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YOUNG HOPEFUL. With Illustrations by Charles Robinson, R.I.
London.Herbert Jenkins Limited. 1932. [10], 11-78pp. Illustrated endpapers, vignette on title page and numerous black & white illustrations throughout the text. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Light spotting to half-title and fore-edges; wrapper just a trifle dust-soiled; else a near fine copy. Very scarce in wrapper.
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YOUNG PHILLIP MADDISON.
London.Macdonald & Co., (Publishers) Ltd. 1953. 416pp. Original red boards, gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Light spotting on fore-edges; wrapper a little worn at head and heel; 2 cm. tear at head of spine; light soiling on rear panel of wrapper; else a very good copy.The third volume in The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight.
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YOUNG ROBIN BRAND DETECTIVE.
London.University of London Press. 1947. [6], 218pp. Colour frontispiece and numerous black & white illustrations within the text. Original cloth; pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Ownership inscriptions to front fixed endpaper; spine lightly faded; front endpaper spotted; head of wrapper chipped at spine with slight loss to first line of lettering. However, a good plus good in a like wrapper.
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YOUR BODY IN FLIGHT. T.O. No. 30-105-1, 30th September 1944, a reissue of T.O. No. 00-25-13 dated 20th July 1943. Restricted.
Dayton, Ohio.By Authority of the Commanding General, Army Air Forces. The Otterbein Press. October 1944. ii, 74pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white drawings throughout. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Magazine format. Ownership inscriptions to front cover. Covers very lightly soiled with small crease to corner of upper rear and some minor page turning; ring-punched in blank margin for filing; else a near fine copy. Scarce.
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YOUTHFUL GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS. No. XXV. – One Halfpenny.
Alnwick: W. Davison, No date [circa 1825]. 16 pages, including wrappers. Illustrated with eight woodcuts, and a cut to both upper and lower wrapper. 79 x 58 mm. Spine expertly restored; else an excellent copy. Rare. No copy located.
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YOUTHFUL RECREATIONS, containing Amusements of a Day, as spent By Master Freelove and his Companions. Interspersed with Stories, suitable Observations, Verses, and other Matters of Instruction and Entertainment.
London: E. Newbery, 1796. [Price Six Pence.] 128 pages. Engraved frontispiece and fourteen wood-engravings within the text. Original Dutch floral boards. An excellent, clean copy contained in a folding cloth and marbled paper folding case. Marjory Moon’s copy with her bookplate to the front pastedown. Lot 27 in the sale of her book at Christie’s 28th June 1995. Roscoe J397(12). First published in 1789. All copies are rare.
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YOUTHFUL SPORTS; or The Pleasures of A Country Fair. For Good Boys and Girls. With beautiful engravings on Wood. Price One Penny.
Otley: W. Walker, No date [circa 1830]. 16 pages including pastedown wrappers. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and 6 other woodcuts. Original wrappers with a woodcut to the lower panel. 10.5 x 6.5 cm. A very good copy.
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YR YNYS UNYG; or, The Lonely Island: a Narrative for Young People
London.Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 1852. 394pp. Frontispiece and four other full-page tinted lithographic plates. Original decorative cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Head of spine with a one centimetre tear at head; frontispiece creased in margin and a little torn in top margin where once loose; binding a little cocked; else a very good copy of this scarce title. Inscribed on front free end-paper: 'Margaret Isabella Urquhart from Mrs. De Winter.'
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ZEBROLOGY.
London: Chatto & Windus, No date [1938]. [8] pages, each bearing a coloured illustration [ no text, being a wordless story]. Original card covers, the upper pictorial, secured with a red string tie at the spine. Oblong; 17.8 x 23 cm. Contained in the original pictorial envelope. First edition, third impression. Envelope a little worn & torn & lacking flap; else a fine copy. This is the first occasion we have seen a copy with its original envelope. From the library of the illustrator Enix Marx.
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ZECHARIAH: His Visions and Warnings.
London.James Nisbet & Co. 1885. viii, 335[336], 8pp ad's. 0riginal brown cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. A very good copy.A title from Nisbet's Theological Libary.
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Zhar-ptitsa i seryy volk. [The Tale of Tsarevich Ivan, The Fire-Bird and Grey Wolf.]
