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  • THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK MINGO. By the author of “The Story of Little Black Sambo.” by BANNERMAN, Helen.
    BANNERMAN, Helen.
    THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK MINGO. By the author of “The Story of Little Black Sambo.”

    London: James Nisbet & Co, Limited, .No date [1901]. 72 leaves, each printed on one side only, including 36 full-page coloured illustrations. Original pictorial cloth. First edition. Contemporary inscription on endpaper dated 1901. Binding a little rubbed and worn; few spots here & there; else a very good copy of this sequel to Helen Bannerman's, 'The Story of Little Black Sambo.'

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  • THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. by BANNERMAN, Helen.
    BANNERMAN, Helen.
    THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO.

    Grant Richards, 1899. Dumpy Books for Children No. 4. With 27 full-page colour-engraved illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. viii+57+1pp colophon. Original two-toned striped green cloth. 16mo. Contained in a morocco-backed clamshell box. First edition. Re-cased; else a very nice copy. Inscribed on front endpaper: ‘Dorothy Xmas 1899.’ See Schiller, ‘The Story of Little Black Sambo.’ (The Book Collector, Autumn 1974).

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  • THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. by BANNERMAN, Helen.
    BANNERMAN, Helen.
    THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO.

    London: Grant Richards, 1899. Dumpy Books for Children No. 4. With 27 full-page colour-engraved illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. viii+57+1pp colophon. Original two-tone striped green cloth. 16mo. Contained in a morocco-backed folding box. First Edition. Front hinge cracked: rear just starting, but both firm; binding little rubbed and stained; internally clean and, overall, a very good copy of this classic children’s story. For a detailed publishing history of the first edition, see Schiller, ‘The Story of Little Black Sambo’ (The Book Collector, Autumn 1974.

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  • BANNERMAN, Helen.
    THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO.

    London.Chatto & Windus. 1956. 61pp. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original pictorial boards. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. 12mo. Head & heel of spine a trifle rubbed; occasional finger-marking at start; edges of wrapper a little rubbed; else a very good copy.

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  • BANNERMAN, Helen.
    THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO.

    London: Grant Richards, 1904. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 109 pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original pictorial cloth. 4to. First edition in this large format. Few light marks to covers; gift inscription to front free endpaper: 'To dear little Willie with Auntie Annie's love & as a reminder of the first book he read.' Else a very good clean copy. Rarely found in such nice condition. This title was first published in 1899 in Grant Richards' Dumpy Books for Children series.

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  • BANNERMAN, Helen.
    THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. Eighteenth edition.

    London.Chatto and Windus. 1928. [3], 4-113pp. Illustrated in colour throughout including endpapers. Original pictorial boards with pictorial paste-down to upper board. 12mo. Eighteenth edition. Spine a little cocked; touch of wear to edge of spine at rear board; some browning to fore-edges; writing in ink on rear free endpaper just above the illustration; else a very good, bright copy.

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  • BANNERMAN, Helen.
    The Story of LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. Twentieth edition.

    London.Chatto & Windus. [1935]. [vi], [3], 4 - 113, [5] pp. Colour illustrations. Pictorial blue cloth with pasted on colour illustration to front panel. Paper-wrapper. Small 8vo. Boards clean and bright; some light browning to front and back free endpapers; dust wrapper chipped and repaired, old mend to back panel with adhesive tape; else a very good copy indeed.This title is Number 1 in the series.

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  • THE STORY OF LITTLE DICK AND HIS PLAYTHINGS: showing How a Naughty Boy became a Good one; being an example for all little masters and misses in the British Empire.
    THE STORY OF LITTLE DICK AND HIS PLAYTHINGS: showing How a Naughty Boy became a Good one; being an example for all little masters and misses in the British Empire.

    Glasgow: J. Lumsden & Son, 1823. 36 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and 8 other wood-engravings. Original printed wrappers. First edition thus. Covers a little rubbed; small corner missing from lower outer cover; else very good. Roscoe and Brimmell 124.

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  • THE STORY OF MARY AND HER CAT. A tale for good children.
    THE STORY OF MARY AND HER CAT. A tale for good children.

    Edinburgh: Caw and Elder, 1819. 32 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with a pastedown engraved frontispiece and ten wood-engravings within the text. Original printed wrappers with a wood-engraving to the lower panel. 101x 64 mm. A very good copy. Scarce. Not in Necker.

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  • [WATTS, Augustine.]
    THE STORY OF MISS & MASTER QUARREL.

    Liverpool.Privately printed. 1904. 52pp. Illustrated with two plates. Original cloth-backed printed boards. 14.5 x 11.2cm's.Chip from one blank margin and a small corner lost from another blank margin; covers lightly dust-soiled and a little worn; else a very good copy of this rare, privately printed, children's story.The preface is addressed to 'Bam,' Mary Bertha Watts, at St. Catherine's Convent, Edinburgh.

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  • THE STORY OF MISS MOPPET. by POTTER, Beatrix.
    POTTER, Beatrix.
    THE STORY OF MISS MOPPET.

