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London: James Nisbet & Co. Ltd, 1899. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good +. Fred Pegram. 8vo, decorative cloth boards with a black line illustration of a woman and lion to front and foliage decoration on spine, gilt titles. Contemporary gift dedication on front endpaper (dated Christmas 1900). With fronts and 3 other full page illustrations by Fred Pegram. Occasional marks, generally very good and clean. 472pp plus 32pp publisher’s catalogue. Classic tales.
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments
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The Cement Garden
by Ian McEwan
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First Edition, first Impression of Ian McEwan's first novel (preceded by two short story collections: First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets). 8vo, green cloth with gilt titles on spine, grey end papers, illustrated dust jacket with author portrait on rear. Unclipped dust jacket priced £3.50 inside. 138pp. Foxing to page edges, hence the price and condition status. Still a nice book and otherwise clean. 'In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves.' A modern classic.
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Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
by Dahl, Roald
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London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1967. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. Faith Jaques. First UK Edition. 4to, original glazed coloured pictorial boards. Some edge wear to boards, spine and corners. Tear to top of spine. Generally nice and clean inside, occasional marks. Scarce. 127pp illustrated with line drawings by Faith Jaques. Dahl’s classic tale of five children who get the opportunity to visit Wonka’s chocolate factory.
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A Christmas Carol
by Dickens, C.; Sir A.T. Quiller Couch (Editor)
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London: J. M. Dent, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. C. E Brock. No. 32 in The Kings Treasuries of Literature series. Red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 189pp with 10 black and white illustrations by Brock in the text. With a brief biography of Dickens and Thoughts and Questions on the story itself, helpful for putting some of it context, explaining some of the older language / sayings. Also, Dickens and Drama plus The Tale of Valentine and Orson and book adverts for the rest of the series. Previous owners name and school handwritten on front pastedown and endpaper. Very good and clean inside, a nice little edition of this well known Christmas story.
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The Commentaries of Caesar
by Trollope, Anthony
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo, brown cloth boards with gilt titles on spine, series decoration in black on front. Part of the Ancient Classics for English Readers series. Vi + 182pp plus 4pp of publisher's catalogue. Some edge wear, nice and clean inside.
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The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales For My Children
by Kingsley, C.
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London: Oxford University Press, 1930. Hardcover. Very good. Charles Kingsley. 8vo, green leather with gilt titles on spine, all edges gilt, coloured endpapers. 175pp illustrated by the author. Frontispiece and seven other black and white plates. Greek myths written for children. Occasional spotting, generally very clean inside. Presentation bookplate on front pastedown. A good tight copy.
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The Jungle Book
by Kipling, Rudyard
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New York: The Century Co., 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. William Henry Drake; J L Kipling. 8vo, Original olive green cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration on covers and spine. The front cover has an elephant and the rear, a tiger. Beautifully illustrated with frontis and plates, drawings and chapter headings throughout the text. Illustrated by William Henry Drake and J L Kipling, Kipling’s father. First American edition. Xvii + 303pp. Upper edge gilt. Slightly cocked, spine sunned, occasional marks, some age toning. A previous owner has tipped in a cutting of The Law for the Wolves opposite the list of illustrations. In good + / very good condition. Kipling’s classic tales of jungle animals, Mogwai, Shere Khan and so on.
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Kidnapped
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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London: Collins. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, burgundy pebbled cloth with blind embossed decoration and titles on front. Gilt titles and decoration on spine. Upper edge red. Xvi + 298pp with coloured frontispiece. An attractive copy of this classic adventure story set in the aftermath of the Jacobite revolution. Undated.
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The Margaret Tarrant Story Book
by Marigold Keeble; Ruby Clough; Mary Austin; Majorie Bowen; Janet Gay; Bertha Lawrence
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London & Glasgow : Collins, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. Tarrant, Margaret. 4to, red cloth boards with gilt decoration and titles on front. 128pp illustrated with colour frontis and 7 other coloured plates, numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. 20 illustrated short stories for children including: The Animals That Talked, Rabbit's Story, Elizabeth Never Guessed, The Fairy Queen's Child, The Faithful Knight, Elephant's Story, Holidays, Pilgrim's Gift, Cat's story, Bimo, Mouse's Story, Pantry Fairies, Seal's Story, Prim, Cub's Story, Old Salt and Red Duster, Beaver's Story, The White Horse, Tiger’s Story, The Little Red Shoes. A mix of styles, both contemporary for the 1940’s and traditional. A couple of marks on the cover and a little edge wear as pictured. Slight foxing to end papers, otherwise lovely and clean inside with charming illustrations. Many of the stories are told to a child by her large menagerie of soft toys. Margaret Tarrant was an Edwardian…
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The Mission; or Scenes in Africa
by Marryat, Captain
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London: Longmans, Brown, Green & Longsmans, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. First edition, complete in 2 volumes. Small 8vo, brown cloth boards with embossed border decoration on front and spine. Some marking and edge wear to boards, corners bumped, small tear to upper spine of vol I. Titles in gilt on spine. 328 + 374pp illustrated with tissue guarded frontispiece in both volumes and map at the front of vol I. 32pp publisher’s undated catalogue at rear of vol I. Previous owner’s book plate on front pastedown. Generally nice and clean inside, a little foxing / marking here and there. ‘Written for young people’ the story of a journey to Africa by a young man in search of a missing relative and his adventures along the way.
