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THE END OF ELFINTOWN. By Jane Barlow. Illustrated by Laurence Housman.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1894. [iv], 77, [1] pages. Illustrated in black in black and white. Original elaborately decorated cloth gilt. All edges gilt. 183 x 130 mm. First edition. Spine slightly rubbed and faded, and lightly worn at head & heel; remains of a small bookseller’s catalogue description pasted to front pastedown; else a very good copy.
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THE GENTLE CRY.
San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1971. Illustrated with four lithographs by Pamela Djerassi. Number 135 of a limited edition of 200 copies. Inscribed on title: ‘For Sir Robert – on the occasion of his birthday, with all good wishes from the writer, Norma. September 13, 1972. Loosely laid in is the Errata which has been added to in biro by the author; also a small birthday card to ‘Sir Robert’ from the ‘Carl & Norma.’ Plain wrapper a little worn, and frayed at bottom edge; else fine.
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THE LIBRARY. With Drawings in black and white by E. J. I. Ardizzone. The Saint George Series.
London: The De La More Press, 1930. 31 pages. Illustrated with a vignette on title and 11 other vignettes within the text. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 194 x 135 mm. First edition, first issue. Inscription on end-paper; else a very good copy. Alderson 2.
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THE SEA KING’S DAUGHTER and other poems by Amy Mack, decorated with designs by Bernard Sleigh engraved by the designer L.A. Talbot.
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THE SENSITIVE PLANT. With an introduction by Edmund Gosse.
London: Heinemann, No date. (1911). 128 pages. Illustrated with pictorial end papers, decorative half-title and title-page, 18 tipped-in colour plates, and other illustrations by Charles Robinson. Original cream vellum with pictorial spine and upper cover blocked and lettered gilt. Top edge gilt. Quarto. First de-luxe edition. Slight soiling to cover edges; else an excellent copy.
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THE SHEPHEARD’S CALENDAR: Twelve Aeglogues proportionable to the Twelve Monethes. Entitled to the noble and virtuous Gent: Leman most worthy of all titles both of learning & chivalry Maister Philip Sidney. By Edmund Spenser. Newly adorned with twelve pictures and other devices by Walter Crane.
London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. xxiii, [1], 118, [1] pages. Illustrated in black & white. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Quarto. First edition. Untrimmed fore-edges browned; else a fine copy in a fresh bright binding.
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THE STORY OF DAVID reprinted from the authorised version with 11 wood-engravings by John Farleigh.
London: A & C Black, 1934. 10 pages. Original cloth; original pictorial dust-wrapper – not price-clipped. Octavo. First edition. A very good copy.
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THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS [Correspondence]. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
London: Doubleday, 1998. Hardback; dust-wrapper, not price-clipped. First edition. A fine/mint copy, signed by Quentin Blake on the front free endpaper.
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THE TWELVE MONETHS AND CHRISTMAS DAY FROM ‘FANTASTICKES’ by Nicolas Breton.
New York: Clarke & Way, 1951. Designs by Bruce Rogers. Original pictorial buckram; red card slipcase. First edition, one of a thousand copies. Slipcase worn, with a small piece missing from the spine; else fine.
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THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS AND OTHER TALES by Richard Garnett. With an introduction by T. E. Lawrence. Illustrated by Henry Keen.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1924. xviii, [2], 279. [1], 1 ad’] pages. Frontispiece, endpapers, illustrations and 28 engraved plates by Henry Keen. Original pictorial cloth gilt; original dust-wrapper. Octavo. First illustrated edition. Small piece cut from the front flap of the dust-wrapper, presumably to remove a name; tiny chip at head of dust-wrapper spine; else a near fine copy.
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THE WORLD OF THE DARK CRYSTAL.
London: Mitchell Beazley, 1983. 128 pages. Illustrated in colour. Hardback. Pictorial dust-wrapper. First U. K. edition. Folio. An excellent copy with no inscriptions or marks, etc.
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THE WRECK OF THE SERICA. A narrative of 1868 by Thomas Cubbin, Master, with wood engravings by John Worsley.
Now published by The Dropmore Press, 1950. Number 13 of 30 copies specially bound and signed by the writer of the introduction and by the Artist. Bound in full blue niger morocco. Top edge gilt. Quarto. Original dust-wrapper. Wrapper has small loss at head and heel; else this copy is in pristine condition.
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To Sicily with Edward Bawden with an Introduction by Olive Cook and drawings of Sicily by Edward Bawden, Walter Hoyle, and Edwin Smith.
Church Hanborough: The Previous Parrot Press, 1998. Number 165 of 350 copies signed by both Walter Hoyle and Olive Cook. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; slipcase. A fine copy. Loosely laid are two four-page promotional announcements for books by Bawden.
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UNE JOURNEE D'ENFANT Compositions Inédites par Adrien Marie. Vingt Planches en Héliogravure de Dujardin.
Paris: Librairie Artistique - H. Laundette, Editeur, 1883. [88] pages, including 20 pages of plates, printed on thicker paper then the text. Original decorative cloth gilt, with a mounted pictorial pastedown to the upper panel. Folio. Spine worn at heel; small stain to upper cover; else a very good, clean, copy, the plates fresh and without foxing.
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WOODLAND GOSSIP. Being a free and easy translation from the German. Illustrated by Frederick Leighton, Esq. A.B.A., The Lady Marion Alford, The Hon. Mrs. Richard Boyle, and The Rev. Spencer Cautley.
London: Thomas McLean, 1864. [iv], [1], 2-74pp. Illustrated with 6 mounted sepia photographs, including frontispiece, after illustrations by the named artists, including three by Eleanor Vere Boyle (E.V.B.). Original decorative cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Small octavo. First edition. Extremities a trifle rubbed; head of spine a little worn; armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper; else a very good copy. See IBIS Journal 2; No. 7; page 29.
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Ye Comical Rhymes of Ancient Times Dug up into Jokes For Small Folks By C.H.R.
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