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UNCLE REMUS or, Mr. Fox, Mr Rabbit, Mr. Terrapin.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1881. 190 pages. Contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards. Small octavo. 166 x 108 mm. First U.K. edition. Some light foxing to title and to endpapers; indelible ownership stamp to title; else very good. This would appear to be rather scarce.
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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. Adapted for Young Persons. With eight illustrations.
London: George Routledge and Co, 1853. 8 [ad's], engraved frontispiece, [4], 404, 32 [ad's] pages. 8 engraved plates. Original pictorial cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Octavo. 16.8 x 11.5 cm. First edition. And adaptation for young readers of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous work, first published in 1852. Some blotching of the cloth; slight wear to the binding; but a very good copy of this scarce adaptation for children.
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Uncle Tom’s Treasury. GOOD BOY’S PICTURE BOOK.
Leeds: Webb, Millington, and Co, No date [circa 1858]. [8] leaves, printed on one aide only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued. Each leaf beats a hand-coloured engraving of a sport with a verse beneath. Original pictorial printed wrappers, bearing the price ‘threepence’ in four places; the lower wrapper bearing an advert’s for books from the publisher. 186 x 138 mm. Wrappers a little worn and lightly dust-soiled; else a very good copy.
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UNDER THE WILLOW TREE. And other Stories. Translated by H. W. Dulcken. Illustrated with fourteen pictures. The Hans Andersen Library for the Young.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [circa 1870's]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 118, [6 ad's] pages. Colour frontispiece. Original decorative blue cloth, gilt. Fcap octavo. Ownership name: 'Royal Victoria Hospital' on front endpaper; else a very good copy.
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UNE POULE SUR UN MUR. No. 5. Editions des artists [Georges Houyoux]. Collections “Pomme D’Api”.
Printed in Belgium: No date, but between 1941 and 1946. Text by Rene Meurant, illustrations by Elisabeth Ivanovsky. [12] pages including outer wrappers. 82 x 65 mm. A very good copy from this series of 24 titles.
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UNE VISITE DU PÈRE NOËL. [Illustrated by Evelyn Gladys Hall.]
Paris: Hachette et Cie. [Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd.], Undated [circa 1908]. [14] pages, including covers. 21.3 x 17.6 cm. Very light soiling to covers, else excellent. A French edition of Moore's celebrated, 'The Night Before Christmas.' Very scarce. The U.K. edition, from which this French issue was taken, was number 63 in the series.
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Unterm Tisch und auf der Schaukel. Mit Bildern von Hildegard Weinitschke.
Potsdam: Muller & Kiepenheuer, 1929. [15] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 282 x 232 mm. First edition. A very good copy.
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London: Humphrey Milford, No date [1922]. 44 pages. With 6 full-page coloured plates, and black & white illustrations. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Quarto: 265 x 232 mm. First edition. Covers lightly marked; else a very good, clean copy.
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VADERLANDSH A-B BOEK voor de Nederlandsche Jeugd.
Amsterdam: W. Holtrop, 1781. [18] leaves; 3 - 58, [2 ad’s] pages. Engraved title; engraved pages of alphabets; 27 half-page engraved plates to scenes from Dutch history and daily life designed to illustrate the letters of the alphabet [there are two plates for ‘G’]; four other engraved plates. The engravings by L. Brasser, N. van der Meer, C. Brouwer, L. Brasser, C. Bogerts. B. de Bakker, J. Condet, and H. Numan after designs by the author in collaboration with P. Wagenaar den Jongen. Recent full calf. 12mo. First edition. A very good copy of a justly famous children’s primer.
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VALENTINE AND ORSON. Walter Crane's Toy Books. New Series. Price Six pence; or mounted on linen, One Shilling.
London: George Routledge & Sons, No date [circa 1874]. [8] leaves, the first and last mounted as pastedowns to the wrappers, each with an illustration in full colour with inset verse. Original pictorial series wrappers. 24.5 x 18.7 cm. Spine expertly restored; else a very good/fine copy
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VALENTINE & ORSON.
