London: S.W. Partridge. Hardcover, dark blue cloth decorated in black and gold, with a small oval color label depicting a bouquet of flowers affixed to front cover. 64pp. plus a fascinating 15 page illustrated publisher's catalog appended at rear. Illustrated title page and four full page plates. No name, no writing or marking internally, no pages missing, etc. Light wear to outer front joint with several small holes to cloth and some mild damage to top edge of front free endpaper, else a surprisingly well preserved copy of this late Victorian children's book. S.W. Partridge was a publisher active from at least the mid 1860's up through World War I. This book dates from the period 1870 to 1880. Catalog at rear lists doxens more childrens titles and gives a fascinating look into the nature and content of early childrens reading material during the latter half of the nineteenth century. A very scarce copy. Very good. . Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. (more information)

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Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1984. Oversize hardcover in bright pictorial covers depicting Mother Goose carrying an infant in a basket, atop a goose. 128pp. Bold full page and vignette color drawings throughout by Blanche Fisher Wright. No previous ownership marks, no reaminder marks, etc. A very clean, sqaure, tight copy of this children's classic, published for the first time in 1916. Very good+. . Later Printing. Pictorial Laminated Boards. Very Good+. Illus. by Blanche Fisher Wright. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (more information)

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T. Nelson and Sons, 1871. Hardcover, brick red cloth decorated in black and gold. Pale yellow endpapers. 164pp. 4 pages of publisher's ads appended. Illustrated with drawings and full color lithographic frontis and titlepage. Previous owner's name on blank prelim and front free endpaper. Moderate wear to cloth with mild fraying to spine ends and some rubbing, mostly to joints. Sporadic foxing and finger soiling throughout, affecting color plates only marginally. Hinges intact, pages firmly attached. A good, sound copy.. (more information)

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Rebound in green buckram. Front endpaper excised. No marking but most likely an ex library. Orchard House Edition. Illustrated with 8 full page color plates by Reginald Birch. One word "cube" written in pen on page 297. Else a very clean copy, inside and out. Good+.. Reprint. Buckram. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Reginald Birch. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. (more information)

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Pictorial Pastedown on Boards. Green cloth with color pictorial pastedown on front cover. Bold color pictorial endpapers. Color plates and vignette illustrations by Arthur Szyk. Translated by Mrs. E.V. Lucas and Mrs. H.B. Paull. Top edge stained green. A very good+ copy sans dustjacket.. Reprint. Pictorial Paper Pastedown. Very Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Arthur Szyk. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: Chatham River Press, 1984. A collection of thirteen tales, originally published in two volumes, illustrated with color vignette drawings on every page by Beatrix Potter. First printing thus. Laminated pictorial boards in matching pictorial dustjacket. ISBN O 517449013. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. . First Thus. Pictorial Laminated Boards. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Beatrix Potter. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: The Viking Press, 1960. Two-tone Cloth. First Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First American edition. Hardcover in non price-clipped dustjacket. Translated by Pat Shaw Iverson and Carl Norman. Illustrated with drawings, A c ollection of 35 Norwegian folktales in the best tradition of the Grimm Brothers, complete with trolls, princesses, kings and wild animals of every sort. Fine in fine dustjacket.. (more information)

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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. Decorative Boards. No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paper covered boards decorated with marionette figures. Two plates [frontis of nine year old author and holograph image of firs t page of manuscript.] Toning to gutters of frontispiece and titlepage and old maginal dampstain on lower extremity of frontis, not affecting image. Spine darkened and some toning to boards at foredge s. A good, solid copy of this delightful work of juvenile fictiion, which also contains Barrie's long, laudatory preface.. (more information)

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover in tan cloth printed in blue, sans dust-jacket. Illustrated with two-color drawings by Ernest Vetsch. Bright colorful illustrated endpapers. Silver spine lettering has faded and mull exposed between title and frontispeice. Inner hinges still solid, no name, no book-plate, no writing at all internally. Pages show mild toning at extremities but text is quite clean. A title in the Cuffy Bear series, this copy is in near very good condition. . Pictorial Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Ernest Vetsch. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: James Blackwood & Co. , 1873. Original coarse grained green cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated with numerous vignette drawings by author. A 31 page publisher's catalog appended at rear, with full page engraving. Catalog largely unopened. Bentley had published numerous works by 1873 and several of his earliest dealt with Verdant Green and his hapless companion, Mr. Bouncer. This is the last appearence of the bumbling Oxonians on yet another of their Pickwickenesque adventures. Paper at inner front hinge cracked and general finger smudging and light spotting to text, else a very good copy.. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (more information)

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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1971. Bright redish-orange cloth in original non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with vignette drawings by Peggy Fortnum. Small retail price sticker on rear dustjacket panel, faded to white. Fine in very good jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Peggy Fortnum. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1886. Hardcover, large 8vo in pictorial slate gray cloth. 308pp. Illustrated. General mild cover wear and age soiling. Evidence of old dampstain to fore-edge, not affecting text or illustrations. A good solid copy. . First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1939. Hardcover, dark blue cloth with round color pictorial pastedown on front cover, lettered in gold. 381pp. Illustrated with 10 color plates and pictorial endpapers. No name, no book-plate, etc. Light mottliing to cloth, else a clean, very good copy.. Reprint. Cloth with Pastedowns. Very Good. Illus. by H. T. Dinn. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2000. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 244pp. Illustrated with line drawing s by Kurt Wiese. First edition, first printing thus with the number line intact on copyright page. A very nice copy of this "Freddy the Pig" story, originally published in 1944 and inreasingly difficult to find. No previous owner's name, no book-plate, no remainder marks, etc. A very clean, square, crisp copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. . First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1999. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 247pp. Illustrated with line drawing s by Kurt Wiese. First edition, first printing thus with the number line intact on copyright page. A very nice copy of this "Freddy the Pig" story, originally published in 1952 and inreasingly difficult to find. No previous owner's name, no book-plate, no remainder marks, etc. A very clean, square, crisp copy. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. . First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1895. Hardcover, blue green cloth with picture of small boy and girl printed in black on front board, lettered in gold. 191pp. 16 page publisher's catalog appended at rear. Illustrated with drawings by Reginald Birch. Small, neat from/to four word inscription on front free endpaper. By the author of LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY and THE SECRET GARDEN. Very mild age wear to cloth, else a clean, sound copy in very good condition.. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Reginald Birch. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: Viking Kestrel, 1988. Large hardcover, cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 256pp. Illustrated by Shirley Hughes with color plates and black and white drawings. This is the first edition, first printing of the unabridged text of this classic children's tale with Hughes' illustrations. No previous ownership marks, no remainder marks, etc. A clean, tight, crisp copy . Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.. First Thus. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Shirley Hughes. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (more information)

