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Adelbert Von Chamisso: The Shadowless Man, Peter Schlemihl - illustrated by Gordon Browne

CODE: 102004

£40.00
In stock
New York. Frederick Warne. 1910.

Illustrated edition. Hardback. No dust jacket. 8vo. xxiv/ 106 pages. Illustrated with black and white full page plates and in the text by Gordon Browne. WHS booksellers label. Slight foxing to end pages. Slight wear to covers.

Very Good + condition

Balasaheb Pant: The Picture Ramayana

CODE: 311082

£250.00
In stock
Bombay. British India Press. 1916.

First edition. Authors signed compliments slip pasted onto the front blank end page. Original publishers cloth binding. Hardback. No dust jacket. 4to. (19cm x 25cm), xv/ 72 pages. Illustrated with 60 tipped-in colour plates with tissue guards. One further owners inscription on the front end page. Compiled and illustrated by Bhavanrao Shrinivasrao, alias Balasaheb Pandit Pant Pratinidhi, B.A., Chief of Aundh. Bombay booksellers label from the union agency, Mohammadi Mahal. Monir wear to head and foot os spine and the corners. Covers very slightly soiled.

Very Good + condition

Charles Kingsley: Westward Ho! or the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh Knight of Burrough in the County of Devon in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth.

CODE: 102115

£7.00
In stock
London. George Harrap & Co. 1935.

Reprint. Hardback. No dustjacket. 4vo. 634 pages. Illustrated with 16 colour plates by Ellis Silas. Spine faded and covers marked. Internal hinges have weakened and the book has slightly dropped. Very Light foxing.

Good + condition

Desiderius Erasmus (edited by W. Kennett): Moriae Encomium, Or the Praise of Folly. Made English from the Latin of Erasmus

CODE: 102131

£450.00
In stock
London. printed for J Wilford. 1724.

Fourth Edition. Full period velum binding. Hardback. No dust jacket. 16mo. (xvii)/xiv/v/ 168 pages + 4 page index. Adornd with forty-six copper plates and the Effigies of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. Engraved from the Designs of Hans Holbeine. Some wood worm holes. Owners name and dated, Talbot Williamson, 1730 on blank end page.

Very Good condition

Eric Fitch Dalglish: Animals in Black and White - Vol I - The Larger Beasts

CODE: 100895

£35.00
In stock
London & Toronto. J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.. 1928.

First Edition. Hard bound paper boards. No dustjacket. Illustrated with woodcuts. Oblong 8vo.. 47 pages. Some foxing and wear to the edges.

Good + condition

George Cruikshank: Three Courses and a Dessert

CODE: 101548

£45.00
In stock
London. Vizetelly, Branston and Co. 1830.

First Edition. Quarter dark green calf leather binding. Hardback. 8vo. 432 pages + 8 pages of adverts. Illustrated with full page plates and text illustrations by George Cruikshank. Some foxing and water staining. especially to the prelims and plates. Corners bumped. Early bookplate with a armorial crest on the front cover. General wear.

Good + condition

Gwladys Evan Morris: Tales from Bernard Shaw - Illustrated by Phyllis A Trery

CODE: 100353

£80.00
In stock
George G. Harrap & Co Ltd. 1929.

First edition. Hardback. No dustwrapper. Laid in signed photograph of Gwladys Evan Morris. Small 4vo. 216 pages. Bold period illustrations by Phyllis A Trery. Yellow cloth covers with title/design in black on front and spine. bright but somewhat rubbed and bumped. Endpapers yellowing; page edges dusty; contents clean.

Near Very Good condition

Jean Lang: A Book of Myths

CODE: 102585

£15.00
In stock
London. T C & E C Jack Ltd. 1914.

First edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. 4vo. 340 pages. 20 original coloured drawings by Helen Stratton. Dust jacket is chipped and torn with a square cut out on the front. Cellotape stain to dust jacket at base of spine. Some foxing to end pages and prelims. Rough cut pages. Spine is very slightly skew.

Good + / Good condition

John N Raphael: Pictures of Paris and Some Parisians (Inscribed, publishers proof)

CODE: 1805093

£150.00
In stock
London. Adam and Charles Black. 1908.

First edition. Inscribed by the author. Publishers proof copy. Fine 3/4 leather binding. Hardback. 8vo. (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 136 pages. 13 monochrome plates 33 text illustrations by Frank Reynolds. Top edge gilt. Some foxing to prelims and first few pages. Dated proof stamps. Slight edge wear.

Very Good condition

Marcia Lane Foster: Lets Do It

CODE: 100604

£35.00
In stock
London. Collins. 1938.

First edition. Hard back. Dust jacket. Large 4vo. 108 pages. Colour and b&w sketched caricatures of children. Dust jacket worn and torn.

Very Good / Good condition
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