CHILDREN'S BOOKS
AESOP: The Fables of Aesop. Illustrated with 25 Drawings in
Color by Edward J. Detmold.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
This is identical to the signed limited edition of 750 copies, but
this out of series, un-numbered and un-signed. Twenty-five fine
tipped-in coloured plates. Large 4to, original cream cloth
elaborately blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine
darkened, some spotting or light marking to binding but generally
attractive. Corner of two of the tipped-in coloured plates with
corner creases, another with two creases across but otherwise
very good. One internal gutter cracked but very firm.
Quote Item No. 6700
Price: £250.00
ALDIN, CECIL; EMANUEL, WALTER: A Dog Day or The Angel
in the House by Walter Emanuel. Pictures by Cecil Aldin. "New and
cheap edition".
London: Heinemann, 1903.
28 sepia tinted plates. 4to, disbound. Endpapers marked
by crayon. The plates unmarked and generally good.
Quote Item No. 8080
Price: £25.00
ALPHABET: an ABC of Toys.
London: Nelson n.d. (1926).
Illustrated by Phyl. E. Webb. 4to, 16-pages illustrated
throughout in colour. 4to, original coloured pictorial boards;
backstrip and corners rubbed, small chip from headband. Generally
good. With a later (1940) Wykeham House School, Fareham,
prize label awarding this volume adhered to inside of front cover.
Quote Item No. 7531
Price: £35.00
ANDERSEN, HANS: Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Kay
Nielsen.
London: Hodder and Stoughton n.d. [1924].
First Nielsen edition. 12 tipped-in coloured plates. 4to,
original green moire cloth elaborately blocked in gilt; spine faded
(as often), some light fading to fore-edge of upper cover.
Inner hinges pulled. Some light foxing. Partly erased
inscription on front free endpaper which has, at one time been glued
to facing paste-down to hide the inscription, traces of glue
remaining. Lower endpaper glued to lower pastedown.
The binding quite presentable, internally very good also with no
creasing to the tipped-in coloured plates.
Quote Item No. 7278
Price: £350.00
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN: The Ice-Maiden. Translated
from the Danish by Mrs. Bushby. With drawings by Zwecker,
Engraved by Pearson.
London: Richard Bentley, 1863.
Illustrations in the text throughout. Square 8vo, pp.173:(2,
Bentley's list), original dark blue bevelled cloth, large gilt
corner ornaments with gilt rules to sides, the upper cover also
pictorially blocked in gilt, a.e.g. Stitching slack, several
leaves detached, headband snagged and with very small puncture to
backstrip, small brown stain to upper cover.
Quote Item No. 524
Price: £60.00
ANON: Birds. (Rare
coloured issue).
London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1845.
The rare coloured issue of this charming little book. The pictorial
title-page and all the illustrations throughout finely coloured by
hand, depicting birds, nests etc. in natural settings. 12mo,
pp.160, original burgundy blindstamped cloth, the upper cover
pictorially blocked in gilt and gilt lettered "Birds - Coloured
Plates". All edges gilt. Spine faded, headbands snagged.
Gift inscription dated July 1845 on half-title.
Quote Item No. 9053
Price: £100.00
ANON: The White Swan.
London: Ernest Nister, n.d. ca. 1900.
Three coloured illustrations and verse. 6-pages, oblong 16 mo,
original coloured pictorial card wrappers, die-cut along the upper
edge. Text block detached else very good.
Quote Item No. 8915
Price: £15.00
ANON: A Complete Picture Gallery of the Animal Kingdom in
which Seven Hundred and Thirty-five woodcuts, arranged
systematically, illustrate all the commoner forms of Animal Life.
London: George Gill, n.d. ca. 1890.
4to, original blue cloth pictorially blocked in gilt and black, all
edges gilt; head and base of spine a little rubbed, corners rubbed,
binding spotted but generally very good. Signature and date,
1892, on reverse of title-page.
Quote Item No. 6134
Price: £20.00
ANON: Here and There Pictures, Stories, Poems.
London: Blackie, n.d. ca. 1927.
Charming coloured plates by Honor C. Appleton and others. 4to,
original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards; boards a
little rubbed and slightly dusty. Gift inscription dated 1927
on endpaper.
Quote Item No. 6124
Price: £12.00
ANON: The Wonderfull History of Dame Trot and Her Pig.
With illustrations by C.A.B.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1883.
Coloured pictorial title and 23 coloured plates. 4to, original
cloth-backed boards; now lacking the backstrip, boards soiled,
all plates loose. Short edge tear to one plate otherwise all
in good order.
The preface states that this work "was written and illustrated some
half century ago". The date 1826 is printed on the cover.
Quote Item No. 6079
Price: £40.00
ANON: The Two Sisters; or, Ellen and Sophia.
London: R.T.S. 1831.
Engraved frontispiece & woodcut illustrations. 12mo, pp.108,
contemporary half roan, marbled boards; some foxing.
Quote Item No. 207
Price: £25.00
ANON: Cherry Pie for Good Girl and Boy.
London: Dean & Son ca. 1885.
Cover and 5 plates printed in colours, the text leaves mounted on
linen as issued; creased, backstrip & lower cover chipped.
Quote Item No. 146
Price: £20.00
ARMFIELD, CONSTANCE SMEDLEY: The Armfields' Animal Book.
With 8 Illustrations in Colour by Maxwell Armfield.
London: Duckworth, 1922.
First edition. Eight tipped-in colour plates. 4to,
pp.96, original yellow cloth lettered in black in dustwrapper with
colour pastedown on upper cover; edges of binding slightly
browned and bumped; dustwrapper generally browned and
rubbed with a number of short tears (small amounts of loss) and
chips to edges especially upper headband; endpapers browned;
one plate mount suffering some slight adhesion of paper from
opposite text page and another plate mount creased along gutter due
to insufficient trimming; despite all a good copy.
Quote Item No. 6867
Price: £40.00
ARTHUR, T.S: The Child's Own Story Book.
London: Knight & Son, ca. 1855.
Woodcut illustrations. 12mo, pp.vi:244, original blindstamped green
cloth, spine pictorially blocked in gilt, a.e.g. - an exceptional
copy.
Quote Item No. 256
Price: £45.00
AUSTIN, STELLA: Uncle Philip. A Story for Boys and
Girls.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1903.
Frontispiece and illustrations. 8vo, pp.x:252:[8, publisher's
list], original pale grey cloth pictorially blocked in colours and
gilt; headbands and corners bumped; page edges browned, binding very slightly dusty. Sunday School prize
label pasted to front-pastedown.
Quote Item No. 988
Price: £10.00
BALDWIN, W.H. [Conducted by]: Every Boy's New Monthly. Volume
2.
London: Appleyard, 1891.
Illustrations in the text. 4to, pp.172, original blue cloth
blocked in black & gilt; binding faded and edge rubbed.
Contemporary gift inscription.
"Encounter with an Elephant", "Buried Alive", "Man Eater
of Nagpore" and other exciting tales, also "How to form a Football
Club" and other useful articles.
Quote Item No. 6125
Price: £12.00
BARKER, CICELY MARY: Flower Fairies of the Autumn.
London: Blackie, n.d.
24 coloured plates. 12mo, original boards with coloured
illustration onlaid to upper cover as issued. A very good copy
in bright d.w. Priced at 2/6.
Quote Item No. 2666
Price: £40.00
BARRIE, J.M.: Peter Pan in
Kensington Gardens. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: Hodder &
Stoughton, n.d.
Colour plates tipped-in with tissue-guards.
4to, pp.126, original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine and
pictorially blocked in gilt on front cover with blind-stamped
border, headbands and corners bumped;
some joints cracked but stitching firm, some corners of pages
creased, book-plate pasted to reverse of front free-endpaper, in all
other respects good, the binding generally bright.
Quote Item No. 9467
Price: £50.00
BAYLEY, F.W.N; and SMITH, ALBERT: Comic Nursery Tales:
Blue Beard. With illustrations Humorous and Numerous.
[Bound with] Beauty and the Beast by Albert Smith.
Illustrations by Alfred Crowquill.
[Bound with] Robinson Crusoe, with thirty illustrations.
London: Wm. S. Orr, 1844.
General title "Comic Tales" listing all three works, printed in
colours. Three works in one each with individual title-page, printed
in colours, and separate pagination, each illustrated with plates on
tinted backgrounds with tissue guards; the title-page of the second
work with hand-coloured vignette.
Small 8vo, pp.46:51:39, original elaborately decorated boards
printed in red, blue and gold, all edges gilt; one and a half inch
piece chipped from base of spine, headband chipped, boards rubbed.
Decoratively printed endpapers in colours.
The illustrations engraved on wood by Henry Vizetelly. The front
board states that the illustrations are by Cham, Alfred Crowquill, &
Leech.
Very rare.
Quote Item No.3744
Price: £200.00
BELL, J.J.: Plays for Children No. 4. Wee Macgreegor's
Party, A Play in One Act.
London: Gowans & Gray, 1931.
Square small 8vo, pp.35, original plain light card wrappers with
tissue dustwrapper printed in red and black and bearing an
illustration by John Hassall. In very good condition indeed.
Quote Item No. 10274
Price: £20.00
BELL, LETTICE: The Boiling Caldron.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
Four coloured plates. Square 8vo, pp.210, original green cloth
with coloured pictorial illustration mounted on upper cover as
issued; binding a little faded, upper inner joint cracked but
firm, generally good.
Quote Item No. 5282
Price: £12.00
BEMELMANS, LUDWIG: Madeline's Rescue.
London: Derek Verschoyle [n.d. ca. 1954].
Coloured illustrations throughout. 4to, pp.56, original red
cloth pictorially blocked in black. A very good copy in
dustwrapper. The d.ustwrapper,
however, does have two short splits one of which
unfortunately repaired with sellotape. Signature on recto of
front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 8571
Price: £65.00
BEMELMANS, LUDWIG: Madeline.
