THE STORY OF SLEEPING BEAUTY. Told by MURIEL LEVY OF Radio Fame. Illustrated by EVELYN BOWMAR. A Ladybird Book. Loughborough: Wills & Hepworth Ltd, no date (circa 1950s). 12mo. Pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated with TWENTY-FOUR full page color plates by Evelyn Bowmar. In very good condition.
MANY HAPPY RETURNS. BY ROSALIE K.FRY. Cardiff: William Lewis Ltd, no date (circa 1946). 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Designed as a Birthday Book with decorated pages for listing birthdates from January to December - each opposite a page featuring a circular SILHOUETTE illustration. Ink presentation inscription on front paste-down and price on title page otherwise in fine condition with no other entries.
HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES. Translated By L.W.Kingsland. Illustrated by Ernest H.Shepard. 8vo. London: Oxford University Press, 1961. Green cloth with pictorial dust jacket. Eight color plates and black and white illustrations by Shepard. Dr. Richard Klein's bookplate on front pastedown. An extremely fine copy with an immaculate dust jacket. FIRST SHEPARD EDITION.
THE BROWNIES AND OTHER STORIES by MRS.J.H.EWING. Illustrated With 8 Colour Plates, and Line Drawings in the Text by E. H.Shepard. London & New York: Dent & Dutton, 1954. 8vo. Patterned cloth with pictorial dust jacket. Patterned endpapers. The dust jacket has some wear with re-inforced areas on the inside. Corner clipped from front dust jacket flap. Book itself is in very fine condition. FIRST SHEPARD EDITION.
TWO DISNEYLAND RECORDS & BOOKS. EACH IS MINT IN PACKAGE. 1968. 1.) Walt Disney's Story of Winnie The Pooh and the Honey Tree. Contains a 24 page book and one 33 1/3 long playing record; 2.) Walt Disney's The Story of Winnie The Pooh and Tigger with Songs. Contains a 24 page book and one 33 1/3 long playing record. Both books have full color illustrations and each record includes a narration of the story plus songs about the story.
THE COMEDY OF AS YOU LIKE IT. BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. East Aurora, N.Y: Roycroft, 1903. 4to. Suede backed boards stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker. Borders and headbands by Samuel Warner. Printed by the Roycrofters on heavy Roycroft watermarked paper. Presswork by Otto Franz. Name inked on front pastedown (see enlargement 7). Contents in excellent condition. Base of suede spine is scuffed. FIRST EDITION.
THE ANIMAL BUBBLE BOOK. STORY BY RALPH MAYHEW AND BURGES JOHNSON. PICTURES BY RHODA CHASE. THE HARPER-COLUMBIA BOOK THAT SINGS. THE THREE LITTLE KITTENS. THE THREE LITTLE PIGGIES. THE THREE BLIND MICE. Harper & Brothers, 1918 (date mark B-T for 1919). Oblong pictorial boards measuring 7 inches by 6 inches. The three records are present. There is wear to the covers - namely, a portion of the spine is missing and rear cover is detached. Each record sleeve is partially split at the bottom. Reco ...click for details
THE OLD MAN OF LOCHNAGAR. H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. ILLUSTRATIONS BY SIR HUGH CASSON K.C.V.O. London: Hamish Hamilton, (1980). Oblong 4to. Pictorial boards in original pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in full color. Written aboard H.M.Y. BRITANNIA by Prince Charles for the amusement of his younger brothers Prince Andrew and Prince Edward who were then nine and five years old respectively. A MINT COPY. FIRST EDITION.
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. KENNETH GRAHAME. ILLUSTRATED BY MICHAEL HAGUE. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1980). 4to. Gilt stamped cloth with pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in full color. Small marginal tear to front cover of dust jacket otherwise a mint copy. FIRST EDITION.
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. STORY AND PICTURES BY MAURICE SENDAK. New York:Harper & Row, 1963. Oblong 4to. Patterned endpapers. Cloth backed pictorial boards. Sendak's most famous book illustrated in full color. No dust jacket. Good copy.
