ANDY BLAKE'S COMET COASTER By LEO EDWARDS , Childrens Series #2 ,Story of a Young Businessman. Illustrated By Bert Salg. In SCARCE Color DustJacket Showing Trigger in Suit Watching a Boys Race of Wagons Downhill Street , One Wagon Named Comet. Advertisi by Leo Edwards, Illustrated By Bert Salg. , Glossy B/W Frontispiece of 2 Boys Wearing Hats in Doorway Chatting, Blank Endpapers Foxed, WITH INTERNALS - 1928

Good+, no dj Fiction George Routledge & Sons NY/London ND circa 1894 Early edition Hardbound 8vo, 303 pp + ads, pictorial cover + spine, 8 full page b+w plates, 16 pages of ads Tale of the 1884 Zulu Wars published circa 1894 with title page listing Routledge with New York and then London and Manchester at bottom of title page. Published prior to the sale of the plates to Blackie and Son who republished the title in 1897. Blue cloth with brown, gilt and yellow decorations and blue stained page edges. The spine cloth is darkened with some shallow wear to the spine ends; the frontis tissue guard has a chip at the outer edge; extremities are rubbed with cloth worn through at tips; inside front hinge has 3/4" and 2 3/4" inch splits to paper but hinge is solid. Rare printing.

Warrington [England]: W. Eyres, for J. Johnson, 1784. Scarce first edition [1784] of this work written for children. Three quarter leather over marbled boards, gilt lettered red spine label, addiional spine decoration in gilt, vii, [2], 2-82, [1], [1p. publisher's ad]. Covers heavily worn and rubbed, lower spine end chipped, joints chipped and covers holding by cords, text block sound, large chip front front free endpaper, lower corners of final two text pages creased, pages lightly age-toned but clean, rear free endpaper absent.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

John F Shaw & Co. Ltd, nd.(1919) 1919. 1st Edition. Softcover. NF. 1st Edition. 14.5 x 20 cm. Publisher's original soft covers with a circular pictorial disc showing pairs of black kittens laid on. 4 full page colour illustrations and many black and white illustrations throughout NF condition covers with slight rounding of the corner tips of the front cover and a 2cm split at the foot of the spine. Internally, the pages are very clean with only the odd very occasional light finger mark. A lovely copy of this very uncommon book. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

EHON JITSUGOKYO DOHSHIKYO YOSHI , 17.5 x 11.5 cm; Japanese binding, blue covers, not title slip; 120p. 12 double illustrations. The moral tales for children. In this book are the first illustration, which 15 years old Yoshitoshi he drew under the name Yoshitoshi Yoshioka.Very rare !!!!!Covers worn, title with a water stain (see photo) inside is in general clean. For a children`s book in very good condition.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 – 1892) was a Japanese printmaker. Yoshitoshi has widely been recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting. He is also regarded as one of the form's greatest innovators. His career spanned two eras – the last years of Edo period Japan, and the first years of modern Japan following the Meiji Restoration. Like many Japanese, Yoshitoshi was interested in new things from the rest of the world, but over time he became increasingly concerned with the loss of many aspects of traditional Japanese culture, among them traditional… Read More

W. S. Johnson, 60 St. Martin's Lane, Charring Cross. No date. Circa 1850. (4.7 x 4.2 inches). Two concertina sheets, each printed on one side with 6 hand coloured woodcuts of animals above the accompanying text in each section. Unbound as issued, in pale peach coloured paper wraps with the title, publisher details and a woodcut illustration to the front panel and an advert for The Home Circle Magazine, a family magazine (this periodical was only published between 1849-54), on the rear, both within a decorative border. The illustrated pages feature fairly crude hand colouring and there are a few creases but they are complete and generally very good indeed. There is a later (dated June '95) neat pencil inscription on the front wrapper cover, which has a few creases but is overall in very good condition. An attractive and rare survivor. No copy with this title listed on Worldcat or Copac, although the book is clearly a variant edition of the book 'The natural history of Birds and Beasts' which was… Read More

Good+, no dj Fiction George Routledge & Sons NY/London ND circa 1894 Early edition Hardbound 8vo, 303 pp + ads, pictorial cover + spine, 8 full page b+w plates, 16 pages of ads Tale of the 1884 Zulu Wars published circa 1894 with title page listing Routledge with New York and then London and Manchester at bottom of title page. Published prior to the sale of the plates to Blackie and Son who republished the title in 1897. Blue cloth with brown, gilt and yellow decorations and blue stained page edges. The spine cloth is darkened with some shallow wear to the spine ends; the frontis tissue guard has a chip at the outer edge; extremities are rubbed with cloth worn through at tips; inside front hinge has 3/4" and 2 3/4" inch splits to paper but hinge is solid. Rare printing.

Warrington [England]: W. Eyres, for J. Johnson, 1784. Scarce first edition [1784] of this work written for children. Three quarter leather over marbled boards, gilt lettered red spine label, addiional spine decoration in gilt, vii, [2], 2-82, [1], [1p. publisher's ad]. Covers heavily worn and rubbed, lower spine end chipped, joints chipped and covers holding by cords, text block sound, large chip front front free endpaper, lower corners of final two text pages creased, pages lightly age-toned but clean, rear free endpaper absent.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

John F Shaw & Co. Ltd, nd.(1919) 1919. 1st Edition. Softcover. NF. 1st Edition. 14.5 x 20 cm. Publisher's original soft covers with a circular pictorial disc showing pairs of black kittens laid on. 4 full page colour illustrations and many black and white illustrations throughout NF condition covers with slight rounding of the corner tips of the front cover and a 2cm split at the foot of the spine. Internally, the pages are very clean with only the odd very occasional light finger mark. A lovely copy of this very uncommon book. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

EHON JITSUGOKYO DOHSHIKYO YOSHI , 17.5 x 11.5 cm; Japanese binding, blue covers, not title slip; 120p. 12 double illustrations. The moral tales for children. In this book are the first illustration, which 15 years old Yoshitoshi he drew under the name Yoshitoshi Yoshioka.Very rare !!!!!Covers worn, title with a water stain (see photo) inside is in general clean. For a children`s book in very good condition.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 – 1892) was a Japanese printmaker. Yoshitoshi has widely been recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting. He is also regarded as one of the form's greatest innovators. His career spanned two eras – the last years of Edo period Japan, and the first years of modern Japan following the Meiji Restoration. Like many Japanese, Yoshitoshi was interested in new things from the rest of the world, but over time he became increasingly concerned with the loss of many aspects of traditional Japanese culture, among them traditional… Read More

W. S. Johnson, 60 St. Martin's Lane, Charring Cross. No date. Circa 1850. (4.7 x 4.2 inches). Two concertina sheets, each printed on one side with 6 hand coloured woodcuts of animals above the accompanying text in each section. Unbound as issued, in pale peach coloured paper wraps with the title, publisher details and a woodcut illustration to the front panel and an advert for The Home Circle Magazine, a family magazine (this periodical was only published between 1849-54), on the rear, both within a decorative border. The illustrated pages feature fairly crude hand colouring and there are a few creases but they are complete and generally very good indeed. There is a later (dated June '95) neat pencil inscription on the front wrapper cover, which has a few creases but is overall in very good condition. An attractive and rare survivor. No copy with this title listed on Worldcat or Copac, although the book is clearly a variant edition of the book 'The natural history of Birds and Beasts' which was… Read More