very good dust jacket. The jacket is not clipped.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17724
BUCKERIDGE, ANTHONY: Jennings Diary.
London: Collins, 1954. 1st Reprint. Coloured frontispiece. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), 253-pages, original plum cloth. Tanning to endpapers else excellent in very good dust jacket which has approx. a 1/4 sq.inch loss at base of lower joint. The jacket is not clipped.
£22.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17723
BUCKERIDGE, ANTHONY: Jennings follows a Clue.
London: Collins, 1953. "First Printed in this Edition". Coloured frontispiece. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), 255-pages, original red cloth dust jacket. Some foxing and tanning to prelims. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Dust jacket foxed internally otherwise good. The jacket is not clipped.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17727
BUCKERIDGE, ANTHONY: Jennings goes to School.
London: Collins, 1954. "First Reprint of this Edition". Coloured frontispiece. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), 255-pages, original plum cloth. Tanning to endpapers, else excellent in very good price clipped dust jacket which has slight edge wear.
£22.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17725
BUCKERIDGE, ANTHONY: Jennings' Little Hut.
London: Collins, 1956. Reprint. Coloured frontispiece. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), 255-pages, original red cloth. Tanning to endpapers else excellent in very good dust jacket which has only very slight edge wear. The jacket is not clipped. £15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17722
MAIN, NEVILLE: Jimmy at the Seaside. In the "Mary Mouse" series.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, c. 1950's. Illustrations in red & black. Oblong 16mo (6 x 2 3/4), 62-pages, original coloured pictorial flexible cloth; very good.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17715
BUCKERIDGE, ANTHONY: Our Friend Jennings.
London: Collins, 1957. Reprint. Coloured frontispiece. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), 256-pages, original plum cloth, very good in very good dust jacket which is very slightly edge rubbed. Some tanning to endpapers. The jacket is not clipped.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17730
BUCKERIDGE, ANTHONY: Take Jennings, for Instance. Illustrated by Mays.
London: Collins, 1958. First edition. Coloured frontispiece. 8vo (8 x 51/4 inches), 256-pages, original plum cloth in dust jacket which is very good apart from slight edge rubbing. The jacket is not price clipped.
£40.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17729
BUCKERIDGE, ANTHONY: Thanks to Jennings.
London: Collins, 1957. "First Printed in this Edition". Coloured frontispiece. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), 255-pages, original plum cloth in dust jacket. Some foxing and tanning to prelims. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Dust jacket foxed internally otherwise good. The jacket is not clipped.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17728
BURNE-JONES, EDWARD: The Beginning of the World. Twenty-five Pictures by Edward Burne-Jones.
London: Longmans, Green, 1902. Folio (12 1/4 x 9 inches), 23-pages. Original linen backed printed boards, uncut. Slight warp to binding, paper to upper board very slightly "bubbled" in a few places but generally good
£85.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11036
BYRON, MAY & PARKINSON, ETHEL: Sambo and Susanna.
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London: Blackie & Son, circa 1905. 24 full-page coloured plates with facing verse, printed on frenchfold paper. Oblong folio (11 x 8 3/4 inches), original green cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Cloth mottled, corners rubbed, some dust marking to the boards. Inner joints split, some light foxing. 1912 gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Overall good.
£175.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14432
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CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH: Come Lasses and Lads.
London: Frederich Warne, circa 1910. 6 coloured plates, illustrations in line. 4to (8 x 9 1/4 inches), 22-pages. Original coloured pictorial boards; very good indeed.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12813
CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH: The Great Panjandrum Himself.
London: Frederich Warne, circa 1910. 6 coloured plates, illustrations in line. 4to (8 x 9 1/4 inches), 22-pages. Original coloured pictorial boards; very good indeed.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12814
CASSELL & COMPANY (Publishers): All Sorts of Adventures. Tenth Thousand.
London: Cassell, n.d. but 1888. Frontispiece and full page illustrations. Small 4to, pp.80: (16, advertisements), original blue cloth pictorially blocked with flowers, leaves, and bees in pale blue, green & gilt. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 9586
CHAPIN, ANNA ALICE: The Everyday Fairy Book. With illustrations in colour by Jessie Willcox Smith.
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London: J. Coker, n.d. circa 1929. 7 coloured plates. 4to (11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches), 160-pages, original blue cloth backed pictorial boards. Backstrip faded and spotted, some chipping to upper cover and fading to rear. Xmas 1929 gift inscription on front free ndpaper £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14349
CHATTERTON, E. KEBLE: Daring Deeds of Sea Rovers. An account of the stirring adventures of sea rovers from the times of the Phoenicians, Egyptians & Vikings, through the Elizabethan & all other eras of maritime roving down to the present day.
London: Seeley, Service, 1930. Coloured frontispiece, b&w plates. 8vo (8 1/4 x 6 inches), 258-pages. Original pictorial cloth; edge of text block foxed and browned, the binding excellent in the edge worn dust jacket, which has a tear and crease to lowerr panel; rare in jacket.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16879
COX, PALMER: The Brownies at Home.
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London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. First English edition. Illustrations throughout. 4to, pp.xi:(1):144, original pale green cloth pictorially blocked in brown, orange, & black, all edges gilt. Tear through one leaf without loss, front free endpaper removed, upper inner joint split (held on cords), Some thumbing or dustmarking, lower cover marked. The binding is generally very fresh and bright. £50.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10227
COX, PALMER: The Brownies Abroad
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London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. First English edition. Illustrations throughout. 4to (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), 144-pages. Original red cloth pictorially blocked in black. Corners bumped, some splash marks to upper cover but overall a very good copy. The "Presented To" leaf not filled-in. £65.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13305
COX, PALMER: The Brownies at Home.
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London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. First English edition. Illustrations throughout, some full-page. 4to (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), 144-pages. Original bevelled pink cloth pictorially blocked in black & brown. Headbands bumped, corners rubbed, foxing to endpapers but overall a very nice bright copy. The "Presented To" leaf not filled-in. £75.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13301
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DAILY EXPRESS [Publishers]: The Children's Hour. Stories, Jigsaws, and Painting.
