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1 Ali Baba, or the Forty Thieves
New York Mcloughlin Bros Paper Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
[unpaginated] n.d [circa 1889] 4 colour chromlithographs. Text pages yellowed with light foxing. Giftf dedication at head of page one. 17d 
Price: 35.00 GBP
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2 Darton's Indestructible Fun for Little Folks, Heedless Harry's Day of Disasters
London Darton and Co Paper Covers Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
15 pp., Several handcoloured plates. Cover slightly darkened, touch of wear but good and clean generally 
Price: 40.00 GBP
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3 De Schoone Slaapster in Het Bosch (artistieke Prentenboeken No. 4)
Amsterdam Holkema & Warendorf Illustrated Boards Very Good Oblong 8vo. 
unpaginated [16 pp], n.d [circa 1910]. boards slightly darkened and slightly bent. Slight darkening to edges of pages DUTCH TEXT 17c 
Price: 60.00 GBP
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4 Roodkapje (artistieke Prentenboeken No 2)
Amsterdam Holkema & Warendorf Illustrated Boards Good Oblong 8vo. 
unpaginated [16 pp] n.d. [circa 1910] Several colour illustrations. My Dutch is rudimentary to say the least, but this would appear to be rather lovely Dutch re-tellling of Little Red Riding Hood with lovely colour illustrations. Binding is a little bent, slight tanning to the edges, a couple of pages are slightly chipped, boards slightly discoloured. DUTCH TEXT 18e 
Price: 75.00 GBP
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5 Very Little Tales for Very Little Children, in Single Syllables of Three and Four Letters. First Series
London Henry Washbourne 1850 Ninth Edition Cloth Fair No Jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 
190pp. 16mo bound in fours.Very large font cramped into the small square space, looks rather arty. Spine slightly rolled and cloth faded to a sort of indeterminate mauve grey brown. Blind stamped on cover and gilt-stamped on spine. 18c 
Price: 25.00 GBP
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6 "Jigpuzbuk" The Jolly Jig-Saw Book
London John Leng and Co. Ltd 1938 Pictorial Boards Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
illustrated in colour, 5 jigsaw puzzle pages, all puzzles complete, tooth of i part of fifth puzzle has lost its colour, some foxing to page edges. 
Price: 80.00 GBP
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7 "Pat" Molly and Margaret
London Longmans, Green & Co 1912 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Baines,T 
155 pp, 8 b/w illustrations and a colour frontispiece unusual in wrapper some minor wear to dustwrapper 11b 
Price: 35.00 GBP
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8 'Uncle dan' (eds) The Wonderland Annual 1921
London Fleetway 1921 Decorative Boards Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
208 pp., Colour frontis. Illustrated in two tone throughout. Boards slightly darkened and rubbed at edges. Cloth spine faded. Ownership signature and gift dedication on Ffep. 11f 
Price: 40.00 GBP
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9 Adams, Frank (illustrated) The Story of Three Little Pigs
London and Glasgow Blackie and Son Limited, 1935 Pictorial Boards Good No Jacket Small 4to. Adams, Frank 
no date [1935] 10 pp and 12 colour plates. Some wandering pen marks on the front decorative endpaper and rear board 17d 
Price: 35.00 GBP
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10 Alcott, L. M. [Louisa May] Good Wives - A Story for Girls - Being a Sequel to Little Women
London The Religious Tract Society 1913 First Edition Thus Publisher's Cloth Good Small Square 4to COPPING, Harold (illustrator) 
348 pp., 8 colour plates. Tear to the bottom edge of a couple of the prelims. White cloth worn at the spine. 11a 
Price: 60.00 GBP
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11 ALDIN, Cecil Mac
Oxford Humphrey Milford Publishers at Oxford University Press 1912 Illustrated Boards Good Square 4to. Aldin Cecil 
[108 pp] sporadic foxing, but very slight and not apparent on illustrations, slight wear generally and to extremities of boards, spine split and frayed, previous owners signature on front paste down. Contents, despite these quibbles are generally nice and clean. 
