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By: N/A
Price: £85.00
Publisher: London, Juvenile Productions Ltd:
Seller ID: 004233
Condition: Poor
Colour frontispiece and three colour plates, many illustrations within the text, some of which are full page,(and three of which have been coloured in by hand, reasonably tidily], small thick quarto, pages very browned due to poor quality paper, front and rear hinges slightly cracked, many internal hinges cracking and weak, one gathering becoming particularly tender and protruding a little from the fore-edge, original pictorial boards, rubbed and a bit worn and marked, corners worn through to the boards, spine fraying at top and bottom, and lacking a few small pieces at the bottom. VERY SCARCE... View more info
By: N/A
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London, Grange Books: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010971
ISBN: 1840132779
Condition: Very Good
Well illustrated, slim square 8vo, pp 64, pictorial boards, a good copy in an age-toned and slightly worn dustwrapper. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Windsor, Oxley & Son: 1928
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013728
Condition: Good
Illustrated, small slim octavo, pp 74, slightly used internally, several pages with turned corners, endpapers a little marked, paperback, covers a little worn scuffed and marked, View more info
By: Adburgham, Alison (introduction)
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Newton Abbot, David & Charles: 1974
Seller ID: 013239
ISBN: 0715366084
Condition: Very Good
Very well illustrated, quarto, pp (36), 472, top edge foxed and fore-edge slightly foxed, otherwise a very good copy in a slightly faded dustwrapper. [Gamages began life in 1878 in a rented watch repair shop and, after quickly becoming a success amongst its customers, was established as a London institution. In time it was to grow large enough to take up most of the block on which it was situated. The store finally closed in 1972, but prior to that had been unusual in that its premises were away from the main Oxford Street shopping area, being on the edge of the City of London at Holborn Circu... View more info
By: Boyle, Eleanor Vere (E.V.B.]
Price: £150.00
Publisher: London, Addey & Co, Old Bond Street: 1851
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010149
Condition: Good
Seventeen pages, drawings with printed manuscript text, printed on one side of the page only, interleaved with blank pages, a little light foxing and age-toning, large slim 8vo, later blue cloth with gilt lettering and lining, very slightly worn. [The extremely rare true first edition. The text was taken by E.V.B from an old copy of Halliwell's Nursery Rhymes. Apparently published at Christmas 1851, but often attributed to 1852. It is reputedly the first book to have illustrations of nursery rhymes, but this seems a little unlikely ? The first title page has a large and heavy inscription - &#... View more info
By: Brown, Mabel A.
Price: £50.00
Publisher: London, George Philip & Son: 1909
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014420
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, slim square octavo, pp 92, with six plates, a small oval school stamp on all four endpapers, otherwise very clean internally, the first few pages with a small crease at the lower corner, slightly weak internally, green cloth showing only the slightest signs of wear. RARE. [ The author was Head Mistress of Palmerston Road Infants School, Barry. The photographic illustrations are a delight - showing carefully posed pupils as dairymaids, gardeners, bakers etc.] View more info
By: Burton, Maurice
Price: £3.00
Publisher: London, Longacre Press ltd: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013988
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, small horizontal 12mo, (measures 126mm x 99mm), very clean and sound internally, pictorial boards showing only very slight signs of wear. [Postage will be reduced] View more info
By: Carrighar, Sally
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd: 1975
Seller ID: 005582
ISBN: 0575023694
Small 8vo, pp (8), 169, a very clean bright copy in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped but which is very faded on the spine. View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London, Dean & Son Ltd:
Seller ID: 009981
Condition: Very Good
[Not dated - 1950's ?]. Small 8vo, pp 248, pages very age-toned, small neat inscription on the front endpaper, but otherwise very clean and sound internally, pale blue cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is very slightly worn and rubbed, but otherwise this is a surprisingly good copy. View more info
Price: £4.50
Publisher: London, Daily Mail School-Aid Publication:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012409
Condition: Fair
Illustrated, slim octavo, pp (16), very unevenly age-toned, paperback, covers slightly worn, a small label placed over the original printed price on the upper cover. SCARCE. [Postage will be reduced] View more info
By: Coupin, Henri
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Paris, Vuibert et Nony: 1907
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013652
Condition: Good
Illustrated with line drawings thoughout the text, large octavo, pp x, 162, uncut and partly unopened, a little age-toned thoughout but otherwise clean and sound, the Hartland Library copy, rebound in half cloth and plain boards, original wrappers bound in (including the attractive colopured upper cover), labels on the front endpapers, a stamp on the verso of the title page, a discrete shelf number on the spine. [The Library was formed by Edwin Sydney Hartland, and was a diverse, but major, collection of herbals, archaeology and anthropology. It was donated to Gloucestershire County Council in... View more info
By: Cowper, E.E.
