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THE WOMBLES GO AROUND THE WORLD. Illustrations based on original film puppets designed by Ivor Wood and drawn by Margaret Gordon.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1976. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Name of the children's writer and critic Margery Fisher to endpaper; short tear in front panel of wrapper, without loss; else a very good copy.
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THE WONDER BOOK OF WONDERS. With eight colour plates and nearly 300 illustrations. Edited by Harry Golding. Ninth edition.
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, No date [circa 1934]. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 256 pages. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards showing a diver on the seabed; dust-wrapper with the same design. Dust-wrapper a little worn ;else an excellent copy.
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THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES & DISCOVERIES OF CAPTAIN LEMUEL GULLIVER.
London: Didier & Tebbett, 1808. 12 leaves, each printed on one side only. Title with engraved vignette, and eleven pages each bearing an engraved illustration with verse beneath. Lacking original wrappers, and rebound some point in the late twentieth century. First edition. A very good copy of a rare edition.
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The Wonderful life & Adventures of TOM THUMB. An English Fairy-story by Paul Britten Austin with Drawings by Mervyn Peake.
Stockholm: Radiotjänst, 1954/1955. Two volumes. Softbacks. 126; 134 pages. Illustrated throughout both volumes in black 7 white. The second volume contains a tipped-in miniature volume, entitled: The Terrible but True History of Blebb and Glugg. Original pictorial stiff wrappers. First editions. A fine set.
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THE WONDERFUL LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE.
York: T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1805. (Price One Penny.) [32] pages the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers; page 30 is a blank; page 31 bears a booklist. Pastedown wood-engraved frontispiece and 13 woodcuts within the text. Original printed wrappers with cuts to both panels. 85 x 60 mm. Covers rubbed and worn; else very good copy of a are chapbook. No copy on Library Hub or Worldcat, though both list another edition of this title by this publisher.
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THE WONDERFUL LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF THREE-FINGERED JACK, the terror of Jamaica. Giving an account of his persevering courage and gallant heroism in avenging the cause of his injured parents; with an account of his desperate conflict and death.
Otley: William Walker, No date [circa 1860]. 12 pages. Original printed wrappers. 181 x 110 mm. Probably dis-bound from a collection to judge from pinholes in the spine. Covers dust-soiled; light wear to corners; else very good. One copy only on Library Hub.
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THE WONDERS OF THE BRITISH METROPOLIS; Being an instructive and amusing sketch of London. Ornamented with numerous Engravings.
London: Thomas Tegg, No date [circa 1820]. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, and seven other full-page wood-engravings, plus a two tail-pieces. Original semi-stiff wrappers with mounted engravings to both panels. Covers a little rubbed, else an excellent copy.
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THE WONDERS OF THE HORSE, recorded in anecdotes, and interspersed with poetry.
London: W. & T. Darton, 1808. 144 pages. Illustrated with six full-page engraved plates. Original quarter roan gilt. 137 x 85 mm. 12mo in sixes. First edition. Bookseller’s label to front pastedown; spine rubbed and cracking at bottom of front joint; a few blank corners lost; one manuscript erasure; some occasional water staining; else a good plus copy.
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THE WORKS of Mr.Hogarth MORALIZED.
London: John Trusler, No date, but circa 1770s. Price Bound One Pound Eighteen Shillings. [4], viii, 212, v index, [3 ad’s] pages. Engraved frontispiece of William Hogarth; engraved title, and a total of 77 other engravings. Bound in full calf gilt. Octavo. First edition, but a later issue, bound without the letterpress title found Iin the first and second printings. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good, clean copy. This was Trusler’s first work compiled especially for children.
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THE WORLD OF ICE; or, Adventures in the Polar Regions. By Robert Michael Ballantyne. With Illustrations.
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1860. [iv], 315 pages. Engraved frontispiece and two other full-page plates. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Front free endpaper stamped: ‘Mr Pennington Harford House School West Hackney.’ Inscribed beneath the stamp: ‘Master Palmer first class Arithmetic Prize Christmas 1860.’ Some slight discolouration to frontispiece; else a very good copy. Quayle [21a] states page 316 is an advert leaf, but in this copy page 316 is blank. He also cites four plates, though this copy has three as do others held in major collections. This title is scarce in first edition form.
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THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN; or, No News, and Strange News. Adorned with cuts.
