London: Frederick Warne, 'Now and Then' Juvenile series (New York: Scribner, Welford and Armstrong), [c.1875]. Hardcover. 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..... More
D.C. Thompson and John Leng, n.d. Original edition. Hardcover. The first Bunty book. 124pp, plus the pictorial story endpapers: colour illustrated throughout. Contents fresh, clean and unmarked. Erased pencilled price to corner of endpaper. First story: The Dancing Life of Moira Kent. Quarto, in the original maroon on pale blue..... More
D.C. Thompson and John Leng, n.d. Original edition. Hardcover. The third Bunty book. 124pp, plus the pictorial story endpapers: colour illustrated throughout. Contents very clean and unmarked. Erased pencilled price to corner of endpaper. First story: The Dance of 100 Heartaches. Quarto, in the original green on white patterned boards..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co., n.d. [1874]. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. [iv], 187pp, and a frontis with a tanned guard. Some light foxing, and two early gift inscriptions (one, a prize, and underlined in pencil, is dated January 1875) to front endpaper. All edges gilt. 15.5x10.5cms, in the original binding..... More
London: J. Harris and Son, n.d. [c.1825]. Early edition. Hardcover. The title page, followed by the 69 hand-coloured stipple engravings in facing pairs. Some soiling or toning up to p.10, thereafter generally clean. The missing blank corner of the last page has been made good. 1848 ownership name to the..... More
London: Issued from the Offices of 'The Playbox', Fleetway House / The Amalgamated Press Ltd, 1935. Hardcover. 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..... More
London: Printed at the Catnach Press by W.S. Fortey, n.d. [?1870-1885?]. First or early edition. Pamphlet. Chapbook, 8pp, 25x18.5cms, illustrated with cuts. Includes: [The] Drunkard's Looking Glass, The Tree of Dissipation, Close the Alehouse Door, alphabet rhymes, Good Drinks for Good Children, The Life of a Drunkard, The Drunkard's Dream..... More
London: [Boy Scouts Association (Great Britain)], April 1934 to October 1937. Hardcover. [The book titled 1934-36 comprises Vols I & II, from April 1934-March 1936, each Volume followed by an Alphabetical Index, but lacking issues #2, #4 and #7 from Vol I, and #12 is mis-bound into Vol II #1..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1925]. First printing with Robinson illustrations. Hardcover. 269pp, with text illustrations in line, a colour frontis, and pictorial endpapers. Extremely bright and fresh throughout. The original owner's home-made bookmark was found at p256-7, where it has left a thin line down the gutter, and a faint..... More
London: SPCK/ S.P.C.K./ Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d. [1897?]. First or early edition. Hardcover. 92, 4; with a frontis. Contents in good order, with light signs of use. Some tanning to free endpapers, and 1897 prize inscription in ink. In the original binding of black pictorial cloth, rubbed, and..... More
Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, 1974. First edition, first impression. Paperback. 276, (4) adverts: with many illustrations in line by Pat Marriott. Slight puckering and faint browning to top edges of pages: but this is an unread copy, and the contents are otherwise very fresh and unmarked. Green and brown on spine..... More
Cambridge: Dinosaur publications, 1980. First printing. Softcover. Stapled booklet with 24pp, illustrated in colour. Immaculate unread copy from storage: the only indication that decades have passed since it was printed is that the staples are rusting very slightly at the middle opening. Another of Althea's excellent books: a scarce title..... More
London: Granada, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 94pp. As new unread copy from storage. Contents fresh, in textured green binding, spine titled in silver: all very bright, clean and sharp. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket: fresh, bright, crisp, as new. More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 61, [3] adverts. Contents clean and unmarked. Slight toning to endpapers. In the original binding of smooth blue cloth with pictorial onlay to the front, and with a paper spine label, which is chipped and tanned. The front illustration, by D.M. Wheeler, is..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1964. First Faber edition. Paperback. 253pp. Pages fresh and unmarked. Paperback, with blue and red covers illustrated in line. Firm and square, rubbed, red at foot of spine faded, slight scuffs to extremities. Good copy of a scarce title. More
London: Edward Ward, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 64pp, with more than a hundred illustrations in the text, plus a colour frontis and two colour plates (total three of the four called for). Contents generally very clean and in good order, but a few pages have a small spot or two..... More
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New York & London: Frederick Warne & Co, 1906 [December]. Second printing. Hardcover. Grey wallet from which story folds out in a continuous strip. Story complete, folds good. Faint soiling to some openings, and minor damp adhesion damage to the white and green edge at the first opening. Former ownership..... More
England: A Tower Press Product [No. 820], n.d. [c.1950?]. Presumed first and only edition. Card book. Tall stapled booklet, 7.2 x 3.9 ins: [10]pp, (4 coloured) in coloured card covers, with transfers laid in. The story, 'Mickey's Painting' - illustrated in line, and a sendup of modern art - runs..... More
London: G. Morrish, n.d. [1920s?]. Presumed first and only edition. Hardcover. Biblical stories, engagingly written for children, and interwoven with history: attractively produced, well printed on good paper. 56pp, with three plates, and 'copies can be had' from the author, giving a Teignmouth address. Contents very clean, free endpapers tanned..... More
[Bourneville]: [Cadbury Ltd], n.d. [1920s]. First edition. Paperback. 24pp (including covers), illustrated in colour throughout. Stapled booklet 147x109mm. Staples rusted but firm. Clean and well-kept copy, with foxing to covers and the immediately adjacent pages. Sequel to Elsie and the Bunny, with the Bunny showing her all the improvements to..... More
London: John F. Shaw, n.d. [c.1932]. Presumed first edition thus. Hardcover. 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..... More
London: Lawrence & Jellicoe, n.d. (c.1912). First edition. Hardcover. [32]pp, including the 16 colour plates, and with line drawings on all the text pages. Very minor soiling to a few pages, and the rusty staples visible in gutter at title and at back: contents otherwise unmarked and notably fresh and..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1925]. First Rackham Edition. Hardcover. x, 227pp, with pictorial endpapers, 4 colour plates, and 16 drawings in line. Contents clean and unmarked, with some tanning to endpapers. Quarto, in the original binding of blue cloth, decorated and titled in gilt; boards clean, bright and firm, with..... More
Harmondsworth: Puffin: Penguin Books in association with The Bodley Head, 1968. First Puffin printing. Paperback. 170, [6]: illustrated. Neat ownership name to first page. Seems scarcely to have been opened. Some tanning to inside covers and pages: contents clean and unmarked. Pictorial covers clean and square: no creases or soiling..... More
London: Arnold, 1909. Second impression. Hardcover. (vi), 258pp, plus 4 monochrome plates. Contents clean, with occasional foxing. Christmas 1908 gift inscription and bookplate to front pastedown: lacks front free endpaper, and some webbing is exposed at foot of gutter. Slight splitting of back endpaper. Firm, in the original green cloth..... More
