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THE SHELLS OF MARGATE, RAMSGATE, & BROADSTAIRS, with figures of nearly all the species. Price One Shilling.
Published by R. C. Osborne, Margate. Sackett & Fuller, Ramsgate. Fowler, Ramsgate. Barnes, Broadstairs, No date [circa 1840]. 28 [1] pages. Illustrated with 35 engravings within the text. Original wrappers. 133 x 105 mm. Price crossed through on cover, with a reduced price of 6d in ink on cover/title; couple of inconsequential doodles on wrapper/title; one manuscript amendment to text; else a very good copy of a rare Conchology book designed for children. One copy only located in the Natural History Museum Library.
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THE SHOES OF FORTUNE, and Other Tales. By Hans Christian Anderson. With four drawings by Otto Speckter, and other illustrations.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1847 (that is, December 1846). [vi]+168 pages. Illustrated with tinted lithographic frontispiece and three other lithographs by Otto Speckter, additional to pagination; and, many wood engraved pictorial initials and tailpieces. Original publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. 12mo. First English edition. Front endpaper cracked and with evidence of repair; some occasional light marking; else an excellent copy. Includes the original printings in English of ‘The Fir Tree’, ‘The Snow Queen’,and ‘The Red Shoes’. The ten stories are followed by a chapter on ‘The Emperor Frederic Barbarossa’, by the translator Charles Boner.
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THE SILVER PENNY, for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children.
York: J. Kendrew, No date [circa 1830]. [32] pages the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated with a pastedown frontispiece and 24 woodcuts illustrating the letters of the alphabet, plus one tail-piece. Original wrappers with two cuts to the upper panel and one to the lower. 100 x 63 mm. A fine copy.
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THE SILVER PENNY, for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children.
York: J. Kendrew, No date [circa 1830]. [32] pages the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated with a pastedown frontispiece and 24 woodcuts illustrating the letters of the alphabet, plus one tail-piece. Original wrappers with two cuts to the upper panel and one to the lower. 100 x 63 mm. A fine copy.
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THE SILVER SHILLING. And other Stories. Translated by H. W. Dulcken. Illustrated with eighteen pictures. The Hans Andersen Library for the Young
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [circa 1870's]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 120, [4 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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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.
London: Issued by J. & J. Colman, No date [circa 1890 ]. [16] pages, of which 4 are full-colour chromolithograph illustrations. Original pictorial soft covers, oblong: 6.5 x 9.5 cm., The text is printed with the initials T.E. M. at the close. The verso of the front covers bears an advertisement for Colman's Mustard, Starch, Blue & Corn Flour; the recto of the lower cover a pictorial ad' for Colman's mustard. A very good copy. These little books were probably printed for Colman's by the London publisher Augustin Thierry who issued this series with his own imprint and without reference to Colman.
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.
J. March Waterloo Rd. [London], No date [circa 1850’s]. One Farthing. [8] pages, including outer wrappers. Illustrated with three coloured engravings, one uncoloured, and another, coloured being the cover/title. 120 x 80 mm. Not stitched; some discolouration from the coloured plates; spine beginning to split at heel; else a very good copy of a rare ‘farthing’ chapbook with coloured illustrations.
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.
[London.]: J. March, Pr. Waterloo Road, No date [circa 1860’s]. 8 pages, including wrappers. Colour printed pictorial title/front wrapper and three other coloured wood-engravings, and one uncoloured. 173 x 110 mm. Not stitched, but folded as an uncut sheet. A very good copy.
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. Illustrated by P[ercy] Cruikshank. LA BELLE AU BOIS DORMANT, dessins par P. Cruikshank.
London: Read & Co. 10 Johnson’s Ct. Fleet St. Pris. H. Mandeville…, No date [between 1847 & 1867]. 13 leaves [25] pages. Illustrated with 12 colour illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. 220 x 169 mm. Spine expertly repaired; edges and corners a little worn; covers rubbed; else very good. Scarce; one copy only listed on Library Hub.
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THE SLOVEN: to which is added The Proud Gentleman his own Shoeblack. Embellished with 15 fine Engravings on Wood.
London: Whitrow and Co. Jewry-street, Aldgate; and sold by all Booksellers, & c. in Town and Country, No date [circa 1815-20]. Price Threepence. 32 pages, the first and last being blanks, pasted to the wrappers. Pastedown wood-engraved frontispiece and nine wood-engravings within the text, not fifteen as the title states. Original printed wrappers. 116 x 75 mm. Small corner lost from rear wrapper; else a very good copy of a scarce chapbook.
