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THE GOOD FARMER; Being an entertaining History of Thomas Wiseman; who procured riches and a good name, by the paths of virtue and industry. Price One Penny.
Banbury: J. G. Rusher, No date [ circa 1830]. 16 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, and fourteen woodcuts. Original printed wrappers, with a cut to both upper and lower panels. Wrapper dimensions: 11.3 x 7 cm. Uncut. A very nice copy. The first cut in the book, which precedes the frontispiece shows an interior view of Rusher's warehouse.
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THE GOOD FATHER and Prudent Son, To which is added The Mother, A Poem. 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 fourteen small cuts within the text. Original printed wrappers with a woodcut to the upper panel. 116 x 75 mm. Slight wear to corners of wrappers; else a very good copy of a scarce chapbook.
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THE GOOD FATHER and Prudent Son. To which is added, The Mother, A Poem. 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 pastedown frontispiece and fourteen small woodcuts within the text. Original wrappers with a wood-engraving to the upper panel. 115 x 73 mm. A near fine copy. Scarce.
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THE GOOD GIRL'S PRESENT; or, Mary & Her Mmama.
London: A. Park, No date [circa 1840's]. [8] pages, each with a wood-engraving and text. Original printed pink wrappers, the upper panel bearing a wood-engraving. 18 x 10.7 cm. Top outer corners a little turned; else very good.
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THE GOOD SON. Merriment Series, and Sister Lady-Bird’s Series.
London: Dean and Son, No date, but inscribed 1854. [8] leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with eight hand-coloured engravings. Original pictorial wrappers. 238 x 165 mm. Spine expertly repaired; name and date on front wrapper; neat manuscript numbering to the corner of all pages, suggesting this toy book was once bound with many others; else a very good copy.
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THE GOVERNESS; Or, The Little Female Academy. Calculated for the Entertainment and Instruction of Young Ladies in their Education. By the Author of David Simple. The Fifth Edition. Revised and corrected.
London: A. Millar; and sold by T. Cadell, in The Strand, 1768. [Price bound Eighteen Pence.]. x, 146 pages. Recent quarter untitled sheep gilt over marbled boards with vellum tips. 12mo. A very good copy of an early printing of this important educational juvenile. First published in 1749. The author is the sister of Henry Fielding, Author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. As the book unfolds, students at a school are introduced to the reader, and each tells her life story revealing insights into her character. Conflicts are resolved by Jenny Peace, and studies are relieved by the telling of stories.
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THE GOVERNESS; Or, The Little Female Academy. Calculated for the Entertainment and Instruction of Young Ladies in their Education. By the Author of David Simple. The Fourth Edition. Revised and corrected.
London: A. Millar, 1758. [Price bound Is. 6d.]. x, 146 pages. Contemporary full, plain, untitled sheep. 12mo. Binding very worn with some loss of surface leather; the text has some light worming; ownership inscription for 1771; one gather sprung with some damage to the fore-edge, but no loss of text; else a very good copy of a scarce early printing of this important educational juvenile. First published in 1749. The author is the sister of Henry Fielding, Author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. As the book unfolds, students at a school are introduced to the reader, and each tells her life story revealing insights into her character. Conflicts are resolved by Jenny Peace, and studies are relieved by the telling of stories.
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THE GRAND MOTHER’S GIFT.
London: J. Carvalho. Price Two Pence. No date [circa 1830]. 18 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with a wood-engraved pastedown frontispiece of a cavalryman on horseback; a vignette on title of the Tower of London, and ten woodcuts in the text that bear no relationship to the text, and two tailpieces. Original wrappers with woodcuts to both panels. 99 x 85 mm. Frontispiece piece has been coloured by a former owner; some old turned corners; a little dust-soiled and worn; but a very good copy of a rare Carvalho chapbook.
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THE GREAT AEROPLANE. A Thrilling Tale of Adventure. Illustrated by Edward S. Hodgson.
London Glasgow and Bombay: Blackie and Son Limited, 1911. 396 pages. 8 black and white plates. Original pictorial cloth gilt. First U. K. edition. Name on endpaper; head of spine a little worn; small mark on rear cover; else a very good copy.
