THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
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
Children's Books
JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD
Longmans Green and Co., 1927. 1st edn 13th imp. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (some light scratches and marks on boards - otherwise bright VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. xvi + 474, illus with coloured frontispiece with tissue guard, b&w plates and drawings in text by E. Caldwell (endpapers..... More
TOMMY MURR'S DIARY
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
SHIFTA!
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
CRUSOE THE SECOND And Other Stories
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
PRINCE VALIANT Vol1 1937-1938
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
PAINTED PORTS
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
THE VALIANT SAILOR
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
AT THE SIGN OF THE REINE PEDAUQUE
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
THE MYSTERY OF THE SWAMP
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
DAILY MAIL ANNUAL FOR GIRLS
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
HOW TO SEE FARIES
New York: Abrams, 2011. 9780810997509. 1st edn. Square 8vo. Original laminated pictorial boards (Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. unpaginated, illus thoughout in colour with moveables (no inscriptions). More
MOONWALK The Story of Apollo 11
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
THE LONELY
Michael Joseph, 1947. 1st edn 2nd impression. 8vo. Original silver lettered orange cloth (cloth on spine a little wrinkeld; some fading at extrems), dustwrapper (tanned; partial loss on edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 127 (endpapers tanned; previous owner's bookplate and inscriptions on front pastedown/endpaper). More
BLACK JACK
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
DUITS WOORDENBOEK Veertiende Druk Bewerkt Door W. H. Wallis II Nederlands-Duits.
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
A TRUE TALE OF LOVE IN TONGA
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
THE SEVEN LITTLE SPILLIKINS
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
LITTLE HEROINE The Story of a Lost Medal
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
ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE REDHEAD TWINS
Methuen, 1933. 1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial paper-laid boards (boards lightly spotted and with repaired tear at tail of spine), no dustwrapper. Pp. 48, illus with endpaper maps and b&w plates by George Sheringham (school prize plate on front prelim; one plate neatly coloured-in; no inscriptions). More
OLDER MOUSIE
Country Life, 1948. Popular edn later printing. 8vo. Original red lettered green cloth (faded at edges of boards), dustwrapper (poor - rather chipped and torn at edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 127, illus with b&w plates by Lionel Edwards (endpapers spotted; no inscriptions). More
THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.
George G. Harrap & Co., 1929. 1st edn. 4to. Original gilt decorated blue cloth, top edge gilt (near Fine). Pp. 231, illus with 12 coloured plates and b&w illus in text and pictorial endpapers (no inscriptions). More
THE LEGEND OF THE CID
Edmund Ward, 1965. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (slightly rubbed at head of spine and marked on lower cover - otherwise VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 160, illus with b&w drawings by Stephane (previous owner's neat inscription on front free endpaper and..... More
GORILLA GOLD
Blackie & Son, c. 1947. 8vo. Original black lettered red cloth (page edges spotted), dustwrapper (edges scuffed; partial loss at head of spine and upper top corner - in protective wrapper, price clipped). Pp. 224, illus with b&w frontispiece (binding split at frontispiece; some pages spotted; 1947 school prize plate..... More