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Original Watercolour of DANBURY COMMON, Essex. UK

By: Anon

Price: £55.00

Publisher: UK, None: 1866

Seller ID: 114020

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Delightful Original Watercolour of Danbury Common, Essex, done (presumably? ) by a talented Victorian amateur hand. On the reverse of the watercolour there is written in old fading ink and entitled - 'Danbury Common, Essex, Sept 1866'. No artist named, and was discovered loose in a Mid Victorian Souvenir book, so no provenance either. Measures 12 cm x 8.8 cm. A most attractive ORIGINAL Mid-Victorian Watercolour. See Images. ; 32mo 4" - 5" tall
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NURSERY RHYMES A Novelty Fold-Out Panoramic Board Book

By: ANON

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, AMEX CO. , Limited: 1939

Seller ID: 114896

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Pictorial paper-covered boards containg a panoramic fold-out with individual nursery rhymes on each partition of the concertina in text and full colour. No Date ( circa 1935/45? ). Some edge wear with rubbing to corners and extremitites. One split to the foot of one of the folds. Overall Good Plus. The fold-out concertina is double-sided. Delightful Period Novelty Nursery Rhyme book. No. A312. Copyright 4. See Images. ; No A312. Copyright 4; Large, 8vo 9" - 10" tall
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Tools of Guaranteed Quality . (Tool Catalogue)

By: Anon

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Coventry, Matterson's: 1950

Seller ID: 112781

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Cream lettered card covers with blue titling to the front cover. No dustjacket, as issued. There are smudge marks and ingrained dust to the card covers. There is chipping/rubbing, and rusty staples throughout. There are light stain marks to the title page where stickers have been removed, otherwise there are NO inscriptions or other marks. 108 pp. Illustrated with b/w plates. Index. No date but c. 1950s as Extra loose sheets included feature a 'Price Amendments Guide, October 1957' and 'Hints on using a Stanley Plane'. Overall, apart from the 'faults', as detailed above, this is a Tight and Se...
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Russian Folk Tales. Folk Tales of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R

By: Anon

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House: (1950)

Seller ID: 113055

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

No Date given - but likely 1940s / early 1950? . In red-orange boards with blue decorative titling to the spine and decorated title stamped in blue and white to the front cover. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket which has some closed tears (internally repaired with clear archival tape) , some chipping and surface scrapes to the edges but is otherwise complete and now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks VG. Internally some browning to the endpapers o/w FINE. NO Inscriptions or Marks. 243 pp. Illustrated throughout in b/w by T. A. Mavrina and K...
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Twenty-Four Costumes of Wales

By: Anon

Price: £70.00

Publisher: Germany, Made in Germany: (1880)

Seller ID: 114019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Blue cloth-covered boards with a untitled plain cloth spine. The front board has the title, decorative borders and an heraldic 'Welsh Dragon' tooled in gilt on the front cover, the gilt a little dulled in places. The rear board has blind stamped decoration. The edges and corners are slightly rubbed here and there. NO date or publisher shown other than 'Made in Germany' on the bottom of the front board. This type of publication was usually sold as a gift 'souvenir' and invariably printed abroad and could be any date from the 1850s to the 1890s - often with the name of the gift shop on the rear ...
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First Steps in Scouting. How to Pass Tenderfoot and Second-Class Tests.

By: Anon

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd. ,: 1943

Seller ID: 114125

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

In the original lettered and decorated, thin, light orangy coloured, card covers with green titling and illustration to front cover. Some patchy light foxing (browny spots) and a few light marks to the inner edges of the front cover, staples rusting but sound, and corners very lightly creased but OVERALL VERY CLEAN. 1943 staple-bound booklet of 64 pages. Internally the former owner's name neatly written in the 'Name' box of the 'To be Filled in by the Scout' o/w No other Inscriptions or Marks. Illustrated throughout with b/w line drawings & diagrams, etc. Contains tests for the "Tenderfoot...
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Handsome Original Victorian Cabinet Photograph Album C1860s/70s

By: Anon

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Unknown, Unknown: 1870

Seller ID: 114642

Binding: Leather bound

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Ornate 'stamped' leather binding, Raised diamond/fleur de lys 'stamped' decs to front board. Raised decs/banding to rear board. Plain Banding to spine. Extremities very slightly rubbed. Broad brass clasp of the usual type - but is missing 1 'tack/pin' to the holding edge. All edges bright gilt. Glossy white e/p's. Slight browning/offsetting to pageswhere the light has 'slipped' in. An album of sepia/b & w cabinet portrait photographs back to back (c.50 images - one missing). Yellow decorative notelet stuck to the rear e/p with a poem entitled 'The Wish' printed on it. No publishernoted. A love...
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Image for Grafika (Polish Graphic Art Magazine) No. 2. 1932 Organ Zwiazku Polskich Artystow Grafikow I Zrzeszenia Kierownikow Zakladow Graficznych Dwumiesiecznik Warszawa Zeszyt II Rocznic Drugi (Union of the Polish Graphic Artists Union)

