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PINGO UND PINGA Ein Bilderbuch für große und kleine Kinder erzählt und gemalt von Gerhard Oberländer.
Frankfurt am Main.Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1953. Unpaginated. Illustrated in colour by Gerhard Oberländer throughout. Original pictorial cloth-backed paper-covered boards; 29 x 21 cms. First edition. Presentation copy signed on title "und Gerald! Gerhard 1954." Boards lightly soiled; fore-edges very lightly browned; else a very good, clean copy.
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PINKIE AND THE FAIRIES.
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 146 pages. Pictorial title and black & white illustration throughout by the author. Original pictorial cloth. 17 x 12.5 cm. First edition. Name on endpaper; short tear in endpaper [15mm]; spine a little browned; else very good.
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Pinnock’s Catechisms. A CATECHISM OF RHETORIC, written in an easy and familiar style, intended for young people, and adapted to the use of schools and private teaching. Third edition.
London: G. & W. B. Whittaker, 1822. 66, [4 ad’s] pages. Portrait frontispiece, and engraved vignette on title. Re-bound at some time in quarter cloth-backed boards with printed paper label to spine. 140 x 93 m. Small chip from blank margin of frontispiece; else very good.
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Pinnock’s Catechisms. A CATECHISM OF TRADE AND COMMERCE, Intended to lay the Basis of Practical Commercial Knowledge in the Youthful Mind; By An easy Explanation of its Fundamental Principles, and an accurate Definition of the Terms and Customs applicable to Business in general. Fourth Edition.
London: For G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1821. 72 pages. Pastedown engraved frontispiece; book ad’s to rear pastedown. Original printed wrappers. 140 x 90 mm. Blank recto of frontispiece is water-stained; small blank label affixed to spine; else very good.
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PIP AND SQUEAK ANNUAL. Number 1.
London.The Daily Mirror. 1923. [1], 2-207pp. 4 colour plates including frontispiece with many other duotone illustrations throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Octavo. Head and heel of spine a trifle bumped; board edges a little rubbed, and corners a little worn; hinges cracked; inscription to front paste-down endpaper; else a very good copy of the first Pip & Squeak annual.
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PIP AND SQUEAK ANNUAL. Third Year.
London. The Daily Mirror. No date [1925]. Hardback, cloth-backed pictorial boards. 4to 208 pages. Illustrated with 4 full-page colour plates, and with numerous smaller illustrations throughout in a variety of colours. binding showing very light signs of use; else a unusually good copy, crisp copy.
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PIRUWAYU AND THE RAINBOW. Illustrated by Bettina [Bettina Erlich]. Translated by Gwen Marsh.
London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 48 pages. Illustrated in colour. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Just the slightest touch of wear at the head of the wrapper spine; else fine. This being the printer's, Print W,. S. Cowell, Ltd, file copy, with their printed label on the fronts endpaper.
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Pish, Posh, said Hieronymous Bosch. Illustrations by the Dillons.
San Diego: Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, 1991. Hardcover. Unprice-clipped pictorial dust-wrapper with 'Parents' Choice Honors' silver medal to dust-wrapper. Signed by all three Dillons on the title-page. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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PLAIN JANE. Text by G. M. George. Illustrated by G. M. C. Fry.
London: Grant Richards, 1903. 95 pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original green cloth. Binding: 12.5 x 8 cm. First edition. No 27 in the series of Dumpy Books issued by Grant Richards. Inner joints once taped; short tear in rear blank endpaper; name on endpaper; some light marking; binding a little faded at spine; a good plus copy.
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PLAIN THINGS FOR LITTLE FOLKS; seasoned with instruction, both for the mind and the eye. By their friend, Mary Elliott. Price One Shilling.
London: William Darton, No date. (Circa 1830.). 24 pages, plus 12 engraved plates, each bearing 2 hand-coloured engravings. Original printed wrappers. Worn at spine with some paper loss; some rubbing to upper cover with minor paper loss; else a very good clean copy.
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PLAIN THINGS FOR LITTLE FOLKS; seasoned with instruction, both for the mind and the eye. By their friend, Mary Elliott. Price One Shilling.
London: William Darton, No date. [1823.]. 24 pages, plus 12 full-page plates, each bearing 2 engravings. Original printed wrappers. First edition. Small corner torn from blank area of frontispiece, and another corner from one other page; else an excellent copy. Inscribed on verso of front cover: ‘Ann Allan June 24th 1825. A present from Yarmouth. Darton H488(1).
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PLATES TO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS, uncoloured to serve the purpose of a Drawing Book for Children and Young Persons. Being the Fourth volume of that work.
London: J. Johnson, 1792. xii [letterpress], followed by 116 engraved plates, sprinted on one side of the leaf only. Contemporary calf gilt. 12mo. First edition. Spine repaired at some time. Ownership inscriptions to endpapers, the earliest being 1791. A very good, clean copy of this rare additional volume to the original three volume work.
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PLAY-TIME. Saying and Doings of baby-Land.
London: Chatto & Windus, No date [1883]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. [40] pages. Illustrated throughout in chromo-lithography. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. 4to. First edition. A very good, clean copy.
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PLAYLAND. Dean’s 6d Patent Rag Book Series 1. Number 232.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [1922-1929]. 10 pages. Illustrated in colour by Coreen Linda Marsh. A fine copy from the Dean archive with the original paper advert’ slip still loosely laid in. See Cope, page 98.
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PLAYTIME. Drawings by Bunty Crombie.
London: Sylvan Press. Nicholson & Watson, No date [1943]. [48] page, the first and last being pasted to the boards as issued. Illustrated in colour and in black & white. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 284 x 220 mm. First edition. Extremities a little worn; the very occasional spot of foxing; else a very good copy of a scarce title.
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PLAYTIME IN PUSSYLAND. Father Tuck's "Wonderland" series.
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, No date [circa 1906]. [16] pages, including pastedown covers. Illustrated with 4 full-page coloured illustrations; other illustrations in black & white & blue. Full colour pictorial stiff covers. Oblong: 22 x 27 cm. Spine expertly repaired; occasional marking; else a very good copy of a very scarce title. The illustrations, include cricket, and tennis.
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PLAYTIME OVERSEAS. Dean’s 2/- Patent Rag Book Series 3. Number 260.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [1928-1931]. 12 pages. Illustrated in colour by Frederick John Sharman. 210 x 185 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive. See Cope, page 102.
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PLAYTIME STORIES.
London.Ernest Nister. No. 2001 No date. [c.1908]. Unpaged. Mounted colour frontispiece, and many black & white engravings, and line drawings throughout. Artists include Sybil Scott; L. Lockhart; Edith Cubitt; and E. Stuart Hardy. Quarter cloth over original colour pictorial boards. Quarto. Prize bookplate to paste down endpaper. Faint spotting to fore-edges; else, an excellent copy.
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PLEASANT TALES, to improve the mind, and correct the morals of youth.
London: E. Newbery, 1801. [4], 147 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original calf recently re-backed. 143 x 90 mm. First edition. Small ink blot to margin of frontispiece; else a very good copy. Roscoe J292. Comprised of five short stories.
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PLEASING HISTORY OF THE ADVENTURES OF Old Dame Trot.
2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials: Ryle and Co, No date [between 1845 – 1849]. A paper panorama comprised of 11 panels, being the title with a hand-coloured woodcut, an uppercase alphabet, and 9 crudely hand-coloured engravings, as issued, 8 of which have text beneath. Extended: 11 x 109 cm. Folded: 110 x 95 mm. A few chips to the blank margins; little worn and creased; unevenly folded; else very good. Scarce.
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