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THE LITTLE BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES. Illustrated by Flora White.
Sevenoaks: J. Salmon, No date [circa 1918]. [24] pages. Illustrated with 11 mounted full-colour plates. Another plate is mounted on the front cover. Original cord tie. 15.5 x 12 cm. A near fine copy of a very charming book. Scarce. Copac lists a single copy of the second edition.
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THE LITTLE BOY BOOK.
London: John Lane, 1900. Printed in the United States. Unpaged. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece, coloured pictorial title, and thirteen other coloured full-page plates by Frank Ver Beck. Original cloth-backed boards with pictorial pastedowns to the front and rear boards. Square quarto: 300 x 300 mm. First U.K. edition. Traces of juvenile pencil scribble to the endpapers; corners of boards worn, and some minor signs of wear and use throughout; but a very good copy of a delightful book.
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THE LITTLE CLOWN.
London: Grant Richards, 1901. No 9 in the Dumpy Book series. 150, [1 ad’] pages. Original striped green cloth. 130 x 80 mm. First edition. A very good copy.
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THE LITTLE CONCHOLOGIST; An Introduction To the Classification of Shells. By the Rev. T. Wilson. New edition.
London: Darton and Clark, No date [circa 1840]. 70 pages. Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece and three other uncoloured engraved plates. Original printed wrappers. All edges gilt. Binding: 9.6 x 7.1 cm. Covers dust-soiled, rubbed and a little worn, with a soft corner crease-mark, the lettering faded, but still just readable; inscription on endpaper; else a very good copy of a scarce little book, first published in 1837. Darton H234(2).
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THE LITTLE COWSLIP-GATHERERS; or, What a Penny will do.
London: William Darton, No date [1824]. 139, [141-144 booklist] pages. Engraved frontispiece and two other full-page engraved plates. Original quarter red roan gilt over marbled boards. 144 x 94 mm. First edition. A very nice copy. See Darton H270(1). ‘One incident in the story concerns a benevolent bookseller who, as by deserving little Nancy for a penny book and not having one so cheap among his stock, gives her a twopenny one for her penny.’
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THE LITTLE DESERTER; or, Holiday Sports: an amusing tale, dedicated to all good boys. Embellished with Fifteen beautiful engravings.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, No date [1820’s]. 65 pages, including 15 full-page engraved plates. Original brown cloth with printed title label to upper panel. 142 x 90 mm. Label chipped; else very good copy of a work translated from the French.
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THE LITTLE EMIGRANT, A Tale. Interspersed with moral anecdotes and instructive conversations. Designed for the perusal of Youth. By the author of The Adventures of the Six Princesses of Babylon, Visit for a Week, Juvenile Anecdotes, &c. &c.
London: Printed… for the Author, at the Juvenile Library… and sold by Messrs, Carpenter… C. Law,…. And E. Newbery, 1799. [4], 203, [1 advert’] pages. Engraved Frontispiece. Contemporary full sheep, gilt, black title label. 12mo. First edition. Head of spine just cracking at joint, else a very good, clean copy. Scarce. Roscoe J278(1).
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The Little Folks Library. A LITTLE BOOK OF PUSSY CATS. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Worcester: Ebenezer Baylis and Son Ltd, No date [1908]. 88 pages. Illustrated with twenty-one illustrations by Wain printed in red and black. Original pictorial cloth. 17 x 11 cm. Neat name on endpaper; else near fine.
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THE LITTLE FROG’S LECTURE, and Other Stories.
New York: John McLoughlin, 1856. [14] pages, plus outer wrapper. Illustrated with seven full-page hand-coloured engravings. Original printed pictorial wrappers. 262 x 170 mm. First edition. Small mark on rear cover; else a near fine copy.
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THE LITTLE HORSE BUS. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
London: The Bodley Head, 1974. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Oblong: 185 x 246 mm. First edition. Wrapper price cut with a revised price label. A fine copy.
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THE LITTLE HOUSE. Story and Pictures by Virginia Lee Burton.
