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A WEEK SPENT IN A GLASS POND. By the Great Water Beetle. Written by Juliana Horatia Ewing. Depicted by R. André.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, No date [1883; inscribed 1904]. Hardcover. [32] pages. Large full-colour chromo-lithograph illustrations throughout. Original pictorial card covers present, but the entire book bound into a half morocco over green cloth binding. Green cloth endpapers. Measures approximately 22.5 x 18 cm. Edition not known but probably the first. Two small tears to to page 10 with a small area of loss to the blank margin; hardcover has some slight wear to its extremities; else a very good, fresh copy.
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A WONDER-BOOK for Girls and Boys. With illustrative engravings.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1862. Hardcover. vi, 213 pages. Illustrated. Original blue cloth, gilt All edges gilt. Octavo. 18 x 12 cm. First English edition. Prize bookplate; very light rubbing at head & heel of spine; small brown mark from a pressed flower on one page; else a else a near fine copy. The English edition is significantly scarcer than the American.
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A-B-C für artige kinder in Silhuetten und Reimen. Dritte Auflage.
Cassel: Vollmann, No date [circa 1855; inscribed 1859]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper as issued. Unpaged. [25] leaves, printed on one rectos only, followed by [8] pages. Illustrated with pictorial silhouette title, and 70 silhouette illustrations. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 17 x 13 cm. Some foxing, but a very good copy of a lovely book, rarely found.
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ABC
[London.]: No imprint, Not date [circa 1940]. A board book of 8 stout pages, including covers. Illustrating in colour throughout the letters of the alphabet. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong: 14.5 x 17.5 cm. A fine copy.
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ABC.
London: R. A. Publishing Co. Ltd, No date (circa 1940's). [16] pages including outer wrappers. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original pictorial wrappers. A near fine copy. Sylvia Venus was perhaps best known for her association with Enid Blyton.
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ABC AND ALL THAT. A First Lesson Book for a Baby by Gladys M. Rees. A New Alphabet, Early Lessons and Eighty Nursery Rhymes.
London: Robert Hale Ltd, No date [1948]. 86 pages. Illustrated in colour and in black & white. Original pictorial paper-covered boards; matching dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Wrapper a little worn at edges and corners with a tiny piece missing at one corner; else an excellent copy of a charming book
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ABC Drawn and Coloured by T. Pym [pseud].
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, No date [1886]. [28] pages. Illustrated throughout in colour, the plates protected with tissue guards Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. 16.5 x 15 cm. First edition. Corners a little worn; some marking and rubbing to covers; some spotting to title and occasionally here & there; else a very good copy of a charming alphabet.
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ABC OF JOLLY JACK.
London: Gale & Polden Ltd, No date [circa 1916; inscribed 1918]. [16] pages illustrating in colour the letters of the alphabet all with a naval theme. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, the illustration on the front board signed Edgar G.Holloway. Quarto. Some light brown staining to one page; binding a little rubbed and worn at edges and corners; else a very good copy of a scarce alphabet.
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ABC [OF THE WORLD].
Stockholm: Marius Hartz's Forlag, No date [1907-1910]. 12 pages. 14.8 x 11.5 cm's. A Swedish issue of a title first published by Dean's Rag Book Company [No. 74]. Few light spots, else an excellent copy from the Dean archive. Cope 71, 204. This title is listed as being published in the U.K., Denmark, France and Germany, but not Sweden. Rare.
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ABC of the WORLD. Dean’s Gold Medal Series No. 18.
London: Dean & Son, No date [circa 1900/05]. [16] pages the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original pictorial wrappers. 311 x 252 mm. Chipped at spine ends and corners; slightly loose; small tipped-in bookplate at end; else a very good copy.
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ABÉ – BOEKJE voor Lieve Kinderen. Met eene menigte Prentjes en Rijmpjes.
Amsterdam: Hendrik Frijlink, No date [circa 1831]. The title and publishing information has been gleaned from the internet as the copy we are offering lacks the original pictorial printed covers. 24 leaves, printed on one side only, each bearing a hand-coloured engraved image with the appropriate letter of the alphabet in various types above, and verse below. Slightly cropped throughout at the top; later cloth-backed marbled boards. 103 x 85 mm. A delightful alphabet.
