Blackie & Son, c. 1925. 8vo. Original black lettered red cloth (bright VG), dustwrapper (edges a little creased and with small closed tear at edge of spine on lower cover - in protective wrapper, price clipped). Pp. 224, illus with 3 b&w plates by Norman Sutcliffe (previous owner's neat inscription..... More
Raphael Tuck & Sons, n.d. c. 1901. 1st edn. 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (poor - spine rubbed at head and tail and boards chipped at corners and rubbed at edges). Unpaginated, illus with full page coloured plates and coloured drawings in text (most pages loose and some with nicks..... More
Lutterworth Press, 1952. 2nd edn. 8vo. Original blue lettered light brown cloth (spine tanned and mottled; page edges spotted), no dustwrapper. Pp. 191, illus with coloured frontispiece (pages lightly foxed; faded ink inscripton on front endpaper). More
Lutterworth Press, 1950. 1st edn. 8vo. Original blue lettered blue cloth (some light discolouring on spine and bottom edge of upper board - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (poor - creased and torn with partial loss at bottom of spine and covers, in protective wrapper, price clipped). Pp. 188, illus with coloured..... More
BCA [&] Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975. Book club edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt decrated red cloth (minor marks on page edges - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (small abrasion at tail of spine - in protective wrapper, not clipped). Pp. 399, illus with b&w and coloured plates and b&w drawings in text..... More
Collins, 1974. Tall 8vo. Original gilt decorated blue faux morocco, all edges gilt (Fine), in chipped glassine wrapper and slighty battered slipcase. Pp. 224, illus with coloured plates by Robert Sherriffs (small mark at edge of rear free endpaper; previous owner's neat gift inscription on front free endpaper). More
Collins, 1963. Khorasan edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (small marks on upper board - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 224, illus with coloured plates by Robert Sherriffs (no inscriptions). More
Collins, 1944. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (corners a little bumped - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (small nicks and creases at edges - in protective wrapper, price clipped). Pp. 288, illus with b&w drawings in text and endpaper maps (previous owner's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper)... More
Meissner & Buch, c. 1885. 1st edn. 4to (11 x 8.3 ins). Orginal cloth-backed pictorial boards (spine perished and edges of boards slightly scuffed). Pp. unpagnated, illus with 10 full page chromolithograph plates with tissue-guards, decorated title and numerous coloured illus in text (some pages loose and some tissue-guards torn..... More
Nancy: Berger-Levrault, c. 1920. 1st edn. 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (rebacked with new tan cloth spine; some light scuffs to edges - otherwise bright VG). Pp. 63, with Helle's bright coloured illus in text (Yehudi Menuhin School stamp on top edge of half title and Children's Bookshop bookplate on..... More
Oxford University Press, 1958. Oxford Children's Library. 8vo. Original brown lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (spine scuffed and faded; waterstain on lower cover - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 185, illuswith b&w drawings by Joan Kiddell-Munroe (previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper). More
Robert Culley, 1905. 1st edn. 8vo. Original pictorial green cloth (near Fine). Pp. 128 (school prize plate on front free endpaper; no inscriptions), illus with b&w frontispiece and vignettes in text. More
Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2009. 9781606991411. 1st edn. 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (Fine). Pp. 120, illus throughout with coloured cartoon strips and b&w photos (no inscriptions). More
Oxford University Press, 1965. Oxford Children's Library. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (near Fine) dustwrapper (price clipped, otherwise VG in protective wrapper). Pp. 212, illus with b&w drawings by C. Walter Hodges (previous owner's biro inscription and bookplate on front endpaper). More
Oxford University Press, 1959. Oxford Children's Library. 8vo. Original blue cloth ((VG), dustwrapper (fixed to boards with sticky protective wrapper; some edge wear, not price clipped). Pp. 194, illus with b&w drawings by Neville Dear (previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper). More
John Lane Bodley Head, 1923. Illustrated edn 2nd imp. Tall 8vo. Original gilt decorated black cloth, top edge red (edges of upper board discoloured - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (poor - chipped and torn at edges and lower cover separated from spine - in protective wrapper). Pp. xiv + 275, illus..... More
Thomas Nelson & Sons, c. 1950. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered green cloth (near Fine), dustwrapper (edges lightly rubbed and chipped - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 96, illus with b&w drawings (no inscriptions). More
Associated Newspapers, 1960. 1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial boards (edges a little scuffed and to corner of upper board bumped), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper, price clipped). Pp. 205, illus throughout with coloured b&w drawings (previous owner's neat inscription on front paste-down). More
Abelard-Schuman, 1969. 1st edn. 4to. Original pictorial boards (torn at tail of spine), no dustwrapper. Unpaginated, illus throughout with coloured drawings (pages musty; no inscriptions). More
Longmans, 1968. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (top and fore-edge lightly spotted - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (a little creased at edges - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 191, illus with b&w drawings by Antony Maitland (top and fore-edge lightly spotted; no inscriptions). More
Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1979. 0860001601. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (VG), dustwrapper (small nicks at edges - in protective wrapper). Pp. 956 (previous owner's neat initials on front endpaper). More
J. M. Dent & Sons, 1954. New edn. 16mo. Original pictorial boards (near Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. 53, illus with b&w engravings by the author (no inscriptions). More
George G. Harrap. 1926. 1st edn. 12mo. Original paper-laid boards with coloured plate on upper board (poor - spine chipped at head and tail). Unpaginated, illus with coloured title and endpapers and 30 full page coloured plates and b&w drawings in text (inner hinges loosened; 2st plate torn at bottom..... More
S.W.Partridge, n.d. c. 1911. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered pictorial red cloth (some small marks at head of spine, one plate is detached but present). Pp. 169 + 32 (advts.), illus with b&w plates (pages tanned; 1911 school prize label on front free endpaper). More
