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London: Frederick Warne, 'Now and Then' Juvenile series (New York: Scribner, Welford and Armstrong), [c.1875] 96pp. At each opening there is a short tale in large print, facing the picture which illustrates it. Many of the images are striking, and many of the stories are intriguing, whether fantastic, domestic, or pietistic. Contents very clean, surprisingly fresh, though with small ink spots to top corner of the first three pages, and a few faint marks elsewhere. New endpapers. 187 x 137mm, in the original binding of green cloth, decorated and titled in black, front board title set in a gilt square. Firm and bright, with a few slight marks. A little treasure, and a very nice copy. Very Good+.

Price: £75.00

London: Grant Richards, 1903. First edition. 99pp: a colour illustration page faces each text page, with alternate openings blank. Some light browning and soiling. Plates fresh and charming. The back of the final plate is soiled as there was formerly no cover. Quarto, with new cream endpapers and new back and spine of red grained cloth, with the original gilt titled spine laid down, and with the original blue pictorial paper-covered bevelled upper board, with some soiling and bubbling of the paper. Delightful. Very Good.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £80.00

London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1909]. First edition. 152pp, with text illustrations in line and the 23 tissue-guarded plates. More than 300 fables. Contents very clean, with browning to endpapers and the adjacent leaves, and slight spotting to closed edges. Quarto, in the original brown cloth decorated in gilt: boards bright, spine cloth darker with some spotting but gilt bright. A very nice firm copy. Very Good+.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £280.00

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: £65.00

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1919. New Impression. 196pp, with plates and text illustrations in black and white, and a colour frontis, all by Henry J. Ford: decorative endpapers. 1920 prize label on pastedown. Occasional light foxing or soiling throughout. Surface damage to p.88, losing a little print, but no meaning lost. The illustrations are not as vivid as those in Lang's Fairy books, being printed here on the cheap paper used for the text. In the original binding of green buckram, with the frontis image laid on, and the spine titled and decorated in dulled gilt. Clean, with crease marks or puckers to the cloth. Spine ends and inner hinges repaired. Good firm copy of an uncommon title. VG-.

Price: £75.00

London: John F. Shaw, n.d. [c.1932]. Presumed first edition thus. Quarto edition, 10 x 7.5ins. [192]pp, with line illustrations and 12 very good colour plates. 1932 adult gift inscription to back of frontis: contents otherwise very clean and fresh, with some foxing to the title page and a few pages at the back. In the original binding of quarter russet cloth, spine patterned and titled in black, the pictorial front showing the Flight into Egypt. Firm, and exceptionally fresh and clean, with only a light scuff to one corner. Other authors and other publishers have issued books with this title, but this edition is scarce. A gift quality copy. Very Good+.

Price: £60.00

London: Issued from the Offices of 'The Playbox', Fleetway House / The Amalgamated Press Ltd, 1935. 104pp, busy with things happening, richly illustrated, mostly in monochrome, with frontis and a few other pages in colour. Most pages rather card-like and browning at edges. 'Belongs to' window on front free endpaper neatly filled in with an adult gift inscription and dated 1935. A carefully-kept book, all pages unmarked and clean. Quarto, in the original pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Back advertises mincemeat, and has a little wear to the corners, spine is faded and a little rubbed, and the front, showing animals scoffing food accidentally tipped down stairs, is bright, with a little scuffing to edges. Very Good.

Price: £35.00

London: St. Catherine Press (and printed by W.H.Smith at the Arden Press), n.d. [c.1937]. First edition. [36]pp, illustrated in colour throughout. Delightfully done account of the author and her sister's splendidly improvised imaginative life during their childhood, when 'our country was ...at war with the country that made most of the toys, and dolls in particular'. Contents generally fresh, bright and clean, with light soiling to the margins of one or two pages. Bright pictorial endpapers, with a one-inch corner torn off the ffep. The colophon leaf - between the end of the story and the back endpaper, is largely torn away, and could perhaps be done without. 7 ins x 6 ins, in the original paper-covered boards, with some wear to the corners, and a new cloth spine; the large colour pictorial onlay on the front is in very good condition. Very nice firm copy of an enchanting and scarce book.

Price: £40.00

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1948. First edition. 28pp, illustrated in colour throughout, on thin glossy paper. Most pages have small neat repairs at the bottom of the inner margin, and are slightly rumpled. Quarto. Lower board soiled, pictorial upper board less so: corners scuffed, spine plain paper worn away, cloth intact. Charming little story of a monkey's growing up. Very uncommon. VG-.

Price: £35.00

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd, 25 Gilbert Street London WI, n.d. [1951]. Early reprint, with rounded spine. 60pp, illustrated in colour, and with pictorial endpapers. 'Belongs to' box filled in. While some pages have small faint soil marks to the margins, the overwhelming impression is of crisp bright fresh pages - a careful owner, but whose hands werent always clean. Faint tanning to the back free endpaper. In the red pictorial laminated boards with rounded spine, very bright. Scuffing to bottom edges of boards, and to bottom corners, one upper corner, and to foot of spine. One-inch split to base of lower joint (neatly and firmly retained), and tiny splits to head of joints: head of spine slightly puckered. In the protected pictorial dust jacket, with '3s 6d' price on the inner flap: very worn, with heavy creasing and scuffs to edges, small chips to corners, one-inch chip to base of spine, and a shallow chip to head of spine, extending to front and back panels. Several closed tears have been repaired internally. Panels bright, slight dulling to spine. A great survivor. [Matches most points for the 1949 first edition, but the inner flap reads 'You must be sure to read Books numbered 2 and 3 in the Little Noddy Library..', which dates it as 1951] Very Good in poor dust-jacket.

Price: £45.00