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A FLASK OF SEA WATER. Illustrated by Laszlo Gal.
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Oxford, 1989. Quarto, pale blue boards. [32] pp. Light erasure to upper outer corner of front free endpaper; minute rubbing to spine tips, outer corners; else fine in fine jacket. A fairy tale by the noted Canadian poet / artist (as P.K. Irwin), with good colour illustrations by an internationally acclaimed Canadian illustrator. 0195407040.
Book ID: 6650More details Price: USD $22.00 USD $19.80 -
A FLASK OF SEA WATER. Illustrated by Laszlo Gal.
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Oxford, 1989. Quarto, pale blue boards. [32] pp. Advance copy for review, with rubber stamp on front free endpaper. Fine in fine jacket. A fairy tale by the noted Canadian poet / artist (as P.K. Irwin), with good colour illustrations by an internationally acclaimed Canadian illustrator. 0195407040.
Book ID: 42910More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
A LITTLE AVERSION. With Coloured Illustrations by J.A. Symington
London: Religious Tract Society, no date, 1916. Octavo, 19.5 cm, blue pictorial cloth stamped in gren, black, and yellow, spine has author & title in gilt within a gilt frame. pp 256, (16, ads) + colour frontispiece with tissue guard + title leaf with colour decorative border, lettering in blue & red + 2 other colour plates. Yellowing to endpapers and page edges; Xmas, 1916, ink gift inscription at front; else a VG clean, bright, tight and unrubbed copy, very attractive. A volume in The Girl's Library series. First edition? First ed. was RTS [1910]. The pseudonym not identified by Libraries Australia. A story for girls set in Tasmania.
Book ID: 34066More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
A ROVER OF THE ANDES: A Tale of Adventure in South America
Edition: First printing
London: James Nisbet, 1885. Octavo, original dark blue pictorial cloth stamped in black, blind and gilt, black endpapers. pp (viii), 431, (1), (1 leaf excised), (3-8, ads) + frontispiece and illustrated half title + 4 plates. Book a little leaned; spine and spine lightly darkened, with nicks at head of spine; cracked inner hinges neatly repaired with coloured rice paper; tidy ink name on recto of frontispiece; occasional small soil spots in text margins; fore edges have a tide mark (scant penetration to text margins); just a little leaned; generally VG otherwise, now tight in the binding; unworn. Scarce in first edition.
Book ID: 36243More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
A WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS. With Engravings by Baker from Designs by Billings.
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 19075More details Price: USD $750.00 USD $675.00 -
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. Edited by Roger Lancelyn Green
Edition: Second Printing
Oxford University Press, 1976. Brown boards. Fine copy. Jacket has sunning to spine and upper rear panel, spine crease, small years, VG otherwise; Oxford English Novelists; B&W Illustrations; Octavo
Book ID: 54449More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
ARTHUR RACKHAM'S BOOK OF PICTURES. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
London: Heinemann, 1927. Fourth printing (first was in 1913). Quarto, brown coth lettered and decorated in gilt, yellowish top page edges. pp (44) + frontispiece and 43 other colour plates tipped to tan card, all with captioned tissue guards. A few vignette drawings in text. A fine, bright copy, no owner names, no creases to plates nor tissue guards. The light tan dust jacket has a tan stain and narrow chip along front spine fold; chips at spine ends (no lettering lost); fingernail-size chip to lower outer corner of front panel; VG otherwise. Only a few of the illustrations had been previously published, mostly as line drawing sketches. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Book ID: 40389More details Price: USD $395.00 USD $355.50 -
AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND. Author of "Dealings with the Fairies," "Ranald Bannerman," Etc., Etc.
Edition: First US issue
Book ID: 20350More details Price: USD $1,495.00 USD $1,345.50 -
BARTONWOOD
Edition: First printing
London: Chatto & Windus, 1978. Inscribed by Author; Octavo, 116, [4] pp, illustrated by the author, blue boards. Long signed ink nscription by the author on the title page, a fine copy. Pictorial dust jacket has yellowing to top margin of rear panel, else fine, flap price intact. The poet's first novel for children, a fantasy adventure tale.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 20584More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
BENNETT'S FABLES from Aesop and Others, Translated into Human Nature. Foreword by Gerald Gottlieb
Edition: First of this edition
New York: Viking, 1978. Dark blue cloth. Fine copy. Dust jacket has flap price inked out, rear panel softly rippled, else fine. Reprint from a rare hand-coloured copy of the 1857 original held by the Pierpont Moegan Library. Wonderful illustrations. ; Squarish octavo
Book ID: 52909More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
BIGGLES FLIES TO WORK: Some unusual cases of Biggles and his Air Police
Edition: First printing
London: Dean and Son, no date (1963). Octavo, red morocco grain cloth, spine lettered in black. pp 184. Text paper yellowed, as always, small crease at foot of spine, else fine and bright, no owner names. Dust jacket (no flap price) has shallow chips across spine ends (no lettering affected); slight rubbing at folds; small tears and nicks, very small chips, to panels; one inch tear to front flap; Good +, colours bright, respectable in appearance. No SBN in book. Rear panel of jacket lists 8 Biggles books, this one is last.
