Bone,Florence

THE FURROW ON THE HILL

London, Religious Tract Society 1910s) Color frontispiece by P. Hickling . Octavo gilt blue pictorial and colored cloth (tips sl.worn/rubbed) 277pp +publisher's catalogue. Lacks front free EP. Foxing to first few and last few pages else clean and tight in a pretty binding.

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Book number: J67775

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Keywords: Victorian moral childrens story

Bone, Florence

THE SHAPPHIRE BUTTON a romance of the road in Stuart Days

London, Marshall,Morgan and Scott 1930's Frontisplate by I.F Campbell . Octavo green art nouveau cloth in edge-torn dust jacket (tips rubbed) 280pp Reward of Merit bookplate to FEP. Sl.pale foxing to TP only else clean and tight with bright covers but torn dust jacket lacking chips to edges. Jacket designed by CAL Drake.

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Book number: J67767

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Keywords: historical romantic adventure girls

Bonington,Chris

QUEST FOR ADVENTURE

London, Pan/Hodder & Stoughton 1st thus 1983 Color plates and many maps of climbing. . Paperback edition (tips slightly rubbed) 345pp small fore-edge iodine spot affecting some pages else V.G.

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Book number: A47713

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: mountain climbing polar sport

Bonnardot, Jeanne

LE CONQUERANT DU MISSISSIPI par Jeanne Bonnardot. 4 planches hors texte en couleurs et 50 compositions en noir par Henri de Nolhac.

Paris, Librairie Larousse 1937 Color plates (4) and 50 text illustrations by Henri de Nolhac. . Red gilt decorated buckram cover spine grey titled (slightly marked) 142pp paper edge browned. *History of the Mississippi in the 17th century.

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Book number: A73992

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: American History French

Bonneau, Gabriel

NOUVELLES ET RECITS DE CHEZ NOUS illustrations de L. Comte

Paris, Ch. Delagrave 4th edition 1905 (publ code 5-14) Plates (10 including a portrait of the author) by L. Comte. . Octavo red cloth spined pictorial boards (tips worn) 94pp +[1]p tables des matieres. Page count includes half title, titlepage, dedication & text pages & plates. Inscribed as a Prize from Miss Lloyd for attaining 75 marks out of 100 in the French Examinations by Elsie Wright. Pages edge browned else clean crisp and tight.

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Book number: J73814

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Keywords: French text prize

Bonner,Edwin B.

THE OTHER BRANCH London Yearly Meeting and the Hicksites, 1827-1912 (Supplement 34 to the Journal of the Friends Historical Society)

London, Friends Historical Society 1975 . Octavo red cartridge paper printed covers (sl.sunned to edges) 67pp pencil name erased from margin else V.G.

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Book number: A72542

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Quakers Friends history

Bonnie Book

BUNNY BOOK with two pop-ups

Wisconsin USA, John Martin's House/James & Jonathan Co 1949 Pop-up's (2) illustrated by Nan Pollard . Octavo yellow pictorial boards (tips rubbed) (16pp) MONTANARO 43 Pop ups with two folds strengthened from behind with archival paper.

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Book number: J64889

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Keywords: pop-up

Shape book

DOLLY IN TOWN

London, Tuck & Sons Ltd. 1910 approx) Chromolith die cut doll + 4 pages of chromolith text illustrations+ line illustrations. . Die cut quarto (36x19cm) card covers (lower outer corner creasing/spine paper chipped off but covers still attached/edges rubbed/back cover plain has damp tide-mark and loss at top for half inch/spine is chipped but intack with covers attached) [14p] Back cover plain with Tuck Logo & publishing details New York-London-Paris. Damp marking does not affect inside at all,nor the front cover One marginal tear without loss a few slight finger marks & original staples a bit rusty but all pages attached except for bottom 1" split. Two captions a bit cropped it sounds wornse than it looks,but a large popular shape book which is often in poor condition or with torn pages due to its size. Here in acceptable good condition. This is NOT a facsimile reproduction, this is the genuine Father Tuck series, Number 1756.

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Book number: J69960

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Keywords: die cut shaped doll chromolith illustrated

Eton School book

EXEMPLA MINORA or NEW ENGLISH ESAMPLES to be rendered into latin adapted to the rules of the latin Grammar printed at Eton for the use of the lower forms.

Eton, E.Williams a new edition revised, 1831 Eaton coat of arms to titlepage . 12mo leather covers [lacks top 3.5cm and 1cm at foot of spine/lower inner corner lacks leather hinge leather split but covers held securely by cords/leather scuffed/some ink marks/corners worn] 191pp + printers books for sale. Endpapers doodles, some ink blots, and upper margin with some worming to margin only and ink not affecting readablity of text.

