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The Water Babies

Kingsley, Charles · 1981

£49.95 (€59.83 | $67.19 | ¥10,615)

Wilcox-Smith, Jessie Hodder and Stoughton Very Good Dark green cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering on covers and spine. Gilt decoration on covers and spine. 18cm x 25cm. 240 pages. Second impression (1981). Cellophane dustwrapper intact, but has chip at top of spine and two s...

Peace on Earth

Watts, Isaac · 1894

£19.95 (€23.89 | $26.83 | ¥4,240)

Brundage, Francis J. Raphael Tuck 1st Very Good Duodecimo. Cream pictorial covers. Illustrated mainly in colour (chromoliths) with small pictures on every page. Part of a competition series, to encourage children and others to compose their own sets of texts. Light fingermarki...

Playtime Funny Book

0

£29.95 (€35.87 | $40.28 | ¥6,365)

Ernest Nister Reading Copy Playtime series. Quarto. Cream pictorial glazed boards. Blue cloth spine. No. 3406. Tipped-in colour frontispiece. Black and white illustrations on every page. Artists include M. Foster, Louis Wain, and P. B. Hickling. 14 pages have attributed drawin...

Louis Wain's Little Soldiers

Crommelin, May · 0

£225.00 (€269.49 | $302.64 | ¥47,817)

Wain, Louis Hutchinson 1st Good Quarto. Beige pictorial glazed boards. Red lettering on covers. Black lettering on spine. 94 pages. 39 illustrations by Louis Wain (red, black and blue) both full page and in the text. The Little Soldiers are cats, the hero of the story is Tommy...

The Child's Picture Grammar

Praeger, S. Rosamund · 1900

£84.95 (€101.75 | $114.26 | ¥18,054)

Praeger, S. Rosamund George Allen 1st Good Quarto. Beige paper-covered boards. Blue cloth spine. Black lettering on covers. 71 pages. The book has been professionally restored, having a new spine and endpapers. Illustrated with black and white line drawings. Nine of the illust...

Important People

Spender, Brenda E. · 1941

£29.95 (€35.87 | $40.28 | ¥6,365)

Dowd, J. H. Country Life Reprint Good Quarto. Beige cloth-covered boards. Dark blue lettering on covers. Dustwrapper repeats cover design. 78 pages. Dustwrapper front flap and vertical strip adjoining it are missing. Remainder of dustwrapper edge chipped and slightly soiled. F...

People of Importance

Spender, Brenda E. · 1943

£24.95 (€29.88 | $33.56 | ¥5,302)

Dowd, James H. Country Life Reprint Very Good Quarto. Grey cloth-covered boards with blue lettering and decoration. Consists of pages of pencil drawings interleaved with short anecdotes of children. Short gift dedication on front endpaper. One or two small marks of the front c...

Bookano Zoo No. 1

Giraud, S. Louis · 0

£49.95 (€59.83 | $67.19 | ¥10,615)

Strand Publications Very Good Pictorial paper-covered boards. 6 stand up pictures of animals. Slight wear to edges of spine and covers. Pop-ups in good condition.

Hans Andersen's Fairy Stories

Andersen, Hans Christian · 0

£44.95 (€53.84 | $60.46 | ¥9,553)

Watts, Eileen M. Strand Publications Reprint Very Good Edited by Louis S. Giraud. Quarto. Brown pictorial paper-covered boards. 17cm x 22cm. Pictorial endpapers. Four colour stand-up models and three colour illustrations. Full-page line drawn illustrations. Line drawn chapter ...

Klein Zaches, genannt Zinnober

Hoffman, Ernst Theodor Amadeus · 0

£29.95 (€35.87 | $40.28 | ¥6,365)

Stubenrauch, Hans Georg Dietrich 2nd Very Good German text. Green boards with red leatherette spine. 24 lithographs. Covers unevenly faded.

The Golden Age

Grahame, Kenneth · 1928

£49.95 (€59.83 | $67.19 | ¥10,615)

Shepard, Ernest Howard Bodley Head 1st Thus Very Good Octavo. Cream pictorial cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering on covers. 166 pages. Book plate on front paste down. Name and address written neatly at top of front endpaper, together with gift dedication. Spine very slightly...

Topo, A Tale about English Children in Italy

Brunefille, G. E. · 1881

£44.95 (€53.84 | $60.46 | ¥9,553)

Greenaway, Kate Marcus Ward Reprint Very Good Pictorial green cloth, decorated in black, and gilt, gilt lettering faded. Sixth thousand, first edition date was 1878. Slight wear to corners and sides of spine. Brown and white frontispiece, highlighted in gilt, forty four black ...

Rip Van Winkle

Irving, Washington · 2000

£9.95 (€11.92 | $13.38 | ¥2,115)

Rackham, Arthur Books of Wonder 1st Thus Very Good Octavo. Pictorial laminated boards. Dustwrapper repeats cover design. Afterword by Peter Glassman. Minor wear to edges of dustwrapper.

Balderdash Ballads

Monsell, J. R. · 1934

£19.95 (€23.89 | $26.83 | ¥4,240)

Monsell, J. R. Heinemann 1st Good Quarto. Pales green boards, dark green lettering. Fourteen rhymes with music. Orange, blue and black illustrations. Dustwrapper heavily chipped and creased with some loss. Book itself close to VG.

The Littlest One

Webb, Marion St John · 1928

£29.95 (€35.87 | $40.28 | ¥6,365)

Tarrant, Margaret W. Harrap 2nd Very Good Music by Ralph Dunstan. Large quarto. Brown paper-covered boards. Brown cloth spine. Large picture onlay front cover. Four colour plates, plus black and white drawings. Corners and edges of covers slightly rubbed. Neat name and address...

The Saracen's Head

Lancaster, Osbert · 1948

£19.95 (€23.89 | $26.83 | ¥4,240)

Lancaster, Osbert John Murray 1st Good Dustwrapper chipped and worn at edges. Two holes in dustwrapper spine. Book itself VG.

The Luck of the Bean-Rows

Nodier, Charles · 0

£7.45 (€8.92 | $10.02 | ¥1,583)

Fraser, Claude Lovat Daniel O'Connor Reading Copy "A fairy tale translated from teh French of Charles Nodier." Yellow paper covers. Spine damaged and partially detached. Covers stained and discoloured and corners chipped. Contents generally good.

Shipwrecks, a 3-dimensional Exploration

Hawcock, David · 1993

£12.45 (€14.91 | $16.75 | ¥2,646)

Walton, Garry Tango Books 1st Very Good Non-fiction. Contains a mixture of pop-up, lift-the-flap and fold-out paper engineering, used to illustrate the text on shipwrecks and their exploration. All pop-ups etc. seem to be in good working order.

The Grey City of the North

King, Jessie Marion · 1925

£49.95 (€59.83 | $67.19 | ¥10,615)

King, Jessie Marion T. H. Foulis 3rd Very Good With dustwrapper. Octavo. 13cm x 21cm. Thin card covers. Light brown wraps. Picture onlay front cover. Twenty-four black and white plates of Edinburgh. Minor wear to covers. Clean and unmarked.

Legends and Stories of Italy

Steedman, Amy · 1909

£39.95 (€47.85 | $53.74 | ¥8,490)

Cameron, Katherine T. C. & E. C. Jack 1st Good Brown paper covered boards titled and decorated in gilt. Green cloth spine. Patterned endpapers, green with gilt crosses and fleur-de-Lys. Twelve tipped-in plates. Boards a little worn and slightly scuffed. Corners bumped. Spine p...