London: Derek Verschoyle [n.d. ca. 1953].
Coloured illustrations throughout. 4to, pp.(48), original
coloured pictorial boards; very slightly rubbed at head and tail of
spine but generally very good. In the dustwrapper, which is
edge-rubbed, a little chipped and with long tear across lower panel.
Signature in pencil on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 8572
Price: £65.00
BENHAM,
W. GURNEY: Arthur and the Boilybird. An A.B.C. Story.
Pictured by Frank Adams.
London: Blackie, n.d. [1909].
First (& only?) edition. Coloured illustrations throughout.
Oblong folio, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards;
corners a trifle rubbed but virtually a fine copy of this very rare
title.
An illustrated alphabet with verse. Young Arthur is visited by
the Boilybird Fairy, who lives in the nursery kettle, and they
take off on their adventures in a flying car "made of
fairyland steel, it was worked by a windmilly sort of a wheel, And a
little steam snorter beneath it was sizzling, Which kept the
machinery twirling and twizzling"
Quote Item No. 5048
Price: £250.00
BESTALL, ALFRED: More Adventures of Rupert.
London: Daily Express, 1986.
Limited edition (Number 2728) facsimile reprint of the first edition
of 1937. Illustrations in red & black throughout. 4to,
pp.123, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards.
Corners a trifle bumped but generally a fine copy and free from
inscriptions.
Quote Item No. 6273
Price: £40.00
BINGHAM, CLIFTON: The Wangleboo Book. With Pictures by
John Hassall. In "the Langham Series for Children".
London: Siegle, Hill & Co. n.d. ca. 1905.
Coloured pictorial title and 28 coloured plates. Oblong 12mo,
pp.61:(1, coloured pictorial advertisement for No. 2 in the
Langham series "the True Story of William"), original boards
lettered in red and black and with applied coloured illustration, as
issued. Contemporary gift inscription on verso of front free
endpaper. A very good copy. Rare.
Quote Item No. 10273
Price: £70.00
BINGHAM, CLIFTON & WAIN, LOUIS: All Sorts of Comical Cats.
Pictured by Louis Wain, Verses by Clifton Bingham.
London: Ernest Nister [1902].
Coloured mounted frontispiece, illustrated title-page, and
illustrations throughout, some with coloured highlights. 4to,
pp.[62], original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards.
Fore-edges and fore-corners of boards rubbed, some marking but
generally good. Front free-endpaper, which bears a
contemporary gift inscription, is detached and a little edge worn.
Tear to frontispiece backing sheet not affecting the coloured
mounted plate, horizontal tear through one leaf without loss.
Scan available upon request.
Quote Item No. 5441
Price: £225.00
BLANCHARD, AMY E: My Own Dolly. With Original
Illustrations in Colour by Ida Waugh.
New York: E.P. Dutton & London: Griffith & Farran, n.d.
ca. 1880's.
Chromolitho. frontispiece, pictorial title and plates. Square
8vo, pp.64, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards.
Binding dusty, corners bumped, edge-rubbed, marginal tear to one
leaf of text with some loss but not affecting text.
Quote Item No. 5217
Price: £48.00
BRERETON, CAPTAIN F.S.:
On the Field of Waterloo. Illustrated by John de Walton.
London: Blackie, 1915.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.400, original blue cloth lettered in
gilt and pictorially blocked in colours. Joint cracked between
frontispiece and title, headbands a little bruised, else a very good
bright copy. Near contemporary gift inscription on front free
endpaper.
Quote Item No. 10262
Price: £32.00
BRERETON, CAPTAIN F.S.: The Great Aeroplane. A Thrilling
Tale of Adventure.
London: Blackie, n.d. ca. 1915.
Frontispiece, plates. 8vo, pp.vi:(1):396, original blue cloth
strikingly pictorially blocked in gilt and colours; inner
joints cracked, gift inscription on recto of frontispiece dated Xmas
1916. An exceptional bright copy.
Quote Item No. 10242
Price: £30.00
BRERETON, CAPTAIN F.S.: The Great Airship. A Tale of
Adventure. Illustrated by C.M. Padday.
London: Blackie, 1914.
First edition. Coloured plates. 8vo, pp.360, original
blue cloth pictorially blocked in colours; headbands bruised,
dent in leading edge of rear board, but generally a very good bright
copy. Signature on half-title.
Quote Item No. 10243
Price: £22.00
BRERETON, CAPTAIN F.S.: Under Foch's Command, A Tale of the
Americans in France. Illustrated by Wal Pageat.
London: Blackie, n.d. ca. 1918.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.287, original pictorial
cloth. A very good bright copy indeed, now contained in a
modern custom slipcase.
Quote Item No. 10260
Price: £20.00
BROOKE, L. LESLIE: Johnny Crow's Party, another Picture
Book.
London: Frederick Warne & Co., n.d.
Frontispiece and 6 coloured plates, illustrations in line to each
leaf. Square 8vo, original green boards, cream cloth-backed,
with coloured oval illustration inset on upper cover; spine browned,
edges of boards unevenly and quite severely faded; internally, 1
plate detached, some light foxing, some joints slightly cracked.
Inscription dated 1928 on verso of front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 362
Price: £10.00
BUCKLEY, ARABELLA B.: The
Fairy-Land of Science.
London: Edward Stanford, 1878.
Frontispiece, plates & illustrations. 8vo, pp.viii:244:32,
Stanford's catalogue), original green cloth pictorially blocked in
gilt and black. Inner joints cracked, inscription on front free
endpaper, cuttings from another work tipped-in at end. The binding
generally attractive.
Quote Item No. 10244
Price: £20.00
BULLEN, FRANK T: The Cruise of the "Cachalot". Round
the World after Sperm Whales. With illustrations.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1898.
First edition. Seven black and white plates, one folding map.
8vo, pp.xx:379, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine with a
whale stamped in gilt on upper cover; headbands and corners a
little bumped and rubbed, joints a trifle rubbed; ink name on
front free endpaper. Generally a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 8065
Price: £90.00
BULLIVANT, CECIL H.: Every
Boy's Book of Hobbies. Model Making, Carpentry, Collecting,
Scouting, Home Pets, Photography, Fret Work, Bent Iron Work,
Camping, Caravaning, Home Museum etc.
London: Jack, n.d. ca. 1925.
Numerous illustrations. Large 8vo, pp.553, original stone
cloth lettered and pictorially blocked, after John Hassall, in blue
and black. An
exceptional bright copy.
Xmas gift inscription dated 1925 on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 10240
Price: £25.00
CALDECOT, RANDOLPH: Sing a Song for Sixpence. "One of R.
Caldecott's Picture Books".
London: Routledge n.d. ca. 1880.
First edition. 8 coloured plates and line illustrations in
sepia. 4to, pp.30, original coloured pictorial wrappers;
a few punctures and rubbing to backstrip, stitching broken. An
excellent and bright copy, both wrappers and content.
Quote Item No. 5232
Price: £20.00
CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH: The Three Jovial Huntsmen. "One
of R. Caldecott's Picture Books".
London: Routledge, ca. 1880.
First edition. 8 coloured plates and line illustrations in
sepia. 4to, pp.30, original coloured pictorial wrappers;
a few punctures and rubbing to backstrip, stitching broken. A
good copy with only some marking to the wrappers.
Quote Item No. 5235
Price: £15.00
CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH: The Farmer's Boy. "One of R.
Caldecott's Picture Books".
London: Routledge, [1881].
First edition. 8 coloured plates and sepia illustrations in
line. 4to, pp.30, original coloured pictorial wrappers;
backstrip very rubbed, narrow strip of paper adhered to inner margin
of lower wrapper. Text block detached from wrappers. The
wrappers and content very clean & attractive.
Quote Item No. 5230
Price: £20.00
CARROLL,
LEWIS: The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony in Eight Fits.
With Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday.
London: Macmillan, 1876.
First edition. 8vo, pp. xi:(2):83:(1, advertisements),
original tan cloth pictorially blocked in black, slight lean,
half-title foxed, generally good. Signature cut diagonally
from upper blank margin of title not affecting text.
Quote Item No. 9583
Price: £145.00
CASSELL & COMPANY (Publishers): All Sorts of Adventures. Tenth
Thousand.
London: Cassell, n.d.
but 1888.
Frontispiece and full page illustrations. Small 4to, pp.80:
(16, advertisements), original blue cloth pictorially blocked with
flowers, leaves, and bees in pale blue, green & gilt.
Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 9586
Price: £25.00
CLARKE, MRS. HENRY [AMY]:
Roskelly of Roskelly. Illustrated by W.F. Stacey.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1900].
First (& only?) edition. Plates. 8vo,
pp.159:32(adverts.) original tan cloth pictorially blocked in brown
and pink; a very nice bright copy. Near contemporary prize
inscription on verso of front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 9474
Price: £20.00
CLARKE, J. ERSKINE [Editor]: Chatterbox 1896.
Fine copy.
London: Wells, Gardner, Darton, 1896.
Coloured plates & illustrations throughout. 4to, pp.412,
original blue grained cloth blocked in black and gilt. Some
foxing. Apart from some rubbing to the headband and corners
this volume is remarkably fresh, with the gilt as bright as when
new.
Quote Item No. 8103
Price: £20.00
CORNEWALL-JONES, R.J.: Ships, Sailors, and the Sea.
London: Cassell, 1887.
Coloured folding frontispiece of flags, illustrations. 8vo,
pp.xii:320:(12, publisher's catalogue), original brown cloth
pictorially blocked in colours. Upper inner joint pulled, lower
inner joint split and held on webbing, headbands bruised and corners
bumped, the binding however generally good and attractive.
Contemporary Xmas gift inscription on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 10238
Price: £20.00
COX,
PALMER: The Brownies at Home.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893.
First English edition.
