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

Uinby Notes American Issues Only In Brief, And Linder Does Not Address Them. : Frederick Warne & Company, 1917. First American Edition 1st Printing. Green Boards. Near Fine Book/No Jacket. Beatrix Potter Color Plates. Page Block 122 X 104 Mm. Pages Each Printed On One Side Only, Probably Using The English Sheets [Plates On Pp 8. 13, Etc.]. American Issue, Olive Green Boards, Red Lettering, Publisher Shown As "New York / F. Warne & Co." On Cover And Title Page. Similar To Uk Issue Described By Quinby, P. 86, As"Another Copy Of No. 23", With Paste-On Cover Illustration Of A Lady Mouse; However, Unlike The Quinby American Issue, 23B, Possibly An Unrecorded Earlier Variant, Points Earlier Than Quinby's "American Edition" 23B, And Even Some Points Earlier Than Quinby's Uk First Issue #23: Front And Rear Endpapers Are The Same, With List Of Potter's Books On Left, Designs Like Quinby Plate Xii Linder Figure 11 But With Addition Of Words "First… Read More

Mainz ( Main): Verlag Jos. Scholz, 1929. First Edition . Cloth Hinges. Near Fine. 114" x 6 1/2. Bildern Von Olga Brodsky. A fold-out picture book consisting of twelve panels, each 6 1/2" tall by 9 1/2" long, connected to form a continuous 114" long picture on each side, a total of 24 colored panels, each with text explaining the railroad, its operation and its workers. A near fine copy, with one cloth connection between the boards split but easily repairable. Rare.

Macmillan and Co. Limited. London 1902. Reprint of 1896 Sullivan edition. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches). Illustrated with Frontis and 78 fine engravings, plus two fold out colour maps of Rugby at the rear of the book. Fine copy in the publishers green cloth binding with elaborate gilt lettering and decoration to the front board and spine. All edges gilt. In the rare original printed dustwrapper, which reproduces the design of the spine and front board on the panels, with publishers book list on the rear. the wrapper has some loss to the top of the spine and has had some strengthening to the rear but overall is a very good survivor and has kept the book in brilliant fine condition. A stunning copy.

London: W. & R. Chambers, 1912. First Edition. N. Parker. First edition of this justly famous children's book with anthropomorphised kangaroo characters - 'perhaps the best known story entirely devoted to the kangaroo' (Robert Holden 'The Mint Exhibition' 1985). Twelve stories of kangaroos told in verse with many small drawings in sepia and twelve beautifully printed, full-page, partially-coloured plates. Quarto, full colour pictorial boards, edge rubbing, corner wear, chipping of paper at spine ends and along spine edges, two pages with minor nicks at page edge, clean and bright, a very good copy indeed overall.

This is a handsome, fine binding vintage copy of "The Complete Works of LEWIS CARROLL" with original illustrations by John Tenniel. Circa 1930's (there is no date of publication stated); Random House; New York. The book has been custom three-quarter leather bound with a decorative gilt spine with raised bands. With an Introduction by Alexander Woollcott and an Index of First Lines of Verse. Gilt top edge.The following works are included (please see the photos for the complete list of contents):* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* Through the Looking-Glass* Sylvie and Bruno* Sylvia and Bruno Concluded* The Hunting of the Snark* Early Verse* Puzzles from Wonderland* Prologues to Plays* Phantasmagoria* College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel* Acrostics, Inscriptions, and Other Verse* Three Sunsets and Other Poems* Stories* MiscellanyCondition:Clean covers with no stains; some wear to the leather at the center of the left edge of the front cover, at the top and bottom edges of the spine, and at the… Read More

Uinby Notes American Issues Only In Brief, And Linder Does Not Address Them. : Frederick Warne & Company, 1917. First American Edition 1st Printing. Green Boards. Near Fine Book/No Jacket. Beatrix Potter Color Plates. Page Block 122 X 104 Mm. Pages Each Printed On One Side Only, Probably Using The English Sheets [Plates On Pp 8. 13, Etc.]. American Issue, Olive Green Boards, Red Lettering, Publisher Shown As "New York / F. Warne & Co." On Cover And Title Page. Similar To Uk Issue Described By Quinby, P. 86, As"Another Copy Of No. 23", With Paste-On Cover Illustration Of A Lady Mouse; However, Unlike The Quinby American Issue, 23B, Possibly An Unrecorded Earlier Variant, Points Earlier Than Quinby's "American Edition" 23B, And Even Some Points Earlier Than Quinby's Uk First Issue #23: Front And Rear Endpapers Are The Same, With List Of Potter's Books On Left, Designs Like Quinby Plate Xii Linder Figure 11 But With Addition Of Words "First… Read More

Mainz ( Main): Verlag Jos. Scholz, 1929. First Edition . Cloth Hinges. Near Fine. 114" x 6 1/2. Bildern Von Olga Brodsky. A fold-out picture book consisting of twelve panels, each 6 1/2" tall by 9 1/2" long, connected to form a continuous 114" long picture on each side, a total of 24 colored panels, each with text explaining the railroad, its operation and its workers. A near fine copy, with one cloth connection between the boards split but easily repairable. Rare.

Macmillan and Co. Limited. London 1902. Reprint of 1896 Sullivan edition. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches). Illustrated with Frontis and 78 fine engravings, plus two fold out colour maps of Rugby at the rear of the book. Fine copy in the publishers green cloth binding with elaborate gilt lettering and decoration to the front board and spine. All edges gilt. In the rare original printed dustwrapper, which reproduces the design of the spine and front board on the panels, with publishers book list on the rear. the wrapper has some loss to the top of the spine and has had some strengthening to the rear but overall is a very good survivor and has kept the book in brilliant fine condition. A stunning copy.

London: W. & R. Chambers, 1912. First Edition. N. Parker. First edition of this justly famous children's book with anthropomorphised kangaroo characters - 'perhaps the best known story entirely devoted to the kangaroo' (Robert Holden 'The Mint Exhibition' 1985). Twelve stories of kangaroos told in verse with many small drawings in sepia and twelve beautifully printed, full-page, partially-coloured plates. Quarto, full colour pictorial boards, edge rubbing, corner wear, chipping of paper at spine ends and along spine edges, two pages with minor nicks at page edge, clean and bright, a very good copy indeed overall.

This is a handsome, fine binding vintage copy of "The Complete Works of LEWIS CARROLL" with original illustrations by John Tenniel. Circa 1930's (there is no date of publication stated); Random House; New York. The book has been custom three-quarter leather bound with a decorative gilt spine with raised bands. With an Introduction by Alexander Woollcott and an Index of First Lines of Verse. Gilt top edge.The following works are included (please see the photos for the complete list of contents):* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* Through the Looking-Glass* Sylvie and Bruno* Sylvia and Bruno Concluded* The Hunting of the Snark* Early Verse* Puzzles from Wonderland* Prologues to Plays* Phantasmagoria* College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel* Acrostics, Inscriptions, and Other Verse* Three Sunsets and Other Poems* Stories* MiscellanyCondition:Clean covers with no stains; some wear to the leather at the center of the left edge of the front cover, at the top and bottom edges of the spine, and at the… Read More