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ABECEDAIRE FRANCAIS illustre album contenant 500 gravures a l'usage des petits et des grands enfants. Exercices de lecture Francaises suivis de notions elementaires des connaissances usuelles propres a developper l'intelligence des enfants; a orner leur mémoire et a les instruire en les amusant.
Paris: Baudry, Librairie Européenne, 1851. 216, [12 ad’s] pages. Original pictorial cloth gilt. All edges gilt. 185 x 143mm. Lacks front free endpaper; small bookplate stamp at base of frontispiece; else a handsome copy.
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ABOUT ROBINS. Songs, Facts, & Legends, collected & illustrated by Lady Lindsay.
London: George Routledge & Sons, No date [1889]. 111, [1] [3 music] pages. Illustrated in full colour and grisaille. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 285 x 230 mm. Boards worn at edges and corners, with some loss of papers; else a very good, clean, copy.
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ABOUT SHIPS By Picture Book.
Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, No date [circa 1940's]. [16] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original pictorial semi-stiff wrappers. Oblong: 22 x 28 cm. Small tear in lower cover; slight wear to edges, corners and spine; else a very good copy of an attractive alphabet.
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ACHTZEHN BILDER zum ROBINSON CRUSOE nach J. H. Campe, nebst Erklarung derselben in 18 Vorschristen.
Sieben: Verlag von Wm. Friedrich’s Buchhandlung, 1836. Two parts in one volume, with two title-pages. Part I frontispiece and 8 plates; title-page and 8 pages of text all printed on one side only of each leaf. Part II 10 plates; title-page and 9 pages of text, all printed on one side of each leaf. Bound in quarter roan over marbled boards; leather ownership plates of Philipp Abel to front panel. Oblong: 19.8 x 26.2 cm. Inner joints taped; small tape repair to blank recto of frontispiece; some finger-marking and light browning; spine cracking, but a very good copy of a scarce printing.
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Addressed to Members of Parliament. SUGGESTIONS ON NATIONAL EDUCATION, with a view to the advantage, not of the poor only, but of all classes of society. By John Smith, lecturer on education, Liverpool.
London: Simpkin and Marshall…, No date [circa 1835]. 31 [32] pages. Original plain wrappers. 136 x 89 mm. Bookplate of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, over-stamped ‘Sold by order of the Council.’ A very good copy.
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ADIRONDACK TALES. Story of the Man Who Didn't Know Much. Story that Keg Told Me. Sketches:- I. – En Route – Jet and the Cat. II. – Crossing a Carry in the Dark. III. – Climbing White-Face.
London: Richard D. Dickinson, 1878. Hardcover. [6], 338 pages. Near contemporary half red sheep over marbled boards. Octavo. First edition. Ownership name on endpaper; some light foxing at start; binding rubbed; else a very good copy. Copac records one copy only.
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ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL.
Edinburgh/London: W. & R. Chambers, 1965. Original boards; original unprice-clipped pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Slight wear to head of spine of wrapper; else near fine.
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ADVENTURES OF PUFFY By the author of “how Jessie Was Lost.” Price Sixpence; or Mounted on Linen, One Shilling.
London: George Routledge & Sons, No date [circa 1876]. [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. 250 x 188 mm. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy of one of Crane’s scarcer toy books. This title was first issued in 1870. It is number 96 from a list of 117 titles on the rear cover.
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[AESOP]. THE ROYAL FABULIST; A Choice Collection of Entertaing Fables. Intended as a present for all those Good Girls and Boys who behave according to the following Rules: That is Do as they are bid, Come when they are called, and Shut the Door after them.
Edinburgh: G. Ross. [Price One Penny.], No date [circa 1815]. 20 pages, including wrappers. Illustrated with wood-engraved frontispiece on verso of front wrapper, and 15 woodcuts throughout. Original wrappers. Spine expertly repaired; little tired; else a very good copy of a rare chapbook. WorldCat lists two copies only, one in the British Library, the other in the Morgan Library. Both copies are dated 1815.
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