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London: Daily Express Publications, 1935. Coloured plates, illustrations. Small folio, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Three of the plain plates have been coloured in (as they were meant to be). With two jigsaw puzzles inserted inside front and rear covers, one showing a fairground scene, the other a scene at the zoo; both puzzles complete. Binding a little edge-rubbed. Contemporary inscription on front fly, front endpaper cockled. A rare title especially with the two jigsaws present and complete.
£38.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 9403
DAVIS, ELLEN LOUISA: Asceline's Ladder.
London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. circa 1890's. Frontispiece. 8vo, pp. 288 plus advertisements, original green cloth blocked in colours. Gutter cracked between pages 48 & 49 else a very good copy. School prize label on front free endpaper.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7137
DEAN & SON (Publishers): The World's Fair, or Children's Prize Gift Book of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Describing the Beautiful Inventions and Manufactures exhibited therein; with Pretty Stories about the People who have made and sent them; How they Live when at Home.
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London: Thomas Dean & Son and Ackermann [1851]. Hand-coloured frontispiece and hand-coloured extra engraved pictorial title as issued. Woodcut illustrations in the text throughout. Small 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), 106-pages plus 21-page publisher's catalogue at end. Original blue fine ribbed cloth, the upper cover elaborately blocked in gilt, all edges gilt. Headbands bruised, slight lean to spine, some rubbing to corners, paper to upper inner hinge cracked but held on cords. Free from inscriptions. Overall a very nice copy indeed of this very rare work.
£350.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16658
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DEAN & SON [Publishers): All Aboard.
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London: Dean & Son, n.d. circa 1920. Two coloured plates, black & white illustrations. 4to (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches), original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. No title-page, issued as such. The front endpapers are a coloured advertisement for Ovaltine. Bright. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11434
DISNEY, WALT: Mickey Mouse Annual. Still Sailing Merrily On.
London: Dean and Son [1938]. Coloured frontispiece "Goof's Resterong Car", black & white illustrations throughout. 4to, original coloured pictorial boards; short split to headband, joints and corners rubbed but generally very good. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1938 on endpaper.
£75.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 8850
DUFRESNE, ABEL: Contes a Henri et a Henriette.
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Paris: Lehuby, n.d. 8 coloured lithographic plates. 8vo, pp.v:220, original elaborately embossed green cloth, the upper cover blocked in gold and colours. Headband chipped, light damp-mark to upper edges of most leaves. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 4350
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EMANUEL, WALTER: Never! Being some Manners for the Multitude. Illustrated by John Hassall.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman, n.d. [1907]. First edition. Plates. Narrow 8vo, pp. 108:(4, adverts.), original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black after Hassall. Backstrip chipped, upper wrapper detached and worn on lower margin.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10231
EWING, JULIANA HORATIA: Tongues in Trees. Depicted by R. Andre. Containing 1: Boy & Squirrel, 2: The Willow Man.
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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d. [1884]. First edition. Chromolitho. illustrations throughout.. Oblomg 8vo (7 x 6 inches), 32-pages. Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Boards edge-rubbed; overall very good. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16278
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FARROW, G.E: The Escape of the Mullingong, A Zoological Nightmare. With fifty-eight illustrations by Gordon Browne.
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London: Blackie, 1907. First edition. Frontispiece and title within decorative green borders. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 148-pages plus publisher's catalogue at end. Original blue cloth pictorially blocked in gilt; patches of colour loss to upper cover, the gilt bright although a little dulled on backstrip, some foxing to prelims. With a printed summary of the story loosely inserted from which we learn that she is invited to the Zoological Gardens to meet "the distinguished visitor from Australia, Mr. Mullingong". £32.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15763
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GEE, H/ L: The Twins on Holiday. Pictured by Olive F. Openshaw. In the "Mary Mouse" series.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, c. 1950's. Illustrations in red & black. Oblong 16mo (6 x 2 3/4), 62-pages, original coloured pictorial boards; very good.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17716
GREENAWAY, KATE: Kate Greenaway's Book of Games.
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London: George Routledge, n.d. c. 1880. First edition. 24-coloured plates. 4to (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches), 64-pages. Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards; binding scuffed and edge rubbed, some paper loss on lower fore-edge of boarder on upper cover. Internally front free endpaper removed, joints cracked and stitching broken, the plates in good order. Single name in ink on half title.
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16282
GROSS, MRS. ALEXANDER: Mothers's Darling A Book of Verse, Pictures by Miss E. Dorothy Rees.
London: Geographia, n.d. circa 1920's. Coloured plates. Oblong 12mo (6 x 4 1/2 inches), oroginal boards with coloured pictorial title label as issued. Wire-stitched, text block now detached from binding. Boards dusty and a little marked.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11417
GUY, JOHN: A Catechism of the History of England. by John Guy, author of 'Geography for children', 'The analytical spelling book and expositor', 'The London spelling book', 'Lindley Murray simplified', 'Stepping stone to grammar', and 'Mother's own catechism'.
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London: T.J. Allman, n.d. but 1868. "Improved Edition". Frontispiece. and plates. 12mo (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches), 72-pages. Original cloth-backed engraved pictorial boards; boards dusty and creased. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13959
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HALF HOUR LIBRARY FOR YOUNG READERS SERIES: Half Hours in Air and Sky, Marvels of the Universe.
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London: James Nisbet, 1896. Plates & illustrations. 8vo (7 x 5 inches), 372-pages. Contemporary full crimson prize calf, gilt rules to sides enclosing gilt school arms. Spine gilt in compartments with lettering piece. All edges marbled. Spine gilt a trifle dulled, overall good. £24.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17448
HALL, MRS S.C. [Editor]: The Juvenile Forget Me Not for the Year 1831.
