Cinderella and The Little Glass Slipper por George Cruikshank - 1868

London: Ernest Nister/ E.P. Dutton New York Printed in Bavaria No. 853, 1897 approx.. Hardcover. Good. Doublepage pop-up scenes (5) full of children - blind man's buff, boating, bicycling, farmyard etc.. Folio cloth spine pictorial boards (spine worn to head & foot/covers edge worn) 31pp. Titlepage torn without loss but with old cellotape marks, gutters of 3 leaves reinforced with newer linen tape, a few edge tears never touching printed or pop-up areas but 3 with old tape removal marks (less than 1" into margin). The pop-ups are all complete and in working order with only part of one stag's horn in facsimile. One pony's tail re-attached from the back & a few wrong folds strengthened on back (invisibly). All sorts of fragile pieces such as duck heads, ribbons flying, fingers etc are all intact. The text page edges have fared less well with some edge fingering and some edge chips but never affecting any print. The pop-up leaves are on thicker and better quality paper and have edge rubbing but no… Ler mais

Published by George C. Leighton, London, 1874. 620 numbered pages, illustrations and advertisements throughout, with 25 of 26 supplements. Content includes 33 double and many more single page engravings. Subject matter includes (along with many others..) The Tichborne Trial, Black Watch Forest Ashanti war, Portrait engravings of Gladstone and Disraeli, Royal Marriage - Duke & Duchess of Edinburgh, Fine Art Supplement 1874.2 copies available:Good to V.Good, spine rubbed but binding intact, pages clean with some light foxing, previously missing pages 123, 619, Nursery Tales (supplement) have been replaced with bound-in copies. Half red morocco spine, plum cloth sides, gilt year on spine of folio hardback.Fair, missing pages replaced with digitally reproduced copies bound in place.Note: This volume is heavy (42x32x6cm, approx 6kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

1868 Virtue Ldn h/b 12 vols Imperial 8vo gilted & blind-stamped cloth Maps good, & most of the content is remarkably clean & tight with only minor foxing here and there, an occasional loosening page, some light buckling from prior damp or 'too-tight' storage (without staining etc). But the set is externally very rough -- covers bruised, battered & stained, hinges broken or weak, some edges rubbed through, moth-eatenscarring, some backstrip missing on one or two books etc etc etc etc -- yet despite all faults appears to be a complete & substantially intact copy of a significant & RARE GENEALOGICAL TREASURE TROVE for England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales mid-1800's, just prior to the major colonial emigrations. The set comprises 3 official volumes (distributed over 12 actual volumes) Full SET 12 Gazetteer Britain & Ireland 1868

Harper & Brothers, New York 1938. NF/VG RARE First editonPrice of $2.75 on dj. Blue boards with gilt titles on front and spine. Also a white etching of a horse and buggy on front board. Book is in NF condition, tight, no marks, no smells, no foxing. Original b & w photos throughout depicting a physician's life in over 100 years ago. Rare dust jacket. Water color illustration on front of by Salter showing a physician in a horse and buggy traveling down a country lane. Normal edge and spine wear for a book nearly 100 years old. One small tear in dj at bottom of spine.Here in a book of enchanting intimacy and homely humor is the story of an American country doctor- of countless country doctors all over America. A colorful figure in the medical word today, head of the Hertzler Clinic at Halstead, Kansas, "Pop" Hertzler began his career forty years ago under conditions of pioneer hardship - when it was a case of "root hog or die" for children and adults alike.

London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., 1920. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Edmund Dulac. A book on the subject of the Pearl (unsurprisingly) illustrated with 10 coloured plates by Edmund Dulac. Quarter bound with grey boards and white cloth spine, TEG. The top board is decorated with a maritime theme of shells and waves. Limited to 675 copies this copy is, internally, in very good condition with boards that are a trifle scuffed with a rubbed spine (see photos). Two pages have neat pencil annotations. Uncommon.

London: Ernest Nister/ E.P. Dutton New York Printed in Bavaria No. 853, 1897 approx.. Hardcover. Good. Doublepage pop-up scenes (5) full of children - blind man's buff, boating, bicycling, farmyard etc.. Folio cloth spine pictorial boards (spine worn to head & foot/covers edge worn) 31pp. Titlepage torn without loss but with old cellotape marks, gutters of 3 leaves reinforced with newer linen tape, a few edge tears never touching printed or pop-up areas but 3 with old tape removal marks (less than 1" into margin). The pop-ups are all complete and in working order with only part of one stag's horn in facsimile. One pony's tail re-attached from the back & a few wrong folds strengthened on back (invisibly). All sorts of fragile pieces such as duck heads, ribbons flying, fingers etc are all intact. The text page edges have fared less well with some edge fingering and some edge chips but never affecting any print. The pop-up leaves are on thicker and better quality paper and have edge rubbing but no… Ler mais

Published by George C. Leighton, London, 1874. 620 numbered pages, illustrations and advertisements throughout, with 25 of 26 supplements. Content includes 33 double and many more single page engravings. Subject matter includes (along with many others..) The Tichborne Trial, Black Watch Forest Ashanti war, Portrait engravings of Gladstone and Disraeli, Royal Marriage - Duke & Duchess of Edinburgh, Fine Art Supplement 1874.2 copies available:Good to V.Good, spine rubbed but binding intact, pages clean with some light foxing, previously missing pages 123, 619, Nursery Tales (supplement) have been replaced with bound-in copies. Half red morocco spine, plum cloth sides, gilt year on spine of folio hardback.Fair, missing pages replaced with digitally reproduced copies bound in place.Note: This volume is heavy (42x32x6cm, approx 6kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

1868 Virtue Ldn h/b 12 vols Imperial 8vo gilted & blind-stamped cloth Maps good, & most of the content is remarkably clean & tight with only minor foxing here and there, an occasional loosening page, some light buckling from prior damp or 'too-tight' storage (without staining etc). But the set is externally very rough -- covers bruised, battered & stained, hinges broken or weak, some edges rubbed through, moth-eatenscarring, some backstrip missing on one or two books etc etc etc etc -- yet despite all faults appears to be a complete & substantially intact copy of a significant & RARE GENEALOGICAL TREASURE TROVE for England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales mid-1800's, just prior to the major colonial emigrations. The set comprises 3 official volumes (distributed over 12 actual volumes) Full SET 12 Gazetteer Britain & Ireland 1868

Harper & Brothers, New York 1938. NF/VG RARE First editonPrice of $2.75 on dj. Blue boards with gilt titles on front and spine. Also a white etching of a horse and buggy on front board. Book is in NF condition, tight, no marks, no smells, no foxing. Original b & w photos throughout depicting a physician's life in over 100 years ago. Rare dust jacket. Water color illustration on front of by Salter showing a physician in a horse and buggy traveling down a country lane. Normal edge and spine wear for a book nearly 100 years old. One small tear in dj at bottom of spine.Here in a book of enchanting intimacy and homely humor is the story of an American country doctor- of countless country doctors all over America. A colorful figure in the medical word today, head of the Hertzler Clinic at Halstead, Kansas, "Pop" Hertzler began his career forty years ago under conditions of pioneer hardship - when it was a case of "root hog or die" for children and adults alike.

London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., 1920. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Edmund Dulac. A book on the subject of the Pearl (unsurprisingly) illustrated with 10 coloured plates by Edmund Dulac. Quarter bound with grey boards and white cloth spine, TEG. The top board is decorated with a maritime theme of shells and waves. Limited to 675 copies this copy is, internally, in very good condition with boards that are a trifle scuffed with a rubbed spine (see photos). Two pages have neat pencil annotations. Uncommon.