Todd Publishing Company London. c1945. Small square 8vo. Hardback. No DW. Illustrated boards. Colour illustrations. Ownership inscription to front pastedown. Generally a clean and sound copy. View More...
Cream decorated boards with tipped in illustration. No DW. 8vo. 64pp plus 2pp. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations within text. Some wear to boards with spine joint exposed and tear (repaired). Foxing to endpapers, margin of pages 21/22 torn without affecting text. One illustration neatly coloured in yellow o/w a nice copy. VG. View More...
Hildesheimer & Faulkner. No date [1885]. First edition. Landscape 8vo. Original illustrated boards, rubbed to edges. Worn green cloth backstrip. Illustrated with wonderfully bright chromo-lithos. sadly one on page 36 damaged by damp and lacks small portions and also has parts of text from opposite page stuck to centre of illustration. Also many sepia plates and illustrations to text. Front hinge re-enforced with white paper. Pages foxed, mainly to prelims and margins, occasional marks to pages otherwise a sound copy of a lovely item. View More...
George Routledge. London. N.d.(c1870) Hardback NO DW. Square 8vo. 313pp. Illustrated throughout by the best of Victorian artists. Original decorated green cloth gilt, head and tail of spine frayed, contents slightly shaken, some browning and foxing to pages but generally a clean and sound copy of a lovely collection of tales and illustrations. View More...
George Routledge and Sons. No date, circa 1880. Tall slim 8vo. Original blue cloth gilt, wth mounted chromo-litho coloured plate to upper board with decorative gilt and black borders. 96 pages with an illustration to each page together with descriptive text. Inner hinge cracked in centre but binding relatively sound. Boards slightly rubbed and soiled. Small neat ownership stamps to front endpapers which are slightly worn and chipped to lower edge. Occasional foxing and browning to pages otherwise a clean copy of a scarce and attractive item. View More...
Thomas Nelson, London. c1958. NO DW. Illustrated boards with red cloth backstrip. Colour illustrations throughout. A few marks to boards o/w a very nice copy and extremities a little rubbed and worn. VG. View More...
First Edition. No DW. 12mo landscape. 74pp. Colour illustrations. Original grey boards, colour illustration laid down to upper. Head and tail of spine bumped, extremities rubbed. Lacks front free endpaper. Contents very clean and bright. VG. View More...
Two Volumes. Slim landscape quarto. Original stiff card pictorial boards. All pages present and untouched. Previous owner's inscription written in pencil to 1st page. Both books VG+. Each page contains colourful illustrations to the margins with oblongs of words in the middle, that need to be cut out and re-arranged in the correct order to create the story. View More...
Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co., London. 1910. Large 8vo. Hardback, no DW. Pictorial boards, red cloth backstrip. Illustrated. Boards bumped at corners, and a little rubbed. Pages browned, with some foxing at various points throughout. Prize bookplate to front endpaper. Inner hinges repaired. A sound copy. View More...
No Publisher or printng details listed apart from Printed and Published in the British Isles. No. 39 C./3 to the back cover. No date. Circa 1940. Small 12mo, 14 x 11cm. Coloured illustrated paper covered boards. None of the stories or poems seem to have any connection to title or illustration to front cover. 8 coloured plates and other illustrations in b/w, two of these very well coloured in using water-colours. Pages browned, slight wear and soiling to covers otherwise a clean and fresh copy of a very scarce item. View More...
Collins, London. 1941. Reprint. DW. Illustrated. Large slim 8vo. Contents are clean and sound with no inscriptions o/w VG/VG in wrapper that has large closed tears to rear cover and is chipped and worn at extremities. View More...
Thomas Nelson & Sons, London. 1899. Original laminated boards. viii, 126pp. Frontis. + Illustrated throughout. Boards soiled, worn and rubbed, lacking portion from head of spine, affecting text. Inner hinge cracked. Pages thumbed and some slightly grubby o/w contents sound. View More...
Smith Elder & Co, London. 1835. Hardback, NO DW. Small 8vo. Frontis. Bound in quarter maroon roan with textured boards. Board extremities are a little rubbed and worn. Pencil annotations to front endpapers and page 275 was detached, but has been sewn back in. A charming copy. View More...
1911. Second edition. Paperback. Illustrated throughout. Covers are quite worn with skilfull repairs to spine. Bookplate to title page, hiding publisher information. Some foxing and browning to pages but contents are sound overall. View More...
Ward, Lock & Co. London. No date (c.1930). Slim annual format with grey paper spine and paper covered boards with coloured illustration to front cover. Tinted coloured illustration to title page of circus elephant delivering the post. 14 tinted plates, many others in b/w plus illustrations to endpapers. Pages foxed to outer edges, slight signs of wear and use otherwise a remarkably clean and sound copy. Illustrations include some extraordinary examples of postal systems around the world. Catapault plane launched from ships to arrive at shore before the liner.Skating, skiing, cycling, horse-ri... View More...
