LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY by Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Illustrated by Reginald B. Birch - 1886

United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education (1951). Illustrated boards with rubbing at edges and along spine, bottom of spine chipped, boards and text are very clean and bright. Illustrated in color and b&w throughout by Sendak, one of his earliest titles, scarce and usually found in terrible condition, this is a nice copy.. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to.

: Harold Hill & Company, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. UK, 1957 HBDJ, Stated First Published Great Britain 1957 on copyright pg, 1st UK Edition, VG-/GOOD+, AS-IS, THICK Orange Tweed cloth with Silhouette of boys on front & Title & Author on Spine Cvr has slight Btm Front edge Fade, Dustjacket has a small edgewear at the head and foot of the spine with small Chip Top NOT Affecting Title. Front dustjacket flap Lists Thru Crisscross Shadow, The text itself is in good shape with Light Wear Fox, page List of titles in front go thru While Clock Ticked, 222 pgs , + ADS in back Have you ever thought why You get so Much Fun + List Nancy Drew Titles Thru Secret Red Gate Farm, Interior Nice tight clean Light Wear Fox, DJ Protected by Clear Mylar, DJ Light wear tiny chips Tears creases Extremities, Orange cloth stamped in dark black on spine and front board, 5 X 7 1/2 in. , .Back Inner Flap Dj Lists thru Nancy Drew secret of Red Gate Farm & show Price of 6/- NET PRICE, Back of DJ Light… Read More

London: T.McLean ., 1855. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. Not dated but circa 1855. Second edition, second issue. Rebound in half leather with marble boards circa 1900, retaining the original lithographic front cover/title page with ‘New Edition’ in top right corner, publisher T.McLean in lower right corner.. Lithographed throughout with pictorial title 'Old Derry Down Derry' and 71 of 72 plates only (lacking 'Cape Horn'), printed on rectos only on thicker paper. The two 'Old Man of the West' plates with correct images, plates 20, 25, 34, 64 & 65 with parts of the verse redrawn ,four being the same plates as in the first edition, foxed in parts. Plate number 65 is badly cropped at the bottom, with loss of the last line of text. Plate 14 'Old Man of Jamaica' poorly printed at head and with scratch to verse, one or two images very slightly cropped at head, The binding is worn, rubbed, with the front hinge being quite weak and spine faded.… Read More

London: D.Martin., 1840. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. 52pp. Complete. Illustrated with twenty-six hand coloured wood engravings illustrations by Robert Cruikshank, with text by McDonald. Text and illustrations printed within ruled borders with corner ornaments. Bound in original yellow card boards. These have darkened. Some light foxing and finger marks, otherwise a very nice copy. Vary Scarce . Circa 1840. COPAC only list one copy in the Victoria and Albert Museum with yellow paper wrappers, description matches this copy.  

St. Petersburg,: Eksped. Zagotov. gos. bumag , 1901. Paperback. Very Good. BILIBIN, Ivan Ya[kovlevich] . 10pp., Illustrated with chromolithographs throughout, some of these full-page. Bound in original chromolithographed wrappers. On verso of the front cover is There is an inscription in ink ‘With best wishes for One Shree at 4, the Grove from Auntie Ada’ . The book has recently been professionally repaired, the spine and corner creases strengthened. There is some light off setting, but generally in very good condition, as quite often with these chromolithographic printed books, the oils in the ink stick together causing surface damage. There are a couple of small incidences of this, but not much. What is very interesting about this book –which I haven’t seen before, inserted is an English Translation. It is printed on a folded sheet on different paper-This has some light foxing. It must have been sold in England as the insert is published by Russian Peasant Industries and… Read More

United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education (1951). Illustrated boards with rubbing at edges and along spine, bottom of spine chipped, boards and text are very clean and bright. Illustrated in color and b&w throughout by Sendak, one of his earliest titles, scarce and usually found in terrible condition, this is a nice copy.. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to.

: Harold Hill & Company, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. UK, 1957 HBDJ, Stated First Published Great Britain 1957 on copyright pg, 1st UK Edition, VG-/GOOD+, AS-IS, THICK Orange Tweed cloth with Silhouette of boys on front & Title & Author on Spine Cvr has slight Btm Front edge Fade, Dustjacket has a small edgewear at the head and foot of the spine with small Chip Top NOT Affecting Title. Front dustjacket flap Lists Thru Crisscross Shadow, The text itself is in good shape with Light Wear Fox, page List of titles in front go thru While Clock Ticked, 222 pgs , + ADS in back Have you ever thought why You get so Much Fun + List Nancy Drew Titles Thru Secret Red Gate Farm, Interior Nice tight clean Light Wear Fox, DJ Protected by Clear Mylar, DJ Light wear tiny chips Tears creases Extremities, Orange cloth stamped in dark black on spine and front board, 5 X 7 1/2 in. , .Back Inner Flap Dj Lists thru Nancy Drew secret of Red Gate Farm & show Price of 6/- NET PRICE, Back of DJ Light… Read More

London: T.McLean ., 1855. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. Not dated but circa 1855. Second edition, second issue. Rebound in half leather with marble boards circa 1900, retaining the original lithographic front cover/title page with ‘New Edition’ in top right corner, publisher T.McLean in lower right corner.. Lithographed throughout with pictorial title 'Old Derry Down Derry' and 71 of 72 plates only (lacking 'Cape Horn'), printed on rectos only on thicker paper. The two 'Old Man of the West' plates with correct images, plates 20, 25, 34, 64 & 65 with parts of the verse redrawn ,four being the same plates as in the first edition, foxed in parts. Plate number 65 is badly cropped at the bottom, with loss of the last line of text. Plate 14 'Old Man of Jamaica' poorly printed at head and with scratch to verse, one or two images very slightly cropped at head, The binding is worn, rubbed, with the front hinge being quite weak and spine faded.… Read More

London: D.Martin., 1840. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. 52pp. Complete. Illustrated with twenty-six hand coloured wood engravings illustrations by Robert Cruikshank, with text by McDonald. Text and illustrations printed within ruled borders with corner ornaments. Bound in original yellow card boards. These have darkened. Some light foxing and finger marks, otherwise a very nice copy. Vary Scarce . Circa 1840. COPAC only list one copy in the Victoria and Albert Museum with yellow paper wrappers, description matches this copy.  

St. Petersburg,: Eksped. Zagotov. gos. bumag , 1901. Paperback. Very Good. BILIBIN, Ivan Ya[kovlevich] . 10pp., Illustrated with chromolithographs throughout, some of these full-page. Bound in original chromolithographed wrappers. On verso of the front cover is There is an inscription in ink ‘With best wishes for One Shree at 4, the Grove from Auntie Ada’ . The book has recently been professionally repaired, the spine and corner creases strengthened. There is some light off setting, but generally in very good condition, as quite often with these chromolithographic printed books, the oils in the ink stick together causing surface damage. There are a couple of small incidences of this, but not much. What is very interesting about this book –which I haven’t seen before, inserted is an English Translation. It is printed on a folded sheet on different paper-This has some light foxing. It must have been sold in England as the insert is published by Russian Peasant Industries and… Read More