    London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co, No date [1906]. First edition; first issue. A Panorama printed on one side only, with 14 panels of text and 14 colour illustrations. Original grey wallet style binding with a pictorial pastedown of Miss Moppet to the front panel. Gift inscription: ‘With love from Auntie Patie to my little Babs.’ to the titlepage. A fine copy with no tears or damage. Scarce in such fine condition.

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  • THE STORY OF NIG, TOODLES AND MEDDLER. by MANNERS, Marjorie.
    MANNERS, Marjorie.
    THE STORY OF NIG, TOODLES AND MEDDLER.

    New York: The Nourse Company, Circa 1913. [44] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original paper-covered boards with a pictorial pastedown to the upper panel. 14.5 x 11.3 cm. A very nice copy of a scarce book. The first two thirds of the book relates the story of three cats, the last third relates, ‘Bobbie’s summer in the Country.’

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  • THE STORY OF NO-NAME. by GIBSON, Penelope.
    GIBSON, Penelope.
    THE STORY OF NO-NAME.

    London: Oxford University Press, 1946. [16] pages. illustrated throughout in colour. Pictorial paper-covered boards; matching dust-wrapper. Oblong octavo: 16 x 23 cm. First edition. Some light spots of foxing to the rear panel of the dust-wrapper; else a fine copy of a children's book intended for 3 to 6 year-olds.

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  • GIBSON, Penelope.
    THE STORY OF NO-NAME.

    London: Edinburgh.Morrison & Gibb Ltd. 1946. [16] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original pictorial boards. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. 17.5 x 23cms. First edition. Dust-wrapper lightly spotted with small tear to lower front corner; else an excellent bright copy.

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  • RING, Anne.
    THE STORY OF PRINCESS ELIZABETH Told with the sanction of her parents By Anne Ring formerly attached to H.R.H. The Duchess of York's Household. With many Photogravures.

    London.John Murray. 1930. 125, [2]pp. Illustrated throughout. Original red cloth. Octavo. First edition. Slight browning of endpapers; else a very good copy. Inscribed by the Queen Mother in ink on the front free endpaper: 'For J. Ainslie from Elizabeth December 1930.'

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  • THE STORY OF SAMBO AND THE TWINS. A new Adventure of Little Black Sambo By Helen Bannerman. by BANNERMAN, Helen.
    BANNERMAN, Helen.
    THE STORY OF SAMBO AND THE TWINS. A new Adventure of Little Black Sambo By Helen Bannerman.

    London: Nisbet & Co, Ltd, No date [1937]. 91 [92] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original green cloth lettered in black; original pictorial dust-wrapper. First edition. Neat inscription on endpaper. A near fine copy.

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  • THE STORY OF SEVEN YOUNG GOSLINGS. by HOUSMAN, Laurence.
    HOUSMAN, Laurence.
    THE STORY OF SEVEN YOUNG GOSLINGS.

    London, Glasgow & Dublin: Blackie & Son Limited, No date. [1899]. [38] pages. Illustrated in colour and black & white throughout. 6 full-page colour plates. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. 25.6 x 20.4 cms. First edition, probably the second issue. Wear to edges and corners of boards; occasional light spotting and marks throughout; else a good plus copy.

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  • The Story of Sir Richard Whittington Lord Mayor of London in the years 1397, 1406-7, & 1419 A.D. Written and Illustrated by E. Carr. by CARR, Gabrielle.
    CARR, Gabrielle.
    The Story of Sir Richard Whittington Lord Mayor of London in the years 1397, 1406-7, & 1419 A.D. Written and Illustrated by E. Carr.

    London: Longmans, Green. and Co, 1871. xvi, [ leaf], 16 leaves, printed on one side only. 11 full-page plates. Original brown decorative cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Folio. First edition. Some occasional very light foxing; inner joints neatly repaired; else a very good copy. Necker, page 119: ‘A beautifully made up book.’

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  • THE STORY OF THE BABES IN THE WOOD.
    THE STORY OF THE BABES IN THE WOOD.

    Newcastle-upon-Tyne: John Gilbert, (Succesor to John Ross,) Publisher, Royal Arcade, No date [circa1825]. 8 pages. Illustrated with 6 wood-engravings in a variety of styles and from a variety of souces,, Original yellow wrappers, with a wood engraving to the upper panel; alphabet to the lower. 15.5 x 9.5 cm. Name on first page and a small ink stain; else a very good copy. Scarce .

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  • THE STORY OF THE BLUE BIRD. Embellished with cuts. by [Madame d’Aulnoy.]
    [Madame d’Aulnoy.]
    THE STORY OF THE BLUE BIRD. Embellished with cuts.

    Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. [Price Fourpence.] No date [circa 1835]. 36 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with a wood-engraved pastedown frontispiece, wood-engraving on title, and seven wood-engravings within the text. Original printed wrappers with a vignette of a bird on the upper panel and a book list on the lower. 137 x 84 mm. Some corners a little worn; covers dust-soiled; name on title; else very good. ]

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