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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 -
Adémaï aviateur.
Book ID: 3270More details Price: £35.00 -
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
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 Bunting's Big Bedtime Book
London: Ward, Lock And Co, 1926. First Edition. Hardback colour illustrated boards, with red cloth spine. Fully illustrated in b/w, and with four full-page colour plates (including frontis). Lovely stories with text in large print for children. Boards are partially age tones, a little rubbed and the spine is faded. Ink mark to front board. B/w illustrated endpapers, front one has small red stain on it. Title page a little foxed, rest of contents clean and fresh. 64 pages. 250 x 185 mm (9¾ x 7¼ inches).
Book ID: 3323More details Price: £50.00 -
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 -
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 -
Doctor Dolittle's Caravan
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. First Edition. Unique item because alongside the colour printed frontispiece, there is a beautifully hand coloured pictorial title page, several other hand coloured illustrations (5 in total) - the rest in their original b/w state. Publisher's grey cloth hardback boards, with title in purple to front and spine. With the original dust jacket, which is lightly nicked and soiled, and a little age toned. Attractive bird decorated endpapers. Some sporadic foxing, and to page edges, but delightful with previous owner's skillful hand colouring. 319 pages. 205 x 140 mm (8 x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3071More details Price: £120.00 -
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 -
Eloise in Paris
London: Max Reinhardt Ltd, 1958. First UK edition. Hardback in blue cloth with gilt titles. In original unclipped dust jacket. The author brings the precocious American rich kid Eloise to Paris, and she certainly makes the most of it! Follow her outrageous exploits - most not really aimed at younger children - whilst visiting the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and the Opera, with her long suffering Nanny. It's champagne and baguettes all the way. With in text illustrations by Hilary Knight. The dust jacket is a little age toned, with a few nicks / tears to the top. Neat gift inscription to front - dated 1958 - but overall in a very good condition. [64]pp. 285 x 200 mm (11¼ x 7¾ inches).
Book ID: 2998More details Price: £35.00 -
Fancies Free
London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Scarce First Edition. Victorian illustrated children's verse book [1892]. In pictorial boards, with cloth spine. Beautiful colour and duo tone illustrations by the author - including a half title page, and a frontispiece entitled 'Good Morning'. Has a neat 1894 owner's name in ink to the front endpaper. Some fading to the spine cloth, and some rubbing / light soiling to the boards. Minimal foxing to inside pages, mostly to prelims. Overall a very nice copy. [32] pp. 230 x 185 mm (9 x 7¼ inches).
Book ID: 2990More details Price: £250.00 -
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