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THE WINTER SLEEPWALKER And other stories. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
London.Jonathan Cape. 1994. 96pp. Illustrated in colour throughout by Quentin Blake. Original boards, gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. A fine copy in like, unprice-clipped wrapper.
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THE WINTER VACATION; or, holidays in the Country. Intended for the amusement of children.
London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1821. 71 pages. Engraved frontispiece and five other full-page engraved plates. Original marbled boards recently re-backed in green gilt roan. 142 x 95 mm. Ownership name on endpaper; boards rubbed and corners worn; else a very good copy of a title first published in 1818. See Darton G1051(2).
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THE WINTER’S NIGHT; or, The Admiral, The Farmer, and The Old Marine, A Tale, in Rhyme. For Children. With Five Etchings. Price Two Shillings.
Taunton: J. W. Marriott, 1815. 30 pages. Illustrated with four etchings and one lithograph. Recent quarter sheep over marbled boards.. 136 x 110 mm. First edition. Two of the etchings a little ragged in margins where once loose, but a very good copy of a rare book.
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THE WISDOM OF CROP THE CONJURER. Exemplified in several Characters of good and bad Boys, with an impartial Account of the celebrated Tom Trot, who rode before all the Boys in the Kingdom till he arrived at the Top of the Hill called Learning. Written for the Imitation of those who love themselves. Adorned with Cuts. Price Two-pence.
Wellington: F. Houlston and Son, No date. [Circa 1820.]. 32 pages, including pastedown wrappers. Wood-engraved frontispiece and twelve woodcuts within the text. Original wrappers with cuts to both, that on the lower showing a pedlar, entitled ‘A Jew.’ 19.6 x 6.6 cm. A fine copy of a scarce title.
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THE WISDOM OF CROP THE CONJURER. Exemplified in several Characters of good and bad Boys, with an impartial Account of the celebrated Tom Trot, who rode before all the Boys in the Kingdom till he arrived at the Top of the Hill called Learning. Written for the Imitation of those who love themselves. Adorned with Cuts.
Wellington: F. Houlston and Son. Price Two-pence, No date. [Circa 1820.]. 32pp., including pastedown wrappers. Wood-engraved frontispiece and twelve woodcuts within the text. Original wrappers with cuts to both, that on the lower showing a pedlar, entitled ‘A Jew.’ A fine copy of a scarce title.
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THE WISDOM OF CROP THE CONJURER. Exemplified in several Characters of good and bad Boys, with an impartial Account of the clebrated Tom Trot, who rode before all the Boys in the Kingdom till he arrived at the Top of the Hill called Learning. Written for the Imitation of those who love themselves. Adorned with Cuts.
Wellington: F. Houlston and Son. Price Two-pence, No date. [Circa 1820.]. 32pp., including pastedown wrappers. Wood-engraved frontispiece and twelve woodcuts within the text. Original wrappers with cuts to both, that on the lower showing a pedlar, entitled ‘A Jew.’ A fine copy of a scarce title.
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THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON.
London.Griffin & Farran. Not dated. [Inscribed 1881 but could be earlier.]. [vi], 26pp, ornately chromolithographed throughout in approximately six colours, heightened with gold. The first page after the title has a mounted and shaped albumen religious photograph. Original purple cloth gilt with title set in white circle. All edges gilt. Octavo. Spine a little faded, but gilt remaining bright; inscription for Christmas 1881, with a later ownership signature. A handsome copy.
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THE WISE BOOK Pictured by Millicent Sowerby.
London.JM Dent & Co. 1906. Unpaged. Colour frontispiece and 11 other full-page colour plates, plus small line illustrations in single colour. Original pictorial boards. 12mo. First edition. Boards very lightly dust-soiled; some light spotting to endpapers; else a very good copy.
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THE WISE WOMAN. A Parable.
