viii, [2], [11]-96 pages. Stated on printed title page: "New edition, with coloured illustrations" i.e.: colour frontispiece and colour title page. One of Warne's Bijou Books. No stated date of issue. 3.8 x 2.7 inches; all edges gilded. Professionally stabilized: loose signatures tightened and front endpaper re-hinged. Loss to foot of printed title, likely as bound, with no loss of text. 79 short humorous role-play scenes. View More...
192 pages. Frontispiece, and 7 plates. No stated date of issue. Likely 1865 [re. Fisher & Brother, and the Tiny Library, see Cary Sternick's 19th Century Juvenile Series online]. Stories For You in gilt to spine. Presumably bound upside down (child's head on upper board). 1867 Sunday school gift inscription to first leaf. Even offsetting to text. 2.1 x 1.9 inches. View More...
192 pages. Frontispiece, engraved title, and 25 plates. No stated date of issue. Entered according to act of Congress 1834 by Truman, Smith & Co. [re. Fisher & Brother, and the Tiny Library, see Cary Sternick's 19th Century Juvenile Series online]. Endpapers toned; moderate soil to textblock edges. Occasional spot within; even offsetting to text. Pages 109-112 unopened (fore-edge not cut). 2.2 x 2 inches View More...
160 pages, frontispiece and all plates. Warmly inscribed by the author 11/43: "To Hughie Shaw - Who taught me first off what the Canadian hand of friendship can mean to a fellow Britisher. With constant regards." Jacket rubbed and toned; cloth spine sunned, andlower joint split. Good only, but a pleasing inscription. 7.5 x 5 inches. View More...