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THE LITTLE AEROPLANE.
London.Oxford University Press. 1939. 41pp. 21 black & white and two colour illustrations. Original pictorial endpapers, boards & un price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Very minor wear to board corners and head and heel of spine. Some paper loss to dust wrapper at front upper edge, and upper rear corner, with a little chipping to upper and lower edges. Front free endpaper and title page have an old crease line across top corner. Faint previous owner's note to title page; else, a very good bright copy.
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THE LITTLE BANDITTA With Illustrations by Cam.
London.Putnam. 1957. Not paged. Profusely illustrated in black & white by Cam. Blue boards gilt. Pictorial dust wrapper. First Edition. Small stain to edge of page `39. Some very faint browning to fore-edges. Minor chipping to corners and inoffensive small stain to rear of dust wrapper; else, an excellent copy.
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THE LITTLE BASKET-MAKER, and other tales. With four hand-coloured illustrations by Absolon.
London: Joseph Cundall, 1845. vii, [1], 87 pages. 4 hand-coloured plates. Original patterned paper-covered boards. 172 x 130 mm. First edition. Few small spots; spine rubbed; else a very good copy. See McLean page 58.
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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.
London: Darton and Clark, No date [1837]. 70 pages. Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece and three other uncoloured engraved plates. Original printed limp cloth. All edges gilt. Binding: 96 x 71 mm. First edition. Ownership inscription for 1838; else an outstandingly fine copy. Darton H234(1).
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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 Dorothy Craigie.
London: Max Parrish, 1952. 35 pages. Illustrated in colour throughout, with full colour pictorial endpapers. Original pictorial red cloth gilt; original unprice-clipped pictorial dust-wrapper. First edition. Some light brown patches of staining to the front panel, and a tear at the base of the spine extending into the rare panel but without loss.
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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 PHILOSOPHER; designed for the use of juvenile readers, &c. &c. &c.
London: Allan Bell and Co, 1836. 268 pages. Original printed paper-covered boards. 8.5 x 5.7 cm. Little rubbed; else a very good 'miniature' edition of this work, rarely found in the paper-covered boards, but usually in cloth.
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