Illustrations throughout. 4to, pp.xi:(1):144, original pale
green cloth pictorially blocked in brown, orange, & black, all edges
gilt. Tear through one leaf without loss, front free endpaper
removed, upper inner joint split (held on cords). Some
thumbing or dustmarking, lower cover marked. The binding is
generally very fresh and bright.
Quote Item No. 10227
Price: £90.00
CRANE, WALTER: The Sleeping Beauty.
One of
the "New Series"
of
"Walter Crane's Toy Books".
London: George Routledge, ca. 1875.
First edition. 7 coloured plates, one being double-page.
4to, original coloured pictorial wrappers; backstrip very
rubbed. Contemporary signature on upper margin of upper
wrapper, one corner rubbed. The wrappers a little dust marked
but generally very good. Some foxing.
The superior One Shilling issue with the plates mounted on
linen. Number 116
in the series of "Routledge's New Sixpennny Toy Books or
Large Coloured Books for Children". Very rare.
Quote Item No. 10229
Price: £60.00
CRANE, WALTER: The Baby's Own Aesop. Being the Fables
condensed in Rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed.
London: George Routledge, 1887.
First edition. Colored frontispiece, coloured pictorial title,
and coloured plates throughout,
engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. Small
4to, pp.56, with tipped-in errata slip. Original cloth-backed
coloured pictorial glazed boards; corners rubbed but generally
a very good bright copy indeed.
Quote Item No. 10290
Price: £100.00
DARTON & CO. [Publisher ]: London Cries. Illustrated
for the Young.
London: Darton & Co., n.d. ca. 1850's.
16 hand-coloured plates each showing a different street vendor, the
figure of the men, or women, depicted entirely made up of their
wares thus the Fruiterer has grapes for feet, a pineapple as a body
and oranges and pears as arms. Square 12mo, pp.64, original
blue cloth blocked in blind and gilt; binding very rubbed, corners
bumped, gilt dulled. Stitching broken, contents loose, two
tears to the text without loss. Text corners bumped, marginal
thumbing and soiling, a number of leaves lightly chipped on
fore-margins. A poor copy of a very rare work but complete.
The plates depict: The Fruiterer, The Dealer in Images, The
Old Clothesman, The Fish-Woman, The Poulterer, The Cooper, The Bird
Fancier, The Strolling Musician, The Flower Girl, The Brush Maker,
The Orange Merchant, The Green Grocer, The Tinker, The Knife
Grinder, The Dealer in Earthenware, & The Italian Pedlar.
A birthday gift inscription to Sophia Hapgood from her father dated
1863 on rector of front free endpaper.
The Bodleian Library suggests 1855 as the date of publication.
Quote Item No. 8028
Price: £125.00
D'AULNOY, CONTESSA: The White Cat. A Fairy Tale by
Contessa d’Aulnoy. Retold by Jane Carmichael, Illustrated by S
& G Tourret. "Containing a ‘magic’ sound record, no record player
needed”.
A Mulberry Press Talking Book, 1974.
4to, original glazed pictorial boards; the book containing a
record and hinged needle, designed to be spun with the finger – and
it works! In very good condition.
Quote Item No. 3516
Price: £12.00
DAVIS, ELLEN LOUISA: Asceline's Ladder.
London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. ca. 1890's.
Frontispiece. 8vo, pp.288 plus advertisements, original green
cloth blocked in colours. Gutter cracked between pages 48 & 49 else
a very good copy. School prize label on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 7137
Price: £25.00
DAVIES, M. JOYCE: Oh My Hat !
London: Hutchinson's Books for Young People, n.d. ca. 1940's.
Coloured illustrations thoughout. Square 8vo, pp. [32], original
coloured pictorial boards; boards a little yellowed else a
very good copy.
Quote Item No. 3575
Price: £10.00
DEAN & SON (Publishers): Childhoods Favorite [sic] Tales.
With New Designs by Mrs Grey and O.E.A.
London: Dean & Son, n.d. ca. 1890.
Chromolitho. frontispiece and chromolitho. illustrations to every
page. 4to, 40 illustrated leaves printed on recto only,
original green cloth, the upper cover pictorially blocked in black
and lettered in gilt. Some foxing, a few marginal short tears
or chips to text leaves, slightly later (1909) inscription on
endpaper, two small patches of damp-marking on lower margin of upper
cover but generally a good copy.
The volume contains: The True Story of Little Bo-Peep, The Pig
bought with a Silver Penny, The Children's Cinderella, Cock Robin,
The Children's Little Red Riding Hood, The Ten Little Niggers, The
Children's Babes in the Wood, & Robinson Crusoe.
The title is spelt "Favorite" on the title-page and "Favourite" on
the binding.
Quote Item No. 4347
Price: £65.00
DE PABAN, GABRIELLE: Les Amis de College ou Quinze Jours de
Vacances.
Paris: Locard et Davi, 1819. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title
vignette, and four plates. 12mo, pp. 234, contemporary half green
roan, marbled boards. Upper outer joint split and chipped, backstrip
partly detached. Contemporary inscription on front fly. Internally a
good copy.
Quote Item No. 682
Price:. £55.00
DOYLE, RICHARD: Jack the Giant Killer.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, [1888].
First edition. Being a facsimile reproduction of Doyle's
manuscript of 1842. Coloured pictorial title and coloured
illustrations throughout. 4to, pp.48, original grey cloth
pictorially blocked in red; publisher's introduction slip tipped-in
as issued. Both free endpapers torn and damaged, inner hinges
split, corners and head and tail of spine rubbed. Internally
excellent.
Quote Item No. 6075
Price: £90.00
DISNEY, WALT: Mickey Mouse Annual. Still
Sailing Merrily On.
London: Dean and Son [1938].
Coloured frontispiece "Goof's Resterong Car", black & white
illustrations throughout. 4to, original coloured pictorial boards;
short split to headband, joints and corners rubbed but generally
very good. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1938 on endpaper.
Quote Item No. 8850
Price: £75.00
DUFRESNE, ABEL: Contes a Henri et a Henriette.
Paris: Lehuby, n.d.
Eight coloured lithographic plates. 8vo, pp.v:220, original
elaborately embossed green cloth, the upper cover blocked in gold
and colours. Headband chipped, light damp-mark to upper edges
of most leaves.
Quote Item No. 4350
Price: £25.00
EDGAR, JOHN G.: Footprints
of Famous Men designed as Incitements to Intellectual Industry. With
eight illustrations by Birket Foster.
New Edition.
London: Routledge, Warne, 1864.
8vo, pp.376, original pebble-grain green cloth blocked in blind, the
spine decoratively blocked in gilt; contemporary signature on
half-title, armorial bookplate.
A very nice and fresh copy.
Quote Item No. 9473
Price: £20.00
EDGAR, J.G: A Boy's Adventures in the Barons' Wars;
or, How I Won my Spurs. Illustrated with numerous Woodcuts,
from Designs Principally by R. Huttula and J.C. Danby.
London: Ward, Lock, ca. 1890's?
Coloured frontispiece and numerous illustrations. 8vo,
pp.xviii:413:16, [publisher's list], original brown cloth
pictorially blocked in black and gilt, a.e.g.; frontispiece
partly detached, a bright and attractive copy.
Quote Item No. 989
Price: £25.00
EMANUEL, WALTER: A Dog Day. Or the Angel in
the House.
Pictured by Cecil Aldin.
London: William
Heineman, 1930.
New edition.
Illustrated throughout, text leaf on the left, plate on the right.
6½ inches tall and 5 inches wide, original paper-backed
illustrated boards in dustwrapper; dustwrapper chipped along top edges, especially at headband
and with small puncture to spine;
foxing to prelimins;
ink inscription to front free-endpaper.
Quote Item No. 8667
Price: £21.00
Every Boy's Hobby Annual for 1931.
London: Fleetway (1930).
Numerous illustrations, 2 folding plates "Motor-Cycling
Extraordinary" and "R.A.F. Champions". 4to, pp. 208, original
cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards; corners bumped, one
plate detached, else very good.
Quote Item No. 2873
Price: £15.00
FARMILOE, EDITH: Mr. and Mrs. Tiddliwinks.
London: S.P.C.K. 1902.
Illustrations in the text. Large 8vo, pp.52:(4 adverts.)
original green pictorial cloth blocked in black & gilt, no
dustwrapper; binding unevenly faded, spine and edges browned,
headbands and corners bumped and rubbed; internally, foxing
throughout, joints cracked near rear free endpaper, stitching
slightly slack, inscription on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 1884
Price: £10.00
FENELON [François de Salignac de la Mothe-]: Little Tales.
Guben: F. Fechner, London: A. &
Joseph Myers, 144 Leadenhall Street. n.d. ca. 1854.
Four volumes. 16mo (each 3¾
x 2¼ inches) bound in the
original variously patterned and coloured silk over boards, each
with a coloured cut paper floral onlay as issued. Each volume
with hand-coloured frontispiece, 4 other hand-coloured plates.
First two volumes without imprint as issued. One volume
inscribed "Lizzy Bland with cousin Kate's kind love Xmas /54".
One volume with small chip at head of spine, another with a small
chip at base of spine but generally in excellent condition, bright
and attractive. All four volumes contained within the original
box with lift off lid. This with patterned silk over board sides,
the applied lettering on lid "The Lilliputation Library" [?] and
other border decorations chipped and with corners rubbed but the box
generally in sound condition.
Quote Item No. 6691
Price: £350.00
FENOLLOSA, MARY: Blossoms from a Japanese Garden, a Book of
Child-Verses.
London: Heinemann, 1913.
First edition. 20 tipped-in coloured plates. 8vo,
pp.vii:60, original decorative green cloth with coloured
illustration mounted to upper cover as issued. Slight snag to
upper edge of lower cover and headband but generally very good.
Quote Item No. 3002
Price: £25.00
FERRY, JEANIE: The Heroism of Lancelot.
London: The Religous Tract Society, n.d. ca. 1910.