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London: Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, 1831. Engraved plates with tissue-guards. 8vo, pp.viii:224:[4, advertisements], original ornately and decoratively embossed calf, a.e.g.; corners and headbands bumped and extremely rubbed; binding edge-rubbed and with loss of surface to a narrow strip on upper cover; stitching broken to two sections, text case almost detached from binding at front; almost half front free-endpaper removed; rear end-paper removed; ink ownership signature on front-pastedown; some foxing; plates with faint stains to borders. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7355
HARRIS, JOHN [Publisher]: The Literary Box: containing the Contributions of the Evelyn Family, consisting of Instructing and Amusing Tales, in Prose and Verse, Suited to All Ages. By the Author of "The Welcome Visitor".
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London: John Harris, 1824. Engraved frontispiece and five plates (each with two illustrations). 8vo, pp.90:(2, advertisements), contemporary full diced tan calf, narrow decorative gilt border to sides, spine gilt with lettering piece. Joints rubbed, tear to blank margin of one leaf, some foxing and spotting. Contemporary inscription on front fly. Generally a pleasant copy.
£145.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 9585
HARRISON, C. & HAMER, S.H: Master Charlie, Painter, Poet, Novelist, and Teacher, with numerous examples of his Work.
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London: Cassell, 1899. First edition. Tinted plates incorporating text throughout. 4to, pp.67:(4, adverts.), original red cloth pictorially blocked in black & yellow. Stitching slack else very good. "I have indevored to combine amusement with instrucktion" (sic). £14.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 5440
HASSALL, JOHN: Our Diary, or Teddy and Me. Illustrated by John Hassall. In the "Bumper Colour Books" series.
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London: Thomas Nelson, n.d. Coloured plates by John Hassall. Small 8vo, pp.96, original two-tone cloth pictorially blocked in black. Title a little spoted, presentation label dated 1940 on front pastedown. The binding exceptionally clean and bright. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10264
HASSALL, JOHN [Illustrator]: My very first little book about other Countries.
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. ca. 1932. Coloured plates by John Hassall. Square 8vo, unpaginated. original cloth with coloured pictorial onlay as issued. Text block partly loose and held on cords. The "To" panel on front pastedown has been filled in and dated 1932. The binding generally very good and bright.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10284
HAYDON, A.L. [Editor]: Empire Annual for Boys. Volume 16.
London: R.T.S. c. 1924. Coloured plates; the Perpetual Calendar coloured-in. 4to (10 x 7 1/4 inches), 255-pages. Original coloured pictorial cloth-backed boards. Split to last leaf without loss. Very good. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17720
HELME, ELEANOR E: The Book of Birds and Beasties. With reproductions of the paintngs of Barbara Briggs.
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London: Religious Tract Society, [ 1929 ]. First edition. 44 coloured plates mounted on heavy stock. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches), 112-pages. Original green cloth, marking to lower cover else good. Presentation inscription to an 11 year old girl on passing her first elocution exam in 1930 on front free endpaper. Bottom of text block soiled. Very heavy, extra postage will be requested. £45.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17028
HENTY, G.A: An Indian Raid. From "Redskin and Cowboy".
London: Blackie, n.d. circa 1925. Frontispiece. Small 8vo, pp.88, original decorated cloth; a good copy. Prize label dated 1927 on front free endpaper.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10263
HENTY, G.A; STANLEY, H.M. & others: Boys Illustrated Annual. Volume 1.
Sampson Low, Marston n.d. [1893]. Chromolitho frontispiece and plates, other plates and illustrations. 4to, pp.832, original pictorial red cloth blocked in colours. Professionally rebacked retaining the original backstrip. A few margins strengthend. Frontispiece foxed, title with crease. Price and "Henty" inscribed in ink by buffoon on front free endpaper. Text age toned. With serials by G.A. Henty "The Golden Canon", George Manville Fenn, Henry M. Stanley & others.
£60.00
Enquire - please quote Item No.10306
HERGE, pseud. of Georges Remi: The Adventures of Tintin : The Seven Crystal Balls.
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London: Methuen, 1962. First English edition. Coloured cartoon strips throughout. Folio (12 x 9 inches), 62-pages, original cloth-backed coloured pctorial boards; boards a little edge rubbed and else very good. £48.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16605
HERGE, pseud. of Georges Remi: The Adventures of Tintin : The Shooting Star.
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London: Methuen, 1961. First English edition. Coloured cartoon strips throughout. Folio (12 x 9 inches), 62-pages, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards; boards edge and corner rubbed, split to cloth of spine, signature on front pastedown else very good. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16606
HIGGS, MIKE [Editor]: The Eighth Deluxe Collector's Edition of Dan Dare Pilot of the Future. The Phantom Fleet.
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London: Hawk Books, 1993. First edition. Illustrated in colour. Folio, original glazed boards; some slight chips to leading edge of back cover; in all other respects, excellent. £45.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7458
HOFLAND, MRS: The Sisters, a Domestic Tale.
London: for A.K. Newman, 1828. New & Corrected Edition. Engraved frontispiece and extra title. 12mo, pp.180, contemporary quarter crimson roan, marbled boards; headband chipped, some rubbing. Inscribed, "Lady M. Coventry" on front pastedown.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 6826
HURST, JUNE: A set of 7 “Finger puppet books to read and colour” , comprising: Meet Digger; Fly Speckle Fly; A House for a Mouse; Fingal goes Home; Carry on Clementina; Sidney the Self-Sufficient Spider; & Wake Up Prickle.
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Radlett, Herts: Follow Your Finger Books, ca. late 1970's or early 1980's. 7 volumes, 8vo, original printed wrappers. Each with a removable cloth finger puppet protruding through a hole in the upper cover, as issued. Some marking to one cover else as new, uncoloured and as new. £35.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 3528
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JOYCE, J: Scientific Dialogues, intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People.....Vol. VI. of Electricity and Galvanism. New edition, Corrected and Improved.
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London: for J. Johnson, 1807. 2 engraved plates. 12mo (5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches) 222-pages plus unpaginated index. Contemporary full tan calf with burgundy lettering piece; extremities rubbed, prelims. foxed, front flyleaf (or half title?) removed.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16629
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KAYE, ALBERT [Illustrator]: Jolly Alphabets and Puzzles.