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
by Browning, Robert
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London : Harper of Holloway, 1945. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good +. F. W Darlington. 4to, embossed colour pictorial onlay of the piper leading blind embossed rats on the front cover, with titles in colour block above. No endpapers. A little scuffing on the edge of the rear board. 16pp with colour illustrations by F. W Darlington, some full page others in the text. Occasional marking, generally nice and clean with vivid pictures. An uncommon edition of this children's classic tale. Undated circa late 1940s.
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Pinocchio
by Collodi, Carlo; Wlaker (trans)
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Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1946. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good +/Fair. Richard Floethe. 8vo, pictorial boards with gilt titles on spine. Pictorial dust jacket with a few tears and wear, price clipped, please see pictures. Illustrated endpapers, coloured frontis and 3 other coloured plates. Monchrome woodcut illustrations at chapter headers throughout. 239pp. The classic tale of the wooden puppet who becomes a real boy. Rainbow Classics Edition. Also includes a brief introductory biography of the author and his inspiration for the book. Very good plus condition inside.
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Robinson Crusoe
by Lang, John; Defoe, D.
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London: T. C. & E. C. Jack Ltd, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Robinson, W. B.. Told to the Children Series. Undated circa early 1900s. Red cloth boards with black illustration & tiles on front and spine. 114pp illustrated with frontispiece and other coloured plates. A little fading and shelf wear to the binding, occasional foxing/ marks inside, generally nice and clean.
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Sketches by 'Boz'
by Dickens, C.
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London: R E King & Co., 1870. Hardcover. Good. Cruikshank, George. Red cloth boards with black titles on spine and front. 348pp with frontispiece and other illustrations throughout the text by Cruikshank. Undated circa 1870. Spine sunned and a couple of marks on cover.
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Stories From Chaucer
by Underdown, Emily
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London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1913. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. Anderson, Anne. Small 8vo, red cloth with gilt titles and pictorial onlay to front cover. 157pp with 8 colour plates. Tear to spine, some edge wear and top corner badly bumped. A little age toning to front. Generally very good and clean inside, occasional marks.
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Tales of Green Hedges
by Enid Blyton
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London: The National Magazine Co. Ltd, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Gwen White. 8vo, green cloth boards with gilt titles on front and spine. Sunned. Decorated coloured endpapers by Gwen White. 128pp with line illustrations, some full page, in green, black and white by Gwen White. Contemporary gift dedication on blind title page dated 1946. 24 short stories, 2 for each month of the year.
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The Thornton Romances: The Early English Metrical Romances of Perceval, Isumbras, Eglamour, and Degrevant
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London: Camden Society, 1844. Hardcover. Good. Selected from manuscripts at Lincoln and Cambridge. Black cloth boards with blind embossed decoration on covers. Lvi + 312pp. Tears to spine, upper part loose. Ex reference library with pictorial bookplates on pastedown. Inner book in excellent clean condition. Romantic tales of knights of old told in verse.
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The Water Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
by DIXON, Arthur] KINGSLEY, Charles
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London: Ernest Nister, 1900. Hardcover. Good +. Dixon, Arthur A.. Octavo, green cloth boards with very attractive coloured decorations on front and spine, water babies riding on fish and gilt titles. Boards with bevelled edges. All edges gilt. 336pp with 6 full page colour plates, 11 full page monochrome plates and numerous black & white vignettes throughout the text by Arthur Dixon. Tear to spine at top rear, some other edge wear at spine and corners. Some marking to rear board. Pictorial blue endpapers. Binding cracked inside at front endpapers, a couple of minor tears and chips and very occasional marking. Generally very good and clean inside. Undated circa early 1900s.
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Water-Rat’s Picnic
by Uttley, Alison
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London: Collins Clear Type Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. Margaret Tempest . Green paper covered boards with illustration on front. Pictorial endpapers. 63pp with charming illustrations fthroughout by Margaret Tempest. A lovely clean edition of this classic children’s tale.
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When We Were Very Young
by Milne A. A.
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London: Methuen and Co, 1925. Hardcover. Good. Ernest Shepard. 8vo, blue cloth boards with gilt vignettes and border on front and rear boards, gilt titles on spine. Upper edge gilt. 100pp with line illustrations by Ernest Shepard. Illustrated endpapers, with previous owner’s handwritten name and bookseller’s stamp on front pastedown. Corners slightly bumped and some edge wear. Generally nice and clean inside with occasional cracks to the inner binding. 10th edition of this children’s classic.
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