Delightful collection of stories about bears, taken from around the world and retold for children. With colour plates by Edwin Noble. Cloth spine with pictorial covers. Rubbing and bumping to edges and covers. A few small nicks and marks. Contents clean a [more...]
No DJ. Reprint. With colour plates and b/w illustrations by Adler. Collection of stories. Quarter cloth. Some toning and rubbing to covers. Contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
39th year. Gilt decorated pictorial cloth covers with beveled edges. All edges gilt. Features numerous tissue guarded colour illustrations. Various markings and rubbing to covers. Binding a little slack but contents generally clean. Good overall. [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Du Maurier's collection of shorter pieces, including, The Birds, which would go to inspire Hitchock's film. Orignally called Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories but the success of the Birds and its film adaptation caus [more...]
Half leather binding of this children's magazine, Volume 9 edited by Barnardo, the founder of the home for destitute boys and girls. With b/w illustrations plus colour plates. 8vo. Rubbing and cracking to edges and joints. Tanning to page edges but content [more...]
No date but c. 1950. The second volume of stories featuring the mischievous cat. Illustrated throughout in Colour by Mary Kendal Lee. DJ has tears and creasing to edges with loss to top of spine. Small tear to top of spine. Price struck through with pen t [more...]
Collection of long and short stories and verse. Illustrated throughout with b/w and colour illustrations. 4to. Rubbing to edges, with toning and fraying to spine. Marking to rear cover. One small b/w illustration coloured in. Previous owner's inscription [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of Maupassant's selected works. Each volume contains a novel (Bel Ami, une Vie, Fort Comme la Mort, Pierre et Jean - All in English, despite the French Titles) plus several short stories. Decorative green cloth. Volume 1 has a tear [more...]
Collection of short stories and articles, complete with six colour plates (frontispiece bound in later) and numerous b/w illustrations. With a christmas special bound in at the rear, as well the Boy's Diary, an account of sporting results in private schools [more...]
Scarce with Dust jacket. A collection of stories, illustrated throughout in colour by Haywood, fore-edge painter extraordinaire. Slight loss to top and tail of DJ at spine. Previous owner's name in pencil to ffep. Contents clean and binding sound. Good+ [more...]
First UK edition of Le Guin's well received collection of short stories on the theme of visiting different planes of reality. Complete with striking DJ. Some mild bumping to edges of DJ. Contents clean and prim. near fine. [more...]
7. Sonderheft der "Woche". With numerous colour plates. Some bumping to egdes, mild marking to covers. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
Nicely produced and illustrated edition of Andersen's Fairy stories, Complete with 6 colour plates plus b/w decorations within the text. Reprint. 4to. Illustrated paper coverered boards are rubbed to edges with tears to spine and loss to top. Foxing to pa [more...]
Impressive Folio Society edition of Kipling's 1895 sequel to the Jungle book, continuing the tale of Mowgli in a series of short stories. Featuring the striking illustrations of Edward Detmold, redone in colour by David Eccles. Complete with slipcase. Some [more...]
The twelve monthly issues of The Prize for 1901 bound together Each issue comes with a charming colour frontispiece, and numerous b/w illustrations throughout, along with poems and stories for children. Bound in blue patterned cloth. Clean and tight. Very [more...]
Deluxe leather edition of Dickens' final unfinished novel together with his own entirely delf-written periodical, Master Humphrey's Clock, a plethora of short stories. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edg [more...]
Strikingly illustrated accounts of childhood in the Netherlands. With numerous colour illustrations throughout. 4to. Heavy rubbing to spine, with fraying. Light spotting and toning to cover. Toning within, binding sound. Good. [more...]
Generously illustrated edition of the Tales from the Arabian Nights, seemingly adapted from Gilbert's translation. With 48 colour illustrations by A. E. Jackson with illustrated end-papers. Tearing and loss to tipped in cover image. Toning and marking to co [more...]
Early Folio Society edition of Boccaccio's renaissance compendium of short stories. With illustrations by Buckland-Wright. Complete with Dust-jackets. Decorative cloth boards. Some water damage to rear cover of volume 1, affecting rear free end-papers and [more...]
Facsimile edition of the 1931 Gargoyle press edition. With b/w erotic illustrations by Francis Heuber. A collection of short stories. DJ has some very light bumping to edges. Otherwise crisp and clean. Near fine. [more...]
