FANTASTIC FAIRY TALE Pop-up book

Printed in Colombia, Collins/VanDerNeer/Oyster 1st edition 1992 Pop-ups (4 doublepage and doublesided) with 6 tab operated movements illus. by Fran Thatcher & Tracey Williamson . Large octavo pictorial boards (tips slightly rubbed/bumped/minor wrinkles to lower cover paper) (8pp) + 4 small books in pockets *Spectacular pop-ups with moveable parts V.G

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Book number: J56781

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: pop up fairy tale scenes story books

L.,S.W. [previous owner has written in Mrs. S.W. Landor]

FIND A WAY OR MAKE IT; or George Watson's Motto.

London, Religious Tract Society 1891 according to British Library Chromolith frontispiece + tailpieces by R.& E. Taylor et al. . Duodecimo blue decorated cloth with red and green "painted" floral design (rubbed and slightly spotted) 80pp + publisher's catalogue on endpapers, which are foxed. Beautifully decorated prize inscription on flyleaf "Herbert Minty A Reward from the Baptist Sunday School Chapmansdale by W.M.C. 1893". *Story of children helping their family to overcome adversity. Moral tale quite scarce.

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Book number: J72379

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: moral story children Victorian

FIRST CHRISTMAS

USA, Playmore/Waldman/Haddock N D Pop-ups (5) by John Patience . Oblong duodecimo pictorial boards text parallel to spine (10pgs) V.G+ pop-up, no tears, no repairs, not inscribed or marked. *This is the mini edition of the book.

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Book number: J62828

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: pop-up Christmas

FLOWER'S POLITICAL REVIEW AND MONTHLY REGISTER Vol.VI (July to Dec. 1809)

London, Jones 1st edition 1809 . Octavo half calf (tips worn/hinges cracked but covers firm) xcviii+488pp+8p index *Monthly news of America -reported by this radically reformist paper in a very favorable light. Incl. extract from Dr.(Benjamin) Franklin on the Injustice and Iniquity of Privateering. Also much on Napoleon, East India Company etc.

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Book number: V57364

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: history politics America

FLOWER'S POLITICAL REVIEW AND MONTHLY REGISTER Vol.VII (Jan.to June 1810)

London, Jones 1st edition 1810 . Octavo half calf (tips worn/hinges rubbed) xcvi+560pp+11p index damp mark to beginning and index else unaffected. *Monthly news of America - reported by this radically reformist paper in a very favorable light eg. "Tolerations not so well understoood in England as in America or by Napoleon" etc.

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Book number: V57365

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: history politics America

FLOWERS OF THE HOLY LAND - FLEURS DE LA TERRE SAINTE - JERUSALEM

London, N P 1890 approx) 12 arrangements of flowers etc. facing page-mounted real photographs of captioned views in the photoplate . Oblong duodecimo (165x103mm) olive wood bevelled edges and carved with series of crosses with lower cover black lettered "Jerusalem" with decorated titled pink cloth spine. TP printed in blue in English and French with stylized floral border in blue. The photographs show horse drawn carriages only and unpaved roads, no buildings outside the city walls, and wooden houses at the Jaffa Gate. The pressed flowers are in good condition for their age and rather more elaborate, careful arrangements with some color retained than is usually found. There are as always a few minor losses to tips of some arrangements but all are pleasing in design.

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Book number: V65773

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Palestine Holy land Jerusalem flowers photographs

FLOWERS FROM MANY LANDS a christian Companion

London, Religious Tract Society 1860 approx/ Fine color plates (8) by the Baxter process printed by Kronheim heightened with gum to shine . BINDING gilt black morocco (head of spine rubbed and 1cm split to hinge/ edges rubbed) All Edges Gilt iv + 251pp lacks front endpaper. Two leaves with feint damp mark to a few margins not touching any printed area. There is isolated foxing to a few pages and a flower petal pressed into a gutter has made a mark to the neighbouring pages but not any printed area. The plates show beautiful bunches of flowers from all the continents, America to Australia, Africa to China & Japan.

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Book number: V75452

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: color floral plates bunches of flowers

G.,J.

FRENCH GEMS: With English Reflections in Verse. A French-English Souvenir.

London, Elliot Stock 1895 . Duodecimo cream, blue & red cloth gilt lettered to cover on bevelled boards (tips worn/edges dusty/lower red board bit marked). Titlepage +Dedication +[4]pp Preface & contents +9-79pp. Lacks rear end paper. Most facing pages in French with English opposite but not all pages are translated. *Dedication says "This Little BooK is respectfully dedicated to the Friends of the French Mission which is conducted by the Rev. J.M.H. du Pontet de la Harpe, of the French Reformed Church in Bayswater". Some few of these offerings have appeared in a magazine but most are here printed for the first time. Scarce.