York: J. Kendrew, Colliergate, No date [circa 1830]. 32 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with a wood-engraved pastedown frontispiece, vignette on title, and 27 wood engravings within the text. Original printed terracotta wrappers. 103 x 65 mm. A fine copy of one of Kendrew’s scarcer titles.
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THE WREN; or, The Fairy of the Green-House, consisting of Song, Story and Dialogue. Founded upon actual Incidents, and put together for the Amusement and Instruction of three Little Boys during the Confinement of their Mother. No date [circa 1790]. [4], 5 - 76, [3 ad's] pages. The blank recto of the frontispiece and the blank verso of the last leaf of ad's pastedowns to the boards. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and twelve other woodcuts throughout, some signed 'L' - probably John Lee. Contemporary Dutch floral boards. Binding 10.4 x 9 cm. Contained in a morocco-backed clamshell box. Strained between frontispiece and title, else a near fine copy. Osborne page 87.
London: John Marshall, 1790.
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THE WRETCHED STONE. Written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Mint. Signed on the title-page by Chris Van Allsburg.
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THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK. Edited by Andrew Lang.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1942. Hardcover. Pictorial dust-wrapper. 321 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original yellow cloth with embossed pictorial design; gilt to spine. Octavo. Wrapper chipped at head of spine, and with a piece missing from the lower part of the spine; else a very good copy.
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THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK Edited by Andrew Lang. With numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1894. Hardback. No dust-wrapper. Illustrated in black & white throughout. Near contemporary full 'yellow' morocco. Top edge gilt. Octavo. Bookplate; binding a little dulled and marked; else a very clean copy.
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THE YORKSHIRE HUNT; or, an extraordinary chase of the parson and the cat, (in the Wolds of Yorkshire) By William Cowper. Embellished with Six Spirited Engravings on Wood, after the manner of Cruikshank, by M.U. Sears.
London: Alfred Miller, 1831. 20 pages. Sic full-page engraved plates. Bound in slightly later half tan calf with gilt title label in black calf to the spine. Neat ownership name on the balnk recto of one of the frontispices; binding a little rubbed; else a very good copy. In imitation of Cowper’s famous John Gilpin, the poem tells the tale of a fox-hunting parson onto whose head a frightend cat jumps, with dire consequences.
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The Young Child’s Own Series of New Threepenny Coloured Books. HAPPY CHANGES, or, the story of John, Paul, and David.
London: Dean & Son. Threadneedle Street, No date [circa 1840’s]. [8] leaves printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with five hand-coloured engravings and one plain engraving. Original pictorial series wrappers. 214 x 142 mm. Spine repaired; lower outer corners chipped; else a very good copy of a very scarce title, contained in a modern cloth slipcase. This is number 12 in the series.
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The Young Gentleman and Lady’s INSTRUCTOR; or new reader and speaker: being A Choice Collection of pieces in poetry and prose, designed as a pleasing and useful companion to young persons in general.
London: R. Harrild, 1808. [2], iv, 84 pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece; vignette on title. Sometime nicely rebound in quarter Morocco over paper-covered boards, but with the original printed shaped label mounted on the front board. 12mo. Rare. No copy listed in Library Hub.
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THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN’S AND LADY’S MAGAZINE, or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Amusement, Intended to open the tender Mind to an acquaintance with Life, Morals, & Science, the Works of Nature and of Art; and to serve as an useful auxiliary to Public and Private Tuition. Vol. 1.
London: J. Walker…. E. Newbery…, No date [1799]. Volume I. Numbers 1-VI. Engraved title followed by six monthly parts, each with its own title-page with the imprint: London. Printed for the Editors, and sold by J. Walker…. E. Newbery…. 468, [4 ad’s] pages. Engraved title and 20 plates and charts. This copy lacks two plates: the duplicate of the ‘Moss Rose’ and the frontispiece, which has been replaced with the coloured engraving of the moss rose. Bound in recent half calf gilt over marbled boards. 175 x 112 mm. This magazine ran for one year and two volumes, comprising a total of twelve monthly parts, ceasing publication abruptly in 1800. Rare. This is the only copy we have ever handled. Roscoe J393.
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THE YOUNG MOTHER. By Mrs. Sherwood.
London: Wightman and Cramp, No date [circa late 1820's]. Softcover. 16 pages. Wood-engraved vignette on cover/title. 15 x9.3 cm. Dis-bound from a collection of tracts, and displaying evidence of such on the spine; unstitched. Number 24 in the series. A very good copy.
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