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The Two Jungle Books. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E., and W.H. Drake.
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1932. Thin paper edition in one volume, reset in 1932 (first thus). Colour frontispiece illustration and black and white plates throughout. Publisher's gilt decorated red cloth with pictorial dust-jacket. Ink ownership to half-title, jacket with some chips and tears (one with gummed paper backing). remains..... More
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Stalky and Co. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 9.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1898 to May 1899. [Literary Magazine]. FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.vi; 754. With numerous photogravure illustrations. Contemporary deep burgundy half calf with gilt titles to spine and foliate patterned green cloth over boards. Yellow coated endpapers. Reading lean; preliminaries a little loose..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.306; [4] advertisements dated 15.8.06. Twenty black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar. Elegantly bound in red half morocco over marbled boards, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Internally fine with just..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Company, 1906. [Fantasy tales] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.306. Twenty black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar. Second printing, finely bound in an elegant Edwardian binding of half red calf with gilt-decorated spines, cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Modernist bookplate of Thomae Zamoyski..... More
Stories for My Children.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1884. [Children's Illustrated] DECORATIVE BINDING, a later re-issue. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.iii-xii; 373; [3]. With seven wood engraved plates including a frontispiece, as well as a wood engraved vignette title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration to spine and..... More
Oiling The Wheels.
London: A. White and co., 1957. Quarto. Bound in publisher's pictorial paper boards, showing a mustachioed gentleman with an oil can against a pink background to front board, rear board shows Shell logo and slogan "Leadership in Lubrication". A curious book, illustrated throughout with colour plates by Kneebone. Binding is..... More
Tales From Shakespeare.
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1909. First Rackham Edition, Large 8vo.; pp. 304. Beautifully illustrated throughout with 12 colour plates, one as frontispiece, plus several black and white drawings. Bound in full recent dark blue morocco, titled and decorated in gilt to spine; top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Internally clean..... More
Tales From Shakespeare. [writings/plays including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, etc.]
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1909. First Rackham Illustrated Edition. Quarto, with 12 colour plates and other black and white drawings. Publisher's red cloth with titles and decoration in gilt to spine and upper, top edge gilt, others tinted green, illustrated endpapers, in original dust-wrapper. Book is near fine, jacket..... More
Tales From Shakespeare.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1904]. [Children's literature] ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[viii]; 312; [ii], blank. Red half calf binding and marbled paper lettered in gilt to spine, raised bands to spine with gilt decoration, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Black and white pictorial in-text illustrations. Ownership..... More
The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairy Land.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., no date [1884]. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto 25 x 19cm), pp.56. With engravings after drawings by Doyle to every page, many printed in colour, including the frontispiece and title page vignette. Publisher's illustrated paper covered boards, plain brown cloth spine, illustrated endpapers. Both..... More
The Brown Fairy Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906. [Fairy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv 350; [2], blank. With eight full-page colour plates and numerous engraved illustrations by Ford. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. A moderately..... More
The Lilac Fairy Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910. [Fairy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 369; [1], blank; [2], advertisements. With six full-page colour plates and numerous engraved illustrations by Ford. Publisher's lilac cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, all edges gilt. A moderately..... More
The Orange Fairy Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906. [Fairy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv 358; [2], blank. With eight full-page colour plates and numerous engraved illustrations by Ford. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, all edges gilt. Contents mostly clean, ink..... More
The Red Book of Romance.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905. [Fairy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 372. With eight full-page colour plates and numerous engraved illustrations by Ford. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. Contents clean, ownership to..... More
The Yellow Fairy Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. [Fairy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi 321; [1], blank; [2], advertisements. Illustrated throughout by Ford. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, black endpapers, all edges gilt. Ink name to half title, a few..... More
The Animal Story Book. With Numerous Illustrations by H.J. Ford.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. First Edition. 8vo. Bound in full tan calf by Bayntun of Bath with light brown title label and animals stamped in gilt to centre of compartments; gilt rule to baords, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. Slight rubbing to extremities; some sunning to spine..... More
Little Songs of Long Ago. More Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by H. Willebeek Le Mair.
London: Augener Ltd, c. 1912. Folio. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt titles and pasted down colour illustration to upper board. Corners slightly bumped. Pictorial dustwrapper, bright with small chips and tears to edges. 30 (+2) Beautiful full-page colour illustrations to accompany each song. A very good..... More
Cruisers in the Clouds.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co., Ltd., 1910. Large 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth spine titled in black; pictorial boards with additional illustration pasted down to upper. Frontispiece in colour and numerous black and white illustrations by H.J. Rhodes. Inscription to first blank. Binding rubbed along extremities, corners bumped; age toning..... More
A Book of Nonsense.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863. [Children's Illustrated] FOURTEENTH EDITION. Oblong (15 x 23cm), pp.[4] 112. Printed on the recto of each leaf only. All the original illustrations and verses, plus some new ones. Rebound in the mid twentieth century in brown half cloth with the original yellow illustrated cover..... More
The Magician's Nephew.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1955. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.183. Publisher's green cloth titled in silver gilt to the spine, in pale blue pictorial dust-jacket, originally priced at 8s 6d. Minor edgewear, some discolouration to rear board, top edge dusty. In a very good slightly toned dust-wrapper..... More
The Last Battle. A Story for Children.
London: The Bodley Head, 1956. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.184. Publisher's light blue cloth, titles in silver to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Baynes, who also contributes numerous in-text line drawings. Some spotting to endpapers and preliminaries, textblock generally very clean and bright. Price clipped dust-jacket..... More
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[Original illustrations for] The Woodland Gospels according to Captain Beaky and his Band.
London: Faber and Faber, 1984. [Original illustrations] FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.63; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of $11.95. Eleven original black and white drawings by Graham Percy done in pencil on tracing paper, each loosely held between two sheets..... More
Doctor Dolittle's Caravan.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine and upper, colourful illustrated end papers; a lovely, sound copy, in decorative dustwrapper yellowed to spine and a little frayed to head and foot, bright panels. Illustrated by the Author. A superb copy. More
John Barleycorn.
New York, NY: The Century Co., 1913. FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 343; [3], blank. With eight lithographic plates including a frontispiece. Half black morocco over original gilt titled cloth sides. One of two trivial spots within else a lovely fine copy in an attractive recent leather..... More
Ways of Wood Folk. First Series.
Boston: Ginn and Company, 1902. FINE PRIZE BINDING. Very small quarto, pp.[2] x, 205 [3]. With eight steel engraved plates including a frontispiece, and several futher in-text engravings, by Charles Copeland. In contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label on spine and gilt decoration to..... More