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THE GREAT KHAN'S TREASURE.
A Story of Adventure in Chinese Tartary.
London: Blackie & Son Ltd, 1902. First edition, 8vo., pp.288, pictorial green cloth, lettering in gilt and black, b/w frontispiece, 5 further b/w illustrations, coloured endpapers; ownership plate to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers, light toning throughout, light foxing to edges, light rubbing to extremities and spine slightly sunned, a very good copy.
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THE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS.
Melbourne/London/Toronto: Heinemann. First edition, 8vo., pp.(iii),191, blue cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; light foxing to inner margins of endpapers and prelims, occasional light foxing to inner margins throughout, slight foxing and surface soil to edges, a very good copy, in very good pictorial unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to spine, lightly foxed, and with very slight wear to extremities.
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THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER.
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THE LITTLE FLOWER SEEKERS, Being Adventures of Trot and Daisy in a Wonderful Garden, by Moonlight.
London: Marcus Ward and Co, 1873. First edition, square 8vo., pp.126, pictorial red bevelled cloth, lettered in gilt to front board, and pictured in black, with black lettering to spine, illustrated with 12 very attractive tipped-in chromolithographic plates, including frontispiece, one b/w illustration; contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a little light foxing to prelims, rubbing to extremities, with light wear to cloth at lower corners and at foot of upper joint, small spot of wear at headband, light marking to cloth, a very good, clean copy.
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THE LITTLE ROEBUCK.
London: Griffith and Farran, 1874. First edition, pp.16, printed to rectos only, each with hand-coloured illustrations and accompanying rhyme (15 colour illustrations), pictorial paper-covered boards backed in red cloth; contemporary ink inscription, dated 1874, to front free endpaper, toning to title and to margins of endpapers, a little toning to margins throughout, paper worn to edges of boards, with toning and surface soil to boards, a very good copy.
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THE LUCIE ATTWELL ANNUAL
[The First Lucie Attwell Annual]
London: Partridge, 1922. 4to., pp.unpaginated, pictorial boards and spine, colour plates and b/w illustrations; ‘This book belongs to’ section to front free endpaper neatly completed in ink, dated 1922, toning to free endpapers, a little light marking to pale rear board, small knock to lower edge of front board, pale foxing to prelims, ultimate leaves, and fore-edges, a very good copy.
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF 'STUCK-UP' PEOPLE.
London: D. Bogue, 1847. 12mo., pp.112, pictorial paper wrappers, b/w frontispiece and pictorial title, b/w illustrations; partial loss to paper covering of spine (light loss at head of spine, and 3cms loss at tail), surface soil to wrappers, with light creasing/curling to lower corners, a good copy, which is internally very good.
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THE OLD NURSERY RHYMES; OR, THE MERRIE HEART.
London/Paris/New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, 1932. Fifth edition, 12mo., pp.225,4(adverts), pictorial green bevelled cloth, gilt, a.e.g., colour frontispiece and 6 further colour plates, wood-engraved illustrations throughout; owner’s ink inscription, dated 1932, to front free endpaper verso, occasional spotting or marking to fore-margins, contents very slightly shaken but still very good and tight, light rubbing to extremities, with a few (just lightly visible) water-marks to cloth, including ring-mark to front board, overall a very good, fairly bright copy.
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THE ORNAMENTS DISCOVERED: A STORY, IN TWO PARTS.
London: William Darton, Jun, 1815. 12mo., pp.191,(xvii)adverts, quarter red roan, gilt, plain paper-covered boards, engraved frontispiece; neat ink ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper (dated 1830), rubbing to extremities, with wear to paper covering of boards along edges and at corners, a very good copy. [OSBORNE p.267 for this edition].
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THE PICTURE ALPHABET.
London: Thomas Nelson And Sons. 8vo.,pp. 95, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations, colour frontispiece; ownership bookplate to front free endpaper, light toning to margins, with occasional light foxing to margins and edges of text block, lightly rubbed to extremities, with foxing to margins of boards, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.
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THE PIECE OF CHUANG BROCADE.
Peking: The Foreign Language Press. Oblong 12mo., pp.(ii),60, paperback (pictorial wrappers), colour illustrations throughout; small closed tear to head of spine of wrappers, else very good.
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THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE.
London: Macmillan And Co, 1929. Limited edition of 1500 copies, signed by the artist, 8vo.,pp. x,484,patterned paper covered boards, cream vellum spine with gilt lettering, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece, from woodcuts by Claire Leighton; Claire Leighton’s signature to publication page, with two ownership autographs to front free endpaper, endpapers lightly toned and soiled, light toning to edges of text block, spine lightly discoloured and runckled, small chip to head of spine, light rubbing to extremities of boards and light wear to corners, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE SEASONS AND THE FARMER.
A Book for Children.
Cambridge University Press, 1939. First edition, large 8vo., pp.vii,72, black cloth backed, lettered in blue, with pictorial blue paper-covered boards, pictorial title, b/w map, numerous b/w illustrations, including 4 photographic illustrations; light foxing to top edges, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy indeed, in price-clipped dust-jacket, which has 3cm closed tear to front upper LH corner, and small area of loss at headband, small area of loss to rear upper RH corner, a little rubbing and small closed tears to edges, overall very good, and now in a protective cover.
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THE SECOND COMING OF TOULOUSE-LAUTREC.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. First edition, oblong 4to., pp.50, red hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations throughout; light foxing to endpapers, else very good, in good price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has multiple tears to edges (rear of jacket has 3 fairly extensive closed tears), some with light loss, and whole jacket is now mounted onto a paper backing.
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THE SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS. A Fantasy.
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THE SILVER FAIRY BOOK.
London: Hutchinson and Co, 1895. First edition, 8vo., pp.viii,312, pictorial navy cloth stamped in silver and brown, all edges silver, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w illustrations, decorative endpapers; 4cm closed tear to lower inner margin of title page, closed tear and crease to inner margin of tissue guard, light foxing throughout, occasional thumbing, rubbing to extremities, a good copy.
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THE SISTERS OF THE CAVERN. An Interesting Tale, From the French of Madame de Herbster.
Boston: James Loring, 1823. 12mo., pp.106, black calf-backed marbled boards, gilt, engraved frontispiece; toning and foxing to margins, wear to extremities of paper covering of boards, rbbing to boards, a very good copy.
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THE SNOWMAN.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. First edition, 4to., pp.(32)unpaginated, colour-illustrated throughout, glazed pictorial boards; a near fine copy.
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THE SONGS OF THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD.
London/Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1916. First edition, small 8vo., pp.(ii),152,(iv) adverts, bound in decoratively blindstamped reverse calf wrappers, gilt, t.e.g., untrimmed paper, 6 tipped-in colour illustrations by Jessie M. King (frontispiece, decorative title, one double-page plate and 3 single-page plates, all with tissue-guards); neat ink ownership gift inscription, dated 1916, to foot of front free endpaper, toning to half title and final page of adverts, toning at inner hinges, spine lightly sunned, a very good copy indeed.
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THE STORY OF BLUE BEARD.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895. First edition, 8vo., pp.62, uncut, pictorial green cloth stamped in navy, and lettered in navy to spine, both boards fully decorated, pictorial headpiece to half title, pictorial title lettered in red, full pictorial and decorative Arts and Crafts style borders to text throughout, as well as 8 black and white plates, pictorial vignette to p.62; toning to free endpapers, light rubbing to extremities, a fresh and bright copy of this scarce volume, a very good copy indeed.
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