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THE PENNY FIDDLE. Poems for Children. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
London: Cassell, 1960. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine Unprice-clipped dust-wrapper..
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THE PENNY MAGAZINE of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. New Series.
London: Charles Knight. No’s 626 - 690. Jan- Dec' 1842. 516 pages. Illustrated throughout. Bound in half black calf with red title label to the spine. Quarto. 260 x 178 mm. Binding a little rubbed; bookplate; else a very good, clean good. .
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THE PENTAMERONE or The Story of Stories. Translated from the Neapolitan by John Edward Taylor. New edition revised and edited by Helen Zimmern. With illustrations by George Cruikshank.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. xii, [2], 218 + 6pp. ad's. 13 full-page black & white plates. Original patterned cloth. Patterned fore-edges. Small octavo. First edition in The Children's Library series. Bookplate; corner of outer corner of front fly-leaf repaired with similar but not identical paper. Spine a little rubbed, faded and worn; inscription dated 1898 on second endpaper; else a very good, clean copy.
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THE PERFECT ZOO. Illustrated by Kathleen Burrell.
London. Toronto. Bombay. Sydney.George Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1947. [4], 5-46pp. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Quarto. First edition thus. Boards a trifle rubbed; a touch of wear to board corners; else a very good, internally clean copy.
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THE PERSIAN TALES; containing, I. The History of Colouse, Son of Abdallah,Merchant of Damas, and the beautiful Dilara, daughter of Boyruc, a Kerait Grandee. II. The History of Prince Mirgehan, Son of Cabal Can, king of the Keraites. III. The History of Taher, son of Mouzaffer, merchant of Samarcande. IV. The history of Usbec Can, King of Tartary. V. The History of Prince Calaf, son of Timurtasch, Can of the Nogais Tartars, and the princess of China. VI. The History of Prince Fadlallah, son of Bin-Ortoc, King of Mousel, and Zemroude, daughter of Mouaffac, Governor of Baghdad. Part II.
London: Printed and Sold by Sabine and Son., Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, No date [circa 1808]. 95, [1 ad’s] pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece and two cuts within the text. Original plain blue wrappers. 180 x 105 mm. Pages cut unevenly; little turned at corners; else a very good copy. Rare. Worldcat list a complete copy of both parts in the British Library, and two copies of Part Ii only.
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THE PET LAMB and other pieces.
Derby: Thomas Richardson, No date [circa 1830 and inscribed 1836]. 12 pages. Illustrated with five small woodcuts. Original printed pictorial wrappers. 142 x 90 mm. Ownership name and address on blank verso of front wrapper. A very good copy.
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THE PETS.
London: F. Warne & Co,, Bedford Street., Covent Garden, No date [circa 1880]. [8] leaves, including wrappers, printed on one side only, and each bearing a coloured wood-engraving with verses beneath. 152 x 107 mm. A very good copy.
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THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET. Illustrated by H. R. Millar.
London: George Newnes Limited, No date [1904]. xi, [1 blank] 236 pages. Colour frontispiece and Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original decorative cloth gilt. Top edge gilt. Octavo. First edition. Binding rubbed and worn at extremities; patch of foxing on title and some light foxing to the last page; else very good.
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THE PICKLETONS Their Astonishing Adventures. Told & Drawn by Ingles Rhode.
London: Dean & Son Limited, No date [1899]. With 22 full-page colour plates. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Oblong: 25 x 32.2 cm. First edition. A very good copy.
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THE PICTS AND THE MARTYRS.
London. Jonathan Cape, 1943. Hardback. No wrapper. First edition. A very good copy without inscriptions etc.
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THE PICTS AND THE MARTYRS Or Not Welome At All.
London.Johnathon Cape. 1943. [i-iv] 5-304pp. 20 black & white illustrations. Green cloth gilt. Pictorial dust wrapper. Octavo. First Edition. Very light rubbing to edges, and to head and heel of spine of the dust wrapper. Else a near fine copy in an unprice-clipped wrapper.
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THE PICTURE ALPHABET; or, Child’s A, B, C. Seventh Series -- No. 1.
