Sophisticated Folio Society edition of le Guin's enduring 1968 fantasy, the first novel to be set in her world of Earthsea. Featuring seven colour illustratons of David Lupton and maps to end-papers. With an introduction by David Mitchell. Complete with slipc [more...]
First edition of The Peek-A-Boo Circus with Preston's iconic illustrations. With b/w illustrations throughout plus five colour full page plates (and one tipped in to cover). Covers are variously bumped and marked. Some cracking to joints. Slight loss from t [more...]
Pleasing green cloth variant of this illustrated edition of Kinglsey's great children's novel with 8 colour plates by Robinson with numerous b/w drawings within the text. 8vo. Previous owner's name to ffep. Marking and fading to spine. Rubbing and light fr [more...]
First or early edition of Kinglsey's great children's novel with 16 terrific colour illustrations by A. E. Jackson. With Milford instead of Oxford to spine. With further b/w illustrations and devices within, illustrated endpapers. 8vo. 252pp. Toning to spine [more...]
Early edition of Lady Gilbert's novel with pictorial covers and illustrations by Maynard Brown. Decorative end-papers. Rubbing to edges. Slight creasing to spine. Cracking to front hinge but binding sound and contents clean. Good. [more...]
Charming fairy story featuring Attwell's distinctive illustrations in full colour on wove paper. 4to. Stapled binding. No date. Rubbing to spine with cracking to tail. Mild marking to covers. Good overall. [more...]
Pleasant edition of Kinglsey's great children's novel with 8 colour illustrations by Katherine Cameron. Spine is slightly toned, mild foxing to page edges with very infrequent spotting within. Binding tight and square, generally clean. A nice tidy copy of a [more...]
Collected editions of Sunday Chimes, a christian magazine intended for Sunday School pupils. With News articles, poems and short stories. With b/w images and artwork. No date but c.1908. Some interesting pieces on the Boer War and the famine in India. Spi [more...]
Stevenson's edifying essays and observations. Full leather with gilt decoration and armorial crest to cover. Marbled endpapers with matching marbling to page edges. Inner and outer dentelles. Top edge has a small dent that caused small tear to top of titl [more...]
Quarter leather binding EX-LIBRARY copy of the Lambs' great renderings of the stories of Shakespeare. With an introduction by Andrew Lang and b/w illustrations by Robert Anning Bell. Tags removed but stamps and such to ffep and front pastedown. Spine cocked [more...]
Seventh edition of Wilde's second collection of fairy stories, including: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul and The Star-Child. Green cloth. Top edge gilt (though somewhat faded) other edges rough/uncut. Covers are mark [more...]
Neat illustrated adventure novel. With six b/w illustrations. No date but c. 1890. Pictorial covers. Tanning to edges. General wear to covers but contents otherwise clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
First edition of Paine's popular collection of stories for children. With striking b/w illustrations by J. M. Conde. Quarter Cloth with pictorial boards. Rubbing and bumping to covers. Some prelims leaves loose. Some signatures loose. Page 31 is torn lac [more...]
First edition of Blyton's Children's story about a wayward piglet. With charming b/w and colour illustrations by Eileen Soper. Lacks backstrip. Previous owner's tape repairs to hinges and leaves, not affecting text or pictures. Blinding slack. Wear to co [more...]
With a colour frontispiece and numerous b/w illustrations. No DJ. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Front hinge split. Some light spotting within. Previous owner's name to half-title. Otherwise clean. Fair. [more...]
Reprint, with date code x.147. Rubbing to edges of DJ with small tears. Toning to DJ. DJ is price-clipped. Mild bumping and toning to edges of volume. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Jaunty edition of Baum's enduring fantasy. Illustrated with 4 colour plates and b/w in text drawings by Balint Stephen Biro. Decorative cloth. Lacks DJ. Spine slightly cocked. Mild bumping and rubbing to edges. Contents clean and tight, Good/very good. [more...]
Pleasant edition of Grahame's classic sketches of childhood. With b/w illustrations by Lois Lenski throughout plus four vividly coloured plates. Fore-edge uncut. Rubbing to covers. Small tears to top of spine. But a sound copy. Good overall. [more...]
Charming volume featuring a number of plays for Children including Cinderella and Red Riding Hood. With their text, music and directions on how to stage them. With numerous b/w images. With tissue guarded frontispiece. Good. [more...]