London: Faber and Faber, 1946. [4] 40 pages. Illustrated In colour throughout. Pictorial endpapers. Original green and brown pictorial cloth. 232 x 247 mm. First U.K. edition. Lacks the dust-wrapper; else a fine bright fresh copy without inscriptions. Winner of the Caldecott Medal for ’the most distinguished America picture book for children in the year of its publication.’ First published in 1942.
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The Little Library of Fiction. THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD.
London: Grant & Griffith, No date [circa 1848]. 24 pages. Illustrated with 4 fill-page hand coloured plates by Alfred Crowquill [Alfred Henry Forrester]. Original pictorial stiff card wrappers. 165 x 126 mm. Spine cracking at base; ownership name on title; else a very good copy.
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THE LITTLE MAID AND THE GENTLEMAN; or, We are Seven.
York: J. Kendrew, No date. (circa. 1830). 16 pages, including wrappers. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Original yellow printed wrappers with woodcut device to upper wrapper, and woodcut to lower wrapper. 9.7 x 6.5 cm. Stamp of Kendrew's nephew, J. H. Carr, to upper wrapper; else fine. First separate edition.
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THE LITTLE MOUNTAINEERS OF AUVERGE; or, The Adventures of James and Georgette. Altered from the French, and adapted to the perusal of youth.
London: R. and L. Peacock…. And also by E. Newbery, 1801. viii, 232 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary binding sometime expertly re-backed in calf with a red label, gilt. 12mo. First edition. Joint cracked between frontispiece and title; else a very good copy. Roscoe J96. This work was translated from the French by Lucy Peacock, but extensively rewritten by her also.
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THE LITTLE PIG'S RAMBLE.
London & Otley: William Walker & Sons, No date [ circa 1890?]. [8] pages, including wrappers, each printed on one side only. Six colour-printed illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers; the rear cover being ad's for Goodall's household specialities. 25.4 x 17.2 cm. A very good copy. A reprint of a title published by Dean and Son in the 1850's.
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THE LITTLE PRATTLER; or, Dame Teachwell's First Picture-Book.
London: Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1815. 16 pages. Illustrated with 16 copper-engravings printed on both sides of 8 leaves; 4 being full-page. Original printed wrappers. 12 x 10 cm. First edition. Some browning and marking; generally tired; repaired at spine; piece missing from the outer, inner corner of front wrapper; lower, outer corner missing from title; some corners turned; else a good copy of a scarce and charming title. Poems include Ann Taylor's 'The Field Daisy,' from 'Rhymes For the Nursery.' See Darton G589(1).
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THE LITTLE PRODIGAL: A Moral and Interesting Story. Ornamented with sixteen elegant copper plates. Translated from the French.
London: Wallis and Son, 1814. vi, 3-90 pages. Illustrated with 16 engraved plates nicely coloured by a former owner. Original marbled boards, recently re-backed in sheep, with a black title label. 140 x 96 mm. First edition thus. Some offsetting from the plates; ownership name and date on endpaper; else a very good copy of a scarce title. Copac lists one copy only.
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THE LITTLE STEAMROLLER. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
London: The Bodley Head, 1974. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy in a like, but price-clipped, dust-wrapper.
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THE LITTLE STEAMROLLER. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
London: The Bodley Head, 1974. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy in a like, not price-clipped, dust-wrapper.
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THE LIVELY HISTORY OF JACK & the BEANSTALK: Setting forth for the first time during many years a faithful and particular Account of that Hero’s Wonderful Adventures in the Country of the Beanstalk, and his Triumph over the murderous Giant who inhabited it: The History being told to Harriet Jackson the possessor the MS. Documents of Jack’s Family, and the Pictures painted by a young Master.
London: Felix Summerly’s Home Treasury, and sold by Joseph Cundall, 1846. 31 pages. Four full-page plates. Bound in quarter morocco with the original paper wrappers mounted on the front and rear fixed endpapers. Bookplate of Viscount Halifax. A very handsome and clean copy. First published by Cundall in 1844
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