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YINKA-TU THE YAK. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 63 pages. Illustrated in colour. Original pictorial paper-covered boards.; pictorial dust-wrapper. 4to. First edition. Small rub on endpaper from price sticker on wrapper; some very light wear to wrapper and boards; else an excellent copy.
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YOUNG HOPEFUL. With illustrations by Charles Robinson R. I.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1932. 78 pages. Illustrated with numerous line drawings. Original pictorial blue cloth with black decoration and lettering. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Later Signature and date to endpaper; else an outstanding copy.
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ZEBROLOGY.
London: Chatto & Windus, No date [1938]. [8] pages, each bearing a coloured illustration [ no text, being a wordless story]. Original card covers, the upper pictorial, secured with a red string tie at the spine. Oblong; 17.8 x 23 cm. Contained in the original pictorial envelope. First edition, third impression. Envelope a little worn & torn & lacking flap; else a fine copy. This is the first occasion we have seen a copy with its original envelope. From the library of the illustrator Enix Marx.
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Zhar-ptitsa i seryy volk. [The Tale of Tsarevich Ivan, The Fire-Bird and Grey Wolf.]
The Department for the Production of State Documents, St. Petersburg. Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1901. 12 pages, illustrated in chromolithography, with eight illustrations (three full-page) by Ivan Bilibin, and decorative borders printed in brown. Original pictorial wrappers. 326 x 257 mm. First edition. Some wear to spine. Internally fine, with no offsetting or adhesion. A very good copy.
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Zhar-ptitsa i seryy volk. [The Tale of Tsarevich Ivan, The Fire-Bird and Grey Wolf.]
St. Petersburg: The Department for the Production of State Documents, St, Petersburg. Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1901. 12 pages, illustrated in chromolithography, with eight illustrations (three full-page) by Ivan Bilibin, and decorative borders printed in brown. Original pictorial wrappers. 326 x 257 mm. First edition. Spine has been neatly repaired. Inscription in Russian, dated 1917 on verso of front cover. Internally fine, with no offsetting or adhesion. A very good copy.
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ZWOLF MIT FER POST. Ein Neujahrsmarchen. Mit 12 farbigen bildern nach Originalen von Professor Berthold Loffler und einer kalendarium fur das jahr 1920.
Wien: Anton Schroll & Co, No date [1919]. [28] pages. Illustrated with 12 colour plates by the celebrated Jugendstil illustrato,r Berthold Loffler. Pictorial paper covered boards. 108 x 95 mm. Inscription on blank verso of title dated 1919. A fine copy of this illustrated calendar for the young.
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לילדינו Neue Hebräische Lesefibel von Michael Abraham. Illustriert von Oscar Haberer, Berlin.
Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann Verlag, 1928. 39 pages. Illustrated throughout. Loosely laid in two-page Foreword in German. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 240 x 190 mm. First edition. Three of the line drawings have been carefully coloured by a former owner, the ‘forword’ leaf is a little creased and worn; else a very good copy of this scarce Hebrew primer.
More details Price: £250.00