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The Queen of Pirate Isle -
Bret Harte. Kate Greenaway
1886 - Chatto and Windus, London - First edition
Superb copy, with 28 coloured illustrations and illustrated cloth covers, engraved and printed in by Edmund Evans.
Set in the days of the gold rush, this is a story of young children whose imaginative games lead them to discover gold in the California hills.
[BAL 1337. Binding C(B). Schuster 165.1c]
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1886 - Chatto and Windus, London - First edition
Superb copy, with 28 coloured illustrations and illustrated cloth covers, engraved and printed in by Edmund Evans.Set in the days of the gold rush, this is a story of young children whose imaginative games lead them to discover gold in the California hills.
[BAL 1337. Binding C(B). Schuster 165.1c]
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A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys -
Nathaniel Hawthorne. Walter Crane (illustrator)
1892 - Osgood McIlvaine & Co., London - First Edition
Hawthorne’s mythological tales with sixty beautiful illustrations by Walter Crane, including 19 full page colour plates. Walter Crane is considered to be one of the strongest contributors to children's nursery illustrations of the latter 19th century, influencing nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come. This is a particularly pretty copy that would make an ideal present.
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1892 - Osgood McIlvaine & Co., London - First Edition
Hawthorne’s mythological tales with sixty beautiful illustrations by Walter Crane, including 19 full page colour plates. Walter Crane is considered to be one of the strongest contributors to children's nursery illustrations of the latter 19th century, influencing nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come. This is a particularly pretty copy that would make an ideal present.
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L'Etoile Mysterieuse - Les Aventures de Tintin -
Hergé (Georges Rémi)
1947 - Casterman, Belgium - An early edition, first published in book form in 1942
‘It's “LA FIN DU MONDE!" declares Professeur Calys, as an enormous star hurtles towards the earth. But he is disappointed - the star brushes past, leaving only a vast meteorite which falls in the Arctic waters. However, there is no mistake about the Professeur’s discovery of a valuable new metal in the meteorite; it is worth a colossal fortune, and in a hazardous search in polar regions Tintin, Milou and Capitaine Haddock (Président of the L.M.A. - Ligue des Marins Antialcooliques) encounter some of their strangest adventures.’ - Tintinologist.
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1947 - Casterman, Belgium - An early edition, first published in book form in 1942
‘It's “LA FIN DU MONDE!" declares Professeur Calys, as an enormous star hurtles towards the earth. But he is disappointed - the star brushes past, leaving only a vast meteorite which falls in the Arctic waters. However, there is no mistake about the Professeur’s discovery of a valuable new metal in the meteorite; it is worth a colossal fortune, and in a hazardous search in polar regions Tintin, Milou and Capitaine Haddock (Président of the L.M.A. - Ligue des Marins Antialcooliques) encounter some of their strangest adventures.’ - Tintinologist.
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King Ottokar's Sceptre - The Adventures of Tintin -
Hergé (Georges Rémi)
1958 - Methuen & Co Ltd, London - First Edition in English
‘Political unrest in Europe in the late 1930s influenced Hergé when he wrote King Ottokar's Sceptre, in which Tintin and absent-minded Professor Alembick travel to Syldavia to try to avert a confrontation with neighboring Borduria. The history Hergé creates for his fictional Eastern European country is complex and fascinating, and a locked-room mystery and cross-country pursuit make for one of Tintin's more entertaining adventures. Syldavia and Borduria would return in later stories, as would one of Hergé’s most memorable characters, Bianca Castafiore, the "Milanese Nightingale" renowned for her rendition of the "Jewel Song" from Faust’. - David Horiuchi.
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1958 - Methuen & Co Ltd, London - First Edition in English
‘Political unrest in Europe in the late 1930s influenced Hergé when he wrote King Ottokar's Sceptre, in which Tintin and absent-minded Professor Alembick travel to Syldavia to try to avert a confrontation with neighboring Borduria. The history Hergé creates for his fictional Eastern European country is complex and fascinating, and a locked-room mystery and cross-country pursuit make for one of Tintin's more entertaining adventures. Syldavia and Borduria would return in later stories, as would one of Hergé’s most memorable characters, Bianca Castafiore, the "Milanese Nightingale" renowned for her rendition of the "Jewel Song" from Faust’. - David Horiuchi.
