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Illustrated by John Hejduk.
Hardback. Square 8vo. A very good copy in publisher's blue cloth with title in gilt on spine. Red endpapers. No inscriptions. 14 full page colour illustrations. Unpaginated. Very good complete dustwrapper which is protected in a removable cover. "One of America's most respected architects and educators brings to life the stories of Aesop, whose tales have entertained and instructed us for over 25 hundred years. The illustrations were created in 1947 when John Hejduk was still a student at The School of Architecture at The Cooper Union in New York City--"
Published : RIzzoli International Publications Inc., New York 1991,
£30.00

Illustrated by William Stobbs.
Hardback. A near very good copy in publisher's illustrated cover which has a slight crack rear board near top of spine (sounds worse than it is). No inscriptions. Colourfully illustrated on each page, 32 pages. Good plus dustwrapper which has a two inch tear on back panel, not price-clipped and protected in a removable cover.
Published : The Bodley Head, London 1971, First Edition
£12.00

Illustrated by Warwick Goble.
Hardback. A good copy in publisher's dark red cloth with gilt illustration on front board and title in gilt on spine. Boards show some dampstaining. Bookplate on front free endpaper. 16 colour illustrations by Warwick Goble. Some foxing to page ends. 232 pages.Good plus illustrated dustwrapper showing fairly minor edge chipping and protected in a removable cover.
Published : Macmillan & Co, London 1926,
£38.00

Illustrated by Susan Beatrice Pearse.
Hardback. A good plus copy in publisher's brown cover with illustration on front board and title in blue. Top and foot of spine rubbed.No inscriptions. Illustrated endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. Protected in a removable cover.
Published : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London 1930, First Edition
£18.00

Illustrated by James Faed Junior.
A good copy in decorated vellum which is rather rubbed and marked. Bevelled edges. On hand-made paper. Pp.viii,295. 3 plates by James Faed, Junior.
Published : Kegan Paul Trench & Co, London 1884, First Edition
£16.00

Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Hardback. A very good copy in laminated boards. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. 32 pages. Numerous colour illustrations.
Published : Macmillan Children's Books, London 1982,
£5.00

Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Nd. Gift inscription on front end-paper is dated 1923. 4to. A very good copy. Pictorial front cover. Wear to board tips. 128 pages. Contains a number of Louis Wain illustrations including a page of cat illustrations headed "Old Friends With New Faces".
Published : ,
£12.00

Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which shows fading to the spine but which is complete and untorn. A clean copy with no ownership inscription or other internal marking. 256 pages. Numerous illustrations throughout including colour. A biography and appreciation of E.H. Shepard with a short bibliography of books illustrated by him.
Published : Methuen, London 1979, First Edition
£18.00

Illustrated by Franziska Bilek.
A near very good copy. Red cloth spine and decorated boards. One board tip slightly bumped. The boards are now protected in a clear, removable, sleeve. 44 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. Some browning to pages. Text in German.
Published : Verlagsanstalt Hermann Klemm, Freiburg Im Breisgau 1952, First Edition
£15.00

A good copy in black cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in gilt on upper board. Some tearing to cloth at join of spine and boards. Top edge gilt. No ownership inscription. 132 pages. Decorated end-papers. Numerous black and white illustrations. Political rhymes and cartoons.
Published : T. Fisher Unwin, London 1905, First Edition
£8.00

Illustrated by Henrietta W. Le Mair.
Hardback. A fine copy in publisher's green cloth with title in gilt on front and on spine. Coloured circular illustration on front board and publisher's logo in gilt on rear. No inscriptions. 10 colour illustrations. 24 pages. A lovely clean copy.
Published : Gallery Children's Books, London 1990,
£9.00

Illustrated by Edward Lear.
Hardback. Oblong 4to. Undated but gift inscription on front end-paper is dated 1927. A near very good copy in publisher's green cloth with title and illustrations in black on front board and title in gilt on spine. Some rubbing to board tips. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout. Protected in a removable cover.
Published : Frederick Warne, London,
£25.00

A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. Unpaginated but about 50 pages. Two short stories by Lear with their original illustrations by him.
Published : Arthur Barker, London 1968,
£6.00

Illustrated by Fred Lip.
Hardback. N.d. 1890's?. A very good copy with pictorial front board. 8 full-page chromolithographs plus black and white illustrations. A little browning to pages and boards showing minor signs of edge wear. No inscriptions and binding is tight. A nice copy with lovely illustrations..
Published : Birn Brothers, London, First Edition
£35.00

