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OH! POOR AMELIA JANE!
by AINSLIE, Kathleen. Written and illustrated by Ainslie.:
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Castell Brothers Ltd, printed in Bavaria, (1905).. FIRST EDITION (1905), 8vo, 170 x 120 mm, 6¾ x 4½ inches, colour illustrated card covers, silk cord ties, (28) pages. 14 lovely bright colour plates illustrating a day in the life of the accident-prone little girl who owns the Dutch dolls in the well known series of little books by Ainslie. Each plate faces 'handwritten' simple text. Spine slightly rubbed, very small light crease to upper corner of upper cover, showing slightly on pages within, lower cover lightly browned next to spine and at top edge, silk ties faded, contents very clean and bright, not foxed. A very good plus copy. Ainslie is known to have produced about 25 titles for Castell, the earliest, Catharine Susan and Me circa 1903. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46969
- Title
- OH! POOR AMELIA JANE!
- Author
- AINSLIE, Kathleen. Written and illustrated by Ainslie.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- London, Castell Brothers Ltd, printed in Bavaria, (1905).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- chromolithographs children's picture book
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
We have been established booksellers for 42 years. We are a postal business only (strictly no callers). We are long-standing members of the P.B.F.A. the largest trade association for antiquarian booksellers in the UK. We wrap all our parcels in new materials and all our books are insured at our expense. Books may be returned if wrongly described, all costs will be met by us. ****PLEASE NOTE: POSTAGE WILL BE CHARGED AT COST, MEANING THAT POSTAGE WILL BE REDUCED ON PARCELS WEIGHING UNDER 1 KILO, AND IT WILL BE INCREASED ON MOST PARCELS WEIGHING MORE THAN 1 KILO****
About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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- Spine
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- Foxed
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