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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.
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THE FAIRIES UP-TO-DATE.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1925. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 189, grey paper covered boards, burgundy lettering, colour plates, decorative borders to text; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, toning to margins and endpapers, some water damage to rear endpapers, with some light rippling to margins of rear board, toned to edges of text block and to extremities of boards, otherwise very good, in a good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, piece missing to front upper margin with some title text missing, circular hole to lower section of spine, rubbed and creased to extremities, with chipping and wear to head and foot of spine and corners.
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THE FAITHFUL BULL.
London: Hamish Hamilton Children’s Books, 1980. First edition thus, signed by the artist, 4to., pp.(30), glazed pictorial hardcover, colour-illustrated throughout, including pictorial endpapers and pictorial title; autographed and dated by Michael Foreman to front free endpaper verso, foxing to endpapers, occasional light foxing within, a very good copy.
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THE FARMER’S YEAR: A Calendar of English Husbandry.
Reissued by The Sumach Press, Oblong 4to.,pp.56, hardcover, black lettering, b/w plates, pictorial endpapers; light rubbing to foot of spine, o/w a near-fine copy, in a very good price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has rubbing and soiling, with some light surface scratches to rear.
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THE FORSAKEN MERMAN.
London: J.M. Dent And Co, 1900. Scarce, First edition thus, small 8vo., unpaginated, decorative cream cloth, lettered in brown, b/w illustrations and frontispiece, pictorial borders to text, pictorial endpapers; foxing to endpapers and light toning to margins, toned to spine and margins of cloth, with light soiling, otherwise a very good copy.
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THE GIRL AND THE FAUN.
London: Cecil Palmer & Hayward, 1916. First edition, 4to., pp.78, pictorial brown cloth stamped in black, small pictorial paper title label to spine, colour frontispiece and 3 further colour plates, all with tissue guards, pictorial title printed in orange, and decorative pictorial borders throughout; light toning to margins, light marking to front board, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, bearing the same design as the front board, which is a little chipped and worn to the extremities, with a few neat paper-reinforcements to reverse of closed tears, but overall very good.
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THE GOOD TIGER.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First edition thus, large 8vo., pp.29, pale green hardcover, gilt, 22 dichromatic illustrations in orange and black; slight paper splitting to head and foot of front inner hinge, light foxing to edges, otherwise very good indeed, in price-clipped pictorial dust jacket, which has light creasing/rubbing to head and foot of spine, else very good+.
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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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