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London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin, Blackie, circa 1894.. EARLY REPRINT circa 1894, dated from adverts at rear, binding as first edition of 1886 (dated), 8vo, red cloth, illustrated on upper cover (boys playing football), and spine (boy with cricket bat), gilt titled upper cover, titled on gilt panel on spine, pages: 160 + 32. 2 tinted plates by J.J. Proctor. Spine slightly faded, head and tail and corners very slightly worn, 1 tiny nick to head of spine, 15 mm (¾") water mark on lower board, bookplate messily removed from front pastedown (see image). A very good copy. Newbolt 25,2. Contains 3 stories: Do Your Duty, Surly Joe, A Fish-wife's Dream. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST.

London, Hamilton, 1976.. FIRST EDITION 1976, small 4to, 235 x 175 mm, 9¼ x 6¾ inches, blue boards gilt, 96 pages. Illustrated in line by Krystyna Turska. A wonderful story about a fairy foundling set in a Cornish fishing village. Neat ink name at top of front endpaper. Otherwise a Fine copy in near Fine DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, a few light score marks to lower panel). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Methuen, 1952.. FIRST EDITION 1952, 8vo, 220 x 140 mm, 8½ x 5½ inches, blue cloth lettered pale blue, 215 pages. Vignettes throughout by E.H. Shepard. Verse and prose described by Milne as 'disconnected ideas', chapters named after the months. 4 mm (¼") strip faded along lower edges of covers, no inscriptions. Very good plus copy in VG+ DUSTWRAPPER (dw: price clipped, a very tiny chip at top of each hinge, 1 small water spot near tail of spine). In the first chapter Milne turns to the subject of Lewis Carroll and how he came to write Alice in Wonderland. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Kestrel, 1984.. FIRST EDITION 1984, 8vo, colour illustrated shiny boards, 142 pages. Black and white illustrations by Ian Newsham. No inscriptions, minute bump to lower corner of lower cover, pinhead sized rub to top of lower hinge, half-title and final blank page very slightly rippled due to production fault, otherwise a Fine clean crisp copy, issued without dustwrapper. Story about a small thin boy known as "Worm" at school. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Hamilton Reindeer series, 1968.. FIRST EDITION 1968, 8vo, colour illustrated boards, 120 pages. Black and white illustrations by Trevor Stubley. Neat name of Margery Fisher on front endpaper (well known reviewer and historian of children's books, author of many books on the subject), otherwise near Fine clean copy in VG+ DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, tiny graze at top of lower hinge, spine a touch faded). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Walker, 1984.. FIRST EDITION 1984, small 4to, 175 x 165 mm, 7 x 6½ inches, colour illustrated shiny boards and colour illustrated endpapers, circa 24 pages. Delightful illustrations in colour by Patrick Benson. The Hob is a friendly household spirit whose job it is to keep trouble away from the happy family with whom he lives. No inscriptions, a Fine clean copy, issued without dustwrapper. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Walker, 1984.. FIRST EDITION 1984, small 4to, 175 x 165 mm, 7 x 6½ inches, colour illustrated shiny boards and colour illustrated endpapers, circa 24 pages. Delightful illustrations in colour by Patrick Benson. The Hob is a friendly household spirit whose job it is to keep trouble away from the happy family with whom he lives. No inscriptions, a touch of fading to spine, spine lettering bright. A Fine clean copy, issued without dustwrapper. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Walker, 1984.. FIRST EDITION 1984, small 4to, 175 x 165 mm, 7 x 6½ inches, colour illustrated shiny boards and colour illustrated endpapers, circa 24 pages. Delightful illustrations in colour by Patrick Benson. The Hob is a friendly household spirit whose job it is to keep trouble away from the happy family with whom he lives. No inscriptions, a Fine clean copy, issued without dustwrapper. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Dent, 1957.. FIRST UK EDITION, 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, 179 pages. Humorous line drawings throughout by Sendak for humorous poems on wide variety of subjects. No inscriptions. An almost Fine crisp clean copy in near Fine DUSTWRAPPER (dw: price clipped, very slight wear to head of spine). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. and Pleiades Books, Ltd, (1955).. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE (1955), 8vo, coloured illustrations throughout. Pale pink coloured pictorial boards, flat spine, colour illustrated endpapers, 60 pages. Book leaning very slightly, no inscriptions, faint signs of page turning on lower margins of a few pages. A near Fine clean copy in very good plus DUSTWRAPPER with 3 Noddy illustrations on front inner flap, 3 coloured illustrations from the Children's Library on rear flap, (dw: neatly price clipped, 3 short closed edge tears maximum 10 mm (½"), neatly repaired on reverse, 1 with small adjacent crease, tiny chips at head of spine, a touch of wear to tail of spine). Summerfield Volume III page 66. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Duckworth, 1978.. FIRST EDITION 1978. No inscriptions, minute bump to top corners of boards (see image), top edges white, a Fine crisp clean copy in Fine DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, red lettering on spine slightly faded (see image), NOT faded to cream as often). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Duckworth, 1978.. FIRST EDITION 1978. No inscriptions, top edges white, a Fine crisp clean copy in near Fine DUSTWRAPPER (dw: price clipped, red lettering on spine faded to cream as usual (see image). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Blackie, (1922).. Reprint (1922), 8vo, 175 x 110 mm, 7 x 4¼ inches, light green fake cloth boards with floral decoration (dianthus) in cream, green and dark brown to upper cover and spine, 94 pages. Black and white frontispiece on coated paper and 2 full page black and white illustrations in the text by Gordon Browne. Top corners and head and tail of spine very slightly bumped, very small light stain on lower board, spine darkened to tan, inscription and date Xmas 1923 on front endpaper. A very good plus clean tight copy. See Newbolt No. 121.4 but ours lists13 titles with 5 by Henty, rather than 12 and 6 as in Newbolt. First published in 1906. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Blackie, (1922).. Reprint (1922), 8vo, 175 x 110 mm, 7 x 4¼ inches, buff fake cloth boards with floral decoration (dianthus) in cream, green and dark brown on upper cover and spine, 94 pages. Black and white frontispiece on coated paper and 2 full page black and white illustrations by Gordon Browne. Top corners and head of spine very slightly bumped, endpapers slightly browned. Prize inscription on front endpaper. A very good plus copy. See Newbolt No. 121.4. First published in 1906. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Hills & Co. Ltd, (1902).. FIRST EDITION (1902), small 8vo, 160 x 120 mm, 6½ x 4¾ inches, original publisher's orange and white cloth, bevelled boards, illustration to upper cover of child reading, 188 pages. 6 pretty colour plates of Nursery Rhymes. Expertly recased and resewn, spine darkened slightly, cloth slightly rubbed and slightly marked, corners very slightly worn, inscription dated 1903 on reverse of frontispiece, 30 mm (1") ink blot to text page 62 with small hole at centre due to attempts at erasure, loss of a couple of letters (see image 3), a few neat entries. A very good copy of a scarce Aldin title. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1712.. FIRST EDITION 1712. Part 3 only from "The Young Gentleman's Astronomy, Chronology, and Dialling". 8vo, approximately 190 x 120 mm, 7½ x 4½ inches, 11 engraved folding plates, 9 numbered and 2 unnumbered, pages: [8], 1-56, bound in quarter modern calf, pale brown cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine, bookplate to first free endpaper of Arthur Frank. Repairs to blank side of plate 8, no loss to image, pale stain to tops of last three plates and lower margins of pages 47-56, 3 pale spots to lower margin of plate 9, not affecting image, slight creasing to the larger folding plates, ink name and notes to last 2 blank endpapers, small repairs to inner lower margins of same, a good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, T. Worrall, at the Judge's-Head overagainst [sic] St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-Street, 1729.. TITLE CONTINUED: Together with some MAXIMS of general Use in the Conduct of his LIFE. By a Gentleman of the Middle Temple. FIRST EDITION 1729. 12mo, approximately 150 x 90 mm, 6 x 3½ inches, pages: [2], iii, [1], [1]-162, signatures: A1-3, B-G¹², H1-9. Bound in contemporary full sheep, blind panel decoration to covers, no lettering or title. Binding rubbed, upper and lower hinges cracked at head and tail, but covers still attached, corners bumped and slightly worn at tips, slight loss of leather to edge of upper cover, inner paper hinges cracked, no free endpapers, some ink scribble to pastedowns, old ink name to top margin of Preface and foot of last page, neither affecting text, faint staining to upper margins, pale age-browning to pages, otherwise a very good copy. 2 copies only listed in ESTC: T58739, 1 in Uk and 1 in USA; Library Hub Discover, list 1 copy in British Library. John Bancks (1709… Leer más

