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1,000 QUAINT CUTS FROM BOOKS OF OTHER DAYS. Including Amusing Illustrations from Children's Story Books, Fables, Chap-books, Etc., Etc., A Selection of Pictorial Initial Letters & Curious Designs & Ornaments from Original Wooden Blocks belonging to The Leadenhall Press
London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, [1886]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 170 pages plus 8 ad's (uncut pages). Black & white illustrations throughout. Blue decorative card covers printed in gilt & black. Measures approximately 24.5 x 19 cm. Re-spined in plain blue paper; Some foxing to endpapers; large bookplate to paste-down front endpaper; cover lightly soiled with slight wear to extremities; rear cover a little marked; else a very good copy.
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A BOOK OF NONSENSE By Derry Down Derry.
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A BOOK OF PLAYS FOR CHILDREN.
London and Glasgow. Blackie & Son Limited. Hardcover with original pictorial dust-wrapper. 48 pages. Frontispiece in full colour by G. W. Goss, and numerous illustrations throughout printed in black and a range of single colours. Grey cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. First edition. 4to. Light spotting to endpapers; two sizeable and two minor tears in dust-wrapper, some of which have been sellotaped; else a very good copy.
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A FATHER'S GIFT to his Children: Being a short view of the Evidences of the Christian Religion. Adapted to the Understandings of Young Persons, and Presented to his own Family, By a Layman. The Fourth Edition.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, No date [circa 1820]. 144 pages. Engraved frontispiece and separate engraved title. Bound in full red morocco, elaborately gilded with a design of vine leaves on both upper and lowers panels, and with further gilt decoration to the spine. All edges gilt. Silk marker. 12mo. Some light rubbing to the spine and to the edges of the binding; else a very handsome copy.
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A NEW YEAR'S GIFT For Little Masters and Misses.
Tokyo: Holp Shuppan, 1981. Hardback. Matching folding box. Printed slipcase. A facsimile edition printed for the Osborne Library.
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AESOP'S FABLES.
Twelve Illustrations with Fables at back. No imprint or date, but English, circa 1880. Printed envelope containing twelve colour-printed pictorial cards, with fable to the verso. Envelope worn, and lacking one flap; cards very good.
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ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel.
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BUBBLE AND SQUEAK. Illustrated by Thomas Maybank. Little Wonder Books (No. 8).
London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd, No date [circa 1924]. Hardcover. Pictorial dust-wrapper. 96 pages. Illustrated with 24 colour plates. Wrapper a little worn at folds and extremities; else an excellent copy.
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CARAVAN TALES And Some Others.
London.Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd. (No Date). [i-iv] v-xvi [1-2] 3- 338pp. plus 6 leaves of advert's. 15 mounted colour illustrations including frontispiece by William Ault; plus black & white portrait of Hauff facing page 10. Original pictorial cloth gilt. t.e.g. Octavo. Cloth a trifle rubbed to extremities. Small inoffensive stain to heel of rear board. Minor wear to extremities. Else an excellent bright copy.
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CLEVER BILL.
William Heinemann Ltd, No date. [1926]. 23 leaves each printed on rectos only with illustrations and text beneath. Original pictorial boards. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial wrapper. First edition. Just a touch of wear at extremities, else a very good copy in a slightly rubbed wrapper that has a few short tears to the edges. Presentation copy from Nicholson, inscribed in the presentation box on the front fixed endpaper: ‘(For) Prudence Maufe For Christmas 1926 (From) William Nicholson.’ This is a scarce book in first edition - considerably more so than The Pirate Twins - and particularly so in wrapper. Presentation copies are rare.
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ENGLISH BATTLEDORE.
Alnwick: W. Davison, No date [circa 1830]. Folded: 130 x 86mm. Open: 130 x 216mm. A nice example of a battledore.
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FAIRY TALES AND TRUE STORIES. The History of Russian literature for children and Young People (1574-2010).
