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FOUR TALES FROM HANS ANDERSEN: A New Version of the First Four.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1935. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.xi,76, blue cloth, with dark blue lettering to spine, colour frontispiece and b/w woodcut plates by Gwen Raverat; ownership gift inscription, dated 1941, to front free endpaper, foxing and toning to endpapers and edges, webbing visible occasionally between leaves, overall a very good copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is foxed and rubbed with creasing to spine, wear to corners and to head of spine, with creased tears to rear upper margin.
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GLADYS PETO’S HOLIDAY STORIES.
London: John F. Shaw (1928) and Co. Ltd. 4to., pp.unpaginated, quarter brown cloth, lettered in black, with pictorial paper-covered front board, colour frontispiece, colour plates, b/w illustrations accompany text throughout; prize bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to early and closing leaves, light wear to paper covering of boards at extremities, a good++ copy.
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GLITTERLAND: Dress-Up Book.
Entirely New 2 Dressing Dolls with Lots of Exciting, Dazzling, Costumes. A Tower Press Glitter Book, No.1093.
Tower Press. Oblong 8vo., pictorial covers, staples to rear cover, b/w illustrations, 2 colour plates with glitter decoration; toning to margins, crease to rear cover, rusting to staples (slightly staining rear wrapper), otherwise very good.
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GORDON THE GOAT.
London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd, 1946. First UK edition, 8vo., pp.48, pictorial paper-covered boards, colour illustrations; light foxing to edges, slight undulation to contents at inner margin, overall a very good copy indeed, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tear to rear upper edge, small closed tear to front lower edge, and is now in protective cover.
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GOUPIL.
Paris: Delagrave, 1936. First edition, folio., pp.vi,40, pictorial paper-covered boards, colour plates throughout, pictorial title; foxing to endpapers, toning to edges, toning to margins of boards, light wear to edges, a little light marking to boards, a very good copy.
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GREEN MAGIC.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. First edition, 8vo., pp.448, green cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece and a further 7 colour plates, numerous b&w illustrations and ornaments; light toning to endpapers, spine a little darkened, light mottling to boards, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, without dust-jacket.
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HANS ANDERSEN'S STORIES.
London: Raphael Tuck and Sons, Ltd, 1920. Small 4to., pp.138,(vi) publisher’s pictorial adverts, glazed pictorial boards with blue cloth backstrip, lettering in black, illustrated with colour plates, b/w plates, and numerous in-text illustrations; foxing to fore-edges, a little paper-splitting along front inner hinge, light wear to extremities, including breaks to cloth at the head and the foot of the upper joint, with the joint itself remaining firm, superficial scratches and surface-soil to the boards, overall a very good copy of this scarce title. Jennie Harbour was employed by Raphael Tuck from 1919, producing the illustrations to My Favourite Book of Fairy Tales (1921), and went on to illustrate the Newbery Classics edition of The Yellow Fairy Book (1927), which also contained stories by Hans Andersen.
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HEZEKIAH HORTON.
Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1943. First edition, scarce, 8vo.,pp. 39, pictorial boards, colour illustrations, pictorial title page and endpapers; toning to margins, slightly scuffed to rear endpapers at lower margin, sellotape to spine where paper covered spine has chipped and worn, loss to head and foot of spine and lettering faded, rubbed to extremities, with light scuff marks to corners.
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HIAWATHA’S CHILDHOOD.
London: Faber and Faber, 1984. First edition, small 4to., pp.(xxx), glazed pictorial boards, colour frontispiece and pictorial title, full colour illustrations throughout; a near-fine copy.
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HOME LIFE WITH CATS.
London: Grafton, imprint of HarperCollins, 1992. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 64, pictorial hardcover, colour illustrations; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a few small indentations along margins of boards, very slight tobacco odour, a good copy. No dust-jacket.
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IN FAIRYLAND, TALES TOLD AGAIN.
London: T.C. & E.C, Jack, 1904. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xv,211, pictorial hardcover, gilt lettering and gilt to upper edge, colour plates and frontispiece, pictorial endpapers, toned and foxed to edges of text block and margins, with heavier foxing to half title page and endpapers, rubbed and lightly toned to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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IN PURSUIT.