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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1980. Hardcover, sturdy cardboard covers boldly printed in color. Unpaginated, each page with color illustration and text. Weekly Reader Children's Book Club edition. No name, no writing, no marking of any kind, an exceptionaly clean copy for this title. Weekly Reader Children's Book Club advert label on rear inside cover, per usual, and slight bump to head of spine, not breaking paper. A very good or better copy. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Vernon McKissack. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: The Modern Library. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. Dark blue cloth. Dust-jacket printed price of $2.45. Early reprint of these three classic Carroll tales. Moderate rubbing to dust-jacket. No previous ownership marks, no writing or underlining, no marginalia. A clean. square, tight copy in a complete, though lightly worn dust-jacket. Near fine in a good dust-jacket.. Later Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. Illus. by John Tenniel and Edwin John Prittie. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (more information)

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London: The Leisure Circle, 1985. Large, slim quarto. Hardcover in bright pictorial laminated yellow boards, in ortiginal pictorial dust-jacket which repeats cover art. 127pp. Magnificent full color plates by Alice B. Woodward and Sue Shields taken from the edition by G. Bell and Sons, first published in 1920. A near as new copy with no previous ownership marks, square edges, no wear to dust-jacket, etc. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Alice B. Woodward and Sue Shields. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (more information)

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Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Co. 1916. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Yellow pictorial cloth. Extensively illustrated by Hazeltine Sewsmith in green, orange and red. Cloth quite age soiled, with small stain on rear board at outer hinge. A tight, sound copy, internally very clean. Containing 66 short tales written for chlidren. Several, such as the traditional "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" and "Hansel and Gretel" provide the usual in juvenivle entertainment. However, the vast majority of tales are more didactic and educational, offering samples of a wide range of historical material. En glish history is touched upon with tales about King Alfred, William of Normandy, King John, Robert the Bruce, Henry the Eighth, Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, et alia. America is represented by ess ays on Eskimo children, St. Augustine, Fl., and Ulysses S. Grant. Even the classics are touched upon with accounts of Zues, the fall of Troy, Phaeton, Romulus, Themistocles, et alia. A most interestin g collection.. (more information)

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New York: The MacMillan Company, 1936. Terra cotta cloth stamped in black. Line drawigs and monochrome plates by Willy Pogany. Good. clean copy.. Reprint. Pictorial Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Willy Pogany. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1972. Hardcover, white cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 62pp. Illustrated with numerous drawings by Joseph Low. First edition, second printing of this reprint edition of a children's story first published in 1933. No previous ownership marks, no remainder marks, not ex-libris. Very light soiling to white cloth on front board and some spotting to red endpapers, else a sqaure, clean, tight copy. Very good in very good dust-jacket. . Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Joseph Low. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923. Light green cloth stamped in red and black, pictorial endpapers, and illustrated with duotone drawings in blue and black. Front hinge s haken, else good or better copy.. Reprint. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: The MacMillan Company, 1928. Cloth Spine Over Boards. No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First edition. Yellow cloth spine over paper covered boards, with paper spine and cover label. Colored titlepage and 7 full page colored plates, plus numerous line drawings, by E. MacKinstry. Covers worn, especially at tips and head of backstrip, which is frayed. Cloth spine toned and label browned. Text and plates clean. A tight, soun d copy of the scarce first printing, with MacKinstry's magnificent color paltes in excellent condition. Interior fine, covers fair to good.. (more information)

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Early printing of the author's third book for children. Cloth in price-clipped dustjacket, housed in clear protective covers. Illustrated with drawings. Dustjacket shows small closed tear to reat panel and one small chip at lower extremity of front panel, General light age soiling to jacket. Long gift inscription on front free endpaper, dated 1975. Very good in very good dustjacket.. (more information)

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New York: E.P. Dutton, 1934. Light green cloth sans dustjacket. Photograph of the lion cub Engato as frontispiece. A novel about the keeping of a pet lion. Light sunning to extremities of cloth on front board and small scuff mark on rear board, else a nice fresh copy. Near very good.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (more information)

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Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1937. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. Ex-libris. Original brown cloth sans dustjacket. Spine number, pocket removed from rear endpaper and library bookplate partially remove d from front endpaper. Illustrated with woodcuts by Keith Ward. Good+.. (more information)

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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. Stated first edition. Hardcover, cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. Dust-jacket edge-worn, with several minor tears. No name, no book-plate, etc. Not an ex-libris copy, which is somewhat unusal for this title. Good+ in good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Cloth. Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: Michael Di Capua books/HarperCollins Publisher , 1995. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 180pp. Stated first edtiion, no additional printings listed. Illustrated with drawings by author. No previous ownership marks, no remainder marks, no wear or soiling, etc. A clean, square, fresh copy. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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