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BAD JELLY THE WITCH.
A Fairy Story.
Walton-on-Thames: M & J Hobbs, 1973. First edition, 4to., black pictorial cloth,black and white illustrations throughout; previous owner’s inscription to the reverse of the front free endpaper, otherwise contents very good in unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing to extremities, overall a very good copy and now in protective covering.
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BIRDS AND BEASTS.
London: George Allen & Company, 1911. First edition with the Detmold illustrations, 8vo.,pp. 196, beige pictorial cloth, gilt lettering, colour plates, colour frontispiece; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, off setting and foxing to endpapers and light foxing to margins, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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BLIGHTY PIN-UP AND CARTOON ANNUAL.
London: Blighty, City Magazines Ltd. Small 4to., pp.98, paperback with pictorial colour wrappers, b/w illustrations throughout as well as folding colour plate; light surface soiling to wrappers, internally clean and overall a very good copy.
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BYGONE KING'S,
Being A Collection of Historical Views of the Buildings at King’s College, Cambridge, With Descriptive Notes.
Eton College: Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd, 1907. Folio, unpaginated, grey-blue paper-covered boards backed in cream cloth, lettering stamped in black, 21 tipped-in plates with tissue guards; water-marking to lower margins of boards, with tear to lower margin of front board and area of loss to paper covering at front inner margin, scuffs and surface soil to boards, a good copy, with the plates themselves in very good condition.
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CAROLS.
London: Alexander Moring Limited, The De La More Press. First edition, small 4to., pp.43, cloth, gilt, a.e.g., 6 double-page colour plates and 6 further colour illlustrations, as well as inlaid colour plate to front board; toning to free endpapers, occasional thumb-marking, only very slight wear to extremities, a very good copy.
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CHIN-PAO AND THE GIANT PANDAS.
London: Country Life, 1939. First edition, 8vo., pp.83, blue-grey cloth lettered in black, colour frontispiece, 3 further colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations; ink ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper (covered by flap of dust-jacket), spine lightly rolled, with sunning/toning to spine, a slight surface soil to boards, overall a very good copy, in pictorial price-clipped dust-jacket, which has creasing and tears to edges, with some loss, and apx. 4mms loss to head of spine.
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CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG: The Magical Car.
London: Puffin Books, 2008. First Puffin Edition, Signed by the Illustrator, 4to.,pp. 113, red hardcover, silver lettering, b/w and colour illustrations, pictorial endpapers, pictorial title page; illustrators signature to half title page, light foxing to upper edge of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has a small creased closed tear to rear lower margin.
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CINDERELLA,
Or The Little Glass Slipper.
London: Faber and Faber, 1972. First edition thus, oblong 8vo., pp.(32), pictorial hardcover, colour plates alternate with black and white illustrations, decorative borders to text leaves adjacent colour plates; ownership gift inscription to corner of front free endpaper, light foxing to edges, a very good copy, in price-clipped dust-jacket, which is foxed to margins, with small closed tear to rear upper edge, and lightly rubbed to edges.
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CLANGERS POP-UP BOOK.
Based on the BBC TV Series ‘Clangers’.
Dean, 1970. Oblong 8vo., pp.(10), glazed pictorial boards, 5 brightly coloured double-page illustrated spreads, 3 of which include pop-ups; light shelfwear to boards and slight bruising to edges, a very good copy.
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COMPOSITIONS FROM SHAKESPEARE'S TEMPEST.
Fifteen Engravings in Outline. With: COMPOSITIONS FROM SHELLEY’S PROMETHEUS UNBOUND. Twelve Engravings in Outline.
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo & Co, 1845. Oblong 8vo., unpaginated, pictorial bevelled ochre cloth, gilt, with design in blind to rear board, b/w frontispieces, 27 engraved plates, patterned endpapers; paper-cracking between front endpapers at innder hinge (joint remains firm), light wear to cloth at headband, wear to cloth at corners, surface soil to cloth, else very good.
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CONQUETE DU PEROU ET HISTOIRE DE PIZARRE.
Bibliotheque de la Jeunesse Chretienne.
