Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge SPCK, c. 1895. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered decorative green cloth (VG). Pp. 224, illus with b&w frontispiece with tissue-guard and b&w plates (1895 school prize plate on front paste-down and previous owner's neat inscription on verso of front free endpaper; prelims and fore-edge..... More
World's Work, 1980. 3 vols. Original pictorial boards (VG), dustwrapper (small nicks at edges - in protective wrappers, not price clipped). Unpaginated, illus with coloured drawings throughout (no inscriptions). More
Longman Young Books, 1972. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (bumped at head and tail of spine - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (lightly torn at head and tail of spine - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 120, illus with b&w drawings by Faith Jaques (no inscriptions). More
George G. Harrap & Co., 1962. 1st edn. 8vo. Original red decorated green cloth (VG), dustwrapper (light wear and creasing at edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 172, illus with b&w drawings by Keith Money (no inscriptions). More
Faber and Faber. 1946. 1st edn. 12mo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (casing withslight lean and some light wear at edges), dustwrapper (worn and tears at edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 220, illus with b&w pictures (previous owner's neat pencil gift inscription on front free end..... More
Jonathan Cape, 1936. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered yellow cloth (spine and boards discoloured and light wear at corners), no dustwrapper. Pp. 191, illus with b&w drawings by the author (some faint spotting on endpapers; no inscriptions). More
Constable & Co., 1914. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green pictorial cloth, top edge gilt (fore-edge and endpapers spotted; lightly bumped at corners - otherwise VG). Pp. 209, illus with pictorial title and 7 coloured plates by M.V. Wheelhouse (previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down; no inscriptions). More
Century, 2007. 1st edn. 4to. Original pictoral laminated boards (Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. 254, illus with coloured and b&w plates and drawings throughout (no inscriptions). More
Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1986. 1st edn. 4to. Original laminated pictorial boards (Fine). Pp. 53, illus with coloured and b&w drawings (no inscriptions). [French text]. More
Hutchinson, c. 1950. 1st edn. 8vo. Original yellow lettered green cloth (page edges spotted; extrems lightly scuffed), dustwrapper (extrems scuffed and chipped - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 272, illus with coloured frontispiece and b&w drawings in text (front and rear endpapers and prelims spotted; pages foxed; no..... More
Fig Tree, 2019. 9780241354780. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original black lettered light yellow cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xi + 288, illus with b&w drawings in text (no inscriptions). More
Kaye & Ward, 1969. 1st edn. 16mo (6¼ x 5¾ ins). Original gilt lettered black cloth (near Fine), dustwrapper (VG, price clipped). Pp. 45, illus with coloured drawings and pictorial endpapers (no inscriptions). More
Frederick Warne and Co., 1970. 0723210985. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial boards (edges lightly spotted, upper board lightly marked - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (small closed tear on top edge of lower cover - otherwise VG in protective wrapper, price clipped). Pp. 64, illus with coloured plates (previous owners' bookplates on front..... More
Alf Cooke, c. 1907. Oblong 8vo. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards with illustrated endpapers (pages detached from boards; corners scuffed). Unpaginated, illus with b&w and coloured drawings (previous owner's 1911 ink gift inscription on half title). More
Hutchinson, 1958. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black decorated yellow cloth (discoloured at top edge of upper board - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (edges creased - in protective wrapper, price clipped). Pp. 139, illus with b&w drawings by Grace Lodge (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper). More
Religious Tract Society, c. 1918. 1st edn. 8vo. Original pictorial boards (boards rather discoloured). Pp. 383 (previous owner's neat inscription on front free endpaper), illus with coloured frontispiece and b&w plates by Alfred Pearse. More
Award Publications, 1997. 4 vols. 8vo. Original laminated pictorial boards (page edges lightly spotted - otherwise VG), no dustwrappers. Pp. various, illus with b&w drawings by Eric Rowe (previous owner's inscription on front endpaper of vol I). More
Scholastic Press, 2001. 2nd printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 548 (no inscriptions). More
William Heinemann, 1913. 1st edn. 4to (10½ x 8 ins). Original gilt decorated green buckram cloth, top edge grey (headcap chafed and small marks on upper board - otherwise VG). Pp. 43, illus with tipped-in coloured frontispiece and 43 tipped-in coloured plates at rear, all present with captioned tissue-guards, and..... More
New York: Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1976. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original black lettered yellow cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, price clipped). Pp. 144, illus with b&w drawings by William Sauts Bock (no inscriptions). More
John Lane The Bodley Head, 1929. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt decorated blue cloth (sunned at spine and part of boards, fore edge spotted), no dustwrapper. Pp. viii + 99 + advertisements, illus with pictorial endpapers and with b&w line drawings by Cecile Walton in text (no inscriptions). More
William Heinemann, 1957. 1st edn signed and inscribed by author on front endpaper. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (near Fine), dustwrapper (small tears at edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 56, illus with b&w drawings in text by Edward Ardizzone (no other inscriptions). More
Amalgamated Press, 1928. 1st edn. 8vo. Original blue spine cloth-backed pictorial paper-laid boards (worn at extrems, some bumping - otherwise VG). Pp. 359, illus with coloured and b&w plates and b&w line drawings (no inscriptions). More
Charles Skilton, 1949. 1st edn. 8vo. Original blue lettered blue cloth (fore and bottom edges slightly spotted - otherwise VG in protective cover), no dustwrapper. Pp. 240, illus with coloured frontispiece and b&w line drawing by R.J.MacDonald (no inscriptions). More
Falcon Press, c. 1952. 1st edn. Oblong 8vo. Original pictorial paper-laid boards with inner folds not price clipped (light wear at edges - otherwise VG). Unpaginated, illus with horizontally split coloured plates (no inscriptions). More