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Ainslie, Kathleen At Great-Aunt Martha's
London Castell Brothers Ltd. 1905 First edition Hardcover Very Good + good Jacket Kathleen Ainslee
Charmingly illustrated and very rare original edition. Beautifully presented with a full page illustration opposite a page of hand scribed text, with 16 full page chromolithographs in total. The naively drawn figures are full of character and quite humourous. Ainslie's illustrations of these brightly coloured Dutch peg doll characters have taken their influence from Florence Upton's Dutch Doll book, which pre-dated this work by 10 years. 34 pp. 15x23 cm. There is some loss to the rear corners of the dust jacket with chips to the edges. There are some mild streaks to the off white lower board. The illustrative end papers have been coloured in. The interior of the book is really very good - clean, bright and very fresh.
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175.00 GBP
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Ames, Mrs. Ernest [Mary Frances Ames] Tim and the Dusty Man
London Grant Richards [1903] First edition Hardcover Good Mary Frances Ames
This rare title is a fabulously illustrated children's book that features 24 large format full page chromolithograph illustrations. The illustratiion style is bold, bright and humorous and ever so slightly bizarre at times. The story follows the Dusty Man [who is slightly reminiscent of santa claus] who, with his magical powers, takes a little boy called Tim around the world during the night to visit some very strange places and even stranger characters. Grant Richards published some very nice children's books that often bucked the Nister sugar sweet trend of the Victorian era. 51pp. 24x31 cm. Paper covered illustrated boards with red cloth backstrip. The paper cover to the upper board is chipped around the edges and is lifting in places. Backstrip bumped. Lower board marked. Personal inscription on ffep. Very occasional minor brownspot inside.
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125.00 GBP
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Anderson, Anne The Dandy Andy Book
[London] Nelson [1913] Hardcover Good Anne Anderson
Contains 12 colour plates [including frontispiece] all illustrated by Anne Anderson in her charming and idyllic style with Art Nouveau influences. Opposite each plate there is a poem, generally about an outdoor activity, such as bathing, picking roses, fishing, a picnic and so on. Each poem is presented with a decorative border. The book is arranged with each poem having a plate facing it, with double blank pages between them. The paper is a nice quality, slightly glossy. The cover has a 13 th illustration pasted down on the beige coloured cloth. This was one of a series of books by Nelson that were mainly illustrated by Anne Anderson and all have the same type of cover. The other titles include The Rosie Posie Book, The Gillyflower Garden Book, The Matilda Book and The Little Busy Bee Book. 23.5x18 cm. Beige cloth covered boards with colour pictorial paste down to upper board surrounded with a tan coloured border and tan coloured titling. Boards are slightly bowed. Corners, top/tail of spine worn. Grubbiness to boards and spine sunned. Name inscription on ffep.
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75.00 GBP
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BB / Watkins-Pitchford The Wind in the Wood
London Hollis & Carter Ltd. 1952 First edition Hardcover Very Good D. J. [Denys James] Watkins-Pitchford
Contains 12 colour plates [collated] and a selection of short stories and classic fairy tales from different origins [Andersen, Perrault, Ransome, Graham and so on]. BB and Watkins-Pitchford are one and the same person - his own name was used for his illustrations and the pseudonym BB was used for his writing. An author of books for children and adults, Watkins-Pitchford won the Carnegie Medal in 1942, and is a very accomplished FRSA artist and illustrator. Well known for his scraperboard technique illustrations he was also influenced by Rackham, which is quite evident in the illustrations in this particular book. Listed in Horne [reference information]. Pale blue cloth covered boards with silver gilt titling to upper board and backstrip. Black and yellow scraperboard title page. 12 colour plates with decorative chapter head and tail pieces. 25x19cm. 143pp. Corners and top/tail backstrip bumped. Edges rubbed. Backstrip sunned. School name stamp [x3] on front paste down and ffep.