London, John Murray, 1956.. FIRST EDITION 1956, 8vo, light blue boards, red lettered, 183 pages. Illustrated in black and white by Lunt Roberts. A new Michael and Mary story involving narrow boats and a circus. Tiny dent to lower edge of lower board, no inscriptions. A very good plus clean copy in very good DUSTWRAPPER (dw: price clipped, a few small closed edge tears, repaired with sellotape on reverse, 40 mm (1½") closed tear to top edge of upper panel with some creasing around it). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Soissons, De l'Imprimerie de Ponce Courtois, Imprimeur du Roi, 1769.. FIRST EDITION IN FOUR PARTS, 1769, text in French, 4to, approximately 250 x 190 mm, 10 x 7½ inches, 8 large folding tables (on the dynasties and aspects of government, means of production and merchandise), a few pictorial headpieces and decorative tailpieces, pages: xviii, [1]-701, [9], including approbation, privilege, and errata, bound in full mottled calf, rebacked with original richly gilt decorated and gilt lettered backstrip laid down, new calf showing at head and tail of spine, all edges red, early marbled endpapers. Hinges beginning to crack, covers still firmly attached, binding pitted, small expert repairs to corners, hairline cracks to original spine, small early name label on front pastedown, tiny corner tip missing on front endpaper, another on upper corner of 3rd folding table, slight binding crease across lower margin corner of title page, another to page 701, 1 small marginal repair, not near text, occasional very… Leer más

London, Longmans, 1901.. SECOND ISSUE 1901, with cancel title page stating "REISSUE" otherwise format and contents as first issue of 1899. 8vo, 200 x 135 mm, 8 x 5¼ inches, salmon pink cloth, bevelled edges, gilt, dark brown and white illustration to upper cover and spine, gilt lettered upper cover and spine, all edges gilt, black endpapers, pages: xii, 370. Frontispiece and 20 black and white plates, 24 text illustrations, some almost full page. Contains CHATEAU AND SHIP by Henty and stories by Ker, Leighton, Fenn and Collingwood. Tiny pale spot at lower edge of upper cover, covers very bright, neat name on half-title, small chip to margin corner of 1 page, small closed tear neatly repaired to same corner of following page, occasional very light foxing. Very good plus clean tight copy. Newbolt 194.3. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. A heavy book which may require extra postage.