[Frederic Condé Williams]

The Terrible Tale of a Lion (from Victor Hugo) with Other Paraphrases and Poems. Chiefly About Childhood and Children by a Colonial Judge.

Birmingham, Martin Billing, n.d. Not dated. Inscribed 1900. Original paper covered boards printed in red and black. Landscape format, 14x11cm. one copy in COPAC. Internally very clean and tight. Stain and a few tears to upper board. Published for Private Circulation. Used; Very Good Author's presentation copy to Mrs Cornbridge. Collection of stories adapted from the French with poems by Frederic Condé Williams (author of 'Journalistic Jumbles or Trippings in Type'). F. Condé Williams, a vicar's son from Sheffield, made a career in journalism and law. He later became a judge in the Colonial service (Mauritius and Jamaica). Hardback.

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Book number: 37237

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: Children's|Empire|Featured|Jamaica|Colonial|Private Press

GIBSON, Charles R..

The Wonders of Modern Electricity with Seventeen Illustrations & Diagrams.

1913, Seeley, Service and Co, 1913. Original pictorial cloth in brown with blue and black, plates as called for. A very good copy apart for small (rodent?) nibble to lower corner. usual mild damp-spotting to preliminaries. Used; Very Good Presentation label to Eric Razzell at St Matthew's Sunday School, Red Hill. Hardback.

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Book number: 36524

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: Special Collection|Featured|Children's|Illustrated|Electricity

GILCHRIST, Cherry (retold)

Prince Ivan and the Firebird Retold by Cherry Gilchrist. Illustrations by Andrei Troshkov

Bath & Boston, Barefoot Books Ltd, 1994. A lovely bright copy, almost as new in original, price-clipped dust-wrapper. Colour illustrated throughout. Used; Like New . Hardback.

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Book number: 36774

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

Keywords: Children's|Special Collection|Featured|Russian|Literature

[GOLUBEV, A. Rachev, E.. Vasnetsov, Yu.. Endrikson, Ye.] Illustrators.

Russkaya Narodnaya Skazka - [ Illustrations].

Moscow, 1970. 10 colour illustrations in loose-leaf folder. 23 x 29 cm. In very good condition and complete as called for. Outer folder a little age-softened. Loose folder of folk-tale illustrations in colour by popular Soviet children's illustrators of the time.

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Book number: 37410

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

Keywords: Featured|Illustrated|Russian Children's Books|Folk

GREENAWAY, Kate

Almanack for 1884.

London, Routledge and Sons, [1883]. Pictorial coloured covers, colour throughout. Mild foxing else very good. 9cmx13cm. 16pp. Collectable; Very Good (Catherine Greenaway 1846-1901) Kate Greenaway's first such Almanack was published in 1883 by Routledge and Sons and was an immediate success in a number of countries and a number of languages. This yearly publication continued until 1896 (the last publisher being Dent). Paperback.

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Book number: 26725

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: Children's|Illustrated|Almanack|Kate Greenaway

GREENAWAY, Kate

Under the Window. Pictures & Rhymes for Children.

London, Frederick Warne (Edmund Evans), n.d. 44 colour illustrated verses. Undated. Cloth backed, glazed colour illustrated boards, 56pp. Two juvenile MS names to f.e.ps. Nice copy but unfortunately bound upside down. Otherwise clean and tight. Used; Good Edmund Evans address Rose Place, Globe Road, London. Frederick Warne, 305.546. Hardback.

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Book number: 33337

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: Featured|Children's|Illustrated|Lithograph

GRUBER, Jona (trans.).

Ukrainische Volksmärchen. (Ukrainian Folk Tales in German)

Kiev Kiew, Dnipro, 1975. 133pp. coloured dust-wrapper, half tone illustrations throughout. A very nice copy. Used; Very Good Ukrainian folk-tales translated into German. Hardcover.

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Book number: 33508

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

Keywords: Slavonic|Language|Ukrainian|Folk Tales|Children's

HASTINGS, Selina

The Firebird Retold by Selina Hastings. Illustrated by Reg Cartwright.

London, Walker Books, 1993. Almost as new in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean, bright and tight. Unused. Used; Like New . Hardback.

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Book number: 36775

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

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Heller, Lotte, Surowzowa, Nadija

Ukrainische Volksmärchen. Ukrainian Folktales.