John Harris. London. No date, (circa 1824). Hand-sewn 12mo (17.5 x 11cm) Chapbook, with faded original printed purple card boards, very worn and rubbed, lacking small portions to spine. 17 pages - printed and illustrated and numbered to one side of each leaf with the reverse of every page being blank. Hand-coloured frontis. (Amusingly entitled "Portrait of Dame Trot. From an Original Painting.") Hand-coloured vignette of cat to title page, 16 hand-coloured half page engravings. The colours are as bright as when first done approximately 200 years ago. Contents are browned and foxed, especially... View More...
William Darto And Son. London. No date, circa 1830. Tenth Edition. Bound in quarter red Morrocco, gilt and watered silk boards. Frontis engraving by H. Melville. Boards are worn. Page margins are age browned with occasional foxing o/w contents generally clean and sound. View More...
Odhams Press. London. 1946. First edition. Hardback with DW. Colour frontis. + nearly 300 illustrations in black and white. Illustrated endpapers in colour. Head and tail worn and pages slightly browned. A lovely clean and sound copy in a wrapper with creasing to edges, spine slightly faded with wear to joint and minor scratches to front wrapper. View More...
Publisher:
The Reilly & Britton Co., Chicago. 1918
Seller ID: 54150
First edition. Hardback. No DW. 4to. 95pp. Original orange cloth, black lettering and illustration to upper board. Illustrated throughout. Board extremities bumped. Endpapers lightly foxed o/w VG+. A lovely book to encourage children to write their own versions of their favourite stories and fairytales. In The Story of Aladdin, one sentence has been completed by previous owner (page 57). The Story of Rip Van Winkle, one sentence has been completed (page 63). The Story of the Pied Piper, one word has been entered to 1st paragraph (page 67). My Own Story About Christmas has been partially com... View More...
So & Co Books. 2011. First Edition. Hardback. No DW. Laminated illustrated boards. Slim 4to. Illustrated throughout in colour. SIGNED by Janice Armstrong. A lovely clean and fresh copy. View More...
Oxford University Press. London. Slim square 8vo. 1937. Paper covered boards with a coloured portrait of the Royal Family to the upper board. Rear board slightly soiled. Black and white photos of the Royal Family to every page. Presentation plate from Radnorshire County Council. Prelims slightly soiled. Slight signs of wear otherwise a lovely copy. View More...
Digiscan. 2009. First Edition. Paperback. SIGNED presentation copy from the author "To dear Eugene. Thanks for the encouragement over the years, and for beinga true inspiration! Best wishes, Simon". Slim square 4to. Colour illustrations. A lovely clean and fresh copy. View More...
First Edition. Paperback. Tall 4to. 55pp. Illustrated. Rear cover lightly soiled, with some shelf wear to extremities o/w contents lovely and clean. VG+. View More...
John Lane. The Bodley Head. 1940. First edition. No DW. Blue cloth gilt boards, slightly worn at head and tail of spine and corners. Illustrated by Harold Jones. Endpapers browned and edges foxed. Generally a clean and sound copy. View More...
Publisher:
John Lane The Bodley Head, London. 1947
Seller ID: 68741
Reprint. DW. Illustrated. Slight soiling to boards with ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Wrapper lightly foxed and a little grubby, slightly worn at extremities and lacking small portion from head of spine very slightly affecting tevt o/w VG+/VG. View More...
John Lane The Bodley Head, London. 1940. First Edition. Hardback. DW. Illustrated. Internally a clean and sound copy in foxed and worn wrapper with browned spine, lacking portions from head of spine and corners. View More...
Publisher:
John Lane The Bodley Head, London. 1947
Seller ID: 68734
Reprint. No DW. Orange cloth, green lettering. Illustrated. Boards are a little soiled and worn, spine creased. Ownership signatures to endpapers o/w contents sound. VG. View More...
Publisher:
John Lane The Bodley Head, London. 1948
Seller ID: 68733
Reprint. DW. Illustrated. Boards are slightly mottled. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, contents otherwise clean and sound. Wrapper spine lightly sunned, a little grubby to rear cover and a little worn at extremities. VG/VG. View More...
James B. Knapp. London. No date (circa 1890). Coloured illustrated paper covered boards, Plain blue cloth spine. Illustrated with charming b/w plates. Inner hinge cracked and contents very shaken though not separated from spine. Endpapers browned, prize bookplate. Signs of use to covers but a good copy of this period piece volume, written to inspire young people to be good! View More...