[London.]: No imprint, but J. March, Pr. Waterloo Road, No date, but circa 1860s. 8 pages, including wrappers. Colour printed pictorial title/front wrapper and six other coloured wood-engravings. 173 x 110 mm. Not stitched, but folded as an uncut sheet. A very good copy.
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VANISHING PICTURES. A Novel Colour Book with Changing Pictures.
London: Ernest Nister. New York. E. P. Dutton & Co, No date [circa 1895-1900]. Title and [9] pages of illustrated text, and 6 full-colour circular changing pictures operated by ribbons pulls. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 230 x 223 mm. Some occasional light spotting; small red mark on front panel; else a very good copy with all of the moveable pictures in excellent working order. [
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Vasilisa Prekrasnaia [Vasilisa the Beautiful].
The Department for the Production of State Documents, St. Petersburg. Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1902. 12 pages8 chromolithographs in text (4 full-page). Original pictorial wrappers. 326 x 257 mm. First edition. Some wear to spine with the heel splitting. Internally fine, with no offsetting or adhesion. A very good copy.
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VELVET PAWS. English Version by Mary Lee Theobald.
New York: Ars Edition, 1981. [18] pages. Illustrated with 8 colour illustrations and some in black & white within the text. Original pictorial boards. 148 x 120 mm. First edition. A fine copy. .
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VERDERE VERHAALTJES VAN MILLY-MOLLY MANDY.
Amersfoort.P. Dz. Veen. [1936]. [i-vi], 7-99pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. Original pictorial boards, and pictorial dust wrapper. Authors' own copy, containing publisher's invitation to book reading by author. Some browning to endpapers; else an excellent bright copy of a very scarce book.
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VICISSITUDE: or the Life and Adventures of Ned Frolic. An original Comic Song. For the Entertainment of All Good Boys and Girls in the British Empire.
Glasgow: J. Lumsden & Son, 1818. 16 pages. Illustrated with 4 hand-coloured engraved plates, three of which have multiple images. Original plain wrappers. 138 x 88 mm. Some light off-setting as is usual with this title; small blank corner lost from front wrapper; spine expertly restored; else a very copy of one of the most attractive productions of the Lumsden publishing house. Roscoe and Brimmell 22.
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VICTORIA AND THE GOLDEN BIRD.
London & Glasgow: Blackie and Son Limited. [Chandos Place address.], No date [1948]. [30] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Original dust-wrapper with ‘5/-‘ price on flap. Quarto. First edition. Dust-wrapper chipped at head; very light spotting to paste-downs and title; else an excellent copy of this scarce title.
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VIEWS OF THE PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS IN LONDON, With an Account of the Curiosities they contain. For the Juvenile; or Child’s Library.
London: John Marshall. No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, Cheapside, (1800.). 2 volumes. Volume 1: 72 pages. 10 full-page engraved views. Volume 2: 60 pages. 5 engraved views. Original paper-covered boards with mounted and shaped paper labels to both upper and lower covers. Spines expertly repaired; else excellent examples of these rare little volumes. The Juvenile; or Child’s Library, is one of the rarest and most ambitious boxed libraries fashionable at this time. It contained 21 volumes in all. All of the titles could be purchased separately.
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VILLAGE STORIES. Containing Charlotte and Jessy. The Little Basket Makers. Grandpapa. And The Moss Roses. By Miss Corner. With seven lithographic plates from designs by S. Williams.
London: Dean & Munday, No date [circa 1835/40]. 82 pages. 7 uncoloured litho’s. Contemporary half black calf gilt. 130 x 110 mm. First edition. Binding worn and rubbed; some light foxing here & there; else a very good copy of a scarce title.
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VISIONS IN VERSE, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds. The Third Edition, Revis'd and Enlarg'd.
London: Printed for R.Dodsley. and M(ary) Cooper. 1752. [iv], [1] 2-132, [8 cat'] pages. Original full calf, gilt. 12mo. Short split at spine head; browning to margins of title with light spotting; else a near fine copy.Tremendously popular in its day, the first three editions were published in the same year. The third edition is expanded by the addition of a ninth 'Vision'. A reproduction of this edition was issued by Herbert Land of Bern in 1973, sponsored by the Toronto Public Library. See Osborne 627.
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