Category: Children's & Illustrated Books

Image for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated by Edward FitzGerald. Introduction by Laurence Housman. With Colour Plates and Decorations by Charles Robinson.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated by Edward FitzGerald. Introduction by Laurence Housman. With Colour Plates and Decorations by Charles Robinson.

By: Khayyam (Omar) [Charles Robinson Illustrations]

Price: $375.00

Publisher: London: Collins, [1928].

Seller ID: 56848

Original blue limp calf designed in gilt. 56 pages. Four colour plates and decorative borders by Charles Robinson. This copy in the original glassine, and in the original publisher's box with a colour pictorial label on the top. There is a perforation (from a pin or nail) through the back cover and final six leaves (not the illustration), but it is hardly noticeable. The frontispiece plate has a tiny folded corner at the bottom. The glassine is a little worn at the edges, with old creases. A remarkably preserved copy, in the rarely-seen box.
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Greta and Peter in Good Luck Land.

By: Kirby-Parrish (L.) and Dick Hartley.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Chicago: Volland, (1914).

Seller ID: 56897

Orange pictorial boards. Some rubbing of spine and edges, a few blemishes to end papers, a very good copy. A fantasy of mermaids and a boat trip on the Zuyder Zee. Color illustrations, some full-page. The binding is tied internally with original blue string. Uncommon.
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The Cruise of the Dashaway; or, Katie Putnam's Voyage.

By: Mannering (May)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 55050

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1868. [222]pp. plus one leaf of ads. Reddish-brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Pale yellow end papers. Frontispiece and extra illustrated title page, and two inserted plates. Issued as the third volume in the Helping Hand Series. Some wear to spine ends, clear tape repair to inner front hinge, and glue repairs to both inner hinges, a clean very good copy in general. The frontispiece and two inserted plates are by Thomas Nast; one is of Neptune, God of the Sea, another of a monkey swinging a cat by its tail! The frontispiece depi...
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Image for Heaven on Earth. Adapted from the French Sur La Terre comme au Ciel .... With illustrations by Jeanne Hebbelynck [with] Sur La Terre comme au Ciel. English and French editions.

Heaven on Earth. Adapted from the French Sur La Terre comme au Ciel .... With illustrations by Jeanne Hebbelynck [with] Sur La Terre comme au Ciel. English and French editions.

By: Melloy (Camille) and Joan Windham.

Price: $60.00

Seller ID: 54755

London & NY: Sheed & Ward, (1937). First English edition. Square 8vo., blue (upper, decorative) and cream (lower) boards, cream cloth spine. Printed in Belgium. Five plates in colour. Some light wear to outer page edges, light scattered foxing, but quite a fresh, clean and attractive copy. A brief ownership inscription on the front fly leaf is dated 1940. [with] Sur La Terre Comme au Ciel. Illustrations en Couleurs de Jeanne Hebbelynch. Bruges: Desclee de Brouwer, (1933). First edition. Front fly leaf missing, names in pen on the half-title leaf, some spotting and foxing, a very good copy. A ...
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King Kuriosity.

By: Mitchell (George)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston: Small, Maynard, (1926). Second Printing.

Seller ID: 57047

Blue pictorial boards, designed and lettered in black on the spine and both covers. Frontispiece in colour, and many small drawings throughout the text. Very light edge wear, a nice clean copy in a somewhat worn pictorial dust jacket. piece from the upper spine, chips to edges and old tape marks to spine. This copy has an original colour drawing and accompanying poem by the author, on the second leaf, quite highly finished and attractive, signed in 1936. The children have adventures with Old King Kuriosity in Mother Goose Land. A very uncommon book.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered Into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.

By: Omar Khayyam. (Dulac Illustrations)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London: Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1909].

Seller ID: 56859

Burgundy buckram designed and lettered in gilt. Twenty mounted plates by Dulac. A very bright and attractive copy in the original pictorial dust jacket, which has been internally repaired with tape, but looks decent. Gift inscription on the front end paper, dated [1909? 1919?]. A very nice copy.
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Timmy's Visit to the Zoo.

By: Pop-up.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London: Murrays Sales and Service, [nd] 1950s?.

Seller ID: 50551

Spiral bound, colour pictorial boards. This book opens and clips to itself with a paper clip, making a 4-chambered panorama with 4 pop-up scenes. Very good condition.
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Le Voyageur Europeen ou Abrege Des Meilleurs Voyages Modernes en Europe, A L'Usage de la Jeunesse.

By: Prieur de Sombreuil (Mr. D.)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Paris: Librairie Enfantine et Juvenile De P. Maumus, [c.1850].

Seller ID: 55512

8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf, marbled edges and end papers. Extra engraved title page. Frontispiece and two inserted plates, each with 2 vignettes. Table at rear. Spine almost entirely chipped away, foxing to title and early leaves, a clean very good copy in general. Abridged versions of 12 voyages to Sweden, Ireland, Russia, Vienna, Germany, Great Britain, Portugal, Italy, Spain and Greece. Nice little illustrations. An uncommon juvenile work; Worldcat gives an incomplete description, and cites no library holdings.
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The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales. From the Old French. Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.

By: Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur) (Illustrated by Edmund Dulac)

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910].

Seller ID: 56876

Brown buckram stamped in blind, spine and front cover designed and lettered in gilt. Thirty mounted colour plates with tissue guards. Light foxing to margins of early leaves, corners a bit bumped, some rubbing to back cover but a nice bright copy.
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Image for A Series of Illuminated Panels Designed by Louisa Puller to Illustrate A Story Book of the Manors of Walthamstow and Higham. Described by Constance Demain Saunders.

