Abbey Antiquarian Books: Children's Books and Pop-Ups
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Andersen,Hans (pop-ups by S. Louis Giraud)
HANS ANDERESEN'S FAIRY STORIES with pictures that spring up in model form
London, Strand Bookano series 1936 approx) 4 doublepage pop-up illustrations + color plates & b/w illustrations engineered by S. Louis Giraud for pop-ups of Tinder box +Snow Queen +Clodhopper +Swineherd . Octavo pictorial boards (tips rubbed/sl.sunning to spine) unpaginated but complete. No inscriptions original price 12/6 to pastedown in pencil. No child coloring but paper uniformly slightly tanned. All pop-ups work well and there is one pop-up that works in two actions. There is a flap that explains that it must be closed carefully for continued working and here it works well. A crisp clean fully working pop-up book. (MONTANARO 116).
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Book number: J75593
GBP 33.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.75 US$ 41.08 | JP¥ 6308]
Keywords: pop-ups Andersen fairy tales

 
Andersen,Hans Christian told in verse by Marion M.Wingrave
QUACKS the story of the Ugly Duckling
London, Ward,Lock & Co. 1886 by inscription chromolith illustrations to every pages (TP + 26 leaves) by Marion M Wingrave . 4to tan cloth spined pictorial boards [some marks/spine darkened and rubbed/edges worn] TP + 26 leaves Printed One side only. Front free endpaper with inscription dated 1886 but lacks rear free endpaper. Usual signs of use such as some finger marks, some scattered foxing but no scribbles, tears or loose pages. Charmingly illustrated book.
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Book number: J75631
GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.25 US$ 68.46 | JP¥ 10514]
Keywords: chromolith illustrations

 Andersen, Hans Christian translated by H.W. Dulcken, THE TINDER-BOX and other stories .. illustrated with seventeen pictures.
Andersen, Hans Christian translated by H.W. Dulcken
THE TINDER-BOX and other stories .. illustrated with seventeen pictures.
London, George Routledge and Sons 1875 approx. Frontis + 16 other illustrations. . Small octavo blue pictorial cloth (edges & spine rubbed) 120pp +[4]pp book lists. Lacks front free endpapers, frontis with part only coloured by a previous owner. A few other signs of use but generally clean with no loose pages. Contains 10 stories in addition to the Tinder-box. A neat Victorian edition.
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Book number: J74993
GBP 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 17.43 | JP¥ 2676]
Keywords: Victorian fairy tales

 
Angelo, Mick (1916-2011)
MARVELMAN MAGIC The Magician - Painting Book
London, L. Miller & Co. 1955 Magic paint without paints (4) +colour illustrations & outline illustrations. . 8vo card covers [8]pp unused & not coloured, although printed illustrations are coloured, spine and cover in very good condition, slight wear to edges. This is a painting book, but is largley untouched. *In light of recent popularity of Marvel comics, this book holds more interest. Marvelman was a British equivalent of the American character Captain Marvel in late 1950s, he was revived by notable authors Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore in 1980s and renamed Miracleman.
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Book number: N75003
GBP 198.00 [Appr.: EURO 238 US$ 246.45 | JP¥ 37849]
Keywords: children's novelty superhero

 
Annual
RUPERT
London, Daily Express 1979 Color illustrations throughout . Large octavo pictorial boards (tips rubbed & sl.bumped) 115pg inscription on FEP & neat name to ownership line else V.G+
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Book number: J55731
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 US$ 6.22 | JP¥ 956]
Keywords: childrens annual

 
Anon
123 A POP-UP BOOK
Printed in Colombia, Grandreams/Ottenheimer 1987 Pop-up illustrations (3) across 2 pages. . Octavo pictorial boards [6]pp a few wrong creases but V.G.
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Book number: J56204
GBP 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.75 US$ 3.73 | JP¥ 573]
Keywords: pop up

 Anon, THE BOBBSEY TWINS ANNUAL
Anon
THE BOBBSEY TWINS ANNUAL
London, World Distributors 1957 Color frontis of Winter Sport of Skating + illustrated by pencil drawing throughout. . Large octavo pictorial boards of sledding in the snow (head of spine damaged for 1"/foot of spine bit worn/tips rubbed) 109pp. *First story "Secret of the Green Lady" contents V.G.
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Book number: J71984
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 5 US$ 4.98 | JP¥ 765]
Keywords: Annual Bobbsey Twins series

 
Anon
CHILD'S COMPANION & Juvenile Instructor New Series 1859
London, Religious Tract Society 1859 Colour frontis. (feeding chickens + feeding swans) Kronheim + b/w plates + text illustrations . 140x90mm 1/2 roan black gilt label 380pp Nice clean copys with charming coloured plates of children and mother and animals.
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Book number: J68157
GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 19.25 US$ 19.92 | JP¥ 3059]
Keywords: annuals