Coloured plates. 8vo, pp.4:320:(16, advertisements), original
blue cloth lettered in gilt and pictorially blocked in black and
white; a very good and bright copy. Prize label dated
1911 on front pastedown.
Quote Item No. 10237
Price: £20.00
GIBBS, MAY: Boronia Babies.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson n.d. [1919].
First edition. Coloured frontispiece, sepia illustrations
throughout. Tall 8vo, original tan wrappers with applied
coloured illustration as issued, silk cord bound. The
"To/From" leaf at front inscribed, "To Joan from Mummy".
A very nice copy.
Quote Item No. 6362
Price: £100.00
GOODALL, JOHN S: Shrewbettina goes to Work.
Macmillan, 1981.
Oblong 8vo, original coloured pictorial boards. Pop-ups and
paper engineering by Tor Lokvig; binding, pop-ups and moving parts
fine.
Quote Item No. 3518
Price: £10.00
GOODALL, JOHN S: Paddy finds a Job.
Macmillan, 1981.
Oblong 8vo, original coloured pictorial boards. Pop-ups and
paper engineering by Tor Lokvig; binding, pop-ups and moving parts
fine.
Quote Item No. 3519
Price: £10.00
GORDON, W. J: Rupert's Treasure and other Stories.
London: Warne, n.d. ca. 1925.
Coloured frontispiece, b & w illustrations. Large 8vo,
original boards with coloured illustration pasted to upper cover as
issued; generally a very good copy. Prize inscription dated
1926 on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 2820
Price: £12.00
HAGGARD, H. RIDER: Eric Brighteyes. With numerous
illustrations by Lancelot Speed.
London: Longmans, Green, 1891.
First edition. 8vo, pp.xiv:319, original bevelled cloth
lettered in gilt. One plate detached and chipped on blank margin,
some foxing otherwise a good copy. Old name and address in ink on
front fly.
Quote Item No. 10276
Price: £35.00
HALL, HAMMOND: The Boy's Book of Chivalry.
London: S.W. Partridge, n.d. ca. 1910.
Coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, plates. 8vo,
pp.332:32(publisher's list), original blue cloth pictorially blocked
in colours. Headbands bruised, some rubbing to gilt on spine,
generally a good bright copy. Christmas gift inscription dated
1910 on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 10275
Price: £21.00
HALL, MRS S.C. [Editor]: The Juvenile Forget Me Not
for the Year 1831.
London: Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, 1831.
Engraved plates with tissue-guards. 8vo, pp.viii:224:[4,
advertisements], original ornately and decoratively embossed calf,
a.e.g.; corners and headbands bumped and extremely rubbed;
binding edge-rubbed and with loss of surface to a narrow strip on
upper cover; stitching broken to two sections, text case
almost detached from binding at front; almost half front
free-endpaper removed; rear end-paper removed; ink
ownership signature on front-pastedown; some foxing;
plates with faint stains to borders.
Quote Item No.7355
Price: £45.00
HARRIS, JOHN (Publisher): The Literary Box: containing
the Contributions of the Evelyn Family, consisting of Instructing
and Amusing Tales, in Prose and Verse, Suited to All Ages. By
the Author of "The Welcome Visitor".
London: John Harris, 1824.
Engraved frontispiece and five plates (each with two illustrations).
8vo, pp.90:(2, advertisements), contemporary full diced tan calf,
narrow decorative gilt border to sides, spine gilt with lettering
piece. Joints rubbed, tear to blank margin of one leaf, some foxing
and spotting. Contemporary
inscription on front fly. Generally a pleasant copy.
Quote Item No. 9585
Price: £145.00
HARRISON, C. and HAMER, S.H: Master Charlie, Painter, Poet,
Novelist, and Teacher, with numerous examples of his Work.
London: Cassell, 1899.
First edition. Tinted plates incorporating text throughout.
4to, pp.67:[4, adverts.], original red cloth pictorially blocked in
black & yellow. Stitching slack else very good.
"I have indevored to combine amusement with instrucktion"
(sic).
Quote Item No. 5440
Price: £14.00
HARVEY DARTON, F.J.: Children's Books in England. Five
Centuries of Social Life. Second edition with an Introduction by
Kathleen Lines.
Cambridge University Press, 1966.
Reprint. Black & white plates. 8vo, pp.xviii:367, original cloth in
dustwrapper; binding very good with a tiny amount of rubbing at top
headband; dustwrapper with a number of very short tears to edges,
one slightly larger at top edge of spine, foxed; internally,
excellent.
Quote Item No. 1054
Price: £9.00
HASSALL, JOHN: Our Diary, or Teddy and Me. Illustrated
by John Hassall. In the "Bumper Colour Books" series.
London: Thomas Nelson, n.d. Coloured plates by John
Hassall. Small 8vo, pp.96, original two-tone cloth pictorially
blocked in black. Title a little spoted, presentation label
dated 1940 on front pastedown. The binding exceptionally clean
and bright.
Quote Item No. 10264
Price: £25.00
HASSALL, JOHN (Illustrator): My very first little book about
other Countries.
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. ca. 1932.
Coloured plates by John Hassall. Square 8vo, unpaginated.
original cloth with coloured pictorial onlay as issued. Text
block partly loose and held on cords. The "To" panel on front
pastedown has been filled in and dated 1932. The binding
generally very good and bright.
Quote Item No. 10284
Price: £15.00
HENTY, G.A.: An
Indian Raid. From "Redskin and Cowboy".
London: Blackie, n.d. ca. 1925.
Frontispiece. Small 8vo, pp.88, original decorated cloth;
a good copy. Prize label dated 1927 on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 10263
Price: £15.00
HENTY, G.A.:
Friends, though Divided. A Tale of the Civil War.
Griffith & Faran, 1883.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.viii:384, with the half-title.
Near contemporary full crimson prize calf, spine gilt extra with
green lettering piece, school arms in gilt on upper cover within
double gilt rules, all edges marbled. School prize label,
dated 1886, on front pastedown. Some light rubbing to binding
but generally very attractive and very sound.
Quote Item No. 10213
Price: £150.00
HENTY, G.A.: The
Plague Ship.
London: Sheldon Press,
n.d. [1923].
Reprint. 8vo, pp.62:8(adverts.), original brown cloth
pictorially blocked in black. Some foxing, headband bruised,
else very good. Prize label on front pastedown.
Quote Item No. 10277
Price: £55.00
HENTY, G.A.: With
Kitchener in the Soudan. A Story of Atbara and Omdurman.
With ten illustrations by William Rainey and three maps.
London: Blackie & Son, 1903.
First edition. 8vo, pp.384, contemporary half burgundy calf,
spine with decorative gilt rules and green lettering piece, a little
rubbed but very sound. Gilt school arms faded on upper cover,
prize label on front pastedown.
Quote Item No. 10278
Price: £25.00
HENTY, G.A; STABLES, GORDON; and OTHERS: THE
BOY'S OWN ANNUAL 1897.
London: "The Boy's Own Paper" Office, 1897.
Contributions by G. A. Henty (the serial "The Fetish Hole"), Gordon
Stables, etc. Chromolitho plates including large folding, of a
football match and poultry, and numerous illustrations in the text
by Louis Wain & others. 4to, pp.824, original brown cloth
blocked in black & gilt; short edge tear to one folding plate else a
very pleasing and bright copy.
Quote Item No. 4225
Price: £45.00
HENTY, G.A.;
STANLEY, H.M. and OTHERS: Boys Illustrated Annual. Volume 1.
Sampson Low, Marston n.d.
Chromolitho frontispiece and plates, other plates and illustrations.
4to, pp. 832, original pictorial red cloth blocked in colours.
Professionally rebacked retaining the original backstrip. A
few margins strengthend. Frontispiece foxed, title with
crease. Price and "Henty" inscribed in ink by buffoon on front free
endpaper. Text age toned. With serials by G.A. Henty "The Golden
Canon", George Manville
Fenn, Henry M. Stanley & others.
Quote Item No. 10306
Price: £60.00
HEYGATE, REV. W.E: Godfrey Davenant at College.
London: Joseph Masters, 1849.
Number 21 in the series of "The Juvenile Englishman's
Library". Small 8vo, pp.xvi:268:36 (Master's catalogue dated
June 1855), with 2 leaves of advertisements at front. Original
crimson cloth blocked in blind; binding a little dusty and marked
but generally good. Endpapers foxed. Contemporary inscription
on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 8062
Price: £35.00
HIGGS, MIKE [Editor]: The Seventh Deluxe Collector's
Edition of Dan Dare Pilot of the Future. Reign of the
Robots Plus The Ship That Lived.
London: Hawk Books, 1993.
First edition. Illustrated in colour. Folio, original
glazed boards; an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 7457
Price: £55.00
HIGGS, MIKE [Editor]: The Eighth Deluxe Collector's
Edition of Dan Dare Pilot of the Future. The Phantom Fleet.
London: Hawk Books, 1993.
First edition. Illlustrated in colour. Folio, original
glazed boards; some slight chips to leading edge of back
cover; in all other respects, excellent.
Quote Item No. 7458
Price: £90.00
HOLMAN, MRS. W.A.: Little Miss Anzac. The true Story of
an Australian Doll. Illustrations by Nelle Rodd.
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, n.d. ca. 1918.
Coloured frontispiece and nine coloured plates, with other plates
and illustrations. 4to, original coloured pictorial boards.
Backstrip chipped, boards stained, corners rounded, cockling to
pastedowns, internally very good.
Quote Item No. 10194
Price: £50.00
HURST, JUNE: A set of seven “Finger puppet books to read
and colour”, comprising: Meet Digger; Fly Speckle Fly; A
House for a Mouse; Fingal goes Home; Carry on Clementina;
Sidney the Self-Sufficient Spider; & Wake Up Prickle.
Radlett, Herts: Follow Your Finger Books, ca. late 1970's or
early 1980's.
Seven volumes. 8vo, original printed wrappers. Each with
a removable cloth finger puppet protruding through a hole in the
upper cover, as issued. Some marking to one cover else as new,
uncoloured and as new.
