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A Collection Of Hand Coloured Lithographs.
Na, 1850. An attractive work. A collection of 20 hand coloured lithographs, numbered 1-20, showing scenes of life in the Low Countries. For example, the first shows the progress of a young man, accompanied by his dog and monkey. There is no title page, and no clue about artist or printer to any of the plates. The covers of the album bear the word "Album" surrounded by blind stamped designs. The text is somewhat rubbed. Cloth spine.
The first lithograph has a reference 656 to it, which presumably indicates a series, but we have been unable to identify it.
20 leaves printed and hand coloured to recto only. 21.5cm x 32cmBook ID: 2915More details Price: £150.00 -
Aesop's Fables. Retold by Blanche Winder. With 48 colour plates.
London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1924. First edition thus, as first with Rountree's wonderful illustrations. Green cloth hardback, with black lettering and colour illustration onlaid to the front board. The colour plates include full colour pictorial endpapers.
Including favourites such as, "The Hare and the Tortoise", "The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse", and "Crying Wolf". Complete with colour frontis and all plates. Has a prize bookplate to the front, dated 1927 - from 'Wyggeston Grammar School for Girls' in Leicester (UK). This school's emblem is also attractively gilt-stamped on to the rear board. 340, [4]pp. publisher's catalogue.. 210 x 155 mm (8¼ x 6 inches).Condition: A good copy, with some sun fading to the spine. Light general signs of use only.
Book ID: 2678More details Price: £45.00 -
All About Copy-Kitten Copy-Kitten and More About Copy-Kitten published as one book
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1944. First edition thus. Hardback navy blue cloth with gold titles. In original unclipped dust jacket. With pictorial endpapers. Now in Mylar wrap for protection. Unpaginated. 200 x 175 mm (7¾ x 7 inches). Copy-Kitten likes copying other animals and this book contains over forty wonderful illustrations by the talented Helen and Alf Evers.
Condition: 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.
Book ID: 2888More details Price: £28.00 -
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 -
Aventures D'Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles Par Lewis Carroll, illustrees par Arthur Rackham
Edition: First Thus
Paris: Libraire Hachette: 1910. First Thus (French trade edition). Attractive, new, full dark green leather binding. gilt titles and decoration to the spine. All edges gilt. green marbled end papers. Original green cloth front board laid into rear of book (with decoration etc.) Original spine is also laid in. Slight creasing to the frontis (Rackham's portrait of Alice). A touch of foxing to some of the pages, Otherwise in excellent condition throughout. The original spine is a rather faded. A beautifully preserved and presented copy. 13 full colour plates by Rackham. Some additional black and white illustrations and decorated initials throughout the book. 168 pages.
Book ID: 1886More details Price: £400.00 -
Babar at Home.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1938. Publisher's quarter blue cloth and colour pictorial boards. Text in English. 39 [1] pp. 365 x 265 mm (14¼ x 10½ inches).
Condition: In a good condition. Boards lightly rubbed / handled, and with some light scrapes (area of light pen scribble). Back board has some sun fading. Both head and tail of spine have been slightly bumped / appear restored. Some pages have been neatly repaired at the bottom (see photos).
Book ID: 2723More details Price: £80.00 -
Baby's Own Aesop
Book ID: 2117More details Price: £200.00 -
Better Than Toys for Girls and Boys. At Home Within Please Bring your Paints of Chalks
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, 1894. Original yellow hardback. buckram spine. A touch of bumping to the edges only. Unpaginated. 15 coloured lithographs with a black and white copy of each opposite for children to colour themselves. This copy largely uncoloured, although the first black and white image has a very feint colour wash to it. 240 by 175mm (9½ by 7 inches).
Book ID: 2478More details Price: £48.00 -
Charlie Malarkey and The Belly-Button Machine.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. First British edition. Hardcover. First printing. Signed on half-title by the illustrator Glen Baxter. 40 pages. 235 x 220 mm (9¼ x 8¾ inches). Glen Baxter's illustrations are infamous. "A kind of mad cross between Magritte, S. J. Perelman and Pulp Fiction" said Mel Gussons in the New York Times.
Condition: A fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued.
Book ID: 2691More details Price: £30.00 -
Cinderella / The Night Before Christmas (Turnover Book - Volume II). Illustrated by John R. Neill
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co, 1910. First edition thus. These are known as 'Turnover Books' in which each volume in the series has two titles. The book must be read one way for one story, then turned upside down and read the other way for the second story. Decorated red boards. Page edges and endpapers are red. Wonderful colour illustrations. 64 pages. 190 x 140 mm (7½ x 5½ inches). The illustrations were first serialised by the Philadelphia North American Syndicate in Sunday supplements as "Children's Stories That Never Grow Old," September 1, 1907 to March 22, 1908. Reilly & Britton then issued them as single volumes, and in a collection Children's Stories That Never Grow Old (1908).
Condition: No dust jacket. The boards are a little rubbed, particularly to spine head and tail. Overall a very good example of the earliest edition.