Leiden. Boston. Brill: 2013. xi, [1 blank], 588 pages. Some illustrations. Volume 13 Russian History and Culture. Pictorial glazed boards. First edition. Top outer corner of front board a trifle bumped, else fine.
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HINDU FAIRY TALES Retold for Children.
London.George G. Harrap & Company Ltd. 1919. [i-iv] 5- 186pp. plus 6pp. adverts to rear. 4 colour plates, including frontispiece, by Helen Jacobs. Original green pictorial boards stamped black. Octavo. First Edition. Some light browning to endpapers; small mark on spine; front board a trifle rubbed to bottom corner. Else a bright excellent copy.
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HOLIDAY HOUSE: A Series of Tales. Dedicated to Lady Diana Boyle.
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Japanese Fairy Tale Series. Numbers 1 - 16 bound in four volumes.
London: Griffth Farran & Co, No Date [circa 1895-1900]. The first sixteen titles of this series printed on crepe paper, beginning with MOMOTARO and ending with THE WOODEN BOWL. The set bound in green cloth, gilt. Each endpaper with a gift inscription dated 1902. Front inner joint of volume 1 just cracking; else a very handsome set. The 16 titles are; Momotaro; Tongue Cut Sparrow; Battle of the Monkey and the Crab; The Old Man who made the Dead Trees Blossom; Kach-Kachi Mountain; The Mouses's Wedding; The Old man and the Devils; The Fisher-Boy Urashima; The Serpent with Eight Heads; The Matsuyama Mirror; The Hare of Inaba; The Cub's Triumph; The Silly Jelly-Fish; The Princes Fire-Flash & Fire-Fade; My Lord Bag-O'-Rice; The Wooden Bowl.
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MY OWN BOOK OF PICTURES. Mrs Strang's Play Books. The Unbreakable Books.
Oxford.Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press. Undated. [8]pp. Illustrated in colour throughout by a number of illustrators, including Millicent Sowerby and Anne Andersen. Original pictorial boards. Fore-edges green; spine edges red. 15 x 14.5cms. Board edges a little rubbed; rear board a trifle soiled with some wear to extremities; margins rubbed and marked throughout; else a very good copy.
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MY PICTURE PLAY BOOK. Mrs Strang's Play Books. The Unbreakable Books.
Oxford.Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press. Undated. [8]pp. Illustrated in colour throughout by a number of illustrators including Cecil Aldin and Millicent Sowerby. Original pictorial boards. Fore-edges green; spine edges red. 15 x 14.5cms. Board edges a little rubbed; top corner of front board is a little water-stained; rear board a trifle soiled with some wear to extremities; margins rubbed and marked throughout; small bookseller's label to lower edge of inside front cover; else a very good copy.
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Skelt's Juvenile Drama. JACOB FAITHFUL. A Drama, In Three Acts. written expressly for, and adapted only to Skelt's Characters & Scenes in the same.
London. Printed and Published by M. & M. Skelt, at his wholesale theatrical warehouse, 11, Swan Street, Minories. Sold by all Theatrical Book and Print Sellers in Town and C No date [circa 1840's]. Softcover. Engraved frontispiece and 20 pages. Original printed wrappers. 15. 3 x 9.6 cm's. Wrappers loose; else a very good copy. Circa 1840.
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Skelt's Juvenile Drama. MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN A Drama, In Two Acts. written expressly for, and adapted only to Skelt's Characters & Scenes in the same.
London. Printed and Published by M. & B. Skelt, at his wholesale theatrical warehouse, 11, Swan Street, Minories. Sold by all Theatrical Book and Print Sellers in Town and C No date [circa 1840's]. Softcover. Engraved frontispiece and 18 pages. Original printed wrappers. 15. 3 x 9.6 cm's. Wrappers worn and splitting at spine; else a very good copy. Circa 1840.
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THE DANDY COMIC No. 302 – Sep. 29th, 1945.
London: D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, 1945. Some light wear to spine where disbound from a collection; else an excellent complete copy of this classic comic.
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