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The Crab with the Golden Claws - The Adventures of Tintin -
Hergé (Georges Rémi)
1958 - Methuen & Co Ltd, London - First Edition in English
‘The Crab with the Golden Claws is best known for introducing Tintin's best friend and one of the series' most memorable characters: Captain "Blistering Barnacles" Haddock. As Tintin is investigating a mysterious can of crab and a drowned sailor, he meets Haddock, a "miserable wretch" who's being kept in ample alcohol so his insidious first mate, Allan, can run a drug operation. Crab had to be lengthened to fit the standard 62-page format; fortunately, Hergé achieved this by, among other additions, creating four marvelous full-page spreads’. --David Horiuchi.
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1958 - Methuen & Co Ltd, London - First Edition in English
‘The Crab with the Golden Claws is best known for introducing Tintin's best friend and one of the series' most memorable characters: Captain "Blistering Barnacles" Haddock. As Tintin is investigating a mysterious can of crab and a drowned sailor, he meets Haddock, a "miserable wretch" who's being kept in ample alcohol so his insidious first mate, Allan, can run a drug operation. Crab had to be lengthened to fit the standard 62-page format; fortunately, Hergé achieved this by, among other additions, creating four marvelous full-page spreads’. --David Horiuchi.
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The Castafiore Emerald - The Adventures of Tintin -
Hergé (Georges Rémi)
1963 - Methuen & Co Ltd, London - First Edition in English
‘The Castafiore Emerald was Hergé’s third-to-last completed Tintin story, and the most unconventional. Rather than a globe-trotting adventure, it takes place completely at Marlinspike Hall, where an incapacitated Captain Haddock is being nursed back to health by an unwelcome visitor in the form of Bianca Castafiore, the "Milanese Nightingale" who then suffers a devastating loss ("Mercy, my jewels!").’ - David Horiuchi.
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1963 - Methuen & Co Ltd, London - First Edition in English
‘The Castafiore Emerald was Hergé’s third-to-last completed Tintin story, and the most unconventional. Rather than a globe-trotting adventure, it takes place completely at Marlinspike Hall, where an incapacitated Captain Haddock is being nursed back to health by an unwelcome visitor in the form of Bianca Castafiore, the "Milanese Nightingale" who then suffers a devastating loss ("Mercy, my jewels!").’ - David Horiuchi.
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The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm. -
Norman Hunter, W. Heath Robinson [illustrator]
1933 - John Lane, London - First Edition
Eccentric, absent-minded inventor Professor Branestawm embarks on a series of adventures with his friend Colonel Dedshott. Various machines are invented: a time travel-machine, a device to capture and tie up burglars, and a spring-cleaning machine. Inevitably, something goes wrong and Professor Branestawm is again in a pickle, exasperating his housekeeper Mrs Flittersnoop and delighting us.
Inventively and wackily illustrated by the most appropriate Heath Robinson, who was famous for his rickety contraptions, and the illustrations were a perfect foil to the outlandish plots of these short stories, each picture typically featuring the professor's unfeasibly large forehead. The seventy-six illustrations each comes with an evocative title such as A telescope of his own invention or With nothing on at all but a big smile.
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1933 - John Lane, London - First Edition
Eccentric, absent-minded inventor Professor Branestawm embarks on a series of adventures with his friend Colonel Dedshott. Various machines are invented: a time travel-machine, a device to capture and tie up burglars, and a spring-cleaning machine. Inevitably, something goes wrong and Professor Branestawm is again in a pickle, exasperating his housekeeper Mrs Flittersnoop and delighting us.Inventively and wackily illustrated by the most appropriate Heath Robinson, who was famous for his rickety contraptions, and the illustrations were a perfect foil to the outlandish plots of these short stories, each picture typically featuring the professor's unfeasibly large forehead. The seventy-six illustrations each comes with an evocative title such as A telescope of his own invention or With nothing on at all but a big smile.
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Biggles Special Case -
Captain W.E. Johns
1963 - Brockhampton Press, London - First Edition
Biggles soon realized there was more in the flight to the ruins of Quarda than Professor Zorlan’s archaeological survey, but only time revealed how right he was and by then they had been bombarded by jet fighters, grounded by a sand-storm, and involved in a desert gun battle.
#66 in the Biggles Series.
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1963 - Brockhampton Press, London - First Edition
Biggles soon realized there was more in the flight to the ruins of Quarda than Professor Zorlan’s archaeological survey, but only time revealed how right he was and by then they had been bombarded by jet fighters, grounded by a sand-storm, and involved in a desert gun battle.#66 in the Biggles Series.
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