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VOYAGES THROUGH THE NORTHERN PACIFIC OCEAN, Indian Ocean, and Chinese Sea.
Dublin: Bentham and Hardy, 1825. 178 pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece and six full-page wood-engravings. Slightly later untitled plain half-calf over marbled boards. 138 x 89 mm. Old crease to the corner of frontispiece, few light spots to title, the occasional mark, else a very good copy.
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WAGON LOAD OF GOLD.
Derby: (Thomas) Richardson, No date [circa 1830]. 12 pages., including wrappers. Illustrated with eleven small woodcuts, including a cut to lower wrap, where the text continues, and a cut to the upper cover. 85 x 53 mm. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy.
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WALKS WITH MAMMA; or Stories in words of one syllable; and instructive conversations. New and Enlarged edition.
London: John Harris, 1839. [1], 92 pages. Illustrated with eight hand-coloured engravings. Original limp cloth gilt. 177 x 109 mm. Some marking; corners a little bumped; gift inscription on title; else very good. Quite scarce. See Moon 964. An expanded version of Moon 963.
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WALLIS’S NEW GAME, exhibiting a Voyage round THE WORLD.
London: Published by E. Wallis, 12 Skinner Street, and 12 High Street, Islington, No date [circa 1823]. An engraved sheet with hand-colouring, divided into 15 sections and mounted on linen. Original gilt titled slipcase. Lacks original rules. Unfolded: 408 x 630 mm. A fine copy.
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Wallis’s TOUR THROUGH ENGLAND AND WALES A New Geographical Pastime.
London: Published 24th December 1794 by John Wallis at his Map Warehouse. A hand-coloured engraved sheet, divided into 16 pieces and mounted on linen. Folding so that It fits into a slipcase. The slipcase bears the label for the later edition of 1802. Slipcase restored; some wear to the joints of the game; some light water-staining; else very good.
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Walt Disney Presents WINNIE-THE-POOH and his Friends. A Dean's Baby Safe book.
London.Dean's Rag Books. 1965. A Dean's rag book in mint condition showing the Disney cartoon images of Winnie-the-Pooh and friends in full colour. Six pages, including covers. Pinked at edges.
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Walt Disney's COLOURING FUN BOOK.
London: Paulton & Purnell, 1974. 16 pages of puzzles and outline illustrations ready for colouring. Original coloured wrappers. 27.5 x 20 cm. Publisher's file copy, with a stamp on the title. Paper browning; else very good.
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Walt Disney's DAISY DUCK Painting Book. Pictures by The Walt Disney Studio adapted by Dick Moore.
London: Birn Brothers Ltd, Circa 1959. Softcover. 24 pages. Illustrated in line throughout. The verso of the front cover and the recto of the rear, have cut-out designs of Daisy Duck and her birthday cake. Original pictorial wrappers. 27.7 x 21.2 cm. A fine copy.
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Walt Disney's DISNEYLAND Colouring Book.
London: Dean & Son Ltd, No date [copyright 1955]. Softcover. 48 pages of line illustrations, featuring the entire cast of Disney's cartoon characters. Original full-colour pictorial wrappers. 4to. 28.3 x 21 cm. A fine copy.
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Walt Disney's MINNIE MOUSE Painting Book. Pictures by The Walt Disney Studio adapted by Bob Grant.
London: Birn Brothers Ltd, Circa 1959. Softcover. 24 pages. Illustrated in line throughout. The verso of the front cover and the recto of the rear, have cut-out designs. Original pictorial wrappers. 27.7 x 21.2 cm. Tiny tear in fore-edge of front wrapper; else a fine copy.
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Walt Disney's PINOCCHIO Painting Book. Pictures by The Walt Disney Studio adapted by Bob Grant.
London: Birn Brothers Ltd, Circa 1959. Softcover. 24 pages. Illustrated in line throughout. The verso of the front cover and the recto of the rear, have cut-out designs. Original pictorial wrappers. 27.7 x 21.2 cm. A fine copy.
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Walt Disney’s SNOW WHITE and the Seven Dwarfs Adapted from Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
Collins: London and Glasgow, No date [1938]. 79 [80] pages. Illustrated in colour and in black & white throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 325 x 250mm. First edition. Boards very lightly marked; small rub on rear panel; lacks the dust-wrapper; else a very good copy.
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Walter Crane’s Toy Books. New series. THE FORTY THIEVES. Price Sixpence; or Mounted on Linen, One Shilling.
London: George Routledge & Sons, No date [circa 1873]. [8] leaves, each printed on one side only, the first and last being pasted to the wrappers as issued, each bearing both coloured illustrations and text. Original pictorial wrappers. 245 x 186 mm. Probably the first edition. Very short tear in margin of last leaf/wrapper; else a very good copy. This title was first issued in 1867. It is number 104 from a list of 106 titles on the rear cover. [14963]
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WALTER WONDERMENT’S WONDERFUL TREBLE CHANGES.
London: Dean & Son, No date [coded for 1860]. [8] leaves, printed on one side only, each bearing a hand-coloured engraving with two half-page hand-coloured engraved flaps acting like those in a Harlequinade; the combination giving a choice of three different pictures. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 255 x 178 mm. Boards rubbed and worn; two of the flaps have been re-attached at some time, with some loss two the blank margins; edges of the flaps creased; else a good copy of one of the most difficult Dean moveable books to find in reasonable condition.
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WANTED - A KING; or, how Merle set the Nursery Rhymes to Rights. By Maggie Browne. With original designs by Harry Furniss.
London.Cassell & Company, Limited. 1890. [8], 183, [1], 24pp illustrated catalogue. Illustrated in line throughout. Original green pictorial cloth. gilt. Top edge gilt. Octavo. First edition. Some fox spots on endpapers and half-title; very light rubbing to head and heel of spine; else a very good, fresh, clean copy of this early 'Alice' imitation.
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WAR WITH THE DEVIL: or the Young Man’s Conflict with the Powers of Darkness. In a Dialogue. Discovering the Corruption and Vanity of Youth; the Horrible Nature of Sin, and deplorable Condition of Fallen Man: Also a Definition, Power, and Rule of Conscience, and the Nature of True Conversion. To which is added, An Appendix, containing a Dialogue between an Old Apostate and a Young Professor. Worthy the Perusal of All, but chiefly intended for the Instruction of the Younger Sort. The Twenty-second edition.
Printed for E. Johnston, 1776. 156 pages. Illustrated with 16 wood-engravings, including one showing the fire of London. Original sheep, sometime crudely re-backed. 152 x 93 mm. Binding rubbed and worn; printing flaw to one leaf but with no loss of text; else a very good copy of this very popular work for the youth first published circa 1700.
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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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