Hardback. Small folio. A near very good copy in publisher's black cloth with title and illustration in gilt on front board. No inscriptions. Corners rubbed as is spine at top and bottom. Endpapers browned and rusted staples showing on front endpaper. Frontispiece, "armorial bearings" and 6 charming drawings with texts on opposite pages. Facsinile letter from John Ruskin. This is a reproduction of the 1841 edition.
Published : Richard Bentley & Son, London 1875,
£28.00

Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in a dark blue leather binding decorated in blind and lettered in gilt on the spine. Moderate rubbing to board tips and spine ends and edges. Marbled edges and end-papers. 168 pages of text + preface, index etc. Engraved title-page vignette and 42 engraved, tissue-guarded plates (which are generally very clean). Photographs available on request.
Published : Glasgow: Joseph Swan, Engraver. London: Moon, Boys & Graves, Printsellers to the King 1830, First Edition
£350.00

Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale.
Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in publisher's light grey cloth with title in dark blue on front board and on spine. Dark blue illustration on front board. No inscriptions. One or two spots of fore-edge foxing. Profusely illustrated in colour. 61 pages with 2 page catalogue at rear. Good illustrated dustwrapper which has one small edge chip and a long closed tear on the front panel which has been partly sellotaped externally by a previous owner. The wrapper is now protected in a clear, removable sleve.. Internally a nice clean copy. Uncommon in dustwrapper.
Published : Daniel O'connor, London 1922, First Edition
£30.00

Illustrated by Gladys Lister.
Card Covers. N.d. A good plus copy with illustrated boards which are slightly marked in crayon. Top righthand corner of front board has a very tiny piece missing. N.d. but gift inscription SIGNED by Gladys Lister dated 1951. Profusely illustrated. Unpaginated. Protected in a removable cover. This is a charming story about three koala bears - The Mother Bear, the Father Bear and the Baby Bear.
Published : Leafy Books, Sydney Australia, First Edition
£20.00

Illustrated by John Austen.
Hardback. Small 4to. A very good copy in cream cloth lettered in gilt. Spine a little darkened. No ownership inscription and not foxed. 200 pages. 12 full-page colour illustrations. 4 full-page black and white illustrations. Head-pieces.
Published : Geoffrey Bles, London 1925,
£35.00

Hardback. 4to. Nd. 1830's? A good copy overall in a worn half-leather binding. Title-piece chipped and loose. Some foxing although most plates are clean. Unpaginated. "The Drawings by Chalon, Leslie, Harding, Herbert, Meadows, Stephanoff, E. Corbould, Fanny Corbaux, Jenkins & Westall. Engraved under the Superintendence of Mr. Charles Heath." Frontispiece, engraved title page and 34 steel-engraved plates with poem by Byron opposite each plate.
Published : A. Fullarton & Co, London,
£35.00

Illustrated by E. H. Shepard.
A very good copy in grey paper-covered boards with light blue cloth spine. Title-piece on upper board. In a very good, complete and untorn dustwrapper which is now protected in a clear removable sleeve. No ownership inscription or other internal marking. This is no 87 of 100 copies on hand-made paper and is signed by both author and illustrator. 95 pages. Unopened. Pen and ink illustrations throughout. A nice copy. Photographs available on request.
Published : Methuen & Co, London 1925,
£380.00

Illustrated by M. V. Wheelhouse.
Hardback. A very good copy in publisher's blue cloth with illustration in green and black and title in black on front board and on spine. Illustrated endpapers. All 16 colour plates are present although mostly at a page other than the page indicated. Two maps. No inscriptions. 284 pages plus 12 page publisher's catalogue. Very good scarce illustrated dustwrapper, which is protected in a removable cover.
Published : Wells Gardner Darton & Co., London 1910, First Edition
£50.00

4to. A good copy in green cloth. Boards a bit marked but a very good clean copy internally with no ownership inscription or foxing. Pp.xiv,109. Frontispiece and ten illustrations + title page and tail -piece illustrations.
Published : John Lane The Bodley Head, London 1928, First Edition
£22.00

Illustrated by Harriett M. Bennett.
Hardback. Nd. but gift inscription on front end-paper is dated 1886. Externally very good with decorated upper board. Internally good only because of some spotting and because some of the fine chromolithographs have suffered minor damage from adhesion. 64 pages. Lithographed and printed by Ernest Nister. Charming illustrations.
Published : Griffith Farran & Co, London,
£25.00

