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. 1890. Collection of episodes based on various child characters from Dickens' novels, including David Copperfield, Oliver Twist etc., usually filling in details from their background, retold and imagined by L. L. Weedon. With 6 colour plates a [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...]
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...]
Reprint, with date code x.147. Rubbing to edges of DJ with small tears. Toning to DJ. DJ is price-clipped. Mild bumping and toning to edges of volume. Contents clean and tight. Good. [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...]
Jaunty, illustrated collection of verse on Animals by the prolific Parkers. With colour illustrations. Oblong 4to. No date but c. 1910. Backstrip missing. Lacks ffep and title page. Some toning and spotting within. Text-block sound. Fair. [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...]
The Second book From the Larger Dumpy book series. Early, perhaps first edition, but list includes the third book in the series. Illustrated win colour by E. Florence Mason. Sunning to spine. Rubbing to edges. Previous owner's inscription to end-papers. [more...]
With colour illustrations throughout. Rubbing/cracking to bottom of spine. Previous owner's name to ffep. Toning to end-papers. Otherwise clean and sound. Good. [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...]
No date but c. 1890. Charming collection of popular nursery rhymes with b/w and chromolithographic plates. 4to. Spine is torn with loss, binding loosening. Frontispiece and half-title apparently bound in later, tape repairs, small tears to edges. Foxing wi [more...]
Pleasant edition of Grahame's classic sketches of childhood. With b/w illustrations by Lois Lenski throughout plus four vividly coloured plates. Fore-edge uncut. Rubbing to covers. Small tears to top of spine. But a sound copy. Good overall. [more...]
Nicely produced children's story, with chromolithographic plates and text, done by Alice Havers and Ernest Wilson. 4to. Rubbing to edges, with tear to tail of spine.. Toning to covers. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Ten songs about life and childhood in south Africa, with b/w illustrations throughout. With a tipped in letter to ffep. Closed tear to DJ, with slight loss from corners. Some foxing to end-papers, else clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
No date but c. 1880. A collection of verse for children from a variety of writers. With b/w, duo-tone and colour illustrations. Rubbing to covers. Front hinge split. Text-block holding. Tanning to page edges. Fair. [more...]