Grafika (Polish Graphic Art Magazine) No. 2. 1932 Organ Zwiazku Polskich Artystow Grafikow I Zrzeszenia Kierownikow Zakladow Graficznych Dwumiesiecznik Warszawa Zeszyt II Rocznic Drugi (Union of the Polish Graphic Artists Union)

By: Anon

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Warszawa, Tadeusz Gronowski and Franciszek Siedlecki: 1932

Seller ID: 119705

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Bi-monthly Warsaw Second Issue Second Anniversary Book. Union of the Polish Graphic Artists Union and Associations of Graphic Managers. Card covers a little sunned/dusty, 2 small (closed) tears to edge of front cover. Illustration to front cover. 3 wonderful colour advertisements/typography. Text in Polish. Graphic design magazine. A former owner's ink note and date in Polish on the title page. 52pp. 2 full page colour illustrations on the reverse of the covers and one other full page advert. Many articles on artists, illustrators, books etc, with numerous monotone/black and white illustration...
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Come To Life Stories No. 1. The Railway Station and the Harbour. a Pop-Up Book.

By: Anon

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Sandle Brothers Ltd: 1950

Seller ID: 119882

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with No dust jacket as issued

In the original full colour pictorial paper-covered thick board covers, with a (cloth looking) patterned paper spine - slightly scraped near the bottom half. Front cover is a little bowed and bumped on corners, through to the board in places, with a few scratches and a little edge-wear to all extremities. Some marks and an indent to the very bottom of the rear board and a closed tear to the top of the back cover. Internally VG - Both Pop-ups working well, clean tight and bright and with NO Inscriptions or Marks.10 full colour pages, including the covers = 2 double page pop-ups + 2 double page ...
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Early Japanese Family Crests Pattern Book ( Mon Kamon ? ) (Used by Tailors for Kimonos, Etc, Etc)

By: Anon

Price: £110.00

Publisher: Japan, Unknown: 1890

Seller ID: 120026

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

A chunky small oblong book - Ehon - measuring approx 6" x 3" in "fukuro-toji" style - folded sheets, spine open, string tied pages. Plain rust coloured padded covers, with Title strip. Covers very worn, but complete and sound. All page edges 'dusty/slightly darkened. Internally very clean. Illustrated throughout in b/w. With initial pages of script, and then divided into sections - About 280 pages in all. No date that I can spot/recognise, but I don't read Japanese, the feel of the book is definitely Nineteenth Century - maybe a little later? . Stuck onto an endpaper is the old label of an Eng...
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The Easy Drawing Book With My Very Own Pictures Follow the Dots. Easy Drawing (1)

By: Anon (Possibly H. G. C. Marsh Lambert)

Price: £22.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co Ltd.: 1927

Seller ID: 113868

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

No date, circa 1920s (COPAC gives it as 1927? ) Illustrated paper covered boards. Corners bumped/scuffed. Red cloth spine. Browning to the illustrated endpapers, and page fore-edges. Full page coloured frontispiece. Illustrated title page. A Dot-to Dot drawing book, All the dot-to-dots have been filled in - but in pencil and I have rubbed out one with a soft eraser, so all can be removed if needed. The first tale is about an elf and followed by poems and other little tales and pictures of various things. Profusely illustrated throughout in black and white - all illustrations by H. G. C. Marsh ...
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DISCOVERING PERIOD GARDENS

By: ANTHONY, JOHN

Price: £3.50

Publisher: BuckINGHAMSHIRE, SHIRE PUBLICATIONS LTD: 1972

Seller ID: 49123

ISBN: 0852631464

Binding: Paperback

Card Covers. Nr Fine. First Edition. 8vo. covers a little 'shelfworn/dusty' o/w excellent copy.; 49123
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Jack Yeats

By: Arnold, Bruce

Price: £25.00

Publisher: New Haven and London, Yale University Press: 1998

Seller ID: 110265

ISBN: 0300075499

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in Near Fine dust jacket

Stated 1998 on the Title page but has the letter 'B' (at the foot of the publishing detail - which may indicate a 2nd impression 1998? ) Either way it's exactly the same book/contents. HEAVY. Clean black boards with bright gilt titling to spine, In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. The dustjacket is not price clipped. NO INSCRIPTIONS or Marks/Markings. (x) + 418pp, numerous colour and black/white illustrations -17 colour paintings on plates, 238 b/w photographs and illustrations. "The Biography and study of the work of the major Irish twentieth-century artist - Jack B. Yeats (...
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East Sussex Events Death, Disaster, War and Weather

By: Arscott, David

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Chichester, Phillimore: 2003

