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THE FIRST BOOK OF KRAB. Christmas stories for young & old by his Honour Judge Edward Abbott Parry. With illustrations by Archie Macgregor.
London: David Nutt, 1902. [viii], 132 pages. Frontispiece, and Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original pictorial cloth. Octavo. First edition. Inscribed on front flyleaf: ‘Faithfully yours Edward A Parry.’ Leaves mostly unopened; touch of foxing to endpapers; else a fine copy.
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THE FIRST BOOK OF THE GOSPEL OF NICODEMUS, Translated from the original Hebrew.
Printed and Sold in London, No date [circa 1790]. 24 pages. Woodcut to cover title. 15.6 x 9.3 cm. Small chip in last leaf just partially affecting two letters; spine expertly repaired and re-stitched; else a very good copy.
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THE FIRST MUSIC BOOK; or, Gamut & Time Table in Verse. Price six pence.
London: Dean & Son, No date (inscribed 1853). 8 leaves printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with hand-coloured engraved woodcut title and seven other hand-coloured wood-engravings throughout. Original pictorial green wrappers. 247 x 169 mm. Small piece of the wrapper lost from lower front corner; spine expertly repaired; ownership inscription and foot of title; else very good. Issued in Dean’s Aunt Busy-Bee’s series. The text is a revised version of Charlotte Finch’s Gamut and Time-Table, in Verse first published, circa 1825. Oppenheimer 938.
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THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE. A Tale. Price One penny.
No place of publication, publisher or date, but inscribed 1841. 16 pages, including pastedown wrappers. Illustrated with 14 small wood-engravings, nicely coloured by a former owner. Original pictorial wrappers with a ad' for 16 'Halfpenny Books' on the lower panel. 10.2 x 6.6 cm. Name and date in the blank upper margin of page 3. A very good copy of this classic fairy tale.
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THE FIVE DAYS ENTERTAINMENTS AT WENTWORTH GRANGE.
London.Macmillan and Co. 1868. [i-ix],x-xi,[xii], [1], 2-328pp. plus adverts to rear. 18 black & white illustrations including title page, by Arthur Hughes. Blue cloth gilt. t.e.g. Octavo. First edition. Some minor wear to head and heel of spine and corners. Else a very good, clean copy.
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THE FLOWERET. A Gift of Love.
Boston: William Crosby and Company, 1842. 72 pages. Four full-page engravings and some wood-engravings. Original cloth gilt. 112 x 92 mm. First edition. Little worn at base of spine; else a very good copy, inscribed in pencil on front end-paper, ‘Miss Isabel Brown with love and a kiss from Aunt Lucy.’
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THE FOOTBALL’S REVOLT. Pictures and words by Lewitt-Him.
London: Sylvan Press. Nicholson & Watson, 1944. 28 pages. Illustrated with 10 full-page coloured illustrations and some smaller illustrations in both colour and black & white. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 4to. 285 x 235 mm. Second edition, the first being published by Country Life in 1939. Boards a little rubbed; frontispiece a little rumpled; else a very good copy.
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THE FORCE OF EXAMPLE; or, The History of Henry and Caroline: written for the instruction and amusement of young persons.
London: E. Newbery, 1797. [4], 159, [1 blank], [4 ad’s] pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original sheep recently finely re-backed. 12mo. First edition. Inscription on endpaper: ‘Mary Pares junr. From her affecte Mother A. P.’ A very nice copy. Roscoe J139.
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THE FORTNIGHT’S VISIT; (commenced.) Containing original, moral, and instructive Tales and Histories. To which is added. A New Church Service, for the use of young persons. With Head-pieces engraved on Wood, by Branston, from original designs.
London: J. Bysh, 1818. Price 2s, half bound. viii, 120 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight wood-engravings within the text, and one head and one tailpiece. Original quarter sheep over boards. 142 x 83 mm. First edition. Lacks front free endpaper; corners of boards knocked and worn; else a very good copy of a scarce title. Contains a story entitled ‘The Red Man’, about a First Nation American and his countryman’s struggle against the white man’s assumption of racial superiority and his sequestration of their lands. A sequel to this volume, called The Fortnight’s Visit; (concluded) is advertised as being ‘in the press’. Quite scarce.
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THE FORTUNATE MAN; or, Poverty and Riches. To which is added, The History of the Peevish Child. Embellished with 15 fine Engravings on wood.