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Book number: A72923

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: devotional poetry French English translations

FRIENDLY PETS

London & New York, Ernest Nister & E.P.Dutton & Co. not after 1909 colour frontis of girls feeding chickens + 27 text illustrations . 26 x 19.5cm red cloth spined boards with girl holding a bird that she has taken from the cage/ lower cover cream paper but somewhat scratched. [front cver v. sl.edgerubbed but entirely bright and clean] 36pp + Nister books list on 3 pages -the third being on the inside cover. Four "lick & stick transparent papers" strengthening the front and rear gutters. These can be easily removed. There is some fingering mainly to the edges.

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Book number: J76223

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: illustrated stories

GAINSBOROUGH & REYNOLDS Contrasts in Royal Patronage

London, Queen's Gallery 1994 Color illustrations (69) and 12 monochrome by Reynolds and Gainsborough. . Square octavo pictorial card covers (slightly skewed) 96pp V.G.

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Book number: A67151

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: art portrait painting 18th century

GALERIE DES FEMMES Quarante portraits graves sur acier accompagnés chacun d'un portrait littéraire

Paris, Marchant 1842 steel engraved plates [40 as listed] byMulready, Mulready,Chalon, Faulkner,Kneller etc . Sm.4to Green blindstamped cloth spine gilt [edges rubbed,sl.marked /lower hinge with 2" split] All Edges Gilt text paper uniformly tanned. Plates on thicker paler paper but some plates have narrow edge browning and a few have pale foxing but not near to any of the images. These plates are each illustrations for characters in literature and the text accompanying each plate by authors. The verso of the half title and the title [on the recto only] have a damp tide mark. A nice gift inscription dated 1873 to a Sub-Lt. in the llth Chasseur regiment given to him by a fellow officer.Text in French

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Book number: A75469

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Female Literary characters from English Books

[Merton, Ambrose]

GAMMER GURTON'S PLEASANT STORIES of Patient Grissel, The Princess Rosetta, Robin Goodfellow, Ballads of the Beggar's Daughter, Babes in the Wood & Fair Rosamund.

London, Joseph Cundall 1845 Coloured plates [3 by John Franklin & 3 by John Absolon] + floral decorations to each page with floral decoration to each page and decorative initials and tailpieces. . small square 8vo Red cloth blind stamped & with gilt spine and gilt cover title. [corners sl.bumped/head & foot of spine with sm.chips] All Edges Gilt. Titlepage in red and black with birds and floral decorations to all four edges + To reader + names of painters + color plate to preceed each story + 96pp with Beggar's daughter & last page with large printer's mark & 1845 date. The end of Lady Isabelle's Tragedy which follows on from Babes in the Wood has Ambrose Merton's device with a tudor rose, a beer barrel etc with AMB above MER. Only two copies on COPAC and no further copies in World Cat. There is an American edition dated 1846 all others being 20th centurys reprints. Scarce.

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Book number: J76066

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: ancient stories and poems

GINGERBREAD BOY

New York, Child Guidance Prod. 1970s approx) Movable figures under cellophane (5) illustrated by June Goldsborough . Oblong octavo pictorial boards (tip slightly worn) (10pp) 1 figure a bit sluggish and one edge torn where cellophane came off and now re-glued. Inscription on first page.

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Book number: N65449

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: movable

GIRL'S OWN ANNUAL Vol 17

London, Girl's Own 1895-6 color plates including by C.E. Perugini & W.L.Wyllie [sea sacpe] Joseph Clarke [family scene] + full page and text illustrations throughtout . 272x200mm brown cloth decoratively gilt to cover and spine [edges wrn and fore-edg sl.discolored/sm.repair to lower hinge] 832pgs incl.stories,Victorian fashions, serials by Evelyn Everett Green, travel in Japan, natural history,handiwork & poetry etc.

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Book number: J75179

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: Victorian annual

GIRL'S OWN ANNUAL Vol 8

London, Girl's Own 1886-7 col pls(3 fr&TP +chromo)by KAte Greenaway .MEE &c . 272x200mm brwn worn pic cl(sp wrinkled/damaged) 832pgs incl.Stables"Greyhown Grange"+Browne"Child Island F.T" Osb404

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Book number: P75181

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: ann