London: Strahan & Co, 1875. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 222pp. Original decorative cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Re-backed, with the original spine laid down, but with some loss at head and foot of spine; some foxing throughout. Contained in a folding decorative calf-backed gilt box with star decoration to the spine. Inscribed at the head of the title-page: ‘Irene MacDonald from her father. Christmas 1875.’ Loosely laid in is a carte-de-visite of MacDonald, by Elliott & Fry, dated in pencil ‘Feb. 8 1873’. A very difficult title to locate, though sub-titled ‘a parable’, it is in fact a fairy story. This is the first copy we have handled. Shaberman 54. First issued in the United States under the title, A Double Story (1876). Re-issued in London in 1895 as The Lost Princess.
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THE WISHING CAP. New edition.
London.Houlston and Sons. No date [circa 1870's]. 29 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and with small wood-engravings. Original printed wrappers. Bumped at corners; else a very good copy.
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The Witches. Illustrations by Quentin Blake.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. Hardcover. Pictorial unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Toning to the fore-edges as usual; short tear (5mm) at fold of front wrapper (not noticeable); two small tape marks on the blank verso of the wrapper; else a fine copy.
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THE WIZARD BOOK For Boys.
London.D. C. Thomson. 1936. Annual for 1937. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Ownership box filled in; inscription for Christmas 1936 on recto of frontispiece; text browning; spine cracked but firm; edges rubbed; else a good plus copy.
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THE WIZARD OF OZ. With Pictures by W.W. Denslow.
Indianapolis.The Bobbs-Merril Company. No Date. [circa 1904]. [11], 12 - 239, [3] pp. 16 full-page colour plates including title. Black and one colour illustrations throughout. Original green pictorial cloth; pictorial endpapers. Second Edition, state 2. Spine a little faded and worn at head and heel; boards clean but rubbed at edges; front and rear joints repaired at inner joints; stitching a little slack in places; text clean but for the occasional small finger-mark. A good plus copy.
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THE WOMAN'S KINGDOM. By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." Copyright edition. In two volumes. Vol's 983 & 984.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1868. 310; 296 pages. Both half-titles present. Bound as one volume in quarter calf gilt over marbled boards. Spine a little rubbed at head & heel; some light browning; else a very good, clean copy.
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THE WOMBLES GO AROUND THE WORLD. Illustrations based on original film puppets designed by Ivor Wood and drawn by Margaret Gordon.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1976. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Name of the children's writer and critic Margery Fisher to endpaper; short tear in front panel of wrapper, without loss; else a very good copy.
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THE WOMEN'S LAND ARMY.
London.Michael Joseph Ltd. 1944. 111pp. Black and white frontispiece and 64 further reproductions of photographs. Original green cloth binding, with red lettering and 'Women's Land Army' emblem in gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Small loss to head of wrapper, just affecting the S and A of Sackville, and smaller loss to heel of wrapper; else a very good copy.
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THE WONDER BOOK OF WONDERS. With eight colour plates and nearly 300 illustrations. Edited by Harry Golding. Ninth edition.
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, No date [circa 1934]. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 256 pages. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards showing a diver on the seabed; dust-wrapper with the same design. Dust-wrapper a little worn ;else an excellent copy.
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THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES & DISCOVERIES OF CAPTAIN LEMUEL GULLIVER.
London: Didier & Tebbett, 1808. 12 leaves, each printed on one side only. Title with engraved vignette, and eleven pages each bearing an engraved illustration with verse beneath. Lacking original wrappers, and rebound some point in the late twentieth century. First edition. A very good copy of a rare edition.
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The Wonderful life & Adventures of TOM THUMB. An English Fairy-story by Paul Britten Austin with Drawings by Mervyn Peake.
Stockholm: Radiotjänst, 1954/1955. Two volumes. Softbacks. 126; 134 pages. Illustrated throughout both volumes in black 7 white. The second volume contains a tipped-in miniature volume, entitled: The Terrible but True History of Blebb and Glugg. Original pictorial stiff wrappers. First editions. A fine set.
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THE WONDERFUL LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE.
York: T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1805. (Price One Penny.) [32] pages the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers; page 30 is a blank; page 31 bears a booklist. Pastedown wood-engraved frontispiece and 13 woodcuts within the text. Original printed wrappers with cuts to both panels. 85 x 60 mm. Covers rubbed and worn; else very good copy of a are chapbook. No copy on Library Hub or Worldcat, though both list another edition of this title by this publisher.
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