Wien Berlin Leipzig Munchen, Rikola, 1921. Decorated boards and endpapers, colour plates. Spine chipped top and tail, internally very good. Collectable; Good Übertragen und erzählt von Lotte Heller und Nadija Surowzowa. Illustriert von Jury Wowk. Ukrainian Folktales translated into German, illustrated. Hardcover.

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Book number: 25932

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

Keywords: Ukraine|Children's|Folk Tales|Illustrated|Featured

HEMIDULLIN, L.

Salamtorhan: Tatarskoye Narodnoye Skazanie (Na Tatarskom Iaz'Ike) [Folk-Tales in the Tartar Tatar Language].

Kazan, 1989. Tall quarto, colour decorated paper covers, 19 colour illustrated pages. A very nice copy. Used; Very Good Tatar (Tartar) folktales in the Tatar language using Cyrillic script. Paperback.

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Book number: 20935

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

Keywords: Central Asia|Tartar|Tatar|Children's|Featured|Turkic|Folk

HERTEL, Johannes

Indische Märchen [Tales from India] Ausgewählt Und übersetzt Von A. Dirr. Die Märchen Die Weltliteratur. Herausgegeben Von Friedrich Von Der Leyen Und Paul Zaunert. [Text in German].

Jena, Eugen Diederichs Verlag, 1919. A good, clean, tight copy. Original decorated paper-covered boards, paper title label to upper board, with seven b/w plates including tipped-in b/w frontis. Neat sellotape to spine. Otherwise in very good condition. Text in German. Used; Very Good German philologist and ethnographer, Adolf Dirr, during his time, was the foremost expert on the Caucasus. As well as translating these folktales from the Caucasus, he also wrote the 'Grammatik der modernen georgischen Sprache' for the Hartleben language series. Hardback.

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Book number: 36907

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: Caucasian|Georgian|Folk Tales|Featured|Children's

HOFFMANN, Heinrich Dr

Struwwelpeter.

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1909. Early edition. Inscribed 1923 in pencil. Picture boards backed in red cloth, printed recto only, stapled. Complete and no loss, no juvenilia. Fair condition only; last page loose, staples rusting, paper peeling from board edges. Used; Acceptable Printed in Great Britain by W W Curtis Ltd. Cheylesmore Press, Coventry. 'Routledge's One Syllable Series' to back with list of 16 titles. Hardback.

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Book number: 36446

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: Children's|English|German|Featured|Illustrated

KIPLING, Rediard (Rudyard Kipling)

Otkuda Vzialis' Bronenostsii. Charushin Illustrated. [the Beginning of the Armadillos in Russian].

Moscow, Malish, 1986. A very nice bright copy. Large 8vo. 18pp. paperback. Used; Very Good The Beginning of the Armadillos translated from the English into Russian and illustrated in colour throughout. Paperback.

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Book number: 28289

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

Keywords: Children's|the Beginning of the Armadillos|Rudyard Kipling|Russian Children's Books|Russian|Children's

KLOSS, Dr Moritz.

Hantel - Büchlein Für Zimmerturner: Neunte Auflage [Ninth Edition].

Leipzig, Weber, 1887. Decorated boards, 12mo. viii+120pp. 26 b/w in-text illustrations. A little marking to upper board else an excellent, bright copy. A little marking to upper board else an excellent, bright copy. Gymnastics with dumb-bells:popular book for the drawing-room. Text in German. Hardcover.

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Book number: 17087

Catalogue: Children's, Folk & Illustrated

Keywords: Featured|Victorian|Gymnastics|Children's|Sport

KONCHALOVSKAYA, Natasha (Association copy: Marevna and Diego Rivera )

Nasha Drevnyaya Stolica Kartiny Iz Proshlogo Moskvy.

Moscow Leningrad, DETGIZ, 1954. Tall quarto, cloth-backed four tone and gilt illustrated boards. Decorated endpapers, illustrated throughout by V Favorsky et al. Very mild spotting to cover. Used; Very Good From the library of the artist known as 'Marevna' (c.f. Diego Rivera)with her name in pencil in her hand to title page. Hardback.

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Book number: 36519

Catalogue: Russian Children's Books

Keywords: Favorski|Favorsky|Children's|Illustrated|Featured|Marevna|Marika Rivera