 Anon (British library lists no editor & no imprint), THE CHILDREN'S TREASURE
Anon (British library lists no editor & no imprint)
THE CHILDREN'S TREASURE
London, Periodical (publisher unknown) 1872 Chromolith plate to beginning and end of each Monthly issue + black white line illustrations in the text. . Small quarto Ten monthly issues from Feb 1st 1872 starting with No.26. This publication started in 1870 and it ceased some time in 1873. Each monthly part was priced at one penny and contained 8 pages of moral stories, pictures and poems + the 2 coloured cover leaves. Our monthly parts were probably once bound up but are here sold as a group of monthly issues. Excellent coloured illustrations.
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Book number: J71512
GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 19.25 US$ 19.92 | JP¥ 3059]
Keywords: moral children's stories poems illustrations chromoliths

 Anon, CLARA WOODWARD and Her Day-dreams. A New Edition. With coloured frontispiece.
Anon
CLARA WOODWARD and Her Day-dreams. A New Edition. With coloured frontispiece.
London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1869 acc. to British Library Color printed frontis. of Clara happily playing with her dolls. . 160x108mm Red floral pictorial cloth with gilt title panels to cover and spine (tips sl.worn) half title present + frontis + titlepage + 186pp. Miniature blindstamp bookseller's name & Prize inscription from S.Peter's Girls' School to Edith Simons for Scripture. Endpaper marked by covering paper that once protected the cover but left shadow on endpapers where folded in. Book tight with minimal foxing. *Story of a little girl who imagines how good she might be but her resolutions are never quite fulfilled and when she goes to live with a worldly aunt she realizes that she is less able to resist temptation than at home in a God fearing family.
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Book number: J71673
GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 US$ 12.45 | JP¥ 1912]
Keywords: Victorian moral story

 Anon, DEWDROPS (Daily Readings from the Bible)
Anon
DEWDROPS (Daily Readings from the Bible)
London (printed by C.Whittingham/Chiswick Press), Religious Tract Soc 6th edition circa( 1835 approx. . Miniature 50x32mm wine-red roan gilt, rule frame to each cover and 4 double ruled lines to spine (tips sl rubbed). All Edges Gilt, minor signs of use. *A nice early printing of this title, which gives daily readings from the Bible in miniature. On title page verso: "Chiswick Press: Charles Whttingham" (see BONDY 127 "earlier editions finely printed by Whittingham at Chiswick Press").
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Book number: J48646
GBP 42.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.5 US$ 52.28 | JP¥ 8029]
Keywords: miniature

 
Anon
DOLLY'S MANSION
London, Jarrold and Sons Ever Welcome Series No.18 1890s approx. Panorama of 3 card covers with interchangeable rooms + triangular roof to make a 3-Dimensional house. . Small quarto cloth spined hinges on both sides & top for the roof (tips worn some edge chips /sl. marks). Inside with [8]pp to make double page rooms such as sitting room with 4 people + dining room with 7 people + kitchen with 3 + cat + laundryroom with 3 workers etc. THIS IS NOT THE MERRIMACK FACSIMILE this is the original Victorian edition.cf.Haining MOVABLE BOOKS.
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Book number: P75494
GBP 154.00 [Appr.: EURO 185 US$ 191.68 | JP¥ 29438]
Keywords: novelty pop-up Victorian house

 Anon, DORETTE, Histoire pour les enfants de 10 à 12 ans. Six gravurees en couleurs.
Anon
DORETTE, Histoire pour les enfants de 10 à 12 ans. Six gravurees en couleurs.
Lausanne, F. Payot 1896 Chromolithograph plates (6 includes the one mounted to cover). . 185x105mm red cloth spined boards with near full page onlay (foot of spine bit damaged/tips worn) 64pp. Inscription to Laura Duport 26 décembre 1907 a few pencil notes & paper slightly tanned [dos rouge, les coins frottés et peu manqués avec inscription, 1 - 2 pages avec crayonnent et le papier légèrement bronzé].
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Book number: J71248
GBP 13.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.75 US$ 16.18 | JP¥ 2485]
Keywords: French story text chromolith illustrations Swiss

 
Anon
EARLY BLOSSOMS OF GENIUS AND VIRTUE including Maxims of early Wisdom, Juvenile Memoirs, a great variety of examples of the Moral Virtues and a Selection of Moral Poesy Embellished with Engraving
London, Scatcherd Printed by C. Whittingham 1801 Etched plates (6 including engraved titlepage) by Woolley/Saunders or Rothwell . 155x94mm tree calf spine gilt black gilt lettered spine label gilt dent. (rubbed/tips slightly worn) iv+188pp charming engraved bookplate George Cock (Soc.Reg.Phy.Edin.).
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Book number: J65865
GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.25 US$ 68.46 | JP¥ 10514]
Keywords: fables anecdotes biography moral lessons

 
Anon
A FEW LEISURE HOURS
Boston USA, Massachusetts Sabbath School Society 1856 to 1860 Frontispiece. . Duodecimo blindstamped ribbed cloth spine extra gilt (tips worn) 90pp nice but faint inscription dated 1860 on endpaper. Neat and clean. *Story centered around two girls interested in the explanation of plant growth as showing the loving care of God for all things. Not found in UK libraries, and not in Library of Congress.
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Book number: J68069
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 US$ 7.47 | JP¥ 1147]
Keywords: religious moral Victorian childrens story Methodist

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