Quote Item No. 3528
Price: £35.00
JEWETT, JOHN HOWARD: The Stories the Three Baby Bears Told.
In the "Little Mother" series.
London: Ernest Nister n.d. [1908].
Coloured frontispiece, coloured pictorial title and coloured plates
throughout. Square 12mo, unpaginated. Original
cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Binding edge and
corner rubbed, spine spotted and askew, some thumbing and soiling,
piece cut from blank margin of frontispiece. Inner hinges cracked.
Inscription on half-title, signature on upper margin of title.
Quote Item No. 10309
Price: £25.00
JOHNS, REV. C.A: Gardening for Children. Second
Edition.
London: Charles Cox, 1849.
Frontispiece and illustrations of gardening tools, flowers, etc.
throughout. Small 8vo, pp.viii:182:(2), original crimson cloth
blocked in blind; a very nice copy. Inscribed on front
pastedown, "Mary Eliz'th Sayer Crawley the gift of Aunt
Susan & Aunt Eliz'th Crawley, July 1850" and with Mary's little
hand-embroidered bookmark loosely inserted. A charming little
work.
Quote Item No. 8053
Price: £60.00
JUVENILE BETHEL BAG MAGAZINE, THE. Volume 1 - New Series.
London: T. Ward, 1848.
Vignette illustrations. Small 8vo, pp.iv:284, original cloth
gilt; front free endpaper removed, slight spotting to upper cover
else very good.
Quote Item No. 2990
Price: £12.00
KER,
DAVID: Ilderim the Afghan. A Tale of the Indian Border. With
seven illustrations by Alfred Pearse. Second impression.
London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. ca. 1905.
Plates. 8vo, pp.v:254:(18, publisher's list), original
grey green cloth pictorially blocked in red, white, & black;
headbands a little bruised, a few minor marks on spine, inner rear
hinge cracked, but generally a good bright copy. Prize label
on front pastedown dated 1908, small contemporary inscription on
front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 10267
Price: £22.00
KINGSTON, WILLIAM H.G. and HENTY, G.A: Our Soldiers. Gallant
Deeds of the British Army during the Reign of Queen Victoria. A New
Edition, Revised and Brought Down to the end of 1898 [by G. A. Henty].
Illustrated.
London: Griffith Farran Browne, n.d. ca. 1899.
8vo, pp.352, original green cloth pictorially blocked in red and
black; headbands bruised, some fading to the binding, lower cover
marked, generally sound.
Quote Item No. 10269
Price: £20.00
KINGSTON, W.H.G: Hurricane Hurry; or, The Adventures of a
Naval Officer Afloat and On Shore. With illustrations by R.
Huttula.
London: Griffith Farran & Co., ca 1880's.
Seventh thousand (first published 1873). Frontispiece and
illustrations. 8vo, pp.viii:472, original brown cloth
pictorially blocked in black, red, white and gilt, a.e.g.;
corners rubbed, ink inscription, dated 1890, to recto of
frontispiece, an exceptionally bright and attractive copy.
Quote Item No. 958
Price: £35.00
KIPLING,
RUDYARD: The Jungle Book with Illustrations by J.L. Kipling,
W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. With The Second Jungle Book.
London: Macmillan, 1894.
First edition of both volumes (The Second Jungle Book
published 1895). Two volumes. 8vo, original blue cloth
blocked in gilt, all edges gilt. Both volumes with some
rubbing at head and tail of spines, spines askew. Vertical
mark to upper cover of the Second Jungle Book. The Jungle Book
with signature and date "31/5/94" on front fly-leaf, The Second
Jungle Book with bookplate on front pastedown. The Jungle Book
with a few scuff marks on lower cover but generally a very good
copy.
Quote Item No. 8446
Price: £900.00
LABOULAYE, EDOUARD: Fairy Tales. Illustrated by
Arthur A. Dixon.
London: Ernest Nister, New York: E.P. Dutton, ca.
1908.
Pictorial title, coloured & monochrome plates, illustrations in the
text. 8vo, pp.335, original green cloth pictorially blocked in
gilt, top edge gilt. An exceptional copy.
Quote Item No. 5904
Price: £65.00
LANG, ANDREW: Tartan Tales. Illustrated by Mahlon Blaine.
London: Longmans, Green, 1928.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.301, original black cloth
blocked in red; binding somewhat dulled, corners bumped, upper inner
hinge slightly pulled, prelims. foxed.
Quote Item No. 10270
Price: £25.00
LANG, ANDREW: The Crimson
Fairy Book.
With Eight Coloured Plates and Numerous
Illustrations by H.J. Ford.
London: Longmans, Green
& Co., 1908.
First edition. Coloured
plates and black & white illustrations.
8vo, pp.xi:371, original crimson cloth pictorially blocked in
gilt on spine and upper cover, a.e.g.;
spine extremely faded, gilt dulled;
headbands and corners bumped and slightly frayed, gilt
decoration on upper cover still bright;
joints cracked in a number of places, some movement to front
hinges; front
free-endpaper creased, and an ink name and date on half-title;
a small amount of foxing;
internally very good.
Quote Item No. 8955
Price: £45.00
LANG, ANDREW: The Yellow Fairy Book. With numerous
illustrations by H.J. Ford.
London: Longmans, Green, 1894.
First edition. 8vo, original yellow cloth elaborately blocked
in gilt, all edges gilt. Spine faded, binding a little marked
or dusty but generally a not unattractive copy. Slight
lean to spine. Old name on half-title. Some foxing.
Quote Item No. 7277
Price: £75.00
LANG, ANDREW:
The True Story Book. With numerous illustrations by L. Bogle,
Lucien Davis, H.J. Ford ... etc.
London: Longmans, 1893.
First edition. 8vo, pp.337, original blue cloth blocked
pictorially in gilt; head and base of spine a trifle rubbed
but generally a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 2629
Price: £25.00
LE MAIR, H. WILLEBEEK: Grannie's Little Rhyme Book.
No. 1 of Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by H. Willebeek Le
Mair.
London: Augener Ltd, n.d.
Illustrated in colour, one illustration per page within a floriate
border, text in similar border opposite. Oblong 8vo (4
1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), pp.28, original pictorial boards; binding
edge-rubbed; neat ink name on f.f.e.; in all other
respects, extremely good.
Quote Item No. 7345
Price: £30.00
LE MAIR, H. WILLEBEEK: Auntie's Little Rhyme Book.
No. 3 of Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by H. Willebeek Le
Mair.
London: Augener Ltd, n.d.
Illustrated in colour with one illustration per page within a
foliate border, page of text opposite in similar border.
Oblong 8vo (4½ x 6¼
inches), original pictorial boards; corners and headbands
bumped and rubbed; edges rubbed; upper headband chipped
with some loss of paper surface; lower spine chipped with some
loss of paper surface; neat pencil name on f.f.e.; in
all other respects very good, still an attractive copy.
Quote Item No. 7346
Price: £30.00
LETTS, WINIFRED M.: The Gentle Mountain.
Illustrations by Kathleen Verschoyle.
Dublin: The Talbot
Press, no date [ca. 1938].
Black & white illustrations.
8vo, pp.141, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding very good;
dustwrapper browned on spine, with short tears to top of
spine and chips to top corners;
internally very good.
Quote Item No. 9981
Price: £35.00
MAC-GREGOR, BARRINGTON: King Long Beard, or Annals of the
Golden Dreamland.
London: John Lane, 1898.
Frontispiece, decorative title, illustrations and decorations
throughout by Charles Robinson. Square 8vo, pp.262:1:12
(adverts.) original cloth gilt; binding very faded and soiled,
inner hinges cracked.
Quote Item No. 386
Price: £40.00
MACK, ROBERT ELLICE: Queen of the Meadow. Illustrated by
Harriett M. Bennett.
London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, n.d. ca. 1887.
Chomolitho. pictorial title, frontispiece & 15 charming plates,
illustrations in the text. Lithographed and printed by Ernest Nister
of Nuremberg. 4to, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial
boards. Corners rounded and rubbed, boards a little marked and with
very small chip but generally very good. Gift inscription
dated Christmas 1887 on verso of front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 9596
Price: £45.00
MAETERLINCK, MAURICE (Translated by Alfred Sutro): The Buried
Temple.
London: George Allen, 1902.
First English edition. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, pp.[viii]:276:[1,
publisher's list], original green cloth decoratively blocked in
black and gilt; some foxing, else an attractive copy.
Quote Item No. 1731
Price: £22.00
MALET, LUCAS: Little Peter, a Christmas Morality for
Children of Any Age. With numerous illustrations by Paul
Hardy.
London: Kegan, Paul 1888.
First edition. 8vo, pp.viii:168, original blue cloth blocked
in black & gilt. Small snag to upper cover, one corner rubbed,
else a very good copy. Inscription dated Xmas 1887 on front
fly-leaf.
Quote Item No. 3463
Price: £10.00
MEADE, L.T. - BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON - CAREY, ROSA N. - YONGE,
CHARLOTTE M. - PRAED, MRS. CAMPBELL - WAIN, LOUIS and OTHERS:
The Girl's Realm Annual.
London: Hutchinson, 1899.
Various illustrators including Louis Wain and Tom Browne.
Large thick 8vo, pp.1272, original crimson cloth blocked in blind
and gilt; spine dulled, some small white spots to upper cover.
The backstrip has at one time been torn but has been neatly
repaired. School prize label on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 8341
Price: £32.00
MEDHURT, COPE: Thirteen Fairy Stories. As Told to
Betty, Sylvia and Norman. Illustrated.
Llandudno: Evans & Evans, n.d.
Portrait frontispiece, two-tone plates with tissue-guards.
4to, pp.160, original cream cloth lettered and blocked in gilt and
blue, untrimmed; spine browned; foxing to prelims, page
edges and slightly to some plates; one tissue-guard torn-out;
one leaf of text suffering a 7.5cm tear (no loss); upper
cover slightly rubbed with faint loss of blue to decorative
blocking.
