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A Apple Pie.
Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886. First edition. Hardback. Pictorial paper covered boards with red cloth spine. Red endpapers. An alphabet book for children using the picture story of an apple pie! Boards a little darkened and rubbed at fore edge. Overall quite good condition with no markings. 215 x 265 mm (8½ x 10½ inches).
Book ID: 3890More details Price: £150.00 -
A.B.C. Petits Contes avec des images de Job
Book ID: 4736More details Price: £50.00
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A Bibliography of American Children's Books. Printed Prior to 1821.
American Antiquarian Society and Barre Publishers, 1972. First edition. Hardback in green cloth, with gilt title to spine. Both book and contents in fine condition. lxvi, 495 pp. + index. 260 x 190 mm (10¼ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 3693More details Price: £30.00 -
A Child's Garden of Verses with Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith
Book ID: 3849More details Price: £150.00
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A collection of 15 original caricature sketches
Book ID: 4482More details Price: £70.00
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A Doorway in Fairyland.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1922. First edition. Hardback in blue cloth with title and decorative mushrooms to front board. Cloth on spine is brown, otherwise in good shape. 220 pages. 205 x 140 mm (8 x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3797More details Price: £40.00 -
A Noisy Book!
Aylesbury: Abelard-Schuman Ltd, 1971. First edition. Hardback blue cloth boards, inside the original unclipped dust jacket. Pre-school book that's simple and funny. 32 unnumbered pages. 235 x 205 mm (9¼ x 8 inches).
Book ID: 3659More details Price: £60.00 -
A Princess Comes to Our Town.
With 12 illustrations by Gertrude Lindsay.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927. First edition. Gold blocked cloth case hardback binding. Lovely illustrations, including frontis. Boards have a little bumping and are slightly grubby / handled. Inside very clean. vii, 119 pp. 175 x 115 mm (7 x 4½ inches).
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Book ID: 4195More details Price: £25.00 -
A propos de chansons. Récits pour les enfants.
Orné d' images en couleurs par Guy Arnoux.
Book ID: 4696More details Price: £125.00
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A Song of the English
Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. A nice copy of this edition, with Heath Robinson's illustrations. 12 full page colour plates, Clean blue cloth with gilt titles & illustrations. There seem to be two variant bindings of the ordinary edition. This one, and another with a different gilt illustration and titles to the front board. This seems to be a cheaper edition, with 12, rather than 30 tipped in plates. A little rubbing to the boards. Very slight cracking to the rear hinge. Internally clean and tidy with a touch of foxing only. Two gift inscriptions - one 1913 and one 1921. Overall a very nice copy. Unpaginated. 205 by 155mm (8 by 6 inches).
Book ID: 3499More details Price: £60.00 -
Adémaï aviateur.
Book ID: 3270More details Price: £30.00
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Aladdin; or The Wonderful Lamp
Book ID: 4464More details Price: £100.00
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Aladdin. Ou la lampe merveilleuse.
Livres d'images. 6me Série
Épinal: Imagerie Pellerin, 1879. Original edition Livres d'images booklet. Hand coloured illustrations. Unpaginated. A little age toned. 18 pages. 255 x 185 mm (10 x 7¼ inches).
. Édition originale Livres d'images. Illustrations colorées à la main. Non paginé. Un peu d'âge. 18 pages. 255 × 185 mm
Book ID: 3782More details Price: £100.00 -
Algerie.
Illustrations de Maurice Tranchant
Book ID: 4780More details Price: £140.00
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All About Copy-Kitten.
The complete adventures of Copy-Kitten, as first told in Copy-Kitten and More About Copy-Kitten.
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1944. First edition thus. Hardback navy blue cloth with gold titles. In original unclipped dust jacket. With pictorial endpapers. Now in wrap for protection. Dust jacket has shelf-wear to edges, light chipping to spine ends, and an area of creasing / closed tear to back. Neat small owners name to front end paper. Pages inside have some transference (shown in pictures). Overall still a lovely little book. Copy-Kitten likes copying other animals and this book contains over forty wonderful illustrations by the talented Helen and Alf Evers. Unpaginated. 200 x 175 mm (7¾ x 7 inches).
Book ID: 2888More details Price: £28.00 -
Alphabet
Book ID: 4222More details Price: £75.00
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Alphabet de la Phosphatine Falières.
Paris: Chassaing & Cie, 1905. First edition. Sewn booklet of 20 unnumbered pages, charming colour illustrations, but also charts and phonetic spellings for young French speakers. WorldCat suggests circa 1905. Covers are age toned, and a little soiled. Spine area starting to split, but overall good. 205 x 160 mm (8 x 6¼ inches). Première édition. Livret cousu de 20 pages non numérotées, de charmantes illustrations en couleurs, mais aussi des grilles et des orthographes phonétiques pour les jeunes francophones. WorldCat suggère vers 1905. Les couvertures sont vieillies et un peu sales. La zone de la colonne vertébrale commence à se fendre, mais globalement bonne. 205 × 160 mm
Book ID: 3625More details Price: £40.00 -
Alphabet van Viervoetige Dieren.
Met 24 gekleurde plaatjes
Gouda: G. B. van Goor Zonen, 1844. First edition. Softback with paper covers. 24 letters of the alphabet (the letters Q and X being the exceptions) are assigned an animal illustration, examples of how to write that letter, and a short verse of poetry about the animal in Dutch. Illustrations are hand coloured. A charming children's book. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Condition: The covers are detached, but present. These are fragile, with some loss to the lower corners on one side. This damage follows throughout the inside of the book as a closed tear. Otherwise the internal pages are in a good condition and the illustrations are bright and clean.
Book ID: 2545More details Price: £40.00 -
Angelo.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First Edition. In hardback illustrated boards with matching original dust jacket. Very tight and neat, appears almost unread. Angelo is an Italian boy who travels with his family performing gymnastics and walking a tightrope to entertain people. One day he sees a girl in the crowd who is crying, and so he sets his mind that he must do something to cheer her up. Not one of Blake's best known titles, but a fun and colourfully illustrated children's book with a lovely message! 270 x 215 mm (10¾ x 8½ inches).
Book ID: 3531More details Price: £60.00 -
Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.
With an introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
London: William Heinemann, 1913. First Thus. Very nice copy of this with 44 magnificent pictures by Rackham. Each mounted / tipped in and with a tissue guard. Some of the tissue guards are quite foxed (but not the plates). The book has been skillfully restored, using the original boards and spine. The first guard (to Frontis) has a neat tear to it. A little staining / fading to the rear board. Overall a very nice copy. 44 pages & 44 plates. 260 by 210 mm (10¼ by 8¼ inches).
Book ID: 3459More details Price: £225.00