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THE WHITE CAT an old French fairy tale, retold by Robert D. San Souci. Illustrated by Gennady Spirin.
New York: Orchard Books, 1990. [32] pages. Illustrated in colour. Original boards. Original dust-wrapper. 4to. 286 x220 mm. First edition. First issue. A fine copy.
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THE WHITE FOXES OF GORFENLETCH Illustrated by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford.
London.Hollis & Carter. 1954. viii, [1], 2 - 149pp. Illustrated with 14 full-page plates and many illustrations within the text. Original cloth, gilt. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A little faded at head and heel of spine; dust-wrapper chipped and a little soiled; else a very good copy in a good price-clipped wrapper. Signed by the illustrator: 'D. J. Watkins-Pitchford 'BB'.' on the half-title.
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THE WHITE RAT AND HIS FIREMAN. Translated from the French by Ronald S. Kirkman. Illustrated by Francoise Estachy.
London: University of London Press Ltd, 1961. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 144 pages. Octavo. First U.K. edition. Some spotting to wrapper; book slightly cocked; else a very good copy.
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THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS.
London: Methuen, 1971. 262 pages. Coloured illustrations throughout by Ernest Shepard. Original pictorial green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf. 8vo. All edges gilt. In original pale green pictorial slipcase. First edition thus. Limited to 250 signed copies, this is number 112, signed by Shepard on the limitation page. Spine slightly darkened; else a fine copy.
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THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. With a frontispiece by Graham Robertson.
London: Methuen and Co, 1908. First edition. An excellent clean copy finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full morocco with pictorial blocking to the upper cover. All edges gilded. Leather-edged slipcase.
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The Witches. Illustrations by Quentin Blake.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. Hardcover. Pictorial unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Toning to the fore-edges as usual; short tear (5mm) at fold of front wrapper (not noticeable); two small tape marks on the blank verso of the wrapper; else a fine copy.
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THE WOMBLES GO AROUND THE WORLD. Illustrations based on original film puppets designed by Ivor Wood and drawn by Margaret Gordon.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1976. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Name of the children's writer and critic Margery Fisher to endpaper; short tear in front panel of wrapper, without loss; else a very good copy.
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THE WONDER BOOK OF WONDERS. With eight colour plates and nearly 300 illustrations. Edited by Harry Golding. Ninth edition.
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, No date [circa 1934]. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 256 pages. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards showing a diver on the seabed; dust-wrapper with the same design. Dust-wrapper a little worn ;else an excellent copy.
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The Wonderful life & Adventures of TOM THUMB. An English Fairy-story by Paul Britten Austin with Drawings by Mervyn Peake.
Stockholm: Radiotjänst, 1954/1955. Two volumes. Softbacks. 126; 134 pages. Illustrated throughout both volumes in black 7 white. The second volume contains a tipped-in miniature volume, entitled: The Terrible but True History of Blebb and Glugg. Original pictorial stiff wrappers. First editions. A fine set.
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THE WRETCHED STONE. Written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Mint. Signed on the title-page by Chris Van Allsburg.
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THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK. Edited by Andrew Lang.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1942. Hardcover. Pictorial dust-wrapper. 321 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original yellow cloth with embossed pictorial design; gilt to spine. Octavo. Wrapper chipped at head of spine, and with a piece missing from the lower part of the spine; else a very good copy.
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THE ZOO ON SUNDAY.
London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd, 1925. 74 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 255 x 195 mm. First edition. Pasted to the front fixed endpaper in a 18 line typed letter from the author, signed Frank, in ink. ‘To My Dear Peg’ [Peggy Chappe Hall], explaining that the book has been developed from some sketches that he drew for her, and that ‘if it hadn’t been for you, this book would never have been written.’ Boards a little rubbed and worn; else a very good presentation copy of an uncommon title. [15072]
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THE ZOO ON SUNDAY.
London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd, 1925. 74 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 255 x 195 mm. First edition. Boards a little rubbed and worn; else a very good presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ‘With love from Frank, hoping it will amuse you. I got the idea of this book from a man in Rhodesia who had mixed his drinks and declared that he had shot a “Rhinostrich” and a “Hipposoceros”!!’
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THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE. Illustrated by E. Caldwell.
London: Marcus Ward & Co. Limited, No date [circa 1900]. [16] pages, including wrappers. 6 pages of music and words; 6 full-page illustrations, plus one smaller example. Original pictorial card covers. Oblong: 142 x 172 mm. Owner and donor boxes filled in; else a very good copy.
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THESE LITTLE ONES. With Illustrations by Spencer Pryse.
London.George Allen & Sons. 1909. [1-2] 3-210pp. Plus 2pp adverts to rear. 10 Pryse illustrations. Red boards stamped black. Octavo. First cheap edition - probably a remainder binding. Sunday School prize plate to paste down endpaper. Photographic bookplate to front free endpaper. Some browning and spotting to interior and fore-edges. Corners and head and heel a little bumped. Boards a trifle rubbed; else, a very good copy.
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THIRTY OLD-TIME NURSERY RHYMES. Arranaged by Joseph Moorat & Pictured by Paul Woodroffe.
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd, No date [circa 1907]. [8], 33 pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Original dust-wrapper with mounted pictorial paste-down. 4to. Probably the first edition. Tiny tear in wrapper; else a near fine copy.
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THIS YEAR: NEXT YEAR By Walter De La Mare and Harold Jones.
London: Faber & Faber, 1937. First edition. Unpaged. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original pictorial paper-covered boards; original pictorial dust-wrapper [not price-clipped]. Dust-wrapper is chipped at head & heel of spine and corners, and has three short tears, but without loss. Else, a very good copy of Harold Jones’s first book, and arguably his finest work.
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THREE BLIND MICE.
London: Castell Brothers, No date [circa 1900]. [8] pages, including four fine full-colour chromolithograph illustrations. Original pictorial covers. Oblong: 85 x 112 mm. A fine copy of the charming little book.
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THREE BROTHERS and a Lady. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
London: The Acorn Press, 1947. 63 pages. Illustrated in colours. Original pictorial paper-covered boards; original pictorial dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Touch of wear to the top of the wrapper’s spine and corners; light browning to endpapers; else a fine copy without inscriptions.
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THREE JOLLY SAILORS AND ME. Written and Illustrated by Will Owen.
London: T. Nelson and Sons Ltd, No date [1919]. [47] leaves, printed on one side only, including colour title and 22 full-page colour plates. Original green cloth with pictorial pastedown to upper panel. 4to. First edition. Gift inscription on front endpaper; light browning of endpapers; else a very good copy.
More details Price: £100.00