With chromolithographic illustrations done in Prussia. Bound with cord with tassel. Bumping and rubbing to edges, with small tears to edges. Previous owner's name in pencil to front pastedown. Good. [more...]
Colourful, innovate pop up book of Red Riding Hood by the artist and architect. German edition, Some mild shelf-wear to covers. All pop ups complete and working. Good. [more...]
Pleasant edition of Kinglsey's great children's novel with 8 colour illustrations by Katherine Cameron. Spine is slightly toned, mild foxing to page edges with very infrequent spotting within. Binding tight and square, generally clean. A nice tidy copy of a [more...]
Charming volume describing the lives of children all over the world, with b/w and colour images. 4to. One instance of pencilling to b/w image. General wear and bumping to covers. Contents sound. Good. [more...]
Neat illustrated adventure novel. With six b/w illustrations. No date but c. 1890. Pictorial covers. Tanning to edges. General wear to covers but contents otherwise clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
No date but c. 1950. The second volume of stories featuring the mischievous cat. Illustrated throughout in Colour by Mary Kendal Lee. DJ has tears and creasing to edges with loss to top of spine. Small tear to top of spine. Price struck through with pen t [more...]
Collection of long and short stories and verse. Illustrated throughout with b/w and colour illustrations. 4to. Rubbing to edges, with toning and fraying to spine. Marking to rear cover. One small b/w illustration coloured in. Previous owner's inscription [more...]
No date but c. 1890. Collection of classic nursery rhymes with colour illustrations and further sepia toned drawing. No 1. in the Farquhrson's Royal Standard Series. 4to. Splitting to joints. Bumping to edges. Toning within. Fair/good. [more...]
No date but c. 1920. Chunky, sharply illustrated children's book of verse. With chromolithographic images by Caspari over sepia colour thick paper. Previous owner's name to cover, Marking and toning to covers. Some foxing to edges. Front hinge cracked and [more...]
Nicely illustrated history of Britain over the nineteenth century, with key events and dates, each with colour illustrations by Mrs. Ernest Ames. Oblong 4to. Cracking to hinges, text-block coming loose. Heavy tanning to page edges, small tears and creasing [more...]
Stevenson's edifying essays and observations. Full leather with gilt decoration and armorial crest to cover. Marbled endpapers with matching marbling to page edges. Inner and outer dentelles. Top edge has a small dent that caused small tear to top of titl [more...]
First edition of Blyton's Children's story about a wayward piglet. With charming b/w and colour illustrations by Eileen Soper. Lacks backstrip. Previous owner's tape repairs to hinges and leaves, not affecting text or pictures. Blinding slack. Wear to co [more...]
With a colour frontispiece and numerous b/w illustrations. No DJ. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Front hinge split. Some light spotting within. Previous owner's name to half-title. Otherwise clean. Fair. [more...]
Scarce with Dust jacket. A collection of stories, illustrated throughout in colour by Haywood, fore-edge painter extraordinaire. Slight loss to top and tail of DJ at spine. Previous owner's name in pencil to ffep. Contents clean and binding sound. Good+ [more...]
No date but c. 1950. Miss Rooster and her Four Wonderchickens No. 3. With colour illustrations. Oblong 4to. Toning and spotting to cover. Rubbing to edges. Foxing within, else sound. Good. [more...]
With fold-out family trees and numerous b/w and colour images and illustrations. Decoded from Potter's encrypted writings by Linder, with and explanation of the code. Plus an appreciation of Potter by Cox. With newspaper clippings from 1978 relating to Pott [more...]
Quarter leather binding EX-LIBRARY copy of the Lambs' great renderings of the stories of Shakespeare. With an introduction by Andrew Lang and b/w illustrations by Robert Anning Bell. Tags removed but stamps and such to ffep and front pastedown. Spine cocked [more...]
No date but c. 1940. Nicely present retelling of Goldilocks, done and illustrated by Willy Schermele. With colour illustrations throughout. In protective jacket. Some mild shelf-wear to covers. Light tanning, else clean and sound. Good+ [more...]
