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THE WARDEN.
London: Chapman and Hall, No date. Hardback. vii, 221 pages. Contemporary half blue calf over marbled boards, with red labels to the spine. Octavo. New edition. Cover edges and corners slightly rubbed; light spotting to title-page; some spotting to last six pages, and short tears to their fore-edges where carelessly opened; else a very good copy.
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THE WARREN FAMILY, or Scenes at Home. By S. W. Embellished with four engravings. Fourth Edition.
London.James Bain. Undated. [3], 4-139, [page 140 blank], 141-144pp catalogue. 4 engraved plates including frontispiece. Contemporary roan-backed paper-covered boards. 12mo. Fourth edition. Binding rubbed and worn; a little shaken and strained; light occasional spotting; light offsetting of frontispiece; lacks rear endpaper; ownership name to front free endpaper; else a good plus copy.
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THE WASP FACTORY. THE BRIDGE. ESPEDAIR STREET.
London: BCA, 1999. Softcover. Omnibus Edition. Presentation copy from Banks to his first wife, inscribed on the half-title: 'To Annie Love Ian.' Slight creasing to top outer corner; else very good – unread.
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THE WATCHBIRDS. A picture book of behaviour.
London.Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. 1945. 52pp. Illustrated throughout. Original pictorial boards. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Quarto. First U. K. edition. Wrapper has a small chip at head of spine and slight wear to extremities; else a very good copy.
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THE WATER BABIES.
London & Glasgow.Collins' Clear-type Press. No date. 198pp. Coloured frontispiece and title. Full pictorial paper-covered boards by Jessie M. King. Slight wear to spine edges as with all title in this series; small split at base of base; but a very good, clean copy - much, much better than usually found.
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THE WATER BABIES [Abridged). With "Come to Life" Panorama.
London. Paris. New York.Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd. Undated. [vi], viii, 9-152pp + [8]pp catalogue at rear. Colour frontispiece, double page colour pop-up, and numerous black & white illustrations throughout the text. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Quarto. Boards a trifle dust-soiled; some wear to corners; a few inoffensive spots to fore-edges; ownership name to half-title; the "this book belongs to" page has been neatly filled in; else a very good copy.
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THE WATER BABIES. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
London: Hodder and Stoughton for Boots the Chemist, No date [inscribed 1934]. 240 pages. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in full-colour plates and many illustrations within the text. Original pictorial green cloth gilt; original green dust-wrapper with mounted illustration to front panel. Gift inscription on front pastedown; some light spotting to fore-edges; else a fine copy in a fresh, bright binding.
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THE WATER GYPSIES.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1930. 392, 8 catalogue pages. Original green cloth with black decoration & lettering. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Fore-edges a little browned; wrapper a little worn & head & heel & corners; else a very good copy,
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THE WATER-BABIES: a fairy tale for a Land=Baby. With two illustrations by J. Noel Paton.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1863. 350 pages. Full green morocco gilt by Bayntun-Riviere, with the original cloth upper cover bound in at end. All edges gilt. Octavo. First edition. A very handsome copy. Lacking, as usual, the leaf B1 with the poem ‘L’Envoi,’ which Kingsley suppressed during the printing.
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THE WATER-BABIES A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby By Charles Kingsley. New edition with one hundred illustrations by Linley Sambourne.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1886. [6], 371, [1] pages. Illustrated throughout in line. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. All edges gilt. 215 x 172 mm. Binding just a little cocked; some light spotting to front endpaper, and last page a little browned; small patch of water-staining to front board; else a very good, bright, clean, copy. First published in 1863 with just two illustrations by J. Noel Paton, this is the first fully illustrated edition.
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THE WATER-BABIES: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. With two illustrations by J. Noel Paton, R.S.A.
London & Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1863. viii, 350 pages. Late nineteenth century morocco gilt. All edges gilt. First edition; first issue, complete with the l’envoi leaf. Few occasional light marks and the odd spot of foxing; else a very handsome copy; bookplate of James Kenneth Howard. A very handsome copy.
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THE WATER-KING’S LEVEE; or, The Gala at the Lake. A sequel to “The Peacock at Home.” For children of all ages and sizes. With appropriate Engravings. Second edition.