Illustrated by Watson A.H & Dunn S..
Hardback. A very good copy in publisher's blue cloth with coloured illustration by A.H. Watson pasted on front board. Many black and white illustrations. 32 pages. Contents clean. Protected in a removable cover. Mackenzie wrote "The Unpleasant Visitors" and Marlowe wrote "Posset's Toby Jug".
Published : Basil Blackwell, Oxford, First Edition
£14.00

Illustrated by Jessie May Ellerby.
Hardback. A near very good copy apart from cloth starting to tear at join between spine and front board but protected in removable cover. Buff coloured boards with colour pictorial onlay to front board with tiny fraction missing at one corner. 8 coloured and many black and white illustrations. Illustrated endpapers.Unpaginated. No inscriptions. A really nice clean tight copy internally. Photographs available on request.
Published : Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., London 1927, First Edition
£35.00

Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton.
Small 8vo. A good copy in pictorial covers. Some fore-edge foxing. 56 pages. Four colour plates by Honor Appleton. Black and white illustrations. Four short stories.
Published : George G. Harrap, London 1928, First Edition
£10.00

Illustrated by Edward Seago.
Folio. A very good copy. In a fair dustwrapper which has a smallish chip at top of spine leaving the lettering almost intact and a larger piece missing (approx. 4.5 inches x I inch) at the foot of the front panel. The wrapper is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. A little, mainly edge and end-paper, foxing but internally the plates are clean. 98 pages + 42 tissue-guarded, colour plates. Poems by Masefield with accompanying plates by Seago.
Published : Collins, London 1937, First Edition
£90.00

Illustrated by D'Adrienne Segur.
4to. A very good copy in cream cloth with brown cloth spine. Decorated on upper board. In a fair dustwrapper which has pieces missing from the rear panel and at the foot of the spine. The wrapper is now protected in a clear removable sleeve. No ownership inscription. Some edge and a little end-paper foxing. Pp.[x],59. Frontispiece and 10 full-page colour illustrations. Smaller black and white illustrations. A little girl makes a trip to a land where every child's wish comes true. Uncommon in dustwrapper.
Published : William Heinemann, London 1930, First Edition
£30.00

4to. Generally a very good copy but just a little loose in early pages. Dark green cloth boards lettered in gilt and with gilt illustration on upper board.No. 514 of 1050 copies. 54 pen and ink sketches.
Published : Leadenhall Press, London 1896, First Edition
£50.00

Large 4to. A near fine copy in a very good glassine wrapper which is now protected in a clear, removable, sleeve. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 112 pages.200 illustrations with over half in colour. The author "shows, by illustration, some of the attractive ways in which paper was used as the main surface on publishers' bindings between 1800 and 1900."
Published : Gordon Fraser, London 1983, First Edition
£24.00

Illustrated by "Saida" (H. Willebeek Le Mair).
4to. A very good copy in blue cloth lettered in gilt with gilt decoration to spine and pictorial onlay to upper board. In a near very good dustwrapper with fairly minor closed edge tears. The wrapper is now protected in a clear removable sleeve. No ownership inscription. Some edge foxing and just a little internal foxing. 105 pages. 12 attractive full-page colour illustrations by H. Willebeek le Mair. Short stories for children. Photographs available on request.
Published : Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., London 1925, First Edition
£180.00

Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.
A very good copy in blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. In a reasonable but rather soiled dustwrapper on which a child has written his name twice in ink. No internal ownership inscription. Pp.x,100.
Published : Methuen & Co, London 1929,
£22.00

Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Hardback. A good copy overall in publisher's blue cloth with title in gilt on spine. There is considerable damp-mottling to the boards. Internally very good. No inscriptions. Vignettes by Ernest Shepard. 215 pages. Very good dustwrapper with illustration of author by Kari Soumalainen on the rear panel. The wrapper is not price-clipped and is protected in a removable cover.,
Published : Methuen & Co, London 1952, First Edition
£15.00

A very good copy in ring-bound card covers with decorated front cover. Undated but fairly recent. Unpaginated, about 100 pages. Amusing, captioned, sketches of dogs made at dog shows on right hand pages with blank left-hand pages. Described, in a short forward, as "a spontaneous record of some of my thoughts and feelings, as I have spent time at dog shows".
Published : Elliott Kaufmann,
£8.00

