No date but c. 1900. Containing four stories: Babes in the Wood, the three little pigs, Old Dame Trot and the Piper's Son, featuring b/w and colour illustrations by Frank Adams. No DJ. Previous owner's note and pen marks to end-papers. Mild foxing thoughou [more...]
Collection of fairytales, retold for children, with colour and b/w illustrations. 4to. Some rubbing and slight bumping to edges. Tanning to page edges but contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Short stories and articles, with colour plates and b/w illustrations. Advertisements to end-papers and rear cover. Quarter cloth. Wear and marking to covers. Previous owner's name to ffep. Foxing to page edges. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
collection of Short stories and poems describing the lives of children in various countries, featuring b/w and striking colour illustrations throughout. Rubbing to edges with small tear/nick to top edges. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Contents sound [more...]
The twenty-four monthly issues of The Prize for 1911 and 1912 bound together Each issue comes with a charming colour frontispiece, and numerous b/w illustrations throughout, along with poems and stories for children. Rebound in neat brown cloth. Mild shelf- [more...]
Pleasant half leather binding of Stevenson's collection of six short stories, most on the theme of morality and greed. Gilt decoration and raised bands to spine. Marbled end-papers. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge rough cut. Slight sunning to spine. Rubbing to [more...]
With stylish colour illustrations by Anne Harriet Fish. Collection of verse and short stories. Mild staining to covers. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Half-title loosening. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Collection of Children's stories with Peto's iconic, stylish illustrations, with several colour plates plus b/w images within the text. No date but c. 1930. 4to. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Foxing to page edges, title page and occasionally within. Previ [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Scarce pamphlet of this childrens' story, told in verse with chromolithographic illustrations throughout. Some rubbing and tears to edges of cover, with loss. Toning within, else sound. Good. [more...]
Reprint. Jaunty edition of Tales from the Arabian Nights, derived from Galland's translation. Featuring 8 colour illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe plus further b/w illustrations. Decorative endpapers and similar decorative cloth to boards. DJ has some ru [more...]
No date but c. 1920. Collection of stories, predominantly from the One Thousand and one Arabian Nights, including Ali Baba, Aladdin (although relocated to China) and Blue Beard. With colour plates, duo-tone and b/w illustrations throughout. 4to. Rubbing to [more...]
Half leather binding of this children's magazine, Volume 9 edited by Barnardo, the founder of the home for destitute boys and girls. With b/w illustrations plus colour plates. 8vo. Rubbing and cracking to edges and joints. Tanning to page edges but content [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...]
Classic Gentleman's magazine, with art, short stories, profiles on Sugar Ray Leonard, a previously unpublished piece Wonder of wonders; Music writing on Elvis and Maria Callas; Ralph Stein on touring cars and more. Rakish in the extreme. Some rubbing and she [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of Maupassant's selected works. Each volume contains a novel (Bel Ami, une Vie, Fort Comme la Mort, Pierre et Jean - All in English, despite the French Titles) plus several short stories. Decorative green cloth. Volume 1 has a tear [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...]
7. Sonderheft der "Woche". With numerous colour plates. Some bumping to egdes, mild marking to covers. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
Nicely produced and illustrated edition of Andersen's Fairy stories, Complete with 6 colour plates plus b/w decorations within the text. Reprint. 4to. Illustrated paper coverered boards are rubbed to edges with tears to spine and loss to top. Foxing to pa [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...]
