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Dick O’The Fens - A Tale of the Great East Swamp -
G. Manville Fenn
In The King’s Name - or - The Cruise of the “Kestrel” -
Geo. Manville Fenn
1904 - Blackie and Son, London - New Edition
‘Morning on board the Kestrel, his Britannic majesty's cutter, lying on and off the south coast on the lookout for larks, or what were to her the dainty little birds that the little falcon, her namesake, would pick up.’
‘The larks the hover-winged Kestrel was on the watch to pick up were smuggling boats of any sort or size, or Jacobite messages, or exiles, or fugitives - anything, in fact, that was not in accordance with the laws of his most gracious majesty King George II.’
With six full page illustrations.
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1904 - Blackie and Son, London - New Edition
‘Morning on board the Kestrel, his Britannic majesty's cutter, lying on and off the south coast on the lookout for larks, or what were to her the dainty little birds that the little falcon, her namesake, would pick up.’ ‘The larks the hover-winged Kestrel was on the watch to pick up were smuggling boats of any sort or size, or Jacobite messages, or exiles, or fugitives - anything, in fact, that was not in accordance with the laws of his most gracious majesty King George II.’
With six full page illustrations.
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Wynken Blynken and Nod. And Other Verses -
Eugene Field. Fern Bisel Peat (illustrator)
1930 - Saalfield Pub. Co., Akron - First Edition with Peat’s illustrations
With twelve marvelous full page illustrations and the verses at the foot of each picture. In large [33x27cm] soft illustrated covers, with ‘linen like’ textured pages. The other verses are The Sugar-Plum Tree, The Naughty Doll, The Straw Parlor, Fairy and Child, The Duel, The Dinkey-Bird, and Fiddle-Dee-Dee.
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1930 - Saalfield Pub. Co., Akron - First Edition with Peat’s illustrations
With twelve marvelous full page illustrations and the verses at the foot of each picture. In large [33x27cm] soft illustrated covers, with ‘linen like’ textured pages. The other verses are The Sugar-Plum Tree, The Naughty Doll, The Straw Parlor, Fairy and Child, The Duel, The Dinkey-Bird, and Fiddle-Dee-Dee.
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Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang - The Magical Car - Adventure Number 1 -
Ian Lancaster Fleming
1964 - Jonathan Cape, London - First Edition
The very scarce first edition first printing, without publishers dust jacket.
Written by Fleming for his son Caspar, with illustrations by John Burningham.
Fleming took his inspiration for the car from a series of aero-engined racing cars built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park, christened "Chitty Bang Bang". Fleming had known Higham Park as a guest of its later owner, Walter Wigham, chairman of Robert Fleming & Co.
This is the first of three adventures, published between 1964 and 1965.
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1964 - Jonathan Cape, London - First Edition
The very scarce first edition first printing, without publishers dust jacket.Written by Fleming for his son Caspar, with illustrations by John Burningham.
Fleming took his inspiration for the car from a series of aero-engined racing cars built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park, christened "Chitty Bang Bang". Fleming had known Higham Park as a guest of its later owner, Walter Wigham, chairman of Robert Fleming & Co.
This is the first of three adventures, published between 1964 and 1965.
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Full Circle - The Lexian Chronicles - SIGNED -
Harry Gallan [Pseud]
2004 - Marlosia, London - First Edition
In wrappers which fold out to reveal maps, illustrated by Fred Katz. The author’s first novel which was then made into a series of comics in 2006. Gallan was influenced by Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He has declined to reveal his identity which of course has helped to increase his fame.
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2004 - Marlosia, London - First Edition
In wrappers which fold out to reveal maps, illustrated by Fred Katz. The author’s first novel which was then made into a series of comics in 2006. Gallan was influenced by Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He has declined to reveal his identity which of course has helped to increase his fame. More details
Uncle Wiggily’s Arabian Nights -
Howard R. Garis
1917 - M. A. Donohue & Company, Chicago / New York - First Edition
A scarce and near fine copy of Uncle Wiggily, with fifty two stories one for each week of the year. Charmingly illustrated in colour by Edward Bloomfield, including the tipped in plate to the front covers.
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1917 - M. A. Donohue & Company, Chicago / New York - First Edition
A scarce and near fine copy of Uncle Wiggily, with fifty two stories one for each week of the year. Charmingly illustrated in colour by Edward Bloomfield, including the tipped in plate to the front covers.
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Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India -
Sudhin N. Ghose
1961 - Golden Cockerel Press, London - Limited Edition
A beautifully produced compilation of the exotic folklore of the East.
Sixteen delightful tales, among them ‘How Princess Maya got her Deserts’, ‘Palwahn the Wrestler’, ‘The Munificent Miser’, ‘The End of the World’, ‘The Jackal that fell into a Dyer’s Vat’, and ‘Garib and the Forty Thieves’.
Illustrated with six full page plates and end-papers by Shrimati E. Carlile
No. 29 of 100 specially bound copies, from a run of 500 copies.
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1961 - Golden Cockerel Press, London - Limited Edition
A beautifully produced compilation of the exotic folklore of the East. Sixteen delightful tales, among them ‘How Princess Maya got her Deserts’, ‘Palwahn the Wrestler’, ‘The Munificent Miser’, ‘The End of the World’, ‘The Jackal that fell into a Dyer’s Vat’, and ‘Garib and the Forty Thieves’.
Illustrated with six full page plates and end-papers by Shrimati E. Carlile
No. 29 of 100 specially bound copies, from a run of 500 copies.
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A Motor Scout in Flanders - or - Held by the Enemy. -
Captain Charles Gilson
1915 - Blackie and Son Limited, London Glasgow and Bombay - First Edition
‘Mademoiselle, I give you fair warning. If you ring that bell, though I love you - I will shoot.’
Thrilling stuff, with all the requirements of a Boy’s Own adventure, the dastardly Prussian Hauptmann Von Hiegler, the French aristocratic Dr. D’avignon and his beautiful daughter Desirée, and of course our motor-bicycle riding hero and Englishman Bob Cunningham.
Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and four full page black and white plates by F. Gillett.
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1915 - Blackie and Son Limited, London Glasgow and Bombay - First Edition
‘Mademoiselle, I give you fair warning. If you ring that bell, though I love you - I will shoot.’Thrilling stuff, with all the requirements of a Boy’s Own adventure, the dastardly Prussian Hauptmann Von Hiegler, the French aristocratic Dr. D’avignon and his beautiful daughter Desirée, and of course our motor-bicycle riding hero and Englishman Bob Cunningham.
Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and four full page black and white plates by F. Gillett.
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