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Routledge, London, 1880. First Edition. Rather worn copy lacking front endpaper. (x), 367pp + 6pp adverts, plus the 6 illustrations by Griset. Name on pastedown, lacks front free endpaper. Title page and tissue guard browned, striking early name in ink heads p.1, trace of pencil on Contents page; some dog-ear creases and mild foxing and soiling to text, corner stain to plates. Not immaculate, but paper and print good, text block and boards firm. Original binding of pictorial brown cloth blocked in black and gold, fairly bright, but some dulling and light soiling. Extremities knocked, joints and spine ends rubbed, ends starting to fray. G+. [nb - this is NOT the same author's 'Ferdinand's Adventure and Other Stories' of 1883, which has 378pp.]

Price: £45.00

Warne, London and New York, n.d. [1895]. Hardcover. First edition thus. 28pp, illustrated throughout, with the frontis and ten other pages being in colour, as is the illustration on the cover. Endpapers browning and early name on ffep. Rust marks from staples at gutter, some light soiling to margins, and a tiny chip to one page corner. Large quarto (28.5 x 22.3cms) in the original blue-green thin canvas-textured boards with colour pictorial onlay of Tippoo reclining on a settee. The onlay is slightly puckered and soiled, the spine is scuffed, and the extremities are worn, but binding otherwise clean and firm. Tippoo's name is probably taken from the famous automaton in the Victoria & Albert Museum, "Tipu's Tiger" (see Wikipedia): the V&A also has the only other copy of this edition of which I have seen a record. The illustrations are notably exuberant, and Tippoo is delightfully represented. The more common Routledge edition, though earlier, is softcover, in landscape format, and has fewer colour illustrations. VG. SCARCE.

Price: £70.00

Blackie, London Glasgow & Dublin, n.d. [1902]. First Edition. Unpaginated (100pp). With a child's name assigned to each letter of the alphabet, these are comical cautionary verses and pictures, each with a splendid bright Hassall illustration on one side (lots of strong line and flat colour) and the accompanying verse facing, interspersed with double blanks, and preceded by the half-title and the pictorial title page. (Useful Ursula and Vain Victor share a page, as do Xcitable X and Yawning Yolande.) Two pages have large closed tears (repaired) affecting the illustration and several have small closed edge tears (also repaired), and there is a little minor soiling. The (plain) front free endpaper is largely missing. Large quarto, in the original quarter green cloth with lettered spine: this is slightly wrinkled, frayed at the ends, and has some staining. The bright pictorial paper-covered front board by Hassall has tiny scuffs, but no detail is lost. The boards are a little bowed, the corners are worn, and the plain paper-covered lower board is stained, with some of the surface torn away. G+. A rare survivor of one of the Poster King's most charming works, and great fun.

Price: £120.00

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1907. Third Edition. Very good and complete copy with foxing to text. xii, 126pp, plus the frontis and the 49 tipped-in plates at the back ( 50 in all). The prelims are quite heavily foxed, as are a few pages of the story: most of the story pages have a few spots to the edges. One page has a large closed tear: this and a few small closed tears to margins have been repaired with archival tissue. The penultimate plate, "They will certainly mischief you", has a tiny surface snag and a tiny corner crease. All the other plates are in excellent condition, and are complete with their captioned guards, some of which have a few foxing spots. Rebacked, with new cloth hinges, with the original russet cloth boards and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. The boards are bright and clean (the image of Peter on a leaping goat showing up beautifully), the spine is slightly rubbed and darkened. An attempt has been made to brighten the rubbed spine title with a gold pen. A firm and complete copy. VG.

Price: £380.00

London: W. & R. Chambers, n.d. [c.1915 ?]. Early edition. 199pp, plus the 4 plates. A very nice copy of the multicoloured binding edition. Glue residue from removed remnants of prize label (dated 1915) has left dark perimeter to front free endpaper, endpapers already being dark brown. A few pages have minor soil marks, but contents are otherwise very clean. In the original very attractive binding of blue pictorial cloth, decorated on front and spine by Mabel Lucie Attwell not just in black, as are some other editions, but also with pink, white and maroon. Firm and bright and with only very minor soiling, spine ends crimped and slightly rubbed. The first book she illustrated (in 1905). VG+.

