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WARNE'S LARGE TYPE PRIMER. With Coloured Pictures.
London: Frederick Warne and Co, No date [circa 1915]. [48] pages. Coloured frontispiece of boy cricketers, and one other coloured plate. Original blue and black decorative cloth. Octavo. From the publisher's archive with their stamp on front free endpaper. A fine copy.
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Warwick House Toy Books. MASTER MOUSIE'S SUPPER PARTY Showing how when Puss is away the Mice will Play.
London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, No date [circa 1870]. 6 leaves of text, printed on one side only, and six full-page colour plates printed by Kronheim and Co. Original decorative wrappers. 26.7 x 23 cm. Spine restored; some wear to corners and edges and with a few very short tears to the blank margin of two leaves; else a very good copy. Scarce. Not in Necker.
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WATT’S DIVINE SONGS, in easy language, for the use of children.
Glasgow: Lumsden & Son, No date. (circa. 1820). 47 pages. Illustrated with wood cuts throughout printed in sanguine ink. Original plain buff wrappers with ink title on upper panel as issued. Roscoe & Brimmell 39.
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WATTY: a White Puppy. By Mrs. Ernest Ames, Author of “Little Red Fox,” etc., etc.
London: Duckworth & Co, No date [1913]. [28] pages. Illustrated with 12 full-page coloured plates. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 210 x 212 mm. First edition. Boards a little marked – particularly the rear board; else very good. A scarce title .
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WE ARE ALL IN THE DUMPS.
Harper Collins, 1993. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Signed by Sendak on a Sendak designed pictorial bookplate to the front fixed endpaper. A fine copy. Loosely laid in are two pieces of Sendak ephemera; one a flier for a talk by Sendak about the book, the other advertising the Night Kitchen, a Theater company.
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WE ARE ALL IN THE DUMPS WITH JACK AND GUY. Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures.
Michael di Capua Books, 1993. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First U. S. edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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Webb’s Juvenile Drama. ROBIN HOOD and the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, a drama in two acts. Written expressly for and adapted to Webb’s Characters and Scenes in the same.
London: H. J. Webb, No date [circa 1900]. 18 pages. Original printed pink wrappers. 150 x 95mm. Spitting a base of spine; else a very good copy. £45. 00.
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Webb’s Juvenile Drama. THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE, a drama in three acts. Written expressly for, and adapted to Webb’s Characters and Scenes in the same. Price Fourpence.
London: W. Webb, No date [circa 1870’s]. Lithographed frontispiece. 18 pages. Original printed pink wrappers. 150 x 95mm. Spitting a base of spine; else a very good copy.
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WHAT BECAME OF THEM? Pictured by A. M. Lockyer.
London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, No date [circa 1880s]. Cover title: WHAT BECAME OF THEM? And THE CONCEITED LITTLE PIG By G. Boare. [16] pages. Illustrated throughout. Original pictorial card covers. Oblong: 127 x 189 mm. A fine copy85. 00.
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WHAT IS IT? Dean’s 1/- Patent Rag Book Series 2. Number 319.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co. Ltd, No date [1907 – 1916]. 10 pages. Illustrated in colour by Sylvia Pay. 212 x 150 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive. See Cope, Page 112.
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WHAT IS THE TIME?
Dundee: London: Montreal: Valentine & Sons, Ltd, No date [circa 1920]. [16] pages, each illustrated. Original full color pictorial covers, with a clock sporting metal hands. 24 x 24 cm. One leaf loosening from staples; little worn at spine; else very good. A scarce ‘toy’ book.
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WHAT IS THIS? WHAT IS THAT?
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [between 1903 -1921, this copy probably circa 1919]. Dean’s 1/- Patent Rag Book Series 2. Number 2. [12] pages illustrated in colour by Vernon Edward Barrett. Oblong: 150 x 226 mm. A near fine copy from the Dean archive of a rare, early rag book, complete with the original paper advert’ slip still loosely laid in. See Cope Page 60.
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WHAT IS THIS? WHAT IS THAT? Dean’s 1/- Patent Rag Book Series 2. [Reissue of Number 2.]
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co. Ltd, No date [1922 - 1933]. 10 pages. Illustrated in colour. Cover by Helen C. Grace Marsh Lambert. 212 x 152 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive. This title was first issued in 1903.
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WHAT MIRANDA KNEW.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1944. [48] pages. Illustrated in colour. Original blue cloth. Original dust-wrapper. 170 x 155 mm. First edition. Couple of tiny tears in wrapper; else fine.
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WHAT NANCY FOUND IN THE RAINBOW. Written and Illustrated by Barbara Hounsham.
London: Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd, No date [1905]. 84 pages, the first and last being blank pastedowns to the boards. With 20 illustrations printed in red & black & white. Original pictorial cloth. 79 x 80 mm. First edition. A very good copy.
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WHAT SHOULD I BE?
Moscow/Leningrad: 1948. Illustrated by Alexeï Pakhomov. [24]pp. Pictorial full-colour wrappers. Quarto. First edition. Small corner lost from top outer edge of upper wrapper; bookplate; else a very good copy.
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WHAT THE BLACKBIRD SAID. A Story in Four Chirps. By Mrs. Frederick Locker. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1881. [viii], 88 pages. Illustrated in Black & white. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Quarto: 215 x173 mm. First edition. Slight wear to head & heel of spine and corners of boards, and a tiny split in the middle of the spine [4 mm [1/4 inch]]; front inner joint showing signs of cracking; else very good.
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WHAT WE SEE IN THE COUNTRY. By the Author of “Chickseed without Chickweed,” “Plain Things for Little Folks,” “Early Seeds,” “Papa’s Stories,” &c. &c. &c.
London: Darton & Co, 1852. 63 pages. With 8 hand-coloured engravings by Barfoot. Original flexible cloth gilt covers. 133 x 95mm. First edition. Spine worn at head & heel with small loss of cloth; cracked between frontispiece and title; else very good. Scarce. Not listed in Darton. Mary Leathley was a prolific author of books for children. She wrote over a hundred titles.
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WHAT’S IN A NAME! An Alphabet by Annie Newnham.
Church Hanborough: Hanborough Parrot Pieces, 1988. Designed by Dennis Hall and printed litho by the Didcot Press on mould-made paper in an edition of 95 copies of which 25 have been hand.-coloured. Number 45 of 70 uncoloured copies, signed by Annie Newnham. A Spine and edges sun-faded; else a fine copy. .
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What’s That? Dean’s 1/- Patent Rag Book Series 2. Number 90.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co. Ltd, No date [1908 – 1911]. 12 pages. Illustrated in colour by Evelyn Gladys Hall. 210 x 150 mm. ‘File’ written in pencil on front cover; else a fine copy from the Dean archive with the original paper advert slip loosely laid in. See Cope, Page 72.
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