Price: £3.50
Publisher: London & Glasgow, Blackie & Son Ltd:
Seller ID: 011622
Condition: Very Good
A black and white frontispiece by Gordon Browne, small thick octavo, pp 284, a prize bookplate on the front endpaper (dated 1934), very slight age-toning and foxing, otherwise extremely clean and tight internally, red cloth with very slight signs of wear, the spine slightly faded. View more info
Price: £4.00
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1921
Edition: First UK edition
Seller ID: 009483
Condition: Good
Illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull and Warwick Reynolds, pp 311, uncut, slightly age-toned, small personal book label on front endpaper, otherwise clean internally, green decorated cloth, slightly worn and faded, the spine head slightl pulled and torn. View more info
Price: £12.50
Publisher: London, Ginn and Company Ltd: 1954
Seller ID: 013227
Condition: Fair
Seventeenth impression. Illustrated by Lucy Forster Scott, small slim octavo, pp 32, used and creased internally but still sound and not marked, soft rag covers, rubbed, wrinkled and creased, and with a repaired tear to the upper cover. View more info
By: Foster, Ivor R.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: York, Banks & Son: 1938
Seller ID: 011118
Condition: Good
Slim quarto, pp 10, paperback, covers a little worn, slightly used throughout. SCARCE. [Three simple pieces for young pianists). View more info
By: G.M.S.
Price: £4.00
Publisher: London, SPCK:
Seller ID: 006521
Condition: Good
Published by S.P.C.K. (not dated, c. 1880 ?). With a frontispiece by Frank Dadd, (also appearing on the cloth binding), small 8vo, pp 128, a bit weak internally, hinges cracked in a few places, a little marked throughout, red decorated cloth a bit rubbed and worn. [[The title page states "illustrated by F. Dadd". I believe this to mean just the frontispiece - such terminology is not uncommon. The contents are weak, but I do not believe any other illustrations have been removed.] View more info
By: Gee, Kenneth F.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd: 1961
Seller ID: 015628
Condition: Very Good
First reprint. 12mo, illustrated with line drawings, pp vi, 86, extremely clean internally, blue cloth with a slight hint of fading, otherwise in very good condition. The dustwrapper is price-clipped and slightly worn and chipped with slight loss. View more info
By: Geisert, Arthur
Price: £3.50
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011225
ISBN: 0395778743
Condition: Fair
Illustrated throughout, small slim quarto, pp (60), half-title a bit marked and foxed, a slight suggestion also to the title page, slightly worn and creased internally,papeback, covers a little worn and marked, a small crease to the lower corne of the upper cover. View more info
Price: £6.50
Publisher: London, Robinson Publishing Ltd: 1989
Seller ID: 011293
ISBN: 1854872915
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, small 8vo, pp 131, (3) a little age-toned but otherwise clean and sound internally, paperback, the base of the spine very slightly bumped otherwise in very good condition. View more info
By: Gillespy, Charlotte Ainsley
Price: £6.00
Publisher: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge:
Seller ID: 011624
Condition: Good
Not dated - c.1910 ? With a colour frontispiece by Oscar Wilson, small thick octavo, pp 160, slightly worn internally and a little weak, a prize label on the front endpaper (dated 1932), pictorial cloth a bit rubbed and marked. [An uncommon title] View more info