Portland: Bailey & Noyes, No date [circa 1860’s]. 16 pages. Alphabet illustrated with small woodcuts. Original wrappers with a small cut to the upper panel, and two to the lower. 100 x 65 mm. A very good copy of this chapbook alphabet.
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THE PICTURE BOOK FOR THE YOUNG by Mary Howitt.
London: Sampson Low and Son, 47, Ludgate Hill, No date [1855]. Half-title: PICTURE BOOK FOR THE YOUNG with text by Mary Howitt. Designed to amuse and assist the young in Drawing and Colouring. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 20 hand-coloured lithographs by E. Morin [including half-title]. Original red cloth gilt. All edges gilt. 218 x 190 mm. New spine and endpapers; one plate has small loss to two edges where previously loose; else very good.
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THE PICTURE BOOK. Illustrated with 12 woodcuts. Price One Halfpenny.
York: R. Burdekin, No date [circa 1830]. 12 pages, including self-wrappers. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy. Richard Burdekin’s chapbooks are rarely found and we can locate no copies of this title.
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THE PICTURE BOOK; or, Tom Thumb’s Alphabet. Embellished with 24 Wood Cuts. One adapted to each Letter
York: R. Burdekin. Price One Halfpenny, No date [circa 1820’s]. 12pp. including self-wrappers. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy. ‘D was a drunkard, and red face.’ Richard Burdekin’s chapbooks are rarely found. We can locate only one copy of this edition, held by the Bodleian Library.
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THE PICTURE OF ENGLAND; or, Historical Delineations of the Most Curious Works of Nature and Art in Each County: Calculated as an Agreeable Companion to the Tourist, or a Class Book for the Student. Illustrated with upwards of Two Hundred and Fifty Engravings: consisting of Views of Ancient Castles, Cathedrals, Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Seats, &c. By J. N. Brewer, Author of “Introduction to the Beauties of England,” and Descriptions of several Counties in that elaborate Work.
London: Harris and Son…, 1820. Two vol’s. Vol. I: ix, [3], 383, [1 blank], [12 Index] pages. Illustrated with 129 views on 43 engraved plates. Vol. II: [iv], 416, [12 Index} pages. Illustrated with 123 views on 41 engraved plates. Bound in half sheep gilt over marbled boards. 12mo. Volume II cracking at the lower joint at base of spine; else an excellent, clean set. Moon 63. .
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THE PICTURE SHOW. A Novel Picture Book for Children.
London: Ernest Nister, No date [circa 1895]. [28] pages, including four double-page, full colour pop-up scenes, all in excellent working order. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 247 x 200 mm. Gift inscription on endpaper for ‘Xmas ’95’; boards a little worn and scratched; lower outer corner of front board bumped; else a very good copy with all pop-ups working excellently.
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THE PIRATE TWINS.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, No date (1929). 28 pages. Each illustrated in colour and with text beneath. Original pictorial boards. Oblong quarto. First edition. Lacks the dust-wrapper; light rubbing to spine; some darkening of the covers; else a very good copy with no inscriptions or faults. Copies of the first edition are identical to the reprint except for the thickness of the boards; the reprint having much thinner, almost flexible boards. This was Nicholson’s second book for children, and in our opinion one of the mot important of the twentieth century.
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THE PIRATE TWINS.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, No date (1929). 28 pages. Each illustrated in colour and with text beneath. Original pictorial boards. Oblong quarto. First edition. Lacks the dust-wrapper; spine restored; ‘For and ‘From’ box neatly filled in; else a very good copy. Copies of the first edition are identical to the reprint except for the thickness of the boards; the reprint having much thinner, almost flexible boards. This was Nicholson’s second book for children, and in our opinion one of the most important of the twentieth century.
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THE PIRATE TWINS.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, No date. (1929.). 28 pages. Each illustrated with text beneath. Original pictorial boards. Original plain tissue dust-wrapper. Oblong quarto. Number 36 of a ‘Special signed edition 60 copies only.’ Signed by Nicholson in blue ink. First edition. Wrapper worn; else a virtually mint copy of one of the finest children's books of the twentieth century.
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