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Ye Interestynge Stories of CINDERELLA and ye lyttel Glass Slyppere.
Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, No date [circa 1870]. The Royal Illuminated Legends Gorgeously Illuminated, after the Mediaeval manner, in Colours and Gold, by Marcus Ward, Illuminator to the Queen. [10] leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued, of which two bear music composed by Hobson Carroll, two bear text, and six bear full-colour illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. Oblong: 188 x 278 mm. Short tear in blank margin of one text leaf; spine expertly repaired; gift inscription in pencil for Xmas 1871 in the blank margin of page one; else a very good copy.
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Ye olde Woman and her Silver 1d. Dean’s Holiday Series No. 73.
London: Dean & Son. Fleet Street, No date [1916]. Coloured illustrations by F. Meyerheim. [12] pages, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued. Four full-page colour illustrations, plus others within the text. Original pictorial card covers. 278 x 197 mm. Some damp-staining to the rear over and, to a lesser degree, throughout to the top outer corner. Small tipped label of Sharmid, 6 Wells Street, Jermyn Street, S.W.1. But a good plus copy, together with the original full-colour artwork for the front cover, signed in full by Meyerheim.
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YINKA-TU THE YAK. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 63 pages. Illustrated in colour. Original pictorial paper-covered boards.; pictorial dust-wrapper. 4to. First edition. Small rub on endpaper from price sticker on wrapper; some very light wear to wrapper and boards; else an excellent copy.
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YOUNG AMERICA.
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, No date [circa 1899]. A die-cut book in the shape of a young girl sat sewing. [12] pages. With one double-page and two single-page coloured illustrations, the remainder in grisaille. Original full colour card wrappers. Maximum height: 227 mm. A fine copy.
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YOUNG HOPEFUL. With illustrations by Charles Robinson R. I.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1932. 78 pages. Illustrated with numerous line drawings. Original pictorial blue cloth with black decoration and lettering. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Later Signature and date to endpaper; else an outstanding copy.
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YOUTHFUL GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS. No. XXV. – One Halfpenny.
Alnwick: W. Davison, No date [circa 1825]. 16 pages, including wrappers. Illustrated with eight woodcuts, and a cut to both upper and lower wrapper. 79 x 58 mm. Spine expertly restored; else an excellent copy. Rare. No copy located.
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YOUTHFUL RECREATIONS, containing Amusements of a Day, as spent By Master Freelove and his Companions. Interspersed with Stories, suitable Observations, Verses, and other Matters of Instruction and Entertainment.
London: E. Newbery, 1796. [Price Six Pence.] 128 pages. Engraved frontispiece and fourteen wood-engravings within the text. Original Dutch floral boards. An excellent, clean copy contained in a folding cloth and marbled paper folding case. Marjory Moon’s copy with her bookplate to the front pastedown. Lot 27 in the sale of her book at Christie’s 28th June 1995. Roscoe J397(12). First published in 1789. All copies are rare.
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YOUTHFUL SPORTS; or The Pleasures of A Country Fair. For Good Boys and Girls. With beautiful engravings on Wood. Price One Penny.
Otley: W. Walker, No date [circa 1830]. 16 pages including pastedown wrappers. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and 6 other woodcuts. Original wrappers with a woodcut to the lower panel. 10.5 x 6.5 cm. A very good copy.
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ZEBROLOGY.
London: Chatto & Windus, No date [1938]. [8] pages, each bearing a coloured illustration [ no text, being a wordless story]. Original card covers, the upper pictorial, secured with a red string tie at the spine. Oblong; 17.8 x 23 cm. Contained in the original pictorial envelope. First edition, third impression. Envelope a little worn & torn & lacking flap; else a fine copy. This is the first occasion we have seen a copy with its original envelope. From the library of the illustrator Enix Marx.
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Zhar-ptitsa i seryy volk. [The Tale of Tsarevich Ivan, The Fire-Bird and Grey Wolf.]
The Department for the Production of State Documents, St. Petersburg. Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1901. 12 pages, illustrated in chromolithography, with eight illustrations (three full-page) by Ivan Bilibin, and decorative borders printed in brown. Original pictorial wrappers. 326 x 257 mm. First edition. Some wear to spine. Internally fine, with no offsetting or adhesion. A very good copy.
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Zhar-ptitsa i seryy volk. [The Tale of Tsarevich Ivan, The Fire-Bird and Grey Wolf.]
St. Petersburg: The Department for the Production of State Documents, St, Petersburg. Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1901. 12 pages, illustrated in chromolithography, with eight illustrations (three full-page) by Ivan Bilibin, and decorative borders printed in brown. Original pictorial wrappers. 326 x 257 mm. First edition. Spine has been neatly repaired. Inscription in Russian, dated 1917 on verso of front cover. Internally fine, with no offsetting or adhesion. A very good copy.
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ZWOLF MIT FER POST. Ein Neujahrsmarchen. Mit 12 farbigen bildern nach Originalen von Professor Berthold Loffler und einer kalendarium fur das jahr 1920.
Wien: Anton Schroll & Co, No date [1919]. [28] pages. Illustrated with 12 colour plates by the celebrated Jugendstil illustrato,r Berthold Loffler. Pictorial paper covered boards. 108 x 95 mm. Inscription on blank verso of title dated 1919. A fine copy of this illustrated calendar for the young.
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ÆSOP’S FABLES. With Instructive Morals and Reflections, Abstracted from all Party Considerations. Adapted To All Capacities; and design'd to promote Religion, Morality, and Universal Benevolence. Containing Two Hundred and Forty Fables, with a Cut Engrav'd on Copper to each Fable. And the Life of Æsop prefixed.
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ÆSOPI PHRYGIS, et Aliorum Fabulæ, Quorum nomina sequens pagella indicabit, Elegantissimis Iconibus in gratiam studiosae juventutis illustratae, Editio Novissima. Caeteris auctior, & emendatior. Cum Indice locupletissimo.
Venetiis (Venice): Typographia Remondiniana, 1757. [4] 5 -296, [4 index] pages. Illustrated with decorative device to title, other decorative devices and illustrated capitals, and forty-four wood cuts throughout. Bound in white cloth covered with parchment paper. 12mo. Repairs to front and rear hinges; new end-papers and paste-downs front and rear; slight browning throughout; some loss of paper covering at spine; cracking at rear at Index; else a very good copy of an edition of Aesop designed for children.
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לילדינו Neue Hebräische Lesefibel von Michael Abraham. Illustriert von Oscar Haberer, Berlin.
Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann Verlag, 1928. 39 pages. Illustrated throughout. Loosely laid in two-page Foreword in German. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 240 x 190 mm. First edition. Three of the line drawings have been carefully coloured by a former owner, the ‘forword’ leaf is a little creased and worn; else a very good copy of this scarce Hebrew primer.
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