Quote Item No. 7298
Price: £25.00
MITFORD MARY R: Anna Fitzgerald; or, The Three
Half-Crowns.
London: Warne, n.d. ca. 1890's.
Frontispiece and illustrations. Small 8vo, original decorated red
cloth blocked in colours; inner joints cracked else a good copy.
Quote Item No. 7136
Price: £25.00
MOLESWORTH
MRS. [MARY LOUISA]: The Cuckoo Clock.
Illustrated with Drawings by C.E. Brock.
London: Macmillan, 1931.
First edition thus.
"Children's Edition". Deluxe issue. Coloured plates. 8vo,
pp.viii:196, publisher's full maroon crushed morocco, titled in gilt
within decorative framework to upper cover, spine gilt, all edges
gilt, marbled endpapers; with bound-in silk bookmark.
A touch of light sunning to spine, very slight rubbing to
headband, else an exceptional copy and free from inscriptions.
Quote Item No. 9554
Price: £45.00
MOLESWORTH,
MRS. [MARY LOUISA]: Carrots: Just a Little Boy. Illustrated by
Walter Crane.
London: Macmillan, 1929.
Reprint. Deluxe issue.
8vo, pp.241, publisher's full burgundy calf, upper cover and spine
blocked in gilt; top edge gilt; bound-in silk bookmark.
A superlative copy. Free from inscriptions.
Quote Item No. 9518
Price: £30.00
MOLESWORTH,
MRS. [MARY LOUISA]: Grandmother Dear. A Book for Boys and Girls.
Illustrated by Walter Crane.
London: Macmillann, 1920.
Reprint. Deluxe issue.
8vo, pp.viii:(1):262, publisher's full burgundy calf, upper cover
and spine blocked in gilt; top edge gilt; bound-in silk bookmark.
A superlative copy. Free from inscriptions.
Quote Item No. 9517
Price: £30.00
MOLESWORTH,
MRS. [MARY LOUISA]: Tell Me a Story.
London: Macmillan, 1920.
Illustrations. Reprint. Deluxe issue.
8vo, pp.196, publisher's full burgundy calf, upper cover and
spine blocked in gilt; top edge gilt; bound-in silk bookmark. Very
slight rubbing at head of spine else a beautiful copy. Free
from inscriptions.
Quote Item No. 9520
Price: £25.00
MOLESWORTH,
MRS. [MARY LOUISA]: The Adventures of Herr Baby.
Illustrated by Walter Crane.
London: Macmillan, 1920. Reprint. Deluxe issue.
8vo, pp. viii:180, publisher's full burgundy calf, upper
cover and spine blocked in gilt; top edge gilt; bound-in silk
bookmark. A superlative
copy.
Free from inscriptions.
Quote Item No. 9516
Price: £30.00
MOLESWORTH, MRS. [MARY LOUISA]: The Cuckoo Clock.
Illustrated with Drawings by C.E. Brock.
London: Macmillan, 1933.
Reprint. Deluxe issue.
8vo, pp.viii:196, publisher's full burgundy calf, upper cover and
spine blocked in gilt; top edge gilt; bound-in silk bookmark.
A superlative copy. Free from inscriptions.
Quote Item No. 9519
Price: £30.00
NISTER, ERNEST (Publisher) (Anon. by EDRIC VREDENBURG & others:
Four Feet by Two, Animal Talks and Tales by Mr. Barn Owl, Mr.
Mouser, A. Colt, G. Gee, Farmyard Quackling, and Other Animal
Writers.
London: Ernest Nister, n.d. ca. 1892.
Plates, some coloured, illustrations. 4to, pp. 72, original cloth
backed coloured pictorial boards. Contemporary inscription on front
free endpaper. Several leaves and plates detached and a little worn
on fore-margin, page margins spotted and browned. The binding a
little edge rubbed but generally bright.
Quote Item No. 9587
Price: £45.00
NOVELTY: Do-It cloth books – I Can Dress Myself, Can You? -
My Zipper Book
Random House, 1981.
Printed in colour on cloth in the shape of a jacket with a metal
zip-fastener. New and still in the original unopened packaging and
probably unique thus.
Quote Item No. 3522
Price: £12.00
NOVELTY: Do-It cloth books – I Can Dress Myself, Can You? -
My Shoelace Book.
Random House, 1981.
Printed in colour on cloth in the shape of a shoe with a real
shoelace threaded through metal eyelets. New and still in the
original unopened packaging and probably unique thus.
Quote Item No. 3523
Price: £12.00
NOVELTY: Little Traveller Train Book - Fun Land, Zoo Land,
City Land. No Batteries Needed. Unique Clockwork Action.
3 Lands to Explore.
Purnell, n.d. but late 1970's or early 1980's.
Oblong 4to, original ring-bound coloured pictorial boards with
clockwork train in bubble on upper cover. The train apparently
designed to travel on tracks on the pages, stopping next to
illustrations; still in the original shrink-wrap and unopened. The
shrink wrap split else fine and as new and as such probably unique
Quote Item No. 3517
Price: £15.00
PARRY, EDWARD ABBOTT: Butterscotia or a Cheap Trip to Fairy
Land by His Honour Edward Abbott Parry. Illustrated by Archie
Macgregor.
London: David Nutt, 1896.
First edition. Plates, illustrations, and folding map.
8vo, pp.170:2:12(publisher's catalogue), original tan cloth
pictorially blocked in brown. Name erased from front pastedown
with surface paper loss, spine a little browned but generally a very
good copy.
Quote Item No. 5915
Price: £40.00
PEEPSHOW: Tim's Telescopic View to Celebrate Her Majesty's
Coronation Silver Jubilee, 1952 - 1977.
Banbury, Oxon: Tim's Telescopic Views, 1977.
Coloured pictorial front with peep hole and 9 die-cut coloured
pictorial card leaves, opening out concertina style; very good
in the original slipcase.
Quote Item No. 10272
Price: £20.00
PERIODICAL: Chums,
An Illustrated Paper for Boys. Volume 1, Numbers 1 - 50.
London: Cassell & Co., 1892. September 14th 1892 - August 23rd
1893.
Illustrations throughout. Folio, pp.iv(title and index):800,
modern maroon binders
cloth lettered in gilt; some spotting to text but generally
good.
Quote Item No. 10304
Price: £38.00
PERIODICAL: The Tiny Library. A Weekly Journal for
the Entertainment and Instruction of Young Persons. Volume 1
(Numbers 1-15).
London: C. Wood & Co., March 7th - May 30th 1846.
Woodcut illustrations throughout. Small square 8vo, pp.248,
original blindstamped grained cloth decoratively blocked in gilt,
a.e.g.; some pale marking to the binding but generally very
good.
Quote Item No.3377
Price: £35.00
PERIODICAL: The Child's Own Magazine. Sixty-ninth
Annual Volume.
London: 57 & 59 Ludgate Hill, 1902.
Coloured frontispiece "The Magic Lantern", coloured portrait of
Edward VII & Queen Alexandra, other illustrations. Square 8vo,
pp.148, original blue pictorial cloth blocked in colours; very
good.
Quote Item No. 5439
Price: £12.00
PERIODICAL: The Bible Society Gleanings for the Young.
January - December 1892.
London: The Bible House, 1892.
Illustrations. Small square 8vo, pp.144, original green cloth
pictorially blocked in gilt, all edges gilt. Prize label on
front pastedown. Very good.
Quote Item No. 5350
Price: £12.00
PERRY,
WALTER COPLAND: The Boy's Iliad. With Illustrations by Jacomb Hood.
London: Macmillan, 1937.
Reprint. Deluxe issue.
8vo, pp.xi:411, publisher's full burgundy calf, upper cover and
spine blocked in gilt; top edge gilt; bound-in silk bookmark;
headbands a trifle bruised else
a beautiful copy. Free from inscriptions.
Quote Item No. 9528
Price: £30.00
PERRY,
WALTER COPLAND: The Boy's Odyssey.
With Illustrations by Jacomb Hood.
London: Macmillan, 1930.
Reprint. Deluxe issue.
8vo, pp.203, publisher's full burgundy calf, upper cover and spine
blocked in gilt; top edge gilt; bound-in silk bookmark; headband a
little frayed otherwise this would have been a superb copy. Free
from inscriptions.
Quote Item No. 9536
Price: £20.00
POTTER, BEATRIX: The Tale of the Faithful Dove. Illustrated
by Marie Angel.
London: Frederick Warne, 1971.
First edition thus. Small square 8vo, original coloured
pictorial boards; fine in dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 3325
Price: £18.00
POTTER, BEATRIX: The Tailor of Gloucester.
London: Frederick Warne, 1903.
First edition (first printing). 12mo, pp.85, original burgundy
boards with coloured pictorial onlay on upper cover, as issued.
Frontispiece detached a little marked. Very small area on
blank margin of frontispiece adhered to blank margin of title.
Title with very short corner crease, some loss to lower blank
margins of a few leaves where once adhered to facing pages.
Generally internally very good. The binding also sound
although faded and and dusty.
Quote Item No. 9567
Price: £300.00
POTTER, BEATRIX: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny.
London: Frederick Warne, 1904.
First edition. 12mo, pp.85, original light brown boards with
coloured pictorial onlay on upper cover, as issued, dark green
lettering. Backstrip complete although rubbed & darkened, rubbing
and marking to boards. Text block detached from binding and
several leaves detached but present. Small area of front free
endpaper adhered to front pastedown- quite possibly restorable.
Muffetees mispelt Muffatees on p. 15.
Contents clean.
Quote Item No. 9565
Price: £400.00
POTTER, BEATRIX: The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
London: Frederick Warne n.d. but ca. 1918.
12mo, original green boards with coloured pictorial onlay on upper
cover, as issued; generally good.