Book ID: 36663More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
BOTH SIDES THE BORDER: a tale of Hotspur and Glendower. Illustration by Ralph Peacock
London: Blackie, no date (ca. 191-). Blue pictorial cloth stamped in yellow, black and green. 8 plates. 1916 pencil ownership at front, else a VG clean, bright and tight unworn copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50961More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
BOTH SIDES THE BORDER: a tale of Hotspur and Glendower. Illustration by Ralph Peacock
Edition: First Canadian issue
London / Toronto: Blackie / William Briggs / Copp Clark, 1899. Blue pictorial bevel edge cloth stamped in gilt, yellow, mustard, and light olive, olivine page edges, grey endpapers. pp 384. 32, ads + 12 plates. Lacking the front free endpaper; flecks of light spotting to covers; minor rubbing to spine ends; else a bright, tight, VG+ copy, inner hinges not cracked, quite nice. Actually published in 1898. 1.2 kg parcel; Octavo
Book ID: 51464More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
BOYS WILL BE BOYS: the story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton, et. al
Boston: Background Books, 1962. Index. Yellowing to page edges, front cover a little curled, else fine. ; Octavo; xiv, 209 pages
Book ID: 55828More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
BROTHER ESKIMO. Illustrated by George Avison.
London: Pitman, no date, 1937. Beige pictorial cloth stamped in blue & black. 256 pp + 4 plates. Page edges yellowed, else fine. Dust jacket has chips at spine ends with loss of most of "Eskimo" at head; chips and tears to panels; old internal tape repairs; good. A later printing of the UK edition. A novel for younger readers set in the Melville Peninsula, a volume in the publisher's New Juvenile Library series. This edition was first published in 1937, first edition in 1921.; Octavo
Book ID: 42632More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
BUSH LUCK: An Australian Story. With Coloured Illustrations
London: Religious Tract Society, no date. Later printing. Octavo, 19 cm, green decorated cloth stamped in blind, front cover lettered in lilac, spine in gilt, colour pictorial label on front cover. pp (3)-250, (8, ads) + colour frontispiece and one other colour plate; one illustration in text. Mild wear to spine tips; cover label has rubbed creases and lacks a piece; endpapers and text paper yellowed; Hamilton, Ontario, contemporary new bookstore rubber stamp at front; VG tight and unworn copy otherwise. A volume in the Every Boy's Bookshelf series.
Book ID: 34065More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
BY PIKE AND DIKE: a tale of the rise of the Dutch Republic
London: Blackie, no date. Ca. 1920s reprint. Blue cloth stamped in black and orange, pictorial spine, four plates. Page edges yellowed, else fine. Jacket dusty on rear panel, two scarcely noticable scratches on front panel, else fine.; Octavo
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Book ID: 44771More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
BY PIKE AND DYKE: a tale of the rise of the Dutch Republic
London: Blackie, no date. Ca. 1920s? reprint. Blue cloth stamped in orange and black, spine illustration. pp 384 + 4 plates. Yellowing to page edges, creased nick to fore edge of four leaves at rear, else fine, no owner names. Jacket has light soiling to rear panel, else fine. Very nice copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48776More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
CHARLES DICKENS' CHILDREN STORIES re-told by his granddaughter and other
Philadelphia: Altemus, c1900. White cloth, front cover with a strip of great printed and decorated cloth and colour pictorial boards. pp 64 including 12 b&w plates. Cracked inner hinges neatly repaired; bit of wear along the fore edge of front cover; light damp stain to upper outer corners of text; in all, just a good, sound copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53062More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
CHILDREN'S MODERN FIRST EDITIONS: their value to collectors
Edition: First Edition
(London): Macdonald Orbis, 1988. Black cloth. Text paper and page edges yellowed, remainder dot to bottom page edges, else fine in fine price-clipped jacket. Table of value codes slip laid in. ; Octavo; (336) pages
Book ID: 55830More details Price: USD $10.95 USD $9.86