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A CHILDREN’S SUMMER Eleven etchings on steel by E. V. B. Illustrated in Prose and Rhyme by M. L. B. and W. M. C.
London: Addey and Co, 1853. [31] pages. 9 full-page etchings and two smaller illustrations within pages of text, all finely hand-coloured by Eleanor Vere Boyle. Original leather-backed brown cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Oblong folio. First edition. Slight rubbing to spine; some spotting throughout as is usual with this book; short marginal tear to one leaf of text; lower corners bumped; else a very good copy of one of the finest children’s books of the nineteenth century. Hand-coloured copies are rare. The prose contribution is by the illustrator's cousin, Mary Boyle, and the verse by W. M. Call. A Children's Summer was much praised by John Ruskin, Thomas Landseer, Tom Taylor, and Francis Turner Palgrave.
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A CHILDREN’S SUMMER. Eleven etchings on steel by E. V. B. Illustrated in prose and rhyme by M. L. B. [Mary Louisa Boyle] and W. M. C. [Wathen Mark Wilks Call].
London: Addey and Co, 1853. [. 15] leaves of text. Illustrated with 8 full-page etchings and two vignettes. Original half calf over blue ribbed cloth gilt. Oblong: 285 x 371 mm. First edition. Presentation copy from E.V.B. to Wathen Mark Wilks Call, inscribed on title-page: ‘W. M. W. Call from EVB with her best Christmas good wishes! Dec 23nd 1852.’ There are some pencil annotations in pencil in Call’s hand, mostly the addition of his initials to verses he has authored. Some foxing, as is common with this title; front endpaper worn and with some loss; front board rubbed and slightly damped; else a very good copy of an important presentation copy. A Children’s Summer was E.V.B.’s second book.
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A CHINESE VILLAGE GIRL. In other Lands: No. C 3. Midget Books. 2d net.
Chatto & Windus, No date [circa 1942]. [12] pages, including covers. Illustrated throughout in colour. 84 x66 mm. A fine copy.
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A CHINESE VILLAGE GIRL. In other Lands: No. C 3. Midget Books. 2d net.
Chatto & Windus, No date [circa 1942]. [12] pages, including covers. Illustrated throughout in colour. 84 x66 mm. A fine copy.
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A Chinese Village Girl. Midget Books. In other Lands: No. C 3.
London: Chatto & Windus, No date [circa 1942]. [12] pages, including covers. Illustrated throughout in colour. 84 x 66 mm. A fine copy.
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A CHOICE COLLECTION OF RIDDLES, CHARADES, REBUSES, & c. chiefly original. By Peter Puzzlewell, Esq.
London: E. Newbery, 1792. Engraved frontispiece; iv, 104 pages. Original pink paper-covered boards with mounted engraved label. First edition. Spine expertly repaired; light touch of colouring to frontispiece; else a very good, clean copy. Roscoe J311(1). Complete in itself but further supplemented in 1794 and 1796 with two more parts.
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A christmas card designed by Georgie [Mrs. Arthur] Gaskin for Laurence and Mary Hodson, printed in colours and showing the three Hodson children at play.
1897. 14.4 x 22 cm. Just a touch worn at corners; else very good. Very scarce.
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A christmas card designed by Georgie [Mrs. Arthur] Gaskin for Laurence and Mary Hodson, printed in colours and showing the three Hodson children at play. 14.4 x 22 cm.
1897. 14.4 x 22 cm. Just a touch worn at corners; else very good. Very scarce.
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A Christmas Carol. Illustrated by Chris Burke.
Oldham: Incline Press, No date [2005]. 53, [1 colophon], pages. Illustrated with mounted plates in colour and monochrome, with an original pencil sketch mounted at the close. This is copy number 39 from an edition of two hundred. Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards; slipcase. A fine – as new – copy.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL. In prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. [viii], 166, [2]pp ad's. Illustrated with four hand-coloured engraved plates and other plain engravings within the text. Original decorative cloth gilt. All edges gilt. First edition. First or second issue, with uncorrected text and 'Stave I.' Rebacked at some time, with the original spine laid down. New endpapers, which makes it impossible to tell whether this is a first or second issue. These in turn have cracked at some time and have been repaired. Covers rubbed and worn, but the gilt on the upper cover still bright, and that on the spine perfectly legible, though a little faded and rubbed. Lower outer corners worn; spine a little cocked; the occasional mark; else a very good copy.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. With illustrations by John Leech.
