92 pages, including frontispiece and 10 full page engravings. Apparently rare issue, with this story only, OCLC locating no copies. Dodd Mead copyright date of 1878; no date on title page. Gift inscription to front free endpaper Christmas 1883. Attractive publisher's binding with paper insert surrounded. Brown blemish to six leaves, the worst of which is pictured. Binding sound and hinges secure. View More...
64 pages. OCLC records a Graves & Ellis issue with chromolithographs [no library holdings]; this Ira Bradley is not recorded. Publisher's red cloth with wheat sheaf decoration (soiled); gilt title bordered on spine. two full page illustrations and girl's head on title page. 4.8 x 3.1 inches. no stated date of issue. Endpapers foxed; Christmas 1898 inscription to front free endpaper. Binding sound. View More...
16 pages plus covers. 11.5 x 8.6 inches. A good copy of this scarce book. Oblong format. English edition of Per Vliegtuig Naar Droomland; No. 1780A. Binding is sound and covers fully attached. Light soiling to covers, and creasing to spine and corners. Flapped plane at rear is well attached, with creasing to its right wing-tip. Two-inch shallow crease to rear cover running up from foot at right near Mulder & Zoon insignia. No inscriptions. View More...
28 unnumbered pages, with text also on pastedowns. Four full-page illustrations in colour. No publishing indications other than BLACKIE to front, and faint small stamp to rear panel: printed and bound in Great Britain. Textblock putting away from binding thread along hinge. View More...
30 pages. 8.1 x 6.5 inches. A well preserved example of this uncommon book. Worldcat shows only two institutional holdings. Spine rubbed, in places to webbing as seen in photo. Binding remains firm. Foxing throughout. Small chip off fore-edge of front endpaper. Splitting to rear gutter, but again binding is sound. No inscriptions. View More...
110 pages. 10.3 x 8.2 inches. A well preserved example of this uncommon book. No stated date of issue or copyright. Minor soiling to covers, with some chipping of paper covering and shallow crease to upper right corner. Binding remains firm. Interior is tanned, with stain and chipping to front endpaper. The following leaf is the chrome litho frontispiece, which is tanned and stained. Occasional light marginal staining throughout. No inscriptions. View More...
78, [2] pages. Unobtrusive staining to front cover; chipped and splitting at head and foot of spine. Binding remains sound. No stated date of issue; 1934 inscription to first leaf. One of Whitcombe's Historical Story Books. Foxing to first and final leaf, and occasionally within. Illustrated. View More...
16 pages. 9.2 x 7.2 inches. A well preserved example of this uncommon book. Spine rubbed, with top third of paper along upper hinge perished as seen in photo, and paper splitting for another two inches. Binding remains firm. Interior is very good. No inscriptions. View More...
46 pages plus covers. 8 x 6 inches. A well preserved example of this uncommon booklet. Card covers. Splitting for an inch along spine at foot and small diagonal chunck off head of spine. Sewn binding remains sound. Interior is clean and unmarked. Vertical crease to front cover. Colour covers, and profusely illustrated in black and white within. Noted as copyrighted at lower left front cover, but with no indication of when. Likewise no indication of the artist(s). One illustration (that for Hush-A-Bye, baby, on the tree top) has Howard DEL. beneath it. I have failed to locate another example. View More...
72 pages. 11 x 8.4 inches. A very well preserved example of this uncommon book. No stated date of printing. Binding remains firm. Interior is clean and unmarked save for the This Book Belongs To neatly filled in. Most illustrations in black and white, with some full-page doll leaves in orange, as well as the full colour leaves of the story Molly's Birthday. Most leaves are on thick paper, Molly's story is on thin shiny paper [recto only] with illustrations in the style of Beatrix Potter. View More...
22 pages plus final illustration leaf and covers. 7.6 x 6.25 inches. A very well preserved example of this scarce publication. Covers rubbed and with some staining. Sewn binding remains sound. Name in pencil to verso of front cover, otherwise unmarked. Some light marginal smudges but overall a clean interior. Seven full-page illustrations in colour. At time of cataloguing Worldcat shows only one institutional holding of this booklet: University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Jackson Library Special Collections, Lois Lenski Juvenile Collection. View More...
12 pages including covers. 10 x 7.25 inches. A well preserved example of this uncommon version. With no apparent indication of date. Saddle stapled with 3 staples showing light rust but fully secure. Fraying to linen edges; lower corner creased. Light foxing throughout. No indication of publisher, just "No. 892" lower left rear cover. No inscriptions. View More...
Frontispiece with tissue guard, title page, 144 unnumberd pages followed by 16 pages of Groombridge ads. Cloth decorated in black, blue and gilt. No stated date of issue. Greenock (Burgh) School Board, Shaw Street Public School Session 1881-82 prize plate to front pastedown: awarded to Mary Gay for diligence and progress by headmaster John Wilson. Bookseller's ticket of John Kinloch of Greenock. Heavy foxing to second endpapers front and rear; title page a bit grubby; occasional foxing within. Three stories, illustrated: A Lady's Travels; The Prophet and the Lost City; The Ship and the Island.... View More...
64 pages. Publisher's decorative binding with gilt titles. Presentation inscription to front free endpaper dated Xmas 1894. Illustrated throughout. Binding sound. Uncommon, with OCLC locating only one copy [MSU]. 6.5 x 4.5 inches. View More...
64 pages, with frontispiece in colour, and six full page plates included in pagination. No evident date of issue. Easter 1889 prize inscription to verso of frontispiece. Light soiling to cloth. Paper along front hinge split but secure. Binding is sound. View More...
12 panels in colour, mounted on linen. No publication info within. Dated from advert in The Religious Tract Society annual report for 1877. Heavily worn; old tape reinforcement to rear hinge. View More...
32 pages. Frontispiece and title page vignette. Quarter leather with gilt to spine, marbled paper over boards. Faint pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Extremities rubbed, with worming to joints though binding remains sound. Foxing throughout. No stated date of issue; publisher's address is at 1122 Chestnut Street; the number 26 in gilt to base of spine. Measures 4.25 x 2.75 inches. View More...
11 pages plus covers. 7.25 x 5.75 inches. An exceptionally well preserved example of this uncommon booklet. Splitting for a half inch along spine at foot only. Sewn binding remains sound. Interior is clean and unmarked, save for Christmas gift inscription to verso of front cover dated 1876, with old name stamp beneath that and to half-title. Some marginal spotting, and offsetting from plates, but overall a remarkable survival. Six colour plates. Ad to rear cover is for Swift's Combination Toy Blocks. View More...
Endpapers and 32 unnumbered pages. Frontispiece and 14 illustrations in colour, as well as some without.Textblock putting away from binding along hinge, and centre panel cleanly detached from staples. View More...
12 pages including covers. 7.75 x 6.2 inches [oblong]. An attentively preserved example of this uncommon booklet. The spine has been repaired long ago by very capable sewing. Binding is sound and covers fully attached. Five colour lithos within (one of sheep quite small). Creases, wear, light soiling and a few short closed tears to covers. Interior is quite clean, unmarked, showing moderate wear except for a transferance of paper upon the final two leaves: unobtrusive lower right of the goat, but obscuring some letters/words on the facing page. Please see photos. No inscriptions. I have faile... View More...
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