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WHAT IS THIS? WHAT IS THAT? Dean’s 1/- Patent Rag Book Series 2. [Reissue of Number 2.]
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co. Ltd, No date [1922 - 1933]. 10 pages. Illustrated in colour. Cover by Helen C. Grace Marsh Lambert. 212 x 152 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive. This title was first issued in 1903.
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WHAT MIRANDA KNEW.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1944. [48] pages. Illustrated in colour. Original blue cloth. Original dust-wrapper. 170 x 155 mm. First edition. Couple of tiny tears in wrapper; else fine.
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WHAT NANCY FOUND IN THE RAINBOW. Written and Illustrated by Barbara Hounsham.
London: Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd, No date [1905]. 84 pages, the first and last being blank pastedowns to the boards. With 20 illustrations printed in red & black & white. Original pictorial cloth. 79 x 80 mm. First edition. A very good copy.
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WHAT’S IN A NAME! An Alphabet by Annie Newnham.
Church Hanborough: Hanborough Parrot Pieces, 1988. Designed by Dennis Hall and printed litho by the Didcot Press on mould-made paper in an edition of 95 copies of which 25 have been hand.-coloured. Number 45 of 70 uncoloured copies, signed by Annie Newnham. A Spine and edges sun-faded; else a fine copy. .
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What’s That? Dean’s 1/- Patent Rag Book Series 2. Number 90.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co. Ltd, No date [1908 – 1911]. 12 pages. Illustrated in colour by Evelyn Gladys Hall. 210 x 150 mm. ‘File’ written in pencil on front cover; else a fine copy from the Dean archive with the original paper advert slip loosely laid in. See Cope, Page 72.
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WHAT SHOULD I BE?
Moscow/Leningrad: 1948. Illustrated by Alexeï Pakhomov. [24]pp. Pictorial full-colour wrappers. Quarto. First edition. Small corner lost from top outer edge of upper wrapper; bookplate; else a very good copy.
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WHAT THE MOON SAW: and other tales. Translated by H. C. Dulcken. With eighty Illustrations by A. W. Bayes, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1866. Hardcover. viii, 372, [2] ad's pages. Illustrated throughout. Original decorative cloth, gilt. First edition thus. Endpapers replaced at some time; head and heel of spine worn; some light spotting; but a very good copy of a book usually found in appalling condition.
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WHEN THE CAT’S AWAY THE MICE WILL PLAY. Aunt Mavor’s Toy Books. Price Sixpence. Or Mounted on Linen, One Shilling.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [circa 1870]. [16] pages. Illustrated with 8 colour plates. Original pictorial wrappers. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Front wrapper a little worn at fore-edge and corners; spine restored at some time; gift inscription for 1870 on front cover; else a very good copy. Possibly a variant of Necker 2185.
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WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG. With Decorations by E. H. Shepard.
London: Methuen Children's Books, 1974. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Number 172 of a limited edition of 300 copies signed by Christopher Milne. Original blue pictorial morocco, gilt. All edges gilt. First edition thus. Very slight fading of spine; else a very good copy.
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WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG. With decorations by Ernest Shepard.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, July 1925. Tenth edition. (But the second issue in a de-luxe binding.) Original pictorial full red leather gilt. a.e.g. Silk book-marker. Ownership inscription on half title [1927]; else a fine copy. The first issue of the de-luxe binding was the seventh edition of the same year.
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WHERE THE RAINBOW ENDS. Illustrated by Honour C. Appleton.
London: George G., Harrap, 1932. 256 pages. New and revised edition. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and black & white chapter headings. Original pictorial cloth. Original dust-wrapper. First edition with the Appleton illustrations. A fine copy with just a little browning to the endpapers. .
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WHITE MOUSE AND BROWN MOUSE.
London: Dean and Son, No date [inscribed 1820]. 40 pages, including 4 colour plates by Ethel K. Burgess. There are numerous line drawings within the text. Original card covers with a mounted pictorial pastedown. Dean's Pixie Series. No. 6.
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“WHY WAS HE LATE?”
London: Castell Brothers Ltd, No date (1907). Unpaged. (24) pages. Illustrated with 12 colour plates. Original pictorial card covers with tassel ties. First edition. Few spots on the middle two plates; else a very good copy of a scarce title.
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WILD ANIMALS AT HOME. Illustrations by F. Rojankovsky. Story by Marguerite Reynier.
Poughkeepsie: Artists and Writers Guild, Inc, 1935. [24] pages. Illustrated with 10 full-page and two smaller colour lithographs, and others in black & white. Original pictorial wrappers. 320 x 285 mm. A very good, clean copy.
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WILL YOU COME AS WELL? With many illustrations by Treyer Evans.
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1931. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Original green cloth gilt. Top edge gilt. Octavo. First edition. A very good copy.
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WILLIAM AND THE MASKED RANGER. Illustrated by Henry Ford.
London.George Newes Limited. 1966. 176pp. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original green boards, gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A near fine copy in a like unprice-clipped wrapper.
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WILLIAM. Illustrated by Thomas Henry.
London: George Newnes Limited, 1965. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Octavo. First issue of this "abridged" edition. Wrapper a little worn at head of spine; small biro scribble on rear panel; else a very good copy.
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WILLIAM TELL; The Hero of Switzerland. An Historical Romance. Illustrated with numerous engravings.
London.George Peirce. No date. (1841). [ii], [1], 2-221, [1]pp. Bound from 28 parts. Wood-engraved frontispiece; title set within decorative border. Two full-page engravings (one of which is steel-engraved), and numerous wood-engravings throughout. Contemporary half leather gilt. Quarto. Lacking front free endpaper; small rub on one page with the loss of some letters where something has adhered to the blank recto of the steel-engraved plate (Text easily deciphered!); some spotting and marking; binding rubbed and worn; but firm. A good plus copy.
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WINDMILL LAND. Dean’s 1/- Patent Rag Book Series.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [1914-1919]. 10 pages. Illustrated in colour by Richard James Williams. Oblong: 140 x 222 mm. Some very slight browning; else a fine copy from the Dean archive with the original paper advert’ slip still loosely laid in. See Cope, page 84.
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WINNIE THE POOH. With colour illustrations by E. H. Shepard.
Methuen Children’s Books, 1973. Illustrated throughout in colour. Hand bound by Zaehnsdorf in full pictorial morocco, stamped in blind and gilt. All edges gilt. Contained in a pictorial cloth and paper slipcase. Limited edition of 300 copies numbered and signed by Shepard, of which this is number 202. First edition thus. A fine copy.
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