London: Max Parrish, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 180pp. Rebound by library, with cream endpapers. Front endpapers show faint traces of removed library labels. Small neat circular library stamp to half title page, and there is a slightly roughened patch to the head of the title page where there may have..... More

London: T. Newton, Methodist Church Book-room, 1881. Hardcover. [2] (title page and contents) +190pp, with a colour frontis and a multitude of illustrations throughout the text. Contents unmarked and like new. The year's monthly issues handsomely bound together by the publisher, with yellow endpapers and a colour frontis. Neatly placed..... More

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. first edition. Hardcover. 139pp, including full-page illustrations in blue, and small illustrations in line at the end of each chapter. Contents clean and firm, with no creases, and with faint smudges to a few margins. Faint tanning to endpapers, neat name to fep. In the..... More

London: Religious Tract Society / R.T.S., n.d. [c.1911]. J. MacFarlane. Probable first printing. Hardcover. 350pp +[18] ads. The title page is printed in colour on glossy paper, and the colour frontis is tissue-guarded; there are two further colour plates (all called for) in the text. Small stain at pp.14/15 (and..... More

London: A Carousel Book: Transworld Publishers, 1981. First edition. Softcover. 32pp, stapled in glossy pictorial thin card covers. A lively pictorial introduction to Chinese history, culture and manners, as they were forty years ago: much of it is now greatly changed! Contents clean and unmarked. Tips of upper corners of..... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892. Second edition - revised. Hardcover. xv, [i], 99, [12] adverts. Contents clean and unmarked. Front endpaper and half-title have a crease to the upper corner. In the original binding of maroon cloth ruled and decorated in black, with gilt spine title. Corners sharp, firm and bright..... More

London: D.C. Thomson & Co., 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970. Comic. 32pp each, 12 x 8.5 ins. Collection carefully looked after, kept flat, and clean inside, but with some browning or foxing to front covers. Very little fraying and few bent corners. Puzzles not done. One story coloured in neatly to..... More

London: Methuen Children's Books / Pocket Bears / Moonlight Publishing, 1984. First English edition. Paperback. A little paperback, 17.2x10.7cms, with 40 glossy pages, illustrated in colour, with thin card pictorial covers. Clean, with a small crease to the top of the front cover, and the first two pages are slightly..... More

London: James Nisbet, 1930. First or early edition. Softcover. 64pp of exercises. Many of the pages are soiled or written or doodled on, and some corners are bent. 18.5x13.5cms, sewn in blue card covers. Firm, and externally very soiled and marked and rubbed. The brown inner surface of the front..... More

London: The Epworth Press, J. Alfred Sharp, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 189pp, with many illustrations in the text, plus the colour frontis. With the author's signed gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Contents clean and fresh. Both front and back endpapers have small corner stains from former sellotape which..... More

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 'printed 1920'. Hardcover. 256pp, with a colour frontis, illustrations in line, and pictorial endpapers of desultory children by a different artist. Children's story, set in British India, and Billy is an English girl. 1932 presentation note to front endpaper, with Sunday School Award label..... More

Cambridge: Dinosaur publications, 1980. First printing. Softcover. Stapled booklet with 24pp, illustrated in colour. Immaculate unread copy from storage: the only indication that decades have passed since it was printed is that the staples are rusting very slightly at the middle opening. Another of Althea's excellent books: a scarce title..... More

London: Cape, 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. 304pp, with map endpapers and a frontis. Contents clean and unmarked. Closed top edge faintly peppered. In the original binding of blue textured boards, spine titled in gilt: clean and bright, corners sharp. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket by Pat Marriott, of which..... More