A Series of Illuminated Panels Designed by Louisa Puller to Illustrate A Story Book of the Manors of Walthamstow and Higham. Described by Constance Demain Saunders.

By: Saunders (Constance Demain). [William Morris].

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 54661

Walthamstow Antiquarian Society, Supplementary Publication No. 15, 1926. 4to. Tan stiff wrappers lettered in brown, sewn with red string. Short tears to the overhanging edges of the wrappers, some rubbing to edges, rubber band? remnants on upper back cover; a very good copy. Illustrated with twelve plates on glossy paper, the final one of which celebrates the life of William Morris. He is also included in one panel of the first plate.
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Atomics For The Millions. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. With an Introduction by Harold C. Urey.

By: Sendak (Maurice). Eidinoff (Dr. Maxwell Leigh) & Hyman Ruchlis.

Price: $425.00

Publisher: NY: Whittlesey House/Mcgraw-Hill, (1947). First edition.

Seller ID: 56696

Blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered and designed in red and gilt. Ownership signature on inner front cover, a clean very good to fine copy in a slightly chipped and worn dust jacket with closed tears at folds and edges, and some loss at the top of the spine. This copy is of the first issue (see Hanrahan A1), with the original price of $3.50 on both front and rear jacket flaps, and the herringbone end papers. Maurice Sendak's first illustrated book, done when he was 18.
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Judge Magazine. May 18, 1929.

By: Seuss (Doctor) [Theodore Seuss Giesel]

Price: $45.00

Publisher: NY: Judge Publishing, 1929.

Seller ID: 56789

Original wrappers. Cover by Gardner Rea. Crease in front cover, light wear, a nice clean copy. Pg. 22 contains "Left in the Lurch" with illustrations by Seuss.
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Shakespeare's Comedy of Twelfth Night or What You Will with Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson.

By: Shakespeare. (W. Heath Robinson Illustrations)

Price: $1,350.00

Publisher: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908.

Seller ID: 56854

Publisher's full vellum, designed in gilt. One of 350 numbered copies signed by Heath Robinson. 40 tipped-in plates with captioned tissue-guards. Lacking the ties, bookplates on front and back end papers, small ownership signature in the front, some typical bowing of the covers; a clean and attractive copy, very handsome.
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The School For Scandal. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

By: Sheridan (Richard Brinsley) (Hugh Thomson Illustrations)

Price: $90.00

Publisher: London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]

Seller ID: 56862

Lavender buckram designed and lettered in gilt. Decorative end papers. Twenty-five colour plates by Thomson. Slight sunning of spine and parts of back cover, a fresh and attractive copy.
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A Fireside Book, or The Account of A Christmas Spent at Old Court. By the Author of MAY YOU LIKE IT. Second Edition.

By: Tayler (Charles Benjamin) [published anonymously].

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London: Smith, Elder, 1830. Second edition.

Seller ID: 53853

8vo. [230] pages. Original drab boards, spine rebacked with red cloth tape. Frontispiece by George Cruikshank. Inner hinges strengthened with paper tape, lacking the rear end paper, inner front hinge cracked a title, very good otherwise. The Cruikshank frontispiece is somewhat foxed. See Cohn: George Cruikshank, No. 782. The first edition was printed for J.A.Hessey, 1828.
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How To See Fairies.

By: Van Sandwyk (Charles)

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Vancouver: The Fairy Press, 1993. First edition.

Seller ID: 56957

Plain burgundy wrappers in a pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy. Laid in is an unused Ex Libris plate by Van Sandwyk, with an Owl design.
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Van Sandwyk's Pocket Guide To The Little People.

By: Van Sandwyk (Charles)

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Vancouver: Fairy Press, [1997]. First edition.

Seller ID: 56956

Plain light-brown wrappers in a red pictorial dust jacket, colour illustration pasted to front of wrapper. Pictorial end papers and numerous fine colour plates. A fine copy.
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Dolls of Many Lands. Doll Stories. With Illustrations by Josephine Bruce.

By: Wade (Mary Hazelton)

Price: $40.00

Seller ID: 50296

Boston & Chicago: Wilde, (1913). Red cloth lettered in black, pictorial paper label on front cover. Pictorial end papers. Frontispiece & 8 plates. Tales told by dolls of nine different races. Light soiling; an attractive, very good copy.
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Wee Willie Winkie Magazine. A group of 16 issues from Volumes 5, 6, 7.

By: Wee Willie Winkie. Edited by Lady Marjorie Gordon and Her Mother.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London: Partridge / Edinburgh: Duncan, 1894 - 1897.

Seller ID: 56889

This is a group of issues in their original pictorial wrappers, stapled. There are 16 issues, 15 different (one is a duplicate). Some chipping to edges and spine wear, some splitting along spines, generally very good. Very fragile. Present are: Vol. V, No. 1 // Vol. V, No. 12 (with Index outer wrapper) // Vol. VI, numbers 1-12 // Vol. VI, No. 13 (two copies, one with Index outer wrapper) // Vol. VII, No. 1. Lady Marjorie Gordon, later Baroness Pentland, founded Wee Willie Winkie in 1891, at the age of eleven. Issues in original wrappers are uncommon.
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Category: Children's & Illustrated Books