London: Printed for Whitrow & Co. Jewry-street, Aldgate; and sold by all Booksellers, &c. in Town and Country, No date [circa 1820s]. (Price Threepence.) 32 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Wood-engraved paste-down frontispiece and thirteen small woodcuts within the text. Original wrappers with a wood-engraving to the upper panel. 115 x 73 mm. Bookplate of Crewe Hall Library tipped in between frontispiece and title; some light dust-soiling to the blank upper margin of four leaves; else a very good copy. Scarce.
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THE FORTY THIEVES.
[London.]: J. March, Pr. Waterloo Road, No date [circa 1860’s]. 8 pages, including wrappers. Colour printed pictorial title/front wrapper and three other coloured wood-engravings. 173 x 110 mm. Not stitched, but folded as an uncut sheet. A very good copy.
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THE FORTY THIEVES. Walter Crane's Toy Books. New Series. Price Six pence; or mounted on linen, One Shilling.
London: George Routledge & Sons, No date [circa 1873]. [8] leaves, the first and last mounted as pastedowns to the wrappers, each with an illustration in full colour with inset verse. Original pictorial series wrappers. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Spine and edges a little worn; short tear in last leaf; else a very good copy
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THE FOUNDLING; or, The History of Lucius Stanhope. Embellished with cuts.
York: J. Kendrew, No date [circa 1830]. 32 pages including pastedown wrappers. Illustrated with a wood-engraved pastedown frontispiece and eight other woodcuts. Original printed yellow wrappers. 10 x 6.4cm. A fine copy.
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THE FOUR SEASONS. To which is added The Snow. Embellished with 14 fine Engravings on wood.
London: Printed for Whitrow & Co. Jewry-street, Aldgate; and sold by all Booksellers, &c. in Town and Country, No date [circa 1820s]. (Price Threepence.) 32 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Wood-engraved paste-down frontispiece and nine small woodcuts within the text. Original wrappers with a wood-engraving to the upper panel. 115 x 73 mm. Bookplate of Crewe Hall Library tipped in between frontispiece and title; else a fine copy. Scarce. The claim of fourteen engravings is incorrect!
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THE FOUR SEASONS. To which is added The Snow. Embellished with 14 fine Engravings on Wood.
London: Whitrow and Co. Jewry-street, Aldgate; and sold by all Booksellers, &c. in Town and Country, No date [circa 1815-20]. 32 pages, the first and last being blanks, pasted to the wrappers. Pastedown wood-engraved frontispiece and nine small cuts within the text. Original printed wrappers with a woodcut to the upper panel. 116 x 75 mm. A very good copy of a scarce chapbook.
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The Friar and Boy; or, The Young Piper’s Pleasant Pastime. Part the Second.
Printed and Sold at the Printing-Office in Bow-Church-Yard, No date [circa 1790, but could be earlier]. 24 pages. Woodcut to the title/wrapper, and six woodcuts within the text. 162 x 93 mm. Worn at spine but just holding; generally, a little tired, but a very good copy. ‘Renier’ signature to upper blank margin of page 2. [
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THE FUNNY ABC BOOK.
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, No date [circa 1905]. [12] pages. Illustrated throughout including four pages in colour. Original full-colour die-cut shaped covers. 170 x 120 mm. Small tear in rear cover; else a very good copy.
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THE FUNNY PICTURE BOOK; or, 25 Funny Little Lessons. A free translation from the German “Der Kleine A_B_C_Schütz.”
London: Griffin and Farran, No date [circa 1875]. [26] leaves, printed on one side only, all bearing hand-coloured engravings, all very much in the ‘Struwwelpter’ tradition. Recently bound in half calf gilt over marbled boards. Oblong: 200 x 265 mm. Some old corner creases, else a very good copy. Scarce.
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THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF GOLLY SMITH. With drawings by Maurice Wilson.
London. Frederick Books Blackie & Son Limited, 1958. Hardback. Original pictorial unclipped dust-wrapper. 101 pages. First edition. A very good copy without ownership inscriptions in a like wrapper that has just the slightest touch of wear to the head of spine and one corner.
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THE GALLEON cut-out book.
London: Dean & Son Ltd, No date [circa 1945]. Softcover. 12 pages, including pictorial card covers, of which 10 are full-colour cut-outs to make the galleon "Santa Maria." 32 x 24.6 cm. A fine copy.
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