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TOM’S MIDNIGHT GARDEN. Illustrated by Susan Einzig.
London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Hardback. First edition. No dust-wrapper. Spine, corners and edges rubbed and worn, but internally clean, without marking and just a small ownership surname on front endpaper.
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TOODLES A magic Action Story.
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1936. Softcover. Three double-page full-colour pop-ups. Little won at heel of spine; else very good. .
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TOPSY IN TOYLAND. Illustrated by M. York Shuter.
London: Sands & Co, No date [1904]. 96 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original pictorial red cloth decorated in white. 104 x 68 mm. First edition. A very good copy. One of five titles issued in The Piccaninnies Picture Book Series. Very scarce.
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TOPSY TABBIKINS.
New York: The Saalfield Publishing Co. 1927. A die-cut shape book in the form of cat. [16] pages. Original pictorial covers. 27 x 24 cm. Little worn at spine with some paper loss; old crease-mark to top outer corner of front cover; else a good clean copy.
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TOPSY-TURVY LAND. By May Byron. Illustrated by Rosa C. Petherick.
London: Humphrey Milford, No date [1908]. [50] leaves. Coloured title and 24 coloured illustrations, plus many black & white vignettes. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Binding: 11.8 x 9.8 cm. A fine copy.
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TORTOISE AND TURTLE Drawings by Hilary Knight.
New York.Simon and Schuster. 1960. Not paged. [63pp]. Illustrated in black & white throughout. Green calf gilt. Green marbled endpapers. t.e.g. Quarto. First Edition. Specially bound presentation copy from publisher to Author inscribed; 'December 16, 1960 To dear Evelyn - With love and pride from her publisher and friend - Bob'. Rebacked; some wear to extremities of boards. Else a very good copy.
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TOY ANIMAL A.B.C. No 212. Dean’s 1/- Patent Rag Book Series 2.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co. Ltd, No date [1919]. A reissue of Number 166, but with a new cover design. 10 pages. Illustrations by Stavert Johnstone Cash. 182 x 160 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive with the original advert slip loosely laid in.
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TOY ANIMAL A.B.C. No 212. Dean’s Rag Books.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [circa 1919]. [10] pages. 182 x 161 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive. This title is a reissue of No. 166., but with a new cover design.
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TOYS. Rhymes by Cyril W. Beaumont. Decorations by Eileen Mayo.
London: C. W. Beaumont, 1930. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Octavo. 48, [1], [1 ad'] pages. Illustrated in colour and in line throughout. First edition. Cloth covers have some light patching; else an excellent copy in a fine wrapper. A delightful alphabet.
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TOYS. Rhymes by Cyril W. Beaumont. Decorations by Eileen Mayo.
London: C. W. Beaumont, 1930. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Octavo. 48, [1], [1 ad'] pages. Illustrated in colour and in line throughout. First edition. Cloth covers have some light patching; else an excellent copy in a fine wrapper. A delightful alphabet.
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TRAINS. Dean’s 2/- Patent Rag Book Series 3. Number 61.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [1928-1931]. 14 pages. Illustrated in colour by Charles Kingsley Cook. 208 x 177 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive. See Cope, page 68.
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TREASURE ISLAND. Illustrated by Rowland Hilder.
London: Humphrey Milford, 1929. 260 pages. Illustrated with 12 colour plates and some black & white vignettes by Rowland Hilder, and a map. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Top edge gilt. Original dust-wrapper and slipcase. Dust-wrapper has a couple of short tears in the lower panel; the slipcase is bumped and splitting, but complete. The book itself is near fine.
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TRICKS OF NAUGHTY BOYS. A Series of Amusing Transformation Scenes.
London: H. Grevel & Co, No date [1900]. [10] pages of letterpress, many with black & white illustrations, and six color moveable full-page plates operated by tabs. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 355 x 255 mm. Some light spotting and smiling; tear to the first moveable plate adjacent to the pull tab, and two short closed tears to the fore-edge; neat name on front pastedown; covers a little worn at corners and lightly spoiled; else a very good copy of one of the scarcer titles.
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TRUFFLE EATER. By Oistros. Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures.
London: Arthur Barker, Ltd, No date. (1933). 19 leaves printed on one side only. Illustrated with a vignette to title, and numerous illustrations throughout in line by Archibald Louis Charles Savory. Original pale yellow boards; pictorial upper cover illustrated in brown with blue lettering. Large 8vo. First edition. Covers a little dust-soiled; head & heel of spine a little worn; else a very good and important copy of this anti-Nazi Struwwelpeter parody. Savoury also illustrated another book by Humbert Wolfe, called Stings and Wings, published in 1935, and wrote and illustrated a book entirely of his own creation, entitled, 'The Brighter Side of Cricket, in 1933. Baumgartner II.18.
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TRUFFLE EATER. By Oistros. Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures.
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Tsarevna Lyagushka. [The Frog Princess.]
The Department for the Production of State Documents, St. Petersburg. Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1901. 12 pages, illustrated in chromolithography, with eight illustrations (two full-page) by Ivan Bilibin, decorative borders printed in brown, and a line illustration on last page. Original pictorial wrappers. 326 x 257 mm. First edition. Some wear to spine, with slight loss of paper and a short split at foot. Internally fine, with no offsetting or adhesion. A very good copy.
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TULIFÄNTCHEN DER ZWERGHELD. Adapted by Eva von Eckardt. Illustrated by Elsa Eisgruber.
Leipzig: Ernst Wunderlich, No date [1936]. 23 pages of text, and 4 full-page coloured lithographs, plus many line drawings with the text. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong: 238 x 3022 mm. First edition. Very slight rubbing to boards; else a fine copy of a beautifully illustrated book.
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TURN AGAIN TALES By Laurence Houseman.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, No date [circa 1931]. [8], 280 pages. Illustrated with six mounted colour plates and numerous line drawings. Original grey cloth with a mounted colour pastedown to the upper panel. Quarto. Edition unknown, but probably a first. A fine copy.
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TWELVE CATS For Christmas.
London: Pelham Books, 1982. Hardback. First edition. Just a touch of wear to corners; else a very good copy. Signed dated [82] on tile by Martin Leman.
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UN INCORRIGIBLE MINET.
Paris: Hachette et Cie, No date [1904-10]. 24 pages illustrated by Alice Hanslip. 115 x 78 mm. A French issue of A Naughty Pussie. Dean’s 1/- Patent Rag Books Dwarf Series. Some spotting to covers, else an excellent copy of a very scarce title; this copy from the Dean archive with its loosely laid in advert’ slip still present.
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