Book ID: 2590More details Price: £250.00 -
Cruikshank's Fairy Library
Book ID: 2743More details Price: £150.00 -
De Swienegel als Wettrenner. Ein plattdeutsches Märchen. Illustriert und mit einem Nachwort von J. P. T. Lyser.
Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1853. Scarce first edition. A race involving Hedgehog versus Rabbit in this charming tale originally by Theodor von Kobbe. B/w illustrations and foreword by Lyser. Text in both Low and High German. 140 x 100 mm (5½ x 4 inches).
Condition: Protected by oversized card cover. Some foxing / darkening in areas. Otherwise clean and has no markings.
Book ID: 2639More details Price: £50.00 -
Die Geschichte vom Babar dem kleinen Elefanten.
Lausanne / Paris: F. Roth & Cie / Librairie Hachette, 1946. This was the first Babar book, copyright 1939. Delightfully illustrated boards, with linen spine. Text in German. 48 pages. 370 x 270 mm (14½ x 10¾ inches).
Condition: The boards are bumped at corners and rubbed all over. There is faint writing to the back board.
Book ID: 2651More details Price: £30.00 -
Droll Doings. Illustrations by Harry B. Neilson, with verses by the Cockiolly Bird
London: Blackie & Son Limited, [1900]. First edition, circa 1900. Illustrated hardback and red cloth spine binding. Amusing children's verses and colour illustrations. 66 pages. 315 x 255 mm (12½ x 10 inches).
Condition: Boards are grubby and a bit worn, cloth spine worn and faded - but the contents are in a good, clean condition. No marks or inscriptions.
Book ID: 2851More details Price: £40.00 -
Farmer Fisher's Russian Christmas. With original accompanying 7 inch vinyl record.
London: G. Whizzard / André Deutsch. This book was chosen as 1976 Children's Book of the Year. It is thought to have been the first picture book on the UK market to include a record (7-inch vinyl disc). The story is a charming rhyme about Farmer Fisher's attempts to visit his cousin in Russia for Christmas. Scarce in this condition and with vinyl. 36 pages. 205 x 295 mm (8 x 11½ inches). Jonathon Coudrille's talents as a multi-instrumentalist mean that he plays and composes for guitar, 7-string banjo, piano, organ and trumpet. His musical interests and influences are principally jazz, Russian and gypsy music.
Book ID: 2708More details Price: £40.00 -
Fee Fi Fo Fum A Picture Book of Nursery Rhymes
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. Reprint edition. Clean and tidy laminate boards. Fractional bumping to corners. light foxing to front pastedown. Otherwise a Fine copy.
Book ID: 2454More details Price: £15.00 -
Fifon. Collection l'arche de noë
Strasbourg: L.R.D.L, 1954. Charming colourful embossed silhouette story book for children. All about Fifon the rabbit. Text in French. 16 pages. 270 x 195 mm (10¾ x 7¾ inches).
Condition: In a very good condition.
Book ID: 2647More details Price: £15.00 -
Fungus the Bogeyman. Plop-Up Book.
London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1982. First edition in this format. Hardback laminated colour illustrated boards. Unpaginated. 275 x 200 mm (10¾ x 7¾ inches). Fungus the Bogeyman is a character created by British artist Raymond Briggs. The story follows one day in the life of this fabulous character, a working class Bogeyman with the mundane job of scaring human beings. A fantastic pre-curser to the likes of Shrek!
Condition: Covers are clean with minimal handling. All but one of the pop-ups are working perfectly, and showing little sign of use. One end of a string of bats has become detached. This would be easy to repair.
Book ID: 2717More details Price: £30.00 -
Home Thought's and Home Scenes in Original Scenes... And pictures by A.B. Houghton, engraved by the Brother's Dalziel
London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1865. 1st Edition. The finest feature of this work is the 35 engravings after works by Houghton.
Contemporary Morocco with gilt designs and titles. A little rubbed, but still attractive. All edges gilt. Marbled end papers. A variety of poems, author's include Jean Ingelow, Dora Greenwell, Mrs Tom Tailor, The Hon Mrs Norton, Amelia B. Edwards, Jennett Humphreys and the author of "John Halifax Gentleman". Internally in a sound state, but with moderate foxing to most of the pagesUnpaginated but 70 leaves printed to recto only. 26cm x 21cm
Book ID: 2927More details Price: £200.00 -
Josette en Famille adapte de L'Anglais par Gisele Vallerey illustre par HONOR C. APPLETON
Paris: Fernand Nathan, Editeur, 1935. First Edition Thus (French edition). Cream boards, with laid down illustration to the front board. 8 further colour illustrations by Appleton and numerous black and white illustrations. 255 by 190mm (10 by 7½ inches). 64 pages.
Condition: A touch of marking / foxing to the boards, but overall a very nice copy. Internally clean and tidy, with fractional browning.
Book ID: 2498More details Price: £30.00