Belt and spur: stories of the knights of the Middle Ages from the old chronicles

London, Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, 1883. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in decorated grey cloth 1st ed.. Prize inscription dated 1883 (partly erased) on front free end paper; long tear across colour frontispiece, with wear at edges; a little foxing; board corners worn; spine darkened, with wear at head & foot, & badly worn decoration & lettering. Photo:.

Cotswold Internet BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS158036I

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Bible Stories Coloring Book. Selected from the Old Testament.

New York, Dover Publications, 1973, 4to (cm. 28 x 21) punto metallico con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 46 completamente illustrate da disegni da colorare.

Libreria PianiProfessional seller

Book number: 3-38936

Keywords: (Album da colorare)

Bulkley Valley Stories - Collected From Old Timers Who Remember

1974. Paperback. Book, Light wear. Good.

Rainy Day BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 047919

Catalogue: Canadiana

[TURNER, Elizabeth, Mrs.].

The Daisy; or, cautionary stories in verse, adapted to the ideas of children from four to eight years old.

London: [Leadenhall Press] [1899]. 16mo. 66pp, blanks at rear, 30 woodcut text illustrations. Original coloured patterned paper boards, printed paper label to front board, printed pictorial label to rear. Extremes lightly rubbed, light soiling to boards, slight text age-browning. * A facsimile reprint of the anonymous edition of 1807.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 22548

Keywords: The Daisy cautionary stories in verse Childrens Illustrated

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The Daisy; or, cautionary stories in verse, adapted to the ideas of children from four to eight years old.

London: J Harris, 1807 [1900]. Dated 1807, but a later printing (circa 1900). 16mo, 66pp, 4pp adverts (dated 1899-1900). Text illustrations throughout. Original decorated paper-covered boards, title label to the front board. Backstrip a little chipped, endpapers foxed. Overall, this copy is in good condition.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 16550

The Daisy: Or, Cautionary Stories in Verse. Adapted to the Ideas of Children from Four to Eight Years Old

London, Printed for J Harris [The Leadenhall Press], 1899. Hardback. The uncommon facsimile edition on original text block of this anthology of children's verses from the Leadenhall Press. An uncommon copy of this little children's book, containing a series of cautionary tales in verse. From the 'Illustrated Shilling Series of Forgotten Children's Books.' Featuring the previously printed text block with an additional four leaves of publisher's advertisements to 'The Leadenhall Press' printed on different, more contemporary paper. When the press ran out of original text blocks, the series continued to be printed on more modern paper, such as that used for the advertisements. Featuring thirty engravings in text. In the original publisher's printed boards binding with titles to front board label. Externally with chipping and slight loss to spine, chipping to extremities. Boards lightly soiled. Pictorial sticker to rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean with only a touch of age toning, as usual with the type of paper used. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 862A19

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: children's books verses poetry verses Not Stated

Aesop

FABLES FROM AESOP [in series STORIES OLD AND NEW]

London, Blackie 1st thus illustrated 1964 illustrations ( circa 24 f-p + text) by Cyril Deakins . 16mo blue boards in price clipped dust jacketwith color illustration of the fable of the tortoise and the hare (jacket rubbed to edges else V.G) 128pp No inscriptions, no loose pages a very good copy.

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: E54381

Catalogue: Fable and Emblem Books

Keywords: fables illustrated

Andreski, Iris

Old Wives' Tales : Life-stories from Ibibioland

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1970). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, 190 pp. Corners bumped. Rubbed. Name on flyleaf. Good.

Expatriate Bookshop of DenmarkProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS020818I

Keywords: African Ethnography, Ibibioland, Ibibio Ethnology, Nigeria, West Africa, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Oral Literature, Biography, Women

Anonymous

Bible stories from the Old Testament and the life of Jesus

S.l., Ward Lock 1961 pictures Rene Cloke 1st ed. - (All colour picture book). - Hardcover

Antiquariaat KlikspaanProfessional seller

Book number: J78562

Catalogue: Kinder- en jeugdboeken

Keywords: bijbelverhalen

ARNOLD-FORSTER, H.O.

Things New and Old or Stories from English History, for the Use of Schools: Book VII

London: Cassell, 1898. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Ninth thousand (revised), 290 pages, illustrated, foxing to page edges, some pencil notes in the text, (Cassell's Modern School Series).. Good .

Philip EmeryProfessional seller

Book number: 160598

BIRO, ADAM

Is it Good for the Jews? More Stories from the Old Country and the New.

Chicago-London, University of Chicago Press 2009. Original publisher's gray cloth spine, gray-blue paper-covered boards, silver title spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: [viij], 142pp. afterword, table of contents. Very fine copy - as new. 9780226052175

Antiquariaat SchotProfessional seller

Book number: 169616

Keywords: 9780226052175

Katherine Dunlap Cather; J. Walker McSpadden; Madalen Edgar; E.M Wilmot-Buxton; Mary C. Sturgeon

Told Through the Ages Series; Boyhood Stories of Famous Men; Stories from Dickens; Stories from Scottish History; Britain Long Ago, Stories from Old English and Celtic Sources; Women of the Classics