Tours: Ad. Mame & Cie. Fifth edition, 8vo., pp.281, b/w engraved frontispiece, pictorial title, and 2 plates, colour and gilt embossed paper covered boards, with inlaid colour plate; rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, with small split to rear fore-edge, a very good copy.
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CURIOSITIES FOR THE INGENIOUS:
Selected from the Most Authentic Treasures of Nature, Science and Art, Biography, History, and General Literature.
London: Thomas Boys, 1821. 12mo., pp.192,(iv)adverts, uncut, leather-backed marbled boards, unlettered spine, complete with 13 engraved illustrations in 12 plates; worn to extremities, boards rubbed, with loss to paper covering at lower margin, a little scruffy within, with some foxing and light surface soil, a good copy.
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DIARY OF A HORSE.
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, Inc, 1956. First edition, 8vo., pp.40, brown cloth lettered in black, b/w frontispiece and 4 further b/w plates; slight foxing to endpapers, contents lightly toned, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has slight chipping to headband and rear upper edge, and slight surface soiling to pale paper, with small mark to front, else vg and now in a protective cover.
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DISSOLVING VIEWS.
A Book of Revolving Pictures With Verses.
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EDWIN AND HENRY; OR THE WEEK’S HOLIDAYS:
Containing Original Tales for the Improvement of Youth.
Derby: Thomas Richardson, 1830. Second edition, 12mo., pp.128, quarter red roan, gilt, with gilt decoration to spine, marbled boards, complete with engraved frontispiece and pictorial title and 7 further engraved plates; tear with loss to upper corner of p.65, with partial loss to text of Hymn title (Hymn itself complete), slight crease to upper corners throughout, rubbing to boards, with light wear to edges, a very good copy.
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ENGLISH COUNTRY TRADITIONS.
London: The Victoria and Albert Museum. Signed, limited edition, no.390 of 500 copies signed by illustrator, 8vo., pp.75, dark green cloth with inlaid pictorial label, gilt-lettered to spine, wood engraved plates and illuminated letters, pictorial endpapers; a fine, fresh copy, in very good matching green cloth slipcase, which is lightly marked to cloth.
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EROTIC FAIRY TALES.
Englished from the French of Abbe de Voisenon. For Private Collectors of Erotica.
New York: The Panurge Press, 1932. Limited edition, no.252 of 1000 copies, 8vo., pp.246, uncut, quarter black cloth, gilt, decorative yellow cloth boards, text printed in blue; toning to fore-edges, very slight roll to spine, rubbing to lower corner of front board, a bright and very good+ copy.
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EUPHORMIO'S SATYRICON (Euphormionis Satyricon).
London: Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1954. Limited edition, no.227 of 260 copies, 4to., pp.(ii),158, full pictorial vellum, gilt, mould-made paper, pictorial frontispiece and title, b/w wood-engraved plates with borders in red, pictorial headpieces to prelims; just slight bruising to upper corners of boards, very slight surface soil to boards, overall a fine, fresh copy. Designed and produced by Christopher Sandford; composition and presswork under the supervision of K.S. Tollit at The Chiswick Press.
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EVENTYR ET HISTORIER. [Set of Five Volumes]
Med Illustrationer ester Originaltegninger af. B. Bedersen.
Kobenhavn: Gyldendalste Boghandel, 1897. Five volumes, square 8vo., pp.(iv),440, pictorial red cloth, gilt, pictorial spines, decorated endpapers, marbled edges, frontispieces and pictorial title pages, illustrated throughout; spines lightly and uniformly sunned, light rubbing to extremities, most noticeably at tailbands, a very good, bright set.
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FAIRIES OF THE TREES.
London, Blackie and Son. First edition, with author’s presentation inscription, 12mo.,pp. unpaginated, decorative paper-covered boards (with cross-hatched design in pale grey), with inlaid colour plate to front board, pictorial endpapers, b/w pictorial title page and b/w vignette, complete with 24 colour plates; autor’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, slight foxing to edges and light wear to lower corner of front board, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which has some surface soiling to pale paper and slight loss from chipping to extremities, now in a protective cover.
More details Price: £225.00