Quote Item No. 9568
Price: £30.00
POTTER, BEATRIX: The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin.
London: Frederick Warne, 1903.
First edition (third printing). 12mo, pp.85, original purple boards
with coloured pictorial onlay as issued. Chips to head and
tail of spine, binding faded and marked, some damage to free
endpapers where adhered to pastedowns, more so to rear.
Stitching broken in several places. Damp affecting lower
margin of last 10 pages leading to some paper loss in one instance
where facing leaves adhered together but now parted. Otherwise
internally clean.
Quote Item No. 9566
Price: £80.00
POTTER, BEATRIX: The Tale of Two Bad Mice.
London: Frederick Warne, 1904.
First edition. Coloured
frontispiece and 26 coloured illustrations. 12mo, pp.85,
original grey boards with coloured pictorial onlay on upper cover as
issued. Lacking most of
backstrip, corners rubbed, marking and fading to boards, stitching
slack, one leaf detached but present.
Quote Item No. 9564
Price: £150.00
PRENTISS, E: Aunt Jane's Hero and Stepping Heavenward.
London: Routledge, n.d.
8vo, pp.265:306:(8, adverts. dated 1891), original pictorial cloth
blocked in colours. Prize label on endpaper, inner upper hinge
strained else very good.
Quote Item No. 2819
Price: £12.00
RUSKIN, JOHN - KATE GREENAWAY: Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her
seven wonderful cats: A Humorous Tale written principally by a
Lady of Ninety. Edited, with additional verses, by John Ruskin
and with New Illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
Orpington: George Allen, 1885.
A reprint of the edition of 1823 with the original woodcuts, with
additional verses by Ruskin and four illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
8vo, pp.20, original cloth. Binding spotted and marked,
juvenile pencil scribbling on blank backs of three leaves, inner
joints slack.
Quote Item No. 6069
Price: £10.00
ST LEGER, HUGH: An Ocean Outlaw.
London: Blackie, n.d. (ca. 1930's).
8vo, pp.319, original cloth; a very good copy in d.w.
The d.w. with slight nick at head of spine, else very good indeed.
Quote Item No. 2709
Price: £22.00
SAYWELL, FREDERIC B: The Clever Little Tailor or Seven at a
Blow. Illustrated by Herbert J. Harvey.
London: Halton & Truscot Smith, ca. 1932.
First edition. 12 tipped-in coloured plates. 4to, pp.56,
original black cloth. Lean to spine. Upper inner joint
pulled. Prize inscription dated 1932 on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 6109
Price: £24.00
SEDGWICK, MISS [CATHARINE MARIA]: The Poor Rich Man, and
the Rich Poor Man. The third edition.
London: for Thomas Tegg, 1837.
Engraved frontispiece, title vignette. Square 12mo, pp.247,
contemporary quarter black calf; binding rubbed and slightly
chipped at headband, upper inner joint cracked but very firm.
An improving tale set in New England.
Quote Item No. 5515
Price: £30.00
SETOUN, GABRIEL: The
Child World. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
London: John Lane, 1896.
First edition. Tissue guarded frontispiece, pictorial title and
illustrations and decorations throughout. 8vo, pp.169:12(publisher's
illustrated advertisements). Original maroon cloth blocked in
gilt to spine and both covers. Gilt to spine a little dulled,
a small patch of bubbling of cloth on upper cover, upper inner joint
split. Overall the condition of the binding (apart from inner
joint split) and the contents is very good.
Quote Item No. 10300
Price: £120.00
SHANNON, MONICA: Dobry. Illustrated by Atanas
Katchamakoff.
London: Harrap, 1936.
First edition. Coloured double-page frontispiece, plates and
illustrations. 8vo, pp.192, original blue cloth blocked in black;
a very good copy in like d.w. Presentation label on front free
endpaper.
Quote Item No. 2786
Price: £18.00
SHEPHERD, J.A: The Three Jovial Puppies. Rhymes by
E.D. Cuming.
London: Blackie, n.d. [ca. 1911].
First edition. Coloured pictorial title, coloured
illustrations throughout. Small folio, original cloth-backed
boards with coloured illustration mounted to upper cover as issued;
upper inner joint tender and split at wire binding staples;
corners bumped else very good.
Inscription dated Xmas 1912 on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 2993
Price: £125.00
SHOBERL, FREDERIC: Natural History of Quadrupeds.
With illustrations by Thomas Landseer; the subjects engraved on
steel by himself.
London: John Harris, 1834.
Many figures on 32 plates. Two volumes. Square 12mo,
pp.vi:(2):279 & (2):252:(32, publisher's list), original publishers
quarter calf; spines rubbed at head and tail, spine of volume
2 a little chipped at head. Some foxing, a few corners turned,
joint cracked at page 1 in Volume 2 but firm; generally quite
presentable.
In the "Little Library" series.
Quote Item No. 5065
Price: £75.00
SOWTER, NITA: Hey Diddle Diddle.
Blackie, 1982.
8vo, original glazed coloured pictorial boards; opening out to for a
continuous strip with figures designed to be pressed-out - “Press
out the figures, stand them up and the nursery rhyme comes to
life!”. Fortunately this copy has never been "pressed out" and
is in fine unused condition.
Quote Item No. 3521
Price: £15.00
STABLES, DR GORDON: How Jack Mackenzie Won His Epaulettes.
A Story of the Crimean War.
London: Nelson, 1896.
With four maps and six illustrations by A. Pearce. 8vo,
pp.[9]:10-373:[2, publisher's list], original blue cloth pictorially
blocked in black and gilt; headbands and corners a little
bumped and rubbed, otherwise a bright copy. Sunday School
Presentation label pasted to front free-endpaper.
Quote Item No. 931
Price: £15.00
STABLES, DR GORDON: By Land and Sea. A Tale of the
Blue and the Scarlet.
London and New York: Warne,1890.
Frontispiece, chapter-head and tail vignettes, plates. 8vo,
pp.[8]:9-352, original green cloth pictorially blocked in black and
gilt; fore-corner of f.f.e. clipped, inner hinges
strained, generally very good. Contemporary ink inscription on
half-title.
Quote Item No. 936
Price: £25.00
STABLES, DR GORDON: In Search of Fortune. A Tale of
the Old Land and the New.
London: Shaw, n.d. [c.1900].
New edition. 8vo, pp.viii:384:(16, publisher's list) original
orange cloth pictorially blocked in colours, a.e.g.; headbands
and corners bumped and rubbed, slight nick to cloth at lower spine;
tear to back free-endpaper; generally a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 959
Price: £12.00
STEWART, ELIZABETH M: Original Poetry, for Young
Persons.
London: T. Allman, ca. 1850's.
Engraved frontispiece. 12mo, original crimson cloth blocked in
blind & gilt. Short split to upper joint; stitching slack, one
gathering partly detached, some foxing or browning.
Quote Item No. 212
Price: £25.00
STOKES, VERNON & HARNETT, CYNTHIA: Bob-Tail Pup.
London: Collins, 1944.
First edition. Illustrations, partly in colour. 4to,
original cloth. Binding slightly edge faded otherwise very
good in in torn and sellotape repaired d.w.
Quote Item No. 5240
Price: £25.00
STRANG, HERBERT [Editor]: The Oxford Annual for Boys - 21st
Year.
London: Oxford University Press, 1928.
Coloured frontispiece and plates, illustrations. 4to, pp.240,
original pictorial boards (of airman and plane). An
exceptional copy in partially foxed d.w. The d.w. chipped at
head of spine and at rear.
Quote Item No. 2822
Price: £25.00
TAYLOR, JEFFERYS: The Forest; or, Rambles in the Woodland.
London: John Harris, 1831.
First edition. Engraved frontispiece and 25 engraved plates of
trees and leaves (complete). Square 12mo, pp.220, original
glazed cloth with printed paper labels; spine labels dulled, some
foxing but generally very good.
A volume in the "Little Library" series
Quote Item No. 5061
Price: £35.00
TEGG, THOMAS:
A Present for an Apprentice. To which is added Franklin's Way to
Wealth. Second edition.
London: William Tegg, 1848.
Engraved frontispiece and
additional title, engraved plate, "A Moral and Physical
Thermometer". Small square 8vo, pp. xiv:(1):381, original blue
cloth, the sides armorially blocked in gilt within decorative
border, the spine pictorially blocked in gilt. Inner hinges
reinforced with cloth tape, stitching split between title and
dedication; the binding, however, generally very bright and
attractive.
With, on front-pastedown an attractive engraved presentation label,
filled-in by hand and dated 1876, "The Master Wardens and Court
of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers. To
Alfred T. Bouette on his being Bound Apprentice to Mr Charles Maw,
Citizen and Spectacle Maker of London".
An interesting manual of suggested conduct regarding
temperance, the dangers of playhouses, the value of virtuous female
intercourse, cleanliness, gaming and sharpers, and much else.
The "Moral and Physical Thermometer" shows that the
consumption of water leads to health and wealth whereas the
consumption of Whisky leads to murder and suicide at worst, apoplexy
and transportation to Botany Bay at best.
Quote Item No. 2102
Price: £55.00
THE LITTLE LIBRARY: The Garden; or, Familiar
Instructions For The Laying Out and Management of a Flower Garden
with Illustrative Engravings on Wood and Steel.
London: John Harris, 1832.
Second edition. Twelve hand-coloured engraved plates of
flowers, two detached but present, and other plates. Square
12mo, pp.x:175, original half calf; corners bumped;
boards and edges rubbed; headband broken and a piece missing;
inner joints cracked; some light foxing, coloured plates
however unaffected; armorial bookplate of Anne Cooper to
front pastedown; inscription to f.f.e.
Part of "The Little Library, Comprising, in a Series of Small
Volumes, a Familiar Introduction to Various Branches of Useful
Knowledge."
Quote Item No. 7356
Price: £60.00
THOMPSON, DORA OLIVE: Lizzie Anne. With Illustrations
by E.P. Kinsella. Inscribed by author.
