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The Wind in the Willows.
New York, NY: The Heritage Press, 1940. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM TRADE EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xiv, 190 [2]. With colour plates illustrated by Rackham, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with Toad dressed as a washerwomen stamped in gilt to upper, and gilt titles to spine. All edges..... More
A Dish of Apples. With illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1921]. [Orchard Poetry] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first impression. Square octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.75 [3]. With 3 tipped-in colour illustrations with tissue guards, and 7 full-page black and white illustrations, all by Rackham. Publisher's lilac cloth, with brown titles to spine and upper..... More
Peer Gynt, A Dramatic Poem by Henrik Ibsen Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George G. Harrap, 1936. [Illustrated Drama] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first impression. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. With 12 colour illustrations by Rackham, including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text vignettes. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge brown, with illustrated..... More
Grimm's Fairy Tales.
London: William Heinemann, no date [1925]. [Children's Illustrated] RACKHAM-ILLUSTRATED EDITION, Second Thus. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.xvi; 326 [2]. With 40 chromolithographic plates and 55 in-text wood engravings. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt title to spine and upper board. Top edge pink. Minor spotting to edges and first and final..... More
The Wind in the Willows. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Introduction by A.A. Milne.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1950. [Children's classic] FIRST UK RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 178 [2]. Beautifully illustrated by Rackham with 12 full colour plates, including a frontispiece, plus several line drawings. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine; top edge green. With..... More
The Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-Bags, and Other Lectures.
London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1857. [Americana] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xxii [2] 244 [4]. With a full-page pen and ink illustration preceding each section, and a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author. Advertisements to rear. Publisher's green cloth, blocked in blind and gilt designs, titles..... More
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, without 'Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit' to the title page, and with the date to the title page. Sexto-Decimo (14 x 11cm), pp.86, beautifully illustrated with 27 colour plates, illustrated endpapers (Quinby's type I/plate I). Publisher's dark grey-green..... More
The Tailor of Gloucester.
London: Frederick Warne, 1903. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo (15 x 11cm), pp.86. Illustrated with twenty-seven coloured plates, illustrated endpapers [double end-paper repeated twice, indicating second printing]. Publisher's maroon paper over boards, with white titles to spine and upper, and a colour illustration laid onto upper. Contents generally clean, vintage..... More
The Leather-Stocking Tales [The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans; The Pathfinder; The Pioneers; The Prairie].
London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901. [American Literature] FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 18cm). Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Elegantly hand-bound in traditional half tan calf with twin labels, gilt, raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
![Item #76350 The First Men In the Moon [in] The Strand Magazine. Vol XX-XXI July 1900 -June 1901....](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/76350.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1790613701)
The First Men In the Moon [in] The Strand Magazine. Vol XX-XXI July 1900 -June 1901.
London: George Newnes, 1900, 1901. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 27cm). With frequent black and white illustrations. Bound in publisher's light blue pictoral cloth, decorated in black and gilt, edge speckled. Contents a little toned as expected, endpapers browned else clean, covers lightly worn, vol.XXI a...... More
Painting Antiquity. Ancient Egypt in the Art of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Edward Poynter and Edwin Long.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. [Art History] FIRST US EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xxvi; 596 [2]. Heavily illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's black paper over boards with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Light general wear and handling. Near fine..... More
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908. [Psychological thriller] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.312. Illustrated with seven full-page wood engravings by Eugene Dété from drawings by Paul Thiriat of Paris, with titled tissue guards (tanned). The publisher's note on the illustrations is tipped onto the half title (although dated 1908..... More
Theodori Kerckringii Doctoris Medici Commentarius in Currum Triumphalem Antimonii Basilii Valentini, à se Latinitate Donatum.
Amstelodami: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, MDCLXXI [1671]. [Alchemy/Medicine] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.[22] 342 [18]. With an engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette, and five full-page engraved plates. Contemporary full limp vellum, titled in black ink to spine. Edges speckled red. Gently toned throughout, largely clean but for some minor marking/soiling..... More
The Time Machine.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1964. [Science Fiction] SIGNED COLLECTOR'S EDITION. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xii; 98 [2]. With six colour plates, and numerous in-text illustrations by Mugnaini throughout the text. SIGNED by the Science-Fiction author and writer of the introduction BRIAN ALDISS in black ink to a publisher's bookplate..... More
The Midnight Kittens.
London: A Longbow Children's Book from W.H. Allen, 1978. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[8] 119 [1]. With 35 black and white in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by the Grahame Johnstones priced at £3.25 to front flap. Light..... 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 blue ribbed cloth with black titles to spine, and blue pictorial endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, showing the..... More
Five On A Secret Trail. Illustrations by Eileen Soper.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1956. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Small Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.182 [2]. With numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured in red or blue, by Soper. Publisher's red cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour..... More
Five Go to Billycock Hill.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1957. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Small Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.182 [2]. With numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured in red or blue, by Soper. Publisher's red cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour..... More
Secret Seven Mystery. Illustrated by Burgess Sharrocks.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1957. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.120. With frequent in-text dichromatic illustrations by Sharrocks. Publisher's blue cloth titled and illustrated in a darker blue, with illustrated endpapers. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Pencil ownership to half-title. Light spotting to edges..... More
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