London: Blackie, n.d. circa 1938. Coloured plates. Illustrations in black & orange. 4to (10 x 8 inches), original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards; one "Maze" puzzle used (pencil & crayon) else good. Name and date (1938) on front pastedown.
£18.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12463
KENYON, E.C: Jemmy Lawson: or the Story of a Village-Boy.
London: S. W. Partridge, n.d. circa 1880. Frontispiece with tissue guard. 8vo (7 x 4 3/4 inches), original brown cloth pictorially blocked in brown and gilt; rubbed, inscription dated 1884 on front free endpaper.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12957
KINGSTON, W.H.G: Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d. ca. 1892. Illustrations throughout. Small 4to, pp. 288, original cloth-backed pictorial boards. A very poor copy, binding loose, stained, broken & chipped. Text block detached, title page detached and with marginal loss, some thumbing and dust marking. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper.
£18.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10232
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LE MAIR, H. WILLEBEEK: Grannie's Little Rhyme Book. No. 1 of Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by H. Willebeek Le Mair.
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London: Augener Ltd, n.d. Illustrated in colour, one illustration per page within a floriate border, text in similar border opposite. Oblong 8vo (4 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), pp.28, original pictorial boards; binding edge-rubbed; neat ink name on f.f.e.; in all other respects, extremely good. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7345
LEIGHTON, ROBERT: Gipsy Kit or the Man with the Tattooed Face. With six illustrations.
London: S. W. Partridge, n.d. ca. 1910. Small 8vo, pp. 128:(32, publisher's list), original grey green cloth pictorially blocked in black and blue; joint cracked between frontispiece and title, text age toned, gilt to spine dulled, else good. Prize label dated 1912 on front free endpaper.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10271
LENSKI, LOIS: The Baby Car.
Oxford University Press, 1937. First edition. Lithographic plates, some in black & red. Square 8vo (7 x 7 inches), unpaginated. Original pictorial boards in red, white, & blue. Near contemporary name and date on verso of title. Rubbing to corners and joints, some light spotting to binding, scuff to upper cover. "and Mr. Small" added in ink to upper margin of front cover. Generally good. Being the adventures of Mr. Small and his Baby Car.
£40.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12456
LENSKI, LOIS: The Little Sailing Boat.
Oxford University Press, 1938. First edition. Lithographic plates, some on blue backgrounds. Square 8vo (7 x 7 inches), unpaginated. Original pictorial boards in black, white, & blue. Near contemporary gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Rubbing to corners and joints, some light spotting to binding. Generally good. Being the adventures of Mr. Small or in this case Captain Small.
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12455
LETTS, WINIFRED M: The Gentle Mountain. Illustrations by Kathleen Verschoyle.
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Dublin: The Talbot Press,1938. Firstedition. Black & white illustrations. 8vo, pp.141, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper browned on spine, with short tears to top of spine and chips to top corners; internally very good. £35.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 9981
LOCKYER, A.M. (Illustrator) BOARE, G. (Pseud): What became of Them? The Conceited little Pig by G. Boare.
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London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, circa 1885. Illustrations throughout. Oblong 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 16-pages. Original pictorial card wrappers, stitched as issued. Very good. £36.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13249
LUND, HARALD H: Cirkus. Helsidestegninger af Erik Stockmarr, Vignetter af Eiler Kragh.
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Kobenhavn: C. A. Reitzels, 1936. First edition. 10 Wonderful full page coloured plates and 15 vignettes, some coloured. Folio (12 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches), 26-pages, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. A little corner rubbing but overall a truly lovely copy of this very rare work.
£200.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17464
LUND, HARALD H: Toget Den Sjove Bog. Med tegninger af Arne Ungermann.
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Kobenhavn: Reitzels [ 1936 ]. First edition. Coloured pictorial title, 10 delightful full-page plates and coloured tail piece by Ungerman, with b & w facing illustrations incorporating verse. Folio (12 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), 24-pages. Original cloth backed coloured pictorial boards. Light rubbing to edges of boards, headband bumped. Short gift inscription at head of title dated Berlin, 1936. Overall very good. The last splendid plate depicts the locomotive passing over the then newly built Little Belt bridge.
£100.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17466
LUND, HARALD H. & PETERSEN, R. STORM: Ping's Naturhistorie.
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Kobenhavn: Wilhelm Hansen, 1934. First edition. 13 delightful full page coloured plates and 12 half-page coloured illustrations. Folio (12 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches), 26-pages. Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Childish crayon scribble to plain lower board, contemporary small name stamp on front pastedown, rubbing to headband, a little light rubbing to corners but overall an excellent copy of this rare and charming work.
£75.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17465
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MITFORD MARY R: Anna Fitzgerald; or, The Three Half-Crowns. 14966
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London: Warne, n.d. ca. 1890's. Frontispiece and illustrations. Small 8vo, original decorated red cloth blocked in colours; inner joints cracked else a good copy. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7136
MOLESWORTH, MRS. [MARY LOUISA]: Carrots: Just a Little Boy. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
London: Macmillan, 1929. Reprint. Deluxe issue. 8vo, pp. 241, publisher's full burgundy calf, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt; top edge gilt; bound-in silk bookmark. A superlative copy. Free from inscriptions.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No.5189
MOLESWORTH, MRS. [MARY LOUISA]: Grandmother Dear. A Book for Boys and Girls. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
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London: Macmillann, 1920. Reprint. Deluxe issue. 8vo, pp. viii:(1):262, publisher's full burgundy calf, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt; top edge gilt; bound-in silk bookmark. A superlative copy. Free from inscriptions. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 9517
MOLESWORTH, MRS. [MARY LOUISA]: Tell Me a Story.
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London: Macmillan, 1920. Illustrations. Reprint. Deluxe issue. 8vo, pp. 196, publisher's full burgundy calf, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt; top edge gilt; bound-in silk bookmark. Very slight rubbing at head of spine else a beautiful copy. Free from inscriptions. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 9520
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NESBIT, E: The Story of the Treasure Seekers. Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of Fortune. With Pictures by Gordon Browne & Lewis Baumer. Presentation Copy.