London: The "Girls' Own Paper" Office, n.d., 1927.
Colour frontispiece with tissue-guard, black & white vignette
illustrations. 8vo, pp.288, original orange cloth blocked
pictorially in black in dustwrapper; dustwrapper with a number
of chips and tears (very small amount of loss) some slight creasing;
slight foxing and browning to prelimns; the author has
inscribed the quote from Plutarch (which appears in a printed
version on the reverse of the title page), on the front free
endpaper., signed in full and dated Christmas 1927. Generally
an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 7351
Price: £50.00
THORN, ISMAY [pseud. of Edith Caroline Pollock ]: All
Play. Pictured by T. Pym [pseud. of Clara Creed].
London: Shaw & Co. n.d. ca. 1890.
Illustrations throughout. Oblong 8vo, pp.169:6 (adverts.),
original pictorial cloth; covers badly damp-marked, a little
light foxing.
Quote Item No. 5243
Price: £10.00
THORN, ISMAY [pseud. of Edith Caroline Pollock]: Spin and
Podgie. What they did, what they learnt, where they went, in one
day. With Illustrations by T. Pym [pseud. of Clara Creed].
London: Hatchards, 1886.
First edition. Frontispiece & illustrations throughout.
Square 8vo, pp. 47:49-64(adverts.) original pictorial cloth;
binding severely damp-marked, stitching cracked on inner joint at
several places. Inscribed on front free endpaper by the
illustrator and with a carte-de-visite photograph of her loosely
inserted
Quote Item No. 5244
Price: £20.00
TONNA, C.A: Derry: A Tale of the Revolution of 1688. By
Charlotte Elizabeth.
London: James Nisbet, ca. 1890's.
Frontispiece. 8vo, pp.xvi:317:[3, publisher's list], original
dark blue cloth pictorially blocked in black and lettered in gilt.
Contemporary ink inscription to verso of front free endpaper.
Bright. Anon.
Quote Item No. 984
Price: £10.00
TRIMMER, MRS [SARAH]: A Series of Prints of Scripture
History, Designed as Ornaments for those Apartments in which
Children receive the first Rudiments of their Education.
London: John Marshal, No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, n.d.
[1786].
Thirty-two copper engraved plates. 12mo, contemporary full
sheep ruled in gilt; lacking backstrip, tear, with no loss, on
inner margin of one plate. The first plate is dated 1786
within the imprint. With the engraved armorial bookplate
of Thos. Blayds.
* Mrs. Trimmer's name does not appear on this work. This
volume of plates was designed to accompany her, "A description
of a set of prints of scripture history" .
Quote Item No. 5059
Price: £55.00
TUCK, RAPHAEL (Publisher):
John Gilpin.
London: Raphael Tuck, n.d. ca. 1890.
Six die-cut chromolithographic plates incorporating text, opening
out to form a continuous strip, 17½ x 4½ inches. Some folds and a
few short tears reinforced on verso with archival paper. A fragile
production in generally good condition. Rare.
Quote Item No. 8938
Price: £35.00
TUCK, RAPHAEL (Publisher):
The Three Bears.
London: Raphael Tuck, n.d. ca. 1890.
Six die-cut and embossed
chromolithographic plates incorporating text,
opening out to form a continuous strip, 17½ x 4½ inches. Some folds and a
few short tears reinforced on verso with archival paper. A fragile
production in generally good condition. Rare.
Quote Item No. 8937
Price: £35.00
UPTON, FLORENCE & BERTHA: The Golliwogg's "Auto - Go -
Cart".
London: Longmans, Green, 1901.
First edition. Pictorial title and 31 coloured plates, one
being double-page. Oblong 4to, original cloth-backed coloured
pictorial boards. Boards a little marked and rubbed, corners
rubbed, backstrip spotted. A few marginal tears, crease to
endpaper, a little light thumbing but generally quite a good copy.
Quote Item No. 4292
Price: £195.00
UPTON, FLORENCE & BERTHA: The Golliwogg's Air-Ship.
London: Longmans, Green, 1902.
First edition. Pictorial title & 31 coloured plates, one being
double-page. Oblong 4to, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial
boards. Boards rubbed especially at corners, some loss of
paper surface to lower board; a few page corners turned, a few
marginal short tears, stitching slack.
Quote Item No. 4291
Price: £195.00
UTTLEY, ALISON: Christmas at the Rose and Crown. A
Little Brown Mouse Book. Pictures by Katherine Wigglesworth.
London: Heinemann, 1952.
First edition. 8vo, pp.72, original coloured pictorial red
boards; very slight
rubbing at headbands, spine slightly askew but generally a very nice
bright copy in dustwrapper which has some rubbing at joints and
corners and two short edge tears without loss. The dustwrapper
has been price clipped and bears a contemporary gift inscription on
front inner flap.
Quote Item No. 10283
Price: £255.00
WAIN, LOUIS (unsigned, in
the style of): A Jolly Christmas to you, dear.
London: Ernest Nister, n.d. ca. 1900.
5-leaves opening out in one continuous sheet bearing humorous
coloured illustrations of cats and birds, most likely by Louis Wain
although unsigned. Inscribed to Violet. Obviously published as a
greetings card/gift. Very good, folding into the original plain
wrappers lettered in green and bearing a portrait of a mad looking
cat. Rare.
Quote Item No. 8917
Price: £25.00
WALTON, MRS. O.F.: Christie's Old Organ.
London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. ca. 1904.
Coloured plates. Small folio, pp.91, original cloth-backed
coloured pictorial boards; several chips to margin of boards,
one just into image but generally bright and attractive. Gift
inscription dated 1904 on recto of frontispiece.
Quote Item No. 10297
Price: £20.00
WARD, STANHOPE EDGAR: Fairy Tales.
Farnham, Surrey: E.W. Langham, 1895.
Vignette illustrations. 4to, pp.60, original printed wrappers,
uncut; backstrip chipped at head and tail, else an excellent
copy.
Quote Item No. 1426
Price: £20.00
WARREN-BELL, R.S.: The Duffer. A Story for Boys and "Old
Boys".
London: Thomas Nelson, n.d. ca. 1912.
Coloured plates. 8vo, pp. 462, original blue cloth, top edge
gilt, pictorially blocked in colours; headbands bruised, upper
inner hinge pulled, some rubbing to backstrip illustration,
contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, smudge mark to
contents leaf and recto of title. The binding generally
remarkably fresh and bright.
Quote Item No. 10245
Price: £25.00
WATKINS PITCHFORD, D.J.:
'B.B' 's Fairy Book Meeting Hill. With illustrations by D.J.
Watkins Pitchford.
London: Hollis & Carter, 1948.
First edition. Coloured plates, illustrations. 4to,
pp.141, original pale blue cloth. Spine faded and with two
horizontal creases; short corner crease to prelims.
Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 10296
Price: £25.00
WEATHERLY, F.E: Out of Town. Illustrated in colour by
Linnie Watt, monotints by Ernest Wilson.
London: Hildesheimer and Faulkner, n.d. [1884].
First [& only?] edition. Charming chromolithographic
illustrations throughout. 4to, pp. 64, original cloth-backed glazed
pictorial boards in d.w. A remarkably good copy, the binding
fresh and bright. The d.w. browned and edge chipped on upper
panel, chipped at backstrip and chipped and torn on lower panel.
Printing of advertisements on endpapers faded. Some minor
rubbing to the fore-corners of the boards but generally an excellent
copy and very rare in d.w.
Quote Item No. 5216
Price: £90.00
WHISHAW, FRED: The Adventures of a Stowaway.
Illustrated by J.A. Christie.
London: Griffith Farran Browne & Co., ca. 1900.
Frontispiece and illustrations. 8vo, pp.300:[4, publisher's
list], original brown cloth pictorially block in colours and gilt;
slight lean on spine; spine slightly darkened, headbands bumped, and
with some creasing to top of spine; internally some foxing.
Contemporary ink inscription to front-pastedown. The binding bright
and attractive.
Quote Item No. 995
Price: £12.00
WHISTLER, CHAS. W: A Thane of Wessex. Being a Story of the
Great Viking Raids into Somerset.
London: Blackie, 1896.
Frontispiece and illustrations. 8vo, pp.288:32, [publisher's list],
original blue cloth pictorially blocked in red, black and gilt;
slight mark to upper cover, headbands and corners bumped and
slightly rubbed; internally some very faint foxing, prize label to
front pastedown; generally a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 992
Price: £15.00
WHITE, ANNIE F: Jack and Jill and the Fairies.
Ilfracombe (Duration Address): Arthur H. Stockwell, ca. 1940.
8vo, pp.20, original wrappers; wire staples rusted, wrappers a
little marked. Signed by the author on title.
Quote Item No. 5900
Price: £10.00
WHITE, N. DUNCAN: Horatio & Some Others: Horatio Runs a
Race; The Rajah's Story; The Circus; Good Turns; Kidnapped; Treasure
Quest; Fire; & Over the Hills. Being the complete 8 volumes in
the 1st and 2nd series.
London: F. Levy & Co. n.d. ca. 1940's.
The first four titles (the first series) are anonymous and the
illustrator is not identified. The second four titles (the
second series) the author is given as N. Duncan White and the
illustrator as Doris White.
Eight volumes. Coloured illustrations throughout. 8vo,
original coloured pictorial card wrappers; very good indeed and free
from inscriptions.
Rare, especially so the first series; and rarer still to find the
whole set in such excellent condition.
Quote Item No.3577
Price: £100.00
WILLMAN, STANLEY V: Games for Playtime & Parties, with &
without Music for Children of all Ages. Pictured by Margaret
Tarrant.
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, n.d.
Coloured frontispiece, title, & illustrations throughout.
Folio, pp.81, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards;
some foxing and dustmarking, boards foxed & marked, upper inner
hinge strained.
Quote Item No. 4101
Price: £15.00
