Children's books post-1900

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  • PERRAULT, Charles. Illustrated by Errol le Cain.
    CINDERELLA, Or The Little Glass Slipper.

    London: Faber and Faber, 1972. First edition thus, oblong 8vo., pp.(32), pictorial hardcover, colour plates alternate with black and white illustrations, decorative borders to text leaves adjacent colour plates; ownership gift inscription to corner of front free endpaper, light foxing to edges, a very good copy, in price-clipped dust-jacket, which is foxed to margins, with small closed tear to rear upper edge, and lightly rubbed to edges.

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  • THE TEN LITTLE BABIES. by Illustrated by: ROBINSON, Charles.
    Illustrated by: ROBINSON, Charles.
    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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  • WEIHNACHT. by Foreword by Franz Cizek. Lithographs by various artists: Trautl Conrad; Marta Zehenter; Steffi Kraus; Herta Zuckermann; Bella Vichon; Marie Kind; Gretl Hanus; Ine Probst; Elly Stoi.
    Foreword by Franz Cizek. Lithographs by various artists: Trautl Conrad; Marta Zehenter; Steffi Kraus; Herta Zuckermann; Bella Vichon; Marie Kind; Gretl Hanus; Ine Probst; Elly Stoi.
    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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  • STEVENS, Cat.
    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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  • MORE ALICE. After Lewis Carroll. by WILSON, Yates.
    WILSON, Yates.
    MORE ALICE. After Lewis Carroll.

    Capetown/Johannesburg: Purnell and Sons (S.A.) (Pty) Ltd./London & New York: T.V. Boardman & Company, 1959. 8vo., pp.125, printed card wrappers, b/w illustrations throughout; foxing to top edges, a very good, internally clean copy, in very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is just slightly chipped to extremities.

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  • AJO.
    NELL AND THE CHINA TWINS. The Dinky Tile Books: The Green Tile Book.

    London, Glasgow & Bombay: Blackie and Son Limited, 1933. 8vo., pp.(xix), cloth-backed glazed pictorial card boards, 9 colour plates, pictorial endpapers in black and white; light toning to title and rear free endpaper, small bookseller’s stamp to rear paste-down endpaper, lightly rubbed to extremities, with some discolouration to rear board, a slight crease a very good copy of this scarce title.

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  • THE FAITHFUL BULL. by HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Illustrated by Michael Foreman. [Signed by the artist]
    HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Illustrated by Michael Foreman. [Signed by the artist]
    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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  • A GOLDEN CASKET OF STORIES. by GIBBS, Edith A. Illustrated by Amelia M. Bowerley.
    GIBBS, Edith A. Illustrated by Amelia M. Bowerley.
    A GOLDEN CASKET OF STORIES.

    London: John Long, Limited, 1911. First edition, 8vo., pp.320, pictorial purple cloth, lettered in gilt and stamped in green and beige, colour frontispiece and fifteen b/w plates by Amelia M. Bowerley; edges and prelims foxed, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, foxed, with tear and small area of loss to head of upper fold over spine, chipping to headband, and toning to spine.

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  • POTTER, Beatrix.
    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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  • Written by, RUTLEY, Cecily M. Pictured by, WAIN, Louis.
    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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  • SMEATON MUNRO, Elsie. Illustrated by, ROBINSON, Heath.
    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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  • ROUND THE WORLD TO WYMPLAND. by SHARP, Evelyn. Illustrated by Alice B. Woodward.
    SHARP, Evelyn. Illustrated by Alice B. Woodward.
    ROUND THE WORLD TO WYMPLAND.

    London/New York: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1901. First edition, 8vo., pp.235, pictorial green cloth stamped in yellow and white, pictorial title, 8 b/w plates, all edges green; pencilled ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, tiny tear and crease to foot of p.97, light foxing and fingermarking to prelims, light surface soil to cloth, light rubbing to extremities, a good copy of a scarce title.

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  • MUNRO, Elsie Smeaton. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
    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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  • FLEMING, Ian. Illustrated by, BURNINGHAM, John.
    CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG: The Magical Car.

    London: Puffin Books, 2008. First Puffin Edition, Signed by the Illustrator, 4to.,pp. 113, red hardcover, silver lettering, b/w and colour illustrations, pictorial endpapers, pictorial title page; illustrators signature to half title page, light foxing to upper edge of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has a small creased closed tear to rear lower margin.

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  • Verses by, ANTHONY, Edward & Joseph. Pictures by, DE BOSSCHERE, Jean.
    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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  • FRY, Rosalie. Illustrated by the author.
    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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  • Texte et images de SAMIVEL.
    GOUPIL.

    Paris: Delagrave, 1936. First edition, folio., pp.vi,40, pictorial paper-covered boards, colour plates throughout, pictorial title; foxing to endpapers, toning to edges, toning to margins of boards, light wear to edges, a little light marking to boards, a very good copy.

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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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  • ATTWELL, Lucie.
    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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  • Translated by, ALLINSON, A.R., from the French of Camille Lemonnier. Illustrations by, DETMOLD, E.J.
    BIRDS AND BEASTS.

    London: George Allen & Company, 1911. First edition with the Detmold illustrations, 8vo.,pp. 196, beige pictorial cloth, gilt lettering, colour plates, colour frontispiece; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, off setting and foxing to endpapers and light foxing to margins, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

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