THE GOLLIWOGG'S BICYCLE CLUB by Upton, Bertha - 1898 (Circa.)

Longmans, Green & Co, 1896. First Edition. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. No dust jacket. Pictorial boards are quite worn on the corners, edges worn, scratches and soiling, blue cloth spine worn as well. Pen name front endpaper, endpapers and paper edges tanned, smudges, front hinge breaking and shaken. Longman's Green 1896 first edition. All orders packed with care, independent bookseller since 2011

London: Longman's Green, 1898. First edition. Coloured illustrations throughout. Oblong folio (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches), 62-pages. Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Some dust marking to binding, some rubbing to lettering on upper cover, corners rounded, 1 gathering detached, inner joints cracked, one inch tear to one margin without loss. Overall a good clean copy. Later gift inscription on front pastedown "Great Aunt Theresa's Contribution to 'Daddy Edward's' Nursery Party 26th Aug. 1919".

London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co., 1896. Hardcover. Good Plus/No Jacket. Oblong 11 By 9 Inches. 63 pp. Full color plate illustrations not quite every other page, with text illustrations interspersed in margins of comic verse. One of the best of the politically dubious relics of late nineteenth century children's literature. It is hard to say whether the infectious humor of the illustrations or of the fluent inspired doggerel, almost certainly emulated by the likes of Roald Dahl, is the bigger draw. Probably the rarest of the highly desirable Golliwogg series, this one taking our characters to Paris, Japan and Africa. This copy has considerable soilage on the boards, which are illustrated paper pasted onto the boards. Shelfwear along edges and corners. Original spine band survives, with some wear by tips and rubbing along gutters. Interior tight. Some scattered soilage to pages, but text and especially the illustrations remain attractive.

London, New York, & Bombay: Longmans & Green, & Co, 1903. New Edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. Marvelous illustrations by Florence Kate Upton, (1873 - 1922) English illustrator and cartoonist known most for her series of children's books, the Golliwogg series. Upton first introduced the Golliwogg in her 1895 book 'Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg'. Her Golliwogg is a friendly and courageous character, although some later iterations were not. This is the story of the round the world travels of Golliwogg and his "old time friends", the Dutch peg dolls, on their home made bicycles. They travel to Paris and visit the Eiffel Tower; visit Japan and ride in a jinrikisha; travel to Turkey, ride a camel in a desert, and are captured by a tribe of cannibals. Oblong 4to, 62pp, color illustrations. Quarter cloth and pictorial boards, with title in red and black at front board, no title at spine. Boards a bit dusty, part of titlle smudged, inner hinge starting, but holding firm.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1896. Book. Illus. by UPTON, FLORENCE. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to Landscape. pp. 62 [ii], fine colour lithographic illustration throughout. All pages present and generally very good. Original pictorial covers with blue cloth spine. Spine very good with minimal fraying. Boards with some general wear and marks, corners slightly rounded, crease to font board (see images). Contents generally very good, complete, original end papers, professional repair to the front and rear hinge where Gutta -percha has cracked. Discrete professional repaired tear to page 49 and a few other pages with short edge tears. Some general reading wear but no scribblings or inscriptions. A very good copy..

London, New York, & Bombay, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1896. . First edition; landscape 4to (220 x 280 mm.); pictorial title, 31 coloured full-page illustrations and monotone illustrations by Florence K. Upton, patterned endpapers, attractive coeval gift inscription to front pastedown, slight offsetting to title and verso of last leaf, overall internally near-fine; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, a few minor scratches and slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy. A very good example of this popular title from the Uptons' Golliwogg series of thirteen books; one of the best in terms of subject matter and the variety & scope of the Florence K. Upton's splendid illustrations, in our opinion at least.