Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 6 George Street / London : Houlston & Wright. No Date [between 1857 and 1869]. First Printing. 12 mo, original publisher's green cloth decorated in blind & gilt, lettered in gilt on upper cover, decorated and lettered in blind on rear panel, spine panel decorated and..... More
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia: H.H. Henderson & Co., Booksellers and Stationers. No Date (circa 1890). Canadian Edition, rare variant imprint. Octavo, original brown cloth titled and decorated in black and colours, gilt titles on spine, yellow coated endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and pictorial title page, the printed title leaf with the..... More
London: Frederick Warne. 1976. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles. 284 pp, Illustrations, plates (some in colour. Index. Includes a chronologial list of letters. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More
London: Selwyn & Blount Ltd, 1924. Signed, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, original grey boards with buckram spine, leather label on spine titled in gilt. Printed on fine handmade paper. 274 pp, colour frontispiece and 11 addition full-page black & white illustrations throughout the text. Issued in a limited edition of..... More
London: London: Constable & Company, [1924]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First Printing of this New Illustrated Edition. Tall octavo, original navy blue cloth titled in gilt on spine panel & decorated in gilt on upper cover. [128] pp. Colour frontispiece and 15 additional full-page colour plates by Fraser. University of..... More
London: Collins, 1999. Reprint. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers (paperback format). 188 pp., ads at rear. Cover artwork by David Wyatt. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Spine just slightly tanned; a very good clean copy. ¶ Heroic fantasy novel. Four children are transported into the 'imaginary' land..... More
London: Collins, 1999. Reprint. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers (paperback format). [265] pp., ads at rear. Cover artwork by David Wyatt. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Lightly worn at edges, a few faint spine creases, a very good, bright copy. ¶ A landmark Heroic fantasy novel set..... More
Vancouver, BC: Simply Read Books, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Printing of this new illustrated edition. Quarto, original red boards with black cloth spine, pictorial endpapers. 149 pp. Illustrated throughout with full-page colour plates and black & white drawings in the text by Ghiuselev. The book is the..... More
London & New York: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original orange boards stamped in black & gold. 147 pp. Issued as Number 97 in the publisher's 'Children's Illustrated Classics' series. This is the US issue, with the..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [1870]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth over beveled boards, titled and decorated in gilt and black on spine and front panel, gray coated endpapers. 156 pp + 1 leaf of ads at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, No Date [1994]. Later Edition. Trade Paperback. Seven Volumes. Octavo, original boards, spines titled in gilt. A complete set of the seven hardcover books, the entire Narnia series, all with the original illustrations by Pauline Baynes. New cover art for this edition by Chris Van Allsburg.A...... More
London: Faber & Faber. [1965]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto, original blue cloth, spine titled in gilt. 64 pp., illustrated. Small ink inscription on front free endpaper, dated '73. A few small marks to the cloth, a very good, clean copy in the original colour pictorial..... More
London: H.R. Allenson, Limited. No Date [1929]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth titled in black. 76 pp + [4] pp ads at rear. With 5 full-page clour plates. Spine panel and a small portion of the front & rear boards tanned; ink inscription dated..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press. [1980]. First edition. Folio, original boards. 128 pp. Reprints in full colour more than a score of early children's chapbooks. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper, price corner clipped. More
New York: Atheneum, [1982]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First Printing of this New Edition. Large octavo, original purple cloth titled in gilt. 199 pp. Colour pictorial title page and eight additional full-page colour plates printed on glossy paper and inserted within the text, all by Parrish. A fine copy in..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd. [1946]. First edition, second printing with "Reprinted 1946" on copyright page. Octavo, original green boards titled in black & silver. 175 pp., Illustrated. Three vertical creases to front free endpaper, early inscription "To Dear Mummy, who introduced me to Peter Rabbit, with love..." on..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1998-2000. Early American Editions. Hardcover. Early American Editions. Three Volumes. Octavo, original boards, dust jackets. 399 + 326 + 518 pp. Top page edges a bit dusty, otherwise a very good, bright set in dust jackets, that of the third volume being the cutaway jacket..... More
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London: The Collector's Club [Townley Searle], 1937. One large leaf, folded for mailing. 48 cm x 23 cm, Printed on two sides in black, red and green. This is the Prospectus (only) for the unpublished work ARTHUR RACKHAM: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ADVENTURE, scheduled to be issued "on or about Coronation Day..... More
Vancouver: Raincoast Books / Bloomsbury, [2004]. First Canadian Printing of this Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original black boards, gilt titles to spine. 251 pp + [1] pp ads at rear. Correct first printing, with code 04 05 06 07 08 09 * 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2..... More
![Item #312508 HARRY POTTER BOXED SET [comprising] HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE [along...](/pictures/thumb/312508.jpg?v=1661808487)
Vancouver, BC: Raincoast Books, 1998-2000. Early Printings. Hardcover. A beautiful boxed set of early printings of the first three Harry Potter Books. Book One: First edition, fifth impression. Canadian issue, with the Raincoast imprint & "Printed and Bound in Canada by Friesens" on copyright page. 223 pp. Contains two errors..... More
London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth decorated in brown, green and white, pictorial paper label affixed to front panel, titles in gilt. Dark blue coated endpapers. 316 pp + [4] pp publisher's ads at rear. Colour frontispiece and..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1946. Scribner's Illustrated Classics Edition. Hardcover. Reprint, first issued in the Scribner's Illustrated Classics Series in 1913. Large octavo, original black cloth titled in gilt on spine, pictorial paper label on front panel, pictorial endpapers, in the original pictorial dust jacket. 289 pp + [1]..... More