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ALBERT, POLICE BEAR. Illustrated by Margaret Gordon.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1975. 62 pages. Original boards gilt. Original dust-wrapper. Octavo. Signed by Alison Jezard on the front endpaper. Some light browning to the flaps of the dust-wrapper; else a very good copy.
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Albums du Père Castor. EN FAMILLE. Dessins de F. Rojankovsky. Text de Marguerite Reynier. Flammarion Éditeur.
1934. [. 24] pages. Illustrated with 10 full-page and two smaller colour lithographs, and others in black & white. Original pictorial wrappers. 320 x 285 mm. Covers very lightly dust-soiled, and heel of spine a little bumped; else a good clean copy.
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
London: Juvenile Productions, Ltd, No date [circa early 1940’s]. 190 pages. Illustrated with 8 colour plates and numerous line drawings by D. R. Sexton. Original pictorial paper covered boards. 278 x 212 mm. Ownership box on front pastedown filled in; half-title lightly browned; one colour plate has a small piece missing from the blank margin; else a particularly good copy of this large format edition. Scarce.
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated with six Coloured Lithographs by Marie Laurencin.
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. [iv], 114, [2 blank], [1 colophon] pages. Number 185 of the 420 numbered copies for the United States, of which the first 350 were printed on Rives paper. Complete with the original tissue wrapper, which has a small chip at both head and heel of spine, together with the original slipcase which is very worn and distressed. The book itself, however, is a fine, clean copy without any marks or inscriptions.
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. With illustrations by Mervyn Peake. A Library of British and Continental Authors. Vol. 67.
Stockholm/London: Zephyr Books. The Continental Book Company, 1946. Softcover with original dust-wrapper. First edition with Peake's illustrations, preceeding the U.K. first by eight years. A very nice copy; rare in wrapper.
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ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND By Lewis Carroll. With 28 illustrations and a coloured frontispiece by Thomas Maybank.
London: George Routledge & Sons Limited. New York: E. P. Dutton, No date [1907]. 168 pages. Original pictorial cloth gilt. All edges gilt. First edition thus. Tissue guard to frontispiece worn; else a very good copy of a scarce printing.
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ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1907. [12], 166, [3], [7 ad’s pages. Illustrated with 12 colour plates. Original decorative cloth gilt with a pastedown roundel to the upper panel. Octavo. First edition thus. Neat inscription on front pictorial endpaper for 1908; spine a little faded; top outer corner of front panel a little bumped; else a very good copy.
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. With paintings by Angel Dominguez.
New York: Artisan, 1996. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. First printing. 152 pages. Frontispiece and 54 other full-page colour illustrations, 5 being double page, plus 34 text illustrations, some in colour. The signature of the illustrator, Angel Dominguez, on blank hand-made paper, has been tipped in before Chapter 1 as issued on a limited number of copies. Original yellow cloth binding, red lettering to spine and blind lettering to upper cover; decorated endpapers. A mint copy in a mint unclipped dust-wrapper.
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ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. With the original illustrations by John Tenniel.
London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society Ld. VII Grafton Street, W, 1914. The Ricardo Press Books. 131, [4] pages. Limited edition of 1000 copies on handmade Ricardo paper, of which this is number 280. Original cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards with paper title label to the spine and upper panel. There are spare labels tipped-in at the rear of the book. The boards have some brown marking, as is common with this title. However, the text is clean. Loosely laid in is some Ricardo press ephemera, which includes a bookmark.
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ALPENBLUMENMÄRCHEN. Bilder und Texte von Ernst Kreidolf.
Rotapfelerlag Erlenbach-Zürich Leipzig: 1922. [40] pages. Illustrated with a pictorial title-page and 18 full-page colour plates. Original half cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong: 26 x 32 cm. First edition. Small mark on front cover; else fine.
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ALPHABET de la POUPÉE. Illustrations de H. Grobet.
Paris: Librairie De Théodore Lefévre et Cie. Emile Guérin, Éditeur, No date [circa 1905]. 72 pages. Illustrated with numerous hand-coloured engravings. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 182 x 120 mm. Corners of boards a little worn; endpapers lightly browned; name on endpaper; else very good.
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Altemus’ Banbury Cross Series. THE WHITE CAT To which is added The Story of Beauty and The Beast. With twenty-eight illustrations.
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1904. 48 pages. With a coloured frontispiece and many black and white illustrations throughout. Original pictorial cloth. 17 x 13.3 cm. Front inner joint cracked; else a very good copy. Necker 2195[14].
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AN ANIMAL RAG BOOK. No 75.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [ between 1907-1912]. Dean’s 1/- Patent Rag Book Series 2. [6] pages. 325 x 166 mm. Small paper file label on upper cover; some darkening on rear cover; else a fine copy from the Dean Archive.
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ANDROMEDARY SR1.
London: Michael Joseph, No date [1970]. Hardcover. Dustwrapper. [26] pages. Illustrated in clour and in black & white by Heinz Edelmann. First edition. A near fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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ANIMAL ANALOGUES. Verses and Illustrations By Robert Williams Wood.
San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder and Company, 1908. 28 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original pictorial two-tone paper-covered boards. 195 x 150 mm. First edition. Neat name ownership inscription on endpaper; else a fine, crisp copy.
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ANIMALS AND THEIR LITTLE ONES. No. 62. Dean’s 2/- Patent Rag Books Series 2.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co, No date [in print 1914-1919]. 14 pages. Illustrated in colour by Stanley Tyreman Berkeley. 217 x 175 mm. A fine copy.
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ANN AT HIGHWOOD HALL. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
London. Cassell, 1964. Hardback in an unclipped dust-wrapper. First edition. One tiny tear in wrapper - not evident without close inspection - else a fine copy.
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ANN AT HIGHWOOD HALL. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
London: Cassell, 1964. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Small chip to top outer corner of dust-wrapper; else near fine.
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ANN IN THE MOON. Story By Frances D. Francis. Pictures By Alan Aldridge.
London: Bancroft, 1970. 62 pages. Original pictorial boards. 248 x 227 mm. First edition. A fine copy.
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Ann’s Book. Illustrated by Jacynth Parsons. The Poems by Karl Parson.
London: The Medici Society, 1929. [viii], 50, [4 ad’s] pages. Illustrated in black & white throughout. Original pictorial cloth gilt; original dust-wrapper. First edition. Wrapper chipped at edges and corners and with loss to head & heel of spine; else a very good, clean copy. ]
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