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Book number: J75817

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Miniature book (Francis J. Weber)

HERSHEY The Man The Company The Candy

Sebastopol California, El Camino Real Press 2007 Postage stamp as frontispiece + tipped in choc wrapper + "Love" postage stamp to p[15]. . LIMITED TO 150 copies 70x50mm (2.75" x 2.1") chocolate colored boards with silver title to spine and cover. Bound by Mariana Blau, Printed by Patrick Reagh. Half-title +32cent stamp issued in 1995 tipped in + Titlepage +5-16pp +[2]pp blank +[1]p colophon. Includes Hershey's portrait on the first stamp and large Hershey Kisses on red background with heart 39cent stamp issued in 2007 on unumbered p15. Endpapers with Hershey's Kisses. As New.

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Book number: A72462

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: miniature biography Hershey chocolate stamps

Toy book

KINDER-SPIEL UND LEBEN

[germany], No publisher no date circa 1890 color printed pages [6 pages each with 4 illustrations and four lines of text below each. No illustrator has signed the illustrations . sm. Folio Colored pictorial card cover with 2 girls and a dog carrying their toys in the garden lower cover plain green [edges & spine rubbed/bottom of spine split for 2.5"/corner creasing/lower cover foxed] 12pp includes titlepage + 4 pages of green printed illustrations with several pictures and a very few lines of text. Final page with Alphabet & numbers in different sizes. Paper is tanned and edges with fingermarks etc. Pictorial areas mainly free of foxing. Two small tears without loss and not affecting any printed areas.

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Book number: J75694

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Keywords: illustrated toy book German

Aunt Louisa's London Toy Book [No.20 on publisher's list]

LILY SWEET-BRIAR'S BIRTHDAY

London, Frederick Warne & Co. Aunt Louisa's London Toy Book series 1869 inscription Colour plates (6) printed by Kronheim. . 265x228mm blue pictorial card wraps (covers rather stained and split at spine but cromplete with some creases & rubbing) 6 pages of text + 6 chromolith pages. Leaves loose though once sewn with very thin thread, now broken, so though paper tanned/foxed with slight edge chips there are no tears. All printed one side only and quite complete. Presentation inscription "Presented to (first name illegible) Sears by Mrs. Danl. B. Lincoln Dec.25 1869". *One of the early Aunt Louisa series with rather pious moral verses but charming Victorian scenes of family gatherings.

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Book number: J74426

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Keywords: toy book Victorian party

Drawing book

LITTLE ARTISTS

No place [England], No publisher named N D Colour plates (4) + full page cover + outline illustration of the color plates. . Duodecimo pictorial cover on browned paper (one corner missing) printed one side only. Publisher and date a mystery, probably 1930s.

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Book number: J73453

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Keywords: childrens painting book

toy book

MY NEW TOY BOOK. Twenty-four coloured engravings.

London, Religious tract society 1881 by inscription Full-page color plates (24) by S. Muir . sm.4to blue gilt and silver pictorial cloth (corners somewhat worn/newer cloth spine/lower cover marked) All Edges Gilt.Titlepage + contents leaf + half title to each of the stories +6pp +6pp +10pp +10pp + 24 color plates + blank guard sheets protecting the plates though there is sometimes feint offsetting of the plates onto these guard sheets - but that is partly what they are there for.The first guard has offsetting of titlepage but also on the recto feint offsetting of the plate of Eva comforting a weeping Topsy. This plate is present but is wrongly bound in at the end of the Story of Eva & Topsy. Inner hinges are strengthened, there is slight paper tanning, some, mostly marginal,tears but without loss of paper. Contains The Children's Garden + The Story of a Goat + The New Pet + The Story of Eva and Topsy which is an extract from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe on the slave trade. Handsome front cover shows scenes from all the stories within in gilt,silver and black. Owner's name Eddie Baggott Dec 25th 1881.

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Book number: J75653

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Keywords: illustrated chromolith stories

Magic painting book

MYSTERY PAINTING Just Clean Water and a Brush

Leeds (but not here stated), Alf Cooke "Printed and Published in the British Isles" 1935 approx. Illustrated to each page with 12 pages neatly gone over with clean water thus the hidden colours have been exposed but without any "running" of colors or stai. 177x158mm green card with peg doll & teddy-bear dancing to recorder playing child. Inside of both covers is black/white illustrated poem. First page with instuctions for a practice painting (neatly done), other pages show toys in a boat, circus elephant act, Japanese tea ceremony etc. Hidden figures in 4 of the pictures. All 12 are very neatly done without any water residue stains. *Date of publication suggested by the original cataloguer of the Opie Collection. The publisher's name Alf Cooke appears in a tiny symbol at foot of inside back cover. Alf Cooke was an important producer of playing cards & card games in the UK during the period 1920-1970.

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Book number: J73674

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Keywords: magic painting watercolour childrens