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London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. First edition. Frontispiece and plates. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches), pages: xii:296:(2):(10, publisher's advertisements). Original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt, all edges gilt. Frontispiece detached and lacking tissue-guard. Inner joints cracked but holding on webbing. Some marginal toning and light thumb marks. One leaf partly detached, cracked at 4 inner gutters, three leaves a little roughly opened on blank bottom margin. Gilt to spine dulled, a few small nicks to headbands, fore-corners rubbed through. |
| A splendid presentation copy of the first edition of this children's classic inscribed: "To Bower Marsh from E. Nesbit, Jan. 25. 1900". Bower Marsh her admirer and one time lover; Jan. 25th was his birthday. |
| * Julia Briggs in her biography of Edith Nesbit, "A Woman of Passion" (Hutchinson, 1987) writes: "Edith's friendship with Bower Marsh flourished in the early 1890s; one day she made a special train journey down to Halstead with him so that she could show him her old home and walk once again in the woods and parkland she loved so much. Nostalgic journeys of this kind were always a sign of her special affection, a sign that she was taking someone into her heart as she took him into her past. On his birthday, 25 January 1892, she gave him her latest volume of poems, the second series of Lays and Legends, and she continued to remember the occasion by giving him her books for some years ......" |
Inscribed Edith Nesbit's are exceedingly rare.
£1500.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15433
NOVELTY: Do-It cloth books – I Can Dress Myself, Can You? - My Shoelace Book.
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Random House, 1981. Printed in colour on cloth in the shape of a shoe with a real shoelace threaded through metal eyelets. New and still in the original unopened packaging and probably unique thus. £12.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 3523
NOVELTY: Do-It cloth books – I Can Dress Myself, Can You? - My Zipper Book
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Random House, 1981. Printed in colour on cloth in the shape of a jacket with a metal zip-fastener. New & still in the original unopened packaging and probably unique thus. £12.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 3522
NOVELTY: Little Traveller Train Book - Fun Land, Zoo Land, City Land. No Batteries Needed. Unique Clockwork Action. 3 Lands to Explore.
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Purnell, n.d. but late 1970's or early 1980's. Oblong 4to, original ring-bound coloured pictorial boards with clockwork train in bubble on upper cover. The train apparently designed to travel on tracks on the pages, stopping next to illustrations; still in the original shrink-wrap and unopened. The shrink wrap split else fine and as new and as such probably unique £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 3517
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PARDOE, M: Bunkle and Belinda. Illustrated by Julie Neild.
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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1948. First edition. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 215-pages. Original green cloth. Contemporary name and date on front free endpaper, endpapers browned. Some of the letters of the half-title neatley coloured in; else a very good bright copy in the original split and chipped dustwrapper. £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14011
PARRY, EDWARD ABBOTT: Butterscotia or a Cheap Trip to Fairy Land by His Honour Edward Abbott Parry. Illustrated by Archie Macgregor.
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London: David Nutt, 1896. First edition. Plates, illustrations, and folding map. 8vo, pp. 170:2:12(publisher's catalogue), original tan cloth pictorially blocked in brown. Name erased from front pastedown with surface paper loss, spine a little browned but generally a very good copy. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 5915
PARRY, JUDGE EDWARD ABBOT: Gamble Gold. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. Inscribed by author.
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London: Hutchinson, 1907. First edition. 8vo (8 x 6 inches), 248-pages. Original red cloth pictorially blocked in black & gilt, all edges gilt. Headbands bumped; overall a very bright copy. Inscribed on from free endpaper, "faithfully yours, Edward A. Parry". £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16215
PEARSON [Publisher]: The Jester's Jolly Book, for the Younger Schoolchildren.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, circa 1935. Coloured frontispiece, coloured plates, illustrations. 4to (10 x 7 3/4 inches), 142-pages. Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards; edges and corners rubbed, small piece of stamp edging adhered to backstrip, generally bright. The "This Book belongs to" line on front pastedown filled-in.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11305
PERIODICAL: The Child's Own Magazine. Sixty-ninth Annual Volume.
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London: 57 & 59 Ludgate Hill, 1902. Coloured frontispiece "The Magic Lantern", coloured portrait of Edward VII & Queen Alexandra, other illustrations. Square 8vo, pp. 148, original blue pictorial cloth blocked in colours; very good. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 5439
PERIODICAL: The Tiny Library. A Weekly Journal for the Entertainment and Instruction of Young Persons. Volume 1 (Numbers 1-15).
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London: C. Wood & Co. March 7th - May 30th 1846. Woodcut illustrations throughout. Small square 8vo, pp. 248, original blindstamped grained cloth decoratively blocked in gilt, a.e.g. ; some pale marking to the binding but generally very good.
£45.00
Enquire - please quote Item No.3377
PLETSCH, OSCAR: Gute Freundschaft. Eine Geschichte für Damen, aber für Kleine.
Leipzig: Alphons Durr, n.d. circa 1890. 24 plates. 4to (10 1/2 x 8 inches), original cloth-backed engraved boards. Corner damp-mark at end, some foxing, old inscription on title, boards stained.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13365
POTTER, BEATRIX: The Pie and the Patty-Pan.
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London: Federick Warne, c. 1907. An early edition. Coloured frontispiece & 9 coloured plates. 8vo, original brown boards with circular coloured pictorial onlay as issued. Some spotting and dust-marking, lacks half of backstrip, board edges worn. £12.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17287
POTTER, BEATRIX: The Tailor of Gloucester.
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London: Frederick Warne, 1903. First edition. Frontispiece and 26 colouredf plates. 12mo. Original grey/blue boards with inset applied coloured illustration as issued. Crease to one plate, lacks backstrip, stitching slack, lacks front free endpaper. Contemporary gift inscription on recto of frontispiece; ideal copy for cannibalization or restoration.
£125.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17284
POTTER, BEATRIX: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle.
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London: Frederick Warne, 1905. First edition, First Issue. Lacks frontispiece. 26 coloured plates. 12mo, original green boards with coloured pictorial onlay as issued. Lacks backstrip, some fading. Tiny contemporary gift inscription on half title. 1 inch tear on fore-margin of p.27 and glue marks to reverse, some adhesion to blank fore margin of p.29; ideal copy for cannibalization or restoration. The first issue point being the lack of quotes at the end of page 51. £125.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17285
POTTER, BEATRIX: The Tale of Two Bad Mice.
