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UNE POULE SUR UN MUR. No. 5. Editions des artists [Georges Houyoux]. Collections “Pomme D’Api”.
Printed in Belgium: No date, but between 1941 and 1946. Text by Rene Meurant, illustrations by Elisabeth Ivanovsky. [12] pages including outer wrappers. 82 x 65 mm. A very good copy from this series of 24 titles.
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Unterm Tisch und auf der Schaukel. Mit Bildern von Hildegard Weinitschke.
Potsdam: Muller & Kiepenheuer, 1929. [15] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 282 x 232 mm. First edition. A very good copy.
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London: Humphrey Milford, No date [1922]. 44 pages. With 6 full-page coloured plates, and black & white illustrations. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Quarto: 265 x 232 mm. First edition. Covers lightly marked; else a very good, clean copy.
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Vasilisa Prekrasnaia [Vasilisa the Beautiful].
The Department for the Production of State Documents, St. Petersburg. Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1902. 12 pages8 chromolithographs in text (4 full-page). Original pictorial wrappers. 326 x 257 mm. First edition. Some wear to spine with the heel splitting. Internally fine, with no offsetting or adhesion. A very good copy.
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VELVET PAWS. English Version by Mary Lee Theobald.
New York: Ars Edition, 1981. [18] pages. Illustrated with 8 colour illustrations and some in black & white within the text. Original pictorial boards. 148 x 120 mm. First edition. A fine copy. .
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VERDERE VERHAALTJES VAN MILLY-MOLLY MANDY.
Amersfoort.P. Dz. Veen. [1936]. [i-vi], 7-99pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. Original pictorial boards, and pictorial dust wrapper. Authors' own copy, containing publisher's invitation to book reading by author. Some browning to endpapers; else an excellent bright copy of a very scarce book.
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VICTORIA AND THE GOLDEN BIRD.
London & Glasgow: Blackie and Son Limited. [Chandos Place address.], No date [1948]. [30] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Original dust-wrapper with ‘5/-‘ price on flap. Quarto. First edition. Dust-wrapper chipped at head; very light spotting to paste-downs and title; else an excellent copy of this scarce title.
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Walt Disney's COLOURING FUN BOOK.
London: Paulton & Purnell, 1974. 16 pages of puzzles and outline illustrations ready for colouring. Original coloured wrappers. 27.5 x 20 cm. Publisher's file copy, with a stamp on the title. Paper browning; else very good.
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Walt Disney's DAISY DUCK Painting Book. Pictures by The Walt Disney Studio adapted by Dick Moore.
London: Birn Brothers Ltd, Circa 1959. Softcover. 24 pages. Illustrated in line throughout. The verso of the front cover and the recto of the rear, have cut-out designs of Daisy Duck and her birthday cake. Original pictorial wrappers. 27.7 x 21.2 cm. A fine copy.
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Walt Disney's DISNEYLAND Colouring Book.
London: Dean & Son Ltd, No date [copyright 1955]. Softcover. 48 pages of line illustrations, featuring the entire cast of Disney's cartoon characters. Original full-colour pictorial wrappers. 4to. 28.3 x 21 cm. A fine copy.
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Walt Disney's MINNIE MOUSE Painting Book. Pictures by The Walt Disney Studio adapted by Bob Grant.
London: Birn Brothers Ltd, Circa 1959. Softcover. 24 pages. Illustrated in line throughout. The verso of the front cover and the recto of the rear, have cut-out designs. Original pictorial wrappers. 27.7 x 21.2 cm. Tiny tear in fore-edge of front wrapper; else a fine copy.
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Walt Disney's PINOCCHIO Painting Book. Pictures by The Walt Disney Studio adapted by Bob Grant.
London: Birn Brothers Ltd, Circa 1959. Softcover. 24 pages. Illustrated in line throughout. The verso of the front cover and the recto of the rear, have cut-out designs. Original pictorial wrappers. 27.7 x 21.2 cm. A fine copy.
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Walt Disney’s SNOW WHITE and the Seven Dwarfs Adapted from Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
Collins: London and Glasgow, No date [1938]. 79 [80] pages. Illustrated in colour and in black & white throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 325 x 250mm. First edition. Boards very lightly marked; small rub on rear panel; lacks the dust-wrapper; else a very good copy.
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WATTY: a White Puppy. By Mrs. Ernest Ames, Author of “Little Red Fox,” etc., etc.
London: Duckworth & Co, No date [1913]. [28] pages. Illustrated with 12 full-page coloured plates. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 210 x 212 mm. First edition. Boards a little marked – particularly the rear board; else very good. A scarce title .
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WE ARE ALL IN THE DUMPS.
Harper Collins, 1993. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Signed by Sendak on a Sendak designed pictorial bookplate to the front fixed endpaper. A fine copy. Loosely laid in are two pieces of Sendak ephemera; one a flier for a talk by Sendak about the book, the other advertising the Night Kitchen, a Theater company.
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WE ARE ALL IN THE DUMPS WITH JACK AND GUY. Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures.
Michael di Capua Books, 1993. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First U. S. edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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WHAT IS IT? Dean’s 1/- Patent Rag Book Series 2. Number 319.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co. Ltd, No date [1907 – 1916]. 10 pages. Illustrated in colour by Sylvia Pay. 212 x 150 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive. See Cope, Page 112.
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WHAT IS THE TIME?
Dundee: London: Montreal: Valentine & Sons, Ltd, No date [circa 1920]. [16] pages, each illustrated. Original full color pictorial covers, with a clock sporting metal hands. 24 x 24 cm. One leaf loosening from staples; little worn at spine; else very good. A scarce ‘toy’ book.
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WHAT IS THIS? WHAT IS THAT?
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [between 1903 -1921, this copy probably circa 1919]. Dean’s 1/- Patent Rag Book Series 2. Number 2. [12] pages illustrated in colour by Vernon Edward Barrett. Oblong: 150 x 226 mm. A near fine copy from the Dean archive of a rare, early rag book, complete with the original paper advert’ slip still loosely laid in. See Cope Page 60.
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WHAT IS THIS? WHAT IS THAT? Dean’s 1/- Patent Rag Book Series 2. [Reissue of Number 2.]
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co. Ltd, No date [1922 - 1933]. 10 pages. Illustrated in colour. Cover by Helen C. Grace Marsh Lambert. 212 x 152 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive. This title was first issued in 1903.
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