Hardback. A very good copy of the first Brock edition in the de luxe vellum binding which is elaborately decorated in gilt on the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Gift inscription on front end-paper. Not foxed. Red silk page marker present. Pp.xv,309. 25 coloured illustrations by C. E. Brock.
Published : J. M. Dent & Co, London 1904,
£65.00

Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
Nd. c. 1900? A very good copy in green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Not foxed. Ownership inscription. Pp.x,230. 8 illustrations by George Cruikshank.
Published : William Blackwood, Edinburgh,
£8.00

Illustrated by Patricia Turner.
Hardback. A very good copy with illustrated boards . Title in red on front board and in black on spine. No inscriptions. Eight full page colour illustrations including frontispiece + smaller colour illustrations. 43 pages. Near very good illustrated dustwrapper which has minor chips at top and foot of spine, is not price-clipped and is protected in as removable cover.
Published : F. Warne & Co. Ltd, London 1957, First Edition
£12.00

Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Hardback. Small 4to. A very good copy in light blue cloth lettered in black and with an illustration of an ill Peter on the upper board by Louis Wain. Top edge gilt. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1891 on the front end-paper. 88 pages. Numerous small or smallish illustrations throughout. Peter was Louis Wain's own cat and the author, Charles Morley, is described as "a pal of Peter's." Photographs available on request.
Published : Pall Mall Gazette Office, London 1892, First Edition
£340.00

Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
A very good copy in publisher's illustrated boards. Profusely illustrated in colour. No inscriptions. Illustrated coloured endpapers. 76 pages. Very good illustrated dustjacket which is not price-clipped and is protected in a removable cover.
Published : Walker Books, London 2007,
£9.00

Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
A fine copy in a very good dustwrapper which is complete and untorn but with some fading to the spine (although the lettering is clear). The wrapper is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. 92 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout by Michael Foreman.
Published : Doubleday, London 2002, First Edition
£10.00

Quarto. A very good copy in marbled boards with a leather spine. Some rubbing to spine but lettering clear. A clean copy apart from a small ownership inscription. 32pp. Frontispiece of William Morris by John Farleigh. Attractive woodcuts.
Published : London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts, London 1934,
£90.00

8vo. An attractive copy in a contemporary half morocco binding lettered and attractively decorated in gilt on spine. Marbled end-papers. Gift inscription on front end-paper. Unpaginated. With 59 of 60 beautiful hand-coloured engraved plates (1 double page) by William Clark, each with accompanying text. Index. The plates are clean and, with very minor exceptions, free of foxing. First issued in Parts each plate, with a very few exceptions, contains a date (either 1825 or 1826) and publisher (most often Smith Elder & Co or Longmans & Co) at the foot. This copy is lacking one plate (Plate 37) but the quality of the engravings is some of the best ever achieved in Britain. In "Great Flower Books 1700-1900, Sacheverell Sitwell describes this as "a rare and lovely botanical work." Photographs available on request.
Published : Thomas Griffiths, London 1830,
£1,200.00

Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Hardback. A very good copy in blue cloth with Attwell decorations on the upper board and on the spine. Child's ownership inscription (dated Xmas 1909). Some, mainly fore-edge, foxing. 266 pages + 48pp illustrated adverts. 8 attractive colour plates by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Published : W & R Chambers, London 1909,
£30.00

Hardback. 4to. Nd. Perhaps 1920's. A very good copy with pictorial onlay to upper board. No ownership inscription and very little foxing. Pp.viii,98 + 2pp adverts. 6 full-page colour plates and many black and white illustrations. Text in German. Baron Von Munchhausen adapted for children.
Published : Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl, Stuttgart,
£14.00

Illustrated by Charles Keeping.
Hardback.A very good copy with illustrated boards. llustrated endpapers. No inscriptions. Many brown, black and white illustrations in text. 32 pages. Very good illustrated dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (original price 10/6d net) and is protected in a removable cover.
Published : Oxford University Press, London 1961, First Edition
£25.00

Illustrated by Charles Keeping.
A very good copy in pictorial boards (now protected by a clear, removable, sleeve). Gift inscription on front end-paper. 32 pages. Black and white illustrations on each page with fold-out central colour illustration of the Sydney Harbour bridge under construction.
Published : Oxford University Press, London 1958, First Edition
£20.00