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London: Frederick Warne, 1904. First edition. Coloured frontispiece and 26 coloured plates. 12mo, 85-pages, original red boards with applied coloured illustration as issued. Boards detached, lacks backstrip, some fading and spotting to boards. Large piece torn from 2 plates (pages 81 & 84), 2 leaves detached. Apart from the damage to the 2 leaves contents very good; ideal copy for cannibalization or restoration. Tiny contemporary gift inscription on half title.
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17283
POYSER, ARTHUR: The Scout Song Book. A Collection of One Hundred Songs of the Open Air for Boys and Old Boys. Published with the Official Sanction of the Boy Scouts' Association
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London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1912. First edition. Tall 8vo (11 x 7 1/2 inches), 222-pages. Original blue cloth gilt. Corners and headbands bumped, light foxing to prelims. £18.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16939
PRENTISS, E: Aunt Jane's Hero and Stepping Heavenward.
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London: Routledge, n.d. 8vo, pp. 265:306:(8, adverts. dated 1891), original pictorial cloth blocked in colours. Prize label on endpaper, inner upper hinge strained else very good. £18.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 2819
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RABIER, BENJAMIN: Gedeon en Afrique.
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Paris: Garnier Freres, 1926. Coloured illustration throughout. 4to (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches), unpaginated. Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards; Lower corners and bottom edges of boards rubbed through, advertisement leaf at front creased; overall quite a good copy. £35.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15891
RABIER, BENJAMIN: Gedeon Mechano.
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Paris: Garnier Freres, 1927. Coloured illustration throughout. 4to (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches), unpaginated. Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards; corners rubbed through, some bubbling to paper of upper board, damp mark to front pastedown. Overall quite a reasonable copy. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15890
RABIER, BENJAMIN: Les Petites Miseres de la Vie des Animaux.
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Paris: Garnier, Freres, [1908]. First edition. 50 coloured plates. Oblong 4to (12 1/4 x 9 inches), original red cloth, the upper cover pictorially blocked in gilt and colours, all edges gilt. Some rubbing to headbands and corners. Front free endpaper creased. The gilt of the final "R" of Rabier rubbed, a few minor scuffs but overall this is an exceptional copy of the rare 1st edition.
£350.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16580
RANSOME, ARTHUR: Pigeon Post.
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. First edition. 8vo original green cloth; corners rubbed through, likewise headbands rubbed, white marks to binding. Prize label, signature and date on half-title. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16592
ROSCOE, Mr. [William]: The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast. A facsimile reproduction of the edition of 1808. With an Introduction by Charles Welsh.
London: Griffith & Farran, 1883. Plates. Small 4to (6 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches), pages: x:11, original engraved wrappers. Wrappers edge-chipped, margins of wrappers very browned. £18.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11414
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SAXBY, ELIZABETH M.A.F: The Old Mill House at Alvermede.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d. circa 1900. Frontispiece and plates by L. Linsdell. 8vo (7 3/8 x 5 inches), pages 159:16(publisher's list), original blue cloth pictorially blocked in black & white, spine gilt. Prize label dated 1901 on front pastedown; very bright, an excellent copy. Anon.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11608
SAYWELL, FREDERIC B: The Clever Little Tailor or Seven at a Blow. Illustrated by Herbert J. Harvey.
London: Halton & Truscot Smith, ca. 1932. First edition. 12 tipped-in coloured plates. 4to, pp. 56, original black cloth. Lean to spine. Upper inner joint pulled. Prize inscription dated 1932 on front free endpaper.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 6109
SCHOFIELD, LILY: Tom Cataous and Potiphar, a Tale of Ancient Egypt.
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London: Frederick Warne n.d. [ 1903 ]. First edition. 8vo (6 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), Frontispiece & 20-verses each with facing coloured plate. Original linen pictorially blocked in colours; yapp fore-edge to upper cover. First gathering loose else very good. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13248
SHAPED BOOK: A Pansy Wreath.
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Nuremberg: Ernest Nister, c. 1890. Chromolitho plates and facing verses: 'Birthday Pansies' , 'Birthday Forget-me-nots' etc. 4 leaves within the original chromolitho. pictorial boards, the whole die-cut to form the shape of a fan; tie-bound and wire-stitched; lower cover detached but present, else very good. £22.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 2000
SHAPED BOOK: BERTHA MAGUIRE: Moon-Beams. Illustrated by Bertha Maguire.
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London: M. H. Nathan, n.d. ca. 1880's. Coloured illustrations and verse throughout. 5 leaves plus wrappers all cut to the shape of a new moon, the upper wrapper lettered in silver, silver edges. Height 7 inches. Lower wrapper foxed and with short tear. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 7592
SHAW, JOHN F. (Publisher): Our Darlings. The Children's Treasury of Pictures and Stories.
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London: John F. Shaw, circa 1907. Title vignette by Louis Wain. Coloured & tinted plates throughout and b&w illustrations. 4to (10 x 7 1/2 inches), 336-pages, original red cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards showing 3 children outside a blacksmith's door. Light scuff to upper board, some marginal tanning within, a little marking but no fading to the spine. Overall a very nice copy. Chirstmas gift inscription dated 1908 on front free endpaper. £22.00 |
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SHAW, JOHN F. (Publisher): Our Darlings. The Children's Treasury of Pictures and Stories.
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London: John F. Shaw, circa 1903. Coloured & tinted plates throughout and b&w illustrations.4to (10 x 7 1/2 inches), 384-pages, original red cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards showing a boy on horseback delivering a parcel to a girl at a cottage. Fading to spine but overall a very nice copy indeed apart from some marking to the lower board and some marginal tanning within. The upper board very bright and clean. Short Christmas inscription dated 1903 on the reverse of the frontispiece. £20.00 |
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SHEPHERD, J.A: The Three Jovial Puppies. Rhymes by E.D. Cuming.