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75.00 GBP
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Bingham, C., Nesbit, E. et al Pretty Polly, A Novel Panorama Picture Book
London Ernest Nister 1897 First edition Hardcover Very Good Helen Maguire, E. S. Hardy et al
Contains 4 double page chromolithograph pop-ups, each with three levels, together with a selection of short fairy stories and poems, all illustrated with sepia line drawings. This is the usual superb Nister quality printing from Bavaria, Germany. The pop-ups show [1] cats in and around Polly Parrot's cage, [2] Cinderella's carriage, [3] children and their dogs playing in the water at the sea side, [4] a group of children, watched by their dog and cat, playing Oranges and Lemons. Rather oddly the title page states that there is an Introduction by F. E. Weatherly, however this is incorrect, there is no introduction and the first entry is by L.L. Weedon. Hunt p. 296/331. Montanaro p. 252. [28pp] 245x200mm. Pictorial paper covered boards over red cloth backstrip. Corners worn. Original, intact, end papers. Closed, 2cm tear to page edge. Tan and mild spotting to some page edges. Pop-ups all complete, working and undamaged.
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475.00 GBP
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Bird, Maria The Flowerpot Men, Jump-up Book Pop-up from the t.v. Watch with Mother programme
Paulton and London Publicity Products [1955] Hardcover Good Matvyn Wright
Contains five simple pop-ups of Bill and Ben, including of course little Weed! Taken from the 1950's BBC television series - Watch with Mother, which was also co-written by Maria Bird who created many well known childhood characters from that era - such as Andy Pandy, the Woodentops etc. Colour laminated boards. 27 x 21 cm [oblong]. 18pp. Corners bumped / worn. Backstrip is split and repaired but with a two inch piece missing. Some pop-ups have been re-inforced from behind and all are complete and work fine. A cute book from an innocent era!
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55.00 GBP
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Bone, Gertrude; illustrated by Stephen Bone The Furrowed Earth
London Chatto & Windus 1921 First edition Hardcover Very Good + good + Jacket Stephen Bone
Very nicely presented volume of poetry and wood-cut illustrations along a country side / nature theme from this mother and son combination. 25 poems. 9 wood-cuts presented as plates. 4 pages still uncut. Stephen was a very accomplished book illustrator who concentrated on wood cuts and engravings, for which he won the Gold Medal at the Paris International Exhibition in 1925. Later on he also collaborated with his wife, Mary Adshead, on a number of children's books. [Horne p.110] DJ not price clipped and now in loose archival quality cover. Brown cloth boards with pastedown title to backstrip [spare title also within book]. 38 pp. 208x163 mm. Small chip to top/tail spine area and top of front flap fold of dj and split along rear flap fold. Slight age related tanning to dj. Book: corners, top/tail of backstrip slightly rubbed. Age tanning to both free end papers [where dj flap lay]. Personal collection pastedown label to front pastedown.
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35.00 GBP
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Burton, Sir Richard and Arbuthnot, F.F. [translations] The Kama Sutra in Pop-up
London Collins and Brown 2003 Hardcover Fine paper engineering by Keith Finch
Contains six reasonably complex pop-ups with moveable elements by Keith Finch. Fully illustrated throughout. I suppose if there is a topic that is suitable for pop-up interpretation it is the Kama Sutra. There is a shortened version of the Kama Sutra text and original, adapted, illustrations are used. Illustrated paper covered boards. 48 pp. 27x27 cm. Please note that, in my opinion, this not suitable for children.
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25.00 GBP
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Chapin, Anna Alice / illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith The Everyday Fairy Book
London George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. [1917] Hardcover Very Good
Large format book with 7 [collated] colour plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. A single story over 16 chapters with poems presented in between each chapter. 159pp plus adverts. 29x22 cm. Olive green paper covered covered boards with colour illustration paste down to upper board and olive green cloth backstrip with black titling. Plain cream end papers with School stamp and prize dedication on ffep [1926]. Printed on art paper. Corners and edges in parts worn, top/tail backstrip bumped. Clean tight contents.
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75.00 GBP
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Chesson, Nora / illustrated by Louis Wain With Louis Wain to Fairyland
London - Paris - New York Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. [1904] First edition Hardcover Good Louis Wain
Fabulous large format original Louis Wain fairy book containing 12 full page colour illustrations and black and white line illustrations on all of the other pages. Contains classic fairy tales - Beauty and the Beast, Jack and the Beanstalk, Robinson Crusoe, Robin Hood, Sleeping Beauty and so on. Paper covered illustrated boards [front and rear] over red cloth backstrip. 335x250 mm. 36pp. Corners / edges worn. Scuffing / scratching to boards. Professionally rebound, retaining the original backstrip and end papers and with the gutta percha reset and although holding overall it is delicate and a few of the pages have come loose. This is a problem with the manufacture of this book, mainly due to the poor early wood pulp paper quality which is now tanned and chipped around some of the edges, and just has to be accepted as I feel that too much restoration would detract. The quality and brilliance of the large colour illustrations is quite superb in this hard to find and quite rare Louis Wain edition.