London: Chapman and Hall, No date [circa late 1860's]. Hardcover. 166, [2 ad's] pages. Illustrated with four hand-coloured engraved plates. Original decorative cloth gilt. All edges gilt. The ad's at the end do not list The Mystery of Edwin Drood, published in 1870, and announce the publication in thirty volumes of the Illustrated Library Editions of Dickens' work. Contents lead a little frayed at edge; little shaken; head & heel of spine a little worn; else a very good copy of an early edition.
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A CHRISTMAS CARROLL. With pictures & text drawn by Frank T. Merrill.
New York & London.G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1907. 104pp. Tipped-in full-colour frontispiece, & numerous illustrations throughout in black & white. Original decorative buckram gilt. All edges gilt. Quarto. Presumed first edition. Buckram a touch rubbed and a little browned on the spine from sunlight; else a very good copy
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A CHRISTMAS POSY. With illustrations by Walter Crane.
London.Macmillan and Co. 1888. viii, 215, [1 blank], 32pp ad's. Vignette on title, and eight full-page black & white plates. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Binding very slightly cocked; one corner a little bumped; some very light flecking on upper panel; small bookplate; else a very good copy indeed.
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A CHRISTMASS BOX or, Little Polite Tales, Fables, Riddles, Stories, Letters, Epitaphs, &c. In Easy Prose and Verse, with other Lessons of Morality Equally Instructive & Entertaining for Little Masters and Misses. Adorned with Sculptures. Example draws where precept fails, And Sermons are less read than Tales. Mat. Prior. Price only Sixpence, bound & Gilt.
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A CHRONICLE OF KENT 1250 – 1760.
London: Clear Copies Ltd, No date [1967]. Softcover. 194, [12] pages. Folding map at rear. Embossed map covers. First edition, possibly a proof. Loosely laid in is a letter from the publisher asking for a review, and claiming that the book is to be published in an initial edition of 250 copies. This book is usually found as a hardcover, and is scarce. However, we have never seen this softcover, first printing before. The rear inner joint is taped; there is a small stain on the upper cover; else a very good copy.
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A CLASSIFIED LIST of the Records Lodged in the Guildhall of the Town and Port of Sandwich.
Sandwich & Deal: T. F. Pain and Sons, 1932. Softcover. 38 pages. Original printed wrappers. 20.5 x 16.2 cm. Soft vertical crease throughout where the books has once been partly folded; staples rusting; else very good.
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A CLASSIFIED PICTURE VOCABULARY For Deaf Children. Part I A Selected Series of Typical Object Illustrations with Vocabularies and Progressive Language Lessons and Reading Exercises.
London.George Philip & Son, Ltd. No date. (1909.). 120pp. Illustrated with two colour plates and many illustrations in line. Original red cloth lettered and decorated in black. Octavo. Some entries in pencil and pen by a child owner; covers a little worn and damp-marked; a good plus copy of a scarce book.
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A COLD-BLOODED BUSINESS. Foreword by Lord Tedder.
London: Staples Press Limited, 1958. Hardcover. Unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. The dust-wrapper is very slightly worn at extremities; else an excellent copy without inscriptions.
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A Collection and abstract of all the material Deeds, Wills, Leases, and legal Documents, relating to the several Donations and Benefactions to the Church and Poor Parish of Dartford, in Kent, and of the ‘Spittal Alms-Houses, &c., &c. By John Landale, (late Churchwarden). And Published by him, at the desire of the several persons whose names are annexed as Subscribers.
London: John Hearne, 1829. viii, [4], 140, iv pages. Illustrated with three had-coloured plans, 2 of which are folding. Original paper-covered boards, sometime re-backed in plain cloth. Original printed title-label to upper board. 225 x 148 mm. The two large folding plans both have short tears near the margin; boards a little rubbed and knocked; armorial bookplate of George H. Whitehead, and blind-stamped address to title; else a very good copy.
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A collection of 14 Banbury Penny chapbooks contained in a morocco-backed folding box.
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