London: The Medici Society Ltd, 1970. Signed, limited edition, no.508 of 1050 copies, numbered and signed by Francis Russell Flint to colophon, folio, pp.264, quarter red morocco with 5 raised bands, gilt, pictorial grey cloth boards, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, colour and b/w plates, pictorial title and vignettes; rubbing to corners of boards, a few small, mostly slight scuffs to spine, a fresh and overall near-fine copy.
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ISABELLA, OR THE POT OF BASIL.
Edinburgh/London: T.N. Foulis, 1908. Slim 8vo., pp.39, grey cloth, gilt, with inlaid colour plate to front board, tipped-in colour plates by Jessie M. King, mounted on grey paper - frontispiece, pictorial title, Contents page, and three further colour plates, small b/w headpiece; neat ink ownership gift inscription, dated 1908, to front free endpaper, small (later) ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, toning to free endpapers and prelim blank, rubbing to extremities, slight marking to rear board, a very good, internally fresh copy.
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JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK’S PAINTING BOOK.
From the Original Designs by Beatrix Potter.
London/New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1950. Square 8vo., pictorial paper-covered boards, unpaginated, comprises 15 colour plates with adjacent b/w illustration to colour, plus centrefold with 2 b/w images to colour, colour pictorial title with adjacent b/w pictorial title; the lettering to the b/w title page has been partially coloured, otherwise the images are clean, rubbing to extremities, slight bumping to upper edge of front board, foxing to pale covers, a good++ copy of this scarce volume.
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JOLLY JOCK: Dancing Doll Illusion.
SECRETS OF MAGIC: Tricks for Anyone and Everyone.
12mo.,pp.14, pamphlet, with b/w figures and loose leaf explaining the ‘Amazing Dancing Doll Illusion’, plus a cut out figure blocked in red, blue and yellow with moveable legs; light indentation marks to cover of pamphlet, otherwise near-fine, in a brown paper envelope with title lettered in red to front, very good.
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LE LA FONTAINE DES ENFANS, Ou Choix de Fables de La Fontaine, Les Plus Simples et les Plus Morales, Avec des Explications a la portee de l’Enfance, Orne de Six Gravures.
Paris: A la Librairie d’Education de Pierre Blanchard, 1820. 12mo., pp.180, full tree calf with black title label to spine, gilt, with gilt border to boards and gilt decorations to compartments, marbled endpapers and edges, engraved vignette to title, 4 engraved plates each with 2 illustrations; small ink ownership autograph to upper margin of front free endpaper verso, foxing to edges/very margins, spine is bright, a very good+ copy of this scarce title.
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LE ROMAN DE TRISTAN ET ISEUT.
Paris: L’Edition D’Art, H. Piazza. First, limited edition, no.20 of 525 copies on japon paper, large 8vo., pp.197, uncut, paper wrappers, gilt, colour illustrations, b/w illustrations and decorations, one of only 25 extra-illustrated copies; internally fresh and fine, a very good copy indeed.
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LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB.
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1895. First edition, 12mo., pp.57, pictorial cream cloth stamped in blue, b/w frontispiece, pictorial title, plates and in-text illustrations, pictorial endpapers in green; toning to endpapers, light surface soiling to pale cloth, slight crease to upper corner of front board, a very good copy.
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LUCIE ATWELL’S ANNUAL.
London: Dean and Son Ltd, 1952. Small 4to., pp.92, pictorial boards, colour-illustrated throughout; rear free endpaper price-clipped, light sellotape-marking to free endpapers, light wear to extremities, slight creasing to boards, otherwise a very good copy.
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MACAO ET COSMAGE OU L'EXPERIENCE DE BONHEUR.
Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1919. First edition, square folio, pp.(liv) unpaginated, recased in black cloth, preserving original covers, which are pasted down to boards, pochoir colour plates throughout, designed by Legrand and hand-coloured by Jean Saudé, colour endpapers, printed on Bellenand Lafuma paper (the ‘Lafuma’ mark visible to front cover); light wear to page edges, with closed tears to margins of paste-down endpapers, and light loss to corners of cover image, light toning to margins, crease to lower corners towards rear of volume, the stencil designs remaining vivid and bright, a near- to very good copy, housed in a black cloth solander case, with facsimile reproduction of front cover pasted down to front panel.
More details Price: £420.00