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1100.00 GBP
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Chisholm, Louey (chosen by) The Golden Staircase: Poetry for the Six, Seven and Eight Year Old
London T. C. & E. C. Jack [1910] Hardcover Fair Spooner, M. Dibdin
Contains 4 colour plates and a collection of over 60 poems from a variety of poets, from Walter Scott, to Thackery to Longfellow, all geared to the younger age group. There were four independent books compiled in this series, each targeted at different age groups, and they were also subsequently issued in a single volume, referred to as The Golden Staircase. Spooner's illustrations, which to me are reminiscent of Anne Anderson, make this a very attractively presented book of poetry. Tan paper covered boards with pictorial onlay to upper board and black titling. 23x16 cm. 88 pp. Top and bottom section of backstrip is missing. Corners worn. Personal dedication, from 1913, on ffep.
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19.00 GBP
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Curry, Jane Miss Sniff, the fuzzy cat A Fuzzy Wuzzy Book
Racine Whitman Publishing Co. 1945 First edition Hardcover Very Good very good Jacket Florence Sarah Winship
Miss Sniff, so named by her owner the little girl Polly Pinks as she couldn't pronounce 'mischief', is about the adventures of a little black cat. Miss Sniff has a fuzzy flock type finish [as does the big black dog that appears] making her soft to touch. One of a series of book with fuzzy animal characters. Illustrated paper covered boards with fuzzy picture of Miss Sniff to front. 285x205mm. unpaginated, 28pp. Colour illustrations on every page. Short closed tears to edges of dj - now closed off from underside with archival tape. Corners bumped, top/tail spine bit curshed.
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50.00 GBP
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De Bethel, David The Tyrolese Cookery Book
London The Medici Society Ltd. 1937 Hardcover Very Good David de Bethel
Written as a sort of travelogue as the author explores the Tyrol and begs, steals and borrows the recipes that he enjoys along the way. Nicely presented with accompanying wood-cuts, in a kind of ethnic / naive style and with some interesting anecdotal information. Scrumptious recipes include: Marillen oder Zwetschen Knoedel [Apricot and Prune Dumplings], Kirschkaltschale [Cold Cherry Soup] and Mein Lieblingshonigkuchen [Honey-cakes]. Green, red and cream paper covered illustrated boards over red cloth backstrip / plain cream lower board. Lower board a little marked, free end papers tanned.
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22.00 GBP
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designs by Ambrose Dudley Everyman, a morality
London Chatto & Windus 1904 Third impression Hardcover Very Good Ambrose Dudley
13 wood-cut plates[12 on coated paper and 1 on the rough paper used for the text pages] plus chapter head and tail pieces and a really beautifully illustrated title page. This is a very nicely presented edition of this 15th century English morality play. The illustrations and design are by Ambrose Dudley, who exhibited at the Royal Academy during his short life. Brown cloth binding with black decorationand titling , highlighted with some red, to upper board and backstrip. 53pp. 223x182mm. One or two pages still uncut. Corners, top/tail backstrip bumped. Free end papers tanned. Occasional brown spot to page edges.
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20.00 GBP
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Donahey, William Adventures of the Teenie Weenies
Chicago Rand McNally & Company 1940 Hardcover Very Good William Donahey
Charming story of a society of little people where the children are half an inch tall and adults are three inches. The characters are all introduced and often referred to by their profession or nationality, e.g. Cook, Clown, Chinaman and Lady of Fashion. Illustrated in colour with 12 full page colour illustrations and many other line illustrations. One of a series of 'Junior Editions' of these characters published by Rand. Illustrated paper covered boards. 170x136mm. 63pp. Corners, top/tail spine worn. Edges rubbed. Light rubbing to lower board.
