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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
All 12 issues for that year of the Children's magazine. With stories, poems and articles and 12 colour plates plus further b/w illustrations within the text. Large catalogue/advertisements to rear. Rubbing to edges, with slight tears to pictorial paper cove [more...]
Reprint, with date code x.645. Rubbing to edges of DJ with slight loss to corners. Toning to DJ. DJ is price-clipped. Mild bumping and toning to edges of volume. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
No date but c. 1945. Striking colour illustrations by Haywood, accompanied by animal stories by St. Vincent. Oblong 4to. Mild wear to edges. Previous owner's name to ffep. Contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
No date but c. 1940. Charming children's story about the reluctant friendship between a Dog and Cat, with colour illustrations by Winship. Some mild shelf-wear and marking to covers, contents clean and sound. Good+ [more...]
No date but c. 1930. From th Peekobook series. Compact children's story, with colour illustrations. 32mo. Slight staining from staples. Rubbing to edges. Binding sound. Good overall. [more...]
No date but c. 1890. Japanese themed story (Apparently not the Japanese Dollee story but another that uses the same cover - Two little Japs) With sepia toned and chromolithographic illustrations. Cut in the shape of a Japanese child. Rubbing to edges with sp [more...]
