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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). 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 -
Babar et ce coquin D'Arthur
Book ID: 4088More details Price: £48.00
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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: £150.00
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Better Than Toys for Girls and Boys. At Home Within.
Please Bring your Paints or 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 -
Bij Moeder Thuis. Teekeningen van Bep Jordens
Rijswijk: Blankwaardt & Schoonhoven, 1930. Scarce First Edition. Hardback book with colour illustrated boards and full-page colour illustrations by Bep Jordens. Boards are a little rubbed at edges. Neat cloth spine. Age toning to title and last page. 27 pages. No date, but circa 1930. This is one of three works Jordens illustrated for this publisher, the only one by this author. 210 x 260 mm (8¼ x 10¼ inches).
Book ID: 3455More details Price: £75.00 -
Blumen-Märchen
Coln: Hermann & Friedrich Schaffstein, 1908. Pictures, texts and lithographs by E. Kreidolf. Third Edition. With colour lithographed title and 15 colour lithographed illustrations. Doderer/Muller 464 and pp. 230ff. - Seebass II, 1069 - Hobrecker 4393 - Cf. Schug 486. Kreidolf's first picture book, first published in 1898. Binding somewhat faded and rubbed. Original cream illustrated boards. Stain to the front board, otherwise a little bumping only. Internally clean and tidy throughout. Small owner's ex-libris stamp to the title page. The work is dedicated to Princess Schaumburg Lippe who financed this, his first work. 240 x 260 mm. Unpaginated. 48 pages.
Book ID: 4113More details Price: £75.00 -
Casse-Noisette et le Roi des Rats.
Book ID: 2589More details Price: £20.00
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Chalkboard book.
Book ID: 3475More details Price: £100.00
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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. 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. A fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. 40 pages. 235 x 220 mm (9¼ x 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 2691More details Price: £30.00 -
Childhoods Heroes.
Stories of Robinson Crusoe, Rip Van Winkle, and Robin Hood.
New York: Mcloughlin Bro's, 1889. Scarce. First edition. Hardback colour illustrated boards. Brief illustrated retellings of three favourite children's stories. Boards a little rubbed at edges, and to top and tail of spine. Gilt embellished colour illustrated title page. Very clean and tidy inside - with 16 very nice full-page colour illustrations, and several in text b/w illustrations. Unpaginated. 270 x 220 mm (10¾ x 8¾ inches).
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Book ID: 3951More details Price: £200.00 -
Cinderella, and other nursery tales.
With twenty-four page illustrations, printed in colours.
Book ID: 4159More details Price: £80.00
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Cinderella / The Night Before Christmas (Turnover Book - Volume II).
Illustrated by John R. Neill
Book ID: 2590More details Price: £300.00
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Contes de Perrault.
Book ID: 3389More details Price: £80.00
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Contes et légendes russes.
Montréal & Québec: Les Èditions Variétés, 1945. First edition. Large softback illustrated boards. With b/w illustrations by Jean Simard; 4 full page in colour. Book covers are rubbed and have a little darkening to them. Back cover has a crease. Some nicking to the spine, Overall in an acceptable, and clean condition. Pages are a little darkened. 55 pages. 260 x 205 mm (10¼ x 8 inches).
. Première édition. Grandes planches illustrées brochées. Avec illustrations n/b de Jean Simard; 4 pleine page en couleur. Les couvertures des livres sont frottées et ont été réparées au dos. La couverture arrière a un pli. Dans l'ensemble dans un état acceptable et propre. 55 pages. 260 × 205 mm
Book ID: 3770More details Price: £40.00 -
Cornebuse et Cie.
Book ID: 4205More details Price: £35.00
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Cuthbert and the long Winter Sleep.
Pictures by Yasuko Kimura.
London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1979. First edition. Hardback in original unclipped colour illustrated dust jacket. Comprised of 33 unnumbered pages. Charming colour illustrations by Japanese artist Yasuko Kimura. These illustrations were originally published with a Japanese text by Shiko-shaof Tokyo in 1978. Both book and dust jacket are in very good condition. 200 x 270 mm (7¾ x 10¾ inches).
Book ID: 3763More details Price: £100.00 -
Dame Perkins and Her Grey Mare;
Or, the Mount for Market. Illustrated by Phiz
London: Sampson Low, son, and Marston, 1866. First edition. Original dark brown / purple cloth with gilt decoration and title. Coloured frontis and seven further coloured plates (complete). A little marking to the cloth, with slight staining and rubbing to gilt design. Previous owner's name to front end paper. Internally slight markings but overall in very good condition. 48 pp. 235 x 185 mm (9¼ x 7¼ inches).
Book ID: 3442More details Price: £100.00 -
Dame Wiggins Of Lee, And Her Seven Wonderful Cats:
a humorous tale written principally by a lady of ninety.
Orpington: George Allen, 1885. Edited from the original edition of 1823, with four new verses by John Ruskin, and matching illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Twenty two woodcuts in black. Hardback in brown cloth with gilt title and decoration to front board. Plain endpapers, with some darkening. Spine ends a little worn. Back board with patch of sun fading. Clean and very tidy inside. Only verso or recto of each leaf is printed. Complete. Overall in good shape. iv, 20 pages 190 x 125 mm (7½ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3802More details Price: £50.00 -
Das Alpenleben - Sechs handkolorierte Lithografien
Book ID: 4249More details Price: £175.00