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SINBAD THE SAILOR & OTHER STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
London: Hodder & Stoughton. First edition, 4to.,pp. 221, pictorial cloth, gilt, colour plates, colour frontispiece, with tissue guards, decorative endpapers and decorative margins; light toning and foxing to edges of text block and very lightly to margins, light rubbing to extremities, webbing becoming visible to inner hinge of p.102, otherwise a very good and bright copy. No dust-jacket.
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SONGS OF INNOCENCE.
Reproduced In Facsimile From An Original Copy Of The Work Printed In The British Museum.
London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1926. First edition thus; 8vo., unpaginated colour facsimile, black cloth, gilt, with decorative borders in gilt, full colour facsimile plates throughout; light partial toning to endpapers, slight wear to cloth at head and foot of spine, a very good copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket, which is toned to spine, with some light foxing, toning and surface soil to the pale paper, light chipping to extremities, and small closed tear to front lower margin, else very good.
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SPORT IN WAR.
London: Collins, 1936. Signed, limited edition, no. 32 of 75 copies signed by author and artist, folio, pp.98, quarter green leather, gilt, green cloth boards, t.e.g., colour frontispiece, colour and b/w plates, b/w illustrations; small ownership autograph to front free endpaper, foxing to fore-edges, rubbing to head and tailbands, with a few further small scuffs to leather, a very good copy. Housed in rather worn card slipcase, with remnants of removed label to side panel.
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TALES FROM DENMARK.
London: Joseph Cundall, 1847. First edition thus, small 8vo., pp.174, half dark brown morocco with 5 raised bands and gilt borders to compartments, lettering gilt, paper-covered boards with checked design, a.e.g., frontispiece and 7 further dichromatic plates, as well as numerous in-text illustrations and decorations; rubbing and light wear to extremities, professional repair to headband and upper joint (small area of gilt to upper compartment missing), with upper corner of rear board worn and re-touched, small closed tear to front free endpaper, foxing to frontispiece recto, otherwise internally fresh, and overall a very good copy of this scarce volume.
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TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE.
London: Headley Bros, 1909. First edition thus, 8vo.,pp. 323, pictorial green cloth, with gilt lettering, colour plates with tissue guards, colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers, foxing to half title and edges of text block, with occasional light foxing to margins, lightly rubbed to extremities with a small scratch mark to rear, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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TALES OF PASSED TIMES WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN.
Adelphi: Selwyn and Blount Ltd. 8vo., pp.63, blue paper-covered boards with inlaid pictorial plate, colour frontispiece and pictorial title, colour and b/w illustrations, including double-page colour plate; light partial toning to endpapers, a very good copy, in a slightly chipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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TALES, POETRY, AND FAIRY TALES.
London: W. Brown. First edition, 8vo., pp.vi,181, quarter unlettered cloth, paper-covered boards, illustrated with 90 woodcut illustrations, including frontispiece and pictorial title; rubbing and wear to extremities, with some loss to paper covering of boards, water-staining to front board/front endpapers, internally clean and very good, a good copy overall.
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TANNHAUSER.
A Dramatic Poem.
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Signed, limited deluxe edition, no.283 of 525, signed by Pogany, 4to., unpaginated, publisher’s full pictorial vellum, gilt, pictorial endpapers, tipped-in colour plates, b/w plates, decorations in colour throughout; a fine copy.
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TEASER AND THE FIRECAT.
[In Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Welsh].
London: Bernard Jacobson Ltd, 1972. First edition, squat 4to., pp.(xlii), pictorial wrappers, colour illustrated; light residue from removed price label to upper corner of front wrapper, light toning and slight surface soil to wrappers, internally clean, a very good copy.
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TENNYSON’S MAY QUEEN: THE MAY QUEEN, IN ILLUMINATED BORDERS.
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1876. Small 4to., pictorial and decorative bevelled green cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g., full colour plates, each with plain protective leaf; ink ownership inscription, dated 1876, to front free endpaper, toning to protective leaves, toning and foxing to free endpapers, and some foxing to reverse of plates, a little rubbing to extremities, an unusually bright copy, very good indeed.
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THE ADVENTURES OF ALCASSIM:
An Iranian Entertainment.
