Aunt Laura (51 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean large format hardback book, binding pulled, cloth spine, pictorial boards, endpapers tanned, gift inscription dated 1931 on frontispiece verso. Unpaginted, 8 colour illustrations on plates, some by C. P. Shilton and Savile Lumley, black & white illustrations in the…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'Comprising Puss in Boots, Jack and the Beanstalk and The House that Jack Built'. Collection of stories by the prolific victorian children's author. With numerous full page colour illustrations by b/w drawings within the text. 4to. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Previous owner's inscription to ffep, wi…

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, undated but we think about 1875, Pictorial red cloth lettered gilt, 10 3/4" x 9 1/4", Mild stain to the top right of the upper board and also at the foot, barely visible but having affected the gilt lettering of 'Dogs', showing also at the foot of the front and rear endpapers. Sign…

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, undated but about 1875, small quarto measuring 11 1/2" x 9 1/2", re-cased at some point with blue cloth over bevelled edge boards, original cloth laid over, lettered gilt to the spine, and with new endpapers. The untearable Gift Book series consists of the paper being backed o…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to (261 x 220 mm.), publisher's maroon cloth, decorated in blind and gilt. 24 pages of chromoxylographic illustrations, 2 per page, printed by Edmund Evans, each page corresponding to a page of text, the whole interleaved with blanks. Sometime very neatly rebacked, retaining spine…

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, quarto, 10 1/2" x 9 1/8", red cloth gilt. Comprises four tales, Sing a Song o' Sixpence, Robin's Christmas Eve, Robin Hood & His Merry Men & The Sea Side. Rubbed to the extremities of the cloth and mildly darkened to the bottom left of the upper board, the binding tight and the con…

Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Front Boards highly decorated with title and the figure of a man on horseback embossed in gold relief. Boards rubbed and corners bumped with some fraying to spine. Large Format. Not Inscribed. Internally cracked with fronticepiece ,title and early pages loose. There are twenty fou…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Not dated, approx 1880s. Brown decorative cloth boards with minor rubbing/bumping to edges, slight fraying to spine ends, very minor scuffing/soiling. Contents generally clean and tight but for minor soiling/browning, minor splitting, ffep loose. Charming colour illustrations by Fran…

Cloth. Condition: Fair. A beautifully illustrated early edition of this collection of nursery rhymes for children, by Laura Valentine. Early edition. Dated using the British Library. Illustrated with twenty-three plates printed in oil colours. Collated missing frontispiece. Including: Sing a Song o' Sixpence, The Robin's Christm…

Condition: Good. Hardback. Original red cloth with titles and decoration in gilt, white and black, colour illustration inset on front. Covers with slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, chipping to cover illustration, inner hinge starting and lacking front endpaper, frontis torn and chipped with some repair, spine crack, oth…

FIRST EDITION circa 1867 (no titles on adverts later than 1866, inscribed Dec. 25th 1868), 280 x 190 mm, 11 x 7½ inches, cloth backed pale yellow boards, repeat illustration on upper cover, engraved frontispiece with 2 images and 19 large charming engraved illustrations (uncoloured) all of sweet children, happy, sad, shy, cross,…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Buffalo, NY: Breed, Butler & Co., 1862. 64 pp. Approximately 1 5/8 x 2 1/8". Brown pictorial gilt cloth with minor rubbing on edges, small spot on rear cover, old tape repairs on front and rear paste-down endpapers, all edges gilt, in very good condition. (Bradbury Antique: Breed, Butler & Co., 1…

FIRST EDITION (No. 17 in list of 17 on lower cover), circa 1868, small 4to, 266 x 230 mm, 10½ x 9 inches, pink card covers colour decorated, adverts to lower cover. 6 colour plates printed by Kronheim and Co., 6 pages of story in quatrains, all printed 1 side only. 1 of 4 brave St Bernard dogs meets his death on a rescue mission…

A very good Victorian binding. Gilt cover illustration and titles. Some wear, hinges carefully strengthened at some time in the past. Previous owner's name to top of title-page. 4to, [6pp.]/pp.5/[2pp.]/pp.6/[2pp.]/pp.6/[2pp.]/pp.6 + 24 chromolithographic plates. All pages linen backed. 27.0cm x 23.8cm x 2.1cm. James notes this i…

Paperback. Condition: Good. London, no publication date stated, c. 1870; illustrated paper covers; mild corner and edge wear; spine reinforced with brown tape; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; text block hanging on by a tread; interior foxed; a total of 6 full-page color illustrations includes 4 single page and one double page (ce…

Softcover. Condition: Fair. No DJ. DESCRIPTION: Short colour booklet. Comprises six leaves of text printed to one side only, with six chromolithographic plates. Illustrations printed by Kronheim and Co. Language: English. Book Condition: Fair: Wear to corners with tape repair to spine. See photo. Toned covers with spotting to so…

Softcover. Condition: Fair. No DJ. DESCRIPTION: Short colour booklet. Comprises five leaves of text printed to one side only, with five chromolithographic plates, including one double spread. Illustrations printed by Kronheim and Co. Language: English. Book Condition: Fair: Wear to corners with tape repair to spine. See photo. T…

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION circa 1867, dated from inscription on another copy and titles at rear, small 4to, 280 x 185 mm, 11 x 7¼ inches, green cloth, gilt and blind decoration to upper cover, lettered on gilt panel on upper cover, all edges gilt, pages: (6), 19, printed 1 side only. Hand coloured frontispiece and 19 enchanting larg…