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IN FAIRYLAND, TALES TOLD AGAIN.
London: T.C. & E.C, Jack, 1904. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xv,211, pictorial hardcover, gilt lettering and gilt to upper edge, colour plates and frontispiece, pictorial endpapers, toned and foxed to edges of text block and margins, with heavier foxing to half title page and endpapers, rubbed and lightly toned to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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. 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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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.
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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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.
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.
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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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 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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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.
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.
More details Price: £175.00