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Stories from Hans Andersen. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.viii; 250 [2]. With 28 colour plates illustrated by Dulac, including a frontispiece. An out-of-series copy numbered 0000, from a series numbered officially at 750 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to the..... More
Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London, George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1932. [Fairy tales] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED deluxe issue. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.288. SIGNED by Rackham to the limitation page. With twelve full-page coloured plates with tissue guards and many full page and in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's gilt-stamped..... More
Five on Kirrin Island Again.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Small Octavo, (20 x 14cm) pp.192. With numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured in red, by Soper. Publisher's red leatherette, with black titles to spine, and blue pictorial endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, showing the telescope..... More
Elves and Fairies of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.
Melbourne and Sydney: The Lothian Book Publishing Coy. Pty. Ltd., 1916. [Children's Verse] FIRST EDITION. Folio (39 x 26cm), pp.[8] 117 [11]. Complete with 15 mounted colour plates with tissue guards, and 30 black and white mounted plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper..... More
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. [Gulliver's Travels].
London: Printed for Benj. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet Street, 1726. [Classic Literature / Satire] FIRST EDITION, Teerink's AA issue. Four parts complete in two volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 148, pp. [6] 164 [2]; pp.[8] 154 [8] 199 [3]. Complete with six engraved plates, and..... More
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).
New York, NY: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, earliest state of the cloth issue, now finely rebound in full green morocco, with the original cloth covers preserved at rear. Large octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.366. Illustrated throughout. Binding features gilt titles, and raised bands to spine..... More
The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour.
London: William Heinemann, 1910. [Norse Saga] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (30 x 24cm). Illustrated with tipped-in colour plates. Publisher's full parchment over boards pictorially blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. A lightly used copy with very gentle spotting, and little marking to covers, silk ties wanting..... More
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