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  • YINKA-TU THE YAK. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. by LIDE, Alice Alison.
    LIDE, Alice Alison.
    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. by DUNBAR, Jennie.
    DUNBAR, Jennie.
    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. by REY, H. A. [Hans Augusto Reyersbach]
    REY, H. A. [Hans Augusto Reyersbach]
    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.] by BILIBIN, Ivan.
    BILIBIN, Ivan.
    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.] by BILIBIN, Ivan.
    BILIBIN, Ivan.
    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. by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian.
    ANDERSEN, Hans Christian.
    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. by ABRAHAM, Michael.
    ABRAHAM, Michael.
    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.

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