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THE SNOW MAN. 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 cloth, gilt. Fcap octavo. Ownership name: 'Royal Victoria Hospital' on front endpaper; endpapers a little foxed; else a very good copy.
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THE SONG OF SIX-PENCE PICTURE BOOK. Containing Sing a Song of Sixpence A Gaping Wide-mouthed, Waddling Frog The Old Courtier The Multiplication Table in Verse. With thirty-two pages of illustrations by Walter Crane. Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date[1876]. 33 leaves, each printed on one side only, 32 of which bear coloured wood-engravings. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 4to. First edition. Some light rubbing and wear to the extremities; gift inscription for 1877; slight cracking of inner joints; else a very good copy. So far as we are aware this title was issued in two bindings: pictorial cloth gilt, and pictorial paper-covered boards, the latter being the less expensive. However the paper-covered issue is much rarer, few copies having survived the ravages of the nursery.
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THE STORIES THAT LITTLE BREECHES TOLD, and the pictures which Charles Bennett drew for them.
London: Sampson, Low, Son and Co, 1863. 55 pages. Illustrated with 20 full-page engraved plates. Original pictorial cloth gilt. 4to. First edition. Slight fading to spine; some light spotting on blank recto of frontispiece; else a near fine copy. Scarce.
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THE STORY OF A APPLE PIE. Illustrated by E. A. Cooke.
London: R. E. King & Co. Denmark Street, No date [circa 1890]. [24] pages of rhymes and illustrations, plus a frontispiece in full colour. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 212 x 168 mm. Boards worn at edges and corners and covers rubbed; else a very good copy of a scarce edition of this famous alphabet, with no copies traced in Library Hub.
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THE STORY OF A TROUBLESOME YOUNG MONKEY WHO WOULD SEE THE WORLD, with his tricks and his numerous capers, his mighty escapes, and his wonderful scrapes. Written down from the monkey’s own dictation by Doctor Gore-illa.
London: Ward and Lock, No date [1863]. 16 pages. Illustrated with a vignette to the title, and 10 other hand-coloured engravings. Original colour-printed pictorial card covers. 210 x 165 mm. The cover states that the book was available: ‘Sixpence plain, coloured one shilling’. The endpapers are adverts for books. Spine expertly repaired; title a little browned; the occasional small mark, else a very good copy of a scarce title.
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THE STORY OF BLUE BEARD; or, The Effects of Female Curiosity. Embellished with Engravings.
Alnwick: W. Davison, No date [circa. 1830]. Price Twopence. 32 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Paste-down wood-engraved frontispiece; vignette on title, and 8 wood-engravings within the text. Original printed wrappers with a small woodcut to the upper panel and a book list to the lower. 120 x 76 mm. A near fine copy. Scarce. One copy only located on Library Hub.
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THE STORY OF GISLI THE OUTLAW From The Icelandic. With Illustrations by C.E. St. John Mildmay.
Edinburgh.Edmonston and Douglas, 1866. [i-vii], viii-xxxv, [1-3],[1],2-123,[1]pp. plus 4pp. adverts to rear. 8 black & white illustrations plus two fold-out maps. Maroon pictorial cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Book plates to front paste-down endpaper, and front free endpaper. Occasional spotting to interior. Cloth shows some slight edge wear. Spine rubbed and a little worn to upper front corner. Hinges cracked. Minor bumping to head and heel of spine and corners; else, a very good copy.
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THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO.
London: Grant Richards, 1899. Dumpy Books for Children No. 4. With 27 full-page colour-engraved illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. viii+57+1pp colophon. Original two-tone striped green cloth. 16mo. Contained in a morocco-backed folding box. First Edition. Front hinge cracked: rear just starting, but both firm; binding little rubbed and stained; internally clean and, overall, a very good copy of this classic children’s story. For a detailed publishing history of the first edition, see Schiller, ‘The Story of Little Black Sambo’ (The Book Collector, Autumn 1974.
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THE STORY OF LITTLE DICK AND HIS PLAYTHINGS: showing How a Naughty Boy became a Good one; being an example for all little masters and misses in the British Empire.
Glasgow: J. Lumsden & Son, 1823. 36 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and 8 other wood-engravings. Original printed wrappers. First edition thus. Covers a little rubbed; small corner missing from lower outer cover; else very good. Roscoe and Brimmell 124.
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THE STORY OF MARY AND HER CAT. A tale for good children.
Edinburgh: Caw and Elder, 1819. 32 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with a pastedown engraved frontispiece and ten wood-engravings within the text. Original printed wrappers with a wood-engraving to the lower panel. 101x 64 mm. A very good copy. Scarce. Not in Necker.
More details Price: £375.00