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London: Blackie, n.d. [ca. 1911]. First edition. Coloured pictorial title, coloured illustrations throughout . Small folio, original cloth-backed boards with coloured illustration mounted to upper cover as issued; upper inner joint tender and split at wire binding staples; corners bumped else very good. Inscription dated Xmas 1912 on front free endpaper. £75.00 |
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Sotheby & Co.: Catalogue of a Highly Important Collection of Children's Books. Parts 1 - 6 (complete). London, 1974 - 1978.
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London: Sotheby & Co. 1974. The six catalogues for the sales held 1974-1978. 84 plates & numerous illustrations. 2951 lots. Price lists bound-in. Buyer's names and prices fetched added in ink to some lots. The six catalogues bound together green buckram with burgundy gilt calf lettering pieces. Heavy, extra overseas postage will be requested. £40.00 |
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STABLES, GORDON: Born to Wander. A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures.
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London: S. W. Partridge, n.d. circa 1890. Frontispiece and illustrations. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 288-pages plus publisher's catalogue at end. Original olive pictorial cloth bloclked in gilt and silver; foxing to prelims. The binding very bright and fresh. £21.00 |
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STEWART, ELIZABETH M: Original Poetry, for Young Persons.
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London: T.Allman, c. 1850's. Engraved frontispiece. 12mo, original crimson cloth blocked in blind & gilt. Short split to upper joint; stitching slack, one gathering partly detached, some foxing or browning. £15.00 |
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SEUSS, DR: Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories.
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London: Collins, 1963. First English edition. Coloured illustrations throughout. 4to (11 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches), unpaginated. Original glazed pictorial boards; some edge rubbing but overall very good. £20.00 |
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SUNSHINE PRESS Publishers: Our Pets' Story Book.
London: The Sunshine Press, n.d. but ca. 1935. Coloured plates, black & white illustrations. 4to, original coloured pictorial boards. Text browned. An exceptional copy with only the slightest rubbing to the headbands, small puncture in backstrip, boards clean, unmarked, and bright in worn dustwrapper.
£20.00
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TAYLOR, EMILY: Historical Prints, representing some of the most Memorable Events in English History, in which the Costumes of the Times are carefully preserved.
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London: for Harvey and Darton, 1821. 96 engravings on 48 plates. 12mo (5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches). 104-pages. Contemporary quarter roan, marbled boards. Binding rubbed, backstrip chipped. Frontispiece detached, inner joints cracked, lacking front & rear free endpapers, some browning and soiling. £25.00 |
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TAYLOR, JEFFERYS: The Forest; or, Rambles in the Woodland.
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London: John Harris, 1831. First edition. Engraved frontispiece and 25 engraved plates of trees and leaves (complete) . Square 12mo, pp. 220, original glazed cloth with printed paper labels; spine labels dulled, some foxing but generally very good. A volume in the "Little Library" series
£25.00
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THE LITTLE LIBRARY: The Garden; or, Familiar Instructions For The Laying Out and Management of a Flower Garden with Illustrative Engravings on Wood and Steel.
London: John Harris, 1832. Second edition. Twelve hand-coloured engraved plates of flowers, two detached but present, and other plates. Square 12mo, pp.x:175, original half calf; corners bumped; boards and edges rubbed; headband broken and a piece missing; inner joints cracked; some light foxing, coloured plares however unaffected; armorial bookplate of Anne Cooper to front pastedown; inscription to f.f.e. Part of "The Little Library, Comprising, in a Series of Small Volumes, a Familiar Introduction to Various Branches of Useful Knowledge."
£28.00
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THORN, ISMAY [pseud. of Edith Caroline Pollock]: Spin and Podgie. What they did, what they learnt, where they went, in one day. With Illustrations by T. Pym [pseud. of Clara Creed]. Inscribed by illustrator & with her photograph.
London: Hatchards, 1886. First edition. Frontispiece & illustrations throughout. Square 8vo, pp. 47:49-64(adverts.) original pictorial cloth; binding severely damp-marked, stitching cracked on inner joint at several places. Inscribed on front free endpaper by the illustrator and with a carte-de-visite photograph of her loosely inserted
£20.00
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TONNA, C.A: Derry: A Tale of the Revolution of 1688. By Charlotte Elizabeth.
London: James Nisbet, ca. 1890's. Frontispiece. 8vo, pp.xvi:317:[3, publisher's list], original dark blue cloth pictorially blocked in black and lettered in gilt. Contemporary ink inscription to verso of front free endpaper. Bright. Anon.
£8.00
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TUCK, RAPHAEL [Publisher]: John Gilpin.
London: Raphael Tuck, n.d. ca. 1890. 6 die-cut chromolithographic plates incorporating text, opening out to form a continuous strip, 17 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Some folds and a few short tears reinforced on verso with archival paper. A fragile production in generally good condition. Rare.
£35.00
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TYTLER, SARAH: Landseer's Dogs and their stories. With Six Chromographs after paintings by Sir Edwin Landseer.
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London: Marcus Ward, 1877. Mounted coloured frontispiece, extra coloured pictorial title and 5 mounted coloured plates. 8vo (9 x 7 inches) origginal bevelled green cloth blocked in black and gilt, all edges gilt. Headbands bruised, inner joints cracked, corners rubbed, gilt dulled.
£30.00
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UPTON, FLORENCE K. & BERTHA: The Adventures of two Dutch Dolls and a "Golliwogg".
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London: Longmans, Green, n.d. but 1895. First edition. Coloured title and 31 coloured plates. Oblong folio, original brown cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. A few short marginal tears, stitching broken and some leaves loose and bumped on margins, upper inner hinge split. Boards lightly soiled/dust marked, corners rounded. Overall quite good. £100.00 |
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UPTON, FLORENCE K & BERTHA: The Golliwogg's Bicycle Club.
