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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.
London: Collins, 1939. Scarce, 8vo.,pp. 109, beige cloth, brown lettering, b/w illustrations and frontispiece; slight cracking to inner hinge where the webbing is becoming visible to p.65, all contents firm, soiling to edges of text block and to margins of cloth boards, with light spotting to spine and boards, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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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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A BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES.
London: Zodiac Books, 1949. First edition, pocket 8vo., pp.64, pictorial paper-covered boards, small b/w illustrations accompany the text throughout; light sunning to spine and margins, a very good copy indeed, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which has a 2cm closed tear to the rear upper margin, and light chipping to extremities, and some light spotting to the pale paper, overall very good.
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THE WATER BABIES: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.
London: Constable & Company, 1915. First edition, with colour plates by W. Heath Robinson, Large 8vo.,pp. x,319, pictorial green cloth, with gilt lettering, colour plates, b/w illustrations, colour frontispiece; webbing visible to inner hinge, all content firm, toning and foxing to edges of text block and to margins, rubbing to extremities, with very minor wear to head and foot of spine and corners, gilt to spine slightly dulled, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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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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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. First edition, with illustrations by Millicent Sowerby, Publisher’s deluxe binding, Large 8vo.,pp. xv,125, cream boards with pictorial gilt and gilt lettering, gilt to upper edges of text block, colour plates with tissue guards, b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; toning to leaves with some light foxing to edges of text block, occasionally to margins and more present to half title and endpapers, tissue guards occasionally creased but otherwise clean, extremities lightly rubbed and soiled with a little creasing to rear lower corner, a very good copy.
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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 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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A MISCELLANY OF TYPE.
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1990. Limited edition of 530 copies, this is numbered 54, 4to.,pp. iv,125, decorative paper covered boards, brown cloth spine, gilt lettering to spine, upper edge tinted orange, monochrome plates and illustrations; a fine copy, in a near-fine boxed slip-case, which is lightly rubbed and stained to extremities.
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PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906. First edition, 4to.,pp. xii,125, 50 colour plates to rear, colour frontispiece, with protective tissue guards, pictorial endpapers; heavily foxed to half title, title and dedication pages, with light foxing to margins of text, toning to edges of text block, lightly rubbed to extremities, very lightly toned to spine with a small stain mark, otherwise a very good copy.
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FAIRY TALES.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. First edition, 4to.,pp. 197, pictorial green cloth, gilt, colour plates, colour frontispiece, with tissue protective guards, b/w illustrations, decorative endpapers; ownership ink stamp to front free endpaper, webbing occasionally slightly visible to inner hinge, lightly toned to edges of text block, lightly rubbed to extremities and lightly sunned to spine, light wear to head and foot of spine and corners, a very good copy.
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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. First edition with colour plates by Edmund Dulac, 4to.,pp. unpaginated, pictorial beige cloth, gilt, colour plates and colour frontispiece, with tissue guards, decorative endpapers and decorative borders to margins; light toning and foxing to margins and to verso of plates, front board very slightly rolled, otherwise a very good, bright copy.
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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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THE TEMPEST.
Paris: Alcools. Limited edition of 145 copies, 4to.,pp. 153, leaves unbound and uncut, resting in green card boards with green cloth covered spine, in a plain green card slip-case, monochrome plates throughout and to frontispiece, pictorial half title page; very lightly toned and foxed to edges, extremities of boards lightly rubbed, otherwsie near-fine, in a very good rubbed slip-case.
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ONE LUMP OR TWO. Tea, Twinings and Edward Bawden.
Sparham, Norwich: The Mainstone Press, 2010. Tall 8vo., pp.47, paperback, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in dust-jacket.
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FLYING THE ATLANTIC.
London: Max Parrish, 1953. Square 8vo., pp.36, grey cloth lettered in black, colour illustrations throughout; partial sunning to spine, creasing and small chip to rear free endpaper, in worn unclipped dust-jacket, which has large area of loss to rear upper margin, loss also to front upper margin, with large tear, and creasing, rubbing and small closed tears to extremities.
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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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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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DEFENCE OF WOMEN.
London: Fanfrolico Press. Limited edition, no. 43 of 370 copies, small 8vo., unpaginated (pp.12), brown cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations by Norman Lindsay; very slightly toned throughout, very slight foxing to front endpapers, very light soiling to endpapers, rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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THE THREE ASTRONAUTS.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1989. First edition, 4to., unpaginated, colour pictorial hardcover, colour illustrations throughout; very light toning to prelims, otherwise a near fine copy, in a near fine dust-jacket with some very light rubbing to extremities.
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