Children's The Bookshop catalogue 2019
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First edition; 8vo; frontispiece and illustrations by Joseph Schindelman, internally fine; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, near-fine, dust-jacket, price-clipped, a little light wear to extreme head of spine with some minor rubbing to top edge of lower panel but overall a fine, bright example.
£480 -
First edition; 8vo; colour illustrations throughout; publisher's red cloth with colour illustration mounted on upper board, slight darkening to image at top- & fore-edge, overall very good.
£250 -
First edition, signed and dated on front free endpaper; landscape 4to; numerous illustrations, both in colour and black & white; publisher's pictorial boards with corresponding dust-jacket, rubbed at extremities, top of spine lightly bumped with small resultant crease to corner of jacket, closed tear to rear, otherwise very good.
£225 -
First edition, inscribed by the Author to recto of front free endpaper; 4to; numerous illustrations, both in colour and black & white, by the author, slight age-toning, near-fine; publisher's pictorial boards with corresponding dust-jacket, rubbed at extremities, some creasing to upper edge, otherwise very good.
£425 -
Folio (325 x 255 mm); 8 chromolithographs in the text (3 full-page), manuscript synopsis of Stravinsky's The Firebird and English translation inserted at the rear; publisher's pictorial wrappers, small inscription to cover, overall a fine example.
£1,350 -
Folio (32.5 x 25.5 cm); 12pp., 8 chromolithographs in text (4 full-page). Original pictorial wrappers. A fine example.
£1,200 -
Folio (325 x 255 mm); 9 chromolithographs in the text, (3 full-page); publisher's chromolithographed wrappers, with additional English translation inserted at the rear, small ink initials (L.G.) inscribed on cover, a fine copy.
£1,350 -
Folio (325 x 255 mm); 7 chromolithographs in the text (2 full-page); publisher's pictorial wrappers with original envelope casing, a fine copy.
£1,350 -
First Australian edition; 4to; illustrations and pictorial endpapers, gift inscription dated Christmas 1943 to verso of front free endpaper, small closed tear to foot of same; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, minor rubbing to extremities, small scratch to upper cover, but otherwise a better copy than many.
£200 -
Oblong 8vo; colour illustrations by Nicholson throughout, pictorial title and endpapers, ink name to head of front free endpaper, original pictorial boards, minor bumping, slight rubbing to corner-tips, otherwise very good, dust-jacket, spine slightly dulled with minor tears and slight loss, spotting toward fore-edge of upper panel, otherwise very good.
£75