NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977/1926, stated 1st this Farrar facsimile reproduction, red cloth boards with Clever Bill stamped, decorated endpapers, 10.1x7.4" oblong; yellow jacket with full colour decorations all around, 22 pp. Picture book hardback. Clever Bill, a soldier doll, races to catch up with Mary's train at Dover.....
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd [1955]; heavy white paper folder publisher's prospectus with laid in full page plate, rear page has heavy photo corners pasted to contain plate edges, which may or may not be original; 7x9.5" Reference illustration, softcover. A large 4 page publisher's prospectus.....
London: Warne, 1986, 1st; textured blue boards, tan endpapers, in jacket with a collage of photos (an rabbits popping up) 19.5 x 25 cm; 224 pp. incld index. Reference biography, hardback. An affectionate and knowledgeable biography, incorporating much new material, and thoughtfully illustrated. A good read.
Comprises the front slotted cover with the complete accordion strip of text and 14 plates of this wallet. Too beautiful and funny to throw away. The first edition of Miss Moppet was published only in two issues in 1906 in miniature wallet form, so t. Picture Boook small. Sadly for.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965, true 1st, "first published"; green blue boards, green top edge, in gray jacket with drawings in rust and black of Helena and Fabius, a Roman soldier, and a fisherman, on the back a map of Sullya (the isles of Sicily); 8vo. Juvenile hardback. Two children captured.....
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1982/1970, 3rd; maroon cloth with silver star, in jacket with full picture of Mitzi pushing her baby brother in the stroller; 10.5x9, np. Picture Book hardback. A collection of droll stories about a city family, including one of Mitzi who took her little brother on a......
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1966, stated 1st printing; 107 pp. Juvenile hardback. Written folk tales with the flavour of Eastern Europe.
New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc, 1965, stated 1st; blue clothboards, illustrations in deep pink and grey on every spread, in full colour jacket with wraparound illustration of the citizens of Grasse standing on the cobblestoned market square as the prin. Picture Book Hardback. An unpleasant princess with a cold.....
New York: The Macmillan Company 1961/1961, stated 1st; sand coloured boards with blue title and large rearing horse, cream jacket with Little No Feather galloping White Star, his black horse, across the plain with a mesa in the background, 8vo; 71 pp. Juvenile hardback. The little Navajo boy loves his.....
New York: Greenwillow, 1985, stated 1st, nl; shiny yellow boards with painting of two puppy brothers hanging out of the car on the way to the beach; yellow endpapers, comic book layout, 8.2x10"; np. Picture Book hardback. "Anyone who has ever ridden in a car with a small child -.....
New York: Crown Publishers, 1980, 1st printing nl; blue cloth boards, in jacket with all around painting of Jonas in Alaskan wilderness; 8vo; 118 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Having spent a year away at boarding school learning white man's ways, an Eskimo boy comes home to spend the summer learning old.....
Buenos Aires: Editorial Atlantida; 1961/1941, 7th printing; #4 of 22 in this author's series; white boards with tiny girl looking at bird, with yellow endpapers with figures from all the stories; 22 of stories listed on the back; 7 x 10"; 55 pp. Spanish language hardback. An original story of.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965, stated 1st; orange cloth, 8vo; 184 pp. including glossary. Juvenile hardback. A collaboration of two lifelong horse people. Authentic pictures of schooling, showing and hunting, with expressive horses. In this book, Robin must sell her pony to a rich man's daughter but she gets.....
Toronto: Bodley Head, 1979, 1st; green boards, in Gavin Rowe jacket with scenes from story; 8vo; 103 pp. Juvenile hardback. In this third mystery, Tom is kidnapped by DEMON along with a wealthy industrialist's daughter ostensibly to protest a polluting factory, but actually for more sinister reasons. SIGNED and BRIEFLY.....
Cadbury Limited, Bournville, Birmingham: Film Fair Wombles from the BBC TV Series, c mid 1970s, oranges yellows and greens with full figures of each Womble, his name, and "Womble Hint no. _ on Back" Also a note "Please dispose of this wrapper careful. Toploader small. The idea for the original.....