UK: Ay-Jay-Bee Series, [Barton], n.d. [c.1927-29]. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. [i], 55pp, including eight pages in colour. The first page (p1&2) is missing. Every page reproduces a page of traditional nursery rhymes hand-written and illustrated by Freda Mabel Rose, whose work has a charm which owes much to Mabel Lucie..... More
London: Methuen Children's Books / Pocket Bears / Moonlight Publishing, 1984. First English edition. Paperback. A little paperback, 17.2x10.7cms, with 40 glossy pages, illustrated in colour, with thin card pictorial covers. Clean, with a small crease to the top of the front cover, and the first two pages are slightly..... More
London: The Bodley Head, 1975. New Edition (first printing thereof). Hardcover. [40]pp, unpaginated, illustrated in colour throughout. Contents very clean and fresh and unmarked, with some faint marks to the back of the front free endpaper. In the original pictorial paper-covered boards, fresh and bright, with a little foxing to..... More
London & New York: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 94pp, with many illustrations in line, and three colour plates. Pages generally quite clean, with occasional grubby margins. The blank lower part of the Contents page has been neatly excised. The bottom edge of p21/22 has a...... 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
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: Ward Lock Educational, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 96pp, illustrated variously in line, tone, and colour. As new, unread copy from storage, although about an inch down the leading edge of the front board is sunned. Fresh, bright, clean, firm, and corners sharp. An exceptional copy of a book now..... More
London: Atlas Publishing, 1968. Original edition. Hardcover. 61pp. Colour comic strips and stories. Neat small gift inscription inside front cover, and front endpaper is price-clipped. Contents otherwise very fresh and unmarked. Laminated pictorial boards bright and clean, very slight blunting to upper corners and small pucker to head of spine..... More
London: Bodley Head, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. (iv), 35pp, illustrated with Ardizzone's drawings. Contents clean and unmarked, with foxing to the endpapers, very few spots to the story pages. Firm and very bright and clean in pictorial boards, with just a small rust mark to base of lower board. In..... More
London: Blackie & Son, n.d. (c.1954). Presumed first and only edition. Hardcover. 24pp, illustrated in colour by the author, and with pictorial endpapers. Contents generally clean and unmarked, faint staining noticeable facing title page. 4.25” x 4.75”, in the wraparound pictorial boards: clean, firm, and slightly bowed, with small scuffs..... 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: Blackie, n.d. [1949]. First or early printing. Hardcover. 32pp, illustrated. Contents clean.Gift inscription to front pastedown. 20.5x17cms, in the original boards with pictorial front, bright and clean, and the original red cloth spine and plain back board, all firm and in good order, with only light signs of wear..... More
London: Universal Text Book Ltd, n.d. [late 1930s?]. First or early edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated: c.60pp, illustrated at almost every opening, and with pictorial endpapers. Small tear with 1cm loss to margin of final page, and minor damage to hinge of rear endpaper. Gift inscription to front pastedown and 'belongs to'..... 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: 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: 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
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: Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [c.1917]. First edition. Hardcover. 40pp, plus a colour frontis, with handwritten text printed in black and red, and illustrations in black & white at every opening. Little book, landscape format, 91 x 123mm. Front pastedown bears a 1917 gift inscription, has a little..... 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. Contents unmarked and notably fresh and bright. Very minor soiling to a few pages, staples visible inside covers are rusted but firm. This is the full..... 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
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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
London: Routledge, 1904. New Edition. Hardcover. vi, 378pp + 23 plates including the guarded frontis (=all called for). Occasional minor foxing in text, heavier to first and last few pages, and some light foxing to closed edges. 1917 gift inscription to front free endpaper. In the original decorative binding of..... More
London: Remington & Co., 1881. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 146pp: with H. Petherick's illustrations in line, enhanced throughout with watercolour by the original young owner: not meticulously, but enlivening the tale: forget clean pages, here there are smudges and soilings. Her grandfather's 1881 gift inscription is on the verso of..... More
London: Dean & Son (plates by Emrick & Binger, Haarlem), [c.1879]. Presumed first edition thus. Hardcover. [ii], 16pp + 6 plates, 16pp + 6 plates, 16pp + 4 plates, 16pp + 5 plates: three short of the six plates per story called for. Contents very clean and bright, with neat..... More