Seller ID: 110531

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New with no dust jacket

Laminated Pictorial card covers with white and orange titling to the spine. No dustjacket as issued. There is a small crease line to the front bottom corner. The whole bottom corner has been creased at some point and traces of the creasing is faintly visible throughout the book - but all negligible. Otherwise No inscriptions or other marks. (xii) + 132pp. index. Illustrated throughout with great archive photos/images in b/w mainly, but with some colour photos. Apart from the crease line, as mentioned above, this is an excellent, clean, tight and bright Near 'As New' copy. " In this fascina...
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Sarah Bernhardt A French Actress on the English Stage

By: Aston, Elaine

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Oxford, Berg Publishers: 1989

Seller ID: 47805

ISBN: 0854960198

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Black boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. Ex- Library with relatively minimal library markings. (ix) + 173 pp. Illustrated in b/w. No underlining; no highlighting and overall despite its status as an Ex-Lib copy this is an Excellent Very Clean, Tight and Bright copy. 'As a repository of factual information about the French and English theatres of the period 1870-1914 ... Dr Aston's book is invaluable.' . "Aston focuses on Bernhardt's London stage career, from her dazzling early performances to her later years, when the septuagenar...
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Miller's Twentieth Century Ceramics . A Collector's Guide to British and North American Factory-Produced Ceramics

By: Atterbury, Paul & Ellen Paul Denker & Maureen Batkin

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Miller's Publications: 1999

Seller ID: 111970

ISBN: 1840000341

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in Near Fine dust jacket

Black boards with bright silver gilt titling to the spine. In the original publishers pictorial dustjacket, which is not price-clipped. There are some very slight creases and chipping to the dustjacket edges, otherwise there are NO inscriptions or other marks. 256pp. Illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Bibliography/Key to Prices; Index; Acknowledgments. Overall, this is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright, 'Fine' copy. "This guide covers a range of 20th-century British and North American ceramic factories. Over 200 are explored and for each there is information on its history, i...
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Manty A Fairy Tale (No. 87 - B. B. Ltd)

By: Attwell Mabel Lucie

Price: £65.00

Publisher: England, B. B. Ltd: 1949

Seller ID: 111785

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

No Date given but c.1945/55 ? . Full colour Mabel Lucie Attwell illustrated card covers, and the story printed throughout in full colour on the same light 'stippled' card stock - including on the insides of both covers. 33 cm x 22 cm, (8.5 inches x 11.75 inches). 8 Full page Attwell colour plates, plus the 2 covers = 12 sides in all - All with full colour illustrations/story by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Stapled binding - Rusty. Some light edge wear to all extremities, the spine is quite rubbed, some faint soiling and a few spots - plus one brown mark (1.0 cm x 0.3 cm) just above the dolly's head - ...
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Thomas Comes to Breakfast

By: Awdry, W. The Rev.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Kaye & Ward (An Imprint of Heinemann Young Books): (1985)

Seller ID: 111849

ISBN: 0718216512

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

In the original publisher's glossy pictorial laminated boards. No dustjacket, probably as issued? . Head and Tail of the spine and corners of the covers are 'bumped', and very slightly discoloured/scraped to the bottom of the spine, o/w the covers are VG. All hinges tight. 2 small brown spots on the reverse of the Title page and a spot in the blank space under the text of page one which is seen on the reverse of the page also. The bottom edges of the pages are also very slightly 'wrinkled'- perhaps a little damp at some stage in the past? , o/w NO Inscriptions or Marks. 32 pp (unpaginated). Il...
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Advertising Art of Steiff . Teddy Bears and Playthings

By: Ayers, Dottie & Donna Harrison

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Maryland, Hobby House Press: 1991

Seller ID: 111966

ISBN: 087588363X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Dark blue boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and front cover. In the original publishers pictorial dustjacket, which is not price-clipped. There is some very light edge-wear and a couple of closed tears to the dustjacket covers which are neatly repaired to the inside with clear archive tape, otherwise there are NO inscriptions or other marks. 127 pp. Illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Overall, apart from the minor 'faults', as detailed above, this is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright, 'Very Good Plus/Near Fine' copy. "A nostalgic look back at the playthings of yeste...
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The Lays of the Grays

By: B Parker (Verse) & N Parker (Illustrations)

Price: £85.00

Publisher: London, W & R Chambers, Ltd: c 1900/08

Seller ID: 112943

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

READING/BREAKING COPY - COMPLETE - BUT the Title Page is torn with LOSS to the corners and is very creased. Lacks the rear free endpaper. Some tears with loss & repaired tears, etc, to some of the prelims, and pages near the end neatly reinserted into spine. Pictorial paper boards - Pretty Scraped and bumped on extremities and spine, o/w rest of book GOOD. Unpaginated. Children's story concerning a family of elephants. With 12 Lovely Full Page, full colour. Delightful illustrations of The Grays - an Elephant family and friends. All of these magnificent plates present. The colour plates facing ...
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