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THE GREAT WHITE CHIEF. A Story of Adventure in unknown New Guinea. Illustrated by W. Rainey..
London: Blackie and Son, Limited, 1908. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Illustrated with 8 black & white plate and a double-page map. Original pictorial blue cloth. Octavo. First edition. Name on blank rector of frontispiece; the very occasional patch of foxing; binding lightly rubbed; else very good.
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THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK. With numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford.
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1892. Hardcover. 366 pages. Black & white illustrations throughout Bound, as issued, in cloth-backed boards with printed paper label to spine. Uncut. First edition. Number 62 from a limited edition of 150 copies. Octavo. Inscribed by American author and illustrator: "To Mary Keith, Hope you may enjoy these trips into Fairy Land. Merry Christmas Don Blanding. 1919". Boards soiled and worn and scuffed at corners; expertly re-spined at some time; but internally fine.
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THE GREMLINS from the Walt Disney production. A Royal Air force story by Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl.
New York: Random House, 1943. Unpaginated. Illustrated in colour and in black & white. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 285 x 228 mm. First edition. Lacks dust-wrapper; short closed tear in title; ownership name on front endpaper and on half-title; light wear to edges of boards & corners; else a very good clean copy contained in a red cloth gilt slipcase.
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THE GRIMM FAIRY LIBRARY. Ten volumes. The Three Brothers. The Donkey Cabbages. Clever Alice. The Golden Bird. Snow White and Rose-Red. The House in the Wood. The Old Woman in the Wood. The Goose Girl. The Almond Tree. The Soaring Lark.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [circa 1879]. Ten volumes. each with a coloured frontispiece and line drawings within the text; each bound in a decorative coloured cloth, gilt. Octavos. Contained in a cloth box with a pictorial gilt decoration to the lid, and a paper label, detailing the contents, to the underside of the lid. Some volumes with signatures that are loosening; joints strained; box restored, with one plain side and the lip replaced; else very good. Extremely scarce, and rarely found in the original box. The Hans Andersen series of fairy tales, issued by Routledge at the same time, is far easier to obtain .
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THE GRUFFALO’S CHILD. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler.
London: Macmillan Children’s Books, 2004. [32] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition; first issue. A fine copy in a like unprice-clipped dust-wrapper, with no inscriptions or signs of use, etc.
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THE GRUFFALO’S CHILD. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler.
London: Macmillan Children’s Books, 2004. [32] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition; first issue. Very slight scuffing to the wrapper; else a fine copy in a like unprice-clipped dust-wrapper, with no inscriptions.
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THE GUESS BOOK. One Halfpenny.
Alnwick: Printed by W. Davison, No date [circa 1830]. [8] pages. Illustrated with a woodcut to the cover/title, and fourteen within the text. Uncut and unsewn. Fine. A chapbook of riddles.
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THE HALF-DAY’S HOLIDAY. By the Author of “The Juvenile Culprits,” &c.
London: Houlston and Son, 1830. 36 pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece, vignette on title, five full-page wood-engraved plates. Recently rebound in quarter sheep gilt over marbled boards with vellum tips. 135 x 90mm. Few pages with a small tear at top fore-edge where carelessly opened; else an excellent copy.
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THE HALF-YEAR LETTERS an alphabet book designed by Ronald King written by Roy Fisher.
Guildford: Circle Press, 1983. Hardback. Accordion-style pop-up book. First edition. A fine copy.
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THE HANDBOOK OF REVERSI. Also Fanorona, Invasion, Halma.
London: F. H. Ayres, No date [1889]. 76, [3 ad’s] pages. Original green cloth gilt. Octavo. A near fine copy.
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THE HAPPY BOOK. Pictured by Millicent Sowerby. Told by Githa Sowerby.
London: Henry Frowde, No date [1909]. Unpaged [24] leaves, printed on one side only. Illustrated with 12 colour plates, and head-pieces in monochrome. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 164 x 122 mm. First edition. Tiny split in spine, but without loss; neat inscription, ‘Xmas 1909.’ On front pastedown; else a very good copy.
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