Carroll, Lewis.

The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits. With nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1898. 19 x 12 cm. xi, 83 pages. With a tissue guarded frontispiece and eight further plates. Original red cloth with elaborate gilt decorations and title on front board and spine. Black end papers. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. A little dust dulling. A very nice copy. Name of a previous owner on rear end paper. Tissue guard and first few pages mildly foxed.

Kiddell-Monroe, Joan.

Ingulabi.

First Edition. London, Sylvan Press – Nicolson & Watson, [1943]. 27 x 20 cm. 48 unnumbered Pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. New (2020) green cloth hard cover. Original paperback front cover has been used for new hardback front board (see images). New green end papers. Very good condition. New binding. Neat (Child) Ex Libris on half title page. Some coloured pencil marks on one page, otherwise bright and clean inside. A nice copy in a new hardback binding with gilt title and author on spine.

Hale, Kathleen.

Manda.

First Edition. London, John Murray, 1952. 25 x 18 cm. 30 pages. Illustrated throughout in Colour and B&W. Original decorated paperboards in original matching decorated dust jacket, now in clear archival jacket. Very good in very good jacket. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers slightly dust dulled. Internaly bright and clean. Dust jacket shows some age darkeing and edge wear. Minor losses to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. See images of book and dust jacket.

Grover, Eulalie Osgood.

The Sunbonnet Babies’ Book. Illustrated by Bertha L. Corbett, “The Mother of the Sunbonnet Babies”.

First Edition. Chicago, New York, London, Rand McNally & Company, 1902. 23 x 17 cm. 105 pages with colour illustrations throughout. Illustrated end papers. Decorated blue cloth. Hard cover with title on spine. In protective plastic cover. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Mildly age dulled throughout.

ANON.

Ten Little Puppy Dogs.

London, Brimax Books (Printed in Germany), Not dated, ca. 1950. 23 x 20 cm. 16 stiff cardboard pages. Illustrated throughout. Stiff decorated cardboard covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping.

Harris, Joel Chandler.

Uncle Remus. or Mr. Fox, Mr. Rabbit, and Mr. Terrapin. With Fifty Illustrations by T.A. Elwes.

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1888. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. xxxi, 248 pages plus eight pages publishers list. Illustrated. Two colour cloth binding with gilt title on spine. New end papers. Top edge gilt. Very good condition. Professionally rebacked in 2019 using original boards, but with new end papers. Rubbed and bumped. Binding faded. Internally bright and clean.

Pelly, Lilian.

True Tales of our Animals. For my Grandchildren.

First Edition. Ilfracombe, Devon, Arthur H. Stockwell, 1962. 18 x 12 cm. 24 pages. Small paperback with illustrated stiff card covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling. Inscribed by the author on the title page: ‘With love from Lilian Pelly’.

Middleton, Ivy.

Kay of the Pimpernels.

Second Impression London and Redhill, Lutterworth Press, 1942. 18.5 x 12 cm. v, pages 7 – 223. Original red cloth with black title on spine. Hard cover in original decorated dust jacket. Dust jacket now in archival jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Gift inscription on front free end paper. Dust jacket age darkened, Edge worn and minor paper losses to spine, some closed tears. Not price clipped. Internally clean.