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58.00 GBP
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Edgeworth, Maria; Edited By Louey Chisholm / illustrated by Olive Allen Simple Susan Told to the Children Series
London T. C. & E. C. Jack, Ltd. Hardcover Very Good Olive Allen
[1907] Contains 8 full colour plates including frontispiece. The illustrations are nicely commissioned, of children in Regency style clothing and several of them being presented within an Art Nouveau inspired floral frame. Olive Allen is one of those illustrators of children's books that is just as accomplished and appealing as the likes of Tarrant and Attwell, but not as well known. The story presented here posthumously, was originally published in 1846. This story has been often repeated in various children's book series, this one is part of the 'Told to the Children Series' edited by Louey Chisholm and first published by E.C. and T.C. Jack from 1905-10. The series includes over 30 titles from well known authors and illustrators of the day who took 19th century children's classics and retold them in a simple manner for young children. Due to their nice presentation they are now very collectible. 111pages. 15x11 cm. Corners worn; top / tail of backstrip bumped. Nick to edge of upper board. Occasional brown spotting, but mild, otherwise contents clean and tight.
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22.00 GBP
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Edgeworth, Maria; Re-told By Olive Allen The Birthday Present
London, Edinburgh and New York Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. [1919] Decorative Cloth Very Good Olive Allen
Contains 2 colour plates and 5 wood-cut plates all with characters in Regency style clothing and scenes. I really like Olive Allen as an illustrator and because she isn't as well known as the likes of Anderson, Attwell and Barker her books are still reasonably priced. The Birthday Present was published in several forms and this version is a single story volume in a larger format. Lovely cover illustration with girl in purple dress. Paper cover boards with cream cloth backstrip. 26x20 cm. 31 pp. Some grubbiness to boards and browning to last text page.
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20.00 GBP
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Eliot, T. S. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
London Faber and Faber Limited 1953 Hardcover Very Good + very good Jacket T. S. Eliot
Selection of 15 poems about cats which was used by Andrew Lloyd Webber as the basis for his musical 'Cats'. This is the 11th impression and a so called 'new edition'. Supposedly written by Old Possum [OP] [Eliot's name he used with his Grandchildren] with the Preface providing a dedication to these children by OP. Dust jacket and upper board illustration by Eliot. Yellow dj with red / brown line illustration and titling. Bright yellow cloth boards with red line illustration to upper board. Red titling to backstrip. 46pp. 217x160mm. DJ not price clipped. Minor splits / mini chips to DJ edges, mainly at corners / folds. Some grubby marks, mainly to rear. Book itself has no issues.
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75.00 GBP
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Ernest Nister My Own Farmyard Book The Picture Book Maker Series
London Ernest Nister 1908 First edition Hardcover Good + Helen Maguire, William Foster et al
A rare un-cut example of one of Nister's Picture Book Maker Series which contain model cut-outs of the illustrations for the reader to cut out and insert in the correct place within the book. There is a pocket at the front of the book which houses 8 sheets of chromolithograph illustrations [40 in all] and 4 sheets of black and white illustrations [19 in all]. Within the book there are several printed stories with blank numbered spaces for the illustrations. The theme of the stories / illustrations is animals / victorian children, all very typical Nister. Only one of the 59 illustrations has been cut out and this has not yet been mounted in the book, all of the other illustrations are un-cut, complete and intact. This book, or in fact any of the six titles in this series, is extremely rare in this complete and un-cut and un-mounted condition. Corners worn, edges rubbed, top/tail backstrip bumped. Boards a bit marked / grubby. The top edges of the front pocket holding the illustrations is torn. There is no loss of paper but I haven't repaired it as it actually makes it easier to remove the illustration sheets. Front hinge starting. Some grubbiness internally.
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425.00 GBP
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Evans, Gwendolen Mary Turn Again Lane
London & New York Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd. 1929 First edition Hardcover Good Gwendolen Mary Evans
Contains 10 colour plates with wood-cuts on all of the other pages. This is a children's fairy story with all the right elements - fairies, elves and adventure. Set in prose and verse. Gwendolen Mary Evans is a really charming illustrator, not unlike Mabel Lucie Attwell, but she was not prolific and her books are few and far between. Orange paper covered boards with illustration to upper board. Nicely illustrated end papers, front and rear. Blue cloth backstrip with title in dark blue. 225x180mm. 64pp. Corners / edges worn. Top / tail backstrip bumped. Both boards scuffed with a little paper loss, front and rear. Occasional brown spot inside and the border of one plate has red line scribbles.
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33.00 GBP
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