Charming volume from Ainslie's describing the mishaps of a young girl. With chromolithograph illustrations and text, bound with cord. No date but c. 1905. Some light toning to covers, rubbing to edges. Mild tanning to page edges. A nice example. Very good [more...]
Charming volume from Ainslie's popular series concerning the exploits of two Dutch Peg Dolls. Here they scale the walls of high society. With chromolithograph illustrations and text, bound with cord. No date but c. 1905. Some toning/staining to covers, rub [more...]
First edition, first printing of Harte's charming, and pioneering, children's story, describing games of make-believe with a genuine interest; wherein, most notably, a nine year old girl pursues the life of a Pirate Queen. With 28 colour illustrations by Kate [more...]
Charming volume from Ainslie's popular series of children's (?) books featuring Peg Dolls. Here a young fellow goes to boarding school with amusing consequences. With chromolithograph illustrations and text, bound with cord. No date but c. 1905. Some tonin [more...]
Scarce, generously illustrated collection of obscure children's stories, including The Blackbird's Nest; Rosa, the Little Cousin from India; The Little Lamb and others. With numerous colour images and descriptive letterpress. 4to. No date but c. 1880. No pu [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...]
Collection of articles, humour, stories and illustrations, many plates in colour with b/w images within the text, including a beautiful chromolithographic frontispiece. Advertisements to rear cover and end-papers. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Tanning to pag [more...]
Scarce collection of nursery rhymes with chromolithographic full page colour illustrations. No date but c. 1910. Toning to covers. Tanning to page edges but contents clean and tight. Good+ [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...]
Eleventh impression in the iconic dust jacket. Ex-school-Library with tags to ffep and stamp to copyright page. Tape repairs to front and rear hinges. DJ in protective sleeve but with wear to edges and loss from top and tail of spine. A couple of small tea [more...]
Charming collection of classic fairytales from variety of authors, including Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Three Bears, Jack the Giant Killer etc. With 16 colour plates and numerous b/w image within the tex. Some rubbing to edges. P [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...]
Collection of educational and fun articles on history, mathematics etc. and fiction. With 12 colour plates and b/w illustrations. No date but c. 1914. Rubbing to edges with loss to top and tail of spine. Tanning within but contents otherwise clean and sound [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...]
Fantastical story. Featuring b/w illustrations by Dorothy Wheeler. With 264 numbered panels that tell the story. 4to. Rubbing to edges and slight cracking to joints. Toning to covers. Previous owner's name to dedication page. Contents clean and binding s [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...]
All 12 issue for that year of the Children's magazine. With stories, poems and articles and 12 colour plates plus further b/w illustrations within the text. Rubbing and toning to covers. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Contents otherwise clean and bi [more...]
Nicely produced children's story, with chromolithographic plates and text, done by Alice Havers and Ernest Wilson. 4to. Rubbing to edges. Toning to covers. Previous owner's neat inscription to ffep. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