The Department for the Production of State Documents, St. Petersburg. Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1901. 12 pages, illustrated in chromolithography, with eight illustrations (three full-page) by Ivan Bilibin, and decorative borders printed in brown. Original pictorial wrappers. 326 x 257 mm. First edition. Some wear to spine. Internally fine, with no offsetting or adhesion. A very good copy.
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Zhar-ptitsa i seryy volk. [The Tale of Tsarevich Ivan, The Fire-Bird and Grey Wolf.]
St. Petersburg: The Department for the Production of State Documents, St, Petersburg. Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1901. 12 pages, illustrated in chromolithography, with eight illustrations (three full-page) by Ivan Bilibin, and decorative borders printed in brown. Original pictorial wrappers. 326 x 257 mm. First edition. Spine has been neatly repaired. Inscription in Russian, dated 1917 on verso of front cover. Internally fine, with no offsetting or adhesion. A very good copy.
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ZIG ZAG FABLES Pictured by J. S. Shepherd.
London.Gardner Darton & Co. 1897. 40pp. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong: 22 x 27cm's. First edition. Very slight rubbing on covers; else a near fine copy of a book usually found in rather well-worn state.
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ZOOLOGICAL RECREATIONS.
London: Henry Colburn, 1847. viii, [4], 380, [4 ad's], 24 pages ad's. Original green embossed cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Light rubbing of cloth; few occasional light spots; else an excellent copy.
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ZOUTLANDE.
Line engraving. Signed in pencil. 1928. State VI or VII. One of an edition of 75. Image size 133 x 137 mm. Campbell Dodgson 82. A fine impression. Unmounted. Price is subject to VAT at the current rate.
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ZWÖLF ANSICHTEN VON BERLIN. 1ste Lieferung nach der natur gezeichnetvon H. Hintze, radirt von Fincke, aqatinta von Professor F. Tögel.
Verlag von G. Eduard Müller, No date [circa mid 19th century]. Folder containing twelve aquatint views of Berlin. Original paper-covered folder with a mounted title label and three ribbon ties. 192 x 234 mm. One print has a small rub in the blank border; else a very good set.
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ZWOLF MIT FER POST. Ein Neujahrsmarchen. Mit 12 farbigen bildern nach Originalen von Professor Berthold Loffler und einer kalendarium fur das jahr 1920.
Wien: Anton Schroll & Co, No date [1919]. [28] pages. Illustrated with 12 colour plates by the celebrated Jugendstil illustrato,r Berthold Loffler. Pictorial paper covered boards. 108 x 95 mm. Inscription on blank verso of title dated 1919. A fine copy of this illustrated calendar for the young.
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ÆSOP’S FABLES. With Instructive Morals and Reflections, Abstracted from all Party Considerations. Adapted To All Capacities; and design'd to promote Religion, Morality, and Universal Benevolence. Containing Two Hundred and Forty Fables, with a Cut Engrav'd on Copper to each Fable. And the Life of Æsop prefixed.
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ÆSOPI PHRYGIS, et Aliorum Fabulæ, Quorum nomina sequens pagella indicabit, Elegantissimis Iconibus in gratiam studiosae juventutis illustratae, Editio Novissima. Caeteris auctior, & emendatior. Cum Indice locupletissimo.
Venetiis (Venice): Typographia Remondiniana, 1757. [4] 5 -296, [4 index] pages. Illustrated with decorative device to title, other decorative devices and illustrated capitals, and forty-four wood cuts throughout. Bound in white cloth covered with parchment paper. 12mo. Repairs to front and rear hinges; new end-papers and paste-downs front and rear; slight browning throughout; some loss of paper covering at spine; cracking at rear at Index; else a very good copy of an edition of Aesop designed for children.
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̔Η Καινη Διαθηκη. Novum Testamentum. Editio Nova, Denuo Recusa: in Qua Variantes Lectiones tam ex manuscriptis quam impressis codicibus collectæ, & Parallela Scripturæ Loca annotate sunt, Studio & labore Stephani Curcellæi.
Amsterdam: Ex Typographia Blaviana, 1685. [xii], 564 pages. Bound in later calf, sometime re-backed. All edges gilt. A very good copy.
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