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Great Men.
London: Grant Richards, 1901. First Edition. Hardback book with illustrated cover and red cloth spine. Boards are a little grubby, and lightly bumped at edges. Inside the front endpapers have some age toning, and a very small previous owner's name. The rest of the contents are fresh and bright. 51 pages. 275 x 215 mm (10¾ x 8½ inches).
Book ID: 3363More details Price: £25.00 -
Grimm's Märchen
Mainz: Jos. Scholz, 1914. Scarce, early collection of fairy tales from the series "Scholz' artist picture books" - the publisher's number #137. Hardback illustrated boards, with cloth spine. Boards somewhat rubbed at corners. Contains: Sneewittchen, Rotkäppchen, Dornröschen, Hänsel und Gretel, Frau Holle, Aschenputtel, Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich, Brüderchen und Schwesterchen, Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten, Hase und Swinegel. Unpaginated, but 40 pages with numerous illustrations, some full-page and colour. Text in German. Book block a little loose, and has been previously reinforced at front. Small gift inscription to front blank. 260 x 185 mm (10¼ x 7¼ inches).
Book ID: 3736More details Price: £80.00 -
Happy Playmates.
A volume of original pictures, stories and verses.
Book ID: 4342More details Price: £30.00
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Het luthersche Weeshuis, te zien van de Binnenplaats
Book ID: 4289More details Price: £100.00
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Het van ouds gerenommeerde - A is een aapje.
Amsterdam: J. Vlieger, 1880. First edition. Hardback in later rebind. Original cover illustration retained and pasted to front. Twelve unnumbered pages, each with two colour plates showing two letters of the alphabet. In very good condition. Text in Dutch. Undated, but WorldCat indicates 1880. 12 pages. 170 x 250 mm (6¾ x 9¾ inches).
Book ID: 3413More details Price: £100.00 -
Het verzenboek van Lijsje.
Teekeningen van Ella Riemersma.
Book ID: 3961More details Price: £175.00
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Hirzepinzchen.
Mit Buchschmuck von Robert Weise. Zweite Auflage.
Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1890. A fairy tale in verse. Publisher's cloth hardback boards, with gilt and colour design on the front in an Art Nouveau / Jugendstil style. Boards a little rubbed on corners. Internally in good condition. 24 pages, with 6 full-page colour plates, each page of text also within a delightful colour floral border. 255 x 195 mm (10 x 7¾ inches).
Book ID: 3785More details Price: £60.00 -
Hoe raar een knikker kan.
Een kluchtig verhaal dat Hollandsche jongens wel lezen mogen. Met gekleurde Platen.
Utrecht: Van der Post, 1884. Derde Druk. Scarce. Nice Third edition, in illustrated hardback boards with cloth spine. Previous owner's name written to top right of front board. Frontis. With eight full-page colour plates. Some page edges have small closed tear - not affecting illustrations. 27 pp. 190 x 135 mm (7½ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 3644More details Price: £70.00 -
Holly Boughs.
London: Hildesheimer and Faulkner, 1890. First edition. Hardback illustrated boards with green cloth spine. Lovely children's poetry book, with wonderful colour illustrations by M. Ellen Edwards, and John C. Staples. Undated but WORLDCAT suggests circa 1890. 24 unnumbered pages. Boards are a bit rubbed and slightly soiled. Back board has cup rings. Inside, endpapers have some offsetting. Book block a little loose, but pages are still bright and clean. Staples rusted, but overall good. 155 x 125 mm (6 x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3788More details Price: £30.00 -
Home Thoughts and Home Scenes in Original Poems... and pictures by A.B. Houghton, engraved by the Brother's Dalziel
Book ID: 2927More details Price: £200.00
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Images from 'From A Merry Little Maid' painting book
Raphael Tuck, 1898. A rare book, which is untitled, but consists of sixteen postcards. These can be detached via the perforations around the edge of them. Colourful printed covers, the front using the image from Tuck's book called From a Merry Little Maid. Eight of which are printed in colour, and then those are mirrored on the opposite page in sepia, for the child to paint themselves. Some have been skilfully painted, but other remain sepia. Overall a lovely example of a very scarce item. 180 x 255 mm (7 x 10 inches).
Book ID: 4298More details Price: £65.00 -
In the Night Kitchen
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition hardback. In original unclipped dust jacket which shows price as $4.95, and has 1070 on the inside front flap. To front of dust jacket there is the silver Caldecott Honor Book medal. The dust wrapper has minor edge-wear, and an almost invisible repair to right edge. There are seven titles listed on the back flap, as per Hanrahan A75. Book itself is cream linen, and clean, with colour illustration to front. Inside, the unpaginated book is in great condition, with a neat inscription to front pastedown. Charming illustrations and scant text. 285 x 220 mm (11¼ x 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 3326More details Price: £95.00 -
Jack and Nancy.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. First Edition. In hardback illustrated boards with matching original dust jacket. Very tight and neat, appears almost unread. Siblings Jack and Nancy live near the seaside, and can see ships sailing by from their bedroom window. Sailors tell them tales of tropical foreign lands, and they dream of visiting them some day. On a cliff walk one windy day, their father's green umbrella carries them off for an unbelievable adventure! Absolutely lovely story 270 x 215 mm (10¾ x 8½ inches).
Book ID: 3533More details Price: £125.00 -
Jacky boxeur!
Book ID: 3390More details Price: £25.00
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Jan en Jansje in het Wonderland
Book ID: 4096More details Price: £200.00
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Jan en Jansje in het Wonderland
Book ID: 4105More details Price: £100.00
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Jeu de l'oie. A Belgian Colonial Goose Game
Book ID: 2964More details Price: £80.00
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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. A touch of marking / foxing to the boards, but overall a very nice copy. Internally clean and tidy, with fractional browning. 255 by 190mm (10 by 7½ inches). 64 pages. Edition originale Ainsi (édition française). Plats crème, avec illustration marouflée sur le premier plat. 8 autres illustrations en couleurs par Appleton et de nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc. Une pointe de marquage/rousseur aux plats, mais dans l'ensemble très bel exemplaire. Intérieurement propre et bien rangé. 64 pages. 255 × 190 mm
Book ID: 2498More details Price: £30.00 -
Just Donkeys.
Illustrations by Anton Pieck.
London: Hutchinson & Co. First Edition. Undated but 1949. Charming religious children's story about donkeys. Original dust jacket, with colour Pieck illustration pasted to front. Dust jacket is slightly soiled and lightly nicked at edges. One almost invisible repair also to jacket (only visible from inside). Underneath, blue cloth covered hardback boards with gilt titles to spine and front. Some darkeing to front and rear endpapers. 4 Lovely full-page colour plates by Pieck. 28 Other full page black and white illustrations. Overall in very good clean shape. 119 pages. 260 x 205 mm (10¼ by 8 inches).
Book ID: 3051More details Price: £20.00 -
Kate Greenaway's Alphabet
London / New York: George Routledge, 1885. First Edition. Miniature hardback card alphabet book for children. Boards in good shape, but green paper on spine almost all gone. Charming colour illustrations. One letter of the alphabet per page. Inside spotless. 30 unnumbered pages. 70 x 60 mm (2¾ x 2¼ inches).
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Book ID: 4240More details Price: £25.00