London: Johnathan Cape, 1936. First edition, 8vo., pp.352, red cloth lettered in black, b/w frontispiece, 13 further b/w plates plus pictorial headpieces; slight loss to lower corner of front free endpaper and crease to upper corner of front free endpaper, light foxing to fore-edges, light mottling to corners of front board, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is toned to pale paper, with light surface soil, publisher’s price sticker to foot of spine, and slight wear to extremities - now in a protective cover.
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THE AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF CAPTAIN CASTAGNETTE,
Nephew of the ‘Man With the Wooden Head’.
London: S.O. Beeton, 1866. First edition, 4to., pp.68, recased with new endpapers, spine professionally repaired, publisher’s brown leather, front board lettered in gilt, all edges red, 43 b/w illustrations, including full-page plates, by Gustave Dore, parchment tape repair (over text) to p.61 (text remains legible), light wear to corners of plate at p.33 (the image itself is not affected, but there is a small crease and light loss at the fore-corners), light surface soil, fingermarking and light creasing within, rubbing and light wear to extremities, a good(+) copy of this scarce title.
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THE BLAMPIED EDITION OF PAN PETER: THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF PETER & WENDY BY J.M BARRIE,
Newly Illustrated.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. First edition, 4to., pp. cream cloth lettered in navy, tipped-in colour frontispiece with captioned tissue-guard, colour plates, b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; a fresh and near-fine copy, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has closed tears, creasing and small areas of loss to extremities, as well as more extensive closed tear from front lower edge.
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THE BORROWERS.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. First edition, 8vo., pp.159, deluxe pictorial full blue morocco, gilt, 5 raised bands, gilt decorations to compartments, colour frontispiece plate, pictorial endpapers and numerous in-text illustrations (monochromatic; printed in brown); a fine copy.
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THE COMPASS POINTS NORTH. A Novel for Boys and Girls.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1938. 8vo., pp.328, red cloth, gilt, pictorial title, b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; light foxing to edges, light rubbing to extremities, with spine lightly rolled, an otherwise very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly chipped to head of spine, with light surface soil to pale paper.
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THE COWSLIP, OR, MORE CAUTIONARY STORIES IN VERSE.
London: J. Harris/B. Crosby, 1811. 12mo., pp.68,(iv)adverts, decorative paper-covered card wrappers with printed paper label to front and pictorial vignette pasted down to rear, 29 engraved illustrations; some wear to paper covering of spine, light rubbing to extremities, otherwise very good indeed.
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THE CUCKOO CLOCK.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1877. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),242,(ii), pictorial red cloth stamped in black and gilt, b/w frontispiece and 6 further b/w plates by Walter Crane; lightly rolled and slightly shaken, gutter and glue visible in a couple of places, rubbing and light marking to cloth, with light wear to corners, a sound copy.
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THE DOG OF KNOWLEDGE; OR, MEMOIRS OF BOB, THE SPOTTED TERRIER: Supposed to be written by Himself.
London: J. Harris, 1801. 12mo., pp.xii,183,(iii), backed in green roan, gilt, marbled boards, speckled edges, engraved frontispiece and pictorial title; small pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, light toning and foxing to prelims, internally fresh, with wear to paper covering at extremities and some rubbing to boards, overall a very good copy indeed. [‘Probably the first book to be published by J. Harris alone’. Moon 212]
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THE DREAMLAND EXPRESS.
London: Humphrey Milford, 1927. First edition, oblong 4to., pp.96, pictorial cream cloth spine printed in black, pictorial paper-covered boards in colour, colour pictorial title, colour and b/w plates including double-page colour plate, b/w vignettes; stitching occasionally visible between leaves, rubbing and light wear to extremities, a good copy.
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THE ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH, FROM THE DESIGNS OF THOMAS ROWLANDSON, WITH METRICAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX.
London: R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, printed by J. Diggens, 1815. First edition, two volumes bound as one, pp.vii,295,(iv),299,(iv)Index, paper-backed plain card boards, 74 hand-coloured plates, including frontispiece, additional engraved title; prelims working loose, a fine unsophisticated copy in the original boards.
More details Price: £995.00