Price: £85.00

Methuen, London, 1932. First Edition thus. xii, 211pp, illustrated in line in the text and with 12 delightful new colour plates by Shepard. Plates clean, but some light foxing to text, a few pages severely foxed. Occasional light soiling. No inscriptions. In original binding of smooth light blue cloth with gilt decoration on front and spine lettered in gilt: clean, bright and firm, corners slightly knocked, spine ends crimped and scuffed. With protected decorative pictorial dustwrapper: Unclipped (price is on spine), corners and spine ends chipped (1" at base), slight soiling and rubbing, and a number of internal repairs with archival tape. G++/ G [see photo].

Price: £70.00

A. & C. Black, London, 1938. First Edition. xvi, 304pp, with many tail-pieces and full-page black and white illustrations, as well as a colour frontispiece, by Pogany. Residue of erased writing on ffep. One or two small brown spots or stains to prelims, but rest of contents clean. In original binding of greenish grey cloth, lettered in brown. Slight darkening, chiefly to edges, due to soiling or foxing. Spine ends puckered, corners slightly knocked. In pictorial DUSTWRAPPER (echoing the frontis) with a carmine surround. While the illustration has only one small scuff to its surface, the surface of the background colour, lettered in white, is heavily chipped, giving a very pocked and worn appearance. There is also some creasing, also not affecting the illustration, some severe scuffing of edges, heavy chipping of spine ends, and some soiling. There are archival repairs to the inner surface. VG / Worn.

Price: £35.00

London and Glasgow, Blackie & Son, London and Glasgow, n.d. (1952). Reprint. < Wonderfully fresh copy with VG dustwrapper > Quarto, 64pp, with 8 colour plates and a number of illustrations in line. Decorative presentation label tipped on to front endpaper and dated 1952: neat name and date at head of page. Half-title and penultimate leaf show slight browning masked by dustwrapper flaps. Contents otherwise immaculate. Cloth spine with paper-covered boards with pictorial onlay, remarkably clean and fresh, but lightly knocked at spine ends and faintly at upper corners. In most respects it could pass for mint. The protected, clipped, pictorial DUSTWRAPPER has a few small closed edge tears (max 1 cm, all repaired), a tiny (3mm) edge chip, and a small patch of surface damage to the centre of the back panel (publisher's advertisements). The back is slightly soiled, the front is quite clean, and it looks very good. The main jacket illustration (children and dolls sitting, puppy being trained) differs from that on the cover of the book (puppy tugging at some lace) and from all those inside the book. Near Fine in G++ dust-jacket.

Price: £65.00

London: The Daily Mirror, 1962. First edition. Unpaginated [48]pp. Amiable, lively, and graphically excellent production by the naughty TV character, with pages produced in varying colours and as if covered in Willum's crayon and graffiti. Slight browning to some page edges, and three pages have a little light human crayon. Title page small corner price-clipped. Contents otherwise very good. Annual format, firm and clean in laminated pictorial boards, with slight scuffs and nicks to spine ends and a little surface splitting to the ends of the lower joint. Small scuffs to corners. Rare title, in surprisingly good order. Very Good.

Price: £60.00

London: Faber and Faber, 1967. First edition. 139pp. **Ex-library copy, with some reading use to pages, in bright cloth, in jacket with bright front panel.** Light browning to front endpaper. Library marks at base of title page and labels partially removed from back endpaper (with some damage to pastedown) and with a narrow split at hinge. Short closed tears to edges of some pages, occasional light soiling, and some dog-ear creases to corners. Top edge of text block peppered with pale foxing. In original binding of orange cloth, spine titled in dark blue. Spine ends rounded, corners nearly sharp, boards bowing slightly. Library 'JF' (juvenile fiction) in black ink at base of spine (almost melds in with the lettering). Cloth otherwise bright and clean. In protected unclipped dustjacket. Dramatic pictorial front panel bright and clean, with a little fraying at top left. Spine red lettering faded but legible, library 'JF' again near base. Spine ends have slight stain, perhaps from previous adjacent decayed tape. Head of spine fraying with some loss and short splits to joints: base of lower joint has small chip. Back panel has a little of the stain and a small mark, but is otherwise good. Good in good+ dust-jacket.

Price: £20.00