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THE SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS. A Fantasy.
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THE SNAIL THAT CLIMBED THE EIFFEL TOWER And Other Stories.
London: John Lehmann, 1947. First edition in a second state binding, tall 8vo., pp.86, unlettered grey hardcover, colour plates and b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; light toning to half title, light toning at head and foot of spine, very slight bruising at extremities, a very good+ copy, in a price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has chipping to corners and loss at head and foot of spine, otherwise complete and very good.
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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 TALE OF NAUGHTY KITTY CAT.
Dundee, Valentine & Sons, Ltd. 12mo., unpaginated, pale brown paper-covered boards with inlaid colour plate, colour frontispiece and 13 further colour plates, pictorial title and colophon, pictorial endpapers, monochromatic illustrations accompany the text throughout; very slight wear at head and tail of spine, light rubbing to extremities, slight toning to endpapers, occasional light thumb marks to margins, overall a very good copy indeed of this scarce and fragile volume.
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THE TALE OF SAMUEL WHISKERS, OR THE ROLY-POLY PUDDING.
London: Frederick Warne & Co. First edition thus, first impression with the small advert to front free endpaper verso, 12mo., pp.76, red paper-covered boards with pictorial colour plate laid down, lettering in white, pictorial endpapers (in colour), colour frontispiece, 17 further colour plates, b/w in-text illustrations; sunning to spine and slightly to fore-margins and front upper margin, otherwise very good indeed/near-fine.
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THE TEN LITTLE BABIES.
London: S.P.C.K, 1909. First edition, 8vo., unpaginated, glazed pictorial boards backed in red cloth, colour half title, duochrome illustrations throughout; neat repair to front inner hinge, ink ownership autograph, dated 1909, to front free endpaper, toning and foxing to endpapers, thumbing and fosing to fore-margins within, wear to edges of boards, a good+ copy of this scarce volume.
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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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THE WIND CALL.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1958. 8vo., pp.115, green hardcover, gilt, 6 colour plates; light evidence of removed bookplate to front free endpaper, handwritten number to upper margin and sellotape stain to lower margin of front paste-down endpaper, ‘2K’ written to upper margin of front free endpaper, foxing to prelims and edges, stitching visible between front free endpaper and half title, a little light marking to margins, else very good, in price-clipped dust-jacket, which has light surface soil, else very good.
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TOPSY-TURVY TALES.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1923. Square 8vo., pictorial blue cloth, 6 colour plates and 35 b/w illustrations; vertical crease to inner margin of colour plate opposite p.60, with repair to the margin, repaired closed tear to upper margin of b/w plate at p.112, two ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, foxing to prelims and fore-edges, rubbing to extremities, with slight wear to cloth along lower edges, a good+ copy of a scarce title.
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TOPSY-TURVY TALES.
London: John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1923. First edition, Scarce, re-cased, 8vo., pp. x,177, pictorial blue cloth, black lettering, colour plates, b/w illustrations, colour frontispiece; ownership autograph and small inscription to front free endpaper, toning and foxing to title page, edges of text block, endpapers and occasionally quite significantly foxed to margins with occasional lighter foxing present throughout, plate to p.60 has a crease and neat repair to the margin, plate to p.112 with small marginal repair, very slight cracking to upper inner section of inner hinge, rubbing to extremities with light wear to corners and along lower edges of boards, light toning to spine, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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WEIHNACHT. Vierzehn Farbige Original Steinzeichnungen.
Wien: Burgverlag/Richter & Zollner, 1922. 4to., unpaginated, cloth-backed patterned pictorial boards, 14 lithographic colour plates, each preceded by a text-leaf, pictorial endpapers; gutter slightly visible between leaves, occasional slight creasing to upper corners, light wear to extremities, including small tears to cloth at head and foot of spine, and wear to paper along edges, a very good copy of this scarce Christmas volume, which is illustrated with artwork by the Youth Art Class at the Austrian School of Arts and Crafts at the Ostreiche Museum in Vienna.
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WINNIE-THE-POOH.
London: Methuen and Co, 1926. First edition, deluxe issue, 8vo., pp.xi,158, full pictorial blue calf, a.e.g., pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations; light toning and foxing to prelims/closing leaves, just occasional slight foxing to margins within, fingermarking to p.3, else internally fresh, spine sunned, with light sunning to very inner margins of boards, light rubbing to extremities, with slight wear to tail of spine, overall a very good copy indeed.
More details Price: £1,100.00