Price: 250.00 GBP
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12 Allen, F M Brayhard the Strange Adventures of One Ass and Seven Champions
London Ward and Downey 1890 First Edition Decorative Cloth Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Furniss, Harry 
x, 308, [8 pub catalogue] pp., b/w illustrative plates. TEG. Decortaive publishers's cloth which is slightly darkened, bevelled boards slightly worn at the exrtremities. 47g 
Price: 30.00 GBP
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13 An Old Boy ( Thomas Hughes ) Tom Brown's School Days
London MacMillan & Co Ltd. 1911 Reprint Gilt Decorated Cloth Good Small 8vo Sullivan, Edmund J. 
xxiii., 312 pp., folding map of Rugby. Gilt decorated cloth boards a little worn, and faded on the spine, inscription in ink on fep, gilt edges. 11c 
Price: 25.00 GBP
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14 ANDERSEN, Hans Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen Illustrated By Kay Nielsen
London Hodder & Stoughton 1924 Signed Limited Edition Decorated Cloth Very Good Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Nielsen, Kay Signed by the Artist
N.d. [1924]. 197 pp. No. 419 of a Limited De Luxe Edition of 500 copies signed by the artist, Kay Nielsen. Publisher's dark blue cloth elaborately decorated in gilt on front board and spine. In original dust wrapper, with repeated desgin from front cover. Dw chipped at head & tail of spine and along edges. Twelve tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards by Kay Nielsen. Head and tail-pieces, decorative borders and full-page b&w illustrations by Nielsen. No markings or inscriptions. Clean and fresh copy, gilt bright. A handsome copy in original dw. 
Price: 3000.00 GBP
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15 ANDERSEN, Hans Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
London Constable & Co. Ltd 1913 Limited Edition Full Morocco Near Fine Large 4to. Robinson, W. Heath Signed by Illustrator
290pp. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 12. Signed by W. Heath Robinson. Recently handsomely rebound in a richly gilt-illustrated red morocco at the Chelsea Bindery, with ornamental gilt stamping on front, raised gilt bands on spine, gilt line along edges and dentelling on the endpapers. Wonderful illustrations: 94 in black and white, and 16 in full colour. Gorgeous. 
Price: 2800.00 GBP
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16 Andersen, Hans Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
London Folio Society 1995 Hard Cover Very Good Slipcase 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Robinson, W. Heath 
289 pp, illustrated in colour and b/w 11h 
Price: 34.00 GBP
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17 ANDERSEN, Hans Hans Andersons Fairy Tales
London Boots / Hodders and Stoughton Decorated Cloth Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall W. Heath Robinson 
319 pp. with 16 tipped in colour plates, red cloth and gilt lettering and decoration, bumping to corners and some scuffing to the spine top and edges, slight fraying to top right side of spine, some foxing, small loss/tear to top right corner of contents page (1cm), a couple of small red stains to endpapers from the red cloth boards, overall quite a presentable copy of this lovely book, contents and book tight 
Price: 75.00 GBP
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18 ANDERSEN, Hans Hans Andersons Fairy Tales
London Boots / Hodders and Stoughton Decorated Cloth Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall W. Heath Robinson 
319 pp. with 16 tipped in colour plates, dark red cloth and gilt lettering and decoration, light bumping and rubbing to corners, nice copy of this lovely book, contents and book tight. Christmas label partially removed from the free endpaper. 
Price: 95.00 GBP
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19 ANDERSEN, Hans The Steadfast Tin Soldier: A Fairy Tale SIMEON, Margaret (Illustrator, calligrapher, and embroiderer)
No publisher, unique hand-made book 1929 Decorated Cloth Very Good Oblong 8vo. 
unpaginated, hand lettered text with beautiful hand coloured illustrations and embelllishments, hand sewn and bound in decorative embroidered linen cover. A unique item. Very good. 103c 
Price: 1250.00 GBP
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20 Andersen, Hans and Translated By L. W. Kingsland Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
London Oxford University Press 1972 Reprint Hardback Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Shepard, E H 
vi, 327 pp. Hardback in dw. Illustrations in colour and b&w by Ernest H. Shepard. No names or inscriptions. Clean VG copy. 11b 
Price: 22.50 GBP
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