London: W. Lindsell, 1808. 24 pages. Illustrated with five full-page engravings. Original printed wrappers. 122 x 105 mm. Wrappers worn with a short split at the heel and a small arear of paper lacking from the rear panel. Contained in a folding cloth case. The first edition has six engravings, but would appear to have a different frontispiece; so, it may be that this copy lacks a plate or, is in fact, complete.
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THE WATER-WITCH; or. The skimmer of the seas. With nine illustrations by W. A. Cranston.
London: John Dicks, No date. 169, [1 blank], [2 ad’s pages. Bound with, GRIFFITH, Gerald. THE COLLEEN BAWN; or, the Collegians. A tale of Garryowen. With nine illustrations by John Proctor. London. John Dicks. No date. 149, [1 blank], [2 ad’s] pages. Bound as one in publisher’s cloth gilt. Octavo. Spine a little faded; else a very good clean copy. The text is printed in the style of a Penny Dreadful with two columns of text to each page.
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THE WAY OF LIVING IN A METHOD, and by Rule: Or, A Regular Way of Employing our Time: Recommended in a short, plain, practical Discourse to the Charity-Schools, for the Use of the Youth brought up in them. By a Presbyter of the Church of England.
London: Printed and Sold by Joseph Downing, 1722. 27, [1 ad’] pages. As issued, but disbound from a collection of tracts and in need of stitching. 150 x 88 mm. Probably the first edition, but certainly the earliest recorded in ESTC, where two copies are listed as being held in British institutions, and one in the United States. Rare.
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THE WAY TO BE HAPPY: or, The History of the Family at Smiledale. To which is added, The Story of Little George.
Glasgow: J. Lumsden & Son, 1819. 47 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and 12 circular woodcuts within rectangular frames. Original wrappers with printed title label to the upper cover. 133 x 86 mm. First edition issued by Lumsden, after editions by Newbery and Harris. Spine restored, else a very good copy. Roscoe and Brimmell 136.
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THE WEATHER FAIRIES. Verse by Marion St. John Webb. Illustrations by Margaret W. Tarrant.
London: The Modern Art Society Ltd, No date. 40 pages. Illustrated with 6 mounted colour plates, and many black & white vignettes that have been finely coloured by a former owner. Original boards with a duplicate plate mounted to the front panel. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. 158 x 121 mm. Small piece chipped from spine of wrapper; wrapper a little dust-soiled; else a very good copy.
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THE WEDDING AMONG THE FLOWERS. By one of the authors of Original Poems, Rhymes for the Nursery, &c.
London: Darton and Harvey, 1808. 16 pages. Illustrated with six engraved plates. Original pictorial wrappers. The entire book bound in full morocco gilt. 122 x 102 mm. First edition. Some staining to the plates; else a very good copy.
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THE WEDDING AMONG THE FLOWERS. By one of the authors of Original Poems, Rhymes For the Nursery, &c.
London: Darton and Harvey, 1808. 16 pages. Engraved frontispiece and five other plates. Original pictorial wrappers titled: ‘The Wedding of the Flowers.’ First edition. Covers soiled; ink ownership inscription and some smudging to blank verso of cover; small corner missing from upper cover; spine expertly repaired & re-cased; else a very good copy of this very scarce imitation of the Butterfly’s Ball, published a year earlier. Darton G383. The illustrations were drawn and engraved by the author’s brother Isaac Taylor.
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THE WEDGE.
London: W. H. Allen, 1972. Original cloth; original dust-wrapper. First edition. Lightly browned on the top fore-edge; else a fine copy in an unprice-clipped fine wrapper. Presentation copy inscribed on front free endpaper: ‘to Stephen Prickett, June 1972 John Toft.’
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THE WELCOME VISITOR, or, The Good Uncle: being a collection of original stories, containing several well-authenticated anecdotes, displaying Striking Traits of virtue and Heroism in early life.
London: Harris and Son, 1820. 176 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original quarter roan over marbled boards. 148 x 96 mm. First edition. One signature loosening; boards rubbed at edges, and head of spine with slight loss; else a very good copy. See Moon 973.
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