London: S.O. Beeton, 1863. Fiftieth Thousand. Hardcover. xxxix, 1112pp, with many illustrations in the text, and with the colour plates all present except the frontis. The plates are foxed, and one has wear to the edges, now repaired. Text in very good order, generally clean, with occasional foxing and or..... More

London: Sampson Low & Co., [1888 or earlier]. First UK edition. Hardcover. xii, 384pp, followed by 16 foldout plans, +xii (adverts); with a frontis, 8 plates, a folding displacement sheet, and many drawings in text. Adverts also to endpapers. Defective, lacking both the title page and p.xi/xii in the prelims..... More

Paris: Dambuyant & Guignard, Nouvelle Librairie de la Jeunesse, n.d. [c.1890]. First French edition. Hardcover. Panoramic pop-up. Classic of the genre. Original early edition, in very bright and functioning condition, having had a few small repairs, and with a few missing parts replaced from a modern copy: namely, the donkey..... More

London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, n.d. [1895]. First or early edition. Hardcover. 128pp, endpapers foxed and pages tanned, but contents otherwise unmarked and in good clean order: includes some advertisements. In the original binding of green cloth printed in black. Boards firm, with some toning and soiling, upper joint fraying..... More

London: W.H. & L. Collingridge, 'Amateur Gardening' Office, n.d. [c.1904]. Third edition. Hardcover. 94 + [10] adverts, with illustrations in the text. Contents clean and in good order, with creases to some corners. 8vo, in the original orange boards printed in black and red with green cloth spine. Slight soiling..... More

Halifax and London: Messrs Edward Mortimer (publishers of the 'Court' series), n.d. [c.1909]. Early edition. Softcover. 16pp, illustrated. Stapled booklet. Contents clean and unmarked. In green card covers with decorative red title in relief to front, adverts for cards to the back. Crease to fore-edge of front cover where it..... More

London: C. Gilbert-Wood, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. x, (vi), 192pp, with photo frontis portraits, and illustrated with line drawings. 1915 ownership name to front free endpaper. Trim, well-kept copy with no wear or soiling. Endpapers browned. Pronounced foxing spots to the closed edges, sometimes encroaching on to the page margins..... More

London: Cassell, 1923. First edition. Paperback. [iv], 152pp, illustrated. Contents clean, with some soiling to title page. 8vo, with thin red card covers, battered but made good, illustrated to the front, adverts to rear and inside. With new red spine and label. More

London: Methuen, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 164pp, with a frontis portrait. 'In this volume Mr Tilden, the great lawn tennis player, surveys his career...' Contents clean and unmarked, with some foxing to the title page, little elsewhere. Closed edges browned. In the original blue cloth-textured binding titled in navy..... More

London: Girl's Own Paper Offices, n.d. [1930s]. Presumed first and only edition. Hardcover. 48pp, illustrated. Contents very clean with new matching endpapers. 167x121mm, in the original paper-covered boards, with plain back and attractive pictorial front, and a new cloth spine. A few minor marks to upper board, and slight wear..... More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. xii, [4], 149pp; illustrated with drawings, plans, plus a sail plan and 13 foldout plans. Plans not numbered or listed, but appear to be complete. Contents overwhelmingly clean, with one or two minor foxing spots or soil marks. Endpapers very tanned..... More

London: The Boy Scouts Association, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 124pp: cartoons: with an introduction, and notes about several of the cartoonists represented. Small 1952 gift inscription to front free endpaper. Minimal foxing to endpapers, contents otherwise very clean. In the original green cloth-textured binding titled in black, clean, bright and..... More

London: Macdonald, 1954. First edition. Cloth. 676pp, illustrated with photographic plates, and drawings in the text. Contents strikingly fresh and clean. Faint tanning to endpapers. Small faint splash to top edge of closed text block. In the original binding of orange cloth, spine titled in gilt. Boards bright, spine faded..... More