London , George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1926-1930. Cloth. Selection of decoratively bound illustrated children's books from the Told Through the Ages Series Five illustrated volumes from the Told Through the Ages Series for children. Illustrations in all volumes collated and complete. Includes Boyhood Stories of Famous men, Stories from Dickens, Stories from Scottish History, Stories from Old English and Celtic Sources and Women of the Classics. Whilst Katherine Dunlop Cather mixes fact and fiction for her stories about the childhoods of men such as Mozart, Chopin, and Rembrandt, J. Walker McSpadden reconfigures the stories of Dickens by focussing on solely one their protagonists, including David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Pip. Stories from Scottish history offers selected stories from Walter Scott's Tales of a Grandfather, whilst Britain Long ago retells Celtic folktales and Women of the classics puts the spotlight on classical characters such as Helen, Circe, Calypso and Nausicaa Reprints dated between 1926 and 1930, in decorative bindings. Boyhood, Stories of Famous men and Britain Long Ago have sticker from 'Harold Cleaver limited, Bookseller, Bath' on front pastedown. Stories of famous men has ink inscription of prior owners name to recto of front endpaper and a blind stamp for 'Westfield House, Hadstock, Somerset' on this page, whilst Britain Long Ago also has ink inscription to Bill from his mother. Other three copies have prize sticker's on either the pastedown or rector of front endpaper for Bruce Arundale, J.W Walker, and Joy Forde from different schools. Stories from Dickens has Highfield College gilt stamp to exterior of front board. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. All generally smart, with early signs of wear at the joints. Stories from Scottish history slightly more rubbed than others. All only lightly bumped with minimal wear to the extremities. Blind stamp reading 'Westfield House, Hadstock, Somerset' to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean across the set, with some spotting at the endpapers. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: M.L Bower; Victor Prout; Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 841N13

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Told Through the Ages Series illustrated Dickens Scottish history illustrated celtic M.L Bower; Victor Prout; Not Stated

George Cruikshank, illustrations

Old 'Miscellany' Days. A Selection of Stories from 'Bentley's Miscellany. '

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1885. 1st Edition. Leather. 350p. FINE BINDING BY BAYNTUN. A hardcover book bound in 3/4 red leather with red cloth boards. The spine features five raised bands and simple gilt embellishments. The top edge is gilt-trimmed. Very good condition! Only the barest rubbing at the corners. The tips of the free endpapers are tanned. Light foxing in the margins. Tiny closed tear on the plate facing page 287. Otherwise, text unmarked and binding secure. This is the first reissue with 33 illustrations by George Cruikshank from Bentley's MISCELLANY 1837-43 (see Cohn 69). .

Kubik Fine Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 177098

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction

BY VARIOUS AUTHORS [George CRUIKSHANK, illustrator]

Old 'Miscellany' Days a Selection of Stories from 'Bentley's Miscellany. '

London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1885. 1st ed. thus. Hardcover. pp. xi, 350. Royal 8vo. This is a selection of 33 stories, by various authors, from 'Bentley's Miscellany' magazine. Each story is mostly humourous in nature and illustrated by a Cruikshank illustration 'printed from the original etchings on steel'. There is some offsetting of the engravings to the text, but generally the engravings themselves are in vg condition (save for the spotting around the engravings, as noted). The binding has been recently, and professionally, restored. Notwithstanding, the boards still show wear to edges and some light soiling. Very small name stamp on front pastedown. Foredges a bit foxed; else in good plus condition. Digital photos available upon request. 'With thirty-three illustrations printed from the original etchings on steel'. All plates present as called for. Ill.: 33 Cruikshank engravings.

Bison BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 9900012266

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Cruikshank;Illustrators;BritLit;;;;;; 33 Cruikshank engravings

Dickens, Charles.

THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS. Sketches by Boz, 40 ills. by George Cruikshank; Pickwick Paper, 43 ills by Seymour and Phiz; Oliver Twist, 24 ills. by George Cruikshank; Nicholas Nickleby, 39 ills. by Phiz; The Old Curiosity Shop, 75 ills by George Cattermole and H.K. Browne; Barnaby Rudge, 76 ills. by George Cattermnole and Phiz; Martin Chuzzlewit, 40 ills. by Phiz; American Notes, Pictures From Italy and A Child’s History of England, 16 ills. by Marcus Stone; Christmas Books and Hard Times, 68 ills. by Landseer, Maclise, Stanfield, Leech, Doyle, F. Walker Etc; Dombey and Son, 40 ills by Phiz; David Copperfield, by 40 ills. by Phiz; Bleak House, 40 ills. by Phiz; Little Dorrit, 40 ills. by Phiz; Christmas Stories and Other Stories, 34 ills. by Dalziel, Charles Green, Mahony, Phiz, Cattermole, etc; A Tale of Two Cities, 16 ills. by Phiz; Great Expectations and The Uncommercial Traveller, 16 ills. by Marcus Stone and J.G. Pinwell; Our Mutual Friend, 40 ills. by Marcus Stone; Edwin Drood and Reprinted Pieces, 16 ills. by Luke Fildes and F. Walker; Collected Papers, 16 ills. by Phiz, 3 by George Cruikshank;

Chapman & Hall, 1902/3. 19 vols. Marbled e.ps., tan half calf with cloth boards, gilt motifs and gilt lettering to spines faded and with some watermarks, t.e.g.

Francis Edwards BooksellersProfessional seller

Book number: 285976

Catalogue: LITERATURE: PRE 1900 LITERATURE

Keywords: LITERATURE; PRE 1900 LITERATURE