Told and pictured by TIMLIN, William M.

The Ship That Sailed to Mars. A Fantasy.

London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1923. First edition, 4to., 48 mounted pages of calligraphic text, 48 mounted colour plates, publisher’s vellum-backed boards, spine elaborately decorated in gilt; foxing to title and dedication pages, and, lightly, to first text leaf, foxing and toning to endpapers, occasional foxing within, particularly at inner margins, very slight rubbing and minor darkening to head and tail of spine, paper worn at corners of boards, but spine quite bright with clear gilt decoration, overall about very good, in a rather worn and heavily repaired dust-jacket with archival tape to reverse, which has creasing, closed tears and minor loss to extremities, as well as some marking to the paper (splash-marking to front of jacket), but largely complete and now in protective cover. (Please see photographs).

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Book number: 32232

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

Translation by: GIELGUD, Lewis. Illustrated by: BUDAY, George. [Signed copy].

The Vigil of Venus.

London: Frederick Muller Ltd., n.d. Signed, limited edition, no.39 of 250 copies signed by author and illustrator, small 4to., pp.50, quarter cream cloth, gilt, marbled paper-covered boards, wood-engraved plates and in-text illustrations; slight evidence of tape-marks to paste-down endpapers, light wear to paper at corners of boards, overall very good indeed.

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Book number: 34207

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

VAUGHAN, Hilda. Illustrated by Lee-Elliott.

A Thing of Nought.

London: Lovat Dickson and Thompson Limited, 1934. First edition, 8vo., pp.51, pictorial white paper-covered boards illustrated and lettered in black, b/w in-text illustrations; light wear and discolouration to edges of boards, light foxing to endpapers, a very good copy, with remant of original glassine dust-jacket (the front of jacket intact, the rear of jacket missing, and all now covered with a plastic wrapper).

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Book number: 37309

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

Keywords: Memoir; Spiritual

Verses by PARKER, B.; illustrations by PARKER, N.

Arctic Orphans.

London: W. & R. Chambers, Ltd., (c.1920) Oblong 4to., pp.unpaginated, pictorial paper-covered boards, 13 full-page colour plates, further b/w illustrations; owner’s inscription and ink-sketch to front paste-down endpaper, light wear to edges, 3cm surface loss to paper-covering at tailband, exposing card beneath, contents bright and clean, a very good copy.

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Book number: 18694

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

Verses by: HUNTER, Richard; SHIRLEY, Edward. Illustrated by COBB, Ruth.

Silver Bubbles. A New Book of Nursery Rhymes.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d. (c.1904). 4to., pp.(20),(20), cloth-backed pictorial boards, 20 colour plates (rectos) with accompanying verse to versos, neat ink ownership gift inscription to front paste-down endpaper (dated ‘[19]04’), free endpapers toned, the ‘s’ of ‘Bubbles’ to front board has been coloured red, wear to corners, light wear to paper covering alone edges, light wear to head- and tailbands, surface soil to pale paper of rear board, a little light fingermarking to margins, overall a good+ copy.

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Book number: 32564

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

VOISENON.

Erotic Fairy Tales. Englished from the French of Abbe de Voisenon. For Private Collectors of Erotica.

New York: The Panurge Press, 1932. Limited edition, no.252 of 1000 copies, 8vo., pp.246, uncut, quarter black cloth, gilt, decorative yellow cloth boards, text printed in blue; toning to fore-edges, very slight roll to spine, rubbing to lower corner of front board, a bright and very good+ copy.

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Book number: 34347

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

Keywords: Erotica

WAGNER, Richard. Freely translated by ROLLESTON, T.W.R. Illustrated by POGANY, Willy.

Tannhauser. A Dramatic Poem.

London: George G. Harrap and Co., Signed, limited deluxe edition, no.283 of 525, signed by Pogany, 4to., unpaginated, publisher’s full pictorial vellum, gilt, pictorial endpapers, tipped-in colour plates, b/w plates, decorations in colour throughout; a fine copy.

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Book number: 30185

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

With Introductory Essay by: JONES, Gwyn. Illustrated by Dorothea Braby.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. A Prose Translation.

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1952. Limited edition, no. 321 of 360 copies, 4to., pp.95, pictorial full vellum, gilt, printed on Arnold’s mould-made paper, colour frontispiece and plates; light creasing to upper corner of front board, very slight crease to rear upper corner, otherwise a fine, bright copy in the publisher’s deluxe binding. Designed, produced and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press.

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Book number: 36687

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

Keywords: Illustrated

WRAGG, Arthur. With an Introduction by Vernon Bartlett.

Jesus Wept. A Commentary in Black-and-White on Ourselves and the World to-Day.

London: Selwyn and Blount, Ltd., First edition, 8vo., unpaginated, black cloth lettered in white, b/w plates with accompanying text throughout, pictorial endpapers; lettering to spine partially rubbed, light damp-mottling to front board, otherwise very good, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is worn (with light loss) to extremities, with paper reinforcement to reverse, and with toning to spine - now in a protective cover.

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Book number: 35554

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

Written & pictured by, GASKIN, Mrs. Arthur.

ABC an Alphabet.

London, Elkin Matthews, 1896. First edition, scarce, 8vo., 20pp. of advertisements to rear of volume, text and pictures unpaginated, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece, pictorial title page; pictorial blue cloth, image to front board blocked in cream and black with black lettering, lettered in black to spine; ownership autograph written within the Gaskin illustrated pictorial ex-libris printed onto paste-down endpaper, webbing visible to inner hinge of front and rear where endpapers have slightly come away, fragile but all contents firm, rubbing to extremities of boards, cloth slightly faded and toned, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

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Book number: 36950

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

Written and illustrated by: MILLAR, H.R.

The Dreamland Express.

London: Humphrey Milford, (1927). First edition, oblong 4to., pp.96, pictorial cream cloth spine printed in black, pictorial paper-covered boards in colour, colour pictorial title, colour and b/w plates including double-page colour plate, b/w vignettes; stitching occasionally visible between leaves, rubbing and light wear to extremities, a good copy.

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Book number: 34726

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

Written and Engraved by, LEIGHTON, Clare.

The Farmer&Rsquo;S Year: A Calendar of English Husbandry.

The Sumach Press, 1992. Reissued by The Sumach Press, Oblong 4to.,pp.56, hardcover, black lettering, b/w plates, pictorial endpapers; light rubbing to foot of spine, o/w a near-fine copy, in a very good price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has rubbing and soiling, with some light surface scratches to rear.

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Book number: 28180

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

YEE, Chang.

Chin-Pao and the Giant Pandas.

London: Country Life, 1939. First edition, 8vo., pp.83, blue-grey cloth lettered in black, colour frontispiece, 3 further colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations; ink ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper (covered by flap of dust-jacket), spine lightly rolled, with sunning/toning to spine, a slight surface soil to boards, overall a very good copy, in pictorial price-clipped dust-jacket, which has creasing and tears to edges, with some loss, and apx. 4mms loss to head of spine.

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Book number: 36832

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

Keywords: China