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London: Longman's Green, 1898. First edition. Coloured illustrations throughout. Oblong folio (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches), 62-pages. Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Some dust marking to binding, some rubbing to lettering on upper cover, corners rounded, 1 gathering detached, inner joints cracked, one inch tear to one margin without loss. Overall a good clean copy. Later gift inscription on front pastedown "Great Aunt Theresa's Contribution to 'Daddy Edward's' Nursery Party 26th Aug. 1919". £225.00 |
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UPTON, FLORENCE K. & BERTHA: The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls.
London: Longmans, Green, 1923. New Edition. Coloured illustrations throughout. Oblong 4to (8 1/2 x 11 inches), 64-pages. Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Backstrip faded and spotted, boards dusty, corner rubbed. Age toning to mrgins, some foxing, inner joints pulled. Inscription on verso of front free endpaper.
£65.00
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VALENTINE (Publisher): The Lucky White Rabbit.
Dundee, London: Valentine & Sons, n.d. c. 1930's. A shaped book in the form of a rabbit, 5-inches wide. 20-pages. Illustrated in red & black. Coloured illustrated boards, wire stitched. Rubbed, ears creased, staples rusted.
£12.00
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VERNE, JULES ( Translated by W. H. G. Kingston ): The Child of the Cavern; or Strange Doings Underground. Author's Illustrated Edition.
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London: Sampson, Low, 1891. Frontispiece and plates. 8vo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4), 174-pages. Contemporary full tree calf, decorative gilt border to sides, the upper cover gilt blocked "The Grange School, Eastbourne". Spine gilt in compartments and with green lettering piece, all edges marbled. Foxing to prelims. Overall attractive and well bound. "Holiday Task Prize" inscription on verso of front free endpaper. £60.00 |
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WAIN, LOUIS [text by Norman Gale]: Father Tuck's Fidgety Phil and other tales. In Father Tuck's " Little Pets" series.
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London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, c. 1910. 8 "Indestructible Board" leaves including covers, The front and rear covers illustrated in full colour, 4 full-page coloured plates within and 10 plates printed in orange and black. 8vo (9 1/8 x 7 inches), original cloth-backed glazed coloured pictorial boards. Slight chipping to fore-edge of lower board, 2-inch crack to paper of two inner gutters. Overall a lovely copy of this very rare Wain title. Contemporary inscription on blank fore on reverse of front cover "To Phil with Love".
Louis Wain's take on Hoffman's Struwwelpeter; the tales within being: Fidgety Phil; The Inky Cats; Shock-headed Peter; Boasting Benjamin; Johny Head-in-Air; Augustus and the Soup; The Cat that went Shooting; & Little Suck-a-Thumb.
£400.00
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WAIN, LOUIS; & BINGHAM, CLIFTON: All Sorts of Comical Cats. Pictured by Louis Wain, Verses by Clifton Bingham
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London: Ernest Nister [1902]. Coloured mounted frontispiece, illustrated title-page, and illustrations throughout, some with printed coloured highlights . 4to, pp.(62) original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Fore-edges and fore-corners of boards rubbed, some marking but generally good. Front free endpaper, which bears a contemporary gift inscription, is detached and a little edge worn. Tear to frontispiece backing sheet not affecting the coloured mounted plate, horizontal tear through one leaf without loss. Scan available upon request. £225.00 |
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WARD, LOCK (Publishers): Bubbles. (Volume XVIII of this annual).
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London: Ward, Lock, circa 1907. Coloured plates throughout, one b&w full-page plate by Louis Wain "Our Pussies". 4to (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches), 288-pages. Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Spine slightly canted, some rubbing to edges and corners, overall good.Signature & date, Oct. 1907, on reverse of frontispiece. £25.00 |
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WARD, STANHOPE EDGAR: Fairy Tales.
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Farnham, Surrey: E.W. Langham, 1895. Vignette illustrations. 4to, pp. 60, original printed wrappers, uncut; upper wrapper detached and edge chipped, backstrip chipped at head and tail, else an excellent copy. £20.00 |
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WEATHERLY, FRED E: More Pleasant Surprises for Chicks of all Sizes.
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London: Ernest Nister, New York: E. P. Dutton. Printed in Bavaria, circa 1893. Illustrated with eight full-page, colour slatted transformations, all in perfect working order. Folio (12 3/4 x 10 inches), original red cloth-backed glazed coloured pictorial boards. One pull-tab reinforced, others possibly replaced? Some bumping to head and base of backstrip and a very small chip from the surface of the upper cover, lower cover marked, corners rubbed. The backstrip and upper cover are remarkably bright and fresh, also very good indeed internally. £250.00 |
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WEATHERLY, F.E: Out of Town. Illustrated in colour by Linnie Watt, monotints by Ernest Wilson.
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London: Hildesheimer and Faulkner, n.d. [1884]. First [& only?] edition. Charming chromolithographic illustrations throughout. 4to, pp. 64, original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards in d.w. A remarkably good copy, the binding fresh and bright. The d.w. browned and edge chipped on upper panel, chipped at backstrip and chipped and torn on lower panel. Printing of advertisements on endpapers faded. Some minor rubbing to the fore-corners of the boards but generally an excellent copy and very rare in d.w. £90.00 |
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WELLS, H.G: The Adventures of Tommy. Written and Illustrated by H.G. Wells.
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London: The Amalgamated Press, n.d. Number 945 of a "Limited & Numbered Edition-de-Luxe Published for Private Circulation Only". Coloured illustrations throughout. 4to (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), original pictorial wrappers printed in blue; lower wrapper dustmarked, upper wrapper less so, a few tiny marginal tears to edges of wrappers. Generally very good. £60.00 |
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WHITE, ANNIE F: Jack and Jill and the Fairies.
Ilfracombe (Duration Address): Arthur H. Stockwell, c. 1940. 8vo, pp. 20, original wrappers; wire staples rusted, wrappers a little marked. Signed by the author on title.
£10.00
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WRIGHT, HENRIETTA: Stories in English Literature.
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London: Thomas Nelson, 1891. Frontispiece. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 286-pages. Contemporary full burgundy calf gilt, gilt arms of Portsmouth High School on upper cover and prize label